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and karuna, compassion. "Unified" or "transcend" amount to reach the paradoxical<br />

situation of a Bodhisattva: in their wisdom, that no longer sees people (because, as<br />

metaphysics the "person" does not exist, there is only one set of five skanda) and yet, in<br />

his compassion, the Bodhisattva strives to save people. Tantrism multiplies the "pairs of<br />

opposites" Sun and Moon, Siva and Sakti, idaypingala, etc.. and as we saw, is "unified"<br />

by gia physiological techniques and subtle rather than meditation. It is important to<br />

emphasize this fact: whatever the level where it is realized the conjunction of opposites<br />

represents overrun the world of phenomena, the Abolition of the whole experience of<br />

duality.<br />

The images used suggest a return to a primordial state of non-diferenciaci6n: the<br />

unification of the sun and the moon reflects the "destruction of the Cosmos" and therefore<br />

the return to the original unit. In Hathayoga, it comes to getting the "immobilizationcation<br />

of the respiration and semen to speak of" regression of semen "is a paradoxical act,<br />

impossible to operate in an environment physiologically" normal "proper Cosmos of a<br />

"normal" in other words, the "regression of semen" translates into the physiological<br />

piano, "transcendence" of the phenomenal world, access to freedom. This is but an<br />

application of what we call "walking against the stream" (ujanasadhana), or the process<br />

"re-gressive" (ulta) of the Natha Siddha, implying a total "investment" of all psycho -<br />

physiological, it is in the background, the mystery-tions already registered poravrtti<br />

Mahayana texts, and, in Tantrism also designates the "regression of semen" (see Note VI,<br />

1).<br />

The implies that the<br />

crushing of the Cosmos and thus the "out-of-time" access to "immortality." In Goraksavijaya,<br />

Durga (= Sakti Prafcrti) addresses "Siva in these terms:"

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