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===Tantra===
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Tantrism is a practice that is supposed to alter the relation of its practitioners to the ordinary social, religious, and logical reality in which they live. Through [[tantra|Tantric]] practice, an individual perceives reality as [[maya (illusion)|maya]], illusion, and the individual achieves liberation from it.<ref name=UCP>Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Author: Robert I. Levy. Published: University of California Press, 1991. pp 313 </ref> This particular path to salvation among the several offered by [[Hinduism]], links Tantrism to those practices of [[Indian religions]], such as yoga, meditation, and social [[renunciation]], which are based on temporary or permanent withdrawal from social relationships and modes.<ref name=UCP/>
During tantric practices and studies, the student is instructed further in meditation technique, particularly [[Chakra|chakra meditation]]. This is often in a limited form in comparison with the way this kind of meditation is known and used by Tantric practitioners and yogis elsewhere, but is more elaborate than the initiate's previous meditation. It is considered to be a kind of [[Kundalini Yoga]] for the purpose of moving the Goddess into the chakra located in the "heart," for meditation and worship.<ref>Title: Mesocosm: Hinduism and the Organization of a Traditional Newar City in Nepal. Author: Robert I. Levy. Published: University of California Press, 1991. pp 317 </ref>
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