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The
pages that follow will attempt a brief characterization of Sir John Woodroffe's
representations of Hindu Tantra.
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However,
trying to represent his position on this amazingly diverse category is
a bit like trying to characterize tantra 'itself'. His voluminous writings
are polymorphous and polycentric as he dances his way through many different
texts, practices and oral teachings.
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Navigating
his varying states of consciousness, as manifest in his writings, the
reader oscillates between lucid penetrating remarks and repetitive disenfranchised
referentials awash in the pale vertigo of Woodroffe's more opaque days.
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As
a lengthy representation of Woodroffe's work is beyond the scope of this
performance let the next several pages serve as a humble opening to the
fascinating, if sometimes incomprehensible, work of this great scholar.
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As a result of the limited orbit of this presentation I will address only Woodroffe's work on tantric 'metaphysics,' Sadhana,Mantra and Kundalini Yoga.
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