Mātangī & The Poetry of Impurity | Sattva Maxxing in Vāmācara

About this episode

The episode explores the concept of rasa vada and the radical invitation of Mātangī Devī to reclaim impure flavors of consciousness within a non-dual framework.

We start with a little review of rasa vada, the theory of aesthetic "flavors of Consciousness" that are very much emphasized in our Tāntrik iconography & poetics before presenting Mātangī Devī as a a radical invitation to reclaim those rasas, or "flavors" which are commonly rejected as impure or unspiritual or unwholesome in the name of a deeper, more inclusive & capacious non-dual understanding. And to discuss the ucchistā approach (the spirituality of impurity/trangression), we ne...

People in this episode

Host: Nishanth Selvalingam

Topics covered

• Tāntrik philosophy
• spirituality of impurity
• aesthetic flavors of consciousness
• non-dual understanding
• Mātangī Devī

Keywords

• Mātangī
• rasa vada
• Tāntrik iconography
• spirituality
• ucchistā
• impurity
• non-duality
• flavors of consciousness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Mātangī Devī, rasa vada, Tāntrik iconography, ucchistā approach

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