Yogi learning enhances the importance of smelling associated with initial PRANA , which is the vitality in every being, with the ascendant energy in the human body, and with the principle of cosmic unity.

Nice smelling herbs, natural oils and incense are endowed with the power of stimulating the creative attitude and spiritual elevation. Due to these qualities perfumes represent an important section of the rites and mystic rituals.

The sweet perfume of rose, jasmine, saffron, santal wood, basil, cedar and patchouli, all of them have the same feature. This perfume, just like the sweet taste, gives birth to erotic and spiritual feelings.

Nice smelling perfumes and natural oils are an essential part of the Tantric Concepts and Practices. They are being used in order to elevate and spiritualise the heart and the mind of the human. They have also the capacity of creating a certain psychic protection.

Using them and being fully aware of different kinds of smell nuances can contribute to creating a harmonious and understanding atmosphere in the house. Smell acts mainly upon instinctual centres and thus it stimulates a lot of the primary necessities.

One of the most important factors of the process of self-knowledge is the body odour, associated with different physical, emotional or psychological states of the human. Each person has got a specific odour, which is particular and unique, though it changes all the time. It's unique like the colour of the eyes or the walking.

Body odour is connected to the day-by-day diet and the way of life of the person. For example, the one who eats regularly onions and garlic has got this kind of smell in his/her mouth, perspiration and sexual secretions.

The same way a person who eats meat, a vegetarian, a smoker, an alcoholic will each have their own smell. The smell is also affected by the person's spiritual level.
The one of a woman changes in according to the period and the degree of sexual excitement.

The same way the man presents odour changes according to his sexual excitement, his anger, his physical effort or his abstinence.
As a matter of fact a very sensitive person can find out a lot of things about somebody after his/her odour.

Antique magic traditions all around the world associated unpleasant smells with undeveloped, inferior spirits and with the ones of demons. Such heavy and unpleasant smells attract through the resonance process certain inferior entities from the astral world. Black magic rituals for example often use bad smelling substances for their sacrifices.

When the intern body and mind forces work together in harmony there is a subtle and pleasant smell that comes out of the skin pores. Yogis and spiritual leaders always have a wonderful and nice smelling aura that represents their level of spiritual progress.

It is well-known that, a week after the death of great spiritual master and Yogi SWAMI YOGANANADA, which took place in America, his body was still emitting a powerful and entrancing rose perfume. Everybody came to see that and doctors could not find any explanation because they knew that usually a corpse starts decomposing very quickly and emits a bad odour.

Oriental custom of adorning great masters and wise men with flower garlands is a way of recognizing their value and their spiritual strength.

Many Oriental works on The Art of Eroticism classify different types of genitals after their shape, taste or smell. In the Hindi text, known as "ANANGA RANGA", the woman " lotus " is different because of her YONI , which is "like the bud of a lotus flower and its perfume is like the one of a lily"; the woman "art" can be recognized through the sweet smell of her YONI as same as the smell of honey.

In the same way the "rabbit - man" has got a "sweet tasting and smelling sperm", when the "stud-man" has got a "salty, goat-smelling sperm".
Sexual excitement gives birth to all kinds of body odours. They can come out through the mouth, skin and genitals. It is true that the most special odour for a woman is her own.

One of the methods of seduction used by Medieval Europe courtesans was using their own sexual secretions as perfume on the neck and behind the ears. Most emotional interactions between people take place at the subconscious level and smelling plays a very important role in it.

One of the great disadvantages of using birth-control pills is that they stop appearing the odour of sexual secretions.

Many of the well-known perfumes are based on certain animal extracts, famous for their special qualities. They are used in order to create a different "tone", a "dominant note" and there are many other minor scents that are used with it.

Most of these basic ingredients come from sexual gland's secretions of those animals. For example mosque comes from a certain stag gland. The same way most of floral perfumes come from the essence of those plants that corresponds to the animal sexual secretions.

"In springtime the round women's hips are surrounded by natural silk, red as saffron. Filled with desire, they oil up their breasts with santal wood oil mixed with nice-smelling flowers, saffron and mosque."

RITUSAMHARA
Perfume and incense have always been connected to sexuality, in all cultures. A long time ago science had been acknowledged that sexual instinct is stimulated by smell both for people and animals. But you should know that animals have a lot sharper smell.

The natural way of life leads to a substantial increase of your receptivity of smelling. You will be able to experience subtle smells that you couldn't even imagine before.

Sudden odour changes indicate emotional changes. Deep relaxation and removing the inner tensions, they all change the odour and you can see that on you. It's the sign that the temple of your body had turned into a real Perfumed Garden where the spirit experiences the joy and pleasure of living in harmony.

Scientific analysis on smelling substances has established the fact that there is a strong connection between the shape of the molecules that constitute them and the scent emitted by these substances.

For example camphor has got round molecules, mosque - disk molecules, floral - also disk, but a little oval; mint - feather - like molecules; alcohol - cylinder-like molecules.

The nose's internal structure consists in the presence of certain cartilage, the nasal mucous membrane, the olfactory nerves and cilia. The nasal secretions have a biochemical structure that looks very much like the one of the secretions of the pituitary gland that governs the sexual activity as well as the metabolic functions.

When we inhale an odour, the molecules of the smelling substance act upon the nasal mucous membrane, cilia and the smelling nerves. They also stimulate the smelling centre inside the brain. So we can see that the smell has got a lot of sides and mysteries.

More than any other perfume, incense and nice-smelling herbal oils create and amplify certain states of people's moods. They act on their feelings and stimulate the super-sensitive faculties. Tantrics use these properties in their sexual rituals.

They also prescribe different perfumes for different rituals. Before the sacred sexual union the woman is adored as the embodiment of the creative force, SHAKTI , or the Energy filled of Wisdom. Then her body is oiled up with different perfumed oils just to worship her creative role and to elevate her psychic, so that the woman can really act like a goddess.

In the sexual ritual known as "The Ritual Of The Five Essences" jasmine oil is dropped on the hands, patchouli or Keori oil on neck and cheeks, amber and mosque on the breasts, valerian on the hair, mosque on the genitals, santal wood oil on the thighs and saffron oil on the rest of the legs. All these are used on women. The man will use santal wood oil on his forehead, neck, chest, bellybutton, genitals, arms, thighs, hands and feet.

The prophet Mohamed once said, "Three things are very dear to me. They are women, perfumes and prayers." Arabs respect perfume very much and they use it because they think it makes your mind sharper, your heart more open and genitals stronger.

The spiritual meaning of the perfume was well known by the Arabs, Greeks, Babylonians and Egyptians in Antiquity. They used a lot of perfumed oils in their daily life and also for mummies.

Lately the Occidentals have started to give a special attention to treating and making the human body beautiful by using the properties of vegetal and herbal oils. Natural essences are easy to find.

Avoid as possible synthetic perfumes because their effect will never be the same as the one of natural oils. So get used to different essences and learn how to distinguish the superior qualities of smell from the inferior ones. Robert Tisserand's book "The Art of Aroma Therapy" is a good manual for beginners.

Make your own perfumes experiencing different combinations between date palm oil or sesame seeds oil as basic oil and different essences, the ones you like. Here there are some of the natural perfumes that can be used in Tantric sexual rituals: lotus , jasmine, rose, flowering tobacco, patchouli, rosemary, lavender, saffron, amber and santal wood.

Use perfumes as an extra-sensual plus. They can be applied either directly on your body or burnt like incense or mixed during massage, or put in the water inside your room.

In either way they will help your body and mind harmonize. So use natural smells in order to enrich the atmosphere around and to make it more pleasant and to stimulate the inner spirit.

"Those who adore SHIVA with nice-smelling oleander or jasmine garlands will definitely get the object of their desire."

KALIKAPURANA

 

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