TANTRA: THE YOGA OF SEX offers, for the first time in the English language, a straightforward, easy-to-read manual of Tantric learning for the academician and general reader alike. Now, through the Five Disciplines of Tantra offered in this volume, open-minded and serious readers have a means by which they can "change their sex lives from boredom and maladjustment into the complete, fulfilling sacrament it was meant to be." Through the application of the sexual principles of Tantric Yoga, man can achieve the sexual potency which will enable him to extend the ecstasy crowning sexual union for an hour or more, rather than for the few brief seconds he now knows.

The general view put forward in this book is that unlike other forms of Yoga, which require austerities and renunciations, the Tantric way is for all people in all countries. It is one of the primary tenets of Tantrism that the lofty and difficult techniques of life and love prescribed for earlier ages are no longer applicable today. Instead, through this wisdom modern man can lay hold of the Power inherent in sex and, by means of it, achieve an elevated state of consciousness comparable, if not wholly equal to, the ascetic's samadhi.

William S. Kroger, M.D., internationally recognized authority in gynecology and psychosomatic medicine, says the following about this book: "As a medical man who has practiced gynecology and psychosomatic medicine for more than twenty years and who has had to treat frigidity, impotence and other sexual problems of many men and women who came to me for help, I can say with conviction that never before have I examined a text that presents the sexual union of humans and the preliminary relationships leading up to that goal as lovingly, beautifully and hopefully as TANTRA: THE YOGA OF SEX." No other work on Yoga remotely resembles this book; and the ideas expressed by the author open up whole new worlds of thought, meditation and practice.

TANTRA: THE YOGA OF SEX takes the reader on a journey through the wisdom of the ages and discusses such subjects as: . . . . the mystical marriage of God and man . . . coition as a religious rite . . . male: electric, female: magnetic . . . Mahatma Gandhi and the virgin consorts . . . neutralizing the corrosive acids of age . . . dangerous rituals and techniques . . . "she-devils" . . . doctrine of rebirth . . . and many other fascinating topics.