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1 The Tantric Tradition, Agehananda Bharati.
2Yoga Immortality and Freedom, Mircea Eliade.
3 'Maya' : the incomplete dualistic world as
conventionally viewed, the continuous process of
Becoming as conditioned by the relativity of time,
space and motion.
4 'Supreme Reality' : the infinite unconditioned state
of Being in which past, present and future are one,
fused in one single moment : the actual Now.
5Ms : pancamakara, five things commencing with the
letter M used in the ritual—madya : liquor; matsya:
fish; mamsa: meal; mudra: cereal/aphrodisiac;
maithuna: sexual union. Before these, vijaya: hemp,
is frequently taken.
6 Anthology of Mysticism, F. C. Happold.
7Mantra : mnemonic device of chanting, 'magical
instrument by which immediate reality is wrought'.
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art, Zimmer.
8/bid.
9 The Psychological Attitude of Early Buddhist
Philosophy, Lama Anagarika Govinda.
10 The Theory and Practise of the Mandala, Giuseppe
Tucci.
11 The Secret of the Golden Flower; 'Concerning
Mandala Symbolism. Psychology of the Unconscious.'
Vol. 9, C. G. Jung.
12 The Way of Zen, Alan W. Watts.
13Introduction to the Hague Gemeentemuseum's
exhibition catalogue of Minimal Art, E. Develing.
14Eliade, op. cit.
15 e.g. Stein, Joyce, Beckett, Satie, Schonberg,
Boulez, Cage, LaMonte Young, Warhol, Morris,
Smithson (see ABC Art, B. Rose).
16Repetition, Kierkegaard, 1843.
17 Interesting to note Brancusi's reverence for
Milarepa : tantric mystic and magician of Tibet.
(L'Oeil, 1956.)
18Picabia's Mechanical Compositions of 1919 contain
lines of tension which tremble and twist from circle
to circle as if on a journey like that of the Kundalini
rising through the energy centres, depicted in
nineteenth-century Rajasthani images. Tantric
compositions of a biomorphic, abstract nature which
describe cosmological concepts of terrestrial
atmospheres, planetary orbits, primordial waters,
constellations, etc., possess curious pictorial and
literal affinities with surrealist works, particularly
those of Ernst and Miró. Several of these 'cosmic
fields' reveal calligraphic tracery comparable to the
gestures and marks of Pollock, Tobey and Michaux.
19 The New Art. Lucy Lippard. In 'Eros
Presumptive' Lippard wrote: 'While there is no
question of direct influence or even of interest,
repetition, inactivity, simultaneous detachment and
involvement, understatement and self containment
are qualities shared by the arts of India and of today.'
20 Marcel Duchamp or the Castle of Purity
Octavio Paz.
21 El Lissitzky, Nasci, 1924 (see Joost Baljeu's
article: 'The Problem of Reality with Suprematism,
Constructivism, Proun, Neo-Plasticism and
Elementarism').
22 Positive Mysticism, Schoenemaeker.
23 What Stella has called: 'Relational Painting' (see
interview with Bruce Glaser in Minimal Art.
24 Tantra Art, R. K. Mookerjee.
25 Concerning the Spiritual, Kandinsky.
26 Concerning the Spiritual, Kandinsky.
27 Thought forms, Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater.
28 Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach.

8 Kasimir Malevich
Yellow Quadrilateral on White c. 1917
Oil on canvas 41 3/4 x 27 5/8 in.
Coll: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
9 Piet Mondrian
Composition in Red Yellow Blue 1921
Oil on canvas 8o x 5o cm
Coll: Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
10 Jambu-dvipa
Painting
Rajasthan, c. eighteenth century
Private coll. Courtesy: Ravi Kumar
Wassily Kandinsky

Tantra Asana by R.K. Mookerjee will be
published this April by Ravi Kumar, 42 Avenue
du President Kennedy, Paris.
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