Full Circle

October 2006

Hilton's Story

Chapter 17  Incident with the Cobra

Bob had arranged a break from Tantra and temples to visit Madurai, the city where Mahatma Ghandi began his work to free India of British rule. He had come in 1921 and stayed in the city for several years. A library and museum was built in his honour and Bob thought everyone would like to see it and to look around the city. Madurai is famous for silks and what could be more interesting to the ladies?

  The merchants enjoyed haggling and it wasn’t long before Hilton bought Kay a lovely silk scarf and a gold chain with a gold Yantra. A Yantra is a symbol or design that is used during meditation and makes a beautiful piece of jewellery.

   During happy hour before dinner Jack and Hilton picked up on their discussion about architecture. Several others joined in and soon a heated discussion was under way. Jillian, the lady from Virginia loudly expressed that she didn’t much care about the origins of Tantra and preferred to stick with the sexual practices. She didn’t believe in reincarnation and was happy with her southern Baptist practices, thank you very much. Her husband tried to hush her but without success and soon they were into their own heated argument. The couple from England was very interested in the concepts of rebirth and had attended a Buddhist temple for several years. They found Buddhism too structured and liked the Tantric approach to achieving enlightenment. Jack had studied religious practices and particularly Islam and Hinduism. As far as he was concerned the two are quite different because Islam puts its faith and destiny in the hands of one God while Hinduism sees many gods and adherents are responsible for their own salvation.  Jess asked if the group saw any connection between the selflessness of Ghandi and the other religions. Hilton commented that in his later days Ghandi was more a yogi of the old school and possibly similar to our guru in the courtyard.

The conversation continued over dinner and then Kay dragged Hilton away from the group saying she wanted some personal time. She hadn’t engaged in the discussion and preferred to listen but felt that nothing intelligent was said after people had a few drinks. As they walked through the garden they heard a rustling sound just off the path and suddenly the swaying head of a Cobra emerged above the shrubs. Hilton grabbed her arm and they stood perfectly still hypnotized by the small black eyes and the flat mantle of the head. Hilton’s mind raced to think of the way to avoid being struck by the snake and he remembered the fate of the damselfish in the jaws of the Moray Eel on the reef a few days before. Time seemed to slow down as the dance of the Cobra continued and the forked tongue flickered gauging the tension and fear in the prospective prey.

           Hilton wasn’t sure but he thought they were just far enough away that if they moved quickly they could turn and escape. He told Kay to jump back on the count of three and then run back to the hotel. The snake sensed an increase in their body heat as they prepared to move and tried to rise higher but as it did Hilton counted and they jumped. The snake lashed out and brushed Hilton’s shoe as they ran along the path.

           Out of breath and shaking they went through the door into the lobby and safety. “What happened to the Mensab”, cried the concierge as he saw their panic and when Hilton told him an alarm was sounded and a group of porters was assembled to find the snake. Kay was visibly shaken and led Hilton to the bar to settle her nerves. Snakes are ominous creatures in Indian mythology and portend unpleasant events.

          The others gathered around to find out what had happened and after brief explanation Kay said she wanted to go to her room. Hilton took her arm and they left the group. She was shaking when Hilton opened the door and guided her in to a chair by the bed. He tried to comfort her and slowly she began to relax and breath quietly. “That was really frightening,” she finally said. “I think it was the surprise as much as anything but it looked horrible and ominous.”

  He suggested they relax and try to meditate. It would calm their minds and help their bodies release the tension of fear. They sat close together on low stools in a semi lotus position facing each other as close as they could and began the breathing exercise sharing their breath while looking deeply into each other’s eyes. It was erotic and rather than relax into meditation they because excited. Hilton’s lingam rose up almost like the snake in front of Kay but instead of fear she wanted it in her yoni so much that she jumped on him wrapped her legs around his body and slipped onto his erect manhood. Without realizing it they had taken the classic maithuna position of two into one and this released kundalini energy that raced up their spines and joined them fully in the mystic forces first experienced by Shiva and Shatki in ancient times.

            The tension of fear rapidly drained away and they remained in maithuna without any desire to move or to experience orgasm. It was pure love, each was the other and there was no distinction between the man and the woman. She could have stayed joined with Hilton all night but eventually leg muscles demanded release and they pulled apart. Hilton’s lingam was still as hard and erect as before and when they slipped into bed Kay massaged it gently until it relaxed and they were able to sleep.

The Library

             Sunlight beamed into the room through cracks in the curtains as Kay and Hilton stirred beneath the cool sheets. She had snuggled against him and purred happily as she felt him awaken. He reach around her, stroking her breasts and kissed the back of her neck and blew gently into her ear. She wiggled herself against his groin and felt a familiar stirring against her butt as his lingam came alive. They lay quietly in the bed without going further and felt the power of their feelings wrap them more and more closely into a single being.

           The bedside phone rang to break the spell. It was Bob asking if they were coming with the group this morning. She looked at the clock and was shocked to realize they had slept in and would have to rush to get ready. After a quick discussion with Hilton she told Bob that they would go on their own exploration today and meet everyone later at supper. He reminded her that they would be leaving Madurai the next morning and wished them a happy day. Hilton had already climbed out of bed and made his way to the bathroom as she hung up the phone so she got up and opened the drapes to let in bright sunshine. The experiences of the night before were submerged into the new day.

Hilton suggested they visit the library and look for books that told the history of Tantra and Hindu practices. He had read many pages on the Internet but thought there would be more documents in a library in the heart of India. The Ghandi Museum and Library was a short taxi ride from the hotel and the librarian was happy to direct them to the material they wanted. Kay found the book titled Kama Sutra that described the yogic practices used by couples to meditate sexually. Many different positions were depicted very explicitly in the pictures. The faces of the people involved seemed to be detached and not like pictures of people enjoying sex and intimacy.

Hilton examined a copy of the Tibetan book called the Bardo Thodol or the Book of the Dead that describes the journey the newly dead travel through to rebirth forty nine days later unless they achieve ‘moksa’ or release from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Words from the book are chanted to the newly dead describing the sights in Bardo, the transitional state between death and birth and tells them how to behave. If the deceased is able to follow the instructions of the text, he or she is released from the cycle of rebirth and attains the Buddha state. The soul obtains release by the true answer to the question “Who are you?” demanded first by the great Buddha-Haruka.

Kay looked up at Hilton who was glancing into space pondering what he had read and told him what she had found in the Kama Sutra. He asked her if she knew the answer to the great question and she thought she did but then stopped and thought more deeply about it. They came to the same conclusion that they did not know the answer in the terms of the question.

           Hilton found another book describing the ancient Tantric practices with a description of the ceremony called Maithuna. Surprisingly, he found that the ceremony was intended to answer the “great” question but that it followed a very different path than the Buddhists in Tibet. The ceremony has five symbolic activities; the consumption of bread, meat, fish, the drinking of wine and sex. It is practiced in a group where the participants enter a trance as they lose all sense of their personal identity in the search for themselves. The trance is usually enhanced by the addition of herbs and other elements in the wine. Anything is possible and permitted while in Maithuna and observers have described It as obscene without understanding the meaning of what is happening.

           Hilton described Maithuna to Kay and then she read the passages for herself. As she went further into the book she found an explanation for the rituals and how they evolved from ancient rights of Greece, Rome and earlier civilizations. She found it an amazing story and asked Hilton if there was any chance they might experience it while they were in India. He wasn’t sure he would like to lose himself in such a state and to have her be a part of a sexual orgy with strangers in a place like this. She found a section that described the initiation into the rights of Maithuna that explained that the participants must be deeply into Tantric meditation and the sexual union of man and woman is viewed as a scared sacrifice in which each partner must treat the other with the utmost respect and reverence. The man must ensure that he does not spend his precious semen in the sex act. It traces back to the act of human sacrifice that evolved through the ages to ritual castration, celibacy and eventually to the symbolic act of intercourse without emission.

            The day passed quickly as Hilton and Kay learned more about the traditions and history of India. The similarity with stories of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and the northern tribes in Europe and Russia amazed them. Buddhism’s spread to China, Japan, Malaysia and other parts of South East Asia was new to them. There were differences in the doctrine but all religions provided instruction on how to live and how to die. The concept of life after death seemed to be universal confirming the human need to believe that something of them continues past the darkness of personal death.

           Time went quickly and it wasn’t until their stomachs signaled hunger that they realized it was time to get back to the hotel.  That evening the group gathered for a drink and to discuss what they had seen during the day. Many of the ladies had souvenirs and Yantras of various designs in gold and precious stones. Hilton tried to describe what they had learned but it was too much for most people and they drifted into private conversations. Hilton and Kay didn’t mind and went to their room to meditate and hopefully renew their kundalini again. They were now very adept at the yogic postures and were able to clear their minds of all distraction as the entered the meditative state that brought them into oneness with each other. Kay became Hilton and he became her but the answer to the question eluded them.

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