ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author first uses his Nepalese-Tantric life-histories to educe the non-modern and highly positive Indic attitude to bhoga (sensual enjoyment), with its mystical and inherent golden mean. Next, he uses his informants' data to explore the traditional South Asian concept of lila (the Indic cosmogony as divine play), as a characteristic indigenous ludity that has enabled the disciplined eudaemonism of Tantric orthodoxy and orthopraxis. Finally, the author examines topical data from the vogue of the Rajneesh Movement in the West, in order to contrast the above eudaemonistic and playful world-view with the characteristic and persistent austerity of the Judaeo–Christian one, and thereby bring out the paradoxes inherent in the strange Western obsession with sex. Finally, he begins with his life-history data relating to the Tantric use of bhoga for the achievement of yogic enstasy.
