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Hello Kane,

Hope you are keeping well. Coming to the answers,

Since I am not aware of the credence, integrity and depth of real knowledge of the person/people who run the site you have mentioned, I will not be in a position to comment on their approach to Yoga.

However, with the well wishing intention of guiding and being of help to you, I shall briefly deal with the approach to Yoga through regular and tantric practices with a general perspective.

There are two paths to attain Yoga. The right hand path and the left hand path.

The right hand path makes use of the principle of renunciation to help the Yogi overcome the desires and bonds that have kept him anchored to the impermanent external world and its apparent modifications. The first step in the right hand path is to make the Yogi realize the sugar-coated poison like nature of pleasures derived from the five senses of reception and the five senses of action. Once the Yogi gets an idea of this truth, the right hand path concentrates on the next objective of helping him become independent of his dependence/slavery to these sense experiences. On attaining to these two objectives, there is still another last and final attainment pending. And that is the extermination of past negative/unwanted 'Vaasanas' or tendencies that have been stored in the 'Kaarana sharira' or the causal body due to past actions or karma. Upon successfully completing all these three tasks to finality, the Purusha or the soul succeeds in the dissolution of the cocoons of 'Avidya' or ignorance around itself and shines in its full splendor. The state of self-realization is then said to have been irreversibly achieved.

The second path of Yoga is the left hand path or the 'Vaama Marga'. As the name suggests, it is the alternate and less traveled, more dangerous risky path. The left hand path consists of Tantric practices and rites (which may include the use of sex, liquor and such other intoxicants) as the means to achieve the final realization of one's unity with the creator. It is a path filled with risk, danger and extreme peril. On the one hand, the aspirant is trying to free himself from the clutches of lust, passion and related attachments. On the other hand he is using forms of these very same evils in an altered approach to weed them out. The task of establishing oneself in the reality that sense pleasure are impermanent and not really pleasures is itself no mean task. It calls for great efforts and an understanding which can only stem gradually from realization of life experiences for what they are. If one were to approach this tough task using these very same evils as weapons, one can imagine how hard, difficult and dangerous the means become. It is like the case of an ill man who says - " I shall spend more time in the company of disease and ill health and finally come up with a way to ward off my disease". It is like a beginner trying to establish Brahmacharya in the company of a woman of questionable repute with the perspective - " I shall spend a few years with her and enlighten myself on the fallacy of sex, lust, passion and disease and thus become pure and godly". This is a path wholly unsuitable to society in general. It is a path in which ninety nine out of a hundred will fail and get thrown back into the depths of misery and suffering. It is a path that requires a Guru who has himself achieved self-realization through such very means and has the mind to assiduously help the disciple on a one on one basis to achieve the final state.

Keeping all these facts in mind, it is best to stay clear of any form of Yogic practice that even fringes close to the left hand path by advocating the partial/full use of sex or related sense temptations even in 'moderation' and to be riveted to the path of complete purity, renunciation and self discipline.

The safest, fastest and most efficient path that would apply to most classes/mentalities and calibers of people is following the path of absolute purity, renunciation and devotion to God with constant efforts at complete renunciation of all forms of sense pleasures (especially the sex pleasure) following which progress becomes natural and concrete.

Trust I have managed to throw light on the doubts that were plaguing your mind.

God bless and have a nice day :-)
Dhananjay