Learning Tantra Shastra in a Shastra school, in Kerala

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Young men in a learning centre in Kerala learning the Tantra Shastra. They are taught particular hand gestures accompanied by chants. The knowledge was confined to the Brahmins in the olden days. But now anyone is free to learn the practice of the Shastra. "Tantra Shastra is a secret and most powerful science in the Indian occult tradition. It is a science which Indians have practiced for centuries and still do. Although this science was subject to suppression from time to time due to various misunderstandings and allegations, it still lives due to its original operation and method of discovery of the psychic realms. Tantra Shastra as a whole is the system which deals with the techniques, mediums and applications concerning the individual power and knowledge which is said to be at the dept