The aim of life is to keep rising high, to achieve great heights and to keep attaining success. But this is easier said than done. Indian knowledge had proved the mettle of its superiority long back and even in the modern scientific times its significance remains unmitigated. Thus due to ignorance Tantra became a tabooed and much dreaded word in society and people became petrified just by hearing about it. The common man thinks that a Tantrik is a person who drinks liquor, smokes opium, abuses everyone, has large redshot eyes, one who can kill anyone and who always remains engaged in evil works.
Nothing is further from the truth.
Such people are imposters, they are not Tantriks. Tantra actually means accomplishing Mantra Sadhana in a very systemised way. If there is a Mantra then the process of its use is Tantra. The method or way to achieve totality in Sadhana is Tantra. In fact, these principles make it more a system of life, than mere knowledge.