The Tantric method includes sublimation rather than negating the relative reality. The method of sublimation consists of three phases: purification, elevation and the "reaffirmation of the identity on the plane of pure consciousness."

A wide range of community practices Tantra and there is no precise common method by which Tantra is practised. Tantra can be divided dichotomously as the " Ordinary Ritual" and the "Secret Ritual".

The Ordinary Ritual:
This might include any one or both of the `mantra` and `yantra`. It plays an important part in Tantra. These two are very common ingredients in Hindu as well as Buddhist Tantric tradition. The Mantras and yantras are ingredients that invoke specific Hindu deities such as shiva and Kali. The puja might involve focussing on a yantra or mandala associated with a deity.

As Tantra evolved from the early Vedic thought , it worships hindu gods and goddesses, especially shiva and shakti. Tantra also follows Advaita philosophy that each represents on the ultimate aspect of Parashiva or Brahman. The deities are worshipped with the flowers, incense and other offerings, but the most impotant aspect of the puja is the meditation and Darshan(vision) of the deity.

The Secret Ritual :
The Secret Ritual might include a part of a part of or all of the elements of the ordinary ritual either directly or substituted along with other rituals and themes such as a feast (food, sustenance), coitus (sexuality, procreation), charnel grounds(death, transition) and defecation, urination and vomiting. Zimmer praised the Tantra for its world affirmative attitude as "In the Tantra, the manner of approach is not that of Nay but of Yea ... the world attitude is affirmative ... Man must approach through and by means of nature, not by rejection of nature."

The secret ritual is called Panchatattva, Chakrapuja and Panchamakara. The Pancatattva is the secret ritual of worshipping the Sakti and the Sakta. This act involves a chakra consists of men and women who sit in a circle in a manner so that the the Sakti or the female practitioner sits on the left of the Sadhaka or the male practitioner.. Hence it is called `Cakrapuja`. There are various types of cakras to serve different purposes.There is a direct correlation of the Tantric five nectars and the Mahabhuta.

Sexual rites in tantra:
Sexual rite is indeed an important part of the Tantric rituals. It is actually a particular means of generating and transforming the bodily fluid as these are regarded as the vital oblations to the tantric deities. Union is here regarded as the divine conjugation and the new born is thus reckoned as the "Son Of The Clan" or the "Kulaputra"; the holy body fluid is then the "Clan Nectar" or "Kulamrita". The tantric texts thus unveils that sexual practice has three distinct and separate purposes in Hindu Tantra and these are mainly for procreation, pleasure and liberation. In Tantric sexual rites the female and male participants are united physically whilst representing the form of "Ardhanarishvara" ; The male is then represented as the Shiva and the Female as the Shakti and thus each participant experiences an unearthly fusion of the energy of Shiva and Shakti. The earthly elements are thus dissolved amidst the union of the cosmic consciousness.