Guest guest Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Dear spiritual brothers and sisters, Aghor is one of the main Indian traditions, which is considered to have been started by Lord Dattatreya. The word Aghor is a combination of two words 'a' and 'ghor' where 'a' means not and 'ghor' means intense or deep. The word symbolises a lifestyle where a person of the Aghor tradition does not have any intense feelings of affection, hatred, love, jealousy, greed and other worldly feelings .He is indifferent to all these feelings. He does not differentiate and discriminate between any of these feelings .A person who follows this path is called an Aghori. Aghoris seem to follow a path, which is strikingly opposite to that of ideal Hinduism. They take liquor, eat flesh and utter obscenities, meditate at night and have uninhibited sex. All this makes one believe that they are uncultured Hindus but that is incorrect. Aghoris also believe in Hinduism's fundamental reality of Moksha i.e. salvation .For them it is the unification of the self with the supreme consciousness.Aghoris are one of the most controversial of Hindu holy men .They are known to possess magical powers. Stories of Aghoris curing people suffering from serious diseases are common in the Indian villages. Their powers at awakening the dead are also talked about by people. Even in India the word 'Aghori' cannot be used freely without drawing suspicion on peoples faces. This is really sad because actually they are gentle people. Infact my birth was due to an aghori and also my spirituality and visions are because of his and another aghori's grace. Sad to note that people in india are losing faith in the aghora system and consider it as evil. everyhing in this world is ''unhorrible''...the aghora...because the physical reality is an illusion. urs yogically, dattu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 13, 2004 Report Share Posted November 13, 2004 Hi Dattu ji, Nice to see an email from you again... Okay about this aghori thing... to be honesh I have never heard any good story about a aghori. Most of them are all horror once. I dont know who is to be blamed, Me who is listening, People who are telling, Or Aghori's who have done bad stuff... Or May be they are just stories... But seriously I am still waiting to hear good things about them... Thanks Dp shivam_param wrote: > >Dear spiritual brothers and sisters, > Aghor is one of the main Indian traditions, >which is considered to have been started by Lord Dattatreya. The >word Aghor is a combination of two words 'a' and 'ghor' where 'a' >means not and 'ghor' means intense or deep. The word symbolises a >lifestyle where a person of the Aghor tradition does not have any >intense feelings of affection, hatred, love, jealousy, greed and >other worldly feelings .He is indifferent to all these feelings. He >does not differentiate and discriminate between any of these >feelings .A person who follows this path is called an Aghori. >Aghoris seem to follow a path, which is strikingly opposite to that >of ideal Hinduism. They take liquor, eat flesh and utter >obscenities, meditate at night and have uninhibited sex. All this >makes one believe that they are uncultured Hindus but that is >incorrect. Aghoris also believe in Hinduism's fundamental reality of >Moksha i.e. salvation .For them it is the unification of the self >with the supreme consciousness.Aghoris are one of the most >controversial of Hindu holy men .They are known to possess magical >powers. Stories of Aghoris curing people suffering from serious >diseases are common in the Indian villages. Their powers at >awakening the dead are also talked about by people. Even in India >the word 'Aghori' cannot be used freely without drawing suspicion on >peoples faces. This is really sad because actually they are gentle >people. Infact my birth was due to an aghori and also my >spirituality and visions are because of his and another aghori's >grace. > Sad to note that people in india are losing faith in the >aghora system and consider it as evil. everyhing in this world >is ''unhorrible''...the aghora...because the physical reality is an >illusion. > urs yogically, > dattu > > > > > > > > > >Jay Gurudev > > > > > Links > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 16, 2004 Report Share Posted November 16, 2004 Hi! The attitude of indifference is actually supposed to be a yogic quality when one has controlled the senses and it doesnt matter if its cold or warm, if one eats meat or vegetables. One is above the pairs of opposites and the 3 gunas, even above good and evil. I personally admire aghoris who can do all these "forbidden" things under the condition that they are really done in a detached attitude. Swami Satyananda said once: if you bring me a cigarette right now I can smoke it on the spot. But of course Swami Satyananda is a great yogi who doesnt smoke or drink or eat meat. He said that only to show that he has the neccessary detachment to do any forbiden thing, he just doesnt do it because he uses other methods. So, on terms of detachment, I admire the aghoris. Actually the 3 books of Aghora by R E Svoboda, have had a deep impact on my spiritual worldview and changed my life. I believe getting to know what Aghora is about is a very precious and rewarding experience. However, I would never try to practice it. Because I am aware of my limitations and to be a true aghori one should be an absolutely perfect yogi, that has perfected the right hand path of yoga to continue to the extreme left hand path of aghora. regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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