Aghoris - The Third Face Worshippers Of Lord Shiva .. live on remote places far from the sight of public: in the cold caves of Himalaya, in the jungles of Bengal that are ruled by tigers or in the bare, empty, hot deserts of Gujarat where no living creature survives. Their way is radical; it demands the biggest challenges of physical endurance and the most complicated psychological tests.
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Their way is called 'the left way' to reach God.
Aghoris worship Shiva or Mahakala - the destroyer, or its female manifestation: Shakti or Kali, the goddess of death.
"Each deity in Hinduism is just one manifestation of one God.
Different orders worship different deities thus satisfying all manifestations of God.
But what Shiva and Kali demands from its followers is not acceptable to the most.
Thus Aghories are the only ones willing to please them.
Kali demands satisfaction by meet, alcohol and sex. All three things are banned for other saddhus. To eat meat actually means to eat everything. To have no limits, because all is one.
Vimanalanda,the only Aghori that tried to bring tantric knowledge closer to the western mind, explained it like this:
"Have I lived - Have I used each moment of the day to grow, to learn and to develop? Have I loved -
have I made other people aware of the love that I have in my heart, and relieved them
from burden of doubt and non believing?
Have I laughed - Have I noticed the funny side of each, even the most painful experience? If I have, then I lived each moment in its totality - that is the only true description of Aghori."
If I have, then I lived each moment in its totality-
that is the only true
In the world the fear is the major component that affects the human life. An insect is threatened by a frog. The frog is worried about the snake. The snake gets frightened by the human hunters. The hunters are worried about their livelihood ! The same way a worker is worried about pleasing the manager and the owner about the government and market and the head of government about retaining the post ! This is a vicious circle.
One of the other thing could be the hunt for fame. One feels that he/she should command the respect of others in some way or the other. When that is achieved the person find out that there are taller mountains beyond the cliff already reached to pursue ! Keep getting promoted and promoted step by step - to end where ?
There could be many others one could imagine - the pursuit of better things. The ultimate thing to look for would be - to be the one that is ultimate ! The one that is does not have any superior element that could bully, the one that does not have external dependency to be happy, the one beyond which there can be nothing higher ! If we become that one, that is where going to be the point of completion. It is the Supreme Almighty ever Blissful - the One that qualifies for that ultimate thing. Being the favored of that Being would eliminate the fear and worry of everything else as the favor of the Almighty is there. Still isn't that one short ? There is still One Being to look up to and due to the fact that It is superior there is a fear, though with respect, for It. If the self unifies in that Supreme without recognizing itself to be anything other than the Supreme, the result would be just bliss - no strings attached ! This is the state of non-duality advaita.
Through the ripening of the fruits of his actions he does not attain any rest, like a worm caught within a whirlpool. The desire for liberation arises in human beings at the end of many births, through the ripening of their past virtuous conduct.
Shukla Yajur Veda, Paingala Upanishad 2.11. UPR, 913
Saivism proclaims: God Siva is Love, both immanent and transcendent, both the creator and the creation. This world is the arena of our evolution, which leads by stages to moksha, liberation from birth and death. Aum.
Inner truths never change, but outer forms of practice and observance do evolve. Saivism seeks to preserve its mystical teachings while adapting to the cultural, social and technological changes of each recurrent age. Aum.
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