Aghori Sadhus…some Indian wizards…

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Wizards don’t just exist in fairy tales…there are real ones…modern day Merlins who live among us as imperceptibly as the wizarding world lives among muggles in the Harry Potter Series. wizard.jpgYou may believe that what they do is magic or you may not. But from their perspective there are spirits, gods, and complex alchemical energies flowing through the world that only the trained mind can see. They are shamans that travel between the spirit worlds, using marijuana and alcohol as sacraments. Hindu wizards are known as sadhus, and among them possibly the most intriguing bunch that roam the earth these days are the Aghoris. They commune with the dead, living among them and practice rituals with corpses in order to make contact with the divine mother, Kali, to whom they pray. It all sounds very macabre till you read some of their philosophy. For them, nothing and everything is sacred. That is to say, excrement and corpses are as sacred as flowers. They see all things as a divine expression and the idea of matter as being impure, an illusion. There are some books, if you are interested in this subject,by Robert E. Svoboda, called The Aghora Trilogy. They are very readable and full of the tales of one Aghori sadhu, describing his many years of wizarding training, his many strange adventures and his visions of the terrifying and beautiful dark Goddess, Kali maha-kali.jpgand her male counterpart, Shiva. By the way, I’ve always wondered why Shiva always seems to be depicted clean-shaved. shiva.jpgHe was a sadhu like the Aghoris, and would have had dreds and a beard.

I’m posting one punchy little National Geographic clip on Agori Sadhus and then a 6- part British documentary on a young Aghori sadhu in training, narrated by Art Malik. They are visually, very compelling and I enjoy watching these guys and imagining the lives they lead…living their lives in shadow, with one foot in dream and another in death. In part 4 a young Agori sadhu in training is initiated by his guru and he weeps ecstatically as he feels overwhelmed by the presence of the divine mother. You hear about this kind of spiritual ecstasy from the writings of countless mystics across the ages but here you can actually witness it. In part 5 you can witness an exorcism of evil spirits and in Part 6 he goes home to visit his family, which is forbidden to Aghori sadhus. Its really a documentary about a young man’s right of passage, as he begins upon an unusual path. Enjoy!

National Geographic clip:

Aghori Series Part 1:

Aghori Series Part 2:

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11 Comments

  1. working on subjects like this is realy admirable, we from digitech studio are like to thanks to your team to present the reality and giving us valuable information

  2. hai muje ye sadnaye kai se karte hai uske bare me janana hai ormai kisi agori tantrik se milna chata hu……….

  3. muje inke bare me bachpan se lagao hai agr ap koi hai to mujje please kuch bheje mai intjar me rhunga

  4. the videos are not available…well atleast dats wat its saying

  5. This might trigger your senses

    http://www.ceveni.com/2009/01/aghori-sadhus-eating-human-flesh-video.html

  6. I saw this video abt a young aghori who u r talking abt and hated the way he was eating human flesh. And I saw another video where aghori was eating dead floating corpse man its rediculus. There should be some international law to prevent people eating peoples body. We need to stop this immediately and lawfully prevent aghoris existence caz its inhumane and disgusting act or ritual.

  7. Its disgusting to see human eating another humon body..

  8. is there any site where i cud get the full information and video clipings of agoris? im much interested in learning about the agoris.plz let me know the web site where i cud chk the video clipings of agoris. tnx

  9. Hi,
    i seen your blog its really very good and i am very interested in Aghori Sadhus information. i want one story of Mohanlal Agarwal’s Aghor Nagara Vage Che. if you have this story then please give this story dear i am very help ful to you dear
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  10. i have heard a lots of similar practice in tibet tantrik and also i have met some of them in my teenage ,and by stand in front of them i can feel how strong their left channel can effective u
    once a lama chanting a mantra in front of me my heart nearly stopped now by seeing in hinduu aghori i think they are soooo much in extremly hard sadhana
    practice why they dont get any disease while eating human flesh and drink dead people’s blood

  11. That’s not human flesh they are eating, to them it is the acceptance of a reality: that”every thing is one thing and this one thing is what makes up everything”…it’s something that physics calls the non divisible particle (or the minutest particle), and religion (and every one of them) call God, that is why nothing is holy or unholy for them..as god is within everything…don’t condemn something just because you do not understand what it is…and leaving all this…even i cant digest eating human (or any animal’s) flesh…but i don’t condemn..at least they are not killing somebody to eat them up (as is common along western cannibals)..they re eating things that otherwise would pollute some place…if you cant see them as humans..try to ignore them..as they don’t care what we think..and would probably laugh out if they hear your utterance..


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