AGHORA BOOK I: AT THE LEFT HAND OF GOD by Svoboda Robert

Author:Svoboda, Robert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Namarupa LLC
Published: 2022-04-10T00:00:00+00:00

1 As I am unsure as to when this event occurred I cannot say precisely, but this sum, in 2018 dollars, would be equal to no less than $300,000, and possibly more than $400,000.

2 He had a certificate from the Archaeological Survey of India that attested to this fact; while it did not mention that he was in samadhi, it did state that “Jatalasadhu Ram Vishwambhardas was found” during an excavation in Orissa.

3 I met that man on several occasions.

CHAPTER SEVEN

AGHORA

When I look at someone, I don’t see them as they are now; I see them as they will be. Then I can try to change them if there is something in them I think I can change. If I love skin and bones, how will I be able to help them? Skin and bones will only decay, but the individual will continue to exist even after death. That is why I can say that I love people not for their present value but for their future value; not for what they are but for what they will become, or for what they have the potential to become. This is an aghori’s love.

THE TRUE AND THE REAL

I HAVE NEVER BELIEVED IN RELIGION. Religions are all limited because they concentrate only on one aspect of truth. That is why they are always fighting amongst one another, because they all think they are in sole possession of the truth. But I say there is no end to knowledge, so there is no use in trying to confine it to one scripture or one holy book or one experience. This is why I say, when people ask what religion I follow, “I don’t believe in sampradaya (sect), I believe in sampradaha (incineration): Burn down everything that is getting in the way of your perception of truth.”

I also often say that I belong to the Vedic religion. But there are problems in that also. For example, the Vedantins. Vedanta means “the end of the Veda”, and the Vedantins try to distill the essence of the Veda away from the minute rituals. But sometimes they make a mess of it.

For example, the philosophers of Shankaracharya’s Advaita (absolute nondual) Vedanta say, Brahma Satyam Jagan Mithya, meaning that the Universal Soul or Atman exists and is real, but that the world, the manifested universe, does not. An aghori believes, Brahma Satyam, Jagat Satyam: both the Atman and the samsara are real and existent because the samsara manifests itself directly from the Supreme Soul. If the product is impure and the process is efficient, then must not the raw material be impure? But we know the Atman is pure. If all is part of a harmonious whole, then all must be accepted as real. The world may not be true, no doubt; the world is in fact full of falsehood. But it is real, at least as real as you and I are. And you cannot deny your own reality, because when you do you enter into a

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