Taboo: After Death - Aghori

Schreib einen Kommentar

Kommentar von ThoreS am 24. April 2009 um 6:51pm

Hier gibt es ein interessantes Interview mit einem Aghori, sowohl zum Hören als auch das Transcript zum Lesen:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/encounter/stories/2006/1782966.htm

Auszug:Lalli Baba (reader): There is a spiritual practice of meditating on the dead body. If you are doing this in the cemetery or at the cremation ground, you need to take the protection of the ghosts. When a ghost comes and tries to disturb your practice, you control it. If you take the power of the mantra, nobody disturbs you.

MUSIC/POETRY

Ron Barrett: Their reputation for living on the cremation grounds and ingesting forbidden substances like faeces and human flesh, and consuming intoxicating substances, and having this sort of very fierce persona, and doing these very wild practices.

Lesley Branagan: A radical tradition with Hindu elements arose in India many centuries ago that likes to get close to everything that's considered dirty to do with death and decay. The Aghoris are a little-known community in north India who consume substances believed to be polluting to orthodox Hindus. Traditional Aghori practices include: drinking wine and urine from human skulls; smearing themselves with cremation ash, and the practice that has most coloured their image - the eating of human flesh.

Amitabh: Because I've seen people doing that.

Lesley Branagan: You've seen them eating flesh?

Amitabh: Yeah. Immediately it started haunting my mind.

Lesley Branagan: Gor means terrible, and Aghor means non-terrible. Aghoris do these practices to overcome their aversion and terror of death and its substances. They believe that dualistic thinking, such as good-bad, pure-impure distinctions are only in the mind - and that by transcending such conditioning, they'll achieve spiritual enlightenment.

Ron Barrett: The idea is that really overcoming one's socialisation - if you've been socialised into these ideas of aversion, ideas of caste, and ideas that certain substances and certain things and certain practices are somehow forbidden - by going beyond that, is a way of re-socialising people so that they can embrace all of humanity. It's very much a kind of liberation theology for Hinduism.

Lesley Branagan: The most visible Aghoris share much in common with Hindu sadhus, the wandering ascetics that worship the god Shiva. In emulation of Lord Shiva, sadhus usually sport dreadlocks, wear loincloths, smoke marijuana, and sometimes try to cultivate magical powers. In addition to these practices, the Aghoris embrace the extremities, all that's taboo in Hinduism.

Aghori practices aren't confined to radical ascetics. There is now a form of the tradition that is practised by middle-class house-holders. As we'll hear, a lineage of the Aghor tradition has reformed, gaining legitimacy, and attracting high flying devotees such as politicians. But the underlying philosophy of the Aghor tradition is still the same.

Baba Harihar Ram: Whatever is limiting you. Maybe you are disgusted by something, or you hate someone or you are angry with somebody. So, there is so much investment in that. So, that Aghori who is practising those things, is trying to free that energy that's invested in that particular mindset that he or she may be holding. So Aghoris are the best alchemists. Alchemy is not only changing gold to diamond or silver, alchemy is the change that you bring about in a person's inner consciousness, in their inner being.

Lesley Branagan: The most well-known place where Aghoris live is the city of Varanasi or Banaras in northern India. Banaras is regarded as the cradle of Hinduism and the city of Shiva, the god of destruction, who's said to wander here daily. Situated on the banks of the sacred Ganges river, known as the Ganga, pious Hindus try to make at least one pilgrimage here in their lifetime, believing it will give them great spiritual merit.

The ancient name for Banaras is Kashi, city of light, a brilliant jewel that illuminates liberation. To die and be cremated here is th

Kommentar von Karin am 24. April 2009 um 2:58pm

Hallo Rado,
danke für deine Infos! Vielleicht irgendwann einmal (derzeit liegen meine Interessen doch schwerpunktmässig noch eher woanders ;-) ) .... . Über Svoboda bin ich schon gestossen ...
bin neulich nur zufällig auf den Film Aghori (siehe http://www.yogafriends.de/video/sadhus-aghori-16 ) gestossen ... hatte ihn vor einigen Jahren beim Sadhanakurs gesehen ...

Hier noch ein anderer Film "aghori life style"
!!! hier würde die Warnung von National Geographic viel eher passen: nichts für zartbeseitete Nerven !!!
(deshalb auch nur ein Link und nicht eingebettet):
http://www.desimad.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d26eb03e91d5741a4a3b

Kommentar von Radoslav Tsvetkov am 24. April 2009 um 11:13am

Akademisches Lesen für Thema:
1."Obscure Religious Cults." by Shashibhusan Dasgupta
2."The Kapalikas and Kalamukhas" by David N. Lorenzen

Für etwa "Story Telling"
3. "Aghora" by Robert E. Svoboda

Eigentlich Dasgupta hat es am bestens formuliert - Obscure