AGHORA

pari kirjaa...

Aghora
At the Left Hand of God

Aghora Vol 2: Kundalini

Aghora Vol 3
The Law of Karma


This is the incredible story of the Aghori master Vimalananda. Aghora is the apotheosis of tantra, the left-handed path often involving extreme practices in order to hasten spiritual experience. There are few who dare to complete the rigorous and dangerous left-handed tantric training of Aghora. Strict renunciation is the prerequisite, extreme enough to purify the aspirant through and through. Only when purity is perfected is the aspirant assigned rituals which to others might seem hedonistic, sinful, disgusting or perverted. But Aghora is not indulgence, it is the transformation of darkness into light. An Aghori goes so deeply into darkness, into all things undreamable to ordinary mortals, that he comes into the light. Vimalanada conformed to none of the usual guru stereotypes and was scathing of religious hypocrisy and fake gurus.
"It is a work very much of this time, shredding and trampling on universal prohibitions. Often even a sentance or two will shed more significant light on profound states of consciousness or very complex stages of meditation than the reader is likely to find in whole volumes intended to illumine the same subjects." Robert Masters.

The second volume of the Aghora trilogy revisits the Aghori yogi Vimalananda in realms of consciousness far removed from the ordinary. This book particularly explores the often badly misunderstood practice of Kundalini, along with tantric sadhanas, mantras, and music. Vimalananda also presents a unique esoteric look at the Ramayana revealing its hidden meaning.
Aghoris take the most terryifying experiences possible and transmute them into devotion to reality. Aghoris personify and deify death and see the entire world as one vast ongoing cremation.
"In an ordinary person Kundalini is asleep at the base of the spine, and so Shiva is bereft of Shakti. Such a person is not Shiva but merely a corpse. I look at everyone I meet as a skeleton because that is what they are; until a person`s Kundalini Shakti awakens and begins to dance on her Shiva, that person is as good as dead." Vimalananda.
"Everyone interested in tantra should read the Aghora books. There are surprising revelations here, told clearly and without obscureness - wonderful insights on nature, the Goddess, the play of Maya and the path of liberation." Nik Douglas.

In the final volume of the Aghora trilogy, the Aghori yogi Vimalananda uses the backdrop of the Bombay racetrack as a potent metaphor for the ultimate game of life, where destinies and fortunes are forged or lost on the momentary edge of the finishing line.
Weaving all the characters - favourites and outsiders, jockeys and trainers, owners and rail-birds - into the grass roots tapestry of the field of karma, Vimalananda masterfully entwines the flamboyant external reality of the racecourse with the subtle internal reality of creative spirituality. Hidden within the form of every sliding moment which culminates in "chance" are the infinite tracks of destiny and the profound and underlying philosophical truths they reveal.
"It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you." Vimalananda.