Aghori

Aghori

Follower of the tradition of Aghora.

Aghori wear mala from bones or teeth, kapala, black clothes, since black color is a symbol of the dissolution of all other colors, it includes all of them. As their asanas, they often use the bones of humans and animals, because bones already contain the realized experience of the given being, and when the aghora-sadhana is performed, this experience is being realized by sadhaka as a specific form of Shakti. Aghori believe in the rite of human sacrifice to their Deity, they have no restrictions in food, they can even eat corpses. Also, unlike the sadhus of other traditions, in their rituals Aghori consume alcohol and other intoxicants, meditating in places of cremation (shmashan).