Aghori

The recently released Tamil movie, "Naan Kadavul" introduced me to a new sect of people called Aghori's and I decided to know more about them after watching that movie.

After a heavy Internet search I was able to write this article on aghori's.

The word aghori in Sanskrit means non terrifying.The sanscrit term Aghora is the combination of two words and has various meanings: A is a negation; Ghora is the obscurity of the ignorance, but it also means intense, deep; Aghora therefore means Light, absence of obscurity, awareness, but it also symbolizes a style of life where a person of the Aghori tradition doesn't have intense or deep feelings, it doesn't make difference among the various feelings, seems to be indifferent to the various stories of the life.

It is said that Aghoris drink liquors, smoke ganja, eat meat (in some rites also human meat); they use a human skull as a bowl, they wander among the funeral pyres, meditate at night and don't have any sex inhibition. This path seems to be detached completely from hinduist philosophies and it deceives the true nature of this little known reality in the indian sadhus (ascetics) panorama.