Aughad Guru

Aughad Guru

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Nepal Aghor Ashram mangaldhanram


Aghor sages of ancient times are Vishwamitra, Vamdeo, Vashishtha, Sukadeva(son of Vedabyass) Dattatreya and after them are Vikramaditya, Aghoracharya, Bhairavacharya, Abhinavavagupta, Sarvananda Thakur. Several other saints are also known to have interesting links with Aghoris or Avadhoots in the life of lord Buddha his spiritual accomplishment is attributed to an Avadhootin Sucheta who fed him the pious rice pudding. The digambar faith in Jain religion carries a strong flavor of Aghor tradition as the Aghors always stayed digambar (naked) when they are alone, only in the society they wear clothes. Goswami Tulsidas succeeded in having a darshan of Bhagawan Ram through his practice of Vam-Sadhana. Ramkrishna Paramahansa received his spiritual training from an Avadhootin. The famous Bama Khepa of the Tara Peeth (Shakti Peeth) was an Aghor Shadhak.
The Aghor tradition have different different names according to the regions. The Himalayee relates to Himalaya and the Giranaree relates to Giranar Mountain in Joonagarh (Gujarat) which is Avadhoot Dattatreya’s abode. Dattatreya is the first guru of this ‘Kinarami aghor tradition’. Whoose first Aghor saint was Baba Aghoracharya Maharaj kinaram of the 16th centuary. Baba Kaluram who was the Guru of Shree Aghoracharya Maharaj Kinaram Baba (the starter of the ‘Kinarami Lineage’ ). Shree Aghoracharya Maharaj Kinaram Baba has received his spiritual initiations from Avadhoot Guru Dattatreya at the Giranar mountain. our gurudev is of ‘Giranari tradition’ which is called ‘Kinarami lineage’.
Aghor often appears in tantric texts, especially in the western media, but the fact of the matter is that it is not a tantric tradition, it doesnot depend on tantras or tantric philosophy. Aghor sadhana does not depend on tantric activities, Aghor is a state of shivattva and an embodiment of Shiva who himself is the originator of tantra but he doesnot depend on it. The Aghors believes in the highest state of sadhana, which is spiritual austerity. An Aghor aspirant performs very severe penance in which he is completely detached from the worldly affairs. The subject of concern to him is to experience and realize the Divine Power. This types of severe penance is only known in Aghor tradition. Although Aghors stayed away from society, people started visiting them to seek their blessings and to benefit from their spiritual power. This became a threat to the livelihood of brahmins and vaishnava leaders, whose job was to keep people entangled in supperstitions and complex rituals in order to maintain their own domination on people’s lives. For their benefit they organized campaign against the aghor tradition to portray it as an unruly, erratic, and undesirable cult. The result was that people started keep distance with the aghors. Even today in society they have misperception about this tradition, although the efforts of Aghoreshwar Bhagwan Ram for the last decades have made a significant difference. The Aghoreshwar Bhagwan Ram Ashrams of Nepal, been trying to solve the same misperception about Aghor tradition. Our Gurudeva Avadhoot Mangaldhan ram baba who has established the Aghoreshwar Ashram in Nepal for the first time has to face so many difficulty due to the people of the Nepali society, who are unknown to the Aghor tradition. It’s been 12 years that the first Sudharma Ashram been built by the organization Shree Parameshwari sewa kendra in the supervision of Shree Gurudev in the name of his Guru Sudharma baba (Kapaleshwar Baba Singha Sawak Ram who is the first disciple of Shree Aghoreshwar bhagwan ram baba who was the first Aghor Saint who has introduced this aghor tradition for the welfare of the human society. And gave the right definition of the aghors to the society).
In Nepal before the establishment of this organization and the Ashram people of this Nepali society has never thought that Aghors are such a simple human natured person who is so much interested in the welfare and benefit of the society. Being an Aghor saint our Gurudev Avadhoot baba has shown the great example to the Nepali society. The society been always dominated by the Pandits who are after the complex rituals in the name of the god. In early days people used to dread Aghors because they knew that- If he says something, that is bound to happen, if he gets angry, that will mean disaster. This had been practically proved many times from ancient age, among them in the life story of Aghoracharya Maharaj Kinaram Baba we could read the story about these incidents. Many incidents happens with us as now people can see and get blessings from the Aughads or Aghors or Avadhoots among themselves.
Aghoreshwar Bhagwan Ram was against this miracles to happen in the public so was stopped from his time but the miracles takes place unknowingly to all who are related to Aghor Ashram here in Nepal or any other places of the world. Our Ashrams (Nepal) today by the instruction and guidence of the Avadhoot Mangaldhan Ram baba has been teaching the human values to all which is based in good character. The base of the good character helps the person to be blessed by the Aghor Gurudev. Spirituality can be only built in the foundation of the good character is the main theme of our Ashram. Our Ashram provide the food (prashad) and the shelter to all needy person without discrimination. All the human being should be equally treated been taught by our Aghor Ashram. The people of different castes, class, relegion belongs to our Ashram, they all been treated in such a way by our Avadhoot Mangaldhan Ram baba that everybody feels that the baba is here for the welfare of all and donot belong to only one caste, religion or class. The people here been taught how to perform their work daily. How to start the day and how to end the day? What has to be thought and what should be done for the welfare of the Nepali society. They are taught how to perform the worship to the divine mother during Navaratra. What is the duty and the responsibility of a person is as a son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother etc and the most important is as a citizen of Nepal and as a humanbeing in the society in this earth. Aghor ashram of Nepal is trying to teach the people to behave as a humanbeing and to live in peace.

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