Does hanging around with a skull deserve hatred and contempt? For a start you often fail to realise there is one sticking on your neck, unless you have an unsupported lump of meat for a face. If there is any learning to be discerned from a skull then you could try something that on a personal to holder basis forms a major practical lesson by aghori gurus. Try to visualise and skin your own head - no face or mask for the external theatre and no brains. With that no mind and no thoughts. A skull stuck to your neck is mindlessness. This is ‘kabala padam’, kabalam meaning skull and the root word pada meaning lesson. With Vibhuti pada it is complementary for ego shedding and killing fear of death.
Such mindlessness is devoid of the snares of existence – lust, anger, greed, delusion, envy shame, disgust, fear etc which all bind the person. You skull sees not with the physical eyes but with a sense of perception from within. The external light flickers within to find a universe which does not differentiate what is within and without. Mind you, one would be astonished by the uselessness of limited existence, knowing a world existing within, without being in that world. The brief candle life’s story told by an idiot flickers away while it sparks off a new dimension within the aspirant. Invoking Mother Kali at her extremes is walking the thin line between her wrath and her breast-feeding but the aghori pursues it without fear. Well, there may be other ways to this lesson surely. But each is free to pursue his or her truth and Light. No-one has a right to sit in judgment, for a limited mind is one that aghoris overcome.
Jai Maa Kali, Jai Aghoresvari Ma.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
Such mindlessness is devoid of the snares of existence – lust, anger, greed, delusion, envy shame, disgust, fear etc which all bind the person. You skull sees not with the physical eyes but with a sense of perception from within. The external light flickers within to find a universe which does not differentiate what is within and without. Mind you, one would be astonished by the uselessness of limited existence, knowing a world existing within, without being in that world. The brief candle life’s story told by an idiot flickers away while it sparks off a new dimension within the aspirant. Invoking Mother Kali at her extremes is walking the thin line between her wrath and her breast-feeding but the aghori pursues it without fear. Well, there may be other ways to this lesson surely. But each is free to pursue his or her truth and Light. No-one has a right to sit in judgment, for a limited mind is one that aghoris overcome.
Jai Maa Kali, Jai Aghoresvari Ma.
Yogi Ananda Saraswathi
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