Ego is a pleasure seeker. The ego wants to talk of life and its celebrations and beauties and fragrances. The Aghori says, “The ego wants to forget death, and I keep reminding the ego of death.”
He reminds the ego of death in the most ruthless way possible. He would meditate in front of a corpse. Similarly, all the stuff that a normal person usually finds repugnant—rubbish, excreta, the rotten flesh—the Aghori purposefully goes close to and he says, looking at all that which we call as abominable and disgusting, “I come to see who we truly are. This flesh that we so much worship today becomes abhorrent to even look at the day the body expires.”
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
