Aghori Path (Left-Hand Path)

Summary

A tantric spiritual tradition that seeks liberation through systematic confrontation with taboo, societal conditioning, death, and biological disgust. Practitioners cultivate total internal purity while deliberately surrounding themselves with external filth, toxins, and mortality. Core practices include internal alchemy (transmuting poisons into mental clarity), samashan meditation (in cremation grounds), and ritual consumption of forbidden substances. The tradition teaches that confrontation with ego-dissolving stimuli—if undergone with sufficient discipline—breaks karmic cycles by eliminating all preference and aversion.