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Aghori, Hindu sect
The Aghori are a Hindu sect, who worshipped earlier the Devil god in some of her terrific forms.

The Aghori are a Hindu sect, who worshipped earlier the Devil god in some of her terrific forms. The Aghori sect is believed to split off from the Kapalika order, which dates from 1000 CE in the fourteenth century AD. It required even human victims for its performance. The appearance of her votary was rendered as hideous as possible. The stick and water-pot are set with bones and the upper half of a skull is also kept for worshipping purpose. The diet after the Puja includes flesh and spirituous liquors.

Aghori, Hindu sectBut, the regular worship of this sect has been restrained since along time. Some traces of this Aghori worship is now left among few disgusting wretches. They confess to have adopted its beliefs just for extracting alms. They eat and drink whatever is given to them even ordure and carrion to prove their indifference from worldly objects. They smear their bodies also with excrement. The Aghori sect used to carry it about with them in a wooden cup or skull either to swallow it or to throw it upon the persons or into the houses of those who refuse to comply with their demands. They also for the same purpose impose wounds of their limbs that the crime of blood may rest upon the head of the recusant. They also have a variety of similar disgusting devices to extort money from the timid and innocent Hindu. They were fortunately not numerous, and were universally disliked and feared.

The Aghori are said to have their origin to Kina Ram, an ascetic who is said to have lived 150 years. Kina Ram is believed to have been an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva. The main akhada of the Aghoris is in Var4anasi in Kina Ram`s hermitage. The Aghoris differentiate themselves from other Hindu sects and priests by their alcoholic and cannibalistic rituals. They collect the corpses floating on the Ganges River and consume them raw as the Aghoris believe it gives them immortality and supernatural powers.

(Last Updated on : 13/02/2009)
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