SRI Aghor Vaishnava Sampradaya
To Re-awaken Avadhuta consciousness and from that platform everything is clear. When all dualities of this world are transcended and no feelings of disgust remains then and only then our relationship with the omnipresent Lord will be realised.
With care and undivided dedication, the devotees of this Sampradaya have sought to revive, restore, and preserve the ancient tradition Sri AGHORA VAISHNAVA
The traditional definition of Aghor is Avadhuta, someone who is completely absorbed in meditation and devotion to God, seeing God within all beings within everything and in all of creation without discrimination . Aghora is also a traditional name Of Lord Narasimha.
The Ishta or main Deity of SRI Aghora VAISHNAVA SAMPRADAYA is Jagannath "Lord of the universe" Vasudeva “He who pervades and sports” Sri Aghor VAISHNAVA SAMPRADAYA is founded on the universal principles of Avadhut consciousness. Lord Shiva is our Adi Guru or original teacher and patron Deity. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam!
Sri Aghora VAISHNAVA Sampradaya is a branch of Aghora based on the tradition of Bhakti (devotion) and Vaishnavaism. Aghora was first founded by Lord Shiva the greatest amongst Vaishnavas the devotees of Sri Hari, Narayana, Krishna, Rama, Narasimha, Anantasesha and all the incarnations of Lord Vishnu. Thus Sri Aghoris are Rudranugas followers in the footsteps of Rudra (Shiva).
According to legend the pastime of Aghora manifested after Shiva in the form of Bhairava beheaded Brahmadeva to protect the honor of Sri Hari. According to this legend the Lord of all beings Sri Hari once asked Brahmadeva in the presence of Shiva: Who is the supreme Lord of all beings? Brahmadeva answered that he himself (Brahmadeva) is the supreme being. Lord Shiva became very angry and cut off one of Brahmadeva's heads to punish him for the offense. Afterwards he dedicated himself to repentance and performed severe austerities at cremation grounds in Kashi to atone for the sin of Brahmahatya (murdering a Brahmana) and begged with the skull-bowl of Brahmadeva's decapitated head.
Repentance is a very important part of Aghora, without it there cannot be Aghora.
The philosophy of Vaishnava Aghora is based on the concept of Dvaita-advaita, distinction within non distinction, duality in nonduality.The qualitative and quantitative eternal difference between the marginal living being and God who is beyond the living being but simultaneously is omnipresent, omnipotent and the silent witness within everyone, the source and generator of everything that exists. Jai Aghor!
Founder & Aghoracharya
Lord Shiva gave the initial instructions to our founding Acharya, Baba Totagopinath Das Suryasu Ram to begin the revival of this ecstatic approach to devotional service; which Baba Totagopinath Das Suryasu Ram initially rejected. it was only after his godbrother Gopal Das Babaji insisted that he give diksha and siksha in this Vaishnavaghori Panth, did he begin to consider it more seriously. after spending so many years in Vrindavan as the humble disciple of Sri Sri 108 Hridayananda Das Babaji & taking his blessings, Baba Totagopinath Das Suryasu Ram went to Varanasi on his quest for Aghora .Baba Totagopinath Das Suryasu Ram eventually found himself as the disciple of Babaji Anil Ram Aghori of the Kinaram lineage. Babaji Anil Ram Aghori would go onto grant our Acharya Aghori Diksha and give his blessing as well to this Sri Aghor Vaishnava Panth.
"Fault finding is the only so called problem in the drama. It creates dualities that captivates us in the world of the mind. But in reality it doesn't exist because it is an illusion. When the impartial freedom fighters called Aghoris behold the world they are not affected by such things that are disturbed to others, but can with a good laughter allow themselves peace of mind and joy without interruption , either alone or with others wherever they are"by Totagopinath Das Suryasu Ram
Mahamantra & Kali Yuga
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
"In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way.”-Brhan Naradiya Purana
"This mantra, consisting of 16 words and 32 syllables, is the only means against evil in this age. After searching through all the Vedic literature, one cannot find a method of religion more sublime for the age of Kali than the chanting of Hare Krsna."Kali Santarana Upanishad
Radha said: Gazing at Krishna's dark handsomeness, Shiva became attached to Him. Giving up all normal happiness, Shiva now walks and runs about like a madman, wearing matted hair, drinking poison, covered with ashes and decorated with snakes and skulls.- Garga Samhita 2.18.23
Such renunciation in devotional service means to give up all kinds of social customs and religious rituals governed by Vedic injunction."Narada Bhakti Sutra 1.8
Shiva said: "When one attains devotional service that is beyond the modes of material nature, he does not think impersonal liberation very valuable. For him liberation is love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead."Satvata Tantra 4.22
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: "At first My mind somehow achieved the treasure of Kṛṣṇa, but it again lost Him. Therefore it gave up My body and home because of lamentation and accepted the religious principles of a kāpālika-yogī. Then My mind went to Vṛndāvana with its disciples, My senses."- Caitanya Caritamrta, Antya 14.41
One should simply follow the instructions of the Lord and His empowered servants. their instructions are all good for us, and any intelligent person will perform them as instructed. however, one should guard against trying to imitate their actions. One should not try to drink the ocean of poison in imitation of Lord Siva."-Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.30-31
With a pure heart one should see Me, the supreme soul within all beings and also within oneself, to be both unblemished by anything material and also present everywhere, both externally and internally, just like the omnipresent sky Srimad Bhagavatam 11.29.12
just as the Ganga is greatest among rivers Lord Acyuta is greatest among deities Lord Shiva is greatest among Vaishnavas similarly, this is the greatest among Puranas."-Srimad Bhagavatam 12.13.16
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s garland had been crushed during His conjugal dalliance with the gopis and colored vermilion by the kuṅkuma powder on their breasts. To dispel the fatigue of the gopis, Kṛṣṇa entered the water of the Yamuna, followed swiftly by bees who were singing like the best of the Gandharvas. He appeared like a lordly elephant entering the water to relax in the company of his consorts. Indeed, the Lord had transgressed all worldly and Vedic morality just as a powerful elephant might break the dikes in a paddy field. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.33.22
With GURUJI TOTAGOPINATH Das SURYASURAM
Lord Krishna says: For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. Bhagavad Gita 6.30
Lord Krishna says One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies, and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul within the destructible body is ever destroyed, actually sees. One who sees the Supersoul equally present everywhere, in every living being, does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination- Bhagavad Gita 13.28-29
A person is said to be established in self-realization and is called a yogi when he is fully satisfied by virtue of acquired knowledge and realization. Such a person is situated in transcendence and is self-controlled. He sees everything—whether it be pebbles, stones or gold—as the same. A person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all—the honest well-wisher, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial—with an equal mind."-Bhagavad Gita 6.8-9
Persons who direct their lust, anger, fear, protective affection, feeling of impersonal oneness or friendship toward Lord Hari are sure to become absorbed in thought of Him. Srimad Bhagavatam 10.29.15
Although the duality of the material world does not ultimately exist, the conditioned soul experiences it as real under the influence of his own conditioned intelligence. This imaginary experience of a world separate from Kṛṣṇa can be compared to the acts of dreaming and desiring. When the conditioned soul dreams at night of something desirable or horrible, or when he daydreams of what he would like to have or avoid, he creates a reality that has no existence beyond his own imagination. The tendency of the mind is to accept and reject various activities based on sense gratification. Therefore an intelligent person should control the mind, restricting it from the illusion of seeing things separate from Kṛṣṇa, and when the mind is thus controlled he will experience actual fearlessness. An intelligent person who has controlled his mind and conquered fear should give up all attachment to material objects such as wife, family and nation and should wander freely without embarrassment, hearing and chanting the holy names of the Lord, the bearer of the chariot wheel. The holy names of Kṛṣṇa are all-auspicious because they describe His transcendental birth and activities, which He performs within this world for the salvation of the conditioned souls. Thus the holy names of the Lord are sung throughout the world. By chanting the holy name of the Supreme Lord, one comes to the stage of love of Godhead. Then the devotee is fixed in his vow as an eternal servant of the Lord, and he gradually becomes very much attached to a particular name and form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As his heart melts with ecstatic love, he laughs very loudly or cries or shouts. Sometimes he sings and dances like a madman, for he is indifferent to public opinion. A devotee should not see anything as being separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, the sun and other luminaries, all living beings, the directions, trees and other plants, the rivers and oceans — whatever a devotee experiences he should consider to be an expansion of Kṛṣṇa. Thus seeing everything that exists within creation as the body of the Supreme Lord, Hari, the devotee should offer his sincere respects to the entire expansion of the Lord’s body.- Srimad Bhagavatam 11.2.38-41
Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work.- Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.34
Sukadeva Goswami said: O King Pariksit, the topmost transcendentalists, who are above the regulative principles and restrictions, take pleasure in describing the glories of the Lord.- Srimad Bhagavatam 2.1.7
Through the grace of God alone, the desire for nonduality arises in wise men to save them from great fear.- Avadhuta Gita 1.1
Lord Shiva said unto Goddess Uma:"One who for half a month diligently worships the Omnipresent Supreme Lord Visnu is the best of men. He is wise. He is a great devotee of Lord Visnu. Of this there is no doubt.”- Skanda Purana
I salute my Guru’s feet, whose greatness is unimaginable and beyond any description, they have a pinkish splendour and are awe-inspiring, their significance is beyond any logic and they are mighty in their pre-eminence. I bow to the sustainer of the universe, the great Brahman (Vishnu), whose form, even if He assumes many forms, cannot be confined only to a particular one and who is above all attributes.- Skanda Purana, Guru Gita
Shiva said: Oh brahmana, a person devoted to chanting the holy name becomes free from all of Kali-yuga’s sins and goes to the realm of Lord Vishnu. Therefore, a person who without offense once chants the holy name crosses the ocean of repeated birth and death.Oh brahmana, of this there is no doubt.- Satvata Tantra 7.24-25
Seeing an Aughar is like having a temporary appearance of Shiva. Aughars are not only fair but also objective. In their greatness they agree to have social relationships with everyone. They don’t have the aptitude to classify just like the sun, the moon, the fire and the earth. The Aughar (Aghori) who has achieved the stage of fairness acts for the good of everyone.- Sri Aghoreshwar Bhagwan Ram
We don't need external ostentation to please God. The method of worshipping or pleasing the Ishta, the divinity dearest to one's heart is kept confidential. Your Ishta is hungry for the Atma-bhava the thinking of yourself in the image of the supreme soul and desires only the flowering of your beautiful heart. - Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagavan Ram
Lord Krishna said: Whenever one develops faith in Me, in My form as the Deity or in other bona fide manifestations, one should worship Me in that form. I certainly exist both within all created beings and also separately in My original form, since I am the Supreme Soul of all.- Srimad Bhagavatam 11.27.48
Lord Krishna said: Although most wise, the paramahamsa should enjoy life like a child, oblivious to honor and dishonor; although most expert, he should behave like a stunted, incompetent person, although most learned, he should speak like an insane person; and although a scholar learned in Vedic regulations, he should behave in an unrestricted manner.- Srimad Bhagavatam 11.18.29
Lord Krishna said: One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden activities. The self-realized person does this spontaneously, like an innocent child, and not because he is thinking in terms of material good and evil. One who is the kind well-wisher of all living beings, who is peaceful and firmly fixed in knowledge and realization, sees Me within all things. Such a person never again falls down into the cycle of birth and death.- Srimad Bhagavatam 11.7.11-12
Lord Rishabhadeva was the head of all kings and emperors within this universe, but assuming the dress and language of an avadhuta, He acted as if dull and materially bound. Consequently no one could observe His divine opulence. He adopted this behavior just to teach yogis how to give up the body. Nonetheless, He maintained His original position as a plenary expansion of Lord Vasudeva, Kṛṣṇa. Remaining always in that state, He gave up His pastimes as Lord Rishabhadeva within the material world. If, following in the footsteps of Lord Rishabhadeva, one can give up his subtle body, there is no chance that one will accept a material body again. Actually Lord Rishabhadeva had no material body, but due to yoga-maya He considered His body material, and therefore, because He played like an ordinary human being, He gave up the mentality of identifying with it. Following this principle, He began to wander all over the world. While traveling, He came to the province of Karnata in south India and passed through Konka, Venka and Kutaka. He had no plan to travel this way, but He arrived near Kutakacala and entered a forest there. He placed stones within His mouth and began to wander through the forest, naked and with His hair disheveled like a madman. While He was wandering about, a wild forest fire began. This fire was caused by the friction of bamboos, which were being blown by the wind. In that fire, the entire forest near Kutakacala and the body of Lord Rishabhadeva were burnt to ashes- Srimad Bhagavatam 5.6.6-8
Lord Krishna said: "One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden activities. The self-realized person does this spontaneously, like an innocent child, and not because he is thinking in terms of material good and evil. One who is the kind well-wisher of all living beings, who is peaceful and firmly fixed in knowledge and realization, sees Me within all things. Such a person never again falls down into the cycle of birth and death."Srimad Bhagavatam 11.7.11-12
Narada said: "O Brāhmaṇa Vyāsadeva, it is decided by the learned that the best remedial measure for removing all troubles and miseries is to dedicate one’s activities to the service of the supreme Lord personality of Godhead. O good soul, does not a thing, applied therapeutically, cure a disease which was caused by that very same thing? Thus when all a man’s activities are dedicated to the service of the Lord, those very activities which caused his perpetual bondage become the destroyer of the tree of work."-Srimad Bhagavatam 1.5.32-34
Lord Narasimha said: My dear Prahlada, King of the Daityas, because of being attached to devotional service to Me, My devotee does not distinguish between lower and higher living entities. In all respects, he is never jealous of anyone.- Srimad Bhagavatam 7.10.20
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Yes, I shall describe to you the principles of devotion to Me, by executing which a mortal human being will conquer unconquerable death. Always remembering Me, one should perform all his duties for Me without becoming impetuous. With mind and intelligence offered to Me, one should fix his mind in attraction to My devotional service.One should take shelter of holy places where My saintly devotees reside, and one should be guided by the exemplary activities of My devotees, who appear among the demigods, demons and human beings. Either alone or in public gatherings, with singing, dancing and other exhibitions of royal opulence, one should arrange to celebrate those holy days, ceremonies and festivals set aside specially for My worship. With a pure heart one should see Me, the Supreme Soul within all beings and also within oneself, to be both unblemished by anything material and also present everywhere, both externally and internally, just like the omnipresent sky.O brilliant Uddhava, one who thus views all living entities with the idea that I am present within each of them, and who by taking shelter of this divine knowledge offers due respect to everyone, is considered actually wise. Such a man sees equally the brāhmaṇa and the outcaste, the thief and the charitable promoter of brahminical culture, the sun and the tiny sparks of fire, the gentle and the cruel.For him who constantly meditates upon My presence within all persons, the bad tendencies of rivalry, envy and abusiveness, along with false ego, are very quickly destroyed.Disregarding the ridicule of one’s companions, one should give up the bodily conception and its accompanying embarrassment. One should offer obeisances before all — even the dogs, outcastes, cows and asses — falling flat upon the ground like a rod. Until one has fully developed the ability to see Me within all living beings, one must continue to worship Me by this process with the activities of his speech, mind and body.By such transcendental knowledge of the all-pervading Personality of Godhead, one is able to see the Absolute Truth everywhere. Freed thus from all doubts, one gives up fruitive activities. Indeed, I consider this process — using one’s mind, words and bodily functions for realizing Me within all living beings — to be the best possible method of spiritual enlightenment. My dear Uddhava, because I have personally established it, this process of devotional service unto Me is transcendental and free from any material motivation. Certainly a devotee never suffers even the slightest loss by adopting this process. O Uddhava, greatest of saints, in a dangerous situation an ordinary person cries, becomes fearful and laments, although such useless emotions do not change the situation. But activities offered to Me without personal motivation, even if they are externally useless, amount to the actual process of religion.This process is the supreme intelligence of the intelligent and the cleverness of the most clever, for by following it one can in this very life make use of the temporary and unreal to achieve Me, the eternal reality.- Srimad Bhagavat Maha Purana 11.29.8-22
Lord Shiva said: Anyone who is surrendered to the supreme personality of Godhead Vasudeva, who is the controller of everything, material nature as well as the living entity is very dear to me. One who is situated in his divine duty properly for one hundred births becomes qualified to have the post of Brahma, and if he becomes more qualified he can approach Me. A person who is surrendered to the supreme personality of Godhead without deviation is certainly promoted to the spiritual planets. The demigods and Myself attain these planets after the destruction of this material world.- Srimad Bhagavat Maha Purana 4.24.28-29
Anyone, even a person in an impure state, who absorbs his mind in Him for just a moment at the time of death burns up all traces of sinful reactions and immediately attains the supreme transcendental destination in a pure, spiritual form as effulgent as the sun. You two have rendered exceptional loving service to Him, Lord Narayana, the supersoul of all and the cause of all existence, the great soul who, although the original cause of everything, has a humanlike form. What pious deeds could still be required of you?- Srimad Bhagavat Maha Purana 10.46.32-33
All different types of meditation or mysticism are means for realizing Narayana. All austerities are aimed at achieving Narayana. Culture of transcendental knowledge is for getting a glimpse of Narayana, and ultimately salvation is entering the kingdom of Narayana.- Srimad Bhagavat Maha Purana 2.5.16
The Lord, as Supersoul, pervades all things, just as fire permeates wood, and so He appears to be of many varieties, though He is the absolute one without a second. Srimad bhagavatam maha puran
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