Still Human - Conversations for a Changing World
Jun 19, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min · 10 segments
Most people have never met an Aghori. The few who have heard the word know it through the scary version: ash, cremation grounds, eating human flesh. So I went to Varanasi and asked Sadhu Ji to tell it…
Sadhu JiGuest
Robin Leo HoffmanHost
First of all, with great love and respect in my heart, I welcome you to our ashram.
lose your facial muscles, feel cooling and calm sensation in your eyes, loosen your neck, shoulders, soften the belly and get grounded.
Feel you are inhaling through your navel to the heart, exhaling from heart to the navel.
From the next breath, while you inhaling say the mantra soul in your mind while exhaling say the mantra amm this is the seed mantra of breath this mantra goes on all our life through our breaths So means that the creator, hum means self, so hum means you are not separate from that, Inhale, say, Soul.
As my Guru says, Aghor is not a tradition, not a religion, it is the state of mind.
At the next moment, we start discriminating, this is good, this is bad, this is sin, this is virtue.
If a person starts seeing all these opposites are manifestation of the same divine nature, You enter in the state of non-discrimination beyond do and don'ts.
First of all, with great love and respect in my heart, I welcome you to our ashram.
lose your facial muscles, feel cooling and calm sensation in your eyes, loosen your neck, shoulders, soften the belly and get grounded.
Feel you are inhaling through your navel to the heart, exhaling from heart to the navel.
From the next breath, while you inhaling say the mantra soul in your mind while exhaling say the mantra amm this is the seed mantra of breath this mantra goes on all our life through our breaths So means that the creator, hum means self, so hum means you are not separate from that, Inhale, say, Soul.
As my Guru says, Aghor is not a tradition, not a religion, it is the state of mind.
At the next moment, we start discriminating, this is good, this is bad, this is sin, this is virtue.
If a person starts seeing all these opposites are manifestation of the same divine nature, You enter in the state of non-discrimination beyond do and don'ts.
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