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the spirits unnoticed, it was easy confusion between absolute freedom and liberation,
between jiven mukta and wizard-in-death "that could make all experiences without
enduring karmic effects. Further reports will read some examples of such confusion with
regard to Gorakhnath and Nathasiddha. The faith-nomen is understandable if we
remember that freedom is manifested in countless ways, often antisocial, a free man no
longer feels bound by laws or prejudice, is placed beyond all forms and social ethics. The
"excesses" and "aberrations" that echo the legends of the vamacari, the cruelties and
crimes committed by and Kapalika. Aghori all represent the evidence for the sensitivity
Hindu, total freedom won on with -human condition and outside society. Do not forget,
for the pen-cessing hindu human condition "normal" is equivalent to slavery, ignorance
and suffering, freedom, knowledge, the beati-tude are inaccessible meanwhile that
"normalcy" is not destroyed, and metaphysically founded on the same premise all excess
and all aberration, whom they also are effective ways to abolish the human condition.
Let's say then that in India, the extreme-Mixed have always been a minority, that large
currents spiritually not ever encouraged such protests that nihilo
'Maurice Bloomfield, On false Hindu ascetics and nunes in fiction (Journal Amer. Orient.
Soc, 44, 1924, ps. 202-242), especially ps. 213-218.
Instead of disputing in that the liber -
destinations, the followers of the "terrible schools" almost always lived outside of
asceticism and Indian mysticism. But all literal interpretations of the significance of the
human condition were justified by ideologies respectable as both Mahayana hindulsticas.
Moreover, such excesses committed in the name of a doctrine of salvation, his way
almost inevitable syncretism with spiritual rituals plucked at lower levels and with input
from subordinate groups; Tantrism eventually become part of the popular ma-gia large
and small, Yoga supports erotic apparition in the full light of the orgiastic cult secrets and
license-infectives maniacs who, without the prestige of tantric maithuna hathayoguis and
techniques, would have continued his obscure existence on the margins of society and
religious life of the community. Like all mystical gnosis and all that spread and triumph,
Tantric Yoga is not enough to avert the degradation, social strata penetrating ever more
extensive and eccentric. Since you can not always play an integral Yoga, one is content to
imitate certain aspects exte-res, is interpreted literally certain technical details. Is the risk
of any spiritual message that is assimilated and "lived" by crowds without preliminary
initiation. In the Indian perspective, this phenomenon of degradation for the rapid
movement of the late fall cycle: during the kali-yuga the truth is buried in the darkness of
ignorance. That's why you have new teachers and continually readjust to the doctrine of
"timeless Biles possibilities of a fallen humanity. P "ro we shall see, Gorakhnath propositive
and the 84 Siddha, the message, constantly renewed, of these new teachers,
suffers from the crowd, the erosion-bers (for the appearance of the masses is the
characteristic note of kali-yuga) and eventually degrade and be forgotten, more
accurately, a certain level "popular" means spiritual teacher ends up Alcan-zar the
archetypal image of the Great Magician, the "liberated in life, all po-seedor the siddhi.
Aghori, Kapalika
An important point seems to us in this spiritual process: the de-gradation of an ideology
by misunderstanding of the symbolism that serves as a vehicle. Here is an example: we