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Mircea Eliade YOGA IMMORTALITY AND ... - Brihaspati.net

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lungs of men mixed with the meat, and the God apatiguamos Terrible (Maha Bhairava)<br />

with more human victimization of fresh blood covered the wounds arising from their<br />

throats (...). The strength of our religion is such that I command of Hari-Hara and gods<br />

biggest and most anti-four commands, stop the movement of pla<strong>net</strong>s in the sky, plunge<br />

the Earth with coati and cities in the Waters and then drink in the blink of an eye (...).<br />

That which resembles the gods, which is used as comb the lunar disk and full of pleasure,<br />

close to women so beautiful as Parvati, that knows the bliss su-prema ... "<br />

A kapalini accompanied, Prabodh Chandrodaya at Kapalika: dressed as the mature breast<br />

kapalini dances with the under the direction of BhaivaTa. No doubt as to the licentious<br />

rites of Kapalika "possible, without sacrificing the pleasures of the organs of sense, get<br />

the eight great siddhi. Ramanuja, who distinguishes two kinds of Kapalika a mista<br />

extreme, the other moderate stresses its relation to sexual techniques (Sribhasya, II, 2, 35-<br />

38). Kapala ago to say: "Whoever knows the true nature of the six mudra, mudra and<br />

includes more elevated, that, meditating on himself while imagining sitting in bhagasana<br />

position (ie, finding himself sitting on the pudendum muliebre) reached Nirvana.<br />

Both European travelers that travel in India, as the Dabis-tan, confuse and Aghori<br />

Kapalika with yogis in general. The description of Dabistan is the most expressive<br />

possible: "Certain members of this sect (yogis) blend their excrecio-tions and after<br />

filtering through a cloth, the drink, saying it renders man capable of great businesses;<br />

extrafias claim to know things. They call that does that and also atila akho-ri "3 Later, the<br />

author of the Dabistan Kapalika probably confused with any sect vamacari. So says of ^<br />

inga and bhaga: "This cult exists in many places and among Hindus nume-ous; large<br />

number of them practice agama, it is permitted to drink wine and if, instead of the usual<br />

glass is used a human skull (which they call kapala), the drink is taken over agra-Dabl<br />

yet. This allowed, say, kill any animal and even a man they call this bullet (bravery). At<br />

night go to places called smasanam (cemetery), where the bodies were burned, there are<br />

drunk, eat meat of burned corpses and mate in front of others, with women they called<br />

sakti-puja ". The information provided by the author are quite accurate. Affirms that these<br />

incest tantric prefer the regular union knows that lull (prostitutes) are appreciated and<br />

they are called deva kanya, there are two kinds of cults, bhadram (pure) and Vacama<br />

(impure), but that the latter is preferred. Also known that in the sexual act the woman<br />

personifies the goddess. The author saw a Kapalika meditating on a corpse was found in<br />

Gujarat and with a certain Mahadeo, who spent every night sen -<br />

3 The Dabistan or School of Manners (traslatedfrom the original Persian with notes and<br />

ilustrations, by D. Shea and A. Frazer, Paris, 1843), vol. II, ps. 129-160. Recall that<br />

Mobed Dabistam was compiled by Shah in the seventeenth century.<br />

graph on a cadaver. Infertile women spent the night with the guru.<br />

It is likely that something Mobed Shah has mixed their reports and also confused sexual<br />

rites of the orgy Kapalika (the Tasamandali) of Vallabhacarya (concemiente to es-cough,<br />

see Note VIII, 2). However, the trend of orgiastic Kapalika is incontestable indications<br />

exist to co-teaching orgies taking place in different seasons, and involving all members of<br />

the sect. According Kaumudimahotsava Natak, the festivities were done in spring<br />

(vasantasava) and otofio (kaumudimahotsava) and showed a marked orgiastic character<br />

(PR Shastri, The Lokayatikas and the Kapalika, p. 135). However, in these ceremonies<br />

took part not only all Kapalika. but also the "materialists" and "cynical" the Loka-Yatık,<br />

namely those who fight off the entire Vedic tradition and all the values of Hinduism. The

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