Aghora
Quotes from the book: "Aghora"

This is why I am never bothered when I find a spiritual aspirant who is obsessed with sex. It is a good sign. Once you can transfer that obsession to God, it will always pay dividends. After all, sex is just an attempt to return to the state of primordial unity; it is just misdirected. Once such aspirants are given the proper direction they can achieve very quickly, in a blitzkrieg.

There is a practice which I follow every night before going to sleep. Is is very simple, but it has helped me immensely, and it can help anyone who uses it. It involves only three questions: Have I lived? Have I loved? Have I laughed?

Have I lived? Have I made the best use of the time provided to me during that day to grow, to learn, to develop?

Have I loved? Have I reached out to everyone I met and made them aware of the love in my heart and eased their burdens of self-mistrust and self-doubt?

Have I laughed? Have I seen the humorous side of even the most painful incident?

If the answer to any one of these questions is no, then it is a matter for remorse. One more day has passed and I am another day closer to my death, and I have not exerted myself to my fullest potential. This is enough to make me work harder the next day and try to make amends, before Mahakala comes and catches me unaware. It is this intense desperation to live life to the fullest which is the hallmark, the stamp, of a true Aghori (Tantrica)

You know the reason I quit using intoxicants? I used to use them all day long, 24 hours; But then I realized that the greatest intoxicant there is, exists within me at all times. It is free, easy to use, harmless, and never gives me a hang-over. It is the name of God. It gives the best concentration of mind. The effects of alcohol or marijuana or whatever will wear off by the next day, but the intoxication caused by God’s name just goes on increasing; there is no end to it. I use it all the time, and it always works for me. No matter what has been my problem, the holy name of God has always been my solution.

When you see One in All and All in One, there can be no fear; fear of what -of yourself?

Once you drop fear, the whole world is open to you, because you have nothing to take from anyone; you know only how to give because you have nothing to hold on to "What can you possess when "everything is You"

To die while still alive means to eliminate all involuntary stimulations of your senses You cannot salivate when you see a nice roast. Do dead men feel hunger? You cannot become aroused, even mentally, when a stunning woman walks by, Can a dead man get and erection? And remember, once you get involved in this there is no limit to the amount of testing which will be performed on you. You will be tested to your limit. To melt you bones means to lose the ability to perform any action with your own individual will as opposed to the Comic or divine Will of Nature.

If you want to die while you are still alive you have to restrict the three things which most bind us down to the body: food, sleep, and sex. The Naths (a tribe of immortal Aghoris) have a prescription for spiritual advancement: "Break up you sleep, and cut down your food." No matter how far your mind may soar into the astral regions while you are awake, once you go to sleep you erase all the benefit. Sleep is very much like death, just less permanent. It is the overcoming of the mind by a blanket of dullness.

Food makes you sleepy by filling you up; sex exhausts you, it makes you sleepy by draining you.