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On the fateful day of September 21st in 1771, baba Kinaram invited his many disciples, the Ved-readers of Kashi(Varanasi) and the brave Kshatriyas.  He told them that time had come for him to leave his mortal body and that his body after his Maha Prayan(death) should be placed near the “Yantra” of Goddess Hinglaj and while [...]

Continuing ahead on his mystical journey, baba Kinaram reached the Girnar mountain in Gujarat, a state in the western part of India. On the slope of the mountain, he met the great Adi Guru  Siddheshwar Dattatreya, sitting on “Kund Aghori Shila” with his kamandal (a round vessel for holding water used by mystics and saints). [...]

After completion of his training under Baba Shivadas, Baba Kinaram started once again on his roaming journey. Eventually, he reached a village called Karon, where he saw an old widow weeping. On his enquiry, she told him that the village landlord had taken away her only son named Vijya because she had failed to pay [...]

This is the first part of a series of posts in which I have tried to document my limited personal experiences at the “Aghoracharya Baba Kinaram”  also known as Aghor Research and Service Center, Krin Kund in Varanasi, born out of my discussions with the visitors, followers and the caretakers at the Ashram. Baba Kinaram [...]

Witnessed this incredible tantric ceremony on the one of the ghats on the river Ganges in Varanasi. The “sadhu” or holy man in the video had smeared himself with ashes(presumably of the dead!) and was performing some tantric ceremony to appease his gods. It is widely known and believed that there are sects of these [...]