Robert Svoboda - AGHORA II: Kundalini

AGHORA
BOOK II
KUNDALINI

ALSO BY ROBERT E. SVOBODA

The Hidden Secret of Ayurveda

1st Edition Bombay 1980, 2nd Edition The Ayurvedic Press,
Albuquerque, 1994

Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution

1st Edition Geocom, Albuquerque, 1988, 2nd Edition

Sadhana Publications, 1999

Ayurveda: Life, Health and Longevity

1st Edition Penguin Books, London, 1992; reprinted by
The Ayurvedic Press, Albuquerque, 2004.

Tao and Dharma

(with coauthor Arnie Lade) Lotus Press, 1995

Ayurveda for Women

David & Charles Publishers, Newton Abbot, 1999

Aghora I: At the Left Hand of God

Nmarpa LLC, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2019

Aghora III: The Law of Karma

Nmarpa LLC, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2019

Light on Life: An Introduction to the Astrology of India

(with coauthor Hart de Fouw) Penguin Books, London, 1996

The Greatness of Saturn: A Therapeutic Myth

Sadhana Publications, 1997

Light on Relationships: The Synastry of Indian Astrology

(with coauthor Hart de Fouw) Samuel Weiser Inc., 2000

The Ayurvedic Home Study Course

The Ayurvedic Institute, Albuquerque, 1985

Vstu, Breathing Life Into Space

Nmarpa LLC, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2013

Living with Reality, Wisdom from the Aghori Vimalananda

(with Paula Crossfield, Editor and Satya Moses, Illustrator)

Nmarpa LLC, Dublin, New Hampshire, 2013

Advisor Nmarpa, Categories of Indian Thought

AGHORA

BOOK II

KUNDALINI

ROBERT E. SVOBODA

FOREWORD BY ROBERT MASTERS, PH.D.

Copyright 2019 Robert E. Svoboda

Appendix with Illustrations: with thanks to and 1993 Robert Beer All rights reserved. No part of this publication including illustrations may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information or retrieval system, including the Internet, without permission in writing from Nmarpa LLC. Reviewers may quote brief passages.

As this and the other two volumes of this trilogy have repeatedly been and continue to be found available for free download on the Internet, I feel obliged to state that it was Vimalanandas express wish that a substantial portion of the income from this trilogy be delivered to certain of his impecunious spiritual children to assist them to defray their living expenses. Accordingly, anyone who posts these works on the Internet and makes them available for free reading or download and anyone who avails of such postings is incurring a debt to Vimalananda that s/he is then wholly responsible for paying back. You have been warned.

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First printing: 1993 by Brotherhood of Life

Second printing: 1995 by Brotherhood of Life

Third printing: 1998 by Brotherhood of Life, co-published with Sadhana Publishing

This printing incorporating new foreword and edits

2019 by Nmarpa, LLC

ISBN 978-0-9889169-5-1

Editor: Paula Crossfield

Assistant Editor and Proofreader: Meenakshi Moses

Cover and illustrations by Satya Moses.

Book design, layout and production by Robert Moses

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The Aghora Trilogy by Robert E. Svoboda

Aghora I: At the Left Hand of God

Aghora II: Kundalini

Aghora III: The Law of Karma

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS

APPENDICES

THE SACRED SHRI YANTRA is the most well known and fascinating of all yantras because of its intriciate geometric harmony. It consists of nine interlocking triangles, the union of five downward pointing yoni triangles (Shakti) with four upward pointing fire triangles (Shiva), and is also known as the Navayoni (Nine Yoni) chakra. The configuration produces a pattern of forty-three triangles which represent the goddess Tripurasundari at the center surrounded by her retinue of forty-two deities. These triangles are arranged in a series of five chakras that house one, eight, ten, ten and fourteen triangles progressively from the center outwards. This structure is enclosed by two concentric lotus circles of eight and sixteen petals enclosed within a square Bhupura or ground plan. The Mahavidya goddess Tripurasundari is also known as Shodashi, the divine sixteen-year old goddess. She is of a beautiful red complexion with four arms holding a bow, noose, arrow and trident hook. She sits astride the prone body of her white Shiva in sexual union, supported by a throne whose four pedestals are the gods Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra and Indra. This form of the Shri Yantra was worshiped for many decades by Telang Swami in the Annapurna temple of Benares.

She, the Eternal One, is the Supreme Knowledge,
the cause of freedom from delusion and
the cause of the bondage of manifestation.
She indeed is sovereign over all sovereigns.

Devi Mahatmya, I.57-58

Dedicated to the Great Goddess Adya,
the Divine Mother of the Universe,
and to the Mother of the Microcosm: the Kundalini Shakti

THANKS TO: MY PARENTS, LAURA AND EDWIN SVOBODA; Robert Beer, Tibetan Iconographer and Friend of the Dharma, whose exquisite artwork adorns both editions of this work; Inner Traditions International for permission to re-draw several of the Siddha illustrations from Masters of Enchantment by Keith Dowman and Robert Beer; Dr. Frederick M. Smith, whose worthy and valued contribution to this Second Edition was his account of his first meeting with Guru Maharaj; Nmarpa and the Moses family, for producing the work, Satya Moses, creator of the cover, in particular; Paula Crossfield, for editing, advising, proposing, and keeping the entire project focused and on track; the late Robert Masters for contributing the foreword to the first edition. As always, reverence to Jatalasadhu Sri Ram Vishvambhardas Ji, our Guru Maharaj, and to Vimalananda, for everything. Guru Om!

AGHORA, DESCRIBED IN THIS VOLUME as super-tantra, is a Path of Devotion to the Great Mother Goddess Kundalini, here manifesting with the Name and Image of the Goddess Tara. This Way is one of extraordinary extremes and intensities, even for tantra, and its aim is nothing less than to destroy the human limitations of the practitioner, so that he or she becomes a superhumanin fact, a kind of deity.

Aghora II is the second volume of a trilogy describing and explicating this Way as practiced by the Aghori Vimalananda, and as recounted by his student, the ayurvedic physician Robert Svoboda. The result is certainly one of the most unusual works to be encountered in the whole wonder-filled literature of world religions. It is also a work very much of this time, shredding and trampling on universal and almost-universal prohibitions. The Aghori sets out to overcome human limitations by shattering internally every restraint, no matter how ancient or powerful the taboo, and also by creating a body/mind that is able to contain emotional, sensory and other experiences which would consume anyone not properly prepared.