Aghori Wisdom: Embrace the Discipline of Discomfort

✍️ Spiritual fire requires discomfort: lessons from Varanasi.

I must have the soul of an Aghori, then, I concluded.

It was a cold night in January 2010 in Varanasi. I sat silently at Manikarnika Ghat, one of the holiest and oldest cremation grounds in the world. The Aghori—ascetics who meditate on death and chaos—are known to frequent these sacred grounds, confronting the rawest truths of existence. They do not see…