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Aghor Initation:-
On going a little further he reached Shri Kinaram Temple at Kring kund at about 7:30 in the morning. At that time the current abbot of the monastery, Shri Rajeshwar Ram Baba Ji was sleeping. He sat down in the courtyard’’ Bhagwan had reached Kring kund monastery, also known as Baba kina ram’s temple, on a Saturday in the Hindu month of Shawan (June July), 1951. The aghora practices of this Vaisnava initiated seeker started from here. After Bhagwan was initiated into the Aghora tradition by Baba Shree Aghor Rajeshwar Ramjee, Ashu Baba, the assistant or at the temple, gave him rice mixed with fish from the food that had been cook at the temple. Since Bhagwan was a Vaisnava vegetarian who used to consecrate his vegetarian food with effort he ate a little and put the rest in the kund ( the in house pond which gives this temple its name), but then he decided that if he was to become an aghora, he would have to stop being disgusted by eating meat. During his initiation ceremony he had tasted wine for the first time in his life. Wine is an important element in aghora rituals and he learnt to use it properly. With his initiation into the aghora tradition Bhagwan became a tonsured ascetic, a sarbhanga, a monk with a shaved head, a celibate renunciant. At the time of initiation his name was changed to Bhagwan Ram, according to the tradition among the aghora saints of the Kinaram lineage in Banaras. According to the custom India, he also began to be addressed simply as Baba, an epithet used for sadhus of all traditions in India. Bhagwan Das of Gundi village had now become Baba Aughar Bhagwan Ram.
Baba would get up every day in the divine hour of the morning (an hour and a half before sunrise), and sing bhajans, devotional songs. Having become a novice disciple, he began to practional with faith and sincerity the mantra given to him by his Aghora Guru Baba Rajeshwar Ram, and he also served his guru while sharing the chores around the ashram. This included going to the cremation ground and fetching the wood from there for firewood at the temple. It used to be difficult to carry back the heavy load of wood from the cremation ground and true to ways of the Aghora tradition, Baba was treated with strictness lest he fall prey to the worldly illusions. Of course, there was no such danger in Baba’s mind for his spiritual quest did not allow him to think of anything else. The rigors of a monk’s celibacy came to Baba naturally. A story is told of how, while sitting with several people at the pond in the ashram one day, he suddenly called out to a person working in the nearby field to get him a chilli pepper. When the chilli was brought to him Baba crushed it with his own fingers and put it in both his eyes. Those present couldn’t believe their eyes! They rushed to him saying hey what are you doing? Baba reply was very simple “Nothing much. My gaze had fallen on something inappropriate for me. ” people looked around to discover a woman bathing in the pond who Baba had inadvertently gazed upon while carrying on his conversation. Baba was atoning for it by cleansing his eyes with the chilli pepper! Baba had a powerful spiritual experience in his early days at the Kinaram ashram. This experience further reassured him that he was, indeed, walking on the right path: One day he was lying half asleep near the dhuni (sacred fire). He felt as if a divine man wearing wooden sandals came and stood next to him. That divine person put his foot with the wooden sandals he was wearing on his chest and spoke some mantras in a clear voice. Because of an inner inspiration he repeated it and remembered it thereafter. From that day till, today, he has been meditating on that mantra. By his guru’s grace another incident 0ccurred after a few days, which reinforced his faith in the afore mentioned mantra. He was sweeping the area around Baba kina ram’s Samadhi. While doing so when he went to the south of it, he heard that same mantra clearly, and with mantra.
As Baba practiced his mantra his talents blessed out for everyone to see. Although he was a novice disciple hundreds would go to seek the blessings of this new initiate. During his devotions, Baba would take a harmonium or a table, both musical instruments, and sing bhajans for long periods. The abbot, his guru, did not approve of all this. Or, one could say, in keeping with the Aughar tradition he began to treat his disciple severely. One day an incident cured which made Baba leave the monastery. It was the month of the key of Sawan. His guru had gone somewhere putting Baba in charge of the key to the storage room. While completing his chores at the ashram, Baba forgot where he had put the key. When the abbot came back he asked for the key, but Baba could not find it. He said he had forgotten where he put it, but he would find it within the day. The abbot became suspicious. He scolded Baba and said that he wanted the key back immediately. When Baba could not find any way out, he touched the storage room lock in front of everyone. The lock opened by itself. The abbot went in and reassured himself that every things inside was in its right place. But this incident made the abbot very suspicious about whether his disciple had another guru beside him. He asked Baba t leave the ashram.
Although this incident portrays Baba Rajeshwan Ram, Aughar Bhagwan Ram’s guru as a harsh and into learnt administrator, there is more to this story than meets the eye. Baba Rajeshwan Ram was himself a spiritually enlightened saint, and he knew very well that for Bhagwan Ram to achieve his full potential he would have to leave the physical confines of the Kinaram monastery and venture out into the world. Since Aughar Bhagwan Ram was devoted to his guru, this was Baba Rajeshwan Ram’s way of sitting him free to discover his destiny.
On going a little further he reached Shri Kinaram Temple at Kring kund at about 7:30 in the morning. At that time the current abbot of the monastery, Shri Rajeshwar Ram Baba Ji was sleeping. He sat down in the courtyard’’ Bhagwan had reached Kring kund monastery, also known as Baba kina ram’s temple, on a Saturday in the Hindu month of Shawan (June July), 1951. The aghora practices of this Vaisnava initiated seeker started from here. After Bhagwan was initiated into the Aghora tradition by Baba Shree Aghor Rajeshwar Ramjee, Ashu Baba, the assistant or at the temple, gave him rice mixed with fish from the food that had been cook at the temple. Since Bhagwan was a Vaisnava vegetarian who used to consecrate his vegetarian food with effort he ate a little and put the rest in the kund ( the in house pond which gives this temple its name), but then he decided that if he was to become an aghora, he would have to stop being disgusted by eating meat. During his initiation ceremony he had tasted wine for the first time in his life. Wine is an important element in aghora rituals and he learnt to use it properly. With his initiation into the aghora tradition Bhagwan became a tonsured ascetic, a sarbhanga, a monk with a shaved head, a celibate renunciant. At the time of initiation his name was changed to Bhagwan Ram, according to the tradition among the aghora saints of the Kinaram lineage in Banaras. According to the custom India, he also began to be addressed simply as Baba, an epithet used for sadhus of all traditions in India. Bhagwan Das of Gundi village had now become Baba Aughar Bhagwan Ram.
Baba would get up every day in the divine hour of the morning (an hour and a half before sunrise), and sing bhajans, devotional songs. Having become a novice disciple, he began to practional with faith and sincerity the mantra given to him by his Aghora Guru Baba Rajeshwar Ram, and he also served his guru while sharing the chores around the ashram. This included going to the cremation ground and fetching the wood from there for firewood at the temple. It used to be difficult to carry back the heavy load of wood from the cremation ground and true to ways of the Aghora tradition, Baba was treated with strictness lest he fall prey to the worldly illusions. Of course, there was no such danger in Baba’s mind for his spiritual quest did not allow him to think of anything else. The rigors of a monk’s celibacy came to Baba naturally. A story is told of how, while sitting with several people at the pond in the ashram one day, he suddenly called out to a person working in the nearby field to get him a chilli pepper. When the chilli was brought to him Baba crushed it with his own fingers and put it in both his eyes. Those present couldn’t believe their eyes! They rushed to him saying hey what are you doing? Baba reply was very simple “Nothing much. My gaze had fallen on something inappropriate for me. ” people looked around to discover a woman bathing in the pond who Baba had inadvertently gazed upon while carrying on his conversation. Baba was atoning for it by cleansing his eyes with the chilli pepper! Baba had a powerful spiritual experience in his early days at the Kinaram ashram. This experience further reassured him that he was, indeed, walking on the right path: One day he was lying half asleep near the dhuni (sacred fire). He felt as if a divine man wearing wooden sandals came and stood next to him. That divine person put his foot with the wooden sandals he was wearing on his chest and spoke some mantras in a clear voice. Because of an inner inspiration he repeated it and remembered it thereafter. From that day till, today, he has been meditating on that mantra. By his guru’s grace another incident 0ccurred after a few days, which reinforced his faith in the afore mentioned mantra. He was sweeping the area around Baba kina ram’s Samadhi. While doing so when he went to the south of it, he heard that same mantra clearly, and with mantra.
As Baba practiced his mantra his talents blessed out for everyone to see. Although he was a novice disciple hundreds would go to seek the blessings of this new initiate. During his devotions, Baba would take a harmonium or a table, both musical instruments, and sing bhajans for long periods. The abbot, his guru, did not approve of all this. Or, one could say, in keeping with the Aughar tradition he began to treat his disciple severely. One day an incident cured which made Baba leave the monastery. It was the month of the key of Sawan. His guru had gone somewhere putting Baba in charge of the key to the storage room. While completing his chores at the ashram, Baba forgot where he had put the key. When the abbot came back he asked for the key, but Baba could not find it. He said he had forgotten where he put it, but he would find it within the day. The abbot became suspicious. He scolded Baba and said that he wanted the key back immediately. When Baba could not find any way out, he touched the storage room lock in front of everyone. The lock opened by itself. The abbot went in and reassured himself that every things inside was in its right place. But this incident made the abbot very suspicious about whether his disciple had another guru beside him. He asked Baba t leave the ashram.
Although this incident portrays Baba Rajeshwan Ram, Aughar Bhagwan Ram’s guru as a harsh and into learnt administrator, there is more to this story than meets the eye. Baba Rajeshwan Ram was himself a spiritually enlightened saint, and he knew very well that for Bhagwan Ram to achieve his full potential he would have to leave the physical confines of the Kinaram monastery and venture out into the world. Since Aughar Bhagwan Ram was devoted to his guru, this was Baba Rajeshwan Ram’s way of sitting him free to discover his destiny.
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