AGHORA III: The Law of Karma This trilogy forms a portion of the story of the Aghori Vimalananda. An aghori is a practitioner of Aghora, the spiritual discipline that takes Tantra to its farthest limits. For Vimalananda Aghora was a wholly internal process that eliminates all commonly-accepted restricitions to the human faculties of perception. He defined an Aghori in this way: "An Aghori is beyond the bounds of the earthly shackles; nay, something above the elements which shape the universe, and you. He takes a sort of intoxicant and thus gets intoxicated in Supreme Love which emanates from the innermost recesses of his heart. Shall I call it interiority? It is that part which is beyond awareness. He gives off the best part of love. Why part? Part of the Supreme, Universal Love, where one experiences, with the help of perception, All-in-One/One-in-All. When you, the finite, merge into infinity what dost thou not know? During this stage he merges with his own deity so that he becomes Him -- capital H. That is why he is said to have gone from darkness to divine enlightenment. This is an Aghori."

Aghora III: The Law of Karma - A karma is any action you perform while identifying yourself as the performer of that action. In this, the third and final volume of the Aghora trilogy, the Aghori Vimalananda uses the backdrop of the Bombay racecourse as a potent metaphor for the ultimate game of life, where destinies and fortunes are forged or lost at the edge of the finishing line. Weaving characters together with events, Vimalananda masterfully entwines the colorful external reality of racing with the subtle internal reality of creative spirituality, against a backdrop of stories of the gods and goddesses, saints and sinners, and the Mughal Emperor Akbar. Carefully teasing apart the infinite tracks of destiny as they flash past the viewer in the grandstands, Vimalananda shows how intricate are the patterns that karma creates, and how profound and philosophical are the truths that a subtle understanding of karma can reveal.

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