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am keen on ur view/take on agoris. Dear SP,
Agoris are those who are at the pinnacle of spiritual practice. In Indian Spiritual tradition, all rituals are meant to transcend the Ego , to realize the Truth. Ego is like an umbrealla covering the sun. Just moving the umbrella away one has the direct vision of Sun.

Agoris do rituals that fine clean even the traces of Ego. Ego has many attributes. With all negative qualities of Ego , it rules over the human mind. You can imagine it like a moster creature holding tight on its prey with all its long arms. The victim can be set free only when all its holding arms are chopped off. Similarly Ego's hold over the human Mind needs to be set free.

Fear of death, feeling of disgust, holding to identity are the final arms of Ego that should be amputated.
Agoris overcome fear of death by being in close proximity to innumerable dead bodies (even do meditation on it), repulsive feeling of disgust is overcome by eating feces or corpse. They cover their body with ashes to completely overcome their identity.
This is why there is a belief that Agoris are close to overcome samsara cycle (birth and death).

Keeping the Ego transcendence , it is easy to understand the life of Agoris. Otherwise common people will identify them as cult.

I consider my Guru Mata Amritandana mayi to be an living example of compassion. she has the qualities of Agaori. She has overcome the fear of death. There are many incidents in her life to quote this.

In her biography , Swamiji mentions that it her days of intense spiritual practice he became one with Aham, that everything in this universe became One. In that state, she ate many times feces.

Last year in Europe, it seems that she was late for the flight. At the airport swamiji pleaded her to eat something because she was spending more than 20 hrs with devotees.

She agreed to eat, but swamiji could not find a place in the crowded airport to eat. seeing the helplessness of swamiji, Amma grabbed the food and went inside the toilet and ate the food there. When she returned he asked how can she eat food in toilet. Catually she told him, why to make such a fuss about the toilet. All human are carrying feces in the body all the time.

I have seen a dvd of a leprosy person who came to the ashram many years back. His was disgusting plus he had blood and pus oozing obnoxiously smelling wounds. People in the queue who were waiting to see Amma ran away when this leprosy person came near by. amma with compassion hugged him and started licking all his blood and pus oozing wounds in his body. Many people fainted at this scene. This is how a person who have transcended Ego would behave.