We invite you to sit back and enjoy the full interview from Ep.3 of the Flower Heads Show, featuring Dr. Robert Svoboda.
Dr. Robert Svoboda is the first Westerner ever to graduate from a college of Ayurveda and be licensed to practice Ayurveda in India. During and after his formal Ayurvedic training he was tutored in Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish, Tantra and other forms of classical Indian lore by his mentor, the Aghori Vimalananda. He is the author of twelve books including Prakriti: Your Ayurvedic Constitution and the Aghora series, which discusses his experiences with his mentor during the years 1975 – 1983.
In the years since 1986, Dr. Svoboda has traveled extensively, spending three months per year on average in India. He often speaks on Ayurveda, Jyotish, Tantra and allied subjects in locales across the world.
Dakota speaks with Dr. Svoboda about:
The performative and theatrical dimensions of religious ritual
Dakota’s firsthand experience with the Aghori of India
Learning the power of spiritual practice through Bhavani Baba
The Aghori ritual of Shava Sadhana (meditation on the corpse)
Lessons from Vimalanda on illusion and superficiality
Loving your mother as a spiritual practice
Seeing through the relative and connecting to ultimate reality
The practice of non-attachment to passing experiences and states
Check out Dr. Svoboda’s renowned books on the Aghori HERE.
“Something that Vimalananda emphasized repeatedly is that the least important part of Aghora is the external part, the part where you’re applying a bunch of ashes and showing off, because that’s the superficial part. The important part is what's on the inside.” –Dr. Svoboda
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