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Q. Jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, or any other yoga, is the only way to attain moksha/ realization, then what will other living organisms like amoeba, bacteria and all will do to attain moksha? Aren’t they also living organisms?

A. Well, sadhana (effort) is what a being does. Phala (fruits) are decided by the Lord. If God wants, a

bacteria can get moksha too. However, *usually* god has some rules of action and reaction to uphold and hence does not act out of order. So the chance of a bacterium to get moksha is negligible (except at the end of this creation cycle).

It is indeed true that amoeba or bacteria have very very small chance of moksha in THAT life. However, nobody stops them from doing some good karma (possibly by *chance*), get a higher birth and eventually be born as a human and do some sadhana.

When I wrote "by chance", it may make some uncomfortable. But that is the fact. Whatever action we perform with a sense of *I-ness* behind that action becomes a karma (action) and an equal and opposite phala (fruit/reaction) will come. Suppose one donates one's eyes and feels good about the noble act and the person getting the eyes uses the newly gotten vision to look at some beautiful women, be tempted and rape them, the donor will get part of that karma! The laws of karma are complex. Thinking like "this is a noble karma. So it is good only" is incorrect. Each action results in a series of developments and begets some karma for the person. Of course, if an act is with committed with ego but not an intention to affect a particular development, the part of the karma begotten from that development is smaller (than it would be if that development was intended). Thus, even bacteria and amoeba can beget karma from the results of their actions. But it is very small and accumulates slowly. Highly taamasik beings such as trees, amoeba and bacteria take a looooong time to make progress on the ladder of kaarmik evolution.

I want to make three comments:

(1) One need not feel sorry for the amoeba and bacteria because they are mostly a long way from moksha. Not all beings need to get moksha right away. If that is needed, god did not need to create this world. If there is unmanifested Brahman and nothing else in this universe, that will solve all problems. But the fact is that manifested Brahman with infinite objects at varying levels of karmic evolution is not really a problem! That is exactly what is needed for the Lila to unfold.

(2) If you want to feel sorry, feel sorry not for amoeba and bacteria, but for those who got the valuable human birth and yet act like amoeba and bacteria spiritually. Pity those who are stuck in the cycle of happiness and sadness, elation and depression, hopes and despairs etc, without realizing that the play will end soon and what birth one will get next is uncertain!!

(3) Actually, more than others, feel sorry for yourself. Who are we to worry about others? They, their god and their gurus will feel sorry for them and do something about them. Apne ko kya lena dena? We are first responsible for ourselves. When one cannot change self and focus attention on god fully within oneself, what is the point in lamenting about the spirituality or lack of it in other people? So, we should all try to look inward and take a critical look at ourselves, given that we got a very very very valuable life as a human being.

Q. If the whole world as a maya exist only in human's mind (as per my understanding, our mind creates this world, when through yoga, mind/ego collapse happens, there is no world or anything and we submerge as oneness in the omnipotent power), if it is a creation of mind, then there should not be any world when the human species is extinct. Right?

A. A mind is a mind is a mind. Mind creates the world, not necessarily a human mind. All minds can

create a world. However, a human mind is more capable than other minds to break down that created world and return to the source. THAT is the point.

Q. I would like to know if you have heard of any Vaamacharis in India who followed Vama Marga successfully and realised God. All true saints I have heard are followers of

the Satwik path/right hand tantra. So always wonder, did anybody succeed in the other way? Anybody who was well-known as a Vamamarga saint?

A. Your question is kind of an oxymoron. Can good aghoris become "well-known" and come to

limelight? I know one masterly aghori reasonably well. However, he is not restricted to one path.

All paths are His own and he does not distinguish. He does aghora sadhanas in smashana and also Vedic sadhanas like Vedic homas with the same attitude. He chants Vedic mantras too. For example, when he chants Sri Rudram, it produces amazing energy all around. He is a bhakti yogi too. When he thinks of Krishna, he melts in devotion. When he discusses upanishads and other Vedanta texts such as Yoga Vaasishtham and BhagavadGita, his keen intellect shines forth like a Sun and illuminates the thinking of a ready audience. I have never seen anyone who has such a perfect understanding of the essence of Upanishads and exudes it in thoughts, words and actions. He has wife and children, has a full-time job and engages in several external activities and is never idle. But his level of detachment with the work he does so expertly is far higher than even ascetics who renounce everything and *try* to develop some detachment.

Bottomline is that he is an aghori, but he is also a jnaana yogi, bhakti yogi, karma yogi and raaja yogi. He is a vaidika and he is an aghori. All paths are his and he views all the same way. I don't know if all really good aghoris are like that or just he.

In any case, it is irrelevant to you if any aghori succeeded or not. If YOU are meant to succeed in aghota, you will. If not, you will not. To be safe, until the right time and right person comes, one should not venture into aghora. I want people to appreciate different things for what they are and not have unhealthy biases, but it does not mean everybody should try everything. Nuclear engineers hating politicians, politicians hating lawyers and lawyers hating doctors is bad. But one should become what one is supposed to!

Q. A few years back, I had read AGHORA -Kundalini by Robert Svoboda. In that book one Aghori Vimalananda is mentioned. But except in that book, I couldn’t find any references to this person anywhere. Not even in net. (The only references were the ones related to Robert Svaboda's book and as his Guru).

A. Well, he guarded his privacy and made sure that the books came out only after he left the body.

Moreover, his real name was not that. Also, he led his spiritual life in relative seclusion and not many knew him. No wonder you can't find info on him.

Bottom-line is: Whether he is real or not, one can benefit from teachings attributed to him. The knowledge present in the aghora series of books is nothing short of amazing. It may shock you, but it can change your thinking from inside out and give you a clearer understanding. Vimalananda not only managed to impart great understanding to Svoboda, but also ensure that Mother Taaraa Herself would speak through Svoboda and the knowledge would come out perfect. Other books authored by Svoboda may not have the same brilliance, but those books came out just as Vimalananda intended.

There are many things in the book which could not have come from a normal person. They came from someone who had a perfect, steady and unwavering understanding of the absolute truth.

BTW, you cannot meet a good and genuine aghori unless there is a rina and *he* wants you to meet him.