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The Edge of Indian Spirituality

Baba Rampuri’s speech at the World Psychedelic Forum in Basel, March 2008.
You can read the whole speech here.

The Edge of Indian Spirituality  –  The Oral Tradition of Naked Yogis

 

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Naga Babas

They are the Naga Babas, “the naked ones”, belonging to an order founded by Dattatreya (a naked philosopher not totally unlike the Greek Diogenes) in the Treta Age (a long long time ago), and finally organized into a sect by Adi Shankara in the 5th century BC. They see themselves (as many Indians do), as the ultimate protectors of the Sanatan Dharma, or what we call the Hindu religion, but in fact, what they call the natural order of the universe. They are charged with ultimately maintaining the law of nature.
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