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Thank you, this is very meaningful to me. I knew
there was a fucking reason I wore huge rudraksha and smoked lots of dope and
didn't feel bad for making pot offerings. I am one I tell you. You
rock!!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:43
PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Rudra Joe-
Are you familiar with my hero?
--- In [email protected],
Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]...> wrote:
>
Hi Anon:
>
> On Mar 20, 2005, at 5:05 PM, anonymousff
wrote:
>
> > Just curious -- do you include all drugs as tejas
or prana or
ojas) draining?
>
>
> > For
example:
> >
> > - marijuana / ganja and its
derivatives - hash, drinks or
> > formulations made out if it, appear
to have a long history in some
> > yogic / sadhu / ayruvedic circles
and traditions. Shiva is
> > traditionally held as lord of ganja.
With Shiva being so intimate to
> > tantric and agamic traditions,
and given the long association of ganja
> > with yogic / sadhu and
ayurvedic traditions, do you view ganja as
> > decreasing tejas,
ojas, prana?
> Increases vata if smoked, best taken as bhang in
almond milk. It is
> believed that marijuana reduces one of the the
subtle pranas (forget
> which one). If prepared properly, it can be
smoked. Also helpful to
> know its mantra.
>
Is that
the Aghora mantra? Or something esle?
aghorebhyo `tha
ghorebhyo
aghoraghoratarebhyah
sarvtah sharvah sarvebhyo
namas te
rudra rupebhyo
I found a site that indicates the whole cultivation
process can be
very ritualistic.
http://www.geocities.com/sarabhanga/bhang.html
Select
seeds, which have been kept in the mouth of a snake, are sown
during an
auspicious day during the waxing moon in July. The person
who has performed
the appropriate rites (Nyasa and Acamana) must face
North or East and
meditate. Water mixed with milk is sprinkled over
the seeds. When they
begin to sprout, they are sprinkled with water
mixed with milk. When they
sprout, water mixed with clarified butter
is used. When the first leaves
appear, the plants are sprinkled with
salt water. During flowering, they
are sprinkled with water mixed with
alcohol and meat, then with water and
honey, and finally with water
and alcohol. Four rites are performed at the
harvest (Stepana, Sevana,
Tantubandhana, and Lavana). The third rite
(Tantubandhana ~ tying the
tree with fibers) should be performed on the
14th day of the waning
moon in Phalguna (February-March) by a person who
has bathed, dressed
in clean clothing, applied perfume and sacrificed meat
and alcohol to
Bhairava. The plants are tied with red, yellow, black and
white
threads. Then the Aghora Mantra should be recited for a week. On
the
fifth day of the waxing moon, the cultivator should meditate on
the
Bhang and imagine her as a deity. Finally, the mature plant
is
harvested while again reciting the Aghora Mantra. ~ [Robert A.
Nelson]
*******
If cultivated and used in ritualistic manner, as
part of ones
spiritual path, to gain spiritual benefit, per below, I wonder
if
anyone has claimed religious freedom to use
it.
******
Bhang is the Joygiver, the Skyflier, the Heavenly
Guide, the Poor
Man's Heaven, the Soother of Grief...
No god or man
is as good as the religious drinker of Bhang. The
students of scriptures at
Benares are given Bhang before they sit to
study. At Benares, Ujjain and
other holy places, Yogis, Bairagis and
Sanyasis take deep draughts of Bhang
that they may center their
thoughts on the Eternal...
The supporting
power of Bhang has brought many a Hindu family safe
through the miseries of
famine.
To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so holy
and
gracious an herb as the hemp would cause widespread suffering
and
annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics,
deep-seated
anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a
cure in
sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from
the
attacks of evil influences...
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