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Ep. 3 - The Aghori Who Changed My Life with Dr. Robert Svoboda
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- Apr 30, 2026
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Summary
When does spirituality cease to be sacred and become performance? Dakota shares the drastically different encounters he had with Aghori while traveling through India. He brings on Dr. Robert Svoboda to learn more about Aghora practices and shares some of the extreme practices he encountered while traveling through India. In this episode, Dakota dives into: 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 . About 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. “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…