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Welcome to International Society for Aghor Studies and Enlightenment (ISASEN)

ISASEN belongs to Nath Sampradaya - Aghor way, a monotheistic Guru - Shisya lineage with in the Dhakshinacharam or Hindu Culture. Registered as Charity Trust at BANAGALORE, KARNATAKA, INDIA bearing Registration No: KRI-4-00467-2021-22 and PAN No: AACTI0375G

Philosophically it is based on the Shiva Purana. These are the historic texts of the devotional bhakti tradition, which teaches that the ultimate goal for all living beings is to reawaken their love for God, or Lord Shiva, The Maha Dev or Maha Kaal or Aghoreswar.

Aghoris are one of the main Indian traditions and the most extreme and fascinating form of Tantra. Dattatreya ,a deity who includes the Trimurti Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva , is considered to be the founder of this school.

The Sanskrit term Aghora is the combination of two words and lends itself to various meanings: A is a negation; Ghora is the darkness of ignorance, but it also means intense, profound; Aghora therefore means Light, absence of darkness, awareness, but it also symbolizes a lifestyle where a person of the Aghori tradition does not have intense or deep feelings, makes no difference between the various feelings, where he seems indifferent to the various events of life.

Aghora is also a path (Sadhana) within Tantrism.

A path of evolution and spiritual realization that starts from the most animalistic, grossest aspects of the human being and stage after stage evolves into what can be defined as a liberated soul. From Pashu (Animal) to Vīra (Hero), to Dīvya (Divine), to Bāla (Child), Unmatta (Crazy), Pīshacha (spirit) and Avadhut synonymous with Ascetic, Renunciate, of one who has gone beyond one's feelings and worldly obligations, which went beyond all that is pure or impure, beyond all duality and differentiation. The Avadhut is the One who sees the One in all.

The procedures of these Sadhanas are secret (Gupta) and personal, handed down only from Guru to disciple, without the loving guidance of the Guru they can become very dangerous for one's mental health.

The theme of death, so recurrent among the Aghoris, constantly reminds us of our mortality but it is also a challenge to transcend the duality between life and death. Breaking every mental pattern, going beyond every taboo makes one aware of the illusory of this world and becomes a road to liberation, the realization of the self with the absolute. The conventional Hindu distinction between pure and impure is also an illusion for the Aghoris.