Aghora is the apotheosis of tantra, the left-handed path often involving extreme practices in order to hasten spiritual experience. There are few who dare to complete the rigorous and dangerous left-handed tantric training of Aghora. Strict renunciation is the prerequisite, extreme enough to purify the aspirant through and through. Only when purity is perfected is the aspirant assigned rituals which to others might seem hedonistic, sinful, disgusting or perverted. But Aghora is not indulgence, it is the transformation of darkness into light. An Aghori goes so deeply into darkness, into all things undreamable to ordinary mortals, that he comes into the light