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Following up on the post where we touched on the topic of Kasturi (musk), one of the five famous fragrances often mentioned in the scriptures, alongside sandalwood (chandana), agarwood (aguru), saffron (kunkuma) and camphor (karpura), here we will demystify the fragrance for those who have never smelt it.
Continuing from the theme of yesterday’s post on Ambergris, let us talk about another fragrant secretion used traditionally in some temples called as “civet oil” (also called as punugu in South India).
Humans will touch filthy things if they think they are valuable. Ambergris passes through the intestines and is expelled as feces, yet people hold it freely with their hands because they think its valuable.
The following story has been a very long journey, over 8 months of struggle and healing, inch by inch, day by day. It began in the most shocking manner, but now that the mother dog has healed and is living happily, we can look back and tell the tale of another animal’s miraculous recovery.
Last week, after 7 months of being isolated and recovering from lumpy skin disease, Balarama the baby bull calf moved in with the other bulls in our goshala. Here is a short video of his first day meeting the other bulls. He has since settled in and made many friends among them.
A short video of Vamana the bull using the scratching pole to scratch an itch.
One devotee has sent us horse gram (kulthi) to feed the bulls on Tuesdays. I believe this is a jyotisha remedy to pacify Mars. I am not an astrologer, but I think the bulls agree with this. Below is a short video of the bulls eating horse gram.
A little over a month ago we came across this dog with a badly injured tail. We managed to lure him into a cage and then began treating him. He ended up staying with us for over a month, and finally was released recently.
[Though this story happened around 2008, I didn’t have a camera back then, so the attached photos are from a later date, around 2010 to 2015. We have no photo of the young aghori baba from the story, nor did we ever see him again.]
Over the years I have eaten many strange things given by sadhus, and many other things I avoided eating for various reasons. Its something people won’t understand unless you live with many sadhus over a long time. You have to balance being rational with not offending the sadhus, and you have to make tough decisions sometimes, and sometimes you even have to pretend to eat the things to not offend them. All sorts of things.
There was a mystic sadhu who lived in a garbage pile in the remote village of Mettukuppam in South India. We called him Vadalur Baba, as that was the name of the nearest city, and that city at one point in time had the famous ashram and residence of his guru saint Vallalar (1823 – 1874).
