--- product_id: 10637191 title: "Aghora: At the Left Hand of God Paperback – November 15, 1986" brand: "robert e. svoboda" price: "€ 77.70" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/10637191-aghora-at-the-left-hand-of-god-paperback-november-15 store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Aghora: At the Left Hand of God Paperback – November 15, 1986 **Brand:** robert e. svoboda **Price:** € 77.70 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Aghora: At the Left Hand of God Paperback – November 15, 1986 by robert e. svoboda - **How much does it cost?** € 77.70 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/10637191-aghora-at-the-left-hand-of-god-paperback-november-15) ## Best For - robert e. svoboda enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted robert e. svoboda brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Aghora: At the Left Hand of God Paperback – November 15, 1986 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61SjuH6032L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ all you need to do is look at the front cover and you start to see the nature of the Goddess *by J***E on August 2, 2014* Of Svoboda's Aghora trilogy, the reviews accurately reflect that this is by far the one most worth reading, and the only place to start. The Vimalanda personage (person? character? it matters not) is a wonderful, brilliant, iconoclastic and amusing teacher.The books are filled with anecdotes, sometimes stories from ancient literature, sometimes his own experience, sometimes the experiences of others. To summarize it, this is the path of the vira (hero, warrior), not the pashu (see Julius Evola's Yoga of Power for some background on these terms). And that path is so easily misunderstood, appealing, naturally, to ambitious male practitioners who want to prove their fearlessness and (for example) spend the night in a burial ground (if you think that sounds easy, read the book), a kind of vision quest (to borrow from another tradition), with the pitfalls always the same -- an inflated ego which is the opposite of what should have been the intended result, and a kind of all-male yangness that, as we learn right from the the first parts of this book, is all wrong.This is a path of Goddess worship. The Goddess has many guises. If we're lucky we can choose which one(s) to follow. This goes back to the beginnings of history and far beyond. The Goddess is lover, mother or terrifying one, the Celtic triple Goddess, the thrice three muses that have inspired (mostly) male devotees for all time, and every Goddess from every tradition from all over the world. If it all sounds sexist, it is. I'm not making it up. It is the nature of the spiritual world for those who have somehow escaped the life-stifling patriarchal ideas of male god and bloated rationality.At any rate, of the three books, this is the only one that I come back to. If I wasn't being lazy, I'd give (only) four stars to the second book and three for the third. The second book is about Kundalini, which, when you look for it, seems to be everywhere (for example, the stories of Ovid are full of it), so we don't need to go to India to find it and it certainly doesn't have to be thought of as exotic -- if I can digress for a moment (I don't think Vimalandna would mind), our most famous guide to "Kundalini syndrome" is Gopi Krishna, who had all those terrible symptoms not because Kundalini is so harsh but because Kundalini is feminine, and, being a product of one of our male-dominant societies, used the excuse of his debility to treat his wife like a slave for many years. It's (obviously) a huge mistake to try to use the power of the Goddess to subjugate women.The third book, about karma, a very literal, pedestrian kind of karma, was of little interest to me if not for V's gift for telling a story. Maybe I just don't want to take too seriously the claims about the karmic effects of gambling, having done plenty of that in the past. Basically, according to him, I'm screwed.Any book that teaches us so much about the Goddess is well worth reading. She is certainly not the passive or any other stereotype we may associate with being female. It has all gotten so perverted in our male-dominated world that even our best scholars on the thought of the east associate "yin" with "female" and "passive." It's just sexist stereotyping and subjugation. The female is dynamic, changing, active, she is the earth and the physical world around us. All the male can do is surrender to her or, if he is master enough, to control her and guide her dynamism in such a way the he recognizes that the power itself comes from Her, not from him. Just my opinion. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Strange, highly readable and entertaining - food for thought *by A***S on February 20, 2013* Written by one of today's Western experts in all things Vedic, Dr. Svoboda is highly respected. He spent eight years with an Aghora yogi and writes about the man's life experiences and thoughts on the Aghora's tantric practices. The Preface and Introduction gives a lot of crucial information about Vedic thought and Dr. Svoboda's reasoning and approach to writing this book, as well as the nature of his relationship with the aghori, Vimalananda.People who are a little familiar with Vedic philosophy, either Ayurveda, Joyotish or Yoga, will get the most out of this book as familiar terms will be expanded upon in a different light. Dr. Svoboda writes about Vimalanda's experiences as if the reader was experiencing Vimalanda as he did, a student and friend so you get this kind of personal storytelling experience where you have to decide how much to "believe" or not in terms of bending reality. I mean some of the ways Vimalananda lived his life are what I imagine a schizophrenic experiences and yet the man had a firm grip on reality as well. The book gives tremendous insight into a practice Westerners can't really imagine or at least for me (a middle-aged Midwestern woman). The thrust with Tantra is embracing and working with all the ideas and practices most people shun on their journey to enlightenment; the Aghori almost exploits them to reach the same outcome.I've been learning about Buddhism (which has roots in Tantra) and Ayurveda as well as Yoga and Joyotish. I found this book fascinating and very thought-provoking. On a superficial level, it was entertaining. Vimalananda is at the least, an extraordinary character, colorful and enjoyable but also challenging to his students and mystifying. I'm sure this could be a most encouraging book for many people who are sensitive, who have insights into the spirit world, who may have some psychosis or schizophrenic themselves or someone they know as this book dispels the fear and terror that many Westerners reserve for the supernatural or unexplained, unacceptable tendencies we all have or experience to some degree.I plan on re-reading this book for its depth of wisdom and to grasp more of what Vimalananda is trying to teach. I hope this was a helpful review. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wild read *by P***I on November 11, 2024* Get closer to God/dess ## Frequently Bought Together - Aghora: At the Left Hand of God - Aghora III: The Law of Karma - Aghora II: Kundalini --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/10637191-aghora-at-the-left-hand-of-god-paperback-november-15](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/10637191-aghora-at-the-left-hand-of-god-paperback-november-15) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-06-06*