Offering Meat & Alcohol to Hindu Deities | Vāmācara & Pañca-Makāras, The Left Hand Path of Tantra
Episode S8 · Ep 248 1 hr 53 min

Offering Meat & Alcohol to Hindu Deities | Vāmācara & Pañca-Makāras, The Left Hand Path of Tantra

We start by explaining the pañca-makāras, the transgressive offerings in the context of Kālī pūjā in the Vāmācāra, the so-called "left-hand path" of Tantra, mainly to point out the "curse" that is on alcohol & meat with reference to King Parsokhit in the Bhāgavātam, and to Pauranic stories of Brahmā & Śukra who all have cursed alcohol. We explain also how meat is cursed also before offering some modern day examples to show how that curse plays out. These remarks act as a sort of...

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