When Three Aghoris Experienced DMT

And What It Confirms About the Spiritual Path

I came across something recently that I think anyone on the spiritual path needs to see.

A filmmaker documented what happened when three sadhus - including Aghoris - were given 5-MeO-DMT in Varanasi, India. If you don't know what an Aghori is, these are some of the most practiced spiritual beings on the planet. They've given up all materialistic pursuits for a pure spiritual pursuit. We're not talking about someone who meditates on weekends. These are individuals who have dedicated their entire existence to spiritual realisation. They live in cremation grounds, they cover themselves in the ash of the dead, they wear human bones. Everything they do is designed to dissolve the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, the self and the infinite.

And what a rare opportunity - to be able to watch three of these beings experience DMT. What came out of it wasn't just interesting. For me, it confirmed something I've been told over and over again by the practitioners I've sat with and the literature I've read, and what I have experienced now on multiple occasions with and without medicine.

I say that because I've been in that world. I first met an Aghori in Nepal, when I visited the cremation sites. Standing there, watching the smoke rise, surrounded by people who live at the intersection of death and devotion. It is the complete opposite culture to what I experienced growing up in Australia or in most places I've visited around the world.

So when I saw this footage of three of them being given the most powerful psychedelic on the planet, bufo, commonly called DMT, I paid attention. Because I already knew these beings operate on a level most of us can't comprehend. The question was: would the medicine show them anything they hadn't already seen?

What Happened

The first sadhu, Baba Ravendra, had a powerful reaction. The intensity hit him hard and fast, like it does for most people. But once he settled, what he described was remarkable. He saw Mahavishnu - the sustainer of the universe - fully manifested. He saw the dimension where all the enlightened beings reside, still meditating, still praying for the rest of humanity to awaken. It moved him to tears.

When they asked him the difference between his meditation and the medicine, he said something that matters: the only difference is speed. The medicine builds the experience fast. It delivers in minutes what his practice delivers over time. Same destination. Different vehicle.

The second was an Aghori woman, Mataji. She wouldn't allow it to be filmed. She sat on the banks of the Ganges with funeral pyres burning behind her, took the medicine, cried out "Mahadev!" - an invocation of Shiva - and when she opened her eyes simply said, "Success, success." She's never spoken about it since.

But the third experience - this is the one.

The Aghori Who Wasn't Impressed

Bhavani Baba is a powerful Aghori sadhu. Calm, still, deeply present. The filmmaker had been telling him beforehand that this substance was going to blow his mind. That nothing could prepare him for it. That the chemistry of 5-MeO-DMT is inescapable.

They loaded extra into the pipe. He cleared the whole thing in a single breath. Closed his eyes. And for five minutes - nothing. No reaction. No movement. No twitch. Just stillness.

Then he opened his eyes, looked at the filmmaker, and said:

"Are you happy now?"

When asked to explain, he acknowledged that the medicine was powerful. He called it a genuine glimpse. Something valuable for people who need proof that the light exists. But then he said:

"The difference between this medicine and a sadhu is that sadhu means light forever. After ten minutes, where is it? Where is that power?"

What This Confirms

This is what got me.

The most interesting outcome of the whole thing wasn't shock. It was gratefulness - from someone who was grateful to experience the depth that DMT can take you to instantaneously. But who also made it clear: this is what they already experience in a meditative state. The medicine just does it fast. Where most are struck by an incredibly overwhelming sensory experience that profoundly feels more real then this reality, the Sadghu calmly experience it with a inner-knowing that isn't shocked.

And that's the confirmation. Psychedelics are a glimpse. A real glimpse - not a hallucination, not a trick of chemistry. What you experience on DMT is a genuine window into what the highest spiritual beings on this planet experience all the time. The gurus, the sadhus, the Aghoris - when they talk about transcendence and dissolving the self and accessing dimensions beyond ordinary perception, they're not being poetic. They're describing their reality.

This is what I've been told directly by those individuals. And it's what I've read across the spiritual literature. The psychedelic experience validates the meditative experience. But the meditative experience doesn't need validation - because it doesn't wear off.

A Glimpse vs. A Life

There's a big difference between seeing something profound and becoming something profound. Psychedelics open the door. They show you the light. They prove it exists. And for a lot of people, that proof is exactly what they need. I'm not dismissing them. They've helped a lot of people, and they've helped me understand things I couldn't have understood otherwise.

But the real thing doesn't require refills.

What these Aghoris demonstrated is that the states we chase through ceremony, through substances, through the next experience - these are states they live in. Permanently. Through discipline, through practice, through the sacrifice of everything that doesn't serve the path.

The sadhu is the final medicine. And I think at some point, anyone who goes deep enough into the psychedelic path arrives at that same realisation. The question stops being "what can this substance show me?" and becomes "what can I become on my own?"

If you'd like to watch theYoutube clip, here it is below for your convenience. Enjoy!