Posted by Josh on October 02, 2000 at 14:40
URINE THERAPY IN EASTERN
COUNTRIES.
Urine therapy has been practised for thousands
of years and has merely fallen a bit into obscurity
in the last century. Especially within yoga and
tantra tradition the use of urine has been kept
alive. It served partially as a real 'therapy', a
method to cleanse the physical body of
impurities, but also as a way to further spiritual
growth. As such it should be considered more as
a spiritual practice or lifestyle.Very illustrative in
this sense are the following remarks: Swami
Satyananda Saraswati states in 'Amaroli
&endash; The Way of the Yogi', the preface to
the book Amaroli (Amaroli is the practice of
ingesting ones own urine):
"I am fully acquainted with the topic of amaroli
and have had personal experience with its use.
Of course, I did not use it for therapy but in order
to perfect vajroli kriya, and I am convinced that
those who want to perfect vajroli will have to go
through the process of amaroli".
(From: Amaroli, S. S. Saraswati, Bihar School of
Yoga, Bihar 1978, out of print)
A presumably 5000 year old document has been
found that describes the practise of urine therapy
in different respects. In this document, there are
many references to herbs and medicines still
used in present day Ayurveda. This document
consists of 107 verses (slokas), is called
Shivambu Kalpa Vidhi ('the method of drinking
urine in order to rejuvenate'), and is part of a
document called Damar Tantra. (The entire text
can be found in Chapter 7 of The Golden
Fountain) Shivambu literally means the water of
Shiva, the highest god in the Indian pantheon.
Shiva
The name Shiva means auspiciousness. In India,
at least among urine therapists, one often speaks
of drinking Shivambu, which simply means
drinking the water of auspiciousness. They also
sometimes jokingly refer to it as 'Morarji Cola', as
India's former prime minister Morarji Desai used
to practice urine therapy. He openly advocated
this therapy and said India would be well off
when more people would use this extremely
inexpensive and effective way of treatment.
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