Naked In Ashes
by Paula Fouce
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Actor: Raman Giri, Santosh Giri, Shiv Raj GiriDirector: Paula Fouce
Brand: Victor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-18
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paradise Filmworks International
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Movie Review: As you have asked I have told you this
Summary: 5 Stars
A wonderful documentary on a lifestyle that is mind-blowing piece of humanity's cultural heritage.
in India there are 13 million yogis, saddhus, and babas, out of a 1 billion population. Some of them are standing babas who never sit or lie down for decades. Other keep their right arm raised continuously for years. Only a very few of them do any kind of fancy asana, beyond plain old half lotus or tailor sitting.
The main focus is Shiv Raj Giri, as he and his tiny band of disciples, including 14-year-old boy Santosh Giri, treks around between Hardiwar and the Himalayan foothills and the Kumbh Mela mega-festival. They wear no or little clothes, they smear their entire bodies with ash, they love the Ganga river. All yogi's in this movie, no yogini's. In many ways they are like homeless people the world over, though they seem a bit more content (Don't believe me about that homeless reference? Read quotes below). It also covered aghori yogi's, who live at the cremation sites full-time, and a number of others.
I could see, as the small band was filmed wandering all over Northern India, how the rest of India was kind of growing up around them, beginning to get overdeveloped with new buildings, power lines, concrete sluices in the rivers, etc. It gave them a melancholy air. Later on Shiv Raj commented on this very point, saying that the government wanted to clear out a lot of old temples and sacred natural areas, and put hotels and parking lots on them. Sad.
One other tiny group is just a duo, Hanuman Das and Barfani Das. They form an interesting pair because the lone disciple's legs are wasted, and he cannot walk. Therefore, the guru carries him everywhere they go, on his shoulders. They live in a small tent by a river and spend their days collecting driftwood for their fire. And of course chanting and so on.
Quotes from the Yogis:
"We are hermits and we will give our life for the sake of our souls."
"I have stood for 12 years to get peace in my soul."
"After one sees the Supreme Lord, this whole world is like insects, whatever you see is worms."
"The trees are being cut down. In the near future we will be scorched by the heat. We know Mother Ganga (river) comes for 5000 years. Now 3500 years are gone, and 1500 years should remain. But due to cutting trees, the time will be much shorter. Mother Ganga will go away from us soon. Clean pure air will also become rare."
"The earlier life ends, the better."
"We humans need vessels to eat. Just so, the gods need human vessels for their feeding. So man is like a vessel to god."
"Shiva is Lord of the Homeless, King of the Himalayas."
"The body has no reality."
"Even after becoming a yogi, there is no peace."
"It is not easy to go to the Parliament to voice your opinions without clothes."
"I pulled a fully loaded jeep for 1 kilometer with my [...]. This [...] control is not easy. No [...] control, no good holy man."
"Every human has 10 senses."
"Today the population of yogi's is going down. in another 50 years you will hardly hear the word 'yogi'."
"When the body suffers one remembers god. For devotion one needs one of two things: either fear or suffering."
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