article_snippet: Feared across India, the exiled Aghori monks of Varanasi feast on human flesh and reside near cremation sites in search of spiritual enlightenment.
article_snippet: The Aghori monks of Varanasi feast on human flesh, drink from human skulls and are even said to bite the heads off life animals for the heads rituals .
article_snippet: The Aghori monks of Varanasi believe that the body is inconsequential and flesh and blood are simply transitory, which is why The Aghori monks of Varanasi surround The Aghori monks of Varanasi with death and decay .
article_snippet: The Aghori monks of Varanasi live among India's cremation sites - where Lord Shiva and goddess Kali Ma are said to dwell - and feed on what others throw away.
article_snippet: Bodies are often cremated and then scattered into the sacred Ganges river, but some bodies are disposed of without cremation.
article_snippet: The Aghori are said to collect these remains and use these remains for these remains spiritual enlightenment, wearing the corpses, consuming the corpses or building alters from the corpses.
article_snippet: the monks use the monks unusual rituals to bring the monks closer to the revered Hindu god Shiva .
article_snippet: the monks believe that flesh and blood are transitory and that the body is ultimately inconsequential.
article_snippet: the monks emphasise this notion through the monks habit of dwelling in cemeteries and by surrounding the monks with death and decay.