There are many aspects to the usage of Vibhuti, or the sacred ash, apart from its energy

significance, of what it is, apart from its ability to do things to direct and control

the energy body, depending upon how it is prepared and how it is used.

And apart from it being a great medium to transfer energy or transmit energy,

the symbolic significance of Vibhuti or the pasma is to indicate the mortal nature of life.

One who does sadhana uses the ash that comes from the cremation grounds.

There are the yogis, stocks, always came from the cremation grounds.

And even today many yogis only procure their ash that they need for their sadhana from the cremation grounds.

One thing is it has a certain quality of its own.

Another thing is it's a constant reminder of your own mortality, always your wearing mortality on your body.

Shiva smeared his body head to toe.

In the ash from the cremation grounds, because he does not want to forget for a moment that is mortal.

For one moment if you forget that you are mortal, ignorance will sprout.

If you forget for a long time, it will bear fruit.

If you start thinking that you are immortal, you will wear the crown of ignorance.

To ignore mortality is ignorance.

So you will see particularly in South India, people have their forehead blasted, wearing their mortality like a batch, a constant reminder that I am not here for good.

A constant reminder that I am only a temporary resident of this place, because one who is constantly reminded of his mortality, at least has created a fertile ground for his knowing.

Maybe he doesn't know at, but he has at least created a fertile ground for knowing to sprout in his life.

Just putting soil back to soil, very few people can do it gracefully, of this billions of people on the planet, of the billions and billions who pass through.

This planet, very, very few, extremely few, can give back the soil that they picked up from Mother Earth gracefully, very few.

It will help you carry what you have picked up from Mother Earth.

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