Baba
Deceitful surrender
Namaskar,
Those who don't do anything and choose not to utilize their inherent strength are not proper human beings. When there is a need to help others then they, out of laziness, say, "I need not do, God will do." But when they themselves are in trouble then only do they become active. When it is time to help others, they remain lazy and preach the tale of fake surrender.
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But that is entirely wrong - and against the teachings of Ananda Marga.
Three types of prapatti / surrender
#1: No prapatti / no surrender: This is strictly materialism. This is fundamentally devoid of God ideation as there is no feeling of surrender. Due to ignorance, they have completely forgotten the fact that they are not the source of their own energy and that is supplied by God. So materialists have not an iota of feeling of prapatti / surrender.
#2: Hypocritical prapatti / surrender: Some hypocrites do not have the feeling of surrender within, but when others need their help then they tell them there is no need to do anything - just surrender. By this way they shirk their responsibility of helping others. For instance, if Mr. X came to Mr. Y saying that, “My child is sick so please help me.” But Mr. Y is a hypocrite and he does not want to help Mr. X. So Y suggests to X, “Don’t do anything - just surrender to God everything will be alright.” By this way Y escapes his moral duty and keeps his prestige safe through hypocrisy. But if Mr Y’s own baby becomes sick, then he is quick to prescribe medicine or take the baby to the hospital. This is Mr Y’s hypocritical way of prapatti / surrender.
#3: True prapatti / surrender: Those following Ananda Marga ideology will take their sick baby to the hospital. According to their God-given capacity and strength, they will provide all kinds of nursing, medicine, medical care, and whatever else is needed. And, side by side, they will go on thinking: "O' Lord, with the strength given by You, I am trying, but without Your grace nothing will happen. You are the real Doer. I am fully surrendering unto Your sweet will. Let Your desire be fulfilled."
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Hypocritical prapatti
Some wrongly think that prapatti (surrender) means that, “We need not do anything.” In result, they ignore key aspects of life and fail to execute what duties they should do. They do not bother about resolving important issues; instead they justify that God will do everything. They feel they should just keep quiet and wait for God to do. On a superficial level, some may initially feel this is some kind of devotional approach. But this type of misunderstanding of prapatti / surrender theory has created huge problems in various communities. It is a defective path that has led to so much suffering. This misguided theory bted a certain lethargy within the people; and, as a result, certain communities could not develop materially, in comparison to other parts of the globe. Below Baba comments about their wrong understanding of prapatti.
Baba has told that people suffered from this psychic disease for a long time. That's why they neglected material development. They wrongly thought that, "Everything God is doing so I need not do anything.” This was their defective and lazy outlook.
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Hypocritical
Unfortunately, some in our AMPS have fallen into a hypocritical mindset. In their duplicitous manner, they say, “Surrender to Baba, and Baba will fix the organisation, AMPS. In so doing, they are committing pratyavaya. But when they find themselves in dire straits then they become very active in order to save themselves. Indeed, if in their own personal life they have a problem, they use all their energies and work day and night to solve that problem. This is their hypocritical manner which they have adopted.
Conclusion
Here is an English summary of the Baba’s Hindi teaching of DMC 1 January 1963 Patna:
When human beings feel that, ‘Parama Purusa is my everything’, then that is called as sharan (shelter). No entity can come under the sharan (shelter) of two different things. Then what is the meaning of sharanagati (surrender)? When living beings give up their ‘I-feeling’ by withdrawing the mind from any other object and feel that Parama Purusa alone is my everything. Up to the time when living beings are thinking that they are working with their own strength, then you should understand that the feeling of sharanagati has not yet come in them. And when human beings think that, ‘I am doing the work only with His strength’, it means the feeling of sharanagati has come in their mind. So when living beings start thinking that, ‘Whatever work I am doing, I am doing with His strength’, then they have the feeling of sharanagati. True Ananda Margiis will take their sick baby to the hospital. According to their God-given capacity and strength, they will provide all kinds of nursing, medicine, medical care, and whatever is needed. And side by side, they will go on thinking: "O' Lord, with the strength given by You, I am trying, but without Your grace nothing will happen. Your are the real Doer. I am fully surrendering unto Your sweet will. Let Your desire be fulfilled." (English summary of Hindi DMC 1 January 1963 Patna)
Bhaktas think one should use all their inherent abilities to solve any crisis and cultivate the idea that, “It is His strength and that He is supplying the energy - and without His energy, I cannot do anything. If He wishes then only will I be rescued - it is fully depending on Him.” Whatever strength God has given must be utilised remembering that He is the final doer. This is the ideal way of surrender.
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Namaskar,
In Him,
Nityasidhu
Sadguru Baba guides us about the dharmic understanding of prapatti váda or surrender theory. According to Ananda Marga philosophy, there are three spheres of human life: physical, psychic, and spiritual. In each sphere, as sadhakas, we should utilise all our God-given energy to progress.
Duty of disciple
First we have to utilize our strength fully. In numerous discourses Baba says that those depending solely on the Preceptor without making any effort to do sadhana will not achieve anything. Baba explains that the Sadguru does not hand out mukti and moksa to those who make no sustained efforts. One needs to exert all their energies to move ahead on the path.
Ananda Marga philosophy says, "The purpose of a great preceptor coming into this world is not to graze his disciples like cattle. The great preceptor comes to liberate men like Himself, to change men into God. Everyone will hence have to make an earnest effort for carrying out sadhana practice as mere idle dependence on the preceptor cannot obtain emancipation." (1)
So there is a vast difference between the dogmatic school of prapatti váda / surrender theory, and the Ananda Marga school of prapatti váda. The dogmatic school encourages lethargy. And in Ananda Marga, our path is based on the idea: Fight against injustices, serve others, and utilize your strength fully, all the while cultivating the idea that it is His work. One should think, “Whatever I am doing is done with His energy. He is the Supreme Doer. Without His grace nothing happens.” That is true surrender.
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~ In-depth study ~
All know prapatti váda / surrender theory is an important and vital element in dharmic life. Unfortunately, around the globe, this is often grossly misunderstood or entirely ignored by some. In certain regions, people have heard of the theory of prapatti váda / surrender theory, but they often misuse it in their practical life. Whereas, in other lands, surrender theory is basically absent from their approach to life, as those people are drowned in materialism. In that case, they forget that they are not the source of their own energy, rather it is supplied by God. A case in point is that they have no control over their old age and death.
Negative to surrender
In contrast, in other areas, a feeling of prapatti / surrender is wholly absent because some citizens do not think about God at all. Rather, with their inflated ego and self-centeredness, they believe that they are everything and there is no Divine Entity. In that case, the unfortunate and misguided trend is to live life according to material enjoyment, satisfying one’s own desires - thinking that they are in control of everything. Such persons forget that they are not the source of their own energy, rather it is supplied by God. Proof being they have no control over their old age and death.
So when tragedy falls, people suffer from an onslaught of problems and psychic disorders, diseases of indulgence, and degeneration. Ultimately, by not believing in God, they just lose all hope and become depressed. That's why a growing percentage of the population in materialistic nations (a) attends regular counseling sessions and (b) is on antidepressant medication. In addition, there are others who become addicted to vices such as alcohol and drugs, and / or indulged in sensual pleasures and degrading activities. Overall, a life devoid of Cosmic ideation proves disastrous.
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AMPS: hypocritical prapatti - 3
As sadhakas, it is our duty to exercise all our might and intellect to clean-up the organisation. We should engage fully to bring a dharmic flow back into our Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha, all the while surrendering unto Him. This should be our approach - as that is true prapatti váda or surrender theory.
Unfortunately, some in our AMPS have fallen into a hypocritical mindset. In their duplicitous manner, they say, “Surrender to Baba and Baba will fix the organisation, AMPS. In so doing, they are committing pratyavaya.
But if in their own personal life they have a problem, they use all their energies and work day and night to solve that problem. This is their hypocritical manner which they have adopted.
References
1. Elementary Philosophy, Intuitional Practice and Its Necessity
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== Section: Important Teaching ==
Barely known point about microvita
#1: As you may know, human beings have no ability to create anything in this universe.
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "In this universe of ours, human beings cannot create the original stuff. They have not got the dexterity to create something original. They can create physical mixtures and chemical compounds, but not the original stuff." (1)
#2: So human beings have not an iota of ability to create microvita - neither positive nor negative.
#3: What human beings can do is generate a congenial atmosphere. For instance, if you live in a warm climate and leave out a bucket of water for days on end then naturally bugs and all sorts of organisms will be drawn to that water. But humans cannot say they created those bugs, rather that person made a congenial environment that attracted the bugs etc. And the same is the case for positive microvita. By your kiirtana, sadhana, and puja etc, already existing positive microvita may be drawn to that area, but that is all we can do. We cannot actually create microvita.
#4: Remember, again and again, it comes back to the original premise that humans have no scope to create the original stuff. We can only change or attract already existing things.
#5: Here is the origin of microvita: At the time of death, certain human beings turn into microvita when they are reborn with only three factors (i.e. luminous, aerial, and ethereal, but not solid or liquid). So human beings do not create microvita, but rather some humans become microvita through Brahmacakra (cycle of creation). Below Baba explains in detail how and why this occurs.
Ananda Marga ideology states, "Suppose a person is practising spiritual sádhaná regularly, properly, and with proper inspiration and sincerity, but some other desires, some other longings, remain coverted in the person's mind. The person is a good person, he or she is sincerely doing sádhaná, but in his mind he thinks, “If Bábá gives me ten lakhs – or five lakhs – or only two lakhs – everything will be managed properly. Oh, no! I won't ask for these things. No, no, no, it is bad, it is bad.” That desire, that longing for money, remains in him, although he or she is a developed soul, not a bad person, not at all a bad person. So what happens? Because of his piety, after death he gives up the physical structure, the solid body, and gives up the aquatic structure, that is, apatattva, also; but the other three factors – tejas [luminous factor], marut [aerial factor], vyoma [ethereal factor] – remain with him, with his detached mind.These beings are called devayonis. They are of seven types – yakśa, rakśa, kinnara, gandharva, vidyádhara, siddha and Prakrtiliina. In the example I gave, the person had a longing for money, but was a developed soul. Unknowingly or unconsciously the desire came into his or her mind, and that desire was the cause of his or her downfall, degradation, depravation. This type of being is called yakśa." (2)
References
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 3, Pranama Mantra
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 3, Ghosts and Evil Spirits
== Section: Important Teaching ==
Prout philosophy states, "Every atom and molecule of this universe is the common property of all living beings. This has to be recognized as a matter of principle. After recognizing this fact, statements such as, “This is indigenous and that is foreign”, “So-and-so is qualified for the citizenship of such-and-such country while others are not” and, “Such-and-such community will get certain political rights, neither more nor less than that”, are totally irrelevant. In fact, such statements nakedly expose the vested interests. Where the people of one country suffer due to lack of land or food, while those of another country have abundant land and plentiful food, what else is it but a type of capitalism!" (1)
Reference
1. Problems of the Day, point #16
== Section: Important Teaching ==
Ancient problem rampant today
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “The Sanskrit equivalent for marriage is viváha (vi – vah + ghaiṋ): it means, after the ceremony, the man and woman can no longer live as libertines or as irresponsible so-called family people. They have to discharge their full obligations as bharttá and kalatra, responsible husband and responsible wife.”
“Another Sanskrit equivalent for “woman” is nárii, which is feminine gender. But Shiva used the term kalatra, in the neuter; for to her husband a woman is a wife, but to her children and other members of the society, she is as dignified as her male counterpart. So by declaring a married lady to be kalatra, Shiva gave her special status, and addressed her in neuter terms.”
“The liberal meaning of the term viváha is “live one’s life in a new way with a special type of responsibility”. This is the underlying significance of the Shaeva system of marriage.”
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “In His life, Shiva Himself married with this commitment. We can say without the least hesitation that Shiva was the first person in this world to marry in the proper sense of the term.” (1)
Note: That which was common 7000 years ago has now again come into vogue: That same disease has become prevalent today. A huge percentage of people around the globe are leading libertine life - especially in the materialistic areas. They produce children and neglect to take any responsibility. They do not like to be bound in conjugal relations and shoulder the responsibility of helping the child. The ones who suffer the most are the children and the mother. Often such children wind up in foster care - mentally and physically scarred. It is a serious crisis - watch out. Where capitalism is growing that disease will spread. Our duty is to propagate this teaching - if we bring even one libertine onto the path of responsibility then at least to some small degree the problem is solved.
Reference
1. Namah Shivaya Shantaya, Disc: 9
== Section: Important Teaching ==
How to have smart children
Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji says, "Those who are vegetarian produce more lymph because they get chlorophyll from green vegetation, so their brains are more developed...the intellectual standard of children born to meat eating parents is lower than that of vegetarians." (1)
Reference
1.Yoga Psychology, 1991 Edn, p.89
== Section: Ananda Vanii ==
The success of every entity
“All the entities of the universe are on the move. No one has come to rest, to lament unnecessarily. And in this movement lies the success of every entity, the colourful glamour of one’s existence. So move on individually, move on collectively. Let your sincere help illuminate those who have lagged behind on the path of movement.” (Ananda Vanii #64)
Note 1: True Ananda Vaniis have a number whereas Fake Ananda Vaniis do not - just as a fake car license plate has no number. By this way, you can easily recognise a Fake Ananda Vanii.
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