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Saturday, October 29, 2016

One may see Baba’s image beside lurid trash

BABA
One may see Baba’s image beside lurid trash
Namaskar,
Here I will list some reasons why everyone must take Baba’s pratikriti and pratik off the internet.

1. Baba would not want to be “shown off” in this way. He was strict about how He allowed His pictures to be displayed. Baba would not want to be “shown off” as something cheap. He is a mystery, not a cheap.
2. By posting pictures and video, we are encouraging others to do so. So the problem becomes worse.
3. We are also making it easier for margiis and newcomers to NOT go to retreats (Baba called them seminars).
Baba would only allow margiis to see Him
4. We are degrading the pictures by massively regenerating them. This is a physical process. As an artist, I know very well how important original art is. The more you copy it, the less valuable it becomes and the less powerful it is because it is a copy. Genetically, if you copy something over and over, you degrade its integrity. What should be happening is that we should closely guard and protect the originals and make copies from them.
5. Above all, we want to follow Baba’s wishes. He would only allow margiis to see Him. If you wanted to see Baba, you had to become an Ananda Margii. By posting all sorts of pictures and video on the internet where anyone can go look at Baba for free, we have diminished the value of His pictures. When one posts a video or picture or video of Baba on the internet, anyone has access to it. No longer must you become a margii to see Baba.
6. Baba’s pictures are sacred. Those posting the pictures and video understand this, but they don't seem to be acting as if they understand. His pictures are SACRED and personal. Some things you just don’t share with the general population.
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Common sensationalism
7. Baba never gave permission for His picture to be printed on the cover of a book, as has been done in The Jamalpur Years, a book which has turned Baba’s image, sadly, into common sensationalism. Uploading pictures and video of Baba only increases the likelihood that this trend of sensationalizing the Guru will continue.
8. I have seen Baba videos where He gives varabaya mudra. This is wrong!
These videos should NOT be public. I have noticed that these videos and the Varabaya mudra pictures are not so easily available on the internet. If we can keep these private, why can’t we keep the other pictures private? The varabaya mudra videos should be reserved for retreats (seminars). Think of it: Anytime someone feels bad, oh, go watch Baba giving varabaya mudra. His powerful mudra is reduced to a mere panacea for pain. Like popping a pill or fixing a nice cup of tea, one can receive His mudra at any time. Thus, His gifts to us get devalued.
9. Needless to say, the opportunity for Baba’s image to appear beside some materialist, capitalist information happens. One may see Baba’s image beside lurid trash. Removing Baba’s picture from the internet should be considered a service and an act of shaoca (cleanliness, the first rule of niyama, of yama and niyama, our guidelines for proper action).
By posting His pictures and video on the internet, these pictures become less rare.
10. By inference, we can conclude that He has also energized His picture. This is one of the ways we have of communing with Baba, to sit before His picture and to dance before it. This is not deification. We already know Baba is Divine. This is simply a devotee wanting to be close to his Guru. By posting His pictures and video on the internet, these pictures become less rare. This spoils a sacred intimacy one can have with Baba through pictures and video.
11. Baba allowed a selected picture to be printed in a few of His selected books only. This is very different from posting His picture on the internet. One can call an uploaded picture or print material a “publication” on the internet, but the difference between the internet and a printed book should be clear to anyone who has any sense at all. A printed book is made of paper and bound together. A printed book is not an electronic device. How anyone can assume that Baba would allow His picture to be put on the internet is lunacy and arrogance.
We are potentially putting non-margiis in danger
12. We are potentially putting non-margiis in danger. Those who are not in the Marga do not understand Baba’s power. This power also emanates from His pictures. This means anyone could stumble onto Baba’s picture or video and have no clue what they are seeing. Such a situation is dangerous. It is like giving a baby a stick of dynamite.
13. In every situation where Ananda Marga meditation is to be taught it is known we are not to put the picture of the Guru up or even the pratik for newcomers
14. Baba taught us to be modest and humble. We are doing a disservice to His honor by posting pictures and video.

So let us carry Baba across this filthy, common place that is the internet. Putting His picture on the internet will not clean the internet. Taking His picture off the internet might. Certainly taking His image and video off the internet will have a positive effect.

Just as we do pracar, this sort of pracar should be done as well. Newcomers should be instructed NOT to post His image and video. The same thing with vows. One shouldn’t go posting one’s lessons on the internet. Ananda Marga is a mystical organization. I hope it stays that way. But that is not the way it is being treated.
How can we treat Baba this way?
15. I think I have seen a Baba video on Youtube with before it a commercial of this incredibly materialistic guy trying to sell his teaching program. He’s showing off his mansion and all his material wealth. Any true margii will feel sorrow at this. How can we treat Baba this way?

So there are reasons to honor Baba’s pictures and videos; they should be in Ananda Marga libraries and margii homes and jagrtis. They are special. By posting them we are taking away the specialness of these precious images. We are reducing the specialness of Baba’s videos at retreats. We are allowing Baba’s image to be among common filth on the internet that can many times be seen beside His picture or possibly before or after His video.
Please help clean the internet by taking Baba’s pictures and video off the internet and sharing them some other way. It is impossible to rid the internet of filth. But it is possible to reduce Baba’s presence in this filthy common place. The internet has many possibilities and can do many things. But it is also a filthy place. Our precious Guru should not be subjected to such a filthy common place.
At His Lotus Feet,
Bhaskar
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== Section 2: Important Teaching ==
Dogma of India: apathy towards history
Ananda Marga philosophy says, "India has a rich literature especially in Sanskrit, but there is very little historical literature. Due to philosophical confusion, there was a certain apathy towards history among the people of India. Because of this apathy the inhabitants of India were averse to composing history. It has to be considered by the scholars to what extent, apart from the Rájataraunginii, can the Rájamálá of Tripura and the Assamese Burainji be classified as history. The greater portion of what we consider to be the history of the Indian middle ages had to be collected from the diaries of foreign travellers. In order to write even a single page of history we had to look up Fá-Hiyen, Meghásthinis, Iuḿ, Chuyáḿ, or Ivanavatutá. During the Pathan and Mughal eras there was some history written in the collections of the sovereigns but it is difficult to say just how far they are authoritative. However, we can say that even if not all was lost, something certainly was.” (1)
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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Why disunity among wts

BABA
Why disunity among wts
Namaskar,
In His discourse titled Social Psychology, Baba has enlisted several requisite factors for attaining unity. Among those, this letter brings forth an important point of unity: economic justice. Without economic justice there cannot be unity. Here following is Baba’s guideline. As His disciples, it is our duty and responsibility to understand how to bring unity.
Baba says in order to have unity a requisite factor is: Economic Justice
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “In Ananda Marga, even in the economic field, there is a common ideal, as the whole property of the earth is common property and is to be shared by all members of the society. This is instilled in every member by reciting the following shloka [couplet] at the commencement of every function held by the members of Ananda Marga: Samgacchadhvam samvadadhvam…Let us share our wealth without differentiation, like sages of the past, so that all may enjoy the universe. Love for all – the ideal of the whole of humanity being one family, utilizing all the property of the world as one unit.” (1)
Comment: Baba clearly delineates that there must be economic justice based on the ideal that all the moveable and immoveable property of this universe is to be shared rationally amongst His children.
Suffering from a dearth of money, or food, or clothes
Unfortunately, economic disparity is present nowadays in our Wt Cadre. We have some Wts who are rich, and some who are poor - whose minimum requirements are not fulfilled. Those workers with wealth are given respect due to their high economic status, and some are mistreated because they lack economic means. If one has money they will get organisational post and power; and without money one will be humiliated, forgotten, and overlooked.
In such an environment of “haves” and “have nots”, it is not at all possible to achieve unity. Rather it is far, far out of reach. So economic inequality is a main cause of disunity which we see prevalent in our Marga nowadays. The problem runs deep and exists on many levels. Hence this point of economic justice is a key point that needs to be inculcated for achieving unity.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "Suppose you have gathered sufficient money, and there is no dearth of food in your house, but the remaining portion of society, your neighbours, your friends, are suffering from a dearth of money, or food, or clothes. Then it means that you are not following the spirit of “samgacchadhvam”." (2)
Summary
In His Social Psychology discourse, Baba presents a comprehensive list of factors for gaining unity. In any society if some people roll in luxury and others starge, then in that society there will be chaos. And in due course it will disintegrate. Many empires collapsed because some were rolling in luxury and others were suffering in poverty. Wherever economic injustice, exists, that society will not remain for a long time; rather it will die prematurely. We should raise our voice against wt exploitation.
Namaskar,
in Him,
Dharmaraj
References
1. A Few Problems Solved- 7 - Social Psychology
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam  - 3


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