Ananda Marga Universal Forum: Chooses not to do + 4 more

Sunday, May 25, 2025

Chooses not to do + 4 more

Baba

Chooses not to do

The all-knowing, omnipotent Parama Purusa can do each and every work. However, there are two things He chooses not to do.

#1: All of creation is in His mind

The reason why Parama Purusa chooses not to hate anyone is because the entire creation is His thought projection. It resides within His mind. So when each and every entity is part and parcel of His mental arena, then He will look upon them with kindness and compassion. Because He prefers not to hate any part of His own self. To despise or hate anyone He would have to put them far away - which He does not want to do. If you hate something then you will not like to have that close to you, within you. And with Parama Purusa, if He chooses to hate any particular entity then that entity will cease to exist as all of creation is based on His ever-lasting love. So while Parama Purusa can do each and every work, and in theory He can hate anyone, but, as the all-loving Divine Entity, His chief aim is to love all of creation and call and draw people near - not deny their existence by hating them. This universe was made in such a way where all reside in His mind, and He looks upon all with kindness and calls people closer and still more close. For this reason He chooses not to hate anyone.

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#2: There can be only one God

Ananda Marga ideology says, “Had there been more than one 'Rudra' [God] the system or the conformity of the universe would have been lost. So, Rudra [God] cannot be more than one.” (1)

In any system, in any body, there can only be one ultimate controller. Same is the case with this universe. The Supreme Controller is one in number. That is for the welfare and betterment of this universe. If there were two different Supreme Controllers, each acting independently, the universe would lose its balance and be destroyed. The universe would collapse.

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Recap

The all-knowing, all-powerful Parama Purusa hence chooses not to do two things: (#1) He does not wish to hate anyone, and (#2) He does not want to create another Parama Purusa.

The above teaching is well-known to Ananda Margiis, but is often misunderstood. And when some atheists or jinanis see this, they levy the false accusation that since Parama Purusa is incapable of doing two things, therefore Parama Purusa is not omnipotent. But such an accusation is utterly bogus. Above is the reply.

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From His discourses

Ananda Marga ideology says, “Parama Puruśa cannot do two things, and there lies His imperfection. He cannot create a second Parama Puruśa. He always remains a singular Entity. He loves, but while loving He wants that entity to also become Parama Puruśa, like Him. But as soon as that entity becomes Parama Puruśa, that entity becomes one with the original Parama Puruśa. So Parama Puruśa always remains One. He cannot create a second Parama Puruśa. And the second thing he cannot do is: He cannot hate anybody. The society may hate a sinner. The law may hate a sinner. The family may hate a sinner. But Parama Puruśa cannot hate anybody. Even if He wants to hate such a man, or such a girl, He cannot.” (2)

Ananda Marga ideology says, “You know, once there was an altercation between a jiṋánii and a bhakta. The bhakta asked the jiṋánii: “You jiṋánii, can you say what my Parama Puruśa, what my Lord, cannot do?” And the jiṋánii was in a fix to say what the Lord cannot do. So the bhakta gave a reply. He said: “My Lord, my Parama Puruśa, My Supreme Father, cannot do two things. One is, He cannot create another Parama Puruśa. [laughter] He cannot create another Parama Puruśa like Him. It is His first defect. [laughter] The first disqualification is, He cannot create another Parama Puruśa. And the second disqualification is, He cannot hate anybody. Even if so desired by Him – suppose He desires to hate a particular man – no, He hasn’t got the capacity to hate others, He cannot hate others. These are the two disqualifications, defects, of Parama Puruśa.”” (3)

References
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 1, Chapter 33
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 12, The Birthright of All
3. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 34, The Universal Expression of Parama Puruśa

== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==

Unblinking gaze upon You

"Nayaneri ainjan ma'nasranjain tumi janame maran'e sa'thii mor..." (Prabhat Samgiita #1370)

Purport:

Note: Those who don't do 6th lesson sadhana, they can not understand this song.

Parama Purusa, You are the ainjan (spiritual ointment of knowledge) of my eyes, and Manasrainjan, the One who colours my mind with bhakti. You are with me life after life, from birth to death, always. Supreme Entity, in the vast sky of my mind, in my mental horizon, Your attractive and charming form is vibrating and shining. Seeing Your exquisite beauty and blissful vibration, I have become completely captivated and wholly ensconced in You. You are so gracious.

Parama Purusa, this expressed universe is situated in the mirror of Your maya. Everything is resonating in Your eternal sound - nu'pura omkara. Chit-chor, Parama Purusa, You are captivating my mind in all the ways. As my Nearest, look towards me with Your endless compassion.

Baba, my adored One, I do not want anything from You. I want You and You alone. I only have one desire: Please grant me parabhakti and keep me at Your lotus feet. I want to surrender my entire being unto You. Allow me to concentrate all my feelings and surrender my whole existence at Your altar. You are my Ista. You are like the moon, and I am like the chakor bird, always gazing at You without blinking.

Omnipresent Entity, Baba, please give me Your darshan...

Notes For Prabhat Samgiita #1370:

How He colours the mind

[1] Ma'nasrainjan: The mind is affected or coloured by whatever one thinks about in day to day life. Every thought has a particular colour and that colour varies based on one's object of contemplation. If a businessman is thinking primarily about his business, then his mind is coloured in that way. A drunkard's mind is coloured with the thought of wine. When the mind is completely obsessed with a particular thought, the mind becomes fully coloured in that manner, whether it be tamasik, sentient, or spiritual etc.

When Parama Purusa graciously colours a sadhaka's mind with bhakti, they remain wholly ensconced in the thought of Parama Purusa. If a new sadhaka cannot do sadhana at all, then we can understand that their mind is not coloured with bhakti. And if someone longs to do more and more meditation, we can understand that their mind is deeply coloured with with divinity.

Depending on the nature of one's thought, their mental colour changes. It may be black, red, yellow or white etc. Those bhaktas who think of Parama Purusa exclusively will have a white-coloured mind; it will be white effulgence. A violent person's mind will be red in colour. Remember, this colour is not their skin colour, nor any other external colour. Here we are only talking about the colour of their mind - nothing else.

Baba has given countless demonstrations on this. He used to make two sadhakas sit facing one another. Then He would bestow upon one the power to see into the other's mind. Then that bhakta would be able to clearly see the colour of the other sadhaka's mental plate. Still today this is possible, by the grace of Parama Purusa. When one advances in sadhana, they can easily see another's mental colour. Immediately, they can understand what type of person they are. In that case, nobody can hide. There is no scope for hypocrisy.

Parama Purusa, in His role as Ma'nasrainjan, is that Divine Entity who colours and saturates the mind of sadhakas in the fountain of bhakti.

Ananda Marga ideology says, "'rainjana', which means 'the One who colours' - that which colours the mind." (1)

So He is that Cosmic Being who graciously showers unconditional love into the heart and mind of the bhakta. And by such overwhelming Cosmic grace, the bhakta becomes immersed in Supreme bliss and comes in the closest proximity with that Love Personified Entity: Parama Purusa.

We all know that bhakti is that unique ingredient which allows one to advance in the spiritual field. Without innate love for Parama Purusa one can never succeed.

About the sound of Omnkara

[2] Nu'pura: This universe exists in the mind of Parama Purusa and is marked by three processes: Creation, sustenance, and destruction. Those process are represented by three sounds: A - U - MA. That is the sound of omnkara. Thus Parama Purusa is dancing in the rhythm of creation, sustenance, and destruction. These are the sounds emanating from the ankle bell of Parama Purusa.

Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Listen to these three sounds of aum: a, u, ma. They represent the creation, the retention [or preservation], and the destruction. The first sound, a, represents creation; the second sound, u, represents retention; the third sound, ma, represents destruction. So all those innumerable sounds, all those fifty sounds, are represented by these supreme sounds, a, u and ma; and collectively a-u-ma becomes aum.” (2)

For unit beings the sound they hear depends upon the degree of their realisation. If, by His grace, their mind is in an exalted state then they will hear the full omnkara sound. If one's mind is less elevated they will hear a different type of sound like the roar of the ocean, the sweet melody of the flute, the chirping of the crickets etc. At different stages of realisation the sadhaka can hear these sounds as detailed in the discourse, “The Six Stages of Realization.”

So it is all dependent upon the quality of mind. That determines which sound a person will hear. It is similar to someone looking at a very colourful flower. If their eyes are perfect they will see all the colours of that flower. And if their vision is compromised in any way or if they are colour-blind they will only see one or two of the colours. It depends upon the quality of their vision. In the same way, hearing the omnkara sound is wholly dependent upon the quality of mind of the aspirant.

How He steals the mind

[3] Citta-cor / Chit-chor / Citcor: In His role as 'Citcor', Parama Purusa is the Thief or Stealer of the bhakta’s mind. How does He steal the mind? He captivates their mind and attracts the bhakta by His exquisite spiritual charm - whereby the sadhaka cannot think of anything or anyone else. The sadhaka has lost control of his own mind: It incessantly and unknowingly rushes towards Parama Purusa. The One who makes this happen is Citcor - the Stealer of the mind.

And to some degree this happens in the mundane realm as well, though it is degenerating and not long-lasting. There are numerous worldly examples where a person's mind is stolen. For instance, if they lost money, if they are infatuated with mundane attraction, if they are anxious about something - in all such cases when the person's mind runs again and again in that direction. So to some degree their mind has been stolen. The person's mind is no longer their own - they do not have control over it. Over and over, their mind is thinking of something - yet that something is not eternal but rather short-lived. So the effect is degenerating. Because their I-feeling has become attached to something mundane. In the real sense that is not citcor, but rather a reflection of a reflection of the stage of citcor.

The Entity that causes someone to lose control of their mind is Citcor - the stealer of the mind. And this is a deeply spiritual state. In the sphere of bhakti, only Parama Purusa is Citcor. The sadhaka thinks of Him, unknowingly. Always the mind is goaded in that direction. Even if the bhakta intentionally tries not to think in this way, still his mind becomes ensconced in the thought of the Supreme, i.e. Parama Purusa. This is an elevating experience and has a wholly beneficial result.

Ultimately, when this condition climaxes, in that culminating state the unit mind - the jiiva'tma - becomes one with Supreme Consciousness.

Lastly, another name of Citcor is Makhan Cor (Butter Thief).

A number of dogmatic worshipers think that Lord Krsna is a butter-thief and they portray Lord Krsna as a small child who has stolen butter whereby the child Krsna is eating a lot of saturated fat. The sages tried to teach the common people with analogies but due to a very low standard the people took it in a literal way until finally it became an entrenched dogma. They do not like to hear the real truth of the matter.

Conversation with Parama Purusa

[4] Parabhakti: Par means divine; and apara means worldly. The feminine is para and when combined with bhakti, it is parabhakti. That is the highest bhakti. In that blessed state, bhaktas want to do each and everything for Parama Purusa and give Him pleasure. In return, they do not want anything. Those sadhakas who got Parama Purusa, by His grace, have gotten everything. This is the highest type of bhakti where one wants only Parama Purusa and does not want anything from Him, whereas aparabhakti is when one asks the Lord for mundane gains.

Ananda Marga ideology says, "When one wants Parama Purus'a from Parama Purus'a,then that bhakti is para'bhakti..."
"And what is para'bhakti? 'O Parama Purus'a, You know whether I am Your devotee or not. It is You who are to judge whether I am Your devotee or not -- but I want You...I want You. And why do I want You? Because I want to serve You'."
"And when asked by Parama Purus'a, 'O my boy, why do You want to serve Me?"...The reply should be, 'By serving You I want to give You pleasure. That's why I want to serve You. I don't want to enjoy pleasure'."
"This is the highest phase of para'bhakti." (3)

Ananda Marga ideology says, “When people beseech the Lord to fulfil all their selfish desires, this is called aparábhakti. “Oh Lord, I am your devotee, help me to pass my examination… Oh Lord, my daughter has attained marriageable age – help me to find a worthy suitor… Let the bridegroom be ideal, let me not spend much on the wedding…” This type of showy devotion that simply asks for mundane objects, is no devotion at all, because it demands everything except Parama Puruśa. Such devotees never say, “Oh Lord, be mine… I want You and only You.” They always say, “I want this, I want that.” In fact this is no devotion at all. When one asks only for Parama Puruśa, this is the true devotion, parábhakti.” (4)

[5] Cakor / Chakor Bird: The red-legged Bartavelle bird or Greek Partridge that seems to subsist on moonlight alone. All night long the cakor bird looks and stares at the moon - wanting to soak up and drink each and every ounce of moonlight. It is completely linked with the moon (vidhu). That is why it is said that the cakor bird has a deeply loving relation with the moon. In the above composition of Prabhat Samgiita, the bhakta is compared to the cakor and Parama Purusa is likened to the moon.

References
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 1, Devotion
2. Ananda Vacanrtam - 14, Acoustic Roots
3. Subhasita Samgraha - 24, p.97
4. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 11, Taking the Opposite Stance in Battle

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The below sections are entirely different topics, unrelated to the above material.
They stand on their own as points of interest.

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Flawed image

Namaskar.

#1: This image was made by non-margiis. Margiis should not propagate this - it is against our fundamentals.

#2: But sadly, some margiis are forwarding this around; it just shows how blind they are. Why forward something when it wholly contravenes our AM principles.

#3: The gross error here is that in the image it is written that the various religions are injecting dharma into the child. But that is wrong. The fact is that the various religions are injecting dogma into the child. Bhagavad dharma is one, not multiple. And the religions are preaching poison, not dharma.

~ The religions are injecting poison, not dharma ~

#4: By this faulty image, they are legitimizing the bogus proclamation that there are multiple manav dharmas. But human dharma is singular.

Sadguru Baba says, “Ánanda Márga alone is Dharma and all the rest are sectisms.” (1)

in Him,
Purusottoma

Reference
1. Subhasita Samgraha - 1, The Call of the Supreme

== Section: Important Teaching ==

Cannot forcibly suppress the sentiments of people for long
Prout philosophy states, “”For the all-round welfare and development of human beings, society needs to follow some fundamental socio-political principles. Without the firm foundation of such principles, disunity, injustice and exploitation will flourish. To avoid this and to safeguard the interests of all people, the leaders of society must ensure that cardinal socio-political principles are strictly followed. Otherwise, individual and collective progress can never be achieved.”

"There are three cardinal socio-political principles which should never be violated…..Thirdly, no mother tongue should be suppressed."

Prout philosophy states, “Several decades ago, Hitler invaded France. He planned to teach everyone German and eradicate French. If he had done this, regardless of anything else that he did, the people would have revolted.”

“The psychology of suppression undermines the progress of a country. People will eventually revolt against it and restore unity. The sentiments of people cannot be forcibly suppressed for a long time. Human beings best express themselves through their mother tongue. If people’s mother tongue is suppressed, it is equivalent to strangling them. The suppression of people’s mother tongue is a sin.” (1)

Reference
1. Prout in a Nutshell-16, Three Cardinal Socio-Political Principles

== Section 4: Links ==

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