Baba
Namaskar,
All
margiis know that Baba created our organisation (AMPS) for the welfare
and development of the entire humanity. And, under His Supreme example
and guidance, the organisation has gone through periods of tremendous
growth and prosperity.
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Natural growth: speed & pause
Since
Baba founded AMPS in 1955, it has passed through various phases of
speed and pause, wherein it transitioned from a state of pause into the
next phase of speed. And this type of cyclical development is
characteristic of virtually every organisation, company, and industry
etc. Even individuals experience this. This is the natural path of
development.
For
example, when anyone takes a bath or does some exercise, or goes to
sleep, then they are not destroying their body. Rather, these endeavors
strengthen and purify the body, thus making it more healthy. And with
regards to society, Baba also talks about how periods of speed and pause
are part and parcel of collective development. The point being that
both individual and collective life are marked by various distinct
phases: sometimes speed and sometimes pause.
Ananda
Marga philosophy states, "Pause means the gathering of momentum for
speed in the subsequent phase. If one closely watches the effect of
speed on a particular community or the entire humanity, one sees that
generally people eulogize the period of speed. However we cannot afford
to ignore the state of pause, because by judging what the previous state
of pause was like, we can discern the speed of the next phase." (1)
AMPS: inculcation of 16 Points
With
the development of AMPS, Baba has followed this same practical path of
speed and pause because, in this way, we can learn. If, with His
supernatural power of being Mahasambhuti, He made everything perfect in
AMPS then how would we have been able to learn? If AMPS only experienced
periods of speed, i.e. periods of tremendous development without any
periods of pause, i.e. periods of stability and reflection, then we
would not have been able to learn what Baba was practically teaching us.
Instead, during periods of pause, we were able to digest and realize
what Baba was teaching us during that phase of speed. For instance, Baba
gave His special guidelines of 16 Points, and then the sadhakas and Wts
had nearly the entire decade of the 1970’s to inculcate those
teachings. That led to a huge transformation of our AM society. So this
cycle of speed and pause proved to be an ideal way to introduce sadhakas
to a revolutionary and dharmika way of living, i.e. becoming strict
adherents of Sixteen Points. And verily there are numerous other
examples of how AMPS spread and grew through periods of speed, pause,
and ensuing phase of speed.
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How we learned & overcame challenges
Here
the central idea is that Baba didn’t use His divine powers to make
everything perfect and keep us in a perpetual state of speed, otherwise
how would we have been able to learn how to handle difficult
circumstances, as well as comprehend the many teachings He was giving.
So Baba has done everything in a natural way. Indeed, over the decades,
our AMPS organisation has undergone all sorts of cycles of rapid
expansion followed by crises and problems, and by that we have been able
to grow. We learned to solve those problems by standing on our
ideological fundamentals and implementing AM teachings.
Indeed, year after year, so many problems have come to the fore and been resolved. For example:
- In 1967, the communists attacked, and so many went to jail.
- In 1969, communists of Bihar wrongly arrested Baba.
- In 1971, a huge number of internal clashes occurred such as the departure of the first GS.
- In 1973, Marga Guru was falsely charged and wrongly incarcerated.
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Over the years, dogmatic people attacked and firebombed the properties
and houses of margiis who engaged in revolutionary marriages.
- During the Emergency, Wts and margiis were wrongly accused and punished by corrupt governmental authorities.
Through
it all, AMPS has survived all these challenges - and grown. The point
is that in facing all these struggles, we were able to better understand
(a) what it meant to be an Ananda Margii, and (b) what was the
ideological solution. Here, we have to note that this was all part of
the natural learning cycle of speed and pause, i.e. moving ahead quickly
and then pausing in slow periods, enabling us to inculcate the
requisite teachings and apply the right ideological solution.
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Some
may wrongly think that Baba was intentionally creating issues and
giving us tests. But that was not the case. Rather, Baba graciously
provided us with all the teachings and solutions to solve any and all
types of issues that invariably arise in individual and collective life.
And by practically understanding His guidelines, we were in a position
to learn and guide others, and lead society forward. Without that
practical application, we would have been mere theoreticians which bears
no fruit. Yoga is the path of practicality, not mere theory.
Growth of AMPS & coming phase of speed
Here
Baba shows how our AMPS organisation took birth in a tiny town,
survived numerous periods of speed and pause, and ultimately expanded
and spread across the entire globe.
Ananda
Marga ideology says, “The tiny organization which first saw the light
of day in a small town in 1955 – you may call it the “Jamalpur
Organization” because in those early days it was confined to Jamalpur
town - has today, due to your efforts, been transformed into a mighty
global organization. Each and every entity grows step by step due to its
own inherent strength, not by acquiring strength from any external
source. If internal strength is lacking, it serves no purpose to inject
additional strength from outside.The day we started our journey we only
had a fixed goal ahead of us, nothing else. In those days we had neither
structure nor financial capacity, nor even a small office room. Yet our
organization continued to grow and has become so large today that there
is hardly any country left where its branches and ramifications have
not spread.” (2)
The
AMPS of Jamalpur reached all over this earth. So what was once a tiny
organisation became a veritable global force in a few short decades.
Now, once again, our AMPS is in a period of pause. Sadhakas are learning
the ideology with a greater understanding, and in due course the next
period of speed will soon take hold.
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Conclusion
Baba
has graciously given all the tools to build a bright new humanity. As
Ananda Margiis, we are the torchbearers of this new dawn. No one should
think that AMPS has become permanently stuck in the mire of staticity
etc. Rather, each and every day we are gaining the requisite momentum
and ideological zeal to usher in a great new era. The pause of today
will transform into the speed of tomorrow.
Ananda
Marga philosophy states, "There are some people who are pessimistic.
They say that the society around us is very bleak, that it has no
expression of vitality and that it seems that everyone is in deep
slumber. Pessimists say this because they have never made any detailed
study of human history, nor do they care to. Had they done so, they
would certainly be optimistic, because if they had looked carefully at
the symptoms of pause, they would have realised that significant
preparations were being made for the subsequent phase of speed. So under
no circumstances should human beings be pessimistic. That is why I am
always an incorrigible optimist, because I know that optimism is life."
(3)
In Him,
Giriish
References
1. Prout in a Nutshell - 7, Dynamicity and Staticity
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 7, Spiritual Truth Surpasses Everything
3. Prout in a Nutshell - 7, Dynamicity and Staticity
Always remain with me
"Prabhu theko a'ma'r pa'she pa'she, bhay pele bhay bha'ungiye diyo..." (Prabhat Samgiita #0598)
Purport:
O’ my dearmost Baba, please always remain with me as my closest One, and if ever I am overwrought with fear, then please remove that. Due to my bad actions, if I become dusty with papa, with Your own hands kindly wipe away all that dust.
Baba, in this transitory world, no one is mine. Your feet are the Supreme shelter. All my hope and trust lie at Your lotus feet. You are the only Saviour. Baba, please write Your name on my heart, and intoxicate me in Your name; make me Yours.
Baba, the light of day and the darkness of night, good and bad all I love because Your divine effulgence is present in everything. Please fill my existence with Your loving touch and remain with me all the time, always…
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