Ancestral History of Alsatian Dogs + Formless bathing in the ocean of form

Baba

This email contains three sections:
1. End Quote: How Alsatian dogs and foxes are close relatives 

2. PS #3331: O’ Parama Purusa, Bathing Yourself in the ocean of form,
3. Links

How Alsatian dogs and foxes are close relatives

“The Alsatian dogs are close relatives of foxes. The dogs of Bhutan, although not cowardly, closely resemble jackals in cold countries.”

“Although a fox belongs to the dog family, its relation with the dog is very remote. In spite of some similarity between a dog and a jackal in appearance, there is a wide gulf of difference in their natures.”

“The dog has been a companion of human beings since ancient times. History tells us that dogs have been of use and continue to be of use to people in different ways in their prosperity as well as in their adversity. In the scriptures, a dog has sometimes been shown respect by presenting it as a symbol of dharma. Of course, there is no dearth of people who are opposed to dogs. In northern India some people say: “Only one who is a dog himself maintains a dog.”” (1)

Reference
1. Shabda Cayaniká Part 4: Discourse #27

== Section 2 ==

O’ Parama Purusa, Bathing Yourself in the ocean of form,

You resonate Your divine sound in my heart

"Rúper meláy base tumi, arúp gán shuniye jáo..." (PS 3331)

Purport:

O' Formless One, O' Divine Entity, You have situated Yourself in the festival and grandeur of form [1]. You have created Your advent in this colourful world. You are playing Your flute - singing Your song for me. You have come emanating Your eternal call. Bathing Yourself in the ocean of form [2], You resonate Your divine sound in my heart. From Your eternal formless stance of Nirguna Brahma, You graciously come and have concern for me in both my suffering and happiness. You always watch for my well-being and express Your heart-felt love and affection. From time to time You come on this earth, into this world of form, as Mahasambhuti, but You are ever-present as Taraka Brahma. You fill the heart with devotion and with the irresistible urge to get You. O' my Dearmost, You have come into the world of form and showered Your grace by playing Your eternal flute.

Baba, Your sound - Your divine flute - resonates eternally [3] in animate and inanimate beings, in flora and fauna, in mobile and immobile entities, everywhere. You saturate Your divine mamatá [4] in every thought and in all expressions, in every work. 

Baba, You play Your veńu / flute [5] and by Your grace it vibrates in all atoms and in every molecule - in everything and everywhere. O' Parama Purus'a, You are the Na'dtanu [6] of the ages, You conquer the temporal factor. You are beyond time; You are Ka'la'tiita. You are immutable. You remain in one unaltered state in all times: past, present and future. Because of Your immutable characteristics, You are not only beyond the bondage of time (Ka'la'tiita) but also beyond the bondage of space (Desha'tiita) and beyond the bondage of form (Rupa'tiita).

O' Na'dtanu, O' Parama Purusa Baba, I do sastaunga pranam at Your altar...


Notes for Prabhat Samgiita #3331:

[1] Rúper meláy: In the first line of the opening stanza of this song the term rúper meláy is used. The literal meaning of rúper meláy is festival of form, and the practical meaning is the entire creation, i.e. this expressed universe.

[2] Rúpa sáyare: In the second line of the opening stanza of this song the term rúpa sáyare is used. The literal meaning of rúpa sáyare: is ocean of form, and the practical meaning is the entire creation, i.e. this expressed universe.

[3] Tomár dhvani nitya báje: This phrase is related with the first line of the second stanza The overall sense of this relates with Parama Purusa, “Your sound resonates eternally.” And the more detailed explanatory and practical meaning is below:

“O human beings, you are fortunate. The clarion call of the Universal has reached you. Not only has the call come, but you are hearing it and it is vibrating in every cell of your body. Will you now lie in the corner of your house as an inert being and waste your time by clinging to old skeletons and bemoaning them? The Supreme Being is calling you in the roar of the ocean, in the thunder of the clouds, in the speed of lightning, in the meteor’s flaming fires. Nothing good will come from idleness. Get up and awake the clouded chivalry of your dormant youth. It may be that the path is not strewn with flowers and that inferiority complex will be attempting to hold fast your each advancing step, but even then you have to proceed onwards tearing the shroud of darkness. You will tear the thick darkness of despair as you advance in the racing chariot radiant with the Sun’s brilliance towards the attainment of the Supreme state.” (1)

[4] Mamata': Mineness; In Sanskrit “mama” = mine, and the suffix ta’ = -ness; hence “mineness.”  "What is the meaning of “mamatá”? Mama + tá = mamatá. Mama means “mine” and thus mamatá is the inner idea of being mine, the feeling that something is my own." (2)

"“Mamatá” means “mine-ness” – “Mama” means “one's own”, and the abstract noun derived from it is “mamatá” – meaning, thereby “mine-ness.”" (3)

For example, suppose you are suffering from a fever then naturally you will be concerned about your own health. You will try to cure yourself by going to the doctor and taking medicine etc. If you have mamata for someone else, then if they are sick with a fever you will have the same degree of care for their condition as your own. When one does sadhana then this sense of mamata grows and one ultimately has the feeling of mamata towards the entire created universe. Without sadhana, one’s sense of mamata will be extremely limited whereby one might only care about their own individual existence. So when the mind is extremely narrow one only has mamata for oneself. Those with a slightly broader mind will have mamata towards their parents and family members. And as the circumference of mind expands one will have mamata for other relatives and community members etc. However, it is only with sadhana that the periphery of mind can grow further and further wherein one’s sense of mamata includes all beings and expressions of this cosmos. Parama Purusa has mamata’ for each and every entity - this entire creation, all living and non-living expressions.

[5] Veńu / Flute: “The rhythm in which the vibrational flow of the cosmic mind vibrates the annamáya kośa of individual microcosms – veins, nerves, arteries, blood, lymph, etc. – is the initial stage of the divine cosmic sound. When this sound is heard in the anamáya kośa it resembles that of a cricket. When this cosmic sound vibrates the kámamaya kośa it resembles the sound of ankle bells. In the manomaya kośa it resembles a flute; ... in atimánasa kośa, the resonance of a gong; in vijiṋánamaya kośa the buzzing of bees or the rolling of ocean waves; and in hirańmaya kośa, a prolonged oṋḿ sound. Thus the cosmic sound is expressed in various ways according to the degrees of crudity or subtlety in relation to the fundamental factors. There are various physical and psychic expressions centring around the various degrees of cosmic sound. When one’s mind is confined to a particular stratum one hears the sound peculiar to that stratum only. A person who lacks concentration of mind cannot hear any expression of the cosmic sound. In the field of spiritual practice the divine sound is expressed in a spontaneous way.” (4)

[6] Na'dtanu: This is one of the countless names that describes one of the infinite attributions of Parama Purusa. Specifically Na'dtanu refers to that Divine Entity who is the Lord of all music and dance. That is, the One whose very body is made out of the na'da - the primordial sound - is Himself the Lord of the dance.

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References
1. SS-1, The Supreme Call
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 7, The True Nature of Bhakti
3. AV-1, Pleasing the Lord
4. AMIWL-6, The Expansion of the Microcosm

== Section 3 ==

Links

http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/01/shocking-misunderstanding-of-dada-m.html

http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2015/04/akola-story-evil-deeds-of-h-giita-group.html

How to initiate + 2 more

Baba

This email contains four sections

1. End Quote: How to initiate
2. PS #3262: हे परमपुरुष बाबा! मुझे कष्ट में देखकर तुम्हारा हृदय पसीज गया, और तुम  मेरा कष्ट दूर कर दिए
3. PS #2242: O' Parama Purusa, I did not get You in Jamalpur & tomb tiirtha...
4. Links

How to initiate

“When children are five years old and attain some awareness, the parents, brothers, sisters or any guardian may initiate them in Náma Mantra [the preliminary process of meditation]. They should be taught to sit in padmásana [lotus posture], but instead of interlocking the fingers, they may rest one palm upon the other; and keep the spine erect. They will then be instructed to feel or imagine that everything around them, and whatever they visualize, is Brahma.” (1)

Note: Sometimes, unknowingly, parents or acaryas teach their children to do meditation in the wrong way by telling them to interlace or interlock their fingers. According to Guru’s guideline, children should learn the proper method of placing their palms on top of one another.

Side by side, every child should learn meditation at the age of 5. Any delay in this regard in harmful. A child who starts practicing sadhana at the age of 5 all their potentialities will get scope to be developed properly. And they will remain under the shelter of Guru. So there should not be any procrastination in initiating children into the practice of meditation.

In Him,
Prakash

Reference
1. CC-1, The Process of Initiation

== Section 2 ==

~ हे परमपुरुष बाबा! मुझे कष्ट में देखकर तुम्हारा हृदय पसीज गया, और तुम  मेरा कष्ट दूर कर दिए |~
प्रभात संगीत 3262 आमारी व्यथा ते गोले आमारे देखिबे बोले....

दिनांक 15 जनवरी 15

भावार्थ

हे परमपुरुष! मैं कराह रहा था, तुम मुझे कष्ट से और अधिक कराहते नहीं देख सके और तुम्हारा हृदय पसीज गया। तुम कृपा कर मेरे पास आये और मेरा कष्ट दूर कर दिए |  हे कृपासागर! क्या इसी कारण तुम धरती पर नहीं आये हो?

हे मेरे प्रभो! तुम्हारा हृदय दिव्य प्रेम से भरा है। तुम्हारी मुस्कुराहट चमकीले मोतियों की तरह है, और तुम्हारी आॅंखे स्नेह भरे काजल से शोभित हैं। हे मेरे परमप्रिय ! तुम त्रिलोक में नहीं भक्तों के हृदय में रहते हो। तुमने मेरे मन में प्रभातसंगीत के नृत्य लय और गीतों  के रूप में पदार्पण किया है। तुम इतने कृपालु हो कि अपना ब्रह्मलोक छोड़कर मेरे हृदय के भीतर ओंकार के लय में अपनी लीला करते आ गये।

हे दिव्यसत्ता ! तुम्हारा कोई विशेष नाम या रूप नहीं है, फिर भी मैं तुम्हें सैकड़ों नाम और रूपों में पाता हॅूं। तुम सब स्थानों पर  हो , चारों ओर हो और इस विश्व  के असंख्य रूपों में हो। हे प्रभु! मैं तुम्हें अपनी बुद्धि से माप नहीं सकता  और न ही तुम्हारी भव्यता के बारे  में सोच सकता हॅूं। मैं तुम्हारी भव्यता के बारे में सोचकर अवाक् रह जाता हॅूं।

हे परमपुरुष बाबा! मेरे मानसिक कमल पर मधुर भाव में हमेशा  बने रहिये। हे प्रभु! तुम मेरी दयनीय दशा  देखकर मेरी ओर दौडे़ आये। बाबा! तुम यहाॅं , मेरे दुखों और वेदनाओं को समाप्त करनेे तथा आॅंसुओं को पोंछने आये हो , तुम कितने दयालु हो!

टिप्पणी :

1 त्रिलोक अर्थात् जाग्रत, स्वप्न और सुषुप्ति। परम पुरुष इन तीनों  लोकों से ऊपर तुरीय अवस्था या ब्रह्मलोक में रहते हैं ।
2  मधुर भाव कोई साधक परमपुरुष के साथ पिता, मित्र, स्वामी , प्रेमी  आदि किसी भी मधुर भाव में संबंध जोड़ सकते हैं। इनमें निकटता का स्तर अलग अलग है। पर मधुर भाव बहुत ही निकटता  माना गया है। मधुर भाव बहुत ही उन्नत अवस्था का भाव है जिसमें भक्त का मन मधुरता और आनन्द से इतना भर जाता है  कि वह परमपुरुष के निकटतम संपर्क में आ जाता है।

Trans by Dr. T.R.S.

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== Section 3 ==

~ O' Parama Purusa, I did not get You in Jamalpur & tomb tiirtha, You reside in my heart ~

"Eso tumi raunge rúpe, ámár maner ańu ańute..."  (P.S. 2242)

Purport:

O' Parama Purusa, please come in my mind with Your divine form and resplendent color. Come in each and every iota and pore of my mental abode. O’ Supreme One, please come close. My whole life has passed in searching You from one land to another. I have walked this entire world seeking You.

O' my Lord, when I was looking to find You in far distant places, I did not get You anywhere. And when I searched for You locally and nearby, then also I did not get You. Nor did I get You in any “holy land” nor in the forests, nor in the  tombs of Jamalpur and Tiljala, nor the top of the Himalayan mountain ranges, nor the hills of Ananda Nagar etc. After not finding You anywhere, alas I cry in loneliness.

O' Parama Purusa Baba, by Your grace when I look into the deep recesses of my mind then I see that You are there. You have graciously made the flowers bloom in my mind. In the bud of my mind, in that deeper sweet layer, You reside smiling - invisible to the crude eye. You are in my mental pollen, in its fragrance, and in its nectar.

Baba, I did not get You anywhere externally because all the while You were in my mind. Now, when I look within, then by Your grace I feel that You are with me. Please always keep me under Your shelter…


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== Section 4 ==

Links

http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-some-wts-go-to-great-lengths-to.html

http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2015/04/ananda-marga-monks-selling-fish-for.html