Baba
This posting contains five sections:
1. PS #3378: Will You not come today in my dry heart
2. Important Teaching: How keeping bad company causes depravity
3. Comment: Re: Useful fanaticism
4. Links
Will You not come today in my dry heart
"Ámár e kat́hin hiyáy,ásabe tumi ki ná jáni ná..." (Prabhat Samgiita
#3378)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, will You not come today in my dry heart. You are
mine. By Your grace, I am calling Your divine Self again and again -
day and night. I want Your close proximity. Whether or not You will
grace me by coming to my dry, bhakti-less heart, I do not know. But
if, by mistake, or by any means You come in my heart, then You will
not lose anything; Your prestige will not be ruined. Now due to
restless mind ==I can't do sadhana properly. Baba, by Your grace
please appear in my dry mind.
O' Cosmic Entity, by Your grace I have decorated Your supreme seat
with countless lamps and with a display of light. And by Your grace
with all my heart I go on singing Your song nonstop - continuously.
Those songs I have composed in Your ideation, in Your tune, in Your
language. Baba, please grace me by coming and taking Your seat in my
dry heart.
Baba, I have so many hopes and aspirations about You in my mind: I
have so many desires and so much love for You. Among all these many
desires - whether or not You will grace me and satisfy some of them
- that I do not know. Only I request You to please come and satiate
my eternal longing for You.
Baba, You are love Personified; I feel in my heart that You will
come to me...
== Section 2:
Important Teaching ==
How keeping bad company causes
depravity
Ananda Marga philosophy states, "Many people in society do not
become criminals because of physiological or hereditary factors. Nor
do they become involved in criminal activities due to the influence
of base propensities, or due to lack of education or social control.
Yet today civilized society looks down on them because they are
criminals when they could have been revered as ideal human beings
with impeccable characters if they had been given a proper
environment."
"They are glaring examples that honest people can become
dishonest as a result of environmental pressures. The sensitive,
honest son of a villainous father is compelled to participate in
antisocial activities out of fear of paternal abuse. This creates a
habit which eventually becomes part of his nature." (Human Society -
1, Justice)
"In the modern world there is a wide variety of films which
excite the passions and have a degrading influence on boys and
girls, adolescents and young men and women. Such films create in
cinema-goers the desire to emulate in their individual lives the
criminal activities, the vulgar expressions of love, or the
adventurous behaviour that they see enacted on the screen. This is
another example of how keeping bad company causes depravity. Many
cinema-goers imagine that the characters that they see on the screen
are their actual acquaintances, but when they try to emulate these
characters, they discover that the real world is much tougher than
the world portrayed by the cinema." (1)
Boy Killed His grandmother
Note: A boy shot and killed his old grandmother directly after
playing a violent video game. Such video games are graphic
interactions where players ruthlessly and mechanically kill all
kinds of people etc. According to Ananda Marga philosophy, we know
that such games have dangerous effects on participants, especially
impressionable youths. These games deeply engage players who become
deeply involved and engrossed - they think they actually killed
those people. They become so brainwashed that they cannot
differentiate between their computer world and real life affairs. We
must not allow children to see such violent movies and play such
violent video games. So many dastardly crimes have occurred because
of these violent video games and movies.
Here is another incident to know about. One teenager watched a
horror film over and over again. By this way he became obsessed with
the film's main character who ruthlessly murdered his mother and his
sister. After watching the film many times, in a cold-blooded,
detached manner, the teenager committed this same barbaric act. The
teenage boy ruthlessly murdered his mother and his sister.
We should pay heed and not allow children to see such violent movies
and play these violent video games. So many dastardly crimes have
occurred because of these vicious video games and movies.
Reference
1. Human Society - 1, Justice
== Section 3:
Comment ==
Re: Useful fanaticism
Namaskar
Sister Indrajiit has written a well thought out submission for us
all.
The path of bliss is not strewn with flowers..but what are
obstacles and pain anyway to a Yogi or Yogini?
Enduring hardships and sacrificing ourselves for our brothers
sisters ,children animals , plants of the world is it not a life
worth living?
What a grandmother I had. Even when she was blind at 87 she would
find her way down the street feeling her way to an old lady's house
who was dying all alone . As she walked she would call to the birds.
That lady was despised for twenty years by the whole neighborhood
for being so meanminded.
One day this lady had badly soiled her bed and my grandmother
managed to move that lady and lovingly clean her and the rubber
sheet ...bathing and clothe her.
All at once this lady broke down..crying. She also admitted she had
never been friendly to anyone.
She wanted to know how my grandmother could clean up her mess and
still be smiling.
My grandmothers answer? " Oh my dearest one..you are my neighbor and
my sister ...it is not me who serves you,"
"The Lord is here with us" Everyday thereafter my grandmother would
visit this lady until she died
My grandmother was there to hold her hand when she breathed her
last.
Dada's grandmother was shunned by her whole village. Why? Because
she embraced all the untouchables. She gave them water food and
invited them to sit. This was in a culture whereby it was considered
wrong and unclean to even be touched by an untouchables shadow.
At her funeral pyre all of the untouchables turned out honoring her
great humanity and memory. DADA Y was a little boy and he cried for
three days.
So Do Do Do and don't sit inert in the corner of your house. And
when you .."Do" do it smiling..knowing full well that your smile is
BABAS SMILE.
Be fanatical in your sadhana and your service and sacrifice . First
it becomes a habit and then that habit becomes your nature.
Be a true Ananda Margii. Be known by your kiirtana ,service
,sacrifice, and your eyes that shine like twinkling stars..
Be and Become.
In BABA
govinda
usa
Note: Here is a link to the initial letter on this topic - Useful
fanaticism
== Section 4:
Links ==
