Ananda Marga Universal Forum: 08/28/17

Monday, August 28, 2017

Bad & good news: current affairs

Baba

Bad & good news: current affairs

Namaskar,

Over the last few days in India, various newspapers printed false accusations about AMPS. Very quickly, those same newspapers retracted their stories, begged apology, and issued corrections.

Here is an overview of what transpired:

Recently, one Indian pseudo guru, so-called guru, was incarcerated for ten years on a rape case. In retaliation against this judicial decision, the guru's supporters became violent.
After the announcement of the judicial verdict, the supporters of that pseudo Indian guru engaged in violent action, arson, destruction, chaos, and looting. They destroyed and torched so many vehicles, and burned shops and houses. They even resorted to killing. All in all they created a situation of veritable mayhem. In this process, more than three dozen people were killed, and hundreds more injured. The local police could not control the situation, so the military had to be deployed.
In reviewing the situation, many newspapers printed lengthy articles in which they cited the violent history of various religious groups. In that connection, the newspapers falsely implicated AMPS also.
Seeing the false news printed against AMPS, margiis across the globe protested, wrote letters, and called publishers to express their discontent and outrage at the false allegations. After receiving all these communications, the newspaper editors accepted their mistakes and printed the corrections in their errata pages.
Here below are a few of the newspaper cuttings related with this news. Section one below contains scans of the corrections which newspapers printed after hearing from outraged margiis. And section two is the entire news which these same newspapers had printed in the initial phase.

Conclusion

Good people are doing good things, but antisocial elements try to blame righteous people unnecessarily. That is what happened here. Please carefully go through the articles to properly to understand what has transpired, as this is not the last time such events will occur. In the future also, we are sure to see AMPS get falsely implicated. Those against Ananda Marga philosophy will blame us for wrongs we have not done. So we must always be alert. Where there is dharma, there is victory.

Ananda Vanii states, “History bears testimony that whenever a person states the absolute truth in any sphere of life, whether it be spiritual, social, economic or otherwise; sought clarification of doubts or protested against injustice and wrongs, the evil forces forthwith plotted against the person, administered poison, slandered and assaulted that person with rage, misused authority and mercilessly dealt blow after blow; but the blows boomeranged and ultimately the evil forces were annihilated by those very blows. Remember, by an unalterable decree of history, the evil forces are destined to meet their final doom.” (Ananda Vanii #41)

Namaskar.

In Him,

Gurmiit Singh

Section one scans: Corrections

Here first they printed an article that shows how Shrii Shrii Anandamurti was falsely charged and that all said accusations against Ananda Marga were bogus.

Here is a front page article from 1978 showing how the Patna High Court acquitted Margam Guru of all charges.

In the following scan, the newspaper did a follow-up story and they intentionally did not mention or associate AMPS with this negative affair. This demonstrates they retracted their earlier story.