Ananda Marga Universal Forum: 02/07/23

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Sama’j: inferiority complex + 3 more

Baba

Sama’j: inferiority complex

Namaskar,

The Prout samaj theory is a broad-minded approach whereby all get the opportunity to rise up and progress. In this way, people escape from the noose of various complexes, most notably the inferiority complex. The creation of samaj movements is one unique method whereby the whole humanity can develop simultaneously in a complementary fashion.
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How exploiters inject inferiority complex

If one studies the basis of the formation of samajas and their criteria, then one can understand that without the formation of samaj, repressed ethnic populations and the exploited mass will never be able to enjoy freedom in the social sphere. Because exploiters inject various inferiority complexes upon the collective psyche of the community which they want to exploit.

For example, when the Britishers first started invading India then they suppressed the local languages so that the common public was unable to express their grievances to their local government offices. The immediate effect was that the local people began suffering from an inferiority complex: “I am illiterate, I do not know the basics; I am lowly.” By injecting the superiority of the European language and culture, an inferiority complex was created in the minds of the Indian common mass.

Furthermore, the local customs, manners, behaviours, songs, dance, drama, and all local cultural expressions which had a high moral value were treated as low in the eyes of the British administrators. So Britishers injected their own films, traditions, manners, styles, and the result was that the inferiority complex became so deep-rooted in the Indian population that even today in this 21st century if any person has a masters degree in Samskrta then they feel inferior to someone who speaks just a single sentence of English.
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Victims feel lowly

When people suffer from an inferiority complex then they lose their self-confidence and self-worth. They feel all their own local customs, manners, behaviours, and culture are lowly and undesirable. And they prefer to follow the way the exploiters live and eat etc, and they hold in great regard whatever other customs, manners, and behaviours those exploiters exhibit. So due to their inferiority complex, the common mass feels that everything that those exploiters do is great, while their own ways are unworthy. This is a crippling psychology.

In this stage, it is very easy to exploit those suppressed peoples economically. This matter is detailed in the Prout discourse, “Capitalism in the Three Spheres”. Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - the Propounder of Prout - states that the chief solution is to instill self-confidence within the local people by developing their samaj. When local, ethnic people feel proud of their own language and customs, they will not suffer from an inferiority complex. And, in that case, the possibility of their getting exploited will be diminished and, ultimately, eliminated.
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How present-day India affected

For centuries, India safeguarded the dharmic teachings of the Vedas, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Giita etc. But now, due to an inferiority complex that was first imposed during British rule, the youths of today in India do not want to know anything about India's past. They want to become completely European / American. This is evidenced by their choice of food, drink, dress, dance, and manners etc - all of which are based on western pseudo-culture.

What Hollywood produces is copied by Indian youths. Their behaviour is a mirror image of Hollywood presentation and American pop-culture. Our Indian youths do not like to follow anything that was told by the sages - i.e. taking sentient food, fasting regularly, embracing moral values, doing namaskar, wearing a laungota, using discrete dress, leading a God-centered life. Those gems have all been eradicated and replaced by shaking hands, eating junk food, wearing underwear, walking in public in half-naked dress, embracing western material values, and leading a matter-centered life.

Always there are exceptions; so here we are talking about the general trend in our Indian youths. And the root cause is that Britishers injected an inferiority complex that is so deep rooted that if today you ask any Indian about this, they will not understand what you are talking about - they will just get disgusted and reacted by your query. Such is the wholesale change that has occurred in the psyche.

Plus those Indians living overseas in the US or the UK etc have stopped using water for shaoca, and instead use toilet paper to clean their backside. They completely gave up their good habit of washing with water - though again there are always exceptions.
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Eager to adopt western pseudo-culture

Moreover, they like to talk in English, not in their mother tongue - this is especially the case in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan etc. One other pervasive phenomenon, which happens throughout India and across many language groups, is that when they talk in their mother tongue then they mix in English words and phrases. This happens in the north, south, east and west of India. They do this because they feel English is more prestigious than their own mother tongue. And that belief, i.e. that English is great and their language is lowly, is the effect of their inferiority complex.

Sadly, the new generation is so entrenched in an inferiority complex and so ashamed of Indian traditions that they are eager to toss aside the good customs of India and adopt the harmful and bad habits of the dominant western pseudo-culture. Here we are not preaching that everything from the west is bad. Rather, it is notable that good traits should be adopted from anywhere. The key problem is that when one is hounded by an inferiority complex then they lose their viveka / discrimination. In that case, they adopt all the ills of the west. That is the tragedy at hand.

Conclusion

The remedy is to speak in their mother tongue and embrace their cultural heritage, and use their power of viveka (discrimination) to understand that not everything from the west is great. And finally, the people of India have to cultivate a sense of self-worth.
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Namaskar,
in Him,
Brahmeshvar

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Prospect of total annihilation

Prout philosophy states, "Let us observe if there is a close relationship between language and socioeconomic progress and cultural development. I have already said that language is the vehicle of inner thoughts and ideas. Naturally it is inseparably linked with the Práná Dharma or fundamental characteristics of human beings. The way people can express their thoughts and ideas in their own mother tongue cannot be done in any other language. People feel uneasy when they speak in a language other than their mother tongue. If they constantly feel such uneasiness, their Práńa Shakta or vital energy will be disturbed. Consequently their vital force will be weakened. In such circumstance a sort of psychological crisis will occur in the collective mental body as well as in the individual mind. This will result in the emergence of inferiority complexes which will cause debility in the human mind. Those people whose language is suppressed lose their moral courage, initiative and power to protest. Ultimately a defeatist psychology develops in them, and as a group such people face the prospect of total annihilation." (1)

What a fool - he cannot speak with grammatical precision

Prout philosophy states, "Let me make the matter of psycho-economic exploitation even more clear. Suppose a certain Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] chauvinist has come to see you [a Bhojpuri, or Maithili, or Nagpuriya, or Angika’, or Avadhii, or Vraja, or Rajasthanii, or Paharii, or Chhattisgarhii person etc]. When you speak to him, you will certainly speak in Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] , and so will he. But he is speaking his mother tongue, whereas you are not. Perhaps ungrammatical Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] words will come out of your mouth. But it is obvious that in your expression there may be some fundamental errors, and the use of words will not be precise and to-the-point. This will create a diffidence in your mind, a kind of inferiority complex, whereas the Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] knowing people may suffer from superiority complex. They may think of you, “What a fool he is! He cannot speak with grammatical precision!” But instead if you speak in your own mother tongue [a Bhojpuri, or Maithili, or Nagpuriya, or Angika’, or Avadhii, or Vraja, or Rajasthanii, or Paharii, or Chhattisgarhii person etc]. , your expression will be grammatically correct. So when you speak Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] you become somewhat inferior to those Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] speaking person and, talking advantage of our inferior position, they may exploit you economically. They should not be given this opportunity of psycho-economic exploitation. If this sort of psycho-economic exploitation is tolerated, if they are given the opportunity to exploit for long, they will become rulers and you will become their subjects. This is how psycho-economic exploitation is perpetrated; in the first stage the exploiters impose inferiority complex in your mind by creating psychic pressure. When your language is suppressed, you will feel mentally inferior and develop some psychic weakness. Taking advantage of this psychic weakness, the exploiters will continue their psycho-economic exploitation. So those who advocate the cause of Hindi [or English, French, or Spanish etc] thus pave the way for psycho-economic exploitation. Actually they are not your friends." (2)

Inferiority complexes of the world

This type of inferiority complex is not exclusive to India but rather throughout whatever lands Great Britain colonised this complex exists - and the same is true with the former colonies of France, Portugal, Holland, and Spain etc. Where they imposed their culture then all their past colonies (like Vietnam, Morocco, Mexico, Philippines, South Africa, & Zimbabwe etc) continue to suffer from this same type of inferiority complex. Their language and culture has been destroyed and they have wholly adopted the aggressor’s language and customs. Often, those former colonies do not even know their own history. On this point India is fortunate - as it has kept some of their own cultural heritage intact. Primarily it is the youths of India who do not like to follow those cultural values due to their inferiority complex.
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Samaj & groupism

A few mentally ill people believe their Proutistic samaj to be the holiest - and that their samaj should rule over the others. They claim all this in the name of the Proutistic teachings on samaj. However, those who sincerely review the Prout samaj system will clearly recognise when any of the groups tries to make such claims it apparent they are mentally ill and not part of the samaj system.

References
1. Prout in a Nutshell - 13, The Language Issue
2. A Few Problems Solved - 4, The Fundamentals of Language

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I was lonely and isolated in my life

"Uttál moha jaladhi ghire, rekhe chilo more prabhu eta din..." (Prabhat Samgiita #2366)

Purport:

Parama Purusa, the high tide and upsurging ocean of moha, mundane attachments, had surrounded me for so long, my Prabhu. I got caught up in the noose of pashas (bondages), ripus (internal enemies), and worldly lust, and was lonely and isolated. In my life, there was no one whom I felt close to in this world; I had no one to call my own. The musical instrument of my psyche was just engaged in chanting my own greatness and glory. I wasted my time in self-aggrandizement and was not doing sadhana so my condition was miserable.

Baba, You poured immense grace on me. On one auspicious dawn, You came close to me with silent footsteps. With the showering of Your ahaetuki krpa', You made the bud of my mind blossom in countless spectrums of colours and forms. My life became meaningful, by Your mercy. Divine One, for ages and ages, I was not cognizant of You. Magically, You made me realise and recognise you. In the past I was not aware how sweet You are. But with that charming, sonorous, and attractive sound, and with the melody and rhythm of the songs, You became the most intimate one of my being.

Baba, jinanis think that You can be attained by logic and reasoning. And karmiis think that You can be held on the strength of the actional faculty. Supreme One, You made me understand that neither physical strength nor logic and reasoning have the capacity to get You. You can only be held by love. Parama Purusa, every person has infinite desires. Knowingly and unknowingly, everyone wants You; they cannot be satisfied by worldly gains alone. In their heart, You always gently swing back and forth like the hope of the creeper plant. And, at the end of their grand journey, that very eternal and limitless longing culminates, and they become one with You, by Your kindness...

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Beware: do you do this?

Ananda Marga ideology states, "It has been said earlier that the grace of Parama Puruśa is only showered on devotees. His grace is all that matters. It is true that the people of knowledge (jiṋániis) and the people of action (karmiis) may labour harder, but it is the devotees (bhaktas) alone who attain Parama Puruśa. There are two major obstacles on the path of knowledge: lethargy and vanity. A vain person remains far away from Parama Puruśa. Of all the different types of lethargy, spiritual lethargy is the worst. Spiritual lethargy means not to sit for meditation regularly. Those with spiritual lethargy have time for all other actions, but for spiritual practice there seems to be no time. They say, “It's already late today – I'll do a short meditation right now, and devote more time to sádhaná tomorrow.” They sit attentively inside the cinema hall, but in dharma sádhaná they feel sleepy." (1)

Reference
1. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 10, The Devotee and the Lord

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Shameless show of “service”

Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Fifteenth January nineteen thirty-four में जमालपुर मुंगेर में ज़बर्दस्त earthquake-भूकम्प हुआ था | तो, उस वक्त तो बहुत, मकान के नीचे, dead body क्या, Wounded persons, जो कि मरे नहीं थे---तो, कुछ लोग कुदाली लेकर ईंटा हटाना शुरू कर दिए | और कुछ दो-चार leader आए, तो एक-दो minute कुदाली लेकर, बस photo के इन्तज़ार में थे | उसके बाद ही चले गए, और सके नहीं | हम देखे थे | तो, ठीक वैसे ही मध्यम group के मनुष्य ऐसे ही होते हैं | काम start करते हैं, देखते हैं बहुत मुश्किल | तब तक करते हैं जब तक उनका [photo] फोटो नहीं लिया जाएगा |” (1) ज़िद चाहिए, Zid Ca'hiye, V24-07

Note: In the above quote, Baba is giving the example of a few hypocritical political leaders. In particular, Baba is recounting the tragedy of the Jamalpur earthquake of 15 January 1934. So many people were buried under the debris and rubble of collapsed houses. Some were dead and some were alive, crying out for help. Sincere local volunteers and neighbors were trying hard to remove the debris and rescue the victims / survivors. In the meantime, a few political leaders came with a cameraman. Those politicians borrowed spades and shovels from volunteers and posed for photos as if they were trying to dig out survivors etc. Immediately after the photo was taken they walked away. That is the eyewitness account Baba is giving in this above Hindi quote.

Only hypocrites make this type of fake show; Ananda Margiis should never conduct themselves in this way. In the life of an Ananda Margii, sincerity is the beginning, sincerity is the middle, and sincerity is the end. The main quality of a sadhaka is sincerity - no hypocrisy.

Reference
1. ज़िद चाहिए, Zid Ca'hiye, V24-07

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