Baba
Baba story: Sadguru ever-present
Namaskar,
During my stay in Tiljala, I was attending to Beloved Baba as a medical doctor. The year was 1990. Those days in my sadhana I would regularly put forth this request: "Baba, I do not want to live on this earth without a Guru, so please do not withdraw Your Mahasambhuti form so long as I am alive." Per my medical duty, when I would check Baba in His room, I used to do sastaunga pranam - both upon entering and after finishing my work. In prostration I would offer: "May my service make you well, Baba please become healthy."
Then the scene changed. After some time I could not control anything. Baba manifested His plan. After the events of late October 1990, I was feeling like I was immersed in sheer darkness. I was thinking, "Baba is my shelter and now He withdrew His Mahasambhuti form - I am shelterless." It was a very tormenting period for me. Time passed like this: November, December, and into January 1991.
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I shouted loudly and told everyone
Amazingly, one day I saw Him in the very same room where I would treat Him. And I was actually treating Him. Incredibly, Baba became alright and I shouted loudly and told everyone the good news: "Look Baba is ok!" After that Baba put me in His lap and He embraced and loved me as my Father. And He told me that, "I am healthy now." Hearing this, I became very happy. When I woke up from that dream, I was feeling very blissful. Every cell and pore of my mind and body were vibrated with His divine presence. I felt completely new and revitalised. My one and only thought was: Baba, You are so gracious.
After some time, I had another experience with Him. Baba told me something but I did not hear what He said. Politely and respectfully I asked, "Baba, what did You say?" Baba graciously repeated the question, "Does Guru ever die?" What could I say - Baba was directly in front of me. I was so ashamed - how could I have thought that Baba would leave. What reply could I give? I kept quiet, basking in the sweet closeness of His divine presence. Then Baba told me, "Guru never dies."
After that second dream, my mind became wholly transformed, by His grace. Today, I still feel that Baba is always with me. He is here - with me: I am not shelterless. It is His grace...it is His grace....it is His grace...
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As you may know, Dr CG Goswami of Madhya Pradesh served as one of Baba's doctors and lived in Tiljala to monitor Baba's health in 1990. The above story is his own first-person narration so the "I" noted in the story refers to Dr Goswamiji.
Parama Puruśa is & will always be with you
The spiritual approach in Ananda Marga is to ideate on the supreme truth that He is with you, watching you, and caring for you all the time. We should all pay heed to the below guideline and keep Him as the nearest and dearest One of the heart.
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Dúrát sudure tadihántike ca pashyatsvihaeva nihitaḿ guháyám
Ananda Marga ideology states "If you think that He is very far from you, He will remain forever beyond your reach. If you think that He is near, He will be so near that you need not move even an inch to attain Him." (1)
Ananda Marga ideology states, “Remember that in no situation are you helpless, in no situation are you alone. Whether you are intelligent or foolish, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, you are never helpless. In no situation do you have to live alone. Parama Puruśa is with you. He will remain with you. To remain with you is His dharma. He cannot go against His dharma.” (2)
Why it is antithetical to bhakti
Ananda Marga ideology guides us about the uniqueness of the path of bhakti. And the first aspect of that teaching is as follows: Bhakti bhagavato seva, meaning: bhakti is service to God. (3)
In order to serve any entity, one must be close - service cannot be done from a distance. And bhakti is service to Parama Purusa. And if Parama Purusa is far then one cannot serve Him. A bhakta means the one who always serves Parama Purusa. Those who think they are bhaktas and side by side feel that Parama Purusa is away from them are confused. It is like if someone says they have a ceramic pot made of gold. Similarly those who are bhaktas cannot think that Parama Purusa is away or gone. Yet the very meaning of so-called mahaprayan (MPD) is that Parama Purusa has left. That is why MPD dogma is antithetical to bhakti.
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How hypocritical & sinful
The above story teaches us that the so-called mahaprayan is 100% bogus. Why? Because mahaprayan itself means that Baba is gone, yet Baba's pointed and spiritual message is that He is with us always. Bhaktas get this realisation in various ways such as when awake, in dream, in sleep, in sadhana, in day to day life - all the time. Throughout Ananda Marga scripture, it is stated again and again that, "Parama Purusa is always with you."
And true bhaktas also know that in reality there is no such thing as mahaprayan for Sadguru Baba. As the Sadguru He never dies. So those who think that Sadguru is dead and imposed dogma of MPD are hypocrites. Why? When those same acaryas give initiation, or revise anyone’s lesson, or give further lessons of sadhana, they say, “I am just a medium - Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is teaching you and He is ever-present." So in one breath they say that Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is guiding you and in the next breath they say He is dead - mahaprayan. That is hypocritical and sinful.
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Namaskar,
In Him,
Satyadev
References
1. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 6, Microcosm and Macrocosm
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 5, Devotion and the Realm of Intellectuality
3. Discourses on Tantra-1, Yoga, Tantra, and Kevalá Bhakti
Plagiary?
It is the accepted international standard and Baba's system not to copy another's work and publish it in your own way. Baba has given a very strict rule on plagiarism. Why is Baba against plagiarism or stealing someone's work? There are many reasons:
1) It is against the code of asteya (non-stealing).
2) Countless stories of bhaktas need to be published. But some do not want to do the hard work of compiling and writing these stories, so they just steal them from others. But new stories need to be told, otherwise so many unpublished stories of sadhakas will be lost and forgotten forever. So watch out for story thieves, and kindly help them not to steal by posting on social media in their own way. If you want to forward this story then attach the following yellow section with the story:
“Courtesy of unknown bhakta via Ananda Marga Universal (https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/)”
This will be treated as the standard protocol.
== Section: Important Teaching ==
Prout’s solution to brain drain
Prout philosophy guides us, "If the common people and the meritorious people are treated as the same, the capable people will not be encouraged to develop their higher potentiality. This is the reason why the brain drain is happening in India. When talented people leave India, they leave it for good. Providing special amenities for those with special capabilities will stop the brain drain."
"PROUT's approach is to guarantee the minimum requirements for all, guarantee maximum amenities for all and guarantee special amenities for people with special capabilities. This approach will ensure ever increasing acceleration in the socio-economic sphere. The question of retardation does not arise; even the question of maintaining speed does not arise. There must be acceleration."
"Acceleration is the spirit of life, the spirit of existence, the spirit of the existential faculty. One may not be a genius, one may simply be a member of the ordinary public, and not properly accepted or respected by all, but even then one will get the minimum requirements and maximum amenities in an ever increasing manner according to the environmental conditions concerned, according to the demands of the day."
"So what is the significance of this new approach?"
"1) Minimum requirements are to be guaranteed to all."
"2) Special amenities are to be guaranteed to capable people. Special amenities are for people of special calibre as per the environmental condition of the particular age." (1)
Reference
1. Prout Nutshell - 17, Minimum Requirements and Maximum Amenities
== Section 2: Links ==
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