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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Info in Sr Ac Diary + 3 more

Baba

Info in Sr Ac Diary

Namaskar, 

Sadguru Baba has included an absolute wealth of knowledge and dharmic teachings in the Senior Acarya Diary.

(A) The Senior Acarya Diary also contains all kinds of social teachings including elaboration on yama and niyama, asanas, and a full range of topics such as ajagarii and madhukarii vrttis, how Wts should live like a python, and using asanas as remedies. And it is the duty of our acaryas to convey these social teachings to family margiis and other seekers. Here the point is that those acaryas will present that social information in their own words for the welfare of the society. They will not hand out actual pages from the Senior Acarya Diary. 
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(B) For instance, suppose an acarya is teaching asanas to a newly initiated person or an older sadhaka who needs help. Then naturally, that acarya will draw from his own knowledge gained from the study of the Senior Acarya Diary. That is the whole purpose of those Senior Acarya Diary. Baba has given that social information to acaryas to disseminate. To think that social information is to remain forever secret from the entire humanity is foolhardy. 

(C) Similarly, paraphrasing from the Senior Acarya Diary is the proper way to proceed in the written format. That means the acarya will write the basic idea of those social tenets from the senior Acarya Diary in their own words. They will never directly quote the Senior Acarya Diary.

(D) One should bear in mind that the Senior Acarya Diary has all kinds of social  teachings that are not directly sadhana related such as how to deal with a person who comes to your house to abduct your wife. Verily, Baba has given countless social teachings and philosophical tenets in the Senior Acarya Diary. And Wts are to study those tenets and preach and teach about them to margiis in various meetings etc, and then those margiis should spread those social teachings everywhere. Those guidelines are meant to be disseminated so all can be benefited.
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What must remain secret

There are two basic aspects from the Senior Acarya Diary that must remain in confidence: 

#1: One must never share the exact pages or wording from the Senior Acarya Diary.

#2: One should never publicly share the very explicit instructions from the Senior Acarya Diary about the process of sadhana and the selection of mantra etc.

So the above two principles must be upheld. Beyond that, it is the duty of our acaryas to convey, in their own words, all of Baba’s social guidelines to interested parties through various seminars, workshops, writings, and speeches etc. That will yield tremendous benefits to the overall standard of sadhakas in our Ananda Marga Pracarka Samgha and will be a boon for the society on the whole. 
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in Him, 
Pranadharma


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The below sections are entirely different topics, unrelated to the above material.
They stand on their own as points of interest.

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== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==

Your irresistible, exquisite attraction

"Toma'rei a'mi bha'lobasi, toma'ri katha' koye ja'i..." (Prabhat Samgiita #0975)

Purport:

Parama Purusa, I love only You and talk only about You. All my thoughts are goaded unto You. My days pass singing Your glory and spreading Your eternal teachings - Ananda Marga ideology. I am moving on Your path, day and night. It is Your grace. My aim is to always adhere to all Your do's and don'ts and aspire to follow all Your guidelines, i.e. the path of dharma. Besides You there is nothing. For me You are the only One. I don’t depend on money, wealth, power, and post---they are not going to save me; they are not my shelter. Baba, You alone are my Polestar. 

Unfathomable Entity, Your magnificence is resplendent across this entire universe - throughout the galaxies, nebula, stars, planets, and moon. Everywhere I see Your unparalleled greatness getting expressed. You are everything: The source and origin of life and the final Desideratum. Because of that, I long for Your blessing day and night, all the 24 hours. In my sadhana, in my dhyana, and in the deep core of my heart I long for Your close proximity and mercy.

Baba, Parama Purusa, the entire creation is within You. Everyone is in Your mind: In pain they are crying, in pleasure they are dancing. You have arranged all my needs and requirements. Nothing good in my life is due to my virtue. You alone are the Benevolent Cause. Because of Your irresistible, exquisite attraction and pull, I do sadhana, sing bhajans, chant Your kiirtan, and ultimately come close to You. It is all due to Your endless compassion.
 
Baba, I only love You and chant Your splendour…


== Section: Important Teaching ==

Key role of art: awaken spiritual zeal

Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Whatever the profound, philosophical implications of the word prema [“love”], the true characteristic of love is supra-physical – beyond the bondage of any limitation. When artists become absorbed in the essence of love and try to convey it to the people through their language, rhetoric and subtle suggestions, the sweetness of their artistic genius reaches the apex of expression. But then this creation of the artist cannot be regarded as popular literature or art, because the subtle sense which is capable of comprehending that transcendental feeling is, in fact, undeveloped in most people. We do find at places in the literature of Rabindranath Tagore some semblances of this pure, supra-physical love, but whenever Rabindranath tried to give expression to it, he became unintelligible to the masses. The transcendental thoughts and ideas of the sweet, graceful shlokas [couplets] of the Upanishads are also incomprehensible to the common people.” 
   “This sublime love has established itself for all eternity beyond the limits of time, space and person. Infinite love is the ultimate ecstatic expression of finite love. This sense that artists try to awaken in the popular mind, when they devote themselves to the task of establishing the link between the finite and the infinite, between the mundane and the transcendental – this awareness, though not purely transcendental, is of the greatest importance in the realm of art. Because it gradually leads that sweetness of the human mind which is apprehensible to ordinary intelligence to a dreamland that is beyond the senses.” (1) 

Reference
1. A Few Problems Solved - 1, The Practice of Art and Literature


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Memory not in cranium + 2 more

Baba
Memory not in cranium 

Namaskar,

Modern day scientists believe that a person’s entire memory is stored in the brain. But that is logically impossible. Everyone has a similar sized brain. Those who have written hundreds of books and have memorized countless facts and figures have a head no bigger than that of a normal person, or even an illiterate individual.
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Think of it in this way. A physically weak person who is lean and thin cannot give a big blow with their fist. But those who are Olympic boxing champions can punch someone and deliver a serious blow. By their sheer size and muscular structure, it is clear they have tremendous punching power.  

Here the key idea is whatever aspect of yourself that you use most grows. Those who are professors and lawyers, and those involved in intellectual works, have a lot of knowledge. They use their brain to a high degree. So, by the aforesaid logic, their brain should be very big, far larger than that of a normal person. But that is not the case. An intellectual’s head is in the same size range as that of the common citizen. That is why scientists nowadays are flawed in their theory that all one’s knowledge, information, and memories are stored in the brain. That is impossible. Because an intellectual’s head does not grow in size as they learn and study more. Their body does not grow like the muscles of a boxer.


Memories stored in mind, not brain

The brain is like computer RAM in that it is short-term memory that lasts 15 - 20 days until it fades. It depends on how much importance you give to that short term memory. If you give a particular memory no importance then that memory will be quickly deleted etc. Even then that erased memory has been deposited somewhere where you can retrieve it. Because that memory is stored in the citta, according to Ananda Marga philosophy. All memories are stored in the mind, not the brain. That’s why the baby has access to those past life memories up to the age of 4 or 5, and in some cases up to 13 yrs of age. When a few month old baby smiles they are retrieving memories of their past life. They are not smiling because of an experience in their new life.
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Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Q. 55 What is the base of memory?”

Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Ans.: – Memory is the re-creation of things already perceived. Once the citta has perceived an object, a certain vibration corresponding to that perceived object is imprinted in the nerve fibres. That experience remains in the citta in the form of seed. By recreating a congenial vibration in the nerve cells, and thus by invoking the same feeling in the citta, one experiences the process of memory. Thus the base of memory is not in the brain but in the citta. Vibrations of a perceived object remain imprinted in the nerve fibres for a few days and then gradually fade. Some people believe that memory is stored in the nerve cells in the form of “line”. If that were the case, however, the human brain would not be able to accommodate it. The cranium of those whose thoughts are multifarious would have to become larger and more complex to fulfil the needs of creating proper vibrations.” (1)

A healthy brain recalls / retrieves those memories that are stored in the mind.


Conclusion

1. Material scientists believe that all one’s knowledge and entire memory is stored in the brain.
2. According to Ananda Marga philosophy one’s memory is stored in the citta. Even if you forget a given fact or memory, still it remains in the citta. That is why sometimes you can again recall something that earlier you could not remember.
3. Just as wrestlers and boxers develop very large bodies due to extensive exercise etc, if knowledge was stored in the brain then the size of the cranium for intellectuals would be 100 times bigger.
4. All memory is stored in the citta. Alzheimer's patients cannot retrieve memory from their citta and that is why they forget. For them those memories are seemingly lost. But when Alzheimer's patients get a new life they can remember all those incidents from prior. Typically, a person has access to those past life memories up to the age of 4 or 5, and in some cases up to 13 yrs of age.
5. When a baby of a few months smiles they are retrieving memories of their past life, not because of new life experience.
6. All this leads in the direction that one’s knowledge and memories are stored in the mind, i.e. in the citta, not the brain.
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In Him,
Seva’ Devi

Reference
1. Ananda Marga philosophy in a Nutshell - 3, Some Questions and Answers on Ananda Marga Philosophy – Excerpt B, Question #55


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