Baba
Bogus story based on hallucination
Namaskar,
In the below story in green highlight is a tale based on the psychic disease of hallucination. Sadly, this is a very negative and harmful story. As everyone knows, Sadguru Baba has categorically declared the existence of ghosts to be a bogus idea. But the story below highlighted in green promotes the existence of ghosts.
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Ghosts do not exist.” (Ananda Sutram, 3 - 6)
Not a so-called ghost but a hallucination
(a) This harmful story of hallucinations injects the idea that ghosts exist and that they can kill you.
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(b) The main person in the story, i.e. the student, is suffering from the psychic disease of hallucination. For years and years, he has propagated the false notion that ghosts exist, and that he has encountered and come in direct contact with a fictitious ghost.
(c) Baba’s teaching is that those who think they see ghosts are actually conjuring up the existence of an apparition of a so-called ghost in their own diseased mind.
(d) The conclusion is that the student in the story suffers from a weak mind / psychic disease of hallucination, and that this was all his wild imagination.
Even good sadhakas / margiis fall prey
Here is another way to look at the situation: For the last 30 - 35 years various sadhakas have been propagating this harmful story of hallucination, and hence reinforcing the false notion that ghosts exist. Even good sadhakas who were not believing in ghosts got drawn into this so-called ghost story. By this way, this harmful hallucination story has been spreading around as proof that ghosts exist.
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Despite the fact that Sadguru Baba has declared that ghosts do not exist, and scientists have supported this claim, in so-called third world nations and in populations where illiteracy is rampant, the mass of people believe fully in the existence of ghosts. These innocent people are easily misled by this story. And in so-called first-world nations, psychologists and doctors have termed the mental disorder of seeing so-called ghosts as hallucinations. However, because of this harmful story of hallucination, margiis from those areas have subscribed to the belief in ghosts. The whole scene is quite shocking and abhorrent.
Disciples going against Sadguru
On the one side, Sadguru Baba has come to free humanity from all kinds of psychic diseases including hallucinations and the existence of so-called ghosts, and on the other side some of His own disciples are giving credence to the bogus idea of so-called ghosts and cementing this false notion in the minds of others.
Harmful hallucination story
Keeping the above in mind, kindly read the story in the below green highlight so that you can properly warn others about this harmful story of hallucinations, and eradicate this dogma of the existence of ghosts.
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THE POWER OF … xxIn the state of Maha'rastra in West India, there is a place called Akola. There was a devotee and his family there who all learned A'nanda Ma'rga meditation. They meditated regularly but their faith in the Guru was not strong. The son was studying at the university while living at home. One night, the son's friend went to his house at 10pm and invited him to go for a bicycle ride with him. So the student rode the bicycle and his friend sat on the back of it. Outside the city, they passed through what the student thought was a very big field. But that field was actually a cemetery, and it was a very frightening one.Suddenly, in the middle of the cemetery, the student turned to look at his friend on the back seat, and saw that he was not there anymore. He became very frightened and started trembling, and the hair on his body stood on end. A negative force pulled him down and he fell off the bicycle. Then the avidya' force started pulling him towards a well and tried to push him down into it.In utter desperation, the student suddenly remembered the pratika around his neck, but when he felt for it, he found it was not there. Still struggling against the avidya' force, with his finger, he managed to draw the pratika on the ground, and he saw that it was very powerful and vibrated effulgent light, so he started to frantically draw pratikas on the ground, one after another. No sooner had he finished one, he started drawing another. In that way, he fought with the avidya' force the whole night, until he finally crossed that big, terrifying cemetery.The student lay by the side of the road outside the cemetery, totally exhausted and semi-conscious. It was four o'clock in the morning. As a rickshaw driver was passing, he looked at the student and recognised him, so he pulled him onto his rickshaw and brought him back home.
Note: By the end of the above story it is clear that this was just a regular road that was commonly traveled by all sorts of people like rickshaw drivers. People were coming and going on that road all day and night long and were not affected at all. Only because that student had been indoctrinated into the horror of cemeteries and the existence of ghosts since his very childhood was he prone to that psychic disease of hallucinations. And that is why he was so adversely affected. Whereas for those not indoctrinated into those hallucinations, that road by the cemetery was just a very normal place on this earth, and it did not cause them to drop into an unconscious state or get overwhelmed by various hallucinations.
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In Him,
Manoj Deva
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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 ==
Core of my being
"Tomáre ceyechi mane práńe, ámi, sáŕá dile náko mor d́áke..." (Prabhat Samgiita #3299)
Purport:
O’ Parama Purusa, I longed for You in my mind and heart, but sadly You did not respond to my call. I looked for You in all the so-called holy places - Ananda Nagar, Tiljala, and Jamalpur, Varanasi, Puri, Mecca, Rome, Jerusalem, and also Ranchi, in search of You. Alas, I did not see or find You. My yearning was not quenched. To have Your darshan I wandered in forests and went in the gaps between the clouds - everywhere. Baba, with all my desire, I want You and cried for You, but, unfortunately, You have not answered.
O’ my Priyatama (Dearmost), Your cosmic liila is inexplicable. The Tiirtha Pati of my mental temple, even while remaining physically away from You, I have realized this divine truth that You are the core of my being, my Innermost.
O’ my Parama Purusa, I have nothing to say if You play Your liila’ from a distance - do as You wish. Seeing that I derive endless, heavenly sweetness, non-stop. Cinmaya, I want a wee-bit of Your krpa, in each and every moment - always.
Baba, You reside in my mental temple, I have realized this divine truth that You are the core of my being, my Innermost...
Notes for Prabhat Samgiita #3299:
[1] Liila': In this universe there are innumerable events taking place. When we know the cause of a particular event, then that is kriida. And when the cause is not known then it is liila. If the cause of a given event was not initially known and later on becomes known, then that event becomes kriida. Thus as one's knowledge increases - and more and more events can be rationally explained - then the scope of kriida increases.
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "There is a subtle difference between liilá and kriid́a. When the cause of an effect is easily discernible it is called kriid́a, but when the cause is unknown and only the effect is easily discernible it is called liilá. This creation is the liilá of Parama Puruśa because human beings do not know why He has created it. With the help of their intellect they are eager to know the cause of creation, but will they ever be successful in this quest? They want to solve the riddle of creation, but they have no notion about the cause. So whatever Parama Puruśa does is all His liilá, It cannot be called His kriid́á. I have already said that when one discovers the relation between the cause and effect it is called kriid́á, but when one can see only the effect and not the cause, it is called liilá. For human beings having only a small unit mind the creation is the liilá of Parama Puruśa, but to Him it is His kriid́á." (1)
[2] Cinmaya: Embodiment of Consciousness. This is one of the infinite attributions of Parama Purusa. That is why one of His names is Cinmaya.
References
1. Ananda Marga Ideology and Way of Life - 11, To Know Him Is to Be Free from All Fetters
== Section 3: Important Teaching ==
Where to sit for good sadhana
You might have heard some people say, “This place is very good for sadhana.” Especially, you will hear this in Ananda Nagar, Jamalpur, Tiljala, Ranchi etc. They like to create the feeling that in order to get a special blessing you have to come to Ananda Nagar, Jamalpur, Tiljala, Ranchi etc and sit under that particular rock or tree etc. And then only sadhana will be best because that place emanates a spiritual vibration. Baba’s below teaching debunks this idea.
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “To differentiate between different places for sádhaná, to consider one place more suitable than another, or to regard a particular spot as good and another bad, is to divide Brahma. Every place in this creation is the manifestation of the Supreme Cosmic Entity (Brahma), and to call one place good and another bad is to attribute these qualities to Brahma. If sádhaná is based on the consideration of good and bad, it will never be possible for one to develop the feeling of oneness with the rest of creation. One will never be able to love others as oneself. To Brahma every place is the same, and sádhaná can be practised anywhere.” (1)
If some place is isolated or a natural setting and there is no pollution of any kind, then that is suitable for sadhana in comparison to a noisy bus stop that smells like an open sewer. That is based entirely on the environmental qualities. The above teaching debunks the myth that some place is spiritually important, whereas other places are not.
Reference
1. Ananda Marga Elementary Philosophy, Why Are People Afraid of Intuitional Practice?
== Section 4: Links ==