Baba
Namaskar,
There are still a number of units, especially in India, that do paincajanya in the following manner. We all have to think why this is not proper.
First this Prabhat Samgiita is sung (PS #2526):
Jaya shubhavajradhara shubhra kalevara
Vya'ghra'mbara Hara dehi padam;
Jaya Vis'a'n'anina'daka kleshavidu'raka
Sarvadhiidha'raka dehi padam;
Jaya A'dipita' A'dideva mantresha Maha'deva
Bha'va'tiita abhinava dehi padam;
Rajatagirinibha madhumaya durlabha
A'nanda amita'bha dehi padam;
Jaya satya sana'tana paramapadam.
O, Lord Shiva, victory to You, the benevolent wielder of the thunderbolt, the one with white-complexioned body clad in tiger-skin – give me shelter at Your feet, O' Lord Shiva; Victory to the blower of the long horn, the remover of all afflictions, the Supreme entity Shiva in whom all intellect is sheltered – give me shelter at Your feet; Victory to the First Father, the First Lord, the lord of mantra, the God of Gods, Beyond thought, ever-new – give me shelter at Your feet; Lord Shiva the One who looks like a silver mountain, full of sweetness, difficult to attain, Blissful, infinitely radiant – give me shelter at Your feet; Victory to the supreme, eternal truth.
This Prabhat Samgiita of Lord Shiva is often sung and we should see why this is not appropriate for spiritual practices for Ananda Margiis.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba is our Ista
Our Ista is Baba. As Ananda Margiis we have reverence for Baba. Baba says the mind must be pointed. There must not be two Istas. Otherwise sadhana will go nowhere and one will degenerate.
So we should not chant, "O' Lord Shiva victory to You" and then chant kiirtan, Baba Nam Kevalam. By doing so the mind will be bifurcated. The first half of mind will go to Lord Shiva and the little leftover will go to Baba. Ultimately everything will be ruined, as per Baba's below warning.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "The spiritual aspirant is moving toward the singular Supreme Entity, the pinnacled goal. If the mind accepts two goals, two Lords, the mind becomes bifurcated...Where the thought-waves or thought-movements are goaded by a single idea, and where the culminating point is also a singular entity – that is, where the attraction for other entities, for the crude world or the psychic world are all goaded unto the Supreme Self." (1)
Bifurcation of mind at paincajanya
In the present-day style of paincajanya the following takes place.
1) First the song about Lord Shiva is sung. That brings the mind in a particular direction.
2) Then kiirtan and sadhana is done. That brings the mind in a second direction.
Thus there are "two goals, two Lords, and the mind become bifurcated".
While singing the bhajan the mind goes to Lord Shiva. And while doing kiritan and sadhana the mind runs towards Baba. That is very detrimental because goal is not one, but rather two: Lord Shiva with his horn and Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji.
Imagine trying to stand on two boats at the same time: One leg in each boat. So long as both boats remain stationary you may be ok. But if either starts moving you will not be safe. The situation will be disastrous. Nobody does such things. That is what Baba says in His above teaching about bifurcation of mind, which some simple and naive people do in their early morning paincajanya. That is why the song of Lord Shiva and our Ananda Marga kiirtan should not be done together.
First some sing, "O' Lord Shiva, blower of the long horn, victory to You" and then chant kiirtan, Baba Nam Kevalam. First they ideate on Lord Shiva with His snake and tiger skin and then in the next moment they start thinking about Baba. That is disastrous.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Sincere, but wrong way of doing
Some sincere margiis get up early and do paincajanya but that sincerity does not yield a positive result, rather a negative outcome because of the bifurcation of mind. And that is Baba's warning: The Goal should be one, not two or more.
This is a very serious point because if one is trying to focus on two things you will lose the goal. On this critical topic, in His various discourses Baba always brings the story of the great devotee Hanuman and his pointed ideation on Rama. That is a very meaningful teaching for us.
How we should do paincajanya
Here the point is that in our paincjanya programs we should direct the mind wholly towards Baba and not towards any second entity, i.e. Lord Shiva. Our whole flow should be goaded towards Baba Shrii Shrii Anandamuti ji.
That means we should select any of the hundreds or thousands of Prabhat Samgiita songs grounded in bhakti that goad the mind towards Baba. That way when we do kiirtan and sadhana the mind will move in one concerted flow. There will not be any diversion or bifurcation of mind.
If you sing Lord Shiva song and pray, "Victory to Lord Shiva clad in tiger skin", and then in the next moment you sing "Victory to Baba", then that is detrimental. In that case you cannot concentrate on Baba as the mind is bifurcated or broken in two pieces. The mind should be focused on one. That is what Hanuman did.
As Ananda Margiis we should not sing songs about Lord Shiva or Lord Krsna at any of our AM devotional programs like paincajanya.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba's repeated warning
Baba warns us again and again on this matter of having one Goal. Why? Because in any given Hindu temple there are countless idols and simple margiis of Indian origin lump Hinduism into AM.
Indeed just think of the Hare Krsna movement where they chant the name: Hari, Rama, Krsna, Radha etc. They chant so many names of the Lord. And this has gotten copied into AM by some.
Yet Baba has warned us about this again and again but this simple truth is hard to understand I do not know why. The Goal should be pointed & singular, not two.
Be like an arrow
In our paincajanya program we should point the mind towards Baba, not Lord Shiva or Lord Krsna. By His grace then our kiirtan and sadhana will be successful. Then we will be like an arrow reaching the Goal.
Pran'avo dhanuh sharohya'tma' Brahma tallaks'yamucyate;
Apramattena veddhavyam' sharavattanmayo bhavet.
Baba says, "The pran'ava (as regards spiritual practice, one’s meditation mantra) is like a bow, one’s unit consciousness is like an arrow, and Brahma is the target. One must aim without any inaccuracy and must oneself be like an arrow." (Ananda Vacanamrtam - 34, Prańava)
In this above teaching, the idea is that you can't aim at two Entities, otherwise you will not reach the goal and your efforts will be futile. One must not forget the famous story from Mahabharata when Guru Dronacarya failed 4 of the Pandava brothers because they had more than one goal. Only Arjuna could get success and hit the target because he had one goal - his mind was not bifurcated by multiple goals.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba's humour about worshiping multiple deities
Baba is making jokes how some dogmatic worshiper is chanting countless names of gods and goddesses and sadly his mind is balkanised.
Baba says, "A person whom I was very close to, a relative of mine, used to recite the following after taking bath: "Victory to mother Ka'li, victory, victory to Ka'li, victory to mother Ka'li of T'han T'hania', victory to mother Ka'li of Daks'in'eshvar, victory to Baba Ta'rakna'th, victory to Baba Vaidynath of Deoghar. O' Fathers! None of you should think that I am leaving out someone's name." After this he would say, "O' gods and goddesses, please forgive me if I have omitted any name inadvertently. Please assume that I have mentioned your name also." Does this yield anything at all? One says, "victory to mother Ka'li of Ka'ligha't" and in the same breath one says, "victory to mother Ka'li of T'han T'hania'."It signifies that the mind is moving both towards Ka'ligha't and T'han T'hania'. Can the mind become concentrated in this way? Certainly not." (2)
Conclusion
In paincajanya we should not sing, "O' Lord Shiva, blower of the long horn, victory to You" and then the next moment sing Baba Nam Kevalam. By that way, the mind will be confused, bewildered, and bifurcated. That is the main essence of all Baba's above teachings. We should keep the mind focused only on Him and Him alone.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "You should also remember that for your movement toward your Is't'a, you have only to practise, your unification with your Is't'a is your only goal, the final desideratum of all the flows of your psychic propensities." (3)
Namaskar,
Sarvasrasta’
~ In-depth study ~
Why Lord Shiva & Lord Krsna Songs in PS
The question comes: Why has Baba given Prabhat Samgiita songs that focus on Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna. And the answer is simple. Baba has come for all and He wrote those songs for non margiis. There will always be followers of Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna; Baba has given something for them as well.
As margiis we should learn those songs and for when we do pracara and teach non-margiis. But those songs are not for us to sing in paincajanya or any other AM spiritual program.
It is just like when arranging food for elephants then you do not start eating that very elephant food thinking it to be yours. Likewise when teach those Prabhat Samgiita songs about Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna for non-margiis, we should not mistakenly think that we should sing those songs in our AM spiritual practices like paincajanya.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
A related dogma
There is a related and ongoing dogma in the Jamapur DMS arranged every year. There margiis only allowed to sing those Prabhat Samgiita composed in Angika language.
So mostly sing they sing the song of Lord Krsna, "Tum ho mere Krsna jagata pati...” (PS #4070), meaning O' Lord Krsna, You are mine.
tuma ho - mere krs'n'a - jagatpati -
maen tumhe ca'hata' hu'n - di -va' ra'ti - - -
This clearly shows how mind gets bifurcated. Chanting Lord Krsna but then doing Baba Nam Kevalam kiirtan is damaging for anyone's spiritual growth. This type of practice is called pramad sadhana, the beginning is bad, the middle is very bad and the end results is the worst. All kinds of rituals which naive people do in various religions are full of pramad.
For example in Ananda Marga there is a few things that are pramad, for example fake Mahaprayan. Why is the beginning bad? Because it gives the message that Baba is just a mortal human who has gone in 7th heaven. Why is the middle bad? Because you have to go there and take trouble (money and time are wasted) and take negative ideation and the entire approach keeps Baba distant. And why is the end worst? Because the outcome of the entire program is that the dogmatic idea is firmly established that Baba is gone and beyond the reach, like a mortal human being.
To achieve anything it needs a focused Goal. What to say spirituality, even if a student focuses on football but needs to solve mathematics, then their time wasted. They will not reach their goal. Similarly, when our goal of reaching Baba is such a lofty one, we must not let the mind become bifurcated by singing songs about Lord Krsna & Lord Shiva etc.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Hanuman story
Ananda Marga ideology says, "Wherever the Is't'a is singular entity in name, form, and idea, in ideation and also in ideology, success is sure, success is fully assured. There is a story in this regard. Once upon a time some of the devotees asked Hanuman, “Hanuman, you are a great devotee and learned scholar also, and you know that Na'ra'yan'a means Shriina'tha, (Shrii means, Laks'mii) Shriina'tha means Na'ra'yan'a. Shriina'tha, i.e. Laks'miina'tha, Na'ra'yan'a and Ja'nakiina'tha i.e. Ra'ma are the same entity; but you never take the name of Na'ra'yan'a. Why?”
Hanuman said:
“Shriina'the, Ja'nakiinathe Ca'bhedah Parama'tmani
Tatha'pi mama Sarvasvah Ra'mah Kamalalocanah.”
"You know fundamentally there is no difference between Na'ra'yan'a and Ra'ma. Na'ra means Prakrti, Ayana means Shelter. Na'ra'yan'a means Shelter of Prakrti i.e. Cognitive Purus'a and Ra'ma, (Ram + Ghaun = Ra'ma) i.e. the most attractive entity of the entire cosmos is Parama Purus'a. “I also know”, said Hanuman, “that there is no fundamental difference between Ra'ma and Na'ra'yan'a, but you know my goal is a singular entity – singular in name, singular in idea, ideology and ideation. Ra'ma is my everything, I don’t know any Na'ra'yan'a.”" (4)
References
1. Yoga Psychology, The Cult of Spirituality – the Cult of Pinnacled Order
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 10, The Supreme Entity Transcends All Colours
3. Subhasita Samgraha - 12, The Spirit of Yoga
4. Subhasita Samgraha - 12, The Spirit of Yoga
I also went to Ananda Nagar but
"Tomáy khunje khunje priya, din je ket́e jáy..." (Prabhat Samgiita #3982)
Purport:
Parama Purusa, with deep longing in search of You, my days are passing in vain. In the absence of getting You, my whole life is being wasted. Where have I not looked. I have wandered around seeking You in the seven oceans, on the mountain peaks, as well as across this earth, and also in the caves - in every nook and corner of this world, but alas I could not get You.
Baba, day and night, secretly I sought You in the flower garden, forests, and in various, so-called holy lands and “tiirthas” like - Tiljala, Jamalpur, Varanasi, Puri, Mecca, Rome, Jerusalem; and I also went to Ananda Nagar, and the top of the Himalayan mountain ranges etc. All done with the ardent desire of getting a glance at You. I checked all over with the hope that one day I will find You. But, in the end, all my efforts were for naught.
Baba, with deep bhakti in my heart, I have scoured the galaxies, meteors, nebulae, and in the stars - everywhere. I also explored the dark, black-coloured clouds on rainy days, the scorching heat of the summer season, and the shade of the trees in springtime. Baba, I have called for You with a deep yearning and prema in my core - and looked for You everywhere.
Parama Purusa, in the end, on one colourful golden dawn, saturated in the refulgence and aroma of a newly blossoming floret, You arrived after a long, deep, dark, and painful night. Alas, in the end, You are here in my heart. Baba, my most adorable One, You are so gracious...
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Namaskar,
There are still a number of units, especially in India, that do paincajanya in the following manner. We all have to think why this is not proper.
First this Prabhat Samgiita is sung (PS #2526):
Jaya shubhavajradhara shubhra kalevara
Vya'ghra'mbara Hara dehi padam;
Jaya Vis'a'n'anina'daka kleshavidu'raka
Sarvadhiidha'raka dehi padam;
Jaya A'dipita' A'dideva mantresha Maha'deva
Bha'va'tiita abhinava dehi padam;
Rajatagirinibha madhumaya durlabha
A'nanda amita'bha dehi padam;
Jaya satya sana'tana paramapadam.
O, Lord Shiva, victory to You, the benevolent wielder of the thunderbolt, the one with white-complexioned body clad in tiger-skin – give me shelter at Your feet, O' Lord Shiva; Victory to the blower of the long horn, the remover of all afflictions, the Supreme entity Shiva in whom all intellect is sheltered – give me shelter at Your feet; Victory to the First Father, the First Lord, the lord of mantra, the God of Gods, Beyond thought, ever-new – give me shelter at Your feet; Lord Shiva the One who looks like a silver mountain, full of sweetness, difficult to attain, Blissful, infinitely radiant – give me shelter at Your feet; Victory to the supreme, eternal truth.
This Prabhat Samgiita of Lord Shiva is often sung and we should see why this is not appropriate for spiritual practices for Ananda Margiis.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba is our Ista
Our Ista is Baba. As Ananda Margiis we have reverence for Baba. Baba says the mind must be pointed. There must not be two Istas. Otherwise sadhana will go nowhere and one will degenerate.
So we should not chant, "O' Lord Shiva victory to You" and then chant kiirtan, Baba Nam Kevalam. By doing so the mind will be bifurcated. The first half of mind will go to Lord Shiva and the little leftover will go to Baba. Ultimately everything will be ruined, as per Baba's below warning.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "The spiritual aspirant is moving toward the singular Supreme Entity, the pinnacled goal. If the mind accepts two goals, two Lords, the mind becomes bifurcated...Where the thought-waves or thought-movements are goaded by a single idea, and where the culminating point is also a singular entity – that is, where the attraction for other entities, for the crude world or the psychic world are all goaded unto the Supreme Self." (1)
Bifurcation of mind at paincajanya
In the present-day style of paincajanya the following takes place.
1) First the song about Lord Shiva is sung. That brings the mind in a particular direction.
2) Then kiirtan and sadhana is done. That brings the mind in a second direction.
Thus there are "two goals, two Lords, and the mind become bifurcated".
While singing the bhajan the mind goes to Lord Shiva. And while doing kiritan and sadhana the mind runs towards Baba. That is very detrimental because goal is not one, but rather two: Lord Shiva with his horn and Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji.
Imagine trying to stand on two boats at the same time: One leg in each boat. So long as both boats remain stationary you may be ok. But if either starts moving you will not be safe. The situation will be disastrous. Nobody does such things. That is what Baba says in His above teaching about bifurcation of mind, which some simple and naive people do in their early morning paincajanya. That is why the song of Lord Shiva and our Ananda Marga kiirtan should not be done together.
First some sing, "O' Lord Shiva, blower of the long horn, victory to You" and then chant kiirtan, Baba Nam Kevalam. First they ideate on Lord Shiva with His snake and tiger skin and then in the next moment they start thinking about Baba. That is disastrous.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Sincere, but wrong way of doing
Some sincere margiis get up early and do paincajanya but that sincerity does not yield a positive result, rather a negative outcome because of the bifurcation of mind. And that is Baba's warning: The Goal should be one, not two or more.
This is a very serious point because if one is trying to focus on two things you will lose the goal. On this critical topic, in His various discourses Baba always brings the story of the great devotee Hanuman and his pointed ideation on Rama. That is a very meaningful teaching for us.
How we should do paincajanya
Here the point is that in our paincjanya programs we should direct the mind wholly towards Baba and not towards any second entity, i.e. Lord Shiva. Our whole flow should be goaded towards Baba Shrii Shrii Anandamuti ji.
That means we should select any of the hundreds or thousands of Prabhat Samgiita songs grounded in bhakti that goad the mind towards Baba. That way when we do kiirtan and sadhana the mind will move in one concerted flow. There will not be any diversion or bifurcation of mind.
If you sing Lord Shiva song and pray, "Victory to Lord Shiva clad in tiger skin", and then in the next moment you sing "Victory to Baba", then that is detrimental. In that case you cannot concentrate on Baba as the mind is bifurcated or broken in two pieces. The mind should be focused on one. That is what Hanuman did.
As Ananda Margiis we should not sing songs about Lord Shiva or Lord Krsna at any of our AM devotional programs like paincajanya.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba's repeated warning
Baba warns us again and again on this matter of having one Goal. Why? Because in any given Hindu temple there are countless idols and simple margiis of Indian origin lump Hinduism into AM.
Indeed just think of the Hare Krsna movement where they chant the name: Hari, Rama, Krsna, Radha etc. They chant so many names of the Lord. And this has gotten copied into AM by some.
Yet Baba has warned us about this again and again but this simple truth is hard to understand I do not know why. The Goal should be pointed & singular, not two.
Be like an arrow
In our paincajanya program we should point the mind towards Baba, not Lord Shiva or Lord Krsna. By His grace then our kiirtan and sadhana will be successful. Then we will be like an arrow reaching the Goal.
Pran'avo dhanuh sharohya'tma' Brahma tallaks'yamucyate;
Apramattena veddhavyam' sharavattanmayo bhavet.
Baba says, "The pran'ava (as regards spiritual practice, one’s meditation mantra) is like a bow, one’s unit consciousness is like an arrow, and Brahma is the target. One must aim without any inaccuracy and must oneself be like an arrow." (Ananda Vacanamrtam - 34, Prańava)
In this above teaching, the idea is that you can't aim at two Entities, otherwise you will not reach the goal and your efforts will be futile. One must not forget the famous story from Mahabharata when Guru Dronacarya failed 4 of the Pandava brothers because they had more than one goal. Only Arjuna could get success and hit the target because he had one goal - his mind was not bifurcated by multiple goals.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Baba's humour about worshiping multiple deities
Baba is making jokes how some dogmatic worshiper is chanting countless names of gods and goddesses and sadly his mind is balkanised.
Baba says, "A person whom I was very close to, a relative of mine, used to recite the following after taking bath: "Victory to mother Ka'li, victory, victory to Ka'li, victory to mother Ka'li of T'han T'hania', victory to mother Ka'li of Daks'in'eshvar, victory to Baba Ta'rakna'th, victory to Baba Vaidynath of Deoghar. O' Fathers! None of you should think that I am leaving out someone's name." After this he would say, "O' gods and goddesses, please forgive me if I have omitted any name inadvertently. Please assume that I have mentioned your name also." Does this yield anything at all? One says, "victory to mother Ka'li of Ka'ligha't" and in the same breath one says, "victory to mother Ka'li of T'han T'hania'."It signifies that the mind is moving both towards Ka'ligha't and T'han T'hania'. Can the mind become concentrated in this way? Certainly not." (2)
Conclusion
In paincajanya we should not sing, "O' Lord Shiva, blower of the long horn, victory to You" and then the next moment sing Baba Nam Kevalam. By that way, the mind will be confused, bewildered, and bifurcated. That is the main essence of all Baba's above teachings. We should keep the mind focused only on Him and Him alone.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "You should also remember that for your movement toward your Is't'a, you have only to practise, your unification with your Is't'a is your only goal, the final desideratum of all the flows of your psychic propensities." (3)
Namaskar,
Sarvasrasta’
~ In-depth study ~
Why Lord Shiva & Lord Krsna Songs in PS
The question comes: Why has Baba given Prabhat Samgiita songs that focus on Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna. And the answer is simple. Baba has come for all and He wrote those songs for non margiis. There will always be followers of Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna; Baba has given something for them as well.
As margiis we should learn those songs and for when we do pracara and teach non-margiis. But those songs are not for us to sing in paincajanya or any other AM spiritual program.
It is just like when arranging food for elephants then you do not start eating that very elephant food thinking it to be yours. Likewise when teach those Prabhat Samgiita songs about Lord Shiva and Lord Krsna for non-margiis, we should not mistakenly think that we should sing those songs in our AM spiritual practices like paincajanya.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
A related dogma
There is a related and ongoing dogma in the Jamapur DMS arranged every year. There margiis only allowed to sing those Prabhat Samgiita composed in Angika language.
So mostly sing they sing the song of Lord Krsna, "Tum ho mere Krsna jagata pati...” (PS #4070), meaning O' Lord Krsna, You are mine.
tuma ho - mere krs'n'a - jagatpati -
maen tumhe ca'hata' hu'n - di -va' ra'ti - - -
This clearly shows how mind gets bifurcated. Chanting Lord Krsna but then doing Baba Nam Kevalam kiirtan is damaging for anyone's spiritual growth. This type of practice is called pramad sadhana, the beginning is bad, the middle is very bad and the end results is the worst. All kinds of rituals which naive people do in various religions are full of pramad.
For example in Ananda Marga there is a few things that are pramad, for example fake Mahaprayan. Why is the beginning bad? Because it gives the message that Baba is just a mortal human who has gone in 7th heaven. Why is the middle bad? Because you have to go there and take trouble (money and time are wasted) and take negative ideation and the entire approach keeps Baba distant. And why is the end worst? Because the outcome of the entire program is that the dogmatic idea is firmly established that Baba is gone and beyond the reach, like a mortal human being.
To achieve anything it needs a focused Goal. What to say spirituality, even if a student focuses on football but needs to solve mathematics, then their time wasted. They will not reach their goal. Similarly, when our goal of reaching Baba is such a lofty one, we must not let the mind become bifurcated by singing songs about Lord Krsna & Lord Shiva etc.
https://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/
Hanuman story
Ananda Marga ideology says, "Wherever the Is't'a is singular entity in name, form, and idea, in ideation and also in ideology, success is sure, success is fully assured. There is a story in this regard. Once upon a time some of the devotees asked Hanuman, “Hanuman, you are a great devotee and learned scholar also, and you know that Na'ra'yan'a means Shriina'tha, (Shrii means, Laks'mii) Shriina'tha means Na'ra'yan'a. Shriina'tha, i.e. Laks'miina'tha, Na'ra'yan'a and Ja'nakiina'tha i.e. Ra'ma are the same entity; but you never take the name of Na'ra'yan'a. Why?”
Hanuman said:
“Shriina'the, Ja'nakiinathe Ca'bhedah Parama'tmani
Tatha'pi mama Sarvasvah Ra'mah Kamalalocanah.”
"You know fundamentally there is no difference between Na'ra'yan'a and Ra'ma. Na'ra means Prakrti, Ayana means Shelter. Na'ra'yan'a means Shelter of Prakrti i.e. Cognitive Purus'a and Ra'ma, (Ram + Ghaun = Ra'ma) i.e. the most attractive entity of the entire cosmos is Parama Purus'a. “I also know”, said Hanuman, “that there is no fundamental difference between Ra'ma and Na'ra'yan'a, but you know my goal is a singular entity – singular in name, singular in idea, ideology and ideation. Ra'ma is my everything, I don’t know any Na'ra'yan'a.”" (4)
References
1. Yoga Psychology, The Cult of Spirituality – the Cult of Pinnacled Order
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 10, The Supreme Entity Transcends All Colours
3. Subhasita Samgraha - 12, The Spirit of Yoga
4. Subhasita Samgraha - 12, The Spirit of Yoga
== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==
I also went to Ananda Nagar but
"Tomáy khunje khunje priya, din je ket́e jáy..." (Prabhat Samgiita #3982)
Purport:
Parama Purusa, with deep longing in search of You, my days are passing in vain. In the absence of getting You, my whole life is being wasted. Where have I not looked. I have wandered around seeking You in the seven oceans, on the mountain peaks, as well as across this earth, and also in the caves - in every nook and corner of this world, but alas I could not get You.
Baba, day and night, secretly I sought You in the flower garden, forests, and in various, so-called holy lands and “tiirthas” like - Tiljala, Jamalpur, Varanasi, Puri, Mecca, Rome, Jerusalem; and I also went to Ananda Nagar, and the top of the Himalayan mountain ranges etc. All done with the ardent desire of getting a glance at You. I checked all over with the hope that one day I will find You. But, in the end, all my efforts were for naught.
Baba, with deep bhakti in my heart, I have scoured the galaxies, meteors, nebulae, and in the stars - everywhere. I also explored the dark, black-coloured clouds on rainy days, the scorching heat of the summer season, and the shade of the trees in springtime. Baba, I have called for You with a deep yearning and prema in my core - and looked for You everywhere.
Parama Purusa, in the end, on one colourful golden dawn, saturated in the refulgence and aroma of a newly blossoming floret, You arrived after a long, deep, dark, and painful night. Alas, in the end, You are here in my heart. Baba, my most adorable One, You are so gracious...
== Section 3: Links ==
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