Baba
Story: taking one's life
Namaskar,
Having lost the few things that Vimal ji had in this world, he entered a state of deep despair. Overcome with grief, he resolved that he should end his life.
One night, with darkness all around, Vimalji tied a rope to one of the remaining wooden pieces from the frame of his house and started to loop the other part around his neck. His plan was to jump and hang himself. He had everything in place, and he had not a single doubt in his mind. He was ready to proceed.
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That moment he heard a voice: "What are you doing?!?"
Vimalji was stirred. The voice came from somewhere. He looked all around, from side to side, in search of someone. But no one was there. Vimalji could not find anyone at all. The voice was very deliberate and commanding, yet also quite sweet and charming. The Entity asked that he undo the rope and come down from the rooftop.
Who called me that night
Vimalji's heart was swayed by the caring, sensitive tone of the Caller. He undid the rope and came down to the ground. All the while the query lingered, "Who called me - who was speaking to me." Suddenly, Vimalji's mind and spirit felt charged. His entire body was pulsating with a new vibration and energy. At the same time, his mind was calm and serene, still wondering, "Who called me." He felt a deep sense of peace.
In that tranquil state he laid down and took some rest. Some time later he woke up feeling blissful. Then and there, any further thought of committing suicide vanished from his mind. Rather he decided, "I should not be cowardly; I should rise up and do something."
From that day forward, he became very regular in sadhana, and his whole life took on a new way and form. He felt wonderful. Time to time, still the thought was coming in his mind, "Who called me in that fateful moment." In this way, Vimalji would think and wonder.
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He had made inquiries to various persons in his village. He asked if they had spoken to him on that night. No one had - not a single person came forward. So then what could have happened. Who was that who called me that night. Vimalji thought for hours, days, and weeks about this. Those weeks eventually turned into months and still he had no answer: Who called me?
As more and more months passed, that memory gradually faded from his thoughts; it was no longer in the forefront of his mind. He was moving on with his life. Even then, the memory remained alive; it was just temporarily forgotten, not gone.
PC with Baba: "Why were you going to commit suicide”
One year later Vimalji went to see Baba in hopes of getting PC, by His grace. The year was 1986, and his entire yearning had been channelised towards Baba. Brother Vimal was also receiving training to become an Ananda Marga school teacher. His life was proceeding in a very positive direction. On that occasion, Baba blessed Vimalji by calling him for PC.
After he entered the room for PC, at one point Baba inquired, "What were you doing that night with the rope in your hand. Did anyone call you that time?"
Instantly, the whole scene flashed in Vimalji's mental plate. The darkness, the rope, his plan to jump, and the voice that called him. Vimalji got the answer. Baba had called him. Previously, it was beyond his imagination to think that it was Baba who saved him that night. Then, step by step, in a very compassionate and detailed manner, Baba recounted the exact scene. Vimalji was surprised and even shocked that Guru really does know everything. A warm glow permeated his heart thinking how Baba is always with him. Thinking thus, he felt blissful.
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Baba looked towards Vimal sternly and scolded him: "Why were you going to commit suicide."
Those were Baba's strong yet deeply loving words. Vimal felt the inner tenderness and sweet love of Baba's scolding. Vimal grabbed his ears as a sign of repentance and promised Baba that he would never again contemplate the sinful notion of committing suicide: "I will never think in this way in the future." And indeed, thenceforth Vimal's life was full of spiritual thoughts and social service. Such is Baba's special blessing on this bhakta.
Note: In India, trying to commit suicide is a crime where one can be jailed for many years. So those planning or trying to commit suicide never admit this to the authorities for fear of being jailed. Nor will they share this with others as suicide is shunned by the general populace. Those trying to kill themselves do not tell anyone. Accordingly, Vimal recounted, “I did not dare tell anyone so I was extremely surprised that Baba knew about my plans as I had never raised this matter of suicide with anyone.”
Conclusion: Takeaway from this story
As Ananda Margiis, here are a few things we can all learn from the above story:
1. Committing suicide is a sin. Guru does not support this cowardly and destructive action. It is fundamentally against the core principles of Ananda Marga philosophy.
2. Everyone should know that by committing suicide, they invite a terrible samskara far into the future - for millions of years.
3. Some wrongly think that by committing suicide they will escape their miseries. But that is just not so. One cannot escape their samskaras by suicide; those samskaras remain with you. Even worse, the samskara created by committing suicide is so huge that it will take thousands of animal lives for that to be exhausted and then one will have to again gain human form and go through all the trials and tribulations of life and death. In contrast, regardless of one's difficulties, if one utilises their current body properly, in a relatively short period of sincere sadhana one can exhaust all their samskaras.
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4. Everything you think gets permanently recorded in the Cosmic Mind. No thought happens in a vacuum nor in isolation. Baba is aware of your every thought.
5. Baba is everywhere, in all places, across time and space. You are never alone. No one is ever helpless. Always He is along with you to care for you and watch for your welfare.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "Parama Puruśa will always be with you. That means, neither were you alone in the past nor will you be alone in the future. Always remember that you are not helpless. He who is guiding the stars of the skies, is with you, you are not alone. Under no circumstances should you ever be afraid. Never think that you are alone. Whatever has to happen, will happen, and the One who causes this happening is with you." (1)
Namaskar,
In Him,
Vidya
~ In-depth study ~
Everyone should know that by committing suicide, they invite a terrible samskara far into the future - for millions of years. Killing oneself is treated as equally sinful as murdering another human being. By committing suicide one will be bound of as negative microvita for a long, long time.
Baba says, "People who commit suicide due to humiliation, psychic distortion, frustration or the overpowering influence of excessive attachment, anger, greed, vanity, jealousy, etc. get the status of kabandha yoni [negative microvita] after death. Wherever these entities happen to see other human beings under the spell of psychic derangement, they incite them to commit suicide." (2)
Finally, by committing suicide, one enters that very negative whirlpool of negative microvita where they themselves try to lure others into committing suicide. Such a terrible fate.
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Story: This path of suicide that I have taken...
Here also is Baba's teaching from a story in Shabda Cayanika about the fate of one who committed suicide.
The character in the Shabda Cayanika story states, "Today I realize what a horrendous mistake I made. ...This path of suicide that I have taken to save my honour has crudified me so much that even after such a long time I cannot find any deliverance. These days I am utterly helpless...Oh, what a painful bondage! Is there no path left open to me to attain peace! Is there no ointment I can apply which will soothe the burning of my bondage!" (3)
When humans destroy their body then nature does not like to give them a human body again. That is why the person, in Baba's above quote from Shabda Cayanika, is stuck. He committed suicide and now he cannot advance - rather he is bound in his crudified state. All because he ruined the body that nature gave him.
The situation is similar to giving someone something to use like a pen, and instead of using that pen they break it into 4 pieces and throw it in 4 directions. In that case you will not like to give him a pen again. Likewise, those who commit suicide and destroy their body, how can they again get human life.
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Our duty
As Ananda Margiis, it is our duty to inspire those in despair onto the right path. We are to save that human life and goad them away from any thoughts of suicide or self-destruction. With proper ideation, we are to divert their mind - indeed, diverting their mind or delaying their action is enough to save them. By delaying bad actions, invariably a better thought will come in the mind. So helping someone can simply take the form of them rethinking their situation. That is enough to stop them. Then, by Baba's grace, we can support them in adopting a right course in life.
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “This suicide is not deliberately done by the people. Those who commit suicide, do it when their mind is in a negative state. It is unnatural. Therefore, Sadvipras will remove this unnaturalness with the blows of their hammers. None can check it.” (4)
About the margii
The above Baba story is very dramatic and involves a margii some of you may know, Vimal Dutta of Bangurdah Kandra (West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand).
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References
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam, part 5, Bandhu, Suhrd, Mitram and Sakhá
2. Microvita in a Nutshell, Disembodied Souls and Microvita – Excerpt A
3. Shabda Cayanika, part 2, Ui to Uluka (Discourse 9)
4. A Few Problems Solved - 6, The Three Causes of Sin
Plagiary?
The below section is an entirely different topic, unrelated to the above material.
It stands on its own merit as a point of interest and ideological awareness.
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Jinanii mentality exposed
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "For those who enter the realm of intellectuality, the path is comprised of three aspects: váda, jalpa and vitańd́á. For nyáyikas or pańd́itas there are always váda, jalpa and vitańd́a. The Indian logician’s philosophy is divided into these three aspects. So for those who travel the path of intellectuality, the first portion is váda, the middle portion vitańd́á, and the last portion jalpa. They will proceed through these three aspects to attain the logician’s victory as their goal. Parama Puruśa is not their goal. Their main goal is to attain victory in the realm of logic. What type of victory is this?”
“There are two inner feelings behind this victory. The first is becoming mentally inflated with vanity. The mind gets inflated with vanity like puffed rice. The person swells with pride like puffed rice, but inside there is nothing. And secondly, this intellectual develops a lust for some external words of praise - words to the effect that he or she has attained victory. So the first is that the mind gets puffed up with vanity, and thus grows weaker and weaker, and the second is that the person develops a lustful attachment for some external words of praise, and thus becomes a slave to those words and can never be a truly great person.”
“Those people are great who harbour no biases and who behave rationally both with those who abuse them give them pain and with those who give them happiness. Such people don’t harbour any feelings of enmity towards anybody and take no-one as their enemy. They remain the same in pleasure or pain whether they have a positive reputation or negative reputation. They are unaffected and unassailed in all circumstances of praise or criticism, pain or pleasure. They attach no importance whatsoever to any of these things. They are meaningless for such people.”
“Those who work with the motivation that they will attain intellectual victory are slaves to words of praise. They can never become great people. It is bad to be a slave to worldly words of praise. The sounds raised by jackals and those raised in praise of some intellectuals are similar. Hence remaining engrossed in váda, vitańd́á and jalpa will lead to nothing.”
“Besides, valuable time will be wasted. You have not come on this earth for thousands of years. Few are the people who even live for a hundred years. Of course, if you follow Sixteen Points, your longevity will be greater, but you will not live for a thousand or two thousand years. The most a person can live is a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years.”
“So those who waste their time in váda, jalpa and vitańd́á are fools. They are C-grade fools. To which grade of person have you decided to belong?" (1)
Reference
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 5, Devotion and the Realm of Intellectuality
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.
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The below section is an entirely different topic, unrelated to the above material.
It stands on its own merit as a point of interest and ideological awareness.
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== Section 2: Important Teaching ==
Jinanii mentality exposed
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "For those who enter the realm of intellectuality, the path is comprised of three aspects: váda, jalpa and vitańd́á. For nyáyikas or pańd́itas there are always váda, jalpa and vitańd́a. The Indian logician’s philosophy is divided into these three aspects. So for those who travel the path of intellectuality, the first portion is váda, the middle portion vitańd́á, and the last portion jalpa. They will proceed through these three aspects to attain the logician’s victory as their goal. Parama Puruśa is not their goal. Their main goal is to attain victory in the realm of logic. What type of victory is this?”
“There are two inner feelings behind this victory. The first is becoming mentally inflated with vanity. The mind gets inflated with vanity like puffed rice. The person swells with pride like puffed rice, but inside there is nothing. And secondly, this intellectual develops a lust for some external words of praise - words to the effect that he or she has attained victory. So the first is that the mind gets puffed up with vanity, and thus grows weaker and weaker, and the second is that the person develops a lustful attachment for some external words of praise, and thus becomes a slave to those words and can never be a truly great person.”
“Those people are great who harbour no biases and who behave rationally both with those who abuse them give them pain and with those who give them happiness. Such people don’t harbour any feelings of enmity towards anybody and take no-one as their enemy. They remain the same in pleasure or pain whether they have a positive reputation or negative reputation. They are unaffected and unassailed in all circumstances of praise or criticism, pain or pleasure. They attach no importance whatsoever to any of these things. They are meaningless for such people.”
“Those who work with the motivation that they will attain intellectual victory are slaves to words of praise. They can never become great people. It is bad to be a slave to worldly words of praise. The sounds raised by jackals and those raised in praise of some intellectuals are similar. Hence remaining engrossed in váda, vitańd́á and jalpa will lead to nothing.”
“Besides, valuable time will be wasted. You have not come on this earth for thousands of years. Few are the people who even live for a hundred years. Of course, if you follow Sixteen Points, your longevity will be greater, but you will not live for a thousand or two thousand years. The most a person can live is a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years.”
“So those who waste their time in váda, jalpa and vitańd́á are fools. They are C-grade fools. To which grade of person have you decided to belong?" (1)
Reference
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 5, Devotion and the Realm of Intellectuality
== Section: Important Teaching ==
LGBTQ degradation
Ananda Marga ideology states, "The structure of the mind is determined by the nature of its object. If the psychic object is crude, the inter-atomic gaps within the mind decrease in size, and the mind will ultimately refuse to accept anything except its own crude object. For this reason the supporters of crude isms become incapable of accepting the rational ideas of others, and closing their eyes and plugging their ears, they try to cling to their own irrational rituals. Their psychic receptivity is lost due to the superimposition of crude ideation. They do not feel the need for the Vidyá force to exceed the Avidyá force. They say, “Why should I bother about such subtle things. I am quite happy as I am.” Such people, engrossed as they are with materialism, are bound to be reborn in crude material bodies." (1)
Note: This guideline and critique is directly aimed at the lesbian, gay, and bi-sexual community and the sexual culture of materialism that indulges in sex for sex sake. Such persons live like animals - plunged in degrading propensities. Although they are in human form they are following animal dharma. Their future is not bright. Such an existence is not befitting a human being. Human longing is infinite - instead of indulge in degrading, finite pleasures, one must contemplate the great. So one is to adopt an ideal human life, goading the mind towards Parama Purusa. That is manava dharma, or human dharma.
Reference
1. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 8, Cosmic Attraction and Spiritual Cult
== Section: Important Teaching ==
Bogus justification: suffering due to your fate
Religious leaders regularly tell their followers that, “You must not blame others or point towards social injustices for your current suffering. What you are undergoing now is because of your own fate. So just accept your situation.” In this way the priest class implements vicious control methods and restrictions, thereby keeping the people docile. Nowadays, to find their escape from dire poverty, people take shelter in buying lottery tickets - hoping their fate is to win and become rich. And if that person does not win, then it is just their bad luck.
Ananda Marga philosophy says, "The problem of individual or collective suffering due to lack of physical requirements can be easily solved by implementing a system of social justice and social equality. So it is useless to blame the…fate of others." (1)
Reference
1. Human Society - 1, Social Justice
== Section 3: Links ==
Postings to Read
Ways of dharma
What to do with corpse
About initiating new people
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