== NOT JUST FOR COLD STORAGE ==
Namaskar,
We all know that Baba has bestowed timeless teachings for the entire
humanity and that those things are stored in the form of cassettes, videos,
books and various other media. In addition numerous other prize possessions
are there related with Baba's advent on this planet.
PUT IN QUANDARY DUE TO GROUPISM
Unfortunately nowadays all this has been put into jeopardy due to extreme
group clash between the two camps. To date, B group has captured most of
the items but even then some few things related with AN and other places
are in the hands of H group. And simultaneously under the table both the
side are inventing devious strategies for grabbing what the other has. One
other terribly negative feature which they both harbour is that neither
camp wants to share what they have with the general marga society. So the
whole archive affair is in a state of chaos and dispute, subterfuge and greed.
Because both the groups are in it for their self-interest-- just to have
the bragging rights about what they have. Just to glorify their own camp.
Neither has any interest in using the archive to propagate AM ideology nor
are they able to properly care for the basic upkeep of those archive
materials. So this is the tragic state of affairs going on these days with
regards to the archive. If all these precious archive materials had been
copied and rationally distributed amongst the margiis and field workers
then the current tumultuous circumstances could be been totally avoided.
That's why again these days, the matter of how to manage Baba's audio and
video cassettes, books and writings, has been getting discussed.
Since 1991, there has been a growing collection of these items,
stored at certain selected places around the globe.
And now there is one brewing question at issue, as to
what is the best way to maintain these treasured items and the teachings
they represent, and pass them on from generation to generation.
TWO OPPOSING PROCESSES
On this topic, distinctly two opinions are coming, which are leading in two
different directions.
#1: STATIC PRESERVATION
Some persons are of the opinion that Baba's audio and video cassettes, and
His books and writings, should be preserved in a few places around the
globe. So the future generation can understand how Ananda Marga ideology
came into being and what its value/utility is in practical life. By this
way, future generations will be able to establish Baba's teachings.
So this first group thinks that by keeping the archive in certain limited
places, things will be properly protected. And Baba's ideology will be
carried and handed over to the future generation. And by this way the
future generation will be highly benefited.
Those who hold this above opinion, think that this way Baba's collected
teachings can be carried from one age to the next age. This is known as the
cold storage syndrome.
Means people who adhere to this view, do not give emphasis to following and
bringing into practice Baba's teachings. Because, to bring those Baba's guidelines
and His dictates into practice is a difficult task for them. With the value of
money and their political so-called power in the organizational sphere,
they want to keep their supremacy by propagating this idea that Baba's "legacy"
will be kept safely in the archive storage. And handed over to future generations.
This will go on and on, one after another age.
The problem is that, to truly adopt Baba's teaching is difficult. And to capture something and put it in an isolated place and brag around about those things is an easy job. That's why they propagate such an approach.
So this is the critical point, which has been discussed since 1991 on
different occasions. As I told above, one group wants to carry on and keep
Baba's so-called "legacy" safe. And pass it on to future generations. And
that so-called legacy will be in the form of books, cassettes, audio-video,
etc.
#2: BABA'S DIRECTED APPROACH
But on this point, Baba's guideline is very clear: That only by putting
Guru's teachings into practice, can those teachings get passed on from
generation to generation.
In the past also, we have seen that the same guideline held true. Lord
Shiva's teaching is still saturating here in Indian soil and South-East
Asian countries also. Not because of Lord Shiva's audio-video tapes or
books, but because whatever He taught, people practiced in their life. And
those practical teachings they observed, and taught to their children. By
this way, generation after generation things are getting practiced. And
Baba wants this very sort of practice to go on -- because this is the
tantric system. To pass His teachings, His ideology to future generations.
On this very point, Baba has given one significant Ananda Vanii, which is
as follows:
Baba says, "From place to place, from age to age, the elixir of immortality
has been flowing forever. Through the medium of human structures this message
of immortality is transmitted onwards...The wise and intelligent ideate...
more on the Supreme desideratum." (AV #66)
Please see the critical difference between this Baba's teaching, and the
general miscalculation of the archive authorities. Baba's teaching is
crystal clear: He wants that His ideology should be practiced in one's own
individual life. And all those tools which are related to enhance and bring
those teachings into practice, are needed to be distributed.
UTILITY OF THE ARCHIVE MATERIALS
Every Margi knows that to stimulate the growth and creation of sadvipras,
AM ideology should be taught. To that end, inspiration and encouragement
should be given to practice sadhana. And related Baba's cassettes, audio
and video, should be provided for providing congenial atmosphere and
satsaunga with Guru. These audio-video materials of Baba will help in
enhancing the practice of shravan, manan, niddidhyasan, kiirtan, japa,
iishvara pranidhan, and dhyana etc. When people will listen directly to
devotional discourses from Baba's own voice on a regular basis, before or
just after their sadhana, in their own home, then it will be their day to
day habit and reminder to follow those glorious guidelines.
But unfortunately, our central archive is moving in a completely different
direction, in illusion as to the results it will bring.
Baba is teaching us in the above Ananda Vanii, that ideal human beings are
the courier, vehicle, or mediums to carry His ideology from one age to
another. Baba is guiding us that ideology if it is lying in book form, is
useless. But if ideology is under practice, then that will be passed along
to the next generation. Otherwise the future generation will not care to
look into those books which are lying in the library. One can see the
history that such books are often eaten by bugs and termites of those
museums. Or sometimes invaders destroy them. And in India, people have
witnessed that thieves also take away those things and sell them in the
black market.
COMING TO RESOLUTION
So here, it is my request that we should follow Guru's guideline. Not be
misguided or disillusioned by false propaganda of the Central Archive that
"These archive materials are for future generations". Our duty is to arouse
the consciousness in the minds of all Margiis around the globe, to think on
this guideline of Baba-- AM ideology must be practiced. And the tools which
Baba has given for this end need to be distributed among all. So that the
needful end of practicing ideology can be realized.
In the following Baba's teaching, Baba guides that human beings are the
real mediums to carry the ideology from one age to another.
Baba says, "Shiva felt that there should be proper media to propagate the grand and lofty ideals He was teaching."
Toma'r pata'ka' ya're da'o ta're bahiba're da'o shakti
["Give strength to the person to whom you give the flag to carry"].
"Otherwise who would be able to carry forth so much knowledge, wisdom, intellect, and such a deep spiritual cult? Incompetent people cannot be expected to carry the legacy of anything. If I teach something to an incompetent or undesirable person, it will bear no fruit, it will get wasted. A heron can never learn to speak like a mynah bird, no matter how much it is trained. The incompetent person is just like the heron." (AV-7, p.56)
So by this it is very clear, that Baba wants human beings to incorporate
His teachings into their own lives. And only this way can people become
competent to carry His teachings forward. To this end, Baba's audio and
video are indispensable tools for inculcating spiritual values--which in
turn are the backbone of such competent persons or sadvipras.
So on this basis, the only practical way to utilize Baba's audio and video,
books and writings is to distribute them and make them available to all
Margis around the world. In whose hands such tools will have real practical
value. And through whom, Baba's teachings will truly get carried from
generation to generation. Rather than lying uselessly on the book shelf.
WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE FOR
Baba guides us in another Ananda Vanii that theoretical knowledge in the
absence of practical knowledge is not useful--or indeed that it is useless.
Baba says, "Book knowledge that cannot be utilized in life has no value." (AV-7, p.56)
So by this way it is clear, such approaches which seek to stockpile Baba's
audio-video, on bookshelves in selected sites around the globe for "future
generations", have no value--it is just their dogma.
BABA'S BLESSING
I close my letter with Baba's blessing, that dark days are coming to an end
and a bright future for all is soon to arrive on the horizon.
"So your future is bright-- not only bright, but guaranteed. A new spiritual
life free from all sorts of dogma is sure to come in the near future."
(SS-18, p.37)
Namaskar,
Motilal
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Psychic Disease of Caste and Racial Supremacy
So-Called Developed Countries Are Also Involved
Baba says, "As human beings were not able to unravel the mystery of this
diversity, they wrongly preached the doctrine of racial supremacy,
resulting in hated of their fellow human beings and heartless cruelty, and
indulged in savagery and bloody warfare - these were the darkest and the
most lamented chapters in human history."
"Sometimes people are wrongly led to believe that the white people are
perhaps superior to the black population, and that the blacks are only a
little higher than our animal ancestors on the scale of evolution."
"Even today in Europe, particularly in Spain and Portugal, and in the
U.S.A., South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), one unmistakably notices
the curse of this ignorance. But is racial supremacy."
Note: Same disease is working with caste dogma ***************************************************
