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Understanding Their Mindset

Date: 07 Mar 2010 13:56:44 -0000 From: "Sudhakar Pandit" To: am-global@earthlink.net Subject: Understanding Their Mindset Baba "Bha'lobesechi a'mi toma'y, jar'ata'r yato a'hva'n..." (P.S. 4628) Purport: Baba, I am loving You. No matter how intoxicating the worldly attractions & crude allurements are; no matter how much they call out to me and try to pull me, in my heart I know that this is not Your divine attraction. Baba, by Your grace, I understand that these crude things will not bring me under Your divine shelter. Whatever flowers are blossoming today, tomorrow they will wither away. The mala which was smiling in vibrant colours, tomorrow it will become one with the dust. This is how this changing, panoramic universe unfolds; this is the way this transitory world works. This is Your divine liila. Nothing in this world is permanent. Baba, by Your grace, this spiritual truth You have made me understand. Baba, when the dark night ends then the shining and glittering moon becomes faded and faint. It loses its charm. Baba, in the most loving and beautiful way, in the end ultimately everything gets its place at Your lotus feet. That is the final stance of this grand creation. Baba, by Your grace You have made me understand that all these worldly attractions do not lead unto You. Baba, You have given me samvit and awakened to the fact that these worldly allurements are not meaningful. Baba, all this is Your unfathomable divine grace...
== UNDERSTANDING THEIR MINDSET ==
Namaskar, Everyone has their own mindset and with that mental outlook they express themselves. For instance, various people have their own way of describing Baba. Indira Gandhi characterized Him as a magician who was a threat to her reign; the communists and political leaders thought He had the chicanery to attract followers and befool the people; bhaktas think He is Parama Purusa; and some groupists have their own style. It all depends upon one's mindset. Let's look at a correspondence from long ago in order to gain insight into a particular mindset that is still prevalent today.
PK CHATTERJEE'S LETTER TO CANDRANATHJI
In the post 1990 era, Ac Candranthji requested Pranay Kumar Chatterjee (aka Rtambar) to write him about his experiences with Baba, realisations in sadhana, as well as what circumstances led him to leave the Marga. As many will recall, PK Chatterjee was the first General Secretary of AMPS who worked tirelessly for AM in the early years. And then, in this Divine liila, PK Chatterjee drifted away from Ananda Marga for many years. Even then, we should not think of him as just an ordinary citizen - he still had devotional feeling for Baba. So Candranathji wrote him to learn the details and gather the history of those early days with Baba. In his reply, PK Chatterjee wrote Candranathji about his entire history in AM. And when talking about his laukik family, PK Chatterjee wrote in his letter on page 3 about the day that his mother died. To express that event, PK Chatterjee, a native Bengali speaker, used the word "mahaprayan". That was how he described his laukik mother's death - i.e. mahaprayan. Then, in his book of 2006, Ham Nahin Bhu'lenge (We Will Never Forget), Ac Candranathji recounts this aspect of PK Chatterjee's life, and on page 24 he also used the term "mahaprayan" to refer to the death of PK Chatterjee's laukik mother.
WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN
Here the point is that the term "mahaprayan" is the normal word Bengali speaking people use to describe the death of a respected human being, such as PK Chatterjee's mother. Indeed, PK Chatterjee himself used this word, as did Ac Candranathji. The mahaprayan term then is not some special devotional term to describe the physical departure of Taraka Brahma. No doubt, Sarvatmananda is selling the term as such and he himself coined the mahaprayan term in AM. But the fact remains it is a term used regularly for the death of respected and even normal human beings. That is its usage in Bengali. The fact that Sarvatmananda has used such an ordinary and common term for Baba speaks more about Sarvatmananda's own mindset than Baba's true stature. In his groupist paradigm, Sarvatmananda has less regard for Baba, that is why he has repeatedly indulged in distorting AM books etc. No one who has great reverence for Baba as being the Parama Purusa would do such a thing like purposefully ruin Baba's original discourses. But Sarvatmananda did. And it is with that same mindset that Sarvatmananda has applied a word, i.e. mahaprayan, to describe the physical departure of Taraka Brahma. By understanding Sarvatmananda's mindset, we can understand his actions like the invention of the mahaprayan term and function. And we can also understand whether we should support such things, or not.
MUST THINK BEFORE RALLYING AROUND
As disciples of Baba we should think carefully. Just as we do not rally around the way that Indira Gandhi or the communists have described Baba, similarly we should use our viveka before rallying around the way certain groupists have classified Baba by their term, "mahaprayan".
BABA'S WARNING: DON'T BE SWAYED BY GROUPIST AGENDAS
According to Baba, so many groupists and jinanis come onto this earth with their own personal agendas and narrow-minded objectives. The dogma of the mahaprayan program is one such example. Baba warns us about such things again and again.
Maha'jano yena gatah sah pantha'
Baba says, "So many scriptures say so many things, and they are sometimes contradictory to one another. Now what to do? What is an ordinary man to do? Whom to follow and whom not to follow? “Smrtayoh vibhinna'h”. There are so many social codes in the world. Whom to follow and whom not to follow? And amongst intellectuals [and groupists] there are so many – there are diversities of opinion. One intellectual doesn’t [[carry]], doesn’t recommend, doesn’t support, the views of others. And it is the greatest weakness of intellectuals [and groupists] that they always encourage disunity. They always support heterogeneity. And one spiritual aspirant, once upon a time, remarked that these intellectuals [and groupists] are polished satans." (AV-12) Life is too short to be swayed by the mindset and agenda of various groupists. They will always try to lure you away from dharma and into their own camp. That is what such groupists do. They will take a mundane term like mahaprayan and try to project it as being one great spiritual event. When in fact the term mahaprayan is just an ordinary word. Yet they have taken this word for their own agenda and applied it to Baba. We are not to be guided by such persons.
BABA'S BLESSING
By Baba's grace, we are to follow the practical yogi - those who have dyed their hearts and minds in His colour, not in the trappings of any groupist strategy. The ways that both PK Chatterjee and Ac Candranathji employed the term mahaprayan in their writings shows that this word is just meant to depict the death of human beings - it is not to be used for Parama Purusa. Yet, due to their own own mindset, some groupists would have you believe otherwise. We should not be swayed by their logic. Ours is the path of truth and dharma, not narrow-mindedness and groupist agendas. Baba says, "So you are to follow the path, you are to follow the cult, and you are to do according to the approaches of the aspirants of the past, the kaolas of the past. You are to be practical in your life of occult science. Your only object of ideation is Parama Purus'a, and not any dogma, nor any scripture." (AV-12) Namaskar, Sudhakar
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Baba says, "There is a secret technique to raise this serpentine coil [kulakundalinii]. Previously this technique was not clearly given. At that time some people thought it proper to keep it secret. If something harmful to individual or collective life is not given, that is good; but the useful things must be given. People will be more attracted to do sadhana." (DKG, p. 22) Note 1: In Baba's above guideline He is telling that all useful teachings must be imparted to the society, i.e. to the common people. Unfortunately, all too often there was the prevalent dogma in the past in India where so-calledgurus did not like to share all their knowledge or reveal all of their techniques to their disciples. Those gurus were thinking they should keep something 'special' for themselves otherwise their prestige and own value will be lost. So they did not tell all those good things and they died withholding those special techniques from the people. In that case, their disciples only got 99% or so of what the guru knew-- not everything, not that last 1%. Gradually then from one generation to the next, 1% of the teachings kept getting withheld until finally everything got completely diluted. And now in places like India in the name of spirituality, only dogma is left. And it is due to the fact that gurus were withholding dharmic teachings. This applies to other fields as well such as medicine etc. This same type of withholding of information and technique occurs. This dogma and defective way must be stopped. Note 2: Baba has given the idea in Namah Shivaya Shantaya that when one gets proper students who are eager and capable, then in that case tell them everything. Do not withhold any information or keep anything secret. That will be disservice to the society.
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