Baba
Prabhat Samgiita #324
PS intro: This below Prabhat Samgiita, song #324, is a
neo-humanistic song given by Baba on 10 March 1983. Thereafter Baba
expressed this same theme in His RU address and DMC discourse of 28
and 29 May, respectively. In both those discourses He has given the
same type of idea but in greater detail. However, as the DMC speech
has still not been translated into English, a portion of Baba's RU
speech is cited below, after the purport of the song. In that RU
address, Baba is specifically telling that everything is the
expression of Parama Purusa: He is expressing Himself throughout
this manifested universe. That is the central idea of His RU
discourse and Prabhat Samgiita #324 is based on this same concept.
"Moder dhara' ru'pe peyeche toma'r ru'per sa'je..." (PS 324)
Purport:
O' Lord, this world has become beautiful because of Your infinite
charm. That is why I behold You everywhere in all Your creations.
When I look at any expression then I see that You are there. You are
expressing Yourself in that form. O' Parama Purusa, You are
expressing Your grandeur in the form of all these created entities -
animate and inanimate. You Yourself are One but Your expressions are
many. You express Yourself in innumerable shapes and forms. You are
hiding within Your creation.
O' Divine Entity, You are present everywhere - in all the flows.
Nothing is outside Your mental arena; everything is within the
purview of Your mind. That is why nothing is ever lost. I am in Your
mind and I do according to Your desires. This entire creation is in
Your mind and I am one part of that. I am working according to Your
exact wish. Because this entire creation is Your thought projection.
O' Supreme One, O' Baba, You are present in each and every thought.
Whatever human beings think is known to You since You are the
Witnessing Entity of that very thought process. Baba, You are very
vast: Everything is in Your mind. Baba, You are very small: You are
present in everyone's thoughts. Baba, You are smaller than the
smallest and bigger than the biggest. Baba, even by mistake I do not
think that besides You anything else exists. You are everything.
Baba, by Your grace I always think that You are the quintessence...
Note 1: Here is a portion of Baba's RU address of 28 May 1983
wherein He is expressing this same type of idea as has been
expressed in the above song.
"Neohumanism includes within its scope not only human beings and
animate creatures, such as plants and animals, but all inanimate
entities as well, for the scope of Neohumanism extends down to the
smallest particles of sub-atomic matter... Why should the love and
affection of developed human minds be restricted to human beings
only? Why should it not include all living beings, including plant
life? This is the new explanation of humanism - neohumanism - for
within neohumanism the entire animate world is included...And that
golden day is sure to come when that perfect stage of structure,
that is, unit existence in the intra-atomic world, will be reached,
when human intuition will realize that the essence in the sub-atomic
world is pure Consciousness." (Neo-Humanism in a Nutshell - 1)
Note 2: Materialists think that everything comes from matter while
Baba's Ananda Marga philosophy states that everything comes from
Brahma. This then is the fundamental difference between the static
world view of materialism and our spiritual outlook. Needless to
say, our spiritual perspective changes the whole view of this
universe as well as our relation with it. Materialists think that
the world is for their self-satisfaction only whereas in Ananda
Marga we think that we have come to this world to serve others since
all are the expression of Parama Purusa.
BABA'S WORKING STYLE:
SOME STILL CONFUSED
Part 1
Namaskar,
As we all now know, from the very outset, Baba had a grand plan for
the humanity. And He presented it step by step in a very smooth and
practical manner - over the course of time.
On day 1 in 1955, He did not call everyone together for a seminar
and tell them to write down a list of His each and every plan for
the entire humanity. Nor did He do so in 1970 or 1978.
For example, He did not give Prabhat Samgiita, or Gurukul or
neo-humanism in those early days. If He had done so, people would
not have been ready. However, that does not mean that Baba did not
have the idea or plan to put forth those projects - everything was
in His cosmic mind - but people were not ready for those teachings.
At that time, no one would have been able to learn that way - nor
would they have remembered because of the great extent of His
teachings. Already Parama Purusa Baba was presenting so many new
programs. And to remember and learn anything new and revolutionary,
human beings must engage in that enterprise and repeat it again and
again - practically with their own hands. Then that experience gives
a deep impression in the mind. That way the mind gets saturated with
that idea.
Hence, Baba took a divine approach, which we now may call His
working or teaching style in the pre-1990 period. As we all saw,
those days - step by step - Baba would present a new plan and
program.
EVERYTHING DONE IN PHASES TO TEACH US
That means in one work phase, Baba might emphasize the need for a
school - i.e. that each village must have a primary school. To teach
this point, all workers and margiis got involved in securing funds
to start a school. There was huge momentum in that moment to focus
on the establishment of Ananda Marga primary schools. That was the
main program Baba would ask about in reporting.
In turn, some units created comparatively successful schools while
many did not - but everyone learned that a primary school was needed
in order to propagate the ideas of Ananda Marga. That teaching
everyone got. In each and every reporting session, Baba would ask,
praise, scold, & guide about this point of creating schools
until He was satisfied that everyone understood that a school was
needed in every small or big town and village throughout the entire
globe. By that way, from their very childhood, children will learn
Ananda Marga ideals.
In some places, expensive buildings were purchased for schools but
only got used a few times, or maybe not at all. The main thing was
that everyone got the psychic understanding about the need for a
school. That was Baba's aim all along.
HOW TRANSFERS WERE DONE
When this program was built up and some of the schools were going
strong, Baba might transfer the lead Dada from that project and post
a fresh new Dada from Training Center to that school who had little
skill or language knowledge of that area. The school would
inevitably suffer and ultimately close, but that new Dada got the
needed training and the prior Dada was freed up to learn a new
aspect of Baba's vast program like Prout or dharma pracara or VSS
work. That was the way things went.
Baba told Wts to create Lfts who can run the school and inform
margiis that they should oversee the operations of the school. Then
the school would be sustainable. But in many cases, margiis may not
have been active or were already too busy and there were no LFTs, in
which case a very reputable Ananda Marga school eventually closed.
In such a situation some naive margiis started thinking to request
Baba not to transfer the Wt of that unit in hopes of saving the
school. But Baba did not listen to such pleas. And other workers
tried to convince margiis about this in their own way.
HOW DADAS JUSTIFIED BABA'S WORKING STYLE
After a Dada was transferred from a particular unit and the projects
and programs in that area were disrupted and disturbed, then local
margiis would ask their SS Dada, "Why is Baba doing like this?"
Some Wts had no clue how to respond. So they came up with the bogus
answer that Baba is like the Tibetan Guru Marpa and we should think
of ourselves as Milarepa. This especially happened in NY sector when
in one era all were moving with the Milarepa story in one hand. But
that was an outrageous response and it was a terrible blunder to
talk like this. See note 1.
The proper answer would have been, "I don't know." That would have
been better; but, unfortunately, that was not done. In turn, margiis
got more confused. And sadly still that confusion remains in many
cases.
BABA'S SPECIAL COSMIC PLAN
Actually, it would have been impractical to keep one committed Dada
assigned to a single school for years and years. Baba was putting
forth His new and newer plan for the humanity and training wts.
Plus when workers were transferred to new posts and jobs, they
developed greater experience and learned new languages,
psychologies, and problem solving skills etc. All along Baba was
creating new and newer programs in further succession. If those
Dadas had been kept in those old programs then who would have been
available to learn the new programs.
In Him,
Kevalam
Note 1: MISUNDERSTANDING OF SOME DADAS:
JUST LIKE THE STORY OF MILAREPA
They were telling that Baba is like the Tibetan Buddhist guru Marpa
who was giving the order to his disciple(s) to make and break
buildings - make and break, and make and break.
In legend, it is well-documented that Marpa was a Buddhist guru in
Tibet and before giving any spiritual training to his perspective
disciples he would allot difficult tasks. They were forced to
meaninglessly and uselessly construct buildings through years and
years of bone breaking labor. These buildings were made by
individual muscle power alone. And as soon as they were constructed
then Marpa would order his followers to dismantle it stone by stone.
This was not some social service project for the welfare of
humanity. This was just the order of one lunatic.
So it is unfortunate that some confused Wts propagated and equated
Baba in this way. It is so disgraceful. First thing is that in
Ananda Marga, initiation is accessible to all - bar none. There are
no stipulations. Those interested will get diiksa. In stark
contrast, the pseudo-guru Marpa harassed his new recruits like
Milarepa for decades and decades and never gave them any true
training or guidance. How can one sane person link such dealings
with Baba. It is unfortunate that sill some are believing this myth.
The only redeeming aspect is that such misunderstanding is primarily
contained to NY sector.
Note 2: START PRIMARY SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE
WORLD
Here below Baba reveals His strategy to start primary schools
throughout the world.
(Note: Baba is adamantly against the build-up of any high school
until we have our Ananda Marga primary schools in each and every
village of this earth. On this very point, Baba has given the logic
and reasoning. By Ananda Marga primary schools, Ananda Marga
bhagavad dharma will established little by little. I don't know
anyone who does not understand this point - i.e. all understand.)
“We must start primary schools throughout the entire world to create
a spiritual urge amongst the little pupils. I am not in favour of
starting colleges; I am in favour of starting primary schools. In
the entire world we have got one degree college at Ananda Nagar and
thousands of kindergarten schools. That is why it is desirable in
the first phase to start many primary schools instead of colleges.
Merely opening high schools and colleges without a proper system of
education will not serve the purpose. Rather, thousands of
kindergarten and primary schools must be started with this new
system of education, to create a spiritual urge amongst children
throughout the entire world.” (Discourses on Neohumanist Education:
Prama-4)
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Subject: Baba's Working Style: Some Still Confused #2
BABA'S WORKING STYLE:
SOME STILL CONFUSED
PART 2
Namaskar,
This is the second part of the ongoing series about Baba's working
style. The first letter examined how Sadguru Baba introduced His
various plans and program in a phase-wise approach. By this method,
He practically demonstrated the wide array of projects that must be
properly implemented. Thus, He posted and reposted Wts to best teach
them about the various types of works that needed to be done. More
about this is discussed below as well as how Baba mapped out an
entire blueprint for serving humanity.
"when workers were transferred to new posts
and jobs, they developed greater experience and learned new
languages, psychologies, and problem solving skills etc. All along
Baba was creating new and newer programs in further succession. If
those Dadas had been kept in those old programs then who would
have been available to learn the new programs."
TWO IMPORTANT POINTS
Baba's phase-wise working style aimed to achieve two distinct goals.
First, the already existing programs which He gave to serve society
for thousands of years should continue running operated by Lfts and
margiis. Second, those new programs, which were also for the
humanity, had to be started by Wts.
WHY THE NEED FOR NEW PROGRAMS
Imagine if Baba did not give new programs. Then Ananda Marga would
not have been complete, and after '90, margiis would never have
thought that such programs should be done. For example, in various
religions, social service programs are not as vast and comprehensive
as those in Ananda Marga. Our programs serve each and every arena of
individual and collective life of the entire society.
For instance, the Hindu religion does not have any social service
programs (see note 1). And Christianity does not have a logical
spiritual philosophy let alone a socio-economic plan. And Buddhists
do not have any real approach for social service programs (see note
2. But Ananda Marga has all that and so much more.
Furthermore, if Baba kept one Wt as a teacher for decades and
decades at one school then who would have learned the new programs
He was putting forth. If the school could not be maintained by
margiis and Lfts, then Baba would lovingly scold everyone for the
closure o)f the school - but He would not stop His divine plan of
presenting dynamic new programs. His aim was to give a blueprint for
what to do and how to proceed.
When Baba got a report that a school did close, then He lovingly
scolded everyone from top to bottom. He told Wts that it is the duty
of Lfts to run the school and that Wts should ensure that the school
was operating well. Whole-timers were to oversee those Lfts and get
needed work done by margiis. That was the system. This was all part
of Baba's blueprint for serving humanity.
MORE ABOUT THE NEED FOR TRANSFERS
One thing to understand is that those days Wts were getting
transferred frequently because the number of Wts was not very high.
We did not have a lot of workers and Baba wanted to unveils an
increasing number of programs to wts and margiis. So when margiis
and wts had learned that primary schools are an important service
project, then Baba added that a school must have a children's home
also. And if some unit had many children in their home then Baba
might post a Wt for the home as well. That was the home
superintendent post. And when the home started running properly and
was respected, after some time the Wt got transferred and it was the
duty of the Lfts and margiis to run that home. But when this did not
happen, that children's home would also collapse. This happened year
after year. Schools and childrens' homes closed and opened while new
programs were always getting introduced. And certainly some of those
schools and projects of old are still running to this very day. But
the main thing is that Baba was presenting us with His blueprint for
serving humanity.
Plus, more areas had to be covered around the globe and Wts were
needed to go to other districts, regions and countries where pracara
was newly started. And Baba also created so many new organisations -
such as Prout, PBI (Proutist Block of India), VSS, SDM, and
countless more - and He needed workers to staff those organisations.
By this way, people knew that Baba made all those organisations,
whereas if He had not posted workers to those organisations, we
would not know that such organisations existed or were needed. We
would not know that we were to manage those organisations in the due
course. So Baba did all this to make a crystal-clear blueprint for
serving humanity.
BABA'S GRAND BLUEPRINT
So Baba was creating a blueprint of future organisational
activities. It is just like if you want to build a big mansion, then
you may or may not have money, but you must have building plans and
/ or a blueprint.
All along it was quite obvious that margiis and lfts were needed to
help with all new programs. So they were assigned to many projects
but it was not always possible for them to properly attend to them
all.
On the top, Baba wanted to have personal communication with each and
every margii and wt that is why He would call them in reporting
sessions and give His divine blessing. By having His darshan
everyone become stronger devotionally. So each month, time passed in
this way, by His grace.
In other words, Baba had so many different programs to show us. That
is why, ultimately in a short span, Baba would add a new project.
Baba never stopped any project but told that it was the duty of Wts,
Lfts and margiis to manage old as well new works. It was His grace -
His liila.
ANALOGY OF TECHNICAL COLLEGE:
MAKING AND BREAKING
Think of it this way. Just as a technical institute has a workshop
so their students learn can and practice what to do by making and
breaking various projects, a similar method was going on in Ananda
Marga before 1990.
In the case of trainees in the technical college, they are under the
tutelage of their teachers. By making and breaking, they gain the
requisite skills and understanding for how to work on their own. And
finally when their training is complete and they have earned their
degree, they are ready to work professionally in a factory etc.
Before that, they were just trainees - just making and breaking for
learning purposes. So there is a distinct difference between their
training time in the workshop and the professional work that occurs
in the factory.
Before 1990 in Ananda Marga, the situation was akin to a workshop
where huge training was going on. People were making and breaking
schools and various other works. This was the time of their
apprenticeship. By this way, they were being taught so they could
carry out Guru's plans and programs in the future. The main thing
was that Baba was giving a blueprint and creating a workshop
environment to prepare everyone for their future works and
assignments.
The phase before 1990 phase was for learning - i.e. making and
breaking - and it was not meant to go on forever. But unfortunately
many could not understand. Now, this is becoming more clear to
everyone.
In Him,
Kevalam
Note 1: WORLD IS ILLUSION - NO NEED TO SERVE
Everyone knows that in Shrii Shankaracarya's non-dualistic
philosophy there is only Brahma - nothing else. There is no
importance of the external world; world is seen as an illusion. So
there is no need of social service when the world itself is an
illusion. That was his teaching. But nowadays, the Hindus are
copying Christianity and they have begun doing some social service.
But that social service was not born out of any Hindu doctrine.
Note 2: BUDDHA DID NOT GIVE A SOCIAL CODE
Lord Buddha did not give any social scripture - rather, his nihilism
philosophy neglected the world. Thus Buddhism is devoid of any
social code. So those disciples of Buddhism just continued those
same social trends that they were doing earlier in their Hindu
heritage.
