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Important Example to Know

From: "Shantatma Kerketta" To: am-global@earthlink.net Subject: Important Example to Know Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:03:13 +0530 Baba "Pradiip shala'ka' jvele cali eka', se priyo to mor elo na'..." ( P.S. 4794) Purport: Alone sitting in isolation I lit the lamp. I was waiting and wondering why my Dearmost has not come. I wanted to have a glance of Him, to lay my eyes on Him. But neither did He come nor did He look towards me. Sitting in dhyan, in my mind I prepared and decorated a seat for Him; I was waiting and waiting for Him. But in dhyan I was just asking Him for boons-- to fulfill my worldly desires. I did not want to have Him. Rather I wanted worldly things-- boons etc. I did not ask for those things which are divine and eternal. Instead I asked for perishable, decaying, material things-- those which are under the bondage of time, space, and person. So instead of longing for Him, I asked Him for boon after boon. In my misguided dhyan all these crude types desires I had. So all that went in vain because my Dearmost did not come. In dhyan when I was folding His seat and putting it away, then I thought that without pure devotion then nothing is going to happen; I cannot get Him. What I did in dhyan was just a waste of time. Everything went in vain. I gave more importance to worldly things in comparison to devotion and I went on asking for parabhakti from Him. That too went in vain. Sitting alone I lit the lamp and waited, but my dear most did not come...
== IMPORTANT EXAMPLE TO KNOW ==
Namaskar, More and more of our senior workers are moving on. They are rising in their years and after all the body is but a temporary housing for the mind. Our duty then is to remember all with respect and reverence and learn from their example.
HOW TO EVALUATE ONE'S STANDARD
"I had established an ashram at the foot of the Himalayas...in Dehradun District of UP." One of the senior-most avadhutas wrote this in his own book, describing about the time when he left AMPS to establish his own ashram. We all know that in general society, people's quality, qualifications and attributions are measured on the grounds of various superficial variables. But according to Baba's Neohumanistic philosophy, character, dealing, behavior, conduct are one's true qualifications. Baba says such things everywhere in His countless discourses. Here below is one significant example from our holy Ananda Vanii. Baba says, "Your ideal is represented by your conduct. Your learning, your social or economic status have nothing to do with your ideal." (Ananda Vanii #13) In the above Ananda Vanii, Baba's message is quite clear. Without ambiguity we Ananda Margiis are to evaluate others - and oneself -on the point of one's character and conduct.Not on the point of money, power, avadhuta dress, purodhaship, kapalik sadhana, vishesha yoga, age, seniority, and Central Committee, Acarya board and Purodha board, or even post of Purodha Pramukha. So according to Baba's above teaching we should evaluate the calibre of everyone by their conduct only. Other so-called qualifications as expressed are valueless. So to evaluate the quality and qualifications of this senior avadhuta, the late respected Dada Samanvayanandaji, we should discuss on the point of conduct. Specifically, how far did Dada Samanvayanandaji's conduct go in accordance with Baba's teaching.
GURU-DISCIPLE RELATION
In Tantra, the Guru-disciple relation is the most significant thing. That is why Baba has made various rules and given in Caryacarya about the services to Guru. We Ananda Margiis always do Guru Puja, minimum two times a day, every day. And we know "Guru Brahma...", the whole idea behind this is that Guru is everything. And that any disciple of Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji must have this basic characteristic that they should believe in Guru, not betray. One must not betray Guru, otherwise everything is gone. Here in India, Margis are fully aware about the history of Dada Samanvayanandji. But our overseas Margis may not be aware so for clarity, the basic matters are described here below.
DADAJI'S STORY
Dada Samanvayanandaji's previous name was Ac. Shivananda Avt. And in 1972 when Baba went into jail, Dadaji lobbied against Baba and got failure. That means Dada Samanvayanandaji a.k.a. Dada Shivananda left the organisation and in challenging way he created his own organization, giving it the name "Prema Marga". And Dadaji established his office in Dehradun that time. After that time, Dada Samanvayanandaji never expressed repentance or remorse for what happened in those days. Instead Dada Samanvayanandaji shamelessly glorified in his book that betrayal to Baba was not unjust, rather that betrayal was proper. He created his own book 'Glories of ...'. And in that book he mentioned many times about his great work in Dehradun. Means that time when he went against Guru and made that separate organization known as Prema Marg and was challenging to AM, about all this Dadaji says that this was his "great" work. We should not forget that in those days, Baba was in jail. It was during those difficult days for AM when all support was needed, that Dada Samanvayanandaji left and created his own organization to compete against AM. Yet in his book Dada Samanvayanandaji writes on page 57. Please read below. Dada Samanvayanandaji writes: "I had established an ashram at the foot of the Himalayas...in Dehradun District of UP." So see Dada Samanvayanandaji did not have repentance for his betrayal to Baba. And even after the publishing of his book he did not express any remorse. Not a word of repentance did he express for those black days in which Dada Samanvayananda left Baba and created his own organization. In simple language this is betrayal to Baba and also back-stabbing. So we should not hold his example in some divine manner and others should not emulate Dadaji's approach. Now when groupism is rattling our organisation, this is not the time to depart and plant one's flag of glory elsewhere.
DADAJI'S STORY (CONT)
When Guru is in jail then true margiis took lot of trouble and suffering in various ways and also got imprisonment. I have deep respect for them. But what respect should one have when Dada Samanvayanandaji betrayed Baba and left Him during that very crucial time when Baba was in jail. And when Baba was released then Dada Samanvayanandaji painted his own black face with white oil paint and appeared before Margis in the beginning of 1983 as a great saint as if nobody knows about his hypocrisy and betrayal to Baba. When Baba was in jail Margiis were suffering also in jail, and Dada Samanvayanandaji was enjoying his own self-created guru-ship, and establishing one organization. And when the good days of AM came, then Dadaji returned back because his fake guruship of Prema Marga was not as beneficial / enticing as befooling Margiis. What a hypocrisy. And then after '90 he jumped into a very high post. Who will appreciate his hypocritical behavior. I don't think that any true Margii and WT will appreciate. As a brother we certainly love him, but his is not an example to follow. In his later years one ruling group made Dada Samanvayanandaji their priest; and Dada Samanvayanandaji moved all around the globe giving his sermons like the Pope of Rome. And he praised himself his so-called illustrious past.
MUST NOT APPRECIATE HYPOCRITES
About hypocritical people Baba's guideline is very strong. Please read below. Baba says "Hypocrites must not be tolerated." We must follow Baba's command on this point. What Baba says in Caryacarya we must follow. Baba says "Hypocrites are those who betray." "Don't forgive till his nature is reformed. Immediate forgiveness is a special weakness of mind. It results in worse harm to society." (CC-2) Everybody in this universe can forget Dada's back stabbing to Marga ideology. But true Margiis and Wt's cannot. And not forgetting means, not following Dada's negative example. No matter the circumstances one must stand with Guru and not drift away seeking glory elsewhere. Yet that is what Dadaji did. As a brother we love him, yet as an acarya and disciple, his example is nothing but a stain and none fall into a similar demise. That is the learning we should take from his life on this earth: What not to do.
BABA'S BLESSING
Here following is Baba's divine guideline for building up one human society. Baba says, "You must think, 'I will personally move towards the supreme desideratum, and at the same time I will try to assist those who are suffering from despair, those steeped in blind superstition...Our family is universal; our abode is also universal'." (SS-18, p. 41) Namaskar, Shantatma
Note 1: SEE WITH PROPER EYES
In general society, people's quality, qualifications and attributions are measured on the grounds of superficial and often, crude, measures. (a) Just like for example in present Indian Politics, brutality and hypocrisy is the criteria for good Indian leaders at present. And in the past it was not like that. But hypocrisy was there no doubt. But now criminal behaviour is the top-most qualification. This is a dogma. (b) And in general religious Indian psychology saffron robe has a lot of meaning. It gives deep respect. There is a religious teaching that "Don't see the merit and demerit of the person who is wearing saffron dress. Must think that person is great. You are not doing pranam to that person. Whoever is using that dress they are God's representative. Don't see about their character and behaviour." But all Margis know that this is one dogma. (c) And in general Indian society, in the religious sense, age is also one of the factors. White hair, white beard, wrinkled skin is one qualification. Even if that person is a hypocrite. --This is also dogma. (d) And in general capitalist society money is the criteria to measure someone. In town if you ask "who is most important" the answer will be that person who is the richest. --So money is the qualification. And this is also dogma. But in AM all these above characteristics have no value. As they are all crude or superficial parameters that have nothing to do with the person's behaviour and conduct.
Note 2: ONE FURTHER POINT
Here is one further point about which Dada Samanvayanandji wrote in his book. It regards the matter of certain instructions Dada Samanvayanandji himself dogmatically created, telling that if these are followed one will achieve liberation. Ac. Samanvayanandaji wrote in his book Ananda Satakam on p.131 last para "Bhagavat....Paraman Padinca..." And, Samanvayandaji Dada explained, "Those who not only read but follow the instruction noted herein (of Ananda Satakam) with interest and care, they will surely overcome the delusion of this world and cross the stormy ocean of living in this world." (p.131, Ananda Satakam) Thus Dadaji guaranteed liberation by following his personal teaching. A similar type of teaching to what Samanvayanandji preached in this "sutra", is also very common teaching in Hindu religion. One famous example is Hanuman Chalisa. Hanuman Chalisa has been written to impose and inject a fear complex into the general public mind to worship the god monkey, Hanuman. To force the public to worship Hanuman monkey god, poet Tulsidaas wrote "Hanuman Chalisa'" and that same way Samanvayanandaji taught others by giving a dogmatic teaching like Tulsidas did. It is obvious that if the dogmatic poet of the Hindu religion would not have injected the fear complex then surely nobody would have appreciated to worship the monkey. Human psychology is that humans like to believe or pray that some human being is their god. Not the monkeys. So it is the power of the fear complex of that poetry that misguided / forced Hindu people to chant every day the Hanuman chalisa hymn, means the monkey god eulogy. So, it is obvious to all that to impose his book, Ananda Satakam, on Margiis' mind, Dada Samanvayananda did the same technique as the dogmatic Hindu poet did. Following is the stanza of that dogmatic monkey god hymm: 'Jo satbar...mahasukha hoi'. The meaning is that those who will repeat those Hanuman Chalisas (eulogy of Hanuman monkey god) will get liberation and be free from all worldly problems, like money, matter, ghost etc. So with fear Hindu dogmatic people are repeating this. In the same way our Dada Samanvayanandaji tried to impose his book Ananda Satakam on Margiis by creating fear complex. Like the dogmatic poet of Hindu religion did with the monkey god story. Baba clearly explains that religions do not follow the path of rationality, do not follow the path of dharma. Rather they claim to be issuing the word of God, and with this excuse they inject one after another dogma among their followers. Baba says, "The word "Dharma" is often loosely used for so-called religion. The reason for this is that when the founders of almost all religions propagated their respective doctrines to the general mass, they claimed they were the messages of God. But no religion ever followed the path of logic." (HS-I, '87 ed., p.4) So religions preach all sorts of harmful dogmas under the aegis of their false claim that they are preaching the word of God. Certainly, those living in India know very well about the monkey god Hanuman but for overseas readers let me please tell something more....-- the god Hanuman belongs to the ape family. He has a long tail and his face is like a monkey. It is not even a human being; Hanuman is one monkey. That is why one name of the monkey is Hanuman. And Chalisa' means eulogy. Every Hindu dogmatic person is well aware of these things but for the benefit of overseas Margiis it is meaningful to explain the matter in full. However the main point is that this dogma of the monkey god is deeply rooted in all fundamental Hindus' mind. And every day they must repeat this thing minimum one time and especially when they feel fear of ghost. The dogma is that by repeating the monkey god name, ghosts will not come and monkey god worshippers will ultimately reach the goal of liberation and all desires will be fulfilled. And those who disrespect this will themselves burn in hell fire. Because of this dogmatic belief, Hindu people are afraid and they are repeating the Hanuman Chalisa with deep reverence. So Dada Samanvayanandaji unfortunately also suffered from attachment to Hindu dogma. Clearly Dada carried this dogma on his head. Because in the same way as the monkey god hymn, Dadaji created one complex that if any margii will believe and respect and chant his sloka then surely they will get liberation as if there is no need of astaunga yoga sadhana. Only his Ananda Satakam will work as the divine ship to across the ocean of maya.
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Baba says, "All the languages of the world are our language, this always you will remember. All the languages are your language. Of them you may know 2, 4, 10, 20, 200, 500, and all the rest you do not know. That does not mean that the languages which you do not know are not your language. All the languages of the world are the language of humanity. All the languages are the language of Parama Purus'a. For all the languages you should have love-- equal love for all the languages." (Hindi Language, Morning General Darshan 1/1/84, Ananda Nagar)
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