"Be Engaged in War"

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:11:24 -0000 (GMT) From: Singh_Manindra Subject: "Be Engaged in War" To: AM-GLOBAL Baba "Toma'r ka'che ca'i na' kono ma'n, ca'i na' kono yash..." (P.S. 825) Purport: Baba, by Your grace I am not asking for any name, fame, or prestige from You. These type of desires I do not have. By Your grace, I do not want to plunge myself into the vanity of all those worldly things. Rather I want to keep my mind exclusively focused upon Your lotus feet. This devotional longing I have. Baba, since the crimson rays of the dawn, You have colored my days with the rainbow color. You have decorated everything. It is Your grace. When evening falls, then I feel Your proximity and Your divine dance. I see Your liila in the form of countless stars shining in the sky. Baba, all the time You are with me-- in all the spheres of my life. You make everything charming and colorful. What You have graciously done for me, that is enough. You have granted me everything. By hearing the chirping of the birds, I listen to Your songs. In this way, I feel Your blissful presence. And when the sky is covered with clouds and by the dance of the peacock, You create beauty in my life. Baba, everywhere I feel Your divine grace-- Your eternal presence in this divine liila. You are behind each and every expression of this universe. You are in every form. Everywhere I feel Your presence. I am never alone. In my good days and bad times, always You are with me. And in this way everything becomes meaningful and joyful. Baba, it is Your grace...

== "BE ENGAGED IN WAR" ==

Namaskar, Our AM scripture needs our distinct help and attention. This letter details how rampant sloppiness and ineptness in our Publications Dept has led to wide-spread misrepresentation of Baba's divine teachings. Please note that the specific case outlined below is not an isolated example but rather is one of innumerable distortions which are the result of improper methods and repeated failures by those in our AMPS Publications office.

GURU'S WORD IS MANTRA

As we all know "mantra mulam gurur va'kyam"-- the word of Guru is mantra. Thus when our Baba is the Sadguru, every disciple, nay the entire humanity, will key into His each and every syllable. Because internally everyone desires His divine guidance in hopes of attaining spiritual realisation and establishing peace on this earth.

GURU'S WORD IS MISREPRESENTED BY PUBLICATIONS DEPT

Naturally then we must be vigilant to keep all His divine scriptures as accurate representations of what He has actually said. Not even one word should be wrong as that could invite disaster-- such as in this below described case. Here are the details. On the morning of 27 November 1978 in Mumbai (Bombay) during His general darshan, Baba graciously delivered His historic discourse titled "DHARMAKS'ETRA AND KURUKS'ETRA". The discourse was given by Him in English with a few words in Hindi. The discourse itself is not very long and stands as just a few printed pages. And in one culminating section of the discourse Baba delivers very specific guidance about how one should proceed in life. And tragically that very guidance was totally misconveyed by the publications team. Here below is the critical and systemic error.

"BE ENGAGED IN WORK" NOT "BE ENGAGED IN WAR"

At one particular place in the discourse Baba is very carefully revealing the meaning of the term, 'kuruks'etra'. And here below is the first printed version in English of that exact section which was released by our Publications department. Baba says, "Kuruks'etra means the field that is always saying: 'Do something, O person, do something. Don't sit idle -- do something. Be engaged in war'." (AV-5, Disc #116, p.87) So here in the printed text it is clearly written that Baba says "Be engaged in war"-- this is Baba's guidance to the humanity, or so the book says. And again, as a reminder, this discourse was originally given by Baba in English twenty eight years ago in 1978. And in 1987 it was first printed in Ananda Vacanamrtam 5. Thus the discourse has been in print 20 years. And since that initial printing it has been reprinted in at least three other books in English: [1] Karma Sannyasa pg 36 (1988); [2] Discourses on Krsna and the Giita pg 79 (2000); [3] Discourses on Krsna and the Giita pg 80 (2004). Plus it has also been electronically published in ZY Find multiple times, including the latest 2006 edition. And in all those instances, over the course of 20 years, those publications personnel printed Baba's guideline entirely wrong. The Publications Dept printed:

'Do something, O person, do something. Don't sit idle -- do something. Be engaged in WAR'

When in fact Baba's real words are:

'Do something, O person, do something. Don't sit idle -- do something. Be engaged in WORK'

Thus Baba's divine teaching is 'Be engaged in WORK' but the Publications team wrote 'Be engaged in WAR'. Thus the whole thing is a total misfire and for years and years the mistake was never caught even though the discourse has been reprinted multiple times. Always the same critical mistake has appeared: "Be engaged in WAR". And still to this very day it is like that. The whole thing makes a total mockery and embarrassment of Baba's holy discourse. Unsuspecting readers and the common public will naively think that our Sadguru wants that the whole humanity and this struggle torn earth should engage in WAR. When in reality Baba is giving us the dharmic guideline to "be engaged in WORK". Needless to say there is a heaven and hell difference between "War" and "Work".

THE BLATANT ERROR DOES NOT END THERE HINDI AND BENGALI EDITIONS ALSO DISTORTED

However that is not the be-all and end-all of the mistake. Because as was noted above, the discourse was originally given in English. So that incorrect English version was used as the basis for the Hindi and Bengali editions. Thus the Hindi and Bengali editions also proclaim: "Be engaged in War". Specifically the Hindi version says, "yuddharat raho" meaning, 'keep engaged in war'. The term 'yaddharat' means 'engaged in war' and 'raho' means 'keep'. Hindi readers can reference: AV-5, p.142, Edn '97. Because that is where the distortion occurs. And there they will see that the guideline mistakenly says, 'Be engaged in WAR'. Likewise the same problem occured with the Bengali text. It was also based on the faulty English version so that led to the Bengali edition also being distorted. Specifically the Bengali version says, "samgra'm karo" meaning 'be engaged in war'. The term 'samgra'm' means 'war' or 'battle' and the word 'karo' means 'do'. Bengali readers can reference AV-5, p. 170 Edn '97. Because that is the where the distortion is printed. And there they will see that the printed discourse wrongly proclaims, 'Be engaged in WAR'.

AN ENDLESS STREAM OF MISTAKES

Thus the whole blunder has turned into a systemic problem. None can claim that it is but a simple printing error and that during the next printing it will be corrected. It is not like that at all. Rather due to extreme laziness and disinterest, the same mistake gets reprinted again and again until it gets printed in every single language in the wrong way-- thus giving the wrong guideline to the entire humanity. Because as we know the Ananda Vacanamrtam series of discourses has been translated into so many languages like Spanish, French, German, Chinese etc. And in each edition the same wrong guideline is given, 'Be engaged in war'. All because of faulty techniques employed by our Publications department. They never revisit or check the original cassettes to see what Baba's actual words were. Just they reprint the old sloppy version and put a new cover on it and make the false show that the discourses are getting better and better. When the truth is that they carry the same wrong mistake. And that is spreading all around the globe.

JUST LIKE THE STORY OF GANDHARBA SINGH

The entire blunder by the Publications Department is just like ridiculous scene which unfolds in one short story, 'Gandarbha Singh is No More' (Ref: Sarkar's Short Stories, part 1). In that tale one simple villager is crying profusely about the death of the 'great Gandarbha Singh'. And little by little all the royalty of the King's palace is also mourning the death of the great Gandarbha Singh-- without ever knowing who Gandarbha Singh was. But in their stupidity and inane approach they keep spreading the news all around and all are shaving their heads to mourn the tragic loss of the great Gandarbha Singh. Finally, in the end, seeing that everyone in the King's royal palace has shaved their head, the Queen shows her worthiness by asking who is Gandarbha Singh and it is found out that Gandarbha Singh was the trusted and aged donkey of that villager.

SAME THING IS HAPPENING WITH BABA'S DISCOURSE

So just how the above false fact inanely circulates throughout the entire kingdom about the death of the great Gandarbha Singh, similarly the same type of ludicrous nonsense is going on with our Publications Department. Initially someone half-heartedly listens to a discourse and wrongly puts in print that Baba says, 'Be engaged in WAR'. And then without any checking, that wrong transcription gets spread into more books and then gets translated into other languages until finally the whole earth has the wrong guideline from Baba. With the result being that everyone thinks that Baba wants for the whole humanity to 'be engaged in WAR'. Thus the same silly and senseless mistake is getting propagated all around just like as happened in the tale about Gandarbha Singh. This is the credibility of our Publications Department these days. And do not forget that the electronic versions also carry this mistake-- 'Be engaged in WAR'-- thereby preserving the wrong teachings for ages and ages. And the worst part is that even after raising the matter with the Publications Dept they are still not going to fix it. This they never do. They do not print an errata page informing everyone of the error, nor do they send out an e-mail to all margiis, nor do they do anything to repair the error. Just the problem sits there and gets multiplied until all over the globe it is proclaimed, 'Be engaged in WAR'.

AM SCRIPTURES MUST BE CORRECTED

By the above case, it is clear that our AM published books of Baba's discourses must be completely overhauled in order to ensure that they are pristine and perfect. Because the mistake about 'be engaged in WAR' is not the only problem. Rather the discourses are riddled with hundreds and thousands of such problems. And these critical errors will get multiplied and spread throughout the universe if we are not careful. Because at present our Publications Dept uses a totally faulty method for reprinting discourses. Only they want money in their pocket and prestige added to their name-- they never think about the accuracy of the discourses. And for that reason wrong things get printed over and over again. That is why in every language around the globe Baba's guideline is wrongly printed as 'Be engaged in WAR'. When of course the reality is 'Be engaged in WORK'.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION

The best solution is for all of Baba's discourse cassettes to be spread amongst our entire Marga community. All margiis should have easy and free access to all of Guru's original discourses. Then these publications errors can be corrected. That is how this error was found about 'WAR'. One local margii has the discourse and a few of us listened to it one day and we found this outrageous problem in our printed books. Here the point is that if the original audio versions are available to all margiis then we will be easily able to correct all the problems. This is the best solution-- the only solution. But this also those Publications Dadas and factional heads do not like to do-- for reasons best known to them. But if we push again and again, then they will have to one day respond and make the discourses available. This is the only way.

BABA'S BLESSING

By Baba's grace let us make His discourses perfect so that the earth will be full of sweetness-- not WAR. Baba says, "...This Goal provides inspiration, supplies the means for forward movement and makes the little lamps infinitely effulgent...it will make the earth ever full of sweetness..." (Ananda Vanii #67) Namaskar, Manindra

Note 1: NEW BOOKS ARE NOT "NEW"

Many gullible people think that whenever a new book is published then it is entirely clean and perfect. But in reality it is just a new cover and the same old problems that occurred under Sarvatmananda's crooked regime are getting multiplied over and over again. So the new books coming out now are not polished and error-free. They contain all the same garbage mistakes because the publishers never refer back to the original audio cassette. So their whole working style is faulty. That is why no new book is really new but rather is a re-hash of the same old mistakes. Every margii should be aware about this fact.

Note 2: THIS GLOBE IS TIRED OF WAR

Due to world wars and due to terrorism this entire earth is tired of war. Nobody wants war. That is another reason why we should fix the printed version of Baba's aforementioned discourse; because when members of the public see that our AM books indicate that Baba is prescribing for people to 'be engaged in WAR', then they will not be attracted to AM. Rather they will think we are like radical Muslims who cry out for 'jihad-- holy war'. This is the wrong impression people will get by seeing our error-filled publications. Let us do something to correct this system-wide problem.

*************************************** Think on This

Baba says, "You are social beings. One cannot live in isolation. When you feel thirsty, you can't manufacture a spade, dig a well, and draw water yourself. One person will make a spade, another will add the wooden handle, and another will dig the well -- this is how we work collectively. This is the way for human beings to live. In all spheres of human existence, in the aesthetic sphere as well, humanity should live collectively. You should live in unison. You should vibrate together to the same music. You should move in a common psychic flow. You should fight collectively against your common enemies. Unitedly you should face all problems, mundane and supra-mundane. In a word, you must reflect the spirit of harmonious collective living in conformity with the spirit of the Vedic mantra sam'gacchadhvam' sam'vadadhvam." (5 April 1981) Note: This above Baba's teaching is the special guideline for arousing social conscious-- which is lacking these days in the society. It is commonly known that some margiis and wts have gone far off from this above Baba's teaching.

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Baba: 'I Speak for All'

Date: Sun 06 Jun 2010 13:03:47 -0000 To: am-global@earthlink.net From: "Bhavanath Rajpal" Subject: Baba: 'I Speak for All' Baba "A'lo jhariye madhu ks'ariye a'ndha'r sa'riye tumi esecho..." (P.S. 1233) Purport: Baba, You have come and by Your divine advent You are showering effulgence, exuding nectar, and wiping away all darkness. Baba, You have come-- making the flowers blossom & graciously spreading happiness and bliss to one and all. Baba, by Your august arrival everyone's hopes and longings have been fulfilled. Baba, living beings were awakened by the deep yearning and pain of longing in their heart. And with this feeling, in the anticipation & hope of Your coming, they were awake, watching for Your arrival-- constantly looking towards Your path. Baba, this pain and longing of devotees resonated in Your heart and You could no longer remain distant. Baba, You have come and You are graciously pouring the basket of love-- satisfying everyone's heart. The sleeping humanity has gotten new life by Your grace. Baba-- that river which dried up and evaporated, and that song which was lost in the oblivion-- the current of that very river and the tune of those songs You have graciously brought along with You.* Baba due to Your august advent You have inundated each and every heart with the nectar of devotion. This is Your causeless grace... * The inner idea is that when Parama Purusa comes and He saturates the heart with deep devotion, then all those feelings of love and which had dried up start to blossom. In the above song, the river signifies the flow of devotion and the song and melody refers to that subtler expression of devotional feeling.

== BABA: 'I SPEAK FOR ALL' ==

Namaskar, As we shudder or even mockingly marvel at the way the current groupist leaders unabashedly ignore Baba's teachings and instead chase after their own personal agendas, one can only wonder how these were the very people who surrounded Baba physically for years and years. They heard all those dharmic teachings yet nothing went inside-- or so it seems. Here below is the explanation how Baba's talks of dharma and inspiration are addressed towards those who understand inside their heart-- and not necessarily towards those who were physically present those days.

ALL BABA'S TEACHINGS ARE APTA VAKYA

There are two types of knowledge. One is transitory in nature; that is called pra'pta va'kya. And that is always changing according to time, space, and person. Today that type of knowledge is correct, and tomorrow it may not be. And another variety of knowledge is absolute knowledge. That is a'pta va'kya; a'pta va'kya is eternal; unchangeable. Baba says, "For a bhakta, only a'pta va'kya has value. What comes from Parama Purusa is a'pta va'kya....As devotees, you should follow only a'pta va'kya." (AV-2, P.7) Baba says, "A'pta va'kya" or "absolute knowledge". Absolute knowledge is the direct message from God...The books in A'nanda Ma'rga philosophy are all absolute knowledge." (PNS-18, p.10) So we all know that Baba's teaching is a'pta va'kya. It is eternal and ever-true. With the change of time, space, and person, it does not change. It is permanent. All the discourses which Baba has given, these are for eternal teaching.

BABA IS SPEAKING TO ALL

But some people get easily confused and misled. In the wrong way they start thinking that Baba speaks only to the limited audience seated before Him during His discourse. And that the value of the discourse is limited to those in the audience. And that it is beneficial for them alone. This way of thinking has brought some serious dogma also. Thinking that Baba is only speaking for those present, due to this faulty approach, many discourses in 1978 just after the jail period could not get recorded. When Baba scolded and became furious, and He Himself revealed the truth. Baba graciously revealed, "I'm not speaking for the few those who are sitting next to me. I speak for all." The sense was, that these things are not limited to time, space, and person. These discourses are beyond the three factors. They are for all, up to eternity. And at that very time during the scolding in 1978, Baba charge-sheeted the concerning in-charges by scolding, "Why the discourses did not get recorded?..." After that, everyone became more serious to record each and every discourse. This above incident happened just after the jail period, in August 1978. As another example, all are aware that prior to 1970, mostly the DMC discourses were getting recorded. But general darshans, not. And this was due to the dogma that the darshans were only meant for those attending Baba's discourse.

BABA NOT JUST TALKING TO THOSE PHYSICALLY PRESENT

The conclusive idea is, that many times the audience gets confused. And they think that Baba is talking to them alone. Just as in the example of the following discourse from 1979. When Baba gave this discourse, then those present were thinking that they are not only great, but greatest. Because they are going to solve the problems of the society. They are the torchbearers. And they will bring a golden era on this earth. So forth and so on. Everyone was charged, thinking about their greatness. So here below is the discourse which they heard from Baba on that day. Baba says, "I am sure that you boys and you girls must be optimists; and it is your duty to save humanity. And I hope you will be able to save humanity, because, just like me, you are also optimistic. You should know that great, or good, people are few in number, they are not many...So it is your duty to save humanity. And those who are unable to shoulder their own bags and baggages -- their responsibilities are to be shouldered by you. You should remember that the life of a spiritual aspirant is a mission. One's entire life is a mission, one's entire existence is a mission. And your mission is -- what? To save humanity from this crisis. I hope you will be successful. And I not only hope, I am sure that you will be successful." (AV-34, p.77) So listening this, attendees were thinking that they are the torchbearers who will lead the society forward from darkness to light. But unfortunately, some of them after some time, got frustrated and threw away their dress. And started leading negative life.

VANGUARDS ARE THOSE WHO FOLLOW BABA

And still today some of those who attended that discourse, are thinking that they are torchbearers irrespective of their personal conduct. But rational analysis tells that those whose conduct is good, following dharmic guideline, adherent to 16 points and other various conduct rules, they are the vanguards of society. Whether they were present in that Frankfurt airport or not, that is immaterial. We should not forget that Baba's teaching is divine, eternal, a'pta va'kya. Baba speaks for all, beyond the limit of time, space, and person. And the real torchbearers are those who follow these guidelines. Whether they have personally attended the discourse, or not. Namaskar, Bhavanath

Note 1: BABA'S TEACHINGS ARE ETERNAL MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT ANANDA VANII

There are some who dogmatically think that Baba's discourses are teachings for that very day when it was delivered, and to that very audience who was present that time. In other words, they think in a quite limited way. And the outcome has come as this "Ananda Vanii dogma". The believers of this dogma feel that Ananda Vaniis are for that very day on which they were given. And that now those Ananda Vaniis are useless. They cannot be used as Ananda Vaniis to treat as a special message. That's why those in power are creating fake Ananda Vaniis twice a year. This all illustrates how dogmatic people don't like to believe that Baba's teaching is a'pta va'kya, eternal. Now let us go to our main point.

Note 2: NOT CAREFUL ABOUT RECORDING BABA'S DISCOURSES

The first DMC happened in Jamalpur in 1955. And the Subhasita Samgraha discourse is available. But where are the general darshan discourses from that time? It is obvious, they are not available. They could not get recorded in any media. We lost them. All the DMCs in the early years before '66, were like that. And after that, such a minimal number of discourses are available in the printed form, we can see. They are very few in number. And surely they did not all get recorded. And why go far? 1969-70 was the year where Baba has given so many demonstrations in Ranchi. And every day He has to explain all those things in hours lengthy discourses. But nothing got recorded. Dada Vijayanandji was noting down a few lines related with each day. Only those things got printed in one of the Ananda Vacanamrtam books. And those notes are only one or two paragraphs of one particular entire day's darshans. So by seeing the size of the paragraph or discourse, one can see that this is just 5% of the real discourse. And that's also not original, but just notes. Why did this thing happen? Because those days, people were not careful to record Baba's discourses. Many were thinking that Baba speaks for that very audience which is sitting next to Him.

Note 3: DEMONSTRATIONS IN ANANDA MARGA: BABA IS DOING EVERYTHING, NOT THE SADHAKA

Now it is so ridiculous, that in those samadhi demonstrations of '69-70, in such an odd way it has been written, "In Ranchi jagrti on that day, one devotee got samadhi". Reading this, which reader is going to understand that Baba is giving demonstration? Rather, people will get confused that one devotee got samadhi out of the blue, by his own effort. But that is far away from the truth. The truth is that Baba graced, and the result was samadhi. But it is not mentioned in the discourse. That is unfortunate, and it is a black mark in our scripture. Please read AM philosophy part 5, pages range 323-334. As an example, see below this quoted section from the chapter, "Bhava Samadhi". There it is printed: "On May 10th, 1969, at Ranchi jagrti, a sadhaka experienced bha'va sama'dhi. Sitting in dhya'na'sana he began to practice dhya'na on Mula'dha'ra cakra. As soon as he connected his mind with the Cosmic Mind he felt the sweet waves of cosmic bliss. Then he took his mind to deeper realms, practicing dhya'na in svadhista'na and man'ipura cakras. At this time he directed all his psychic energies to Parama Purus'a...." (p.328 APH-5) By reading this description it looks as though the sadhaka is doing all these things at his own will and on his own. There is no hint by this description, that this entire event is a demonstration given by Baba. And that it is only by Baba's grace on this sadhaka, that the sadhaka began to experience these things. So in true sense the manner of writing this event is ridiculous and misleading. But why did all these things happen? Because those who are responsible, they thought in their dogmatic way that Baba's discourse of that very day was for those persons only there, in that audience. We should go now to our main topic.

Note 4: BABA'S DEEPLY MOVING DISCOURSE

Here below is the entire discourse available in AV-34, which Baba has given in Frankfurt Airport on the 19th of September, 1979. It gives deep inspiration. Baba says, "Some peoople say that in the past there have been so many crises in human society. Crisis is quite natural for something moving. Wherever there is movement, there is struggle -- struggle against the inertia of the earth. In the past, there have been crises in the course of movement, crises in different branches of civilization, crises in the realm of education, and so on. But nowadays, the entire human society is facing the crisis of civilization as a whole, and particularly a crisis in the field of existence. Human society is now to decide whether to live or to die. If this mud-slinging and intolerance are encouraged, humanity has no future -- the future is dark, the future is sealed forever. But you know, I am not a pessimist. I am always an optimist. And I want all my sons and daughters to be optimists. And I want them to struggle against this death signal of humanity, and come out successful." "And I am sure that you boys and you girls must be optimists; and it is your duty to save humanity. And I hope you will be able to save humanity, because, just like me, you are also optimistic. You should know that great, or good, people are few in number, they are not many. They do not come within the scope of millions or billions. They are always few in number. And these few, they are the torchbearers of human society, they are the pioneers, they are the vanguards of human society. So it is your duty to save humanity. And those who are unable to shoulder their own bags and baggages -- their responsibilities are to be shouldered by you. You should remember that the life of a spiritual aspirant is a mission. One's entire life is a mission, one's entire existence is a mission. And your mission is-- what? To save humanity from this crisis. I hope you will be successful. And I not only hope, I am sure that you will be successful." 19 September 1979 evening, Frankfurt (AV-34, "To Save Humanity")

*************************************** Everyone Should Know and Practice

Baba says, "The greatest quality of a person at a meeting or debate is the capacity to convince others. The highest quality in the battlefield is 'yudhi vikramam', or valor in the battle. While in danger, one's great quality is patience." (AV-4)

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