To: AM-GLOBAL
From: Cinmay Deva
Subject: Smell Coming from the Bag
Date: Mon 19 Dec 2011 20:44:03 -0400
Baba
"A'jake sa'njhe madhur sa'jhe ke else go, ke ele..." (P.S. 5006)
Purport:
In this sweet and intoxicated evening, Who has come, Who has come? Who is that Entity Who has created this new wave in everyone's life and in everyone's heart. Those who are sitting with their doors and windows closed, please come out and forget about the differences of own and other. That divine Entity Who is always sitting in the mind has come in front of us. We should enjoy His august arrival all together...
Namaskar,
The more people think about themselves, the smaller and smaller their mind becomes. We all know the yogic theorem - "as you think so you become." Thus if one is thinking only about their unit self, and not thinking about the Cosmic Self, then naturally their mind will become narrow, selfish, and crude.
Those with such an ego become immersed in their own petty "I'" and develop a superiority complex. They think that they are so great. And when this continues for years and years, major problems emerge.
The main cause of an inflated ego is when people give you respect due to your post, power, dress, or stature. Such as if people respect you just because of being a wt or purodha etc - not because of your conduct, but just your post.
Then the crude ego develops and it becomes so big like puffed rice or styrofoam. In that case, the personality gets more and more hollow. At that point people start thinking that they are the greatest among all. Not because of high sadhana or samadhi or some deep realisation, just they are intoxicated with their own petty ego.
This is not anything new. In every era, in every society, there are those who lose their sense due to a grossly inflated ego. Then their ruination comes.
(1) The mythological king Hiranyakashipu gave the order in his kingdom that no one should sing the Lord's name; only his own name was to be sung. Such was the king's crude edict. Because of this psychic disease of an inflated ego, he was destroyed in the worst way imaginable.
There are countless examples and here is another one.
(2) The former Prime Minister of India, Mrs Indhira Gandhi, had this same disease. She hired artists, writers, and musicians to compose songs of her glory. She claimed herself as the incarnation of the divine goddess Durga, and demanded that people sing kiirtan in her name. Then she openly challenged in the mass media that she will root out Ananda Marga. Due to this outrageous ego, she faced her annihilation.
(3) In our Marga there are countless cases of those who suffered from an inflated ego.
The defectors like Madhavananda who challenged Parama Purusa are but some of many. In all cases they faced their demise. There are many like this - if you want a list please write me.
In all these instances and more, the ego grows to varying degrees. It starts relatively small and gets bigger until it gets completely overblown which brings one's annihilation.
Those who get huge respect are prime candidates for developing an over-sized ego. In ascending order we can cite family acaryas, wts, post-holders, purodhas, and so on. The higher up, the bigger the ego.
Of course this does not apply to all wts, acaryas and purodhas. Just we find that those posts tend to be fertile ground for developing a huge ego. But all do not fall into this manner.
For those who do succumb to pride, ego and vanity, it happens to varying degrees. If one's ego is relatively small then it will be present to some degree in one's speech. If their egoistic way of thinking gets bigger and bigger then it results in their complete delirium. It seems that the Dada K falls in this latter category, unfortunately.
What is our duty? Of course we should help and lend our support. To do that we must know more.
When a person suffers from a physical problem such as getting into minor a motor vehicle accident, then one can help a lot by treating their cuts and wounds and bringing that person to the hospital for a check-up. The pathway is quite clear-cut.
Treating psychic ailments is far more difficult. They are hard to diagnose and it is a tough job to cure people of their problem. Even then, Baba has graciously given all the needed tools and guidelines in His chapter, The Faculty of Knowledge – 3, and related discourses.
We should try to help and one of the best ways is to simply save ourselves from the contamination of a psychic disease. If you are getting respect from others then be aware. It is contagious but those suffering will not notice whereas others will notice. The disease grows and others do not say anything because the diseased person does not want to hear about the problem. So it is a very tricky situation. One develops a certain degree of audacity.
The main difficulty with psychic diseases, and, in particular, an inflated ego is that when a person really thinks that they themselves are great then by their outlook God is not great - only the person is great. So long as there is ego one cannot go close to Parama Purusa. It is the ego that stands between a person and the Lord.
Baba says, "Vanity harms the mind in three ways: abhimána or inflated ego, gaorava or self-aggrandizement, and pratiśt́ha or prestige...towards the Entity who is so close to you, is it proper for you to entertain such false feelings of abhimána, gaorava and pratiśt́há?" (Ananda Marga Ideology and Way of Life, Part 11, Taking the Opposite Stance in Battle)
That is why Baba says that after giving up abhimána (inflated ego), gaorava
(self-aggrandizement), and pratiśt́ha (prestige) one should sing the Lord's name. Then He will be gracious on you.
After all, Parama Purusa is Darpaharii - the destroyer of ego. For the welfare of human beings He destroys the ego.
This - i.e. Dada K's below letter - is a wake-up call for everyone.
Suppose a horrible drunk-driving accident happens in your area wherein the driver drove his vehicle off a bridge and plunged into the river below and drowned. When such a terrible tragedy happens nearby then everyone around becomes alert not to drink alcohol and drive their car. That is the wake-up call they get.
Similarly we should take Dadaji's below letter as a wake-up call. No one should fall prey to this type of ego and accuse Guru. To prevent this from happening to us, we should watch out and see how far, "I have an ego and think I am great."
Following is the sample of what happens when the ego is so big and people express their mental feeling. Look what has happened to one of our Dadas. If we are blind we may not understand.
Namaskar,
Cinmay
Note 1: SMELL COMING FROM THE BAG
When a bag is full or garbage then the smell of garbaged is emitted from the bag, not the sweet smell of sandalwood.
Similarly, by reading Dada Krtashivananda's letter below you can understand what is in his mind.
If you see a well-to-do person on the street and suddenly they start moving naked and claiming that they are president of universe and challenging everyone, then you understand that this person has a screw loose. That is the type of transformation that took place with Dada Krtashivananda by the letter he wrote on Sunday 18 Dec 2011. If you have not seen it, please write.
Seeing Dadaji's expression one can only wonder how did he even stayed in the organisation and did not become defector like Madhavananda.
We can think of it this way.
During a cyclone, all the trees without strong root systems fall while some with disease roots remain standing, only to fall some time later, maybe even after decades.
That seems to be the case with Dada Krtashivananda. It is surprising that he even continued in AM up until this time. We can only wonder why did he not defect back in 1970 with the others.
If he believes that Ananda Marga is really junk then why he has he misguided so many onto the path of AM for so long.
Which is the truth: Either what he was doing before was a lie by bringing so many people into AM when in truth he thought it was junk; or what he is telling now is junk and the path of AM is really great.
From: Cinmay Deva
Subject: Smell Coming from the Bag
Date: Mon 19 Dec 2011 20:44:03 -0400
Baba
"A'jake sa'njhe madhur sa'jhe ke else go, ke ele..." (P.S. 5006)
Purport:
In this sweet and intoxicated evening, Who has come, Who has come? Who is that Entity Who has created this new wave in everyone's life and in everyone's heart. Those who are sitting with their doors and windows closed, please come out and forget about the differences of own and other. That divine Entity Who is always sitting in the mind has come in front of us. We should enjoy His august arrival all together...
== SMELL COMING FROM THE BAG ==
Note: This entire letter is related with one senior Dada and a letter he recently wrote.
Namaskar,
The more people think about themselves, the smaller and smaller their mind becomes. We all know the yogic theorem - "as you think so you become." Thus if one is thinking only about their unit self, and not thinking about the Cosmic Self, then naturally their mind will become narrow, selfish, and crude.
Those with such an ego become immersed in their own petty "I'" and develop a superiority complex. They think that they are so great. And when this continues for years and years, major problems emerge.
The main cause of an inflated ego is when people give you respect due to your post, power, dress, or stature. Such as if people respect you just because of being a wt or purodha etc - not because of your conduct, but just your post.
Then the crude ego develops and it becomes so big like puffed rice or styrofoam. In that case, the personality gets more and more hollow. At that point people start thinking that they are the greatest among all. Not because of high sadhana or samadhi or some deep realisation, just they are intoxicated with their own petty ego.
This is not anything new. In every era, in every society, there are those who lose their sense due to a grossly inflated ego. Then their ruination comes.
HUGE EGO CASES
Here are come examples of those who had
out-sized egos and what became of them.
(1) The mythological king Hiranyakashipu gave the order in his kingdom that no one should sing the Lord's name; only his own name was to be sung. Such was the king's crude edict. Because of this psychic disease of an inflated ego, he was destroyed in the worst way imaginable.
There are countless examples and here is another one.
(2) The former Prime Minister of India, Mrs Indhira Gandhi, had this same disease. She hired artists, writers, and musicians to compose songs of her glory. She claimed herself as the incarnation of the divine goddess Durga, and demanded that people sing kiirtan in her name. Then she openly challenged in the mass media that she will root out Ananda Marga. Due to this outrageous ego, she faced her annihilation.
(3) In our Marga there are countless cases of those who suffered from an inflated ego.
The defectors like Madhavananda who challenged Parama Purusa are but some of many. In all cases they faced their demise. There are many like this - if you want a list please write me.
In all these instances and more, the ego grows to varying degrees. It starts relatively small and gets bigger until it gets completely overblown which brings one's annihilation.
MORE ABOUT HOW IT HAPPENS
Those who get huge respect are prime candidates for developing an over-sized ego. In ascending order we can cite family acaryas, wts, post-holders, purodhas, and so on. The higher up, the bigger the ego.
Of course this does not apply to all wts, acaryas and purodhas. Just we find that those posts tend to be fertile ground for developing a huge ego. But all do not fall into this manner.
For those who do succumb to pride, ego and vanity, it happens to varying degrees. If one's ego is relatively small then it will be present to some degree in one's speech. If their egoistic way of thinking gets bigger and bigger then it results in their complete delirium. It seems that the Dada K falls in this latter category, unfortunately.
OUR DUTY
What is our duty? Of course we should help and lend our support. To do that we must know more.
When a person suffers from a physical problem such as getting into minor a motor vehicle accident, then one can help a lot by treating their cuts and wounds and bringing that person to the hospital for a check-up. The pathway is quite clear-cut.
Treating psychic ailments is far more difficult. They are hard to diagnose and it is a tough job to cure people of their problem. Even then, Baba has graciously given all the needed tools and guidelines in His chapter, The Faculty of Knowledge – 3, and related discourses.
We should try to help and one of the best ways is to simply save ourselves from the contamination of a psychic disease. If you are getting respect from others then be aware. It is contagious but those suffering will not notice whereas others will notice. The disease grows and others do not say anything because the diseased person does not want to hear about the problem. So it is a very tricky situation. One develops a certain degree of audacity.
The main difficulty with psychic diseases, and, in particular, an inflated ego is that when a person really thinks that they themselves are great then by their outlook God is not great - only the person is great. So long as there is ego one cannot go close to Parama Purusa. It is the ego that stands between a person and the Lord.
Baba says, "Vanity harms the mind in three ways: abhimána or inflated ego, gaorava or self-aggrandizement, and pratiśt́ha or prestige...towards the Entity who is so close to you, is it proper for you to entertain such false feelings of abhimána, gaorava and pratiśt́há?" (Ananda Marga Ideology and Way of Life, Part 11, Taking the Opposite Stance in Battle)
That is why Baba says that after giving up abhimána (inflated ego), gaorava
(self-aggrandizement), and pratiśt́ha (prestige) one should sing the Lord's name. Then He will be gracious on you.
After all, Parama Purusa is Darpaharii - the destroyer of ego. For the welfare of human beings He destroys the ego.
WAKE-UP CALL
This - i.e. Dada K's below letter - is a wake-up call for everyone.
Suppose a horrible drunk-driving accident happens in your area wherein the driver drove his vehicle off a bridge and plunged into the river below and drowned. When such a terrible tragedy happens nearby then everyone around becomes alert not to drink alcohol and drive their car. That is the wake-up call they get.
Similarly we should take Dadaji's below letter as a wake-up call. No one should fall prey to this type of ego and accuse Guru. To prevent this from happening to us, we should watch out and see how far, "I have an ego and think I am great."
SEE WHAT HAPPENED
Following is the sample of what happens when the ego is so big and people express their mental feeling. Look what has happened to one of our Dadas. If we are blind we may not understand.
Namaskar,
Cinmay
Note 1: SMELL COMING FROM THE BAG
When a bag is full or garbage then the smell of garbaged is emitted from the bag, not the sweet smell of sandalwood.
Similarly, by reading Dada Krtashivananda's letter below you can understand what is in his mind.
Note 2: DADA K'S LETTER
If you see a well-to-do person on the street and suddenly they start moving naked and claiming that they are president of universe and challenging everyone, then you understand that this person has a screw loose. That is the type of transformation that took place with Dada Krtashivananda by the letter he wrote on Sunday 18 Dec 2011. If you have not seen it, please write.
Note 3: WHICH IS TRUE
Seeing Dadaji's expression one can only wonder how did he even stayed in the organisation and did not become defector like Madhavananda.
We can think of it this way.
During a cyclone, all the trees without strong root systems fall while some with disease roots remain standing, only to fall some time later, maybe even after decades.
That seems to be the case with Dada Krtashivananda. It is surprising that he even continued in AM up until this time. We can only wonder why did he not defect back in 1970 with the others.
If he believes that Ananda Marga is really junk then why he has he misguided so many onto the path of AM for so long.
Which is the truth: Either what he was doing before was a lie by bringing so many people into AM when in truth he thought it was junk; or what he is telling now is junk and the path of AM is really great.
