Subject: Re: Some Questions and Answers Related with Prevailing
Dogma in Ananda Marga #3
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:40:37 +0200
From: Amrit Lalloo
To: AM-GLOBAL
Baba
(This comes to us from an important margii of South Africa. This is the third letter in this series. Links to earlier letters are appended below.)
Namaskar,
"He [Sarvatmanandji] invented mahaprayan and glued it into Caryacarya Part 1 as the appendix.
Sarvatmanandji gave the justification that:
'It is our duty to include the mahaprayan program of annual remembrance in Caryacarya - because Baba does not want to discuss this sensitive issue in front of devotees.'
But all this is wrong. Baba has discussed His physical departure in various places such as in Senior Acarya Diary (Guru Puja section) and in other places as well. In those instances, He clearly guides us how to proceed and how to do guru puja when He is not physically manifest as Mahasambhuti on this earth.
So it is not that He is too shy or too hesitant to include so-called mahaprayan in Caryacarya.
Rather deliberately He has not put mahaprayan into Caryacarya because this type of false notion is not part of Ananda Marga ideology. He is along with us always - He has not left and He is not gone." (From Some Questions and Answers Related with Prevailing Dogma)
The "mahaprayan dogma" must be stopped without delay. Do not trash the future. The future will not forgive us.
To think that a six-day kiirtan practice can only happen on the dogmatic occasion of so-called mahaprayan is a ludicrous idea.
I recall a story told so often by my acarya about a family man locking up his cat before offering milk to his deity as he did not want the cat to drink / lick that pure milk and ruin his puja. After he and his cat passed on, his son blindly carried on with the family tradition. The son went out specifically and bought a cat, and locked it away when he offered the milk to the deity. Even sometimes the son would do his puja just by locking up the cat and not offering any milk to the deity. The son thought the having a cat locked was itself the key point to successful puja, and did not realise his father was locking up the cat so that it would not ruin the puja by licking the milk offered to the deity. By this misunderstanding, locking up the cat became a necessary ingredient for the ritual. No-one questioned as to why the cat was locked away in the first instance.
This is how meaningless rituals / dogmas come into being. And now some are thinking that same way about kiirtan and so-called mahaprayan. They think they cannot do a multi-day kiirtan program unless they organise the dogmatic mahaprayan program as well. Are they not blind & dogmatic like the son in the above story?
The situation will only worsen...
Now imagine what will happen in Tiljala in say 10 - 50 years. Ritualistic worshipers will come in hoards to the "shrine" for cures, for good-luck, win courtroom battles , wealth, jobs etc. And they will all think that long kiirtan can only happen at this mahaprayan event. Such will be their dogmatic outlook.
Dogmas make silent, devious inroads into the human psyche. This is a historical fact. Baba guides us that if casteism was destroyed in the early making it would have been easier to destroy. Once it got rooted into the society it became more diffcult to remove. Baba also give the example in His book on neo-humanism wherein the banyan seed in the couryard of a mansion - if not pulled out - will grow into a massive tree that will destroy the entire mansion. (Reference: Neo-Humanism - Liberation of Intellect, Disc: 2, Bondages and Solution)
Similarly the mahaprayan dogma -if not halted now - will make even more dangerous and devilish inroads. One dogma gives birth to many dogmas.
Babas teachings and practices are more than comprehensive. If Baba wanted He would have included "mahaprayan maha-kirtan", but He did not.
Message to the leadership:
EGO IS SOMETHING THAT STOPS YOU FROM TELLING THE TRUTH. James Coburn 1928-2002
in Baba,
Amrit
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:40:37 +0200
From: Amrit Lalloo
To: AM-GLOBAL
Baba
== RE: SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATED
WITH PREVAILING DOGMA IN ANANDA MARGA ==
~ Part 3 ~
~ Part 3 ~
(This comes to us from an important margii of South Africa. This is the third letter in this series. Links to earlier letters are appended below.)
Namaskar,
"He [Sarvatmanandji] invented mahaprayan and glued it into Caryacarya Part 1 as the appendix.
Sarvatmanandji gave the justification that:
'It is our duty to include the mahaprayan program of annual remembrance in Caryacarya - because Baba does not want to discuss this sensitive issue in front of devotees.'
But all this is wrong. Baba has discussed His physical departure in various places such as in Senior Acarya Diary (Guru Puja section) and in other places as well. In those instances, He clearly guides us how to proceed and how to do guru puja when He is not physically manifest as Mahasambhuti on this earth.
So it is not that He is too shy or too hesitant to include so-called mahaprayan in Caryacarya.
Rather deliberately He has not put mahaprayan into Caryacarya because this type of false notion is not part of Ananda Marga ideology. He is along with us always - He has not left and He is not gone." (From Some Questions and Answers Related with Prevailing Dogma)
The "mahaprayan dogma" must be stopped without delay. Do not trash the future. The future will not forgive us.
To think that a six-day kiirtan practice can only happen on the dogmatic occasion of so-called mahaprayan is a ludicrous idea.
I recall a story told so often by my acarya about a family man locking up his cat before offering milk to his deity as he did not want the cat to drink / lick that pure milk and ruin his puja. After he and his cat passed on, his son blindly carried on with the family tradition. The son went out specifically and bought a cat, and locked it away when he offered the milk to the deity. Even sometimes the son would do his puja just by locking up the cat and not offering any milk to the deity. The son thought the having a cat locked was itself the key point to successful puja, and did not realise his father was locking up the cat so that it would not ruin the puja by licking the milk offered to the deity. By this misunderstanding, locking up the cat became a necessary ingredient for the ritual. No-one questioned as to why the cat was locked away in the first instance.
This is how meaningless rituals / dogmas come into being. And now some are thinking that same way about kiirtan and so-called mahaprayan. They think they cannot do a multi-day kiirtan program unless they organise the dogmatic mahaprayan program as well. Are they not blind & dogmatic like the son in the above story?
The situation will only worsen...
Now imagine what will happen in Tiljala in say 10 - 50 years. Ritualistic worshipers will come in hoards to the "shrine" for cures, for good-luck, win courtroom battles , wealth, jobs etc. And they will all think that long kiirtan can only happen at this mahaprayan event. Such will be their dogmatic outlook.
Dogmas make silent, devious inroads into the human psyche. This is a historical fact. Baba guides us that if casteism was destroyed in the early making it would have been easier to destroy. Once it got rooted into the society it became more diffcult to remove. Baba also give the example in His book on neo-humanism wherein the banyan seed in the couryard of a mansion - if not pulled out - will grow into a massive tree that will destroy the entire mansion. (Reference: Neo-Humanism - Liberation of Intellect, Disc: 2, Bondages and Solution)
Similarly the mahaprayan dogma -if not halted now - will make even more dangerous and devilish inroads. One dogma gives birth to many dogmas.
Babas teachings and practices are more than comprehensive. If Baba wanted He would have included "mahaprayan maha-kirtan", but He did not.
Message to the leadership:
EGO IS SOMETHING THAT STOPS YOU FROM TELLING THE TRUTH. James Coburn 1928-2002
in Baba,
Amrit
Note 1: LINKS TO EARLIER LETTERS ON THIS
THREAD
#1: http://am-global-01.blogspot.com/2012/10/some-questions-and-answers-related-with.html
#2: http://am-global-01.blogspot.com/2012/10/re-some-questions-and-answers-related.html
#1: http://am-global-01.blogspot.com/2012/10/some-questions-and-answers-related-with.html
#2: http://am-global-01.blogspot.com/2012/10/re-some-questions-and-answers-related.html
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