Self-contradictory Pranavatmakananda
Namaskar,
In Dada Pranavatmakananda’s book, "Advent of a Mystery", a story is
relayed about when the great yogi Totapuri came to see Sadguru Baba. And
here we are examining three aspects to this story:
(A) Totapuri does sastaunga pranam to Sadguru Baba (p.217). This shows
that Totapuri is Baba’s disciple. On this point, Pranavatmakananda is
correct.
(B) In the below scan underlined in red, Pranavatmakananda recounts one
scene between PA Dada Abhedananda and Baba. Pranavatmakananda writes, “I
[Dada Abhedananda] asked him [Baba] who he [Baba] was greeting.”
This above line completely contradicts point A.
So point B is wrong in two ways: Firstly, PA Dada knows very well that
Sadguru Baba blesses people; He does not greet them. So PA would never
ask Baba whom He was greeting. So Pranavatmakananda was off the mark on
this matter. Secondly, in his Pranavatmakananda never capitalises the
pronoun “he” when referring to Baba. This is quite shameful.
(C) In the below scan underlined in red, Pranavatmakananda quotes Baba
as saying, “I was paying my respects to Totapuri.” But this makes
Pranavatmakananda’s account completely hypocritical. Because already it
was established in point A that Baba is the Guru, and Totapuri is the
disciple as Totapuri did sastaunga pranam to Baba. But now, here in
point C, Pranavatmakananda is making it look like the exact opposite by
wrongly quoting Baba as telling, “I was paying my respects to Totapuri”,
as if Totapuri is the Guru and Baba is the disciple.
So from beginning to end this entire sequence is self-contradictory and misguides the reader.
In Him,
Shrutidhar Deva
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