Baba
Reply to their propaganda
Namaskar,
Here below, in a point by point sequence, is the ideological response to their MPD propaganda.
Bogus claim: just kiirtana, so we can eat
(A) B group begins by justifying that MPD is merely a kiirtana program, and thus the food eaten there is sentient, not sinful.
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#1 Reply: B group proclaims that this is a kiirtana program, and hence the food is okay to eat. Yet, in their own description of their dogmatic MPD in their post-1990 Caryacarya Appendix they wrote things like, “Prabhát Saḿgiita (without dance) appropriate to the solemnity of the occasion” and “shraddháiṋjali” (i.e. death ceremony). Not only that, they themselves anointed the name “mahaprayan”, which literally means death. By all this it is abundantly clear that this is an annual death ceremony - and that therefore any food eaten there is tamasika and sinful. Thus, any and all food eaten at that MPD program is by definition sinful. B group must accept this truth.
The summation is that Baba has forbidden us to eat food at a shraddha (death) ceremony.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, “Shráddhánna: Shráddhánna (food offered at a memorial service) is...not to be taken.” (1)
Do they eat meat also?
(B) Next B group justifies that the food at MPD is full of positive microvita because of the kiirtana, and hence not like other death ceremony food. Because of continuous kiirtan, the food served there is full of positive vibration known as positive microvita. So please don't consider MPD like ordinary Shraddhanustan.
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#2 Reply: We should ask B group if eating meat, drinking alcohol, engaging in theft, doing robbery, committing murder, beating females, and indulging in various other vices are fully negated by kiirtana because when kiirtana is sung then that kiirtana overrides the harm of those tamasika / sinful things.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, “Shráddhánna: Shráddhánna (food offered at a memorial service) is...not to be taken.” (2)
Baba says that food offered at a shraddha ceremony is tamasika and not to be taken. But B group says that kiirtana nullifies Baba’s teaching. Perhaps, we should ask those B groups if they disobey Baba’s all conduct rules because when kiirtana is sung that kiirtana overrides the harm of those sins.
Celebrate Ananda Purnima, not MPD
(C) Then B group puts forth the logic that if mahaprayan should not be observed then we should not observe Ananda Purnima either. If withdrawal of the physical form of Mahasambhuti is not to be observed then with the same logic the installation of the physical form of Mahasambhuti is also not to be observed.
#3 Reply: First and foremost, the reason why the day of the withdrawal of Mahasambhuti’s form is not celebrated is because Baba did not mandate that we celebrate it; whereas, He most certainly guided us to celebrate His birth. This in and of itself is enough to convince any bhakta to only celebrate Ananda Purnima and wholly ignore the day of so-called mahaprayan, i.e. their annual shraddha ceremony.
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Follow Baba - not B group
(D) B group then makes the assertion that we must remember that day of 21 Oct. B group thinks that we cannot just forget that day on any account or for any reason. Rather B group maintains that we have to express our feeling by remembering Him in mourning.
#4 Reply: It is so sad to see how the B group does not want to follow Baba's following rules.
Here below Caryacarya gives an explicit period of time for mourning - i.e. 12 days. The annual mahaprayan dogma is in clear violation of this rule.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (3)
Conclusion
MPD is riddled with too many contradictions to stand much longer. Anyone with eyes to see and a brain to think will easily conclude that MPD is a dogmatic annual death ceremony and that any food served there is ta’masika and sinful.
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In Him,
Shephali Ganguli
Also bear in mind that Baba guides us to observe janmastami, the day of Lord Krsna’s birth, but not the occasion of His leaving this earth. Verily, that so-called death day is not recognized at all.
This below letter addresses the defective argument some make that Baba could not have given mahaprayan because He was gone.
References
1. Ananda Marga Caryacarya - 2, Society, Point #37
2. Ananda Marga Caryacarya - 2, Society, Point #37
3. Ananda Marga Caryacarya - 1, Shráddha Ceremony
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