Ananda Marga News Bulletin: 08/25/25

Monday, August 25, 2025

MPD obsolete + 2 more

Baba

MPD obsolete

Namaskar,

All feel that Parama Purusa Baba is eternally along with them - residing in their heart. This is the way of each and every Ananda Margii and indeed this is the way of bhakti.

So by His infinite cosmic grace all are moving along on His blissful path, keeping Him close. In this era of materialism He has blessed each bhakta with the divine gift of spirituality: The feeling that He is always along with you.
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Mahaprayan: ruins spiritual life

So if anyone thinks, “Mahasamabhuti has left this earth on a particular day”, and imposes this idea again and again on the mind, then their spiritual outlook will be adversely affected. It will be extremely detrimental. So one must not emphasize and reinforce this point of physically leaving, and that means not observing mahaprayan. Then the positive and deeply spiritual feeling that, "God - Parama Purusa - is always with me", will be easily established.

Those who pay heed to the dogma of mahaprayan get lost in the notion that Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is gone. That is the very serious reaction of so-called mahaprayan. The program of mahaprayan literally implies that He is gone. So those who participate and observe it suffer spiritually.

Not compare Him with ordinary mortal human being

Every Margii knows that Parama Purusa takes the special form as Mahasambhuti. By that way - by His grace - we have come in contact with Him. And that form of Mahasambhuti is the manifestation of Sadguru. And that form still continues to have a deeply significant role in our day to day life, each and every moment. Every sadhaka who practices Guru sakash, Guru puja, and dhyana understands this fact.
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Because for us, for Ananda Margiis, Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is our Guru. And in our lives we feel His grace. In order to have a link with His bhaktas and teach His philosophy, Parama Purusa came in physical form. And when He felt there was no longer any need to continue to maintain the physical form, then He just maintains His internal link with each and every sadhaka through His ota yoga. So He is eternally residing along with us.

He is the Divine Eternal Entity who is ever-present in the mind and heart - eternally showering the blessing of His varabhaya mudra. So His auspicious advent is exclusively His special grace, and we should not compare Him with the likes of an ordinary mortal human being. The form of Mahasambhuti should not be compared with an ordinary human body. Those who are doing like this have missed the boat of spirituality - just they are caught in their own dogma.

For all these reasons, we cannot accept that the form is gone. Because we see Him in that divine form always. We relate our entire existence with Him with the help of that very form. And with that form we visualize Him in our mind.

In that way, we do dhyana and sadhana of that form. So the form of Taraka Brahma is very significant for every sadhaka. And that form remains the source of all inspiration. And by the help of that very form, doing dhyana of that very form, one day by His grace the bhakta will become one with Him - Parama Purusa.

Bhaktas & God: cannot keep away from one another

If anyone thinks that He has left, it means they are comparing that Magnanimous Personality with an ordinary human being.
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The top idea is that bhaktas and God cannot keep distance from one another. Without Him, bhaktas will die. So neither God can leave His bhaktas, nor can bhaktas leave their Lord. Then how He can go. He cannot. By His divine grace He lives in the bhakta's heart.

Sadly, those inventors of mahaprayan dogma really think that their Lord is just one ordinary mortal. Yet every true bhakta knows that His presence is beyond time, space, and person. In this life and in future and always and up till eternity He is remaining along with us. Then how He can go.

Those who have realised that Taraka Brahma has taken advent, know that He is surely not one human being. He is still present.

Following MPD dogma = life of contradiction

Those stuck in this dogma of MPD live a life of contradiction. On the one hand they may sometimes think that Baba is with them and that He will help them solve their problems etc. Sometimes they are thinking in this proper and positive direction. But in order to clutch onto their mahaprayan dogma, the next moment they start thinking that Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is an ordinary mortal who has gone away.
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If they will always think that Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is that eternal Divine Entity, then they will see and understand their mistake and realise that He is not gone but is there inside the heart. And that He remains all the time in Vrindaban, of the bhaktas mind-Guru Cakra.

"Vrnda'vanam parityajya pa'damekam na gaccha'mi..." (PS 4425)

"I am always eternally present in Vrindavan, in the hearts of devotees. That is the Guru cakra. I do not go even a little away from that. I am eternally present along with the devotees."

So Baba is residing in the heart - that is where He remains.

"Dura't sudure tadiha'ntike ca..."

Ananda Marga ideology states, "Only the one who looks into the inner most recesses of oneself can realise the Supreme Entity.... the bhaktas or devotees say, 'He is near, so near that the distance is immeasurable.' Those who have eyes to see, see that Parama Purus'a is in the core of their hearts; He is within the very existence of each and every entity, so there is no necessity of moving about in search of Him. He resides within the very "I- feeling" of everyone." (1)

Namaskar,
at His lotus feet,
Shivashankar Banerjee

Must not confine Him to a particular place

Vyapitvaî ca nirákrtaî bhagavato yattiirthayátrádiná

"The Supreme Being is omnipresent, all-pervading and witness to everything, everywhere. It is not proper to confine Him to a particular place and say that He has eaten butter at this place or taken a dip in the Ganges at that particular place, thus limiting Him to a particular region or a particular country or the glorification of a particular sacred place, and thereby limit His all-pervasiveness" (2)

Mahaprayan has no legs to stand on

Unfortunately, mahaprayan is just an attempt to gain power and money by establishing Tiljala as a tiirtha site. So the program of so-called mahaprayan does not have any logical legs to stand upon. It is just the creation of some to make a so-called holy land by holding an annual death ceremony on their campus, and turn it into a long-term money-making event.
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Those organisers of mahaprayan do not understand or believe in the greatness of Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji and do not believe that He is Taraka Brahma. The only reason for this seems to be that they could not receive the grace of the Lord.

The contradiction is that: On the one side they are celebrating His presence by doing Guru sakash, dhyana, japa, Guru puja, and raising the Jai slogan, etc, and the next moment they are professing about the dogma of MPD and telling that He is gone.

Sadly, those inventors of mahaprayan dogma really seem to think that their Lord is just one ordinary mortal. Yet every true bhakta knows that His presence is beyond time, space, and person. In this life and in future and always and up till eternity He is remaining along with us. Then how He can go.

Future of mahaprayan obsolete

The dogmatic appendix of mahaprayan should be removed from Caryacarya - 1. Most are clear that this mahaprayan is just a dogma. So soon this mahaprayan function will be obsolete like those dinosaurs.
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References
1. Prout in a Nutshell - 17, The Significance of Language
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 11, The Psychology behind the Creation of Mythological Gods and Goddesses

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They stand on their own as points of interest.

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Mocked by bad people

Please pay particular attention to the highlighted yellow section.

Ananda Marga philosophy states, "Each individual has to keep physically and mentally pure and serve the society in the best possible manner. The collective psychic momenta of all the members of society makes the collective momentum of the social order strong and powerful. Hence, as an individual, one must be able to manifest and express a powerful psychic momentum. Society must not impose any restriction on the psychic and spiritual elevation of its members, nor should it allow anyone to accumulate physical wealth to the point that it is harmful to the other members of society and leads to exploitation.” (1)

Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Caryacarya contains the guidelines for how an individual can best contribute his or her efforts to the collective momentum. It also provides guidelines for how the collective body shall foster each individual’s physical and psychic welfare." (2)

In His above teaching, Baba is talking about both the development of the individual and the society. The citation concludes with this key guideline highlighted in yellow.

Ananda Marga philosophy states, "Society must not impose any restriction on the psychic and spiritual elevation of its members." (3)

Unfortunately, this above tenet is not always followed in our AMPS society. Those who are sincere in sadhana and Sixteen Points are often ridiculed. Some Wts are especially bent on mocking and speaking sarcastically about any junior worker who is committed to their sadhana. Actually what happens is that margiis are attracted to those acaryas who do more sadhana. Seeing this, big, supervisory workers became extremely jealous. So they do everything in their power to derail that sincere Wts from the path of sadhana. They bully and mock that worker endlessly. And verily, some wts have buckled under such pressure - sadly they became completely broken. This is the very tragic state of affairs that has been in vogue since 1990. Many have suffered. How ironic is it that ours is a socio-spiritual organisation, yet if one is really sincere in their asana, conduct rules, night sadhana, spiritual practices etc they are mocked by certain top Dadas. The whole situation is shameful.

References
1. Prout in a Nutshell - 18, Talks on Education – Excerpt A
2. Prout in a Nutshell - 18, Talks on Education – Excerpt A
3. Prout in a Nutshell - 18, Talks on Education – Excerpt A

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