Baba
MPD mindset
Namaskar,
Baba places great importance on the study of history as it enables both individuals and communities to learn from past mistakes and thereby progress. Failing that, without the study of history, people commit the same old blunders over and over again. In which case, they remain shackled by the crimes of the past and are unable to advance. So the review of history holds a unique place for the progress of any society.
As Ananda Margiis, we must know the history of Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha (AMPS). In this particular piece, both Ac Candranath and PK Chatterjee (the first GS in AMPS) clearly acknowledge that mahaprayan means the death of an ordinary human being. Please read this below letter historical account which was first posted in March 2010 on an earlier incarnation of this very network.
In Him,
Dr. Gopal
Ananda Marga News Bulletin Moderators
Note: This below letter was first posted in March 2010.
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Namaskar,
Everyone has their own mindset and with that mental outlook they express themselves. For instance, various people have their own way of describing Baba:
(a) Indira Gandhi characterized Him as a violent revolutionary who was a threat to her reign;
(b) the communists and political leaders thought He had the black magic to attract followers so they viewed Him as a threat to their party;
(c) bhaktas think He is Parama Purusa;
(d) and some groupists have their own style. It all depends upon one's mindset.
Let's look at a correspondence from long ago in order to gain insight into a particular mindset that is still prevalent today.
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PK Chatterjee’s mindset about mahaprayan
In the post 1990 era, Ac Candranthji requested Pranay Kumar Chatterjee (aka Rtambar) to write about his experiences with Baba, realisations in sadhana, as well as what circumstances led him to leave the AMPS.
As many will recall, PK Chatterjee was the first General Secretary of AMPS who worked tirelessly for AM in the early years. And then, in this Divine liila, PK Chatterjee drifted away from AMPS for many years. Even then, we should not think of him as just an ordinary citizen - he still had a special inner feeling for Baba. So Candranathji wrote to him to learn the details and gather the history of those early days with Baba.
In his reply, PK Chatterjee wrote Candranathji about his entire history in AMPS. And when talking about his laukik family, PK Chatterjee wrote in his letter on page 3 about the day that his mother died. To express that event, PK Chatterjee, a native Bengali speaker, called it "mahaprayan". That was how he described his laukik mother's death - i.e. mahaprayan.
Then, in his book of 2006, Ham Nahin Bhu'lenge (We Will Never Forget), Ac Candranathji recounts this aspect of PK Chatterjee's life, and on page 24 Ac Candranathji also wrote about the mahaprayan of PK Chatterjee's worldly mother to refer to her death.
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Mindset of Dada Sarvatmananda & MPD
Here the point is that the occasion of mahaprayan means the death of a human being, such as PK Chatterjee's mother. Both PK Chatterjee and Ac Candranathji acknowledge this fact that mahaprayan means the death of an ordinary human being.
That Sarvatmananda created this mahaprayan observance for Baba speaks more about Dada Sarvatmananda's own mindset than Baba's true stature. Indeed, Dada created a mahaprayan (death) occasion for the eternal Taraka Brahma Baba. By understanding Sarvatmananda's mindset, we can garner a clear sense as to why he invented the dogmatic MPD occasion.
Not to be swayed by dirty agendas
Life is too short to be swayed by the mindset and agenda of various groupists. They will always try to lure you away from dharma and into their own camp. That is what groupists do. They will invent a dogmatic gathering like mahaprayan and try to project it as being one great spiritual event. When in fact the mahaprayan signifies the death of an ordinary human. Yet they have hijacked this occasion for their own agenda and applied it to Baba. We are not to be guided by such persons. We are to follow the practical yogi - those who have dyed their hearts and minds in His colour, not in the trappings of any groupist strategy.
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Conclusion
Both PK Chatterjee and Ac Candranathji know well that mahaprayan is not some great event; rather, their writing clearly indicates that they think of mahaprayan as the death of an ordinary human being.
According to the Muslim perspective, the Lord resides in the 7th sky, i.e. 7th heaven. Going to that place is very far. That means leaving the earth's atmosphere, through the stratosphere, and far beyond the moon deep into outer space to the very imaginary, top of the sky. It is a grand journey - far beyond any other. So that journey they call mahaprayan. Thus when any Muslim dies and they begin the journey to that distant abode of God, it is called mahaprayan.
Namaskar,
In Him,
Ranjana’
How do you feel about their ignorance
When our Avadhutas acaryas give initiation, or revise anyone’s lessons, or give further lessons of sadhana, our Dadas say, “I am just a medium - Sadguru Taraka Brahma Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is teaching you and He is ever-present."
So in one breath our Wt dadas say that Sadguru Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is guiding you and in the next breath they say He is dead - mahaprayan. That is both hypocritical and sinful. Hypocritical because they are telling one thing and doing something else. They are telling that Guru is no more in their mahaprayan program, yet when teaching sadhana they are relying on Him. And it is sinful because it is abusive against Guru.
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It is similar to your own children playing before you and talking among themselves that, “My mother is dead.” As a mother, how will you feel. Not only that, they go one step ahead, before your eyes they started commemorating your annual death day ceremony. How do you feel about their ignorance?
True bhaktas never participate in the dogmatic annual death day ceremony / mahaprayan of the ever-present God. That is against pre-1990 Caryacarya. How long will we allow Guru to be insulted and put down in this way.
== Section 2: Video against Mahaprayan ==
The fundamental message in the below video is that the Supreme Entity Parama Purusa is ever-present, so the mahaprayan (annual death day dogma) is bogus.
== Section: Prabhat Samgiita ==
मैं साॅंसारिक वस्तुओं की चाह में, मरीचिका के मृग की भाॅंति भटकता रहा
प्रभात संगीत 3776 प्रियतम अमार घरे एशो , आलोय पूर्ण कोरे...
भावार्थ-
हे मेरे परमप्रिय! हे परमपुरुष! कृपा कर मेरे घर आओ, और मेरे मन की युगों पुरानी इच्छा पूरी कर दो। मेरे ऊपर कृपा कर दो और मेरी चाहत को परितृप्त कर दो। कृपा कर अपनी मधुर मुस्कान और हृदय-स्पर्शी आकर्षक होठों के साथ आ जाओ। मेरे हृदय को अपनी कृपा से भर दो।
हे परम सत्ता ! मैं तुमसे कुछ नहीं चाहता , मैं तो अपना सब कुछ तुम्हें ही देना चाहता हॅूं, अपने आप को देकर तुम्हारी सैकड़ों प्रकार की राग रागनियों में तुम्हारे ही ध्यान में डूब जाना चाहता हॅूं। मैं तो उस रास्ते पर चलना चाहता हॅूं जो तुम्हें सबसे अच्छा लगता है। हे परम पुरुष! मैं तुम्हारे श्रवण ,मनन, कीर्तन, ध्यान, जप और निदिध्यासन में डूबा रहना चाहता हॅूं। हे परमपुरुष! कृपा कर मेरे घर आओ, और मेरे मन की युगों पुरानी इच्छा पूरी कर दो।
इसके पहले मैं साॅंसारिक वस्तुओं की चाह में, मरीचिका के मृग की भाॅंति भटकता रहा, और बहुत सा समय व्यर्थ ही खर्च कर डाला। मैं अनेक प्रकार की भावजड़ता से प्रभावित होकर, अस्थायी और क्षणभंगुर प्रलोभनों को स्थायी समझकर उनके पीछे भागता रहा। हे बाबा! मैं अनेक प्रकार की भावजड़ताओं को प्रचारित भी करता रहा। कुछ लोगों को छोटा, कुछ को बड़ा मानकर ऊंच-नीच की भिन्नताओं और असमानाताओं को प्रचारित कर, जाति-भेद को अनावश्यक महत्व देता रहा। इस प्रकार मेरा समय और धन ही नहीं, पूरा जीवन ही नष्ट हो गया। हे प्रभु मेरी कुटिया में आकर मेरी युगों पुरानी चाहत को तृप्त कर दो।
हे बाबा! तुम्हारी कृपा से मैं समझ गया हॅूं कि तुम ही यथार्थ सत्य हो, कृपा कर मेरे पास आओ , मैं तुम्हें ही चाहता हॅूूं।
टिप्पणी- श्रवण अर्थात् परम पुरुष के नाम को लगातार सुनना। मनन अर्थात् परम पुरुष के नाम का ही लगातार चिंतन करना। निदिध्यासन अर्थात् उन्हीं का सदा सर्वदा ध्यान करना। वे गूढ़ हैं और मानव अस्तित्व की गहराई में छिपे हैं। इस लिये उन्हें पाने के लिये गहरी अंतरदृष्टि विकसित करना चाहिये।
== Section: Important Teaching ==
This proves that the people were well acquainted with
This proves that the people were well acquainted with
Baba says, "There is a very interesting example of surgery. The cousin of Krsna (the son of the sister of Lord Krsna's father) was Jarasandha, the king of Magadha, with his capital at Rajgir. At the time of the birth of Jarasandha, the child bad to be cut out of the womb. People saw this child and threw it in the cremation ground. Then there came a very famous non-Aryan (raksasii) lady doctor known as Jara. She stitched the child in a proper surgical operation and saved it. Since the lady Jara joined (sandhi) the pieces of the child's body, the name of the child became Jarasandha. This proves that the people were well acquainted with surgery." (1)
Reference
1. Discourses of the Mahabharata, p.24
== Section 3: Links ==
Contravening Baba
MPD wailing
Annual death day dogma
MPD obsolete
Mahaprayan: a relic of Islam
MPD against spirituality
Bhakti: what to remember
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