Baba
See Islamic way in Tiljala
Namaskar,
For the last 28 years, mahaprayan organisers in Tiljala have been performing their dogmatic shraddhainjali ritual. In the appendix to the post 1990 edition Caryacarya 1, they inserted the term shraddhainjali to describe their mahaprayan divas program. And every year since they have been using it - as if it is something unique for Parama Purusa.
Quick Look at How Shraddhainjali Term Is Used
Since the shraddhainjali term is not used in any of Baba's discourses or Ananda Marga philosophy, many Ananda Margiis may not know what shraddhainjali is. So let’s take a quick look at how this shraddhainjali term is used. Shraddhainjali is the name used by Muslims - as well as others - in India for a death ceremony. So shraddhainjali is a death / mahaprayan / shraddha ceremony or tomb worship for any human being.
See here below how these Muslims are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship for their deceased friend. In the below photo the deceased - Nechhar Uddin Ahamad - is lying in an open casket in the couryard of the zama mosque. The body is covered up. Many have come and lined up to pay their respects and perform the last rights. They are making a shraddhainjali tribute during this death day occasion.
In the below article and photo from this Bengali newspaper the term shraddhainjali is highlighted in orange. These Muslims are performing a shraddhainjali / mahaprayan/ death ceremony for their friend / relative who died. Take a look at the scene.
https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/
Prior to 1990, this shraddhainjali dogma was non-existent in our Ananda Marga way of life. This was transplanted from Islam in the last week of October 1990.
Sadly, just as the above Muslims are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / death ceremony, in Tiljala this same type of event is going on. The mahaprayan organisers do an annual shraddhainjali function. Effectively, they have grabbed onto the Islamic dogma of shraddhainjali and inserted into our Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha. First they fast-tracked it into Caryacarya and then they actively promoted their shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship event, year after year after year.
That is the sad story how the Muslim dogma of shraddjainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship has made its way into our AMPS organisation.
With your efforts and by joining with others, this shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / annual death day dogma must be wiped from the books - it has no place in our dharmic Ananda Marga way of life. In our AMPS there is no scope to do any type of annual death day ceremony.
https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/
Baba is watching down from the seventh heaven
Remember, the dogma has been propagated by word of mouth - oral stories - that one can only get the highest virtue by going to the mahasamadhi (great tomb) in Tiljala on 26 Oct, and performing the rituals.
It is just like how Islamic followers must go to Mecca at least once in their lifetime otherwise they cannot reach to heaven. And since 1990, a similar dogma has been instituted in AMPS. Until one pays homage to the mahasamadhi, i.e. great tomb, in Tiljala on the 26th of Oct, one cannot get the highest grace that enables you to cross the Vaitarni Nadii, i.e. river of sin. Then only can one reach the 7th sky, 7th heaven, where God (Khuda) / Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji resides.
So people have gathered to do their death day ritual to Baba, as He is watching from the far distant heaven and seeing all that is going on in Tiljala and which devotee has arrived there. That is the great myth that is propagated nowadays about Tiljala on this day. They go to the great tomb and pay direct homage to Baba who is in the 7th sky, 7th heaven.
It is propagated that Lord Baba is looking down upon the great tomb in Tiljala and seeing who is there to pay shraddhainjali homage. That is the myth. That is why innocent followers run headlong to that place - i.e. to mahasamadhi (great tomb) in Tiljala - for getting a permanent place in heaven, irrespective how much sin they did.
https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/
Shraddhainjali dogma wrongly inserted into Caryacarya
Here is the paragraph from the appendix of post-1990 Caryacayra-1 where they have imposed their dogma and placed the term shraddháiṋjali.
"Programmes on this day shall include nagar kiirtana, devotional songs of Prabhát Saḿgiita (without dance) appropriate to the solemnity of the occasion, akhańd́a kiirtana, shraddháiṋjali, vánii exhibition, bookstall, tree-planting, sadávrata, other welfare activities, prasáda distribution, Bábá stories (satsauṋga), tattvasabhá, conferences and symposia." (Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix)And here below is the accompanying explanation:
“The above appendix on Maháprayáńa Divasa - 21st October 1990 - [...] was discussed and passed as a resolution on 25th August 1991 unanimously by all members of the Central Committee of Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Saḿgha, and it was decided that this (resolution) should be added as an appendix to Caryácarya Part 1. (CC Resolution, 25/8/1991, Calcutta.) –Trans.” (Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix)So we can see how at the first available instant these purodhas distorted Guru’s teachings and tainted the post-1990 edition of Caryacarya. Sadly, because of their lowly standard, our AMPS organisation has been pulverised into pieces as these 3rd class purodhas do everything solely for their own prestige, post, and power. Their qualification was put on display in the very last week of October 1990. Their first work was to impose this dogma and turn AMPS=== into a religion. That is the history which no one can deny.
The dogma of shraddhainjali is a death day / mahaprayan ceremony
The term “shraddhainjali” is written in the above Bengali newspaper article because they are mourning the deceased - it is a death day / mahaprayan gathering. That is the dogma of shraddhainjali.
In the below photo there are a few tombs covered with decorated clothes. Islamic believers are surrounding that tomb and doing their worship: Asking grace from the deceased. That is how they observe their annual death day ceremonies: By asking boons from departed friend / family member. And that is what all those dogmatic Islamic worshipers are doing below.
Enables reach heaven
So people have gathered to do their death day ritual to Baba, as He is watching from the far distant heaven and seeing all that is going on in Tiljala and which devotee has arrived there. That is the great myth that is propagated nowadays about Tiljala on this day. They go to the great tomb and pay direct homage to Baba who is in the 7th sky, 7th heaven.
It is propagated that Lord Baba is looking down upon the great tomb in Tiljala and seeing who is there to pay shraddhainjali homage. That is the myth. That is why innocent followers run headlong to that place - i.e. to mahasamadhi (great tomb) in Tiljala - for getting a permanent place in heaven, irrespective how much sin they did.
Reaching to the mahasamadhi (great tomb) will wash away all the sin. Remember, the place itself is of utmost importance - reaching to the site of the great tomb (mahasamadhi) in Tiljala.
That is why all are invited to Tiljala - to get maximum virtue. Kirtan in your local area will not do. One must attend mahasamadhi in Tiljala to get that type of virtue. That is the myth belief that is propagated. At the great tomb, i.e. mahasamadhi, pay direct homage to Baba who is in the 7th sky, 7th heaven.
Namaskar,
in Baba,
Ratna Ghoshal
Open questions to Sarvatmananda - the father of MPD dogma
Here are three key points everyone should know about the mahaprayan / shraddhainjali dogma:
Kiirtana as a cover-up
(A) Some wrongly justify that, “What is wrong, I am just going to Tiljala for the kiirtana, not for the sake of the mahaprayan program.” Here it should be clear: Going to the annual mahaprayan gathering for the sake of doing kiirtan is a bogus justification. Merely attending that mahaprayan gathering signifies your wholehearted support of that event. The fundamental equation is if anyone is doing anything anywhere and you go to their location and do what they are doing, it means you are supporting their cause. That is the basic formula that can be applied to countless situations.
Let’s look at this from another angle. Who can forget when Baba was in jail and our Ananda Margii brothers and sisters from all over converged on-site to protest the injustices. Margiis sang kiirtan. And participation in those kiirtan rallies demonstrated support for the greater cause. Those days Jai Prakash Narayan called the police on margiis and had them arrested on the basis that their participation in that kiirtana meant they were the supporters of the political protests against Baba’s incarceration.
Later on, after the rally, that same kiirtan would be sung for purely spiritual purposes during dharmacakra etc. Here the point is that doing kiirtan or raising the slogan at a rally means supporting that issue or cause.
Of late, both H and B group have used kiirtana programs as a strategy to reclaim and recapture various AMPS buildings for their group cause. And those who participate in that kiirtana are their pawns for their groupist agenda. That is what happened in Goddha and numerous other places where H and B are battling for control of that jagriti etc.
https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/
In CCI, II, III no annual death day ceremony
(B) 12 day shraddha: The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (Caryacarya - 1, Shráddha Ceremony)
So by hosting an annual death day / mahapraryan / shraddhainjali prorgram they are directly contravening Baba’s teaching in Caryacarya.
Falsely justifying MPD by deception
(C) The organisers and inventors of the shraddhainjali / mahaprayan (মহাপ্রয়াণ) / tomb worship dogma, repeatedly resort to a particular quote when justifying the existence of their annual tomb day ceremony.
Ananda Marga ideology states, "Táraka Brahma comes here on a particular date, leaves this earth also on a particular date, takes the birth of His quinquelemental body, the death of His quinquelemental body." (Ananda Vacanamrtam - 12, The Coming of Táraka Brahma, EGD 13 May 1979 Fiesch)
The above quote was originally delivered by Baba in English. So those cunning MPD organisers translated the above teaching in Bangla and inserted the term mahaprayan in association with Táraka Brahma. This was their scheme or ploy to try and validate the mahaprayan programme. They lay claim that Baba Himself used the term mahaprayan. But that is outrightly false. They manipulated the translation and inserted the term “mahaprayan” in hopes of befooling people into thinking that mahaprayan is really something legit - when really it is just one awful dogma.
https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/
In Him,
Ratna Ghoshal
*
* *
The below sections are entirely different topics, unrelated to the above material.
They stands on their own as points of interest.
* * *
== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==
Audacity of groupist people will be pulverized
"Jai! Jai! Jai!, Jai! Prabhu toma'ri hobe..." (Prabhat Samgiita #4734)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, victory to You! Victory to You! Victory to You! Always up to eternity, You are beyond the relative factors of time, space, and person. In this entire universe, in the physical, psychic, and spiritual worlds, everywhere, You are the Controlling Entity of everything. You will remain up to eternity. Victory to You! In the three worlds - mortal, golaka, and divine realm, You shall be victorious.
Baba, those blinded and intoxicated by their worldly power are slaves to their own ego and vanity. They have lost their conscience due to the fetters of staticity. Those suffused with hubris of their material power are slaves to their self-importance and conceit. They are bound by the fetters of bondage and have lost their conscience. The audacity of such people will be pulverized and they will become one with the dust. Baba, O’ all loving Parama Purusa, Victory to You! Victory to You!
Even in the hour of the crimson dawn, there are some who wish to remain in darkness. Such persons are the followers of foxes and crows. They are the slaves of the demons’ black hands. They will be destroyed. Baba, victory will be Yours...
== Section 3: Important Teaching ==
Harmful effects of fans
Ananda Marga philosophy states, "If a hand fan is used in a small room it certainly generates some breeze but that breeze does not give much relief from the fatigue of summer. Such a breeze within those small confines becomes more and more injurious to health with every passing moment. The breeze of an electric fan within a closed environment is even more harmful. If a person sleeps with this kind of a breeze they feel heavy when they wake up; a weak or sick person feels feverish. The breeze generated by a fan within a confined space is called kut́heru; since ancient times it has been considered as something which should be avoided." (1)
Reference
1. Shabda Cayaniká Part 5, Disc: 29
== Section 4: Links ==
Recent postings
Other topics of interest
More important letters
About
Shravanii Purnima (26 Aug 2018) & cemetery sadhana
Legal Notice: ©2018 Ananda Marga News Bulletin. All rights reserved. Ananda Marga News Bulletin content is the intellectual property of Ananda Marga News Bulletin or its third party content providers. Ananda Marga News Bulletin shall not be liable for any errors or delays in content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Any copying, republication or redistribution, part or full, of Ananda Marga News Bulletin content, including by framing or similar means, is against the court of law and expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Ananda Marga News Bulletin.
Reply to: anandamarganewsbulletin1@y
This email contains four sections:
1. Posting: See Islamic way in Tiljala
2; PS #4734: Audacity of groupist people will be pulverized
4. Links
