Baba
Note 1: Please bear in mind that those who do not give importance to Baba's divine teachings and those emotionally attached with a dada Santoshananda or group may choose not to read this letter. A balanced and rational outlook is needed to understand this topic.
Note 2: This letter is written according to the standard of Ananda Marga. Our Ananda Marga does not appreciate or subscribe to materialistic, pseudo-culture values prevalent nowadays. One should always remember that Ananda Marga is a revolution.
Namaskar,
As we know, our Ananda Marga magazines are for the propagation of AM ideals, not pseudo-culture values.
Yet look here at these photos from page 20 of Bhakta Samaj (Feb 2016). Such photo utterly contravene countless aspects of our Ananda Marga Way of Life, yet certain magazine editors have selected these images to grace the pages of our Ananda Marga magazine - Bhakta Samaj.
Certainly, every sincere Ananda Margii will understand the ills and
dogmas related with these photos. Even then for your convenience,
here is a short list for your review.
1. In the Bhakta Samaj magazine (BSM), they are doing a fake yoga asanas in the name of Ananda Marga.
2. In the BSM, men and women are on display doing asanas together which contravenes our social code.
3. In the BSM, the women displayed have shaved their underarm hair thus going against Sixteen Points and our rules for doing asanas.
4. In the BSM, the women displayed are dressed according to pseudo-culture values wearing sleeveless tops and tight-fitting clothing etc.
5. The Bhakta Samaj magazine is in Hindi only so most readers will be from the Indian subcontinent. Yet here, white western women are on display - further infusing a cultural inferiority complex upon Hindi speakers etc. Already, since the British rule, India has surrendered itself to European dominance and western values. And this photo further cements this idea in the minds of Hindi readers.
6. New and prospective margiis who are not aware about Ananda Marga ideals will get the wrong idea by seeing this photo in the Bhakta Samaj magazine. They will think we are just a carbon copy of so many fake yoga outfits that are sprouting up all over the place. They will not realise that ours is a true tantric path.
Keeping the above points in mind kindly again see the photo up above which appears on page 20 of Bhakta Samaj (Feb 2016, Hindi) in the article titled- Yoga Display. And for those looking for more explanation please read further.
Editor Dada Santoshananda selling out to pseudo-culture
In all circumstances our aim is to preach and demonstrate Ananda Marga ideology: To teach genuine points of bhagavad dharma - not compromise with the ways of pseudo-culture. The entire world is waiting for something great to happen, i.e. to receive the teachings of Sadguru. Yet here we see our Bhakta Samaj editors selling-out and giving in to materialistic, societal trends.
All this is going on in the name of our Ananda Marga magazine - Bhakta Samaj. People are bound to think that Ananda Marga yoga is something cheap and commercial, not dharmic and righteous. Because they see that the Bhakta Samaj editors are teaching yoga by splashing photos of half-naked females in their magazine and preaching the virtues of pseudo-culture values etc. It is really an awful scene and I feel badly how those Bhakta Samaj editors have fallen in this manner.
By failing to live up to the ideal of our Ananda Marga ideology, the Bhakta Samaj editors are verily depriving humanity of dharmic teachings. Their duty is to spread dharma but they are doing just opposite.
It denigrates young women as sex objects
In getting caught up in the winds of the fake yoga syndrome, the Bhakta Samaj editors blatantly contradict so many of conduct rules and vows:
- “Do not cut the hair of the joints of the body.” (1)
Contradiction: Instead of adhering to Guru’s above guideline, those Bhakta Samaj editors picked up half-naked photos from the web that portray women according to western, pseudo-culture values where women’s underarm hair is shaved off to make them more alluring to men.
- “It should be remembered that a woman’s friend is a woman and a man’s friend is a man.” (2)
Contradiction: In our Ananda Marga, there is not free mixing of the sexes and males and females certainly do not perform yoga asanas together. Yet in the above photo, there is a male doing fake asanas with half-naked women.
- "Avadhuta shall treat every woman of the world, including his ex-wife, as mother." (3)
Contradiction: Instead of treating females as mother Bhakta Samaj chief editor Dada Santoshananda Santosananda is denigrating them as sex objects etc.
- "While going out of their house, women should wear simple and decent clothes and cover their bodies properly." (4)
Contradiction: Instead of covering up their bodies, the women displayed in the above photo are revealing maximum degree of skin (i.e. half-naked) for all to see.
Conclusion
By the above it is quite evident that the Dada Santoshananda Santosananda and his editorial staff at the Bhakta Samaj magazine have veered from the path into the untidy currents of materialistic pseudo-culture. Ananda Marga ideology is one thing and the editors are doing something completely different. That is the sad state of affairs.
Namaskar,
in Him,
Nirmala' Singh
Note: (a) Everybody knows, according to Ananda Marga standard and Caryacarya, the women displayed in the above photo are half-naked. (b) If you are interested to see the aforesaid magazine page, please write us. (c) By the way, some naive persons claim that Dada Santoshananda, Santosananda is not the real doer and that the real culprits are his staff. Whatever may be, but as long as his name is still listed as the magazine editor, then he will be held responsible.
Who is behind this sin
Ac Santoshananda Avt - Editor - As the editor he is most responsible for this sin.
Partially Responsible Parties
These following post-holders are partially responsible:
Shrii Madhava Pandey - Co-Editor
Shrii Vikesh Beniwal - Associate Editor
Shrii Arjun Narayan Choudhary - Working Editor
Shrii Madhavi Dani - Organising Editor
Shrii Hariprasad Vishwash - Sub-Editor
Shrii Nishant Ketu - Advisor
Editorial Board:
Ac Susmitananda
Shrii Ramlal Dani
Shrii Trilok Singh
Strange - why these sincere margiis are supporting
pseudo-culture the exploitation of women
Directly or indirectly supporting any sin is also a sin. That is why I request these below listed good margiis not to associate themselves with this magazine. This magazine is propagating false things. Would they like it if their daughters or granddaughters were displayed in this way - i.e. shaving their armpit hair and exposing most of their skin etc.
So if any margiis supports this magazine, they will have to face the consequences of the cosmic operative principle - so watch out. Below is the list of some of the names listed on the editor’s page.
Shrii Ramkesh Choudhary
Shrii Kumar Akhilesh
Shrii Jagadiish Bhala - Kanpur
Shrii Rajiiv -
Shrii Suman Kumar Jha
Shrii Yashpal Singh Chauhan - Uttarakhand
Shrii Tulsi Ram Patel - Chattisgarh
Shrii Shantaram Choudhary - Lucknow
Dr Rakesh - Sahajanavan (Gorakhpur)
Dr Chandreshvar Prasad (Patna)
Shrii Piyusa (Bettiah)
Shrii Praveen (Samastipur)
Shrii Guru Prasad (Banka)
Shrii Ravi Shankar (Bhagalpur)
A call to all margiis: Please ask these above margiis to think twice before supporting this anti-dharmic work, i.e. propagating pseudo-culture which is against Ananda Marga.
References
1. Caryacarya 3, Rules for Asanas, point #8
2. Caryacarya Part 1 - Social Relationship between Men and Women
3. 32 Rules for Avadhuta, pt #11
4. Caryacarya -1, Dress
Santosanand ji magazine: half-naked women
Note 1: Please bear in mind that those who do not give importance to Baba's divine teachings and those emotionally attached with a dada Santoshananda or group may choose not to read this letter. A balanced and rational outlook is needed to understand this topic.
Note 2: This letter is written according to the standard of Ananda Marga. Our Ananda Marga does not appreciate or subscribe to materialistic, pseudo-culture values prevalent nowadays. One should always remember that Ananda Marga is a revolution.
Namaskar,
As we know, our Ananda Marga magazines are for the propagation of AM ideals, not pseudo-culture values.
Yet look here at these photos from page 20 of Bhakta Samaj (Feb 2016). Such photo utterly contravene countless aspects of our Ananda Marga Way of Life, yet certain magazine editors have selected these images to grace the pages of our Ananda Marga magazine - Bhakta Samaj.
1. In the Bhakta Samaj magazine (BSM), they are doing a fake yoga asanas in the name of Ananda Marga.
2. In the BSM, men and women are on display doing asanas together which contravenes our social code.
3. In the BSM, the women displayed have shaved their underarm hair thus going against Sixteen Points and our rules for doing asanas.
4. In the BSM, the women displayed are dressed according to pseudo-culture values wearing sleeveless tops and tight-fitting clothing etc.
5. The Bhakta Samaj magazine is in Hindi only so most readers will be from the Indian subcontinent. Yet here, white western women are on display - further infusing a cultural inferiority complex upon Hindi speakers etc. Already, since the British rule, India has surrendered itself to European dominance and western values. And this photo further cements this idea in the minds of Hindi readers.
6. New and prospective margiis who are not aware about Ananda Marga ideals will get the wrong idea by seeing this photo in the Bhakta Samaj magazine. They will think we are just a carbon copy of so many fake yoga outfits that are sprouting up all over the place. They will not realise that ours is a true tantric path.
Keeping the above points in mind kindly again see the photo up above which appears on page 20 of Bhakta Samaj (Feb 2016, Hindi) in the article titled- Yoga Display. And for those looking for more explanation please read further.
Editor Dada Santoshananda selling out to pseudo-culture
In all circumstances our aim is to preach and demonstrate Ananda Marga ideology: To teach genuine points of bhagavad dharma - not compromise with the ways of pseudo-culture. The entire world is waiting for something great to happen, i.e. to receive the teachings of Sadguru. Yet here we see our Bhakta Samaj editors selling-out and giving in to materialistic, societal trends.
All this is going on in the name of our Ananda Marga magazine - Bhakta Samaj. People are bound to think that Ananda Marga yoga is something cheap and commercial, not dharmic and righteous. Because they see that the Bhakta Samaj editors are teaching yoga by splashing photos of half-naked females in their magazine and preaching the virtues of pseudo-culture values etc. It is really an awful scene and I feel badly how those Bhakta Samaj editors have fallen in this manner.
By failing to live up to the ideal of our Ananda Marga ideology, the Bhakta Samaj editors are verily depriving humanity of dharmic teachings. Their duty is to spread dharma but they are doing just opposite.
It denigrates young women as sex objects
In getting caught up in the winds of the fake yoga syndrome, the Bhakta Samaj editors blatantly contradict so many of conduct rules and vows:
- “Do not cut the hair of the joints of the body.” (1)
Contradiction: Instead of adhering to Guru’s above guideline, those Bhakta Samaj editors picked up half-naked photos from the web that portray women according to western, pseudo-culture values where women’s underarm hair is shaved off to make them more alluring to men.
- “It should be remembered that a woman’s friend is a woman and a man’s friend is a man.” (2)
Contradiction: In our Ananda Marga, there is not free mixing of the sexes and males and females certainly do not perform yoga asanas together. Yet in the above photo, there is a male doing fake asanas with half-naked women.
- "Avadhuta shall treat every woman of the world, including his ex-wife, as mother." (3)
Contradiction: Instead of treating females as mother Bhakta Samaj chief editor Dada Santoshananda Santosananda is denigrating them as sex objects etc.
- "While going out of their house, women should wear simple and decent clothes and cover their bodies properly." (4)
Contradiction: Instead of covering up their bodies, the women displayed in the above photo are revealing maximum degree of skin (i.e. half-naked) for all to see.
Conclusion
By the above it is quite evident that the Dada Santoshananda Santosananda and his editorial staff at the Bhakta Samaj magazine have veered from the path into the untidy currents of materialistic pseudo-culture. Ananda Marga ideology is one thing and the editors are doing something completely different. That is the sad state of affairs.
Namaskar,
in Him,
Nirmala' Singh
Note: (a) Everybody knows, according to Ananda Marga standard and Caryacarya, the women displayed in the above photo are half-naked. (b) If you are interested to see the aforesaid magazine page, please write us. (c) By the way, some naive persons claim that Dada Santoshananda, Santosananda is not the real doer and that the real culprits are his staff. Whatever may be, but as long as his name is still listed as the magazine editor, then he will be held responsible.
Who is behind this sin
Ac Santoshananda Avt - Editor - As the editor he is most responsible for this sin.
Partially Responsible Parties
These following post-holders are partially responsible:
Shrii Madhava Pandey - Co-Editor
Shrii Vikesh Beniwal - Associate Editor
Shrii Arjun Narayan Choudhary - Working Editor
Shrii Madhavi Dani - Organising Editor
Shrii Hariprasad Vishwash - Sub-Editor
Shrii Nishant Ketu - Advisor
Editorial Board:
Ac Susmitananda
Shrii Ramlal Dani
Shrii Trilok Singh
Strange - why these sincere margiis are supporting
pseudo-culture the exploitation of women
Directly or indirectly supporting any sin is also a sin. That is why I request these below listed good margiis not to associate themselves with this magazine. This magazine is propagating false things. Would they like it if their daughters or granddaughters were displayed in this way - i.e. shaving their armpit hair and exposing most of their skin etc.
So if any margiis supports this magazine, they will have to face the consequences of the cosmic operative principle - so watch out. Below is the list of some of the names listed on the editor’s page.
Shrii Ramkesh Choudhary
Shrii Kumar Akhilesh
Shrii Jagadiish Bhala - Kanpur
Shrii Rajiiv -
Shrii Suman Kumar Jha
Shrii Yashpal Singh Chauhan - Uttarakhand
Shrii Tulsi Ram Patel - Chattisgarh
Shrii Shantaram Choudhary - Lucknow
Dr Rakesh - Sahajanavan (Gorakhpur)
Dr Chandreshvar Prasad (Patna)
Shrii Piyusa (Bettiah)
Shrii Praveen (Samastipur)
Shrii Guru Prasad (Banka)
Shrii Ravi Shankar (Bhagalpur)
A call to all margiis: Please ask these above margiis to think twice before supporting this anti-dharmic work, i.e. propagating pseudo-culture which is against Ananda Marga.
References
1. Caryacarya 3, Rules for Asanas, point #8
2. Caryacarya Part 1 - Social Relationship between Men and Women
3. 32 Rules for Avadhuta, pt #11
4. Caryacarya -1, Dress
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