PK Chatterjee, Candranathji, mahaprayan + 4 more

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1. Posting: PK Chatterjee, Candranathji, mahaprayan 

2. PS #4628: No matter how alluring the worldly attractions 
3. PS #3776: मैं साॅंसारिक वस्तुओं की चाह में, मरीचिका के मृग की भाॅंति भटकता रहा
4. Important Teaching: This proves that the people were well acquainted with
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PK Chatterjee, Candranathji, mahaprayan

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. Indira Gandhi characterized Him as a violent revolutionary who was a threat to her reign; the communists and political leaders thought He had the black magic to attract followers so they viewed Him Baba was a threat to their party ; bhaktas think He is Parama Purusa; 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.


PK Chatterjee’s use of  mahaprayan

In the post 1990 era, Ac Candranthji requested Pranay Kumar Chatterjee (aka Rtambar) to write him about his experiences with Baba, realisations in sadhana, as well as what circumstances led him to leave the Marga.

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 Ananda Marga for many years. Even then, we should not think of him as just an ordinary citizen - he still had devotional feeling for Baba.

So Candranathji wrote 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 Ananda Marga. 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, used the word "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 he also used the term "mahaprayan" to refer to the death of PK Chatterjee's laukik mother.


Mindset of Dada Sarvatmananda & MPD

Here the point is that the term "mahaprayan" is the normal word Bengali speaking people use to describe the death of a human being, such as PK Chatterjee's mother. Indeed, PK Chatterjee himself used this word, as did Ac Candranathji.

The mahaprayan term then is not some special devotional term to describe the physical departure of Taraka Brahma. No doubt, Dada Sarvatmananda is selling the term as such and he himself coined the mahaprayan term in Ananda Marga. But the fact remains it is a term used regularly for the death of human being. That is its usage in Bengali.

The fact that Sarvatmananda has used such an ordinary and common term for Baba speaks more about Dada Sarvatmananda's own mindset than Baba's true stature. In his groupist paradigm, Sarvatmananda has less regard for Baba; that is why Dada Sarvatmananda has repeatedly indulged in distorting AM books etc. No one who has great reverence for Baba as being the Parama Purusa would do such a thing like purposefully ruin Baba's original discourses. But Dada Sarvatmananda did. And it is with that same mindset that Sarvatmananda has applied a word, i.e. mahaprayan, to describe the physical departure of Taraka Brahma.

By understanding Sarvatmananda's mindset, we can understand his actions like the invention of the mahaprayan term and function. And we can also understand whether we should support such things, or not.

As disciples of Baba we should think carefully. Just as we do not rally around the way that Indira Gandhi or the communists have described Baba, similarly we should use our viveka before rallying around the way certain groupists have classified Baba by their term, "mahaprayan".


Not to be swayed by dirty agendas

According to Baba, so many groupists and jinanis come onto this earth with their own personal agendas and narrow-minded objectives. The dogma of the mahaprayan program is one such example. Baba warns us about such things again and again.

Maha'jano yena gatah sah pantha'

Baba says, "So many scriptures say so many things, and they are sometimes contradictory to one another. Now what to do? What is an ordinary man to do? Whom to follow and whom not to follow? “Smrtayoh vibhinna'h”. There are so many social codes in the world. Whom to follow and whom not to follow? And amongst intellectuals [and groupists] there are so many – there are diversities of opinion. One intellectual doesn’t [[carry]], doesn’t recommend, doesn’t support, the views of others. And
it is the greatest weakness of intellectuals [and groupists] that they always encourage disunity. They always support heterogeneity. And one spiritual aspirant, once upon a time, remarked that these intellectuals [and groupists] are polished satans." (1)

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 take a mundane term like mahaprayan and try to project it as being one great spiritual event. When in fact the term mahaprayan is just an ordinary word. Yet they have hijacked this word 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.


Conclusion

The ways that both PK Chatterjee and Ac Candranathji employed the term mahaprayan in their writings show that this word is just meant to depict the death of human beings only.

Ananda Marga ideology states, "Whenever dharma comes into a secondary position, a degraded position, a depraved position; that is, dharma is being defeated by adharma in that temporary phase of the war – finally dharma wins, but you know, a war is divided into several phases, and each and every phase is known as a battle. So in one battle, adharma may win, in another battle, dharma may win, but finally, as a result of the final fight of the war, dharma wins. Hence, O human beings, do not get scared, light is sure to come after darkness." (3)

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.

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. And 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.


Muslim & mahaprayan

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.


References
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 12
2. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 12
3. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 1, The Advent of the Lord

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== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==

No matter how alluring the worldly attractions & attachments may be

"Bha'lobesechi a'mi toma'y, jar'ata'r yato a'hva'n..." (Prabhat Samgiita #4628)

Purport:

O' Parama Purusa, No matter how alluring the worldly attractions & attachments may be; no matter how much they call out to me and try to pull me, in my heart I know that this is not Your divine attraction, because  I love You. By Your grace, I understand that these fleeting temptations will not bring me under Your divine shelter.

Whatever flowers are blossoming today, tomorrow they will wither away. The mala which was smiling in vibrant colours, tomorrow it will become one with the dust. This is how this changing, panoramic universe unfolds; this is the way this transitory world works. This is Your divine liila. Nothing in this world is permanent. O' Parama Purusa, You have graciously made me understand this spiritual truth.

O' Parama Purusa, when the dark night ends then the shining and glittering moon sadly becomes faded and faint. It loses its charm. Baba, in the most loving and beautiful way, in the end ultimately everything gets its place at Your lotus feet. That is the final stance of this grand creation.

O' Parama Purusa Baba, You have made me understand that all these worldly attractions do not lead unto You. You have graciously given me samvit [1] and awakened me to the fact that these worldly allurements are not meaningful. Baba, all this is Your unfathomable divine grace...


Note for Prabhat Samgiita #4628:

[1] Samvit: "Samvit means spiritual consciousness, spiritual awakening. A man engaged in bad things all of a sudden feels that “No, I shouldn’t do all these things. No, I should be a good man henceforward.” Such an idea all of a sudden comes in his mind. And this thing, this change of mental tendency, is brought about by samvit shakti of Vidyámáyá. Do you follow? This is what is called samvit shakti. “No, henceforward I must be a good man. No, henceforward I must be a spiritualist. I must not encourage any depraving idea.” Samvit shakti." (1)

Reference
1. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 33, Brahma Cakra

== Section 3: 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।

Reference
1. Trans: Dr. T.R.S

== Section 4: Important Teaching ==

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

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