Baba
New Land Sale: retreat
center land & MU lost
Namaskar,
By now all are aware how numerous Ananda Marga properties were wrongfully sold in Mexico. This is both criminal and sinful as it goes again our standard Ananda Marga by-laws (criminal) and against the wishes of Guru (sinful). Sadly, we now have another shocking chapter to this ongoing saga. And that is what I wish to share with you here.
The main person behind nearly all of the Ananda Marga properties in Mexico was brother Gagan. With his generous heart and commitment to Guru’s mission, Gaganji donated numerous land parcels and properties to Ananda Marga. And after his very suspicious and suspect death in 2007, so many more properties came into the hands of the organisation and were secretly sold, allegedly. Much of this has been told in the past. And now we come to this latest tragedy.
Photo: Before
This is what our land parcel originally looked like when brother Gagan ji first donated the property and established the retreat center (shown below with the reddish-brown roof). This was an ideal site: quiet, lush, green, fertile, private, secluded, and completely natural and beautiful. It was perfect for a master unit / retreat center. Any unit would very much enjoy having such a retreat center and surrounding property. This was wholly embraced by all margiis of Mexico as one special place.
Now here is the full story.....and be sure to see the 2nd photo down below which shows how the land was allegedly divided and sold.
Gagan ji donates a retreat center
One of Gagan’s dreams was to have a wonderful place in Mexico to host retreats, similar to how Ananda Kanan was the retreat center those days in the USA. So in the mid-1990’s brother Gaganji donated 6 - 8 acres on the outskirts of Allende for a Didi’s Master Unit and retreat center. That land was called Ananda Maya Duhita. And verily, while he was alive Gagan had one major building constructed on the property to serve as a retreat site - similar to how Sudhiira had done at Ananda Kanan. And for many years, this site named Ananda Maya Duhita, on the outskirts of the small town of Allende, was where all the retreats were held.
There was one main building, some surrounding property near the road, and multiple acres both in front of and behind the retreat building. There was a grove of 30 orange trees and a forested area behind the building, as well as lots of space for the children to play during the retreats. It was quite an idyllic site and everyone very much enjoyed the satsaunga and spiritual flow at these retreats.
After Gagan’s highly suspect and mysterious death in Feb 2007, numerous properties, houses, antiques, and vehicles which Gagan had owned came into the ownership of AMPS as per Gagan’s will. And many of these were allegedly secretly and wrongfully sold. And much has been written about this in the past. Yet all along, everyone thought that the retreat center Ananda Maya Duhita had survived the alleged land sale scandal and remained in tact.
Shocking to see land was sold
Then just recently, in September 2016, a small group of margiis and Wts traveled to Allende to inspect the Didi’s master unit and retreat center. And what they saw absolutely shocked them. Some of the margii sisters were completely distraught and burst into tears. Upon their arrival at Ananda Maya Duhita, they saw that just behind the building, construction was underway and the foundation had been laid for public buildings. Unbeknownst to them, someone (allegedly Yogendra under direction of Dada Vimalananda with the approval of Dada Rudrananda) had secretly sold more than half the Didi’s master unit! It was such a sorrowful scene. All the land behind the building that was the orange grove, forest, and children’s playing area and that entire open space of more than three acres had been sold to a developer. The idyllic master unit was no more. Now there was just a little bit of land left surrounding the retreat building, and all the rest had been sold for private and commercial development. This was the horrific scene which those margiis and Wts stumbled upon. It is yet another alleged land sale debacle in Mexico, thereby shattering Gaganji’s dream and the dream of so many margiis. And top of all, it is sinful to sell Ananda Marga property as it is a direct contravention of Guru’s order.
Conclusion
Now, Ananda Maya Duhita does not even qualify as a master unit. Because as we know, Sadguru Baba gave the rule that the minimum size of any master unit is 5 acres. And Ananda Maya Duhita is half the size it once was, falling far short of the 5-acre requirement. This illegal and sinful land sale stands as yet another black stain in the ongoing land sale saga that has besieged AMPS in Mexico. Many are aware that all this transpired and occurred with the implicit support of the then SS Dada Vimalananda ji. Directly and indirectly, Dada Vimalananda is the responsible party in this debacle, and he kept his “hands clean” by passing bundles of money to Centre. Along the way, he and his local stooge also profited greatly.
Any further news about the downfall of Ananda Maya Duhita (Didi’s MU in Allende) will be shared in upcoming letters. Those interested in knowing more about the Ananda Marga Mexico land sale scandal from 2007 - 2015 may write us or click on the appended links down below in section 2.
In Him,
Manoranjan
(M. Guerrero)
Photo: After
Now see the tragedy that happened. The roadside land which is worth a lot of money was secretly sold sometime back. That was the first parcel to be sold from this plot. This is completely sinful and it was done behind the back of margiis and local acaryas. Then on the other side of the retreat center (i.e. behind the building out of view) a large 3-acre plot of land was allegedly sold sometime prior to Sep 2016. When margiis and acaryas visited there in Sep 2016 they were shocked to see that the orange grove (30 trees), forested section of other trees, and open natural area where the margii children used to play was gone; and, instead a commercial developer had set the foundation for buildings and construction. Seeing this disaster those margiis felt completely betrayed. This is all quite abhorrent how those in-charges / top Dadas completely chopped up and destroyed this lush master unit and retreat center for their own greed. What they have done is abominable and sinful.
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