Downfall: DMS or tourist agency
Namaskar,
Before 1990, when our Gurudev intended to bless His children by conducting DMC in a particular area, then simply the dates and places were conveyed via wts and other margis - either personally, or by phone, or by letters, or simple pamphlets. There was no mention about that area’s local historical sites or religious temples etc where He was going to hold DMC. Rather that place itself acquired importance with His auspicious arrival.
Now, I have seen the upcoming DMS brochures and pamphlets for Kota DMS (Oct 2017) that highlight the places of pilgrimage like different temples, statues, forts, and scenic areas etc. All these local “attractions” have been highlighted as special places to go to and visit - i.e. sightseeing etc. This means the aim of DMS function has become secondary and the places of entertainment and pilgrimage have become primary.
Here in this first photo travel agency Dadas are highlighting a dogmatic religious statue that is the focal point of G Circle in Kota.
Statue at G Circle in Kota
And here in the below photo travel agency Dadas are glorifying the old monarchy of Kota.
Fort Palace in Kota
We all know that Baba clearly explained about "tiirthas" as tire sthitah yah sah tiirthah, and never recommended to visit any temple or other sites as a tiirtha. Yet the organizers have expressed as if such dogmatic tiirtha sites are recognized by Ananda Marga philosophy and are thereby misleading common margiis of the world. This is the harmful scene that is occurring.
Nothing but a travel agency
Sadly, our AMPS has left the work of dharma pracar and instead become a typical travel agency. Just see what is going on.
Up to 1990 when DMC (Dharma Maha Cakra) was being held then Sadguru Baba presided over a grand and dharmic event. There were no side-shows - just pure dharma. Now, at DMS (Dharma Maha Sammelan) dharma is not front and center - it is not anywhere at all. Just DMS has become a collection of side shows, all smoke and mirrors. And this brochure for the Kota DMS (Oct 2017) is proof.
On the each panel of the 6-panel DMS brochure, the DMS organisers are promoting all kinds of sightseeing events such as historical monuments and dogmatic religious sites etc. As if people should be coming to Kota DMS to see these places. And this type of approach has become the norm of the H and B factions. They are not even a shadow of what Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha (AMPS) used to be because they have completely forgotten their dharma. Rather their existence defeats the purpose of Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha.
In 1955 Sadguru Baba blessed this world and beyond with the aims and teachings of Ananda Marga ideology with the sole purpose of propagating bhagavad dharma. But now that very same structure has been reduced to a world-wide travel agency. Gone are the dharmic injunctions and pristine conduct. Instead, they merely call people for DMS with the allurement of sightseeing and vacationing. Their interest is crowds and profit. Whereas in the days up to 1990, those DMS programmes verily shook the world with the force of righteousness.
So the Kota DMS brochure is just a promotional, sightseeing pamphlet. That is the hallmark of this brochure.
Conclusion
On the one side, all of humanity is desperate for physical, psychic, and spiritual service. And Lord Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji - the Founder and Propounder of Ananda Marga - has given the solution. All the rules and guidelines, all the plans and programs, and all the answers and solutions He has graciously given for humanity to advance.
Yet now those who have taken AMPS hostage and captive are choking the propagation of Ananda Marga ideals. They are impotent and incapable of propagating Guru’s teachings - nor are they allowing others to do so. By their modus operandi it is clear what they are doing: they have reduced themselves to a mere travel agency, highlighting dogmatic sightseeing spots popularised by the masses etc.
And this brochure is not an isolated incident or outlying example. Their each and every action has been reduced to superficiality and self, dogmatic propaganda - typified by this DMS Kota brochure.
in Him,
Kailash Tiwari
Who are the masterminds & culprits
Listed from top to bottom in terms of their extreme nefariousness and hypocrisy.
- Rudrananda
- Hariishananda
- Satyashryananda
- Madhuvratananda
Rudrananda’s main aim is to destroy AMPS and his sycophants are happy as long as they are rewarded with high posts to execute Rudrananda’s job of destroying AMPS.
Innocent bystanders
Following are just two naive and ignorant Wts caught in this matter as innocent bystanders.
- Shubhagata’nanda - RS Kota - 0950 948 5921
- Jiita’tmananda - DS - 07891472 109
Sightseeing monuments highlighted in above Kota DMS brochure
- Kota lake
- Fort Palace
- Water Palace
- A Dot Palace
- K. ocean pond
- Kota Dam
- B. Temple
- D. Garden
All these above dogmatic / travel agency images are littered throughout the Kota DMS brochure. You can see them all by Googling them, getting the brochure, or writing us for the brochure. So many images they inserted to fulfill their travel agency deal.
Fine line between worldliness and spirituality
Ananda Marga ideology teaches us, “People have been feeling this irresistible attraction towards pilgrimage since the time when the idea of God first sprouted in their minds, but naturally now the question arises, what is this tiirtha? The word tiirtha means “a place of pilgrimage”. Tiira + sthá + d́a = tiirastha [tiirtha]. Tiira means the shoreline, where the land and water touch each other. The sloping portion of the land which comes in contact with this tiira is called the beach. If a person takes one step from the shoreline towards the beach one will reach the dry land, and if a person takes one step towards the water, then one will enter the water. The tiirtha, which really means a place between the physical and spiritual worlds, is analogous to this geographical tiira.”
“For if a person takes one step towards worldliness, one is likely to be entangled in all sorts of worldly allurements, and if one takes a step towards the “water of spirituality,” one will be carried away by its current. That very point, which is the connecting link between worldliness and spirituality, is tiirtha: Tiirasthaḿ tiirthamityáhuh.” (1)
What is real tiirtha and what is fake tiirtha
Ananda Marga ideology states,“People generally want to live without intense sádhaná in the spiritual sphere and without much effort in the mundane sphere. When people seek to acquire fortune or attain salvation without proper effort, then they try to remove their sins by visiting the so-called holy places of pilgrimage – they try to escape across the Baetarańii [Styx] by holding the tails of calves! The merchants in those holy places understand this mental weakness of the people, and by taking advantage of it, exploit them to the utmost. As a result, the pilgrims are unable to worship as they should, and are misguided into moving from one place to another by these exploiters. But this does not satisfy their spiritual hunger, and they feel they have not at all been relieved of their sins. Thus people of static mentality waste their valuable time, energy and money rushing from one place of pilgrimage to another.”
“Then what is the real tiirtha, and where is it situated? The golden line of the human heart whence saḿkalpa and vikalpa have originated and where they touch each other in sweet spiritual bliss – that is the real tiirtha. One who remains at this common point is called tiirastha or tiirtha – there the person and the presiding Lord of the holy place become one. Those who forget the Lord of the holy place, that ever-wakeful One in perpetual tranquillity like an eternal, unflickering flame of light in the deepest recesses of their hearts – those who wander here and there in the mundane world in search of a holy place – can they attain salvation? Shiva answers Párvatii, “No, this type of person cannot attain salvation.” (2)
Tiirtha dogma
So our duty is to follow Baba and not be misled by those who are promoting DMS as a mere sightseeing tour. The following teaching Baba guides that very point.
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "Very often, ignorant of real spirituality and goaded by religious dogma, people undertake long and hazardous journeys to places of pilgrimage, sometimes even selling their earthly possessions like houses, cultivable land, etc to make the trip possible. They hope to attain virtue by taking a holy dip in sacred rivers. It is needless to say that this causes a loss not only of energy, time and money, but brings much trouble and no spiritual gain." (3)
Now huge propaganda is going on to convince naive people to reach to the holy land of Kota to attend the DMS program. We should not allow even one innocent person to become dogmatic prey. Rather we should propagate Baba's teaching that Parama Purusa lives in the heart of each and every devotee. One need not to rush here and there to find Him - that is ultravarious to our spiritual approach.
1. Namah Shivaya Shantaya, Shivas Teachings – 2 (continued) (Discourse 17)
2. Namah Shivaya Shantaya, Shivas Teachings – 2 (continued) (Discourse 17)
3. Neo-humanism in a Nutshell - 2, Pramá – 1 / Dynamic Equilibrium and Equipoise
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