Baba
Greedy Cirasmita masquerades as beggar
~ Cirasmita sits on road with begging bowl ~
Namaskar,
The dharma of Ananda Marga ideology is the polar opposite of the greed that has taken hold these days around the globe. Here is a brief case study.
Guru’s order: Bear in mind that towards you, no one has any duty
Our Ananda Marga ideology is based on a high ideal and is on the other end of the spectrum from avaricious ways of materialism. In the social sphere, we embrace the values selflessness and sacrifice. Our aim is to serve others and never accept or expect anything in return.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "Bear in mind that you have a duty towards – indeed, you owe a debt to – every creature of this universe, but towards you, no one has any duty; from others, nothing is due." (1)
Millionaire Cirasmita used crowdfunding to befool & earn
Now see here what millionaire Cirasmita (Joni Zweig) of the USA has done. She collected more than $11,000 for her own personal, private cause. And in many of those cases, millionaire Cirasmita has far more money in her own bank account than those who are donating to her have. That means she is far wealthier than many of those giving money to her. Yet, shamelessly she is indiscriminately accepting / begging for money from those who are of lesser financial means. From top to bottom, the affair is quite awful. If you see the upper-right corner of the image (appended below), it is evident that millionaire Cirasmita had the goal to collect $50,000 for her own self - in the name of the “Joni Zweig Fund.”
As a true Ananda Margii, no sadhaka would ever project themselves as a charity in their own, personal, individual life. To do so would wholly contravene the ideals as given by Sadguru Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji. We are to always look to serve others - in all the spheres of life: physically, socially, economically, psychically, and spiritually. We should never fall into the greedy trap of trying to extract maximum dollars for our own petty cause.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "Bear in mind that you have a duty towards – indeed, you owe a debt to – every creature of this universe, but towards you, no one has any duty; from others, nothing is due." (2)
And in times of extreme need or crisis, one should never borrow or accept donations on the personal level until they have fully used up their own financial resources.
In Him,
Vivek
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Donor incur negative samskaras
Here Baba guides us that those who donated to millionaire Cirasmita contravened Baba’s teaching on tapah so they have incurred negative samskaras.
Ananda Marga philosophy guides us, “Tapah devoid of knowledge is bound to be misused. The opportunists will misuse your energy by extracting work from you to serve their selfish ends, and at the same time this will deprive the real sufferers of their due services from you. A rich miser approaches you with a tale of woe and entreats you to give him relief. Being moved with pity, if you do what is needed to relieve him of his suffering, the very purpose of tapah will be defeated, as it is without any knowledge or reasoning. The end result of your service will be that the rich man whom you have served will become more miserly and more selfish and will, in the future, try to deceive in a greater way people who dedicate themselves to the service of humanity. Secondly, as you will, to some extent, know his inner motive, you will become mentally depressed and you will also develop a hostile attitude towards him. Therefore, while following the principle of tapah you should ascertain fully well whether the person you are going to serve, really needs your service. Only then should you engage yourself in service.” (3)
Do not give donations to the rich
It is completely against Baba’s teachings on tapah to give money or resources to those who have more than you have.
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “In practising tapah you should always give consideration to those who are inferior to you and not to those who are superior. Your responsibility is greater for those who are weaker, poorer, less educated, more ignorant and downtrodden in comparison with you. Your responsibility is very little for those who are above your level, who are better off and more powerful than you. Therefore, you will have to ascertain with discrimination where your responsibility lies and to what extent; otherwise all your time, energy and labour employed in tapah will be in vain. To banquet the rich is of no use – give food to the starving. There is no need to send presents to your superiors – send medicine and food to the sick. Don”t waste your time in flattering the rich; it will yield no result. Conquer the hearts of the underprivileged by your sympathetic behaviour and accept them in your society.” (4)
Now kindly see the upper-right corner of the below image, millionaire Cirasmita had the goal to collect $50,000 for her own self - in the name of the “Joni Zweig Fund.”
The above is millionaire Cirasmita’s (Joni Zweig) personal money-raising page where she has turned herself into a charity in order to collect $50,000 for her own personal existence. Yet, she herself is not destitute; she is of good means - more about her financial status is written below. But even then she is opted to go against our central ethic of Ananda Marga philosophy and cast a wide net in hopes of gathering as much money as she can from people for her own personal life.
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Follow dharma in good times & bad
One has to follow dharma in all circumstances good and bad. Rather it is in our times of desperation that we should be even more strict in dharma as that sets an excellent example to others. But when faced with a crisis, millionaire Cirasmita went in the other direction.
Tasmáddharmah sadákáryah
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Therefore dharma should always be practised.” (5)
Ananda Marga ideology guides us, “Codes of discipline as prescribed by Bhágavata Dharma. You must follow these codes. There cannot be any concession in this respect, rather concession is dangerous…One may be a king or may be a very poor man, but the code of dharma is equally applicable to all. In this matter, nobody can claim any special concession or favour.” (6)
It is a tragedy that millionaire Cirasmita had the accident, but even in this difficult period she should keep dharma front and center and not be swayed by selfish, materialistic tendencies.
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Cirasmita & Giridhara are millionaires
By all accounts, fake family acarya millionaire Cirasmita and her husband Giridhara are quite wealthy people. They had own their own computer company, Universal Micro Systems, and for many years held statewide, governmental contracts. Ultimately they sold their business but it is well known that their company had millions of dollars of sales for years on end. So they are not impoverished - rather they are quite wealthy. That makes it all the more nauseating that Cirasmita had the gall to gather donations for her personal needs when she herself had far more money than those simple margiis who were donating to her.
==> Fake Family Acarya: Unqualified people who became family acarya after 1990 on the merit of bootlicking of one or another group. Millionaire Cirasmita falls in this category.
All in all, this entire scheme is embedded in the hallmark of materialism. Verily this is what materialism does: It lures people by their baser desires like greed etc. So when everyone and anyone is running after money, the tactic of making oneself into a charity can be quite a draw. Such is the unfortunate effect of materialism / capitalism.
Ideal of the lily
As Ananda Margiis we are to aspire to the ideal of the lotus: keeping the mind pure and clean despite living in this busy, dirty mundane world - just as the lotus flower maintains its purity despite growing in the muddy pond. Unfortunately, one so-called family acarya recently failed miserably in the endeavour. If this is not clear to you then kindly reread the above letter in its entirety to understand the issue.
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Millionaire Cirasmita’s deception
Selfishness reigns supreme in materialism - so much so that some people consider themselves to be a charity. Gone are the days of only raising money for the poor, or for service projects, or for veritable causes. Now the growing trend is to raise money for “me” - i.e. oneself.
One of the more popular ways for manifesting their dreams of funding themselves is crowdfunding websites. Within a few strokes of the keyboard, a person can
magically transform themselves into a charity. And if they present their case just right, within a few minutes the money will come pouring in. The charity giving will commence and you will be the grand recipient of others generosity. To put it simply, this is a way to money-grab from innocent and naive donors. It is a “get-rich-quick” scheme that just needs a bit of psychology and a few generous donors to be very successful. While some of the causes are certainly legitimate and truly help those in need, there is no shortage of opportunists and outright scams on this site. That is what Cirasmita did.
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Conclusion
By following yama and niyama, we are to adhere to the tenet of tapah - whereby we should always sacrifice oneself for the betterment of others in service to Parama Purusa and never be tempted or swayed by any type of selfish type of crowdfunding campaigns.
Ananda Marga philosophy states, “Tapah sádhaná is, therefore, to be above selfishness. As a rule, practice of tapah will lead to mental dilation, and this dilation will certainly help a sádhaka, to a large extent, in practising Iishvara prańidhána. The sádhakas of tapah know that the served is Brahma, their cherished goal. They are servants and the service rendered by them is their sádhaná.” (7)
References
1. Ananda Marga Caryácarya Part 2, Sadhana, point #3
2. Ananda Marga Caryácarya Part 2, Sadhana, point #3
3. A Guide To Human Conduct, Tapah
4. A Guide To Human Conduct, Tapah
5. Ananda Sutram, 2-7
6. Subhasita Samgraha – 24, Jaeva Dharma and Bhágavata Dharma
7. A Guide To Human Conduct, Tapah
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They stands on their own as points of interest.
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== Section 2: Prabhat Samgiita ==
Please come in my heart
Note: Only those who sincerely practice the higher lessons of sahaja yoga meditation can understand this song in the depths of their heart.
"Tumi eso ámár mane, ámár sakal bhavanáy..." (Prabhat Samgiita #2070)
Purport:
O’ Parama Purusa, please come in my mind, in all my thoughts - always. Be in my sadhana, dhyana, kiirtan, and bhajan, and in all sorts of my ideations. Kindly remain ever-present. I go on searching You in all my works; by this way You may be attained.
O' Parama Purusa, I want only You. I desire You in broad daylight so I can fight with the darkness. Then I won’t become fearful of the demonic forces. Baba, remove all the negativities of my mental domain and fill it with Your spiritual nectar. Please eradicate my mundane desires and saturate my psychic realm with cosmic bliss.
O' Parama Purusa, I am constantly asking You to fulfill one request after another. I never care to think what I should offer You. Just I am a beggar before You - always asking You for more and more. Indeed I kept extending my hand, again and again, to get various mundane boons from You. Now please wipe away this pitiful tendency, and make me free from this poverty. Baba, I request You to give me that which can satiate all my hunger forever...
== Section 3: Important Teaching
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Importance of bhaktiAnanda Marga ideology states, “What is it that is of utmost necessity for spiritual progress? The most important thing needed for spiritual progress, for uniting the individual self with Paramátmá, is bhakti.” (1)
Note: Knowing the text, Ananda Marga Elementary Philosophy (AMEP), is not at all essential for becoming an Ananda Margii and following the path of dharma. Those who are intellectually trained, i.e. are highly educated and / or have an intellectual bent, hunger for the rational explanation of this cosmological order works. And that is explained in AMEP. But truly, if we think of the common person in the world, the ideas expressed in AMEP are above their ability to comprehend, or not of interest to them. And that does not at all mean that becoming an Ananda Margii is beyond them. The main teaching, ethic, and essence of Ananda Marga is: “Parama Purusa is with me and within me; He loves me and I love Him; He is not some distant God in the sky but He is my personal God, and no one can take that away from me; and, I am to realize Him through the practice of sadhana.” This is the foundational concept for treading and advancing on the path of Ananda Marga. And this needs no formal education whatsoever.
There are many Margiis in the villages of India who are very, very simple and not educated in the formal sense; they do not care about AMEP. They never read it and they never will. But when Baba gives the truths bhakti in a brief discourse in Ananda Vacanamrtam, that speaks to their inner heart and they feel that, "Yes, Baba is Parama Purusa and He is mine." That is the most important and essential quality about being an Ananda Margii, and that is the central message of the Ananda Vacanamrtam and Subhasita Samgraha series of discourses.
In AMEP, there is no discussion of bhakti. Whereas bhakti is the main teaching of Ananda Marga ideology. That is why the discourses given in Ananda Vacanamrtam and Subhasita Samgraha are AM ideology. AMEP is an elucidation of ontology and cosmology: Baba's teachings on (1) personal existence, and (2) the origin and organization of the universe, and on the purpose of these two aspects, i.e. what is the meaning of our existence in this universe. So for intellectually inclined people around the world, the teachings in AMEP are deeply meaningful and fulfilling. But for those very same people, as well as for the rest of the people in the world, i.e. as a common denominator for all, the discourses in Ananda Vacanamrtam and Subhasita Samgraha provide the seed teachings which give sustenance and provide the spark for starting, as well as continuing, the spiritual journey.
Reference
1. Discourses on Krsna & The Giita, “Prańipátena Pariprashnena Sevayá” – 2
== Section 4: Links ==
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