Baba
Who is culprit
Namaskar,
Baba describes the irony of how various religious factions or sects each claim to offer the supreme truth, yet each faction offers a different message.
Ananda Marga ideology says, "The supporters of each and every scripture say, “Ours is the message of God, it is the supreme word.” Then if all the scriptures are messages of the same Supreme Being, why do they vary from one another? The Supreme Being is one, and if all the scriptures are messages of that single Supreme Being, then there should not be any variation amongst themselves. This shows that those scriptures are not the messages of that Supreme Being." (1)
In our AMPS also such things occur. The theology of various groups differ from one other, yet each claims that theirs is the message of Baba. And this leads to serious problems.
Each group promotes their own false propaganda - or their own separate set of "truths" - which gets repeated again and again until all the margiis in their group buy into that propaganda. By this way, margiis of different groups grow very far apart because they are all adhering to a different "truth". Thus the schism deepens.
There are many examples of how each group does booming about their own false notions to their followers. Each group claims to be the path of truth yet all have distinctly different propaganda.
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Faulty news: indoctrinate followers into own agenda
There are numerous margiis who think that the observance of mahaprayan is OK and they are telling their friends to participate because it is "consistent with Ananda Marga philosophy". In that case, how can one accuse those innocent margiis of spreading dogma. It is not their fault. Rather some Dada injected this dogma and told them to celebrate mahaprayan and those people did not read and study Ananda Marga scriptures to find out the truth. So they got misled by that hearsay. Those margiis still participating in the archaic and dogmatic mahaprayan function are not to be blamed. They were given faulty instructions.
Then there are some who belong to a specific group. Whatever group they join then they are taught certain defective ideas - even dogmas - by those group leaders. This applies to all the groups. They indoctrinate their followers into their own agenda items. Those receiving emails from a particular group should be aware that they are receiving one-sided news, i.e. false propaganda advanced by a factional think-tank.
If the person or place from where you are gathering your news is faulty, or if that person is getting their news from a weak source, then you may be receiving incorrect news. This especially happens when the person telling you the news does not himself realise that what he is telling you is faulty. So with an earnest mind and sincere voice he conveys news to you, yet the information he is repeating is itself spoiled. This is one common way that wrong ideas get propagated.
For instance, some religions or religious sects preach that the world was created in six days. The priests propagate this notion. In response, their followers carry this message to all whom they meet. Because in their heart they believe this dogmatic and false notion. This is the way it often works. When the source of the news is himself devious, then news may reach your ears via other people yet you may not even realise that those things are incorrect. Here are more practical examples to make this more clear.
These are but a few examples from the general society where the common people unknowingly spread false news to others. The root cause is that they are being fed faulty ideas which they hold to be true.
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Conclusion: truth is one - not many
In reality however, the universal truth is always the same, not many. Here are some common examples:
(a) 2 + 2 = 4; it will never be that 2 + 2 = 3, 6, or 9.
(b) A triangle has 3 sides; it will never be that a triangle has 11, 12, or 14 sides.
(c) A healthy dog has 4 legs; it is not the case that a fit dog has 1 or 7 legs.
These statements are true in all conditions. They are singular in nature not plural. There are not multiple truths. The truth is one. Same is the case with Ananda Marga ideology. It is one dharmic truth - not many.
In Him,
Krpamaya
Reference
1. Subhasita Samgraha - 24, Longing for the Great
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