Baba
AMPS Islamic shraddhainjali
Namaskar,
This letter addresses how an appendix was added to our Caryacarya part 1 in October 1990. And that appendix contained the term “shraddhainjali”. After Oct 1990, our Purodhas added the point that shraddhainjali should be offered to Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji during the mahaprayan commemoration. Since then, B group has been offering shraddhainjali annually. Yet the shraddhainjali term is not used in any of Baba's discourses or Ananda Marga philosophy. Therefore, many Ananda Margiis may not know what shraddhainjali is.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (1)
Below please find a scene depicting a dogmatic shraddhainjali function. See how Muslims are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship for a deceased friend. In the below photo the deceased - Mohammed Gulam Ali Faqir - is lying in an open casket. The body is covered up. Thousands have come to pay respect and perform the last rights. Those gathered are making a shraddhainjali tribute during this zanaza (funeral procession).
In the below article and photo from this Bengali newspaper, Muslims are performing a shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / death ceremony for their friend / relative who died. Take a look at the below image and see how the term shraddhainjali is highlighted in orange in the lower right corner.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (2)
Ingredients of shraddhainjali dogma / worship of deceased
So the needed ingredients for shraddhainjali are:
1. Dead person (Note: Shraddhainjali cannot be done for a living person like Ac Raviishananda Avt, Ac Sarvatmananda Avt, Ac Vratiishvarananda Avt, Ac Bhavesharananda, Ac Kinshukji, Ac Mantreshvarananda Avt etc. In order to do shraddhainjali for them one must wait. Because one cannot do shraddhainjali of a living person.)
2. Casket or tomb
3. Flowers (real or artificial / paper or plastic), small or large amount
4. Toys (if the deceased is a child)
5. Scents
6. Water (optional)
7. Chants (Recited in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, or Sanskrit - or done in the local language if needed.)
8. Head priest, or mullah, or senior avadhuta, or purodha pramukha (any single one is enough)
9. Mourners (minimum one and maximum as much as possible). To show greater respect people hire or rent mourners. They do this for various leaders; those rented mourners will raise the slogan in favour of the deceased or cry out loud as requested.
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The above points are inherent to any shraddhainjali dogma. So by placing shraddhainjali in the post 1990 Caryacarya appendix, the insinuation is that all these things will be done.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (3)
Note: Here it should be understood that shraddhainjali refers to both (a) the day of the actual death ceremony and (b) the annual commemoration of the death. In both instances it is called as a shraddhainjali program.
Shraddhainjali: non-existent in Ananda Marga pre-1990
Prior to 1990, this shraddhainjali dogma was non-existent in Ananda Marga. This was transplanted from Islam in the last week of October 1990.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (4)
Sadly, just as the above Muslims are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / death ceremony, in Tiljala this same type of event is going on. The mahaprayan organisers do an annual shraddhainjali function. Effectively, they have grabbed onto the Islamic dogma of shraddhainjali and inserted into our Ananda Marga. First they fast-tracked it into Caryacarya and then they actively promote their shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship event, year after year after year.
That is the story how the Muslim dogma of shraddjainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship has made its way into our Ananda Marga.
With your efforts and by joining with others, this shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / annual death day dogma must be wiped from the books - it has no place in our Ananda Marga way of life.
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Namaskar,
in Him,
Jaideva
(Zulfikar Ali)
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (5)
~ In-depth study ~
Now see in the general society how shraddhainjali came into being. This letter reveals how the dogma shraddhainjali is performed in Bengal and whether this refers to living or dead people - as well as whether it can be used with Sadguru, Taraka Brahma, and Mahasambhuti.
Shraddhainjali dogma wrongly inserted into Caryacarya
Here is the paragraph from the appendix of post-1990 Caryacayra-1 where they have added shraddhainjali.
Post-1990 polluted Caryacarya says, "Programmes on this day shall include nagar kiirtana, devotional songs of Prabhát Saḿgiita (without dance) appropriate to the solemnity of the occasion, akhańd́a kiirtana, shraddháiṋjali, vánii exhibition, bookstall, tree-planting, sadávrata, other welfare activities, prasáda distribution, Bábá stories (satsauṋga), tattvasabhá, conferences and symposia." (6)
And see here below how those days all the purodhas approved of this bogus, dogmtic addition to Caryacarya.
Post-1990 polluted Caryacarya says, “The above appendix on Maháprayáńa Divasa - 21st October 1990 - [...] was discussed and passed as a resolution on 25th August 1991 unanimously by all members of the Central Committee of Ánanda Márga Pracáraka Saḿgha, and it was decided that this (resolution) should be added as an appendix to Caryácarya Part 1. (CC Resolution, 25/8/1991, Calcutta.) –Trans.” (7)
So we can see how our purodhas were and are. Because of their “standard”, our AMPS organisation has been pulverised into pieces because of our purodhas. Their qualification was put on display in the very last week of October. Their first work was to impose this dogma and turn Ananda Marga into a religion. That is the sad story.
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (8)
As we all now know, shraddhainjali is just a death day / mahaprayan / tomb worship type of program. When any human being dies then shraddhainjali is performed for the deceased.
Since shraddhainjali is not part of Baba's discourses or Ananda Marga philosophy, many Ananda Margiis may not know what the dogma of shraddhainjali is. That is what our Purodha Dadas were hoping as they wanted to befool margiis on this matter. But, with every passing day more and more are becoming aware.
In the appendix to the post-1990 edition Caryacarya 1, our purodhas Dadas unanimously added shraddhainjali to describe their mahaprayan divas program.
Shraddhainjali is done by Muslims for a death ceremony. So the shraddhainjali dogma is a death / mahaprayan / shraddha ceremony or tomb worship for any human being.
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No annual shraddhainjali program
In our pre-1990 Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha there is no scope to do any type of annual death ceremony.
Note: Shraddhainjali cannot be done for a living person like Mantreshvarananda Avt, Ac Bhaveshananda Avt, Ananda Karuna’ Acarya, Ac Raviishananda Avt, Ac. Vicitrananda Avt, Ac Viitamohananda, Ac Pranavatmakananda Avt, Ac Kinshuk, Ac Dhyaneshananda Avt, Ac Haratamananda Avt.==,
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (9)
The dogma of shraddhainjali is a death day / mahaprayan ceremony
The term “shraddhainjali” is written in the above Bengali newspaper article because they are mourning the deceased - it is a death day / mahaprayan gathering. That is the dogma of shraddhainjali.
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As a mother, how would you feel
Sadguru Baba is guiding you and in the next breath they say He is dead - mahaprayan.
“True bhakta know that there is no such thing as mahaprayan for Sadguru Baba. As the Sadguru He never passes away, He is omnipresent. So those who Wts how believe in & propagate that Sadguru is dead are confused. Actually they are displaying hypocritical behaviour. Why?
When Our Avadhutas acaryas give initiation, or revise anyone’s lesson, or give further lessons of sadhana, they 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.
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How do you feel about their ignorance? True bhaktas never participate in an annual death ceremony of the ever-present God. That is against pre-1990 Caryacarya.”
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (10)
References
1. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
2. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
3. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
4. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
5. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
6. Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix
7. Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix
8. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
9. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
10. Caryacarya -1, Shraddha Ceremony
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