Baba
Delirium of Pranavatmakananda
Namaskar,
Dada PK's bogus claim
Pranavatmakananda falsehood starts: “Baba’s policy of re-dictating His non-Bengali discourses in General Darshans and DMCs continued in the later period as well. Instead of dictating the entire discourses, Baba would ask Dada Vijayanandaji to translate the discourse into Bengali and then to read them out to Him. After that, He would make several amendments or additions to the discourse.”
Pranavatmakananda falsehood continues: “It was on Baba's specific instruction that the Bengali version of a discourse was published as the original speech. This has been witnessed by several persons in Lake Garden. I am one of them. I remember that in the middle of 1984, many of us would reach Lake Garden early in the morning to have Baba's darshan of walking around His garden. At that time, we have seen Him listening to Vijayanandaji’s Bangla translation of a discourse and making corrections and additions to it as He walked. These were discourses that had originally been delivered in Hindi during the recently concluded DMC tour of North India known as “History Tour”. I later asked Vijayanandaji the reason for Baba translating the Hindi discourses into Bengali before publishing them. I do not intend to repeat the reasons here as they are mentioned in the book. What I wrote in the book is the information that Vijayanandaji had been told by Baba Himself.”
This concludes Pranavatmakananda’s falsehood.
Reply: Whatever Pranavatmakananda has written above in yellow highlight is 100% false. Those days Baba was dictating Bengali grammar. That is why Pranavatmakananda’s statement is hypocrisy and deceptive to margiis - all done for the cause of Sarvatmananda’s agenda of Bangalisation.
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In Him,
Laghima’ Banerjee
PK dada promotes myth
Pranavatmakananda (PD Dada) is from Kerala which is a transplanted culture from Bengal from long ago. So PK dada has a lot of sympathy for Bengal and wholly supports the nasty things enacted by Sarvatmananda, especially scriptural distortion by Bengalization. In exchange for this undying support, PK dada got all kinds of prestige and glory, including getting his name printed in many books wherein he is hailed as the saviour of AM scripture. And now in his Baba story book PK dada included this conspiracy / myth, and in this way PK dada got the status he sought and that’s why he shook the hand of Sarvatmananda and promoted the myth of Bengali superiority - all done in the name of God. This was a very common exploitative strategy in the Middle Ages by the various Semitic religions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity).
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Baba says: “When formulating philosophy I think only in English”
While delivering His discourse on 13 Dec 1978 in Kolkata, Baba is telling that He always formulates His philosophy in English.
Listen to the sound file at the 2 min and 11 sec mark to hear where Baba makes the following statement in green highlight to the Bengali-speaking audience in their language:
Baba’s audio (2:11): “আমি...দর্শন তৈরি করৰার সময় আমি ইংরেজিতেই ভাবি” (13 Dec 1978, Kolkata) (1)
Meaning: When formulating [AM] philosophy I think only in English
Baba has clearly told that He prefers English for formulating His philosophy. And Dada Pranavatmakananda is propagating the opposite idea of what Baba has explained. So Baba has told that He prefers English, and Dada P says that Baba prefers Bengali. Let’s take a look and see what the fact is.
Here is the audio recording in Baba’s own voice where He says that He prefers English for His literature. Please continue reading; a link to an audio file has been provided below.
Listen to the sound file at the 2 min and 11 sec mark
Link to sound file ==> https://archive.org/details/BabaFormulatesPhilosophyInEnglish781213Kolkata
See above link to listen to the audio file. For a transcription of the entire audio clip please see the section below.
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Transcription of sound file
Here is the as-is transcription of that audio clip for those who read Bangla / Bengali. The critical line has been highlighted in green:
Sadguru Baba says, “একটা হল জাগতিক জ্ঞান বা অপরাজ্ঞান, আর একটা হল আধ্যাত্মিক জ্ঞান বা পরাজ্ঞান | জাগতিক জ্ঞান---এর ব্যাখ্যাটা হল কি ? Internal projection of external physicality | এর ৰাংলা করতে আমার একটু অসুবিধা হৰে | আর | কেন আমি ইংরেজিতেই ভেবেছি | আর পরাজ্ঞান বা অধ্যাত্ম-জ্ঞানটা হল কি ? না, internal projection of the cosmic spirituality | এটা তোমরা ৰাংলা করে নিয়ো | কারণ দর্শন তৈরি করৰার সময় আমি ইংরেজিতেই ভাবি |” (2) (13 Dec 1978, Kolkata, "Self-Realization is the Real Knowledge”)
Sadguru Baba has told that He formulates His philosophy only in English. So this letter is a key topic related to the distortion / Bengalization of Sadguru Baba’s discourses.
References
1. 13 Dec 1978, Kolkata, "Self-Realization is the Real Knowledge”
2. 13 Dec 1978, Kolkata, "Self-Realization is the Real Knowledge”
== Section 2: Important Teaching ==
Except You there is no one
“Hari tomár ámár e sansáre, tritiiya keho nái…” (Prabhat Samgiita #4298)
Purport:
Parama Purusa, Hari, in my life except You there is no one. In our family, there is no third individual; just there is You and me. We are two; there is no other being. By having You as my very own I am fully satiated, and do not need anything other than to hold Your feet up to eternity. Please remain with me forever.
Baba, by Your grace my life is filled with bliss. I don’t desire occult powers or huge wealth, and don’t want the cries and smiles of pleasures and pain from worldly gains and losses - nor the moonlight or the colour of the effulgence of superficial things. Only I want Your eternal companionship. In my life, besides You, there is no one.
Baba, I don’t wish to have petty mundane stuff like the glory of valour, the fame of power, a title of an intellectual giant, unparalleled intelligence, glimpses of brilliance, or all-round praise etc. All such transitory attributions are just like ashes. In my heart, excluding You, there is no one...
== Section: Important Teaching ==
History of Ananda Vacanamrtam & Subhasita Samgraha
Ananda Marga philosophy states, ““Shásanát tárayet yastu sah shástrah parikiirtita” – i.e., that which leads to permanent liberation is shástra or scripture. Here shásana means discipline. The role of scripture is to lead the human beings towards the Supreme goal through discipline or anushásana. Dharma is a valuable asset in human life. Dharma ensures a special position for human beings as distinct from animals. They are considered the crown of creation, due to their dharma. Human beings derive the noblest instructions for the greatest development from dharma. When the sole purpose of scripture, i.e. dharmashástra is to establish the human beings in the stable, exalted position of spiritual ideation, it must be practical, rational, infallible and universal. It must be based on deep eternal truths. It must be áptavákya. A scripture is a guided entity. The “Subháśita Saḿgraha” series of books are the scriptures of Ananda Marga ideology.” (1)
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, “Ananda Marga [[dharma]] scriptures means Subháśita Saḿgraha (all parts), Ánanda Vacanámrtam (all parts)...” (2)
Note: The Ananda Vacanamrtam series began in 1978 and is comprised of Baba’s general darshan discourses. And the Subhasita Samgraha series is the collection of all of Baba’s DMC discourses from 1955 to 1990. Both of these series of discourses are part and parcel of our spiritual scripture in Ananda Marga.
References
1. Ananda Marga Philosophy in a Nutshell - 4, Our Spiritual Treatise
2. Caryacarya - 1, Svadhyaya
== Section 3: Links ==
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