Ananda Marga News Bulletin: 10/11/26

Sunday, October 11, 2026

Paypal mahaprayan

Baba

Paypal mahaprayan

Namaskar,

The Tiljala mahaprayan program is a grand business venture - an industry all to itself.

Mahaprayan: a grand business venture

It is similar to a financial empire built upon the dogmatic shraddha ceremonies of Hinduism. In the name of shraddha, so many commodities are bought and sold. All kinds of persons profit from this ceremony: priests, businesses, suppliers, manufacturers, workers etc. Plus there are numerous big and small firms involved in this money-making operation within the Hindu religion. It is a veritable racket.

In the city of Gaya, almost the entire income and profits are generated via the shraddha ceremonies. Priests make enough money in the month of August to support themselves year-round. There are so many exploiters involved in keeping this shraddha industry running. They are all in cahoots with one another and profit off the common people, i.e. those families grieving the loss of their loved one.
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Religious trading is common in India. In particular, places like Deoghar, Ayodhya, Varanasi, and Puri are dominated by such traders. Their economy is wholly focused on various forms of religious rituals and by this way those cities make exorbitant sums of money.

Over the generations, so many good people - even saints and rishis - raised their voice against the shraddha dogma & exploitation, but they could not do anything. They could not put a dent in the armour as those exploiters are very powerful.

Now we see the same thing generating in Ananda Marga. The mahaprayan (MPD) industry is a monstrosity where so many wts, vendors, sellers, and merchants reap their profits up to the sky. They want to continue this up to eternity and spend their days validating this dogmatic program in order to keep themselves in business.

MPD on sale

Here is one dramatic example from 2014. Those days the Ananda Dhiira master unit in California was selling mahaprayan tickets on-line via Paypal. Anyone could purchase it. These sales represented a major portion of the annual income for that MU. That specific example was from 2014 (see image below). Nowadays, there are innumerable ways that organisers and merchants around the globe are profiteering. Although Tiljala is the epicenter of the money-making, the money is flowing to all parts. And the below is one mere historical example of this. Today, digital sales have probably exploded to numerous other e-commerce platforms like Zelle, Venmo, Flipkart, ApplePay, UPI, GooglePay etc.
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All told, what is happening with mahaprayan is similar to the Haj industry in Islam. Religious traders rally round and invent new and newer ways of generating profits from this pilgrimage. Nowadays it is a multi-billion dollar industry - everything from hotel rooms to taxi cab rides and everything in between. And the ones who make the most are the priests.

The same type of economic structure has been built around the mahaprayan program in our Ananda Marga.

Treating Baba as mortal is sinful

Remember the program of mahaprayan must not be not done for Taraka Brahma because He did not depart - He is the eternal Parama Purusa. So the mahaprayan is for regular humans, i.e. mortals. And to apply this to that vast, timeless Entity - the Parama Purusa Baba - is sinful.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The one formless, beginningless and infinite Parama Brahma (Supreme Consciousness) is the only entity to be attained by living beings – That alone is Jagat Guru (the Supreme preceptor), That alone has revealed Brahmavidyá (intuitional science) to us through the medium of the name and form of Anandamúrtijii. Unit beings must be made to appreciate Its majesty." (1)

Know who your friends are & your foes

Ananda Marga ideology guides us, "Their one intention is to fill their pockets with money, but they publicly pronounce that they want to follow the gospels of Dharma. Oh human beings, beware of these impostors. Try to apply your power of discrimination to know who are your friends and who are your foes. You should never allow yourselves to fall victim to these political and religious traders." (2)

Various exploiters were both patrons & preachers of religion

Ananda Marga ideology states, "In most cases religions took advantage of human weaknesses, crippled the people’s rationality, and sapped their strength, thus facilitating their exploitation by the religious traders. When the vitality and strength of the masses remains unexpressed, the exploiters will be able to exploit them in the economic and other spheres of life for a long time with relative ease. In the annals of human history it can be seen in all ages that the various exploiters were the patrons and the preachers of religion." (3)

Polluting Ananda Marga

The use of the mahaprayan program for Taraka Brahma Parama Purusa is a dogma. There no MPD for Lord Shiva nor Lord Krsna. So this mahaprayan dogma and money-making scheme is polluting Ananda Marga.
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Namaskar,
in Him,
Dipak Ghosal

References
1. Caryacarya - Part 2, Sadhana, Point #1a
2. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 6, Microcosm and Macrocosm
3. Ananda Marga Ideology & Way of Life - 7, Form and Formless

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