MPD: copy of Islamic shraddhainjali + 2 more

Baba

MPD: copy of Islamic shraddhainjali

Namaskar,

Here below in the photo, family, friends, and relative of a Muslim man are performing and paying respects for the 3rd annual death day / shraddhainjali / mahaprayan ceremony of the Muslim man, Marhum Kazi Anamul Haq. 

In the appendix to the altered post-1990 edition Caryacarya 1, Tiljala  publishers used the term shraddhainjali to describe their mahaprayan divas program. Since the shraddhainjali term is not used in any of Baba's discourses or Ananda Marga philosophy, many Ananda Margiis may not know what shraddhainjali is. More about that is below. 

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (1)

In His above teaching, Baba guides us that the period of mourning is 12 days, yet Tiljala has been mourning on a yearly basis for 35 years.
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In the below photo, the Islamic tomb is covered with flowers, just as is done in Tiljala. And mourners are gathering around the tomb, just as in Tiljala to pay shraddhainjali / mahaprayan to the deceased. Also, it is our Islamic tradition to wear a cap before visiting a shrine or tomb. So all our muslim brothers are wearing a cap. Those present at this Islamic shraddhainjali / mahaprayan program are: Qaisar Mahamud, Mohamed Sizan, Shahidul Islam, Mohamed Imran, Mohamed Riyad, Mohamed Nasir Uddin, Nabir Ahamed, etc. The headline of the image is: Kazi Anamul Haq - 3rd Death Anniversary. And the word highlighted in orange is the term “shraddhainjali” in Bengali script.

In the above photo, the headline is the 3rd death anniversary mahaprayan of Kazi Anamul Haq. And the highlighted term in orange is shraddhainjali, meaning mahaprayan. And in the center of each bouquet of flowers it says, shraddhainjali. Shraddhainjali is a term mainly used by Muslims in India for a death ceremony. So shraddhainjali is a death / mahaprayan / shraddha ceremony or tomb worship for any human being.
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See here how our Muslim brothers are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship for their deceased friend - Marhum Kazi Anamul Haq. In the photo  is present a grand bouquet of flowers upon the tomb of Kazi Anamul Haq. And written inside the flower bouquet in Bengali script is the term - “Shraddhainjali”. Those who read Bengali and easily understand. If you know a Bangla knowing person then just ask anyone who knows and they will tell you.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (2)

In His above teaching, Baba guides us that the period of mourning is 12 days, yet, Tiljala has been mourning on a yearly basis for 35 years.

Many have come to pay respect and perform the last rights. Those present at this Islamic shraddhainjali / mahaprayan program are: Shahin Mullah, Rni Mirza, Rezaol Karim, Borhan Uddin Farahad, Qaisar Mahamud, Mohamed Sizan, Shahidul Islam, Mohamed Imran, Mohamed Riyad, Mohamed Nasir Uddin, Nabir Ahamed, Aminul Karim, Mozammel Hussen, Mohammed Rafat, Mohamed Zihad etc. And as you can see all our Muslim brothers are wearing cap as that is the Islamic tradition when paying respects at a shrine / mahaprayan. They are making a shraddhainjali tribute and tomb worship of Marhum Marhum Kazi Anamul Haq.

So in the above article and photo from the Bengali Newspaper, our Muslim brothers are performing the 3dr annual shraddhainjali / mahaprayan/ death ceremony for their friend / relative who died. The term shraddhainjali is highlighted in orange. That is a description of the above scene.
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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 Sarvatmananda Avt, Ac Kinshukji, Ac Bhaveshananda Avt, Ac Raviishananda Avt, Ac. Vicitrananda Avt, Ac Pranavatmakananda Avt,  Ac Dhyaneshananda 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.

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.
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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.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (3)

In His above teaching, Baba guides us that the period of mourning is 12 days, yet, Tiljala has been mourning on a yearly basis for 30 years.

Shraddhainjali: non-existent in AMPS pre-1990

Prior to 1990, this shraddhainjali dogma was non-existent in AMPS. This was transplanted from Islam in the last week of October 1990.

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 AMPS. 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 shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship has made its way into our AMPS.
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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.

Namaskar,
in Him,
Jaideva
(Kazi Zulfikar Ali)

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (4)

In His above teaching, Baba guides us that the period of mourning is 12 days, yet, Tiljala has been mourning on a yearly basis for 35 years.


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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.
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Shraddhainjali dogma wrongly inserted into Caryacarya

Here is the paragraph from the appendix of post-1990 Caryacarya-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." (Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix)

And see here below how those days all the purodhas approved of this bogus, dogmatic 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.” (Post-1990 Caryacarya -1, Appendix)

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 AMPS into a religion. That is the sad story.
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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.

No annual shraddhainjali program

In our pre -1990 Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha there is no scope to do any type of annual death ceremony.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (5)

In His above teaching, Baba guides us that the period of mourning is 12 days, yet, Tiljala has been mourning on a yearly basis for 35 years.
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Dogma of shraddhainjali is 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.

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

ISLAM - MARHUM ZIYA’S SHRADDHAINJALI:

ANNUAL TOMB WORSHIP MPD

Namaskar,
Here below family, friends, and relative are performing the annual death day / shraddhainjali / mahaprayan ceremony of the Muslim man, Marhum Ziya.

See here below how these Muslims are performing shraddhainjali / mahaprayan / tomb worship for their deceased friend - Marhum Ziya. In the below photo Lady Khaleda is present a grand bouquet of flowers upon the tomb of Ziya. And written inside the flower bouquet in Bengali script is the term - “Shraddhainjali”. Those who read Bengali and easily understand. If you are know a Bangla knowing person then just ask anyone who knows and they will tell you.

Many have come to pay respect and perform the last rights Mirza  Fakharul Islam, Alamjir Mosharraf Hussain, Mainkhan Islam Miyan etc.They are making a shraddhainjali tribute and tomb worship of Marhum Ziya.

So the below article and photo from the Daily Prime Newspaper, these Muslims are performing an annual shraddhainjali / mahaprayan/ death ceremony for their friend / relative who died. The term shraddhainjali is highlighted in the bouquet of flowers. Take a look at the scene.

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The below sections are entirely different topics, unrelated to the above material.
They stand on their own as points of interest.

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== Section: Important Teaching ==

Ins & outs of His liila

Ananda Marga ideology states, "In His drama there will always be new characters every moment. Some will be rich, some poor, some intelligent, some foolish, some stout, some thin, some black, some white – but all are the dramatis personae of His drama. The one who is playing the role of a king today and the one who is playing the role of a subject are all acting according to His direction. Those who are playing the roles of unhappy characters are standing on the theatrical stage and shedding tears, and those who are playing the roles of happy people are laughing. But all these tears and laughter are within the drama. A devotee well understands this secret of His drama. He who is playing the role of a king in the drama may be a poor man in real life, and at the end of the play he goes home and chews on dry crusts of bread. But in the drama he was a king."

"In fact, all the people in this universe are playing the roles allotted to them, but that does not mean that they will truly become that role – they will be as He wishes them to become. Each and every living being is the progeny of Parama Puruśa. All exist with Him, and ultimately they will all merge in Him. So no one should even belittle oneself. A drop of water and the entire quantity of water in the ocean are all the same water. The difference is only that one is very small in quantity and the other is vast. When the drop of water identifies itself with the ocean, then no one will call it a drop any longer – for it has become one with the ocean." (1)

Reference
1. Subhasita Samgraha - 11, What Are the Noble Truths?

== Section 2: Links ==

Dogma of Mahaprayan - 21 Oct

Reactions at annual death ceremony

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/10/reply-to-stump-speech-propaganda.html

MPD mindset

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2016/05/pk-chatterjee-candranathji-mahaprayan-4.html

Contravening Baba

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2013/10/annual-shraddha-ceremony.html

MPD wailing

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/09/wailing-at-mpd-of-communist-president.html

Annual death day dogma

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2013/10/attending-annual-death-ceremony.html

MPD obsolete

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2015/04/dogma-on-breathing-tube.html

Mahaprayan: a relic of Islam

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2013/09/islamic-dogma-came-into-ananda-marga.html

MPD against spirituality

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2016/06/god-is-dead-2-more.html

Bhakti: what to remember

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2016/04/way-of-remembering-loved-one-4-more.html

Other News Bulletin Topics  

Misguided avadhuta harming girls

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2025/08/misguided-avadhuta-harming-girls.html

History of AMPS: rise & fall

• https://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2018/09/know-history-old-purodhas-3-more.html

Kiirtana: lure margiis to MPD

Baba

Kiirtana: lure margiis to MPD

Namaskar,

When a fisherman decides to catch some fish, he knows that if he goes and sits by the pond and cries out, “Hey fish, come over here”, then the fish will not come. So the crafty fisherman sits quietly by the side and places bait on a hook and drops it in the water. Due to its naivety, the fish thinks it is a generous feast and foolishly eats the bait and gets trapped.
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The MPD organisers use the bait of 6-day kiirtan to lure margiis to attend and commit sin, unfortunately. Those simple margiis are trusting that the kiirtan offered to them is real, genuine kiirtan. So they go and attend - and get caught in sin. 

Yet, the period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya. 

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (1)

Fish, mouse, & elephant

Similarly, when a farmer decides to catch a mouse, the farmer knows that if he goes to the kitchen and cries out, “Hey mouse, come over here”, then the mouse will not come. So the crafty farmer sits quietly by the side after placing bait in a trap in the far corner of the room. Due to its naivety, the mouse thinks it is a generous feast and foolishly eats the bait and gets killed.

Likewise, when poachers decide to catch an elephant, those poachers know that if they go to the jungle and cry out, “Hey elephant, come over here”, then the elephant will not come. So the crafty poachers sit quietly by the side after digging a huge pit, covering it with branches and leaves, and placing bait on top. Due to its naivety, the elephant thinks it is a generous feast and foolishly eats the bait and gets trapped.
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In each of the above cases, the unsuspecting animal thinks that food has been generously offered to them. Due to their naivety, the fish, mouse, and elephant all get lured and caught in the trap - and ultimately killed. There are three basic factors at play: (a) ignorance, (b) trust, and (c) deception or the betrayal of trust.

The mouse is ignorant and does not know that the farmer is not being generous. Same is the case with the fish and elephant. All three animals are ignorant and unable to understand what is going on. So they have full trust that the food is going to be genuine - not bait. But that trust is quickly betrayed when they are trapped and killed.

The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya.
 
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (2)

"Hey Ananda Margiis, come & participate in sin..."

When MPD organisers wish to draw people to their annual mahaprayan program they know that if they loudly cry out:

• “Hey Ananda Margiis, come here to Tiljala, we are going to commemorate an annual death day celebration which is against Caryacarya and we will all incur sin. That is ok because we have to do for our group identity.”
  
• “Hey Margiis, come over here, we will eat shraddha food (i.e. death ceremony food) for six days and we will incur sin according to Caryacarya. But that is ok for our group identity.”
  
• “Hey Margiis, come donate to the poor on the occasion of this annual death ceremony so it will reach the deceased. By this way, we should commit sin together. We have to do this for our group identity.”
  
• “Hey Margiis, we are doing kiirtan for the sole purpose of alluring you to come here and participate in these above three sins. That is the main goal of this day. Kiirtan is just the outer wrapping to allure you. We have to do these things for our group identity, although it is sinful & against pre-1990 Caryacarya.”
  

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (3)

If the MPD organisers make such declarations beforehand and write this in their brochure, then margiis will not come. It is just like if you say, “Hey mouse, this is a trap and our goal is to kill you; that is the main objective.” If the mouse understands this, that mouse will not come. It will be scared. So the trapper does not say anything to the mouse, and the mouse is not aware. Ultimately, the mouse comes to the trap, eats the bait, and gets killed.
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In a similar fashion, simple margiis do not know this inner motivation of the organisers, and in turn they attend and get trapped in sin:

• Sin of participating in annual death ceremony;
  
• Sin of offering during the death ceremony commemoration;
  
• Sin of eating annual death ceremony food.
  

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (4)

Just bait to lure naive people

The MPD organisers use the bait of 6-day kiirtan to lure margiis to attend and commit sin, unfortunately. Those simple margiis are trusting that the kiirtan offered to them is real, genuine kiirtan. So they go and attend - and get caught in sin. Because it is not kiirtan; rather it is bait to lure simple people to attend and celebrate an annual dogmatic death-day program and commit sin. Yet some are caught and trapped. Just as those animals trusted the bait and were trapped. By this above analogy, it is clear that what one group is doing nowadays is a trap to lure people into sin.

Those who are alert will run away by seeing that type of kiirtan; they will easily realise it is bait. They will understand and they will never get caught in that sin. Whereas those who do not think deeply will not understand that this kiirtan is bait. And they will get trapped and duped into committing a veritable sin. Because participating in an annual shraddha or annual death day celebration is sinful and against Guru’s guideline of pre-1990 Caryacarya.
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The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (5)

Conclusion

Can you imagine getting trapped and cajoled into committing sin, i.e. an act that is against bhagavad dharma and contrary to Sadguru’s teachings of pre-1990 Caryacarya. Watch out - our sole duty is to:

(a) Not get trapped in sin:

• Sin of participating in annual death ceremony;
  
• Sin of offering during the death ceremony commemoration;
  
• Sin of eating annual death ceremony food.
  

 
(b) Save innocent margiis from getting lured and caught in sin.

Animals are animals, and we are humans. We should be able to understand and differentiate between bait food and real food, between bait kiirtan and genuine kiirtan.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (6)

in Him,
Renu Guha

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The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (7)

What should be done on the 21st?

Every so often the question is raised, "What should be done on October 21?”

Best is to simply follow Caryacarya. Baba guides us that if our own loved one has died, then we should not observe an annual commemoration of their death, thereby plunging the mind into misery and despair. According to Sadguru Baba, on that day, nothing should be done. One should live life as normal. Same is the case with 21st Oct. Nothing should be done. Moreover, in the case of Taraka Brahma Baba, we always feel His blissful presence. In that case, why should we impose the idea that He "departed" that day. It goes against our sadhana and spiritual approach. That is why to maintain a proper ideation and outlook, this occasion of the 21st should just be overlooked and forgotten naturally. One should just go about their normal routine that day.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (8)

Open questions to dada S. - the inventor / father of MPD dogma

Here are some key points everyone should know about the mahaprayan / shraddhainjali dogma:

Attending Tiljala dogma means supporting the cause of annual death day.

Some wrongly justify that, “What is wrong, I am just going to Tiljala for the kiirtana, not for the sake of the mahaprayan program.” Here it should be clear: Going to the annual mahaprayan gathering for the sake of doing kiirtan is a bogus justification. Merely attending that mahaprayan gathering signifies your wholehearted support of that event. The fundamental equation is if anyone is doing anything anywhere and you go to their location and do what they are doing, it means you are supporting their cause. That is the basic formula that can be applied to countless situations.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (9)

Let’s look at this from another angle. Who can forget when Baba was in jail and our Ananda Margii brothers and sisters from all over converged on-site to protest the injustices. Margiis sang kiirtan. And participation in those kiirtan rallies demonstrated support for the greater cause. Those days Jai Prakash Narayan called the police on margiis and had them arrested on the basis that their participation in that kiirtana meant they were the supporters of the political protests against Baba’s incarceration.

Later on, after the rally, that same kiirtan would be sung for purely spiritual purposes during dharmacakra etc. Here the point is that doing kiirtan or raising the slogan at a rally means supporting that issue or cause.
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Of late, both H group and B group have used kiirtana programs as a strategy to reclaim and recapture various AMPS buildings for their group cause. And those who participate in that kiirtana are their pawns for their groupist agenda. That is what happened in Goddha, Ananda Nagar, Bhopal, and numerous other places where H and B were battling for control of that jagriti etc. Kiitana programs are their main arsenal for capturing those properties from the opposite group. This happened so many times in the past and will happen in the future also as this is their cherished strategy.

The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya.

In CC I, II, III no annual death day ceremony

The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (10)

So by hosting an annual death day / mahaprayan / shraddhainjali prorgram our Dadas are directly contravening Baba’s teaching in Caryacarya.

How margiis were befooled

To impose the mahaprayan dogma, the chief inventor borrowed a page out of the dogmatic religious playbook. For ions, the dogmatic religions have maintained their grip of power by doctoring their scripture. That means whenever they wanted to convince their followers of any point, then first they would alter their scripture and insert their own agenda. Then they would show that to their followers to convince them. By this way they kept those followers under their thumb. And that is exactly what Sarvatmananda did as Publications Secretary: he inserted the term “mahaprayan” into Ananda Marga scripture.
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Baba never spoke or mentioned the word mahaprayan in His discourses. Sarvatmananda intentionally corrupted Ananda Vacanamrtam part 12 to justify his selfish agenda of mahaprayan. Then he cited the mahaprayan term of  Ananda Vacanamrtam part 12 (Bengali edition) and underlined it and highlighted in his MPD propaganda brochures and pamphlets and told that, “Look, Baba Himself used the term mahaprayan in AV-12.” This is how Sarvatmananda befooled Bangla-speaking, village margiis.

Of course, Baba never spoke the term “mahaprayan” in His discourses as this was Sarvatmananda’s own insertion.

Verily, Sarvatmananda pranced about showing this bogus mahaprayan term to margiis all around and some got convinced. They did not realise that this is not Baba’s term - rather Sarvatmananda slyly inserted his dirt into the Bangla edition of Baba’s Fiesch discourse. This is how Sarvatmananda befooled some margiis and proved that he himself is just a reincarnation of those dogmatic, exploitative priests of old.

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (11)

Falsely justifying MPD by deception

The dogmatic leaders and inventors of the shraddhainjali / mahaprayan (মহাপ্রয়াণ)  / tomb worship dogma, repeatedly resort to a particular quote when justifying the existence of their annual tomb day ceremony. Dadas want to prove that the mahaprayan term is God’s command - God’s term. To prove that our Dadas found one pravacan of Fiesch and wts told that in this discourse the term mahaprayan has been used so it is a holy term and the mahaprayan function is approved. In this way Sarvatmananda’s stooges brainwashed Bengali-speaking margiis.
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Ananda Marga ideology states, "Táraka Brahma comes here on a particular date, leaves this earth also on a particular date, takes the birth of His quinquelemental body, the death of His quinquelemental body." (12)

The above quote was originally delivered by Baba in English. So those cunning MPD dogmatic leaders translated the above teaching in Bangla and inserted the term mahaprayan in association with Táraka Brahma. This was their scheme or ploy to try and validate the mahaprayan programme. Dadas lay claim that Baba Himself used the term mahaprayan. But that is outrightly false. Sarvatmananda dada manipulated the translation and inserted the term “mahaprayan” in hopes of befooling people into thinking that mahaprayan is really something legit - when really it is just one awful ritual.

Shraddhainjali is never done for the Supreme Entity who is ever-present. Rather, the shraddhainjali dogma is done for mortals in non-margii society. It is not approved by Ananda Marga philosophy. Shraddhainjali is not in the pre-1990 Caryacarya book and Sadguru Baba rejects this dogmatic shraddhainjali / yearly offering to the deceased. The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya.
 
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (13)

Howling wolf scenario

In the below photo, a wolf is howling and crying out because it has stepped in a hunter’s trap that has caught its front left paw. Basically, the hunter put some food by the trap and the wolf unsuspectingly went to go eat it not knowing that the trap would ensnare its paw. So the naive wolf was lured toward the trap and caught. That is how cunning hunters entrap these wolves. The hunter knew that if he just called, "Hey wolf, come here" then it would not work. The trapper understood that if he did not put food out as bait and then hid quietly in the bushes, then he would not have been able to catch the wolf. 
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Similarly the MPD organisers do not say, “Hey Margiis, we are doing kiirtan for the sole purpose of alluring you to come here and participate in these three sins. That is the main goal of this day. Kiirtan is just the outer wrapping to allure you. We have to do these things for our group identity, although it is sinful & against pre-1990 Caryacarya.”

Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (14)

If the MPD organisers make such declarations beforehand and write this in their brochure, then margiis will not come. It is just like if you say, “Hey wolf, come here" then it would not work. 

The innocent animal trapped in the photo represents a simple Ma'rgii. The food used as bait by the hunter to trap the animal in the trap represents kiirtana. The trap in the photo which grabbed the animal's leg is the sin of the annual death ceremony. By the trap, the animal will die. And by taking part in this negative dogma of MPD, the ma'rgiis get submerged in sin. 
 
Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (15)

Remember, the period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days. That is the rule as per Baba’s guideline in Caryacarya.
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Ananda Marga Caryacarya states, "The period of mourning should not extend beyond twelve days." (16)

References
1. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
2. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
3. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
4. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
5. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
6. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
7. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
8. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
9. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
10. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
11. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
12. Ananda Vacanamrtam - 12, The Coming of Táraka Brahma, EGD 13 May 1979 Fiesch
13. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
14. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
15. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1
16. Caryacarya - 1, Shraddha Ceremony, "A Few Directives", Point 1

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The below sections are entirely different topics, unrelated to the above material.
They stand on their own as points of interest.

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== Section: Important Teaching ==

Strong vibrations: sometimes a curse and other times a boon

Ananda Marga ideology states, "The stamina to stand vibrations differs in different people. Hence various degrees of happiness or sorrow are experienced by different people, and these differences depend on their respective mental constitutions. The subtle causes of these different mental constitutions are their acquired samskáras or reactive momenta, and the crude causes are their nerve cells, nerve tissues, glandular secretions, etc. The sudden vibrational impact on the body and mind makes the mind react violently, resulting in the cessation of the cardiac functions. This also explains the death of a person struck by lightning. The sudden contact of the eyes with an extremely dazzling radiance often results in the total impairment of vision. If we look directly at the brilliant sun for a few moments, our visual power becomes temporarily stunned and we cannot see anything for some time. Similarly, when some very high pitched or loud sound strikes the eardrum, the power of hearing may be destroyed. The sensitivity of every organ may be suspended by the impact of any violent vibration; this stupefaction, if the intensity of the vibrational impact is very great, may even become permanent. Yet sometimes powerful vibrations may help stimulate and restore the power of organs which have not been functioning for years. You must have heard of a person who had been blind or deaf and dumb since his childhood, regaining the lost power of his impaired organs in his latter years either by stroke of lightning or by being suddenly informed of an extremely happy or sad news." (1)

Reference
1. Subhasita Samgraha - 3, Vibration, Form and Colour

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