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Can Science Determine Moral Values

Establish a moral value, such as the value of life or the value of happiness, and it is not hard to derive a moral principle, such as “Do not act with the intention of harming,” or “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” BIRTH DAY OF PROUT FOUNDER CELEBRATED WITH JOY AND ENTHUSIASM

New Delhi : The auspicious birth day of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar — Propounder of Prout philosophy and founder of Prout Journal — was celebrated all over the world by His followers and admirers on May 14, 2014. At Delhi, the celebration took place in the premises of Saket Court Residential Complex which was full of spiritual and social activities. There was vibrant devotional and sentient aura all around. People listened to the soul stirring reminiscences of some of the ardent followers of Shrii Sarkar including Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Avadhutika Ananda Kaoshiki, Arjun Narayan Chaudhary, Jagdishwarji, B.D.Singh and Vibhansu Maiti with rapt attention. There was also painting and dance competition on the occasion. The dances included Tandava invented by Lord Sadashiva, and Kaosiki invented by Shrii Sarkar. For painting, children were given the theme : The glories of Nature. Winners were awarded prizes by Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, Acarya Premendrananda Avadhuta and Dharmapal Singh, Assistant Commissioner Police, South Delhi district. The celebration highlighted the need of morality and spirituality in individual and social life. It was emphasised that in order to reconstruct a humane and just social order, these twin ideals are must. Shrii Sarkar was very particular to propagate, popularise and practice these ideals in His personal life. He was equally concerned about the practice of morality and spirituality in the life of His followers. He used to not only exhort them to adhere steadfastly to these values but also used to scold and punish them whenever He found any moral weakness in them. Volume 25 Issue 06 PROUT I N S I D E June 2014 June 2014 C r y o f t h e S u f f e r i n g H u m a n i t y COVER STORY

Editor A'ca'rya Santosananda Avadhuta Contributory Editor A'ca'rya Maheshvarananda Avadhuta Copy Editor 14 Minakshi Chakraborty Editorial Board A'c Vedaprajinananda Avadhuta A'c Krsnasevananda Avadhuta Sohail Inayatullah Can Science Determine Ganga Grace Sarabjit Prakash Correspondents Kanhu Charan Behura MORAL VALUES Rajesh Singh Ravindra Singh Meenu Roperia Layout & Design Pranav Koul Suman Kumar Jha Head Office contents Prout Bhawan, JC-48, Khirki Extension Main Road, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi - 110017 Mobile No. : 09212199658 08 SPIRITUALITY Email : [email protected] The Cult of Devotional Sentiment General Manager Ramkesh Choudhary - 9350860274 19 Circulation Manager 19 PERSECUTION Rajiv - 09650055058 6 Years, 7 Months, 4 Days Rate (INDIA) Newstand Price - ` 25/- Annual Subscription - ` 275/- 27 FACE TO FACE Two Years Subscription - ` 520/- Timeless Great Mind Three Years Subscription - ` 730/- Five Years Subscription - ` 1100/- Ten Years Subscription - ` 1800/- 29 IN PERSPECTIVE Overseas (BY AIRMAIL) Annual - US$ 45 The Practice of Yoga Overseas (By Paypal) US - US$ 45 Others - US$ 50 35 YOGANOMICS The Yoga of Economics Payments in India may be made by cheque favouring Neo-Humanist Education Foundation mailed to Acarya Santosananda Avadhuta, 40 NEO-HUMANISTIC JC-48, Khirki Extension, Main Road, Malviya EXPLORATION Nagar, New Delhi 110017 Palásh Tree in Prabhát Samgiita For outstation remittance from non computerized banks/branches add Rs 30.00 for bank clearance charges. Or amounts may be deposited directly 44 GOVERNANCE to any branch of the State Bank of India Who will Rule – Modi, BJP or the People 35 as per details below: Neo-Humanist Education Foundation State Bank of India Malviya Nagar Branch, C-30 Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017 A/C No. 30379188250 IFSC SBIN0001493 Overseas remittances may be made by Paypal using id [email protected] regulars or electronic bank transfer referring above 05 EDITORIAL For Enquiries details and Swift Code SBININBB382 06 LETTERS Please Contact Printed, Published and Edited by A'carya Santosananda Avadhuta 07 INSPIRATIONAL Mob. : 9650055058, 9350860274 on behalf of Neo Humanist Education Foundation JC-48, Khirki Extension, Main Road, 48 ACTIVITIES Email : [email protected] Malviya Nagar, New Delhi - 110017 and printed at Cyber Creations, JE-9, Khirki Extension, June 2014 | PROUT Malviya Nagar, New Delhi-17 PROUT | June 2014 03 PROUT | October 2013 PROUT P R O G R E S S I V E U T I L I Z A T I O N T H E O R Y From the Editor's Desk Fundamental Principles :

1. No individual should be allowed An Event of Consequence to accumulate any e should physical wealth very year there comes upon us the remembrance of this event. At this time of year, without the clear p r o v i d e the air and the parched soil are thirsty for water and exploited people - thrown aside permission or like garbage to live in misery - are thirsty for justice. It is at that time that the approval of the E c o m m o n Preceptor of PROUT, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar took birth on this small planet of ours. The collective body. W day precisely falls on Vaeshakhi Purnima, this year it is on May14. 2. There should be Already at the age of 5, there was the mission to rid the world of religious exploitation and maximum people with both natural establish genuine spirituality. Already at tender years of 7, the mission for educational and utilization and disaster relief was created. Already at this time, there arose the mission to annihilate sufferings rational distribution a n d s u p e r- n a t u r a l and exploitation existing due to casteism, religion and all other differences dividing humanity. of all mundane, He planned everything He has to do quite in early days of His coming into this world in human supra mundane and amenities according to form . He was a genius par excellence and also always shy of revealing it in direct language. spiritual And this mission began with an internal revolution. Choosing among the most corrupt and potentialities of the most impoverished places in India to work, this revolution began with a meditation revolution to universe. the physical capacity, uproot inner vices and merge the mind in Supreme Consciousness. This revolution worked in tandem with a moral revolution, where students were not only given lectures but exposed when 3. There should be guilty of corruption. Above all this was a love revolution that brought people of all castes maximum the psychic capacity and together, to fight together and to intermarry in one of the most casteist states in India. utilization of the This internal revolution gave the courage not just to practice morality in an immoral society, physical, the technical capacity of but the courage to fight for a moral society. And out of this fight the PROUT movement was born. metaphysical and From the direct realization of all beings as incarnations of Divine Bliss came the mission of spiritual Ananda Parivara ( Global Family, a universal society ) - a family of all created beings of the potentialities of unit the state. This approach universe living together as one and united, as one in their hearts as pure bliss. From this came the and collective body realization of all property as the Cosmic Inheritance of all beings. Thus to wage war against of the human will ensure that human those who try to hoard wealth by exploiting and robbing their brothers and sisters is the essence society. of righteousness and saintliness. Those who sacrifice their physical wealth and even their yogic 4. There should be a beings get enough bliss to fight for their Blissful Lord in all beings are the Sadvipras (virtuous moralist proper adjustment intellectuals). amongst these amenities so that their And Shrii Sarkar was a Maha-Sadvipra. He worked to create the practical foundations for physical, Ananda Parivara by creating intensive forms of agriculture and water preservation. He restored metaphysical, dying languages of exploited peoples and gave practical guidelines for cultural and social mundane, supra lives become satisfying renaissance via the struggle for economic svaraj of eco-cultural regions (samajas). He worked in mundane and the most self-effacing manner, making others great with a new ideology and spiritual philosophy spiritual utilizations. and congenial. and by inspiring them with universal love. He gave tremendous knowledge but wanted that 5. The method of others reap the recognition and fame from these ideas. Hence when on the verge of attaining utilization should - Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar recognition, He publically departed from this planet. Today His words are reaching more and vary in accordance more people. But in this regard, Proutists can never forget what He said even while wrongfully with the changes in incarcerated in jail and while fasting to protest administration of poison to Him, "Why do you time, space and think I created Prout? Do you think I can sleep -- when there is so much suffering? It is my duty person and the to help these people". utilization should be Some special articles are being printed in this issue to commemorate His auspicious of progressive birthday. nature.

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ART AND SCIENCE today’s scenario deserve to be taken world famous silk saris. Sad that the The article by Prout’s founder seriously by all concerned. weavers, who spin out such wonders he purport of Dharma gives a new look to the basic Nazeema Haider, of art are malnourished, and work in Sádhaná is to look upon differences between Art and Science Karachi by email. unhygienic conditions and thereby and how one should view these two contract this life threatening disease. Tevery person, every branches of human study that has PBI – A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE Health inspectors and other object of this universe as one evolved over millennia. The Ravi Singh’s illuminating concerned government authorities integral entity. To jeopardize the conversations between Lord Shiva article on the Proutist Bloc India must step in at once to save the and Parvati reveal a deep insight into made a deep impression on me. The situation from deteriorating further. unity of the human race by these issues. All leading to the issues that PBI espouses as Rajdev, Gorakhpur creating factions is not the purpose fundamental truth that true highlighted on page 20 say it all. of Dharma. Those who encourage knowledge is, knowing oneself. Public life should be the preserve of STATISTICS OF GENDER BIAS Parboti, Dehra Dun Moralists alone and no one else. S a t y a b r a t a P a l ’s w e l l vested interests survive on the Only then will true social revolution researched article on the subject and mental weaknesses of people and USING PROUT TO QUESTION take place that will benefit the the disturbing statistics that reveal their dissensions, and that is why T h e a r t i c l e b y S o h a i l suffering mass of downtrodden this pathetic situation all over India Inayatullah that spells out deep humanity. should open the eyes of all they are scared of the spread of the questions that trouble the mind and Deenbandhu, Gwalior concerned, Government authorities, ideals of Dharma and exhibit their intolerance towards it in all sorts of immoral ways, explaining broad parameters, NGOs and others. There are many such as abuse, false propaganda and lies. People must not be cowed by this, they have specific issues, a check list etc are TB EPIDEMIC who are doing good work to fight very thought provoking and makes It’s shocking expose by against such social injustice. Their got to march ahead. It is to be borne in mind that hindrances are beneficial to human us question even ourselves. The Biswajeet Banerjee about the high hands need to be strengthened. beings on the path of righteousness and to continue to fight against them is what is points about leadership and incidence of tuberculosis in Mahima, sádhaná. governance which are very apt in Varanasi, India–the home of the New Delhi

Human society is one and indivisible, don’t try to divide it. Each and every individual should be looked upon as the manifestation of the Cosmic Entity. - Shrii Shrii Anandamurti Ánanda Púrńimá 1957 and 1964

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towards Puruśottama, the nucleus of the universe. The period of time he will develop a desire to try opium. force which takes the microcosms away from Parama That is, he acquires the defect of his adversary. In the Puruśa is called avidyámáyá. In vidyámáyá lies the On the auspicious occasion of Shrii P.R. Sarkar's birthday same way if one ideates on Parama Puruśa one will hope of liberation, the seed of immortality. In (also known as Shrii Shrii Anandamurti), we are printing His views acquire His qualities. People ultimately become as avidyámáyá lies the seed of sorrow and death. The they think: Yádrshii bhávaná yasya siddhirbhavati on love for God (Devotion). He always emphasised accumulative effect of both forces has caused the tádrshii. Vikśepii shakti causes a person to move the need of spirituality in practical life. universe to come into being. away from Átman, the self, and become attracted to What sort of influence does the force of avidyá matter. The innate characteristic of human beings is to have on human life? Avidyá shakti exerts its influence acquire infinite happiness. In this pursuit lies the seed in two ways: through vikśepii shakti and ávarańii of human excellence. To remain engrossed in the shakti. thought of crude matter is contrary to human The Cult of Vikśepii Shakti existence if this ever occurs it should be understood Vikśepii shakti is the force that strongly repels an that the concerned person has degenerated. In the object from its nucleus. When human beings become Bhagavad Giitá Lord Krśńa warns people, excessively attached to crude physicality they move Svadharme nidhanaḿ shreya, paradharmah away from Parama Puruśa. They become so Devotional Sentiment bhayávahah: “It is better to die while following one’s infatuated with matter that they totally forget the own dharma than to pursue the dharma of others.” Supreme. Similarly, a person who is involved in a SHRII SHRII ANANDAMURTI Under no circumstances should one forsake one’s court case thinks constantly about his or her opponent. own dharma. Here svadharma, or “own dharma”, A person who quarrels thinks constantly about his does not refer to any particular religion, but to one’s adversary for many days even at the time of own innate characteristic. meditation. “I should have spoken my mind,” he Ávarańii Shakti thinks to himself, “why didn’t I rebuke him more?” Suppose a person commits a wrong by accepting The funny thing is that one always thinks about a bribe. While receiving the bribe he or she thinks that the faults of one’s opponent and never one’s own no one is watching, but that is impossible. A third faults. One never cares to analyse whether or not one entity is watching everything. No one can do anything has any faults. In this process one’s opponent secretly in this universe. But the bribe-taker thinks the becomes one’s object of meditation. One becomes so opposite because avidyá shakti has placed a veil preoccupied with one’s opponent’s defects that one between him or her and the Supreme Being. This is a begins to acquire his or her defects oneself. Suppose a very dangerous situation. It is just like a hare being person is quarrelling with an opium addict. If he chased by a hunter: the hare sits down and covers its thinks about the addict’s defect constantly over a long eyes with its ears and, thinks, “I cannot see anything, so the hunter cannot see anything either. Hence he won’t be able to kill he subject of today’s discourse is vaedhii for them to express devotion to Parama Puruśa. But me.” This is a deadly bhakti (formal devotion) and shuddhá those who do not have the vanity of knowledge attain mistake! Wherever one Tbhakti (pure devotion). The word bhakti devotion easily. To acquire devotion one requires the commits a wrong, be it in is derived from the root verb bhaj + suffix ktin. While good saḿskáras of many lives. What is vaedhii the depths of the ocean or pursuing knowledge some people cultivate devotion bhakti? I have already said that Parama Puruśa is the in a high mountain cave, for Parama Puruśa. The devotion which is aroused nucleus of this universe. Each and every object of this one cannot escape the when one feels one should cultivate devotion is called universe is attracted to this nucleus and orbits around consequences: one will vaedhii bhakti. Regarding knowledge, action and it. Attraction, not repulsion, is the natural law. Each certainly be detected one devotion I once gave a simple formula for microcosm, characterized by its acquired saḿskáras day or another. determining devotion: action minus knowledge constantly moves around this nucleus. When an In the psychic equals devotion. Thus, if action is 100 and knowledge object moves around a nucleus two forces operate: the world Parama Puruśa has is 20, then devotion is 80. Suppose a person has no centrifugal force (which takes the object away from infinite power. All knowledge and only performs good deeds. In that case the nucleus) and the centripetal force (which pulls the longings and thoughts the devotion will be 100 – 0 = 100. Now, if a person is object towards the nucleus). If the centrifugal force is are reflected on His highly learned, in that case in order to attain devotion greater than the centripetal, the object drifts away mental mirror. Any he or she will have to perform action to the degree of from its nucleus. Conversely, if the centripetal force is action one performs, any 100 + 20 = 120. People who are puffed up with the stronger, the object finally merges in its nucleus. In thought one is trying to vanity of knowledge will have to perform more the scriptures this centripetal force is called m a t e r i a l i z e , i s actions if they wish to cultivate devotion. It is not easy vidyámáyá. Vidyámáyá leads the microcosms immediately reflected on

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0608 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 0709 PROUT | October 2013 develops ardent devotion for Parama Puruśa, it is not I have already said that action minus knowledge possible to become one with Him. To think, “Parama equals devotion. Thus when a sádhaka performs Puruśa is so vast, so beautiful! How can I possibly action, devotion awakens. This is the beginning of attain Him?” is to create an impediment on the path of vaedhii bhakti. For example, some people pray, “Oh one’s spiritual progress. Parama Puruśa, my neighbour’s child has passed the There are three types of devotion which are well school examination, but my child has failed. The known to all: támasikii bhakti or devotion of static teacher has made my child fail intentionally. Let that nature, rájasikii bhakti or devotion of mutative nature, teacher be destroyed.” This is támasikii bhakti. and sáttvikii bhakti or devotion of sentient nature. Parama Puruśa may or may not grant your prayers – it Támasikii Bhakti depends on His will. But as you expressed támasikii A person who has an inimical relation with bhakti to Parama Puruśa you will attain neither someone might pray to Parama Puruśa, “Oh Parama liberation nor salvation because you did not want Puruśa, please harm my enemy. Eliminate him/her for either one. my sake.” Obviously, such a person has no devotion Rájasikii Bhakti for the Lord but simply wants to gratify his/her selfish In this category of devotion one does not think of desire. harming anyone, but asks for a mundane favour for When a devotee moves towards Parama Puruśa oneself. For example, one may pray to the Lord, “Oh with intense yearning for Him, it is called rádhábháva. Lord, please bless me so that I can score high marks in When a devotee finally reaches Parama Puruśa by my exams and thereby procure a good job.” To ask for virtue of this intense rádhábháva it is called the union worldly favours as a result of one’s crude devotion to between Rádhá and Krśńá in the Vaeshńava the Lord is not at all desirable. The Lord may or may scriptures. not fulfill your desires, but one thing is certain: you Who is Krśńa? Here Krśńa is none other than will never attain liberation or salvation because you the vast mental mirror. One cannot keep anything senses or repent, this is the first type of influence of Parama Puruśa. You might have seen some pictures did not desire it. secret from Him. If a small piece of stone is thrown avidyámáyá on the human mind. depicting Rádhá and Krśńa. These all are false. Krśńa Sáttvikii Bhakti: into the vast ocean it creates tiny ripples on its smooth Hládinii Shakti and Rádha are subtle spiritual concepts. A devotee A devotee of this category may think: “Now I am surface. This event, although trivial, does not remain Hládinii shakti is the second type of influence of will have to move towards Puruśottama, the Supreme an old man. I have committed so many wrongs in my unknown to the ocean. Even the least vibration vidyámáyá on the human mind. When people realize Nucleus, with the help of rádhiká shakti or hládinii life. It would be wise for me to take initiation from a created within the unit mind is immediately known to that they have wasted their precious time, they shakti. There is no path of Supreme Welfare other than preceptor and count beads. Otherwise what will the Macrocosmic Mind, for the unit mind is within the express the sincere desire to utilize their time more rádhiká shakti. people say about me? They will say I’m spending my vast Macrocosmic Mind. benevolently. They think, “From today I will utilize old age eating and sleeping and doing nothing Vidyámáyá also exerts her influence on the all my energy and capacity in worthwhile pursuits.” worthwhile. At least I should do some religious deeds human mind in two ways: through samvit shakti and This sincere desire gradually takes them towards to show everyone that I love God.” This is the inner hládinii shakti. Parama Puruśa. And this movement towards the motivation behind sentient devotion. Such devotees Samvit Shakti Supreme occurs due to the influence of hládinii do not think of harming others, but they do not want Suppose a certain person who has been doing shakti. Hládinii shakti is the force which helps the Parama Puruśa either. Even if such devotees attain wrong deeds for a long time suddenly changes for the microcosms to meditate on Parama Puruśa. In the liberation or salvation, they certainly do not get better. After hearing some wise words, by reading a Caetanya Charitámrta it has been said, Parama Puruśa because they did not want Him. Hence good book, or by receiving a shock or, injury, a Jap tap vedajiṋ ána vidhi bhakti japadhyán ihá such devotion has no real value. thought dawns in his or her mind: “I have haite mádhurya durlabh All of this comes within the scope of vaedhii unnecessarily wasted so many years in futile pursuits. Keval ye rágamárge bhaje Krśńa anuráge táhe bhakti. There is a lack of genuine love for Parama Now I have only a limited time at my disposal.” From Krśńa mádhurya sulabh. Puruśa in all these types of vaedhii bhakti. Shuddá the very moment of birth human beings move slowly [Those who repeat their ista mantra mechanically, or Bhakti or pure devotion is pará bhakti, the highest and steadily towards the grave. With each passing undergo severe penance, or endlessly study the devotion for the Lord. It has two stages: rágánugá and second the distance between the person and the burial scriptures, or express a show of devotion, or practise rágátmiká. ground gradually decreases. Hence human beings meditation in a ritualistic way, can never feel the Rágátmikáḿ anusarati yá sá rágánugá. should utilize every moment of their valuable time in charm, the joy, of spiritual realization. That sweet Rágánugá Bhakti worthwhile pursuits. A person may realize one day, discovery is only possible for those who worship Lord The first stage of shuddhá bhakti is rágánugá “How unfortunate it is that I have not fully utilized the Krśńa out of deep devotion to Him.] bhakti. Now the devotee says, “I love Parama Puruśa. capacity that God has provided. I have committed a With the help of vaedhii bhakti (formal This is nothing to hide, nor is it anything to brag and grave error in not doing what I should have done.” mechanical devotion) a person can approach Parama boast about. I love Him because it makes me happy”. What is the force that awakens this psychic outlook? Puruśa but cannot become one with Him. Vaedhii This is rágánugá bhakti. “I don’t ask for anything, not It is the samvit shakti of vidyámáyá. In colloquial bhakti does not have that power. To attain oneness even liberation or salvation. I love Him because that Bengali, samvit shakti is called hunsh (sudden with Parama Puruśa a sádhaka requires rágánugá brings me joy.” awareness). When people suddenly return to their bhakti or rágátmiká bhakti. Unless a sádhaka

10 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 11 PROUT | October 2013 develops ardent devotion for Parama Puruśa, it is not I have already said that action minus knowledge possible to become one with Him. To think, “Parama equals devotion. Thus when a sádhaka performs Puruśa is so vast, so beautiful! How can I possibly action, devotion awakens. This is the beginning of attain Him?” is to create an impediment on the path of vaedhii bhakti. For example, some people pray, “Oh one’s spiritual progress. Parama Puruśa, my neighbour’s child has passed the There are three types of devotion which are well school examination, but my child has failed. The known to all: támasikii bhakti or devotion of static teacher has made my child fail intentionally. Let that nature, rájasikii bhakti or devotion of mutative nature, teacher be destroyed.” This is támasikii bhakti. and sáttvikii bhakti or devotion of sentient nature. Parama Puruśa may or may not grant your prayers – it Támasikii Bhakti depends on His will. But as you expressed támasikii A person who has an inimical relation with bhakti to Parama Puruśa you will attain neither someone might pray to Parama Puruśa, “Oh Parama liberation nor salvation because you did not want Puruśa, please harm my enemy. Eliminate him/her for either one. my sake.” Obviously, such a person has no devotion Rájasikii Bhakti for the Lord but simply wants to gratify his/her selfish In this category of devotion one does not think of desire. harming anyone, but asks for a mundane favour for When a devotee moves towards Parama Puruśa oneself. For example, one may pray to the Lord, “Oh with intense yearning for Him, it is called rádhábháva. Lord, please bless me so that I can score high marks in When a devotee finally reaches Parama Puruśa by my exams and thereby procure a good job.” To ask for virtue of this intense rádhábháva it is called the union worldly favours as a result of one’s crude devotion to between Rádhá and Krśńá in the Vaeshńava the Lord is not at all desirable. The Lord may or may scriptures. not fulfill your desires, but one thing is certain: you Who is Krśńa? Here Krśńa is none other than will never attain liberation or salvation because you the vast mental mirror. One cannot keep anything senses or repent, this is the first type of influence of Parama Puruśa. You might have seen some pictures did not desire it. secret from Him. If a small piece of stone is thrown avidyámáyá on the human mind. depicting Rádhá and Krśńa. These all are false. Krśńa Sáttvikii Bhakti: into the vast ocean it creates tiny ripples on its smooth Hládinii Shakti and Rádha are subtle spiritual concepts. A devotee A devotee of this category may think: “Now I am surface. This event, although trivial, does not remain Hládinii shakti is the second type of influence of will have to move towards Puruśottama, the Supreme an old man. I have committed so many wrongs in my unknown to the ocean. Even the least vibration vidyámáyá on the human mind. When people realize Nucleus, with the help of rádhiká shakti or hládinii life. It would be wise for me to take initiation from a created within the unit mind is immediately known to that they have wasted their precious time, they shakti. There is no path of Supreme Welfare other than preceptor and count beads. Otherwise what will the Macrocosmic Mind, for the unit mind is within the express the sincere desire to utilize their time more rádhiká shakti. people say about me? They will say I’m spending my vast Macrocosmic Mind. benevolently. They think, “From today I will utilize old age eating and sleeping and doing nothing Vidyámáyá also exerts her influence on the all my energy and capacity in worthwhile pursuits.” worthwhile. At least I should do some religious deeds human mind in two ways: through samvit shakti and This sincere desire gradually takes them towards to show everyone that I love God.” This is the inner hládinii shakti. Parama Puruśa. And this movement towards the motivation behind sentient devotion. Such devotees Samvit Shakti Supreme occurs due to the influence of hládinii do not think of harming others, but they do not want Suppose a certain person who has been doing shakti. Hládinii shakti is the force which helps the Parama Puruśa either. Even if such devotees attain wrong deeds for a long time suddenly changes for the microcosms to meditate on Parama Puruśa. In the liberation or salvation, they certainly do not get better. After hearing some wise words, by reading a Caetanya Charitámrta it has been said, Parama Puruśa because they did not want Him. Hence good book, or by receiving a shock or, injury, a Jap tap vedajiṋ ána vidhi bhakti japadhyán ihá such devotion has no real value. thought dawns in his or her mind: “I have haite mádhurya durlabh All of this comes within the scope of vaedhii unnecessarily wasted so many years in futile pursuits. Keval ye rágamárge bhaje Krśńa anuráge táhe bhakti. There is a lack of genuine love for Parama Now I have only a limited time at my disposal.” From Krśńa mádhurya sulabh. Puruśa in all these types of vaedhii bhakti. Shuddá the very moment of birth human beings move slowly [Those who repeat their ista mantra mechanically, or Bhakti or pure devotion is pará bhakti, the highest and steadily towards the grave. With each passing undergo severe penance, or endlessly study the devotion for the Lord. It has two stages: rágánugá and second the distance between the person and the burial scriptures, or express a show of devotion, or practise rágátmiká. ground gradually decreases. Hence human beings meditation in a ritualistic way, can never feel the Rágátmikáḿ anusarati yá sá rágánugá. should utilize every moment of their valuable time in charm, the joy, of spiritual realization. That sweet Rágánugá Bhakti worthwhile pursuits. A person may realize one day, discovery is only possible for those who worship Lord The first stage of shuddhá bhakti is rágánugá “How unfortunate it is that I have not fully utilized the Krśńa out of deep devotion to Him.] bhakti. Now the devotee says, “I love Parama Puruśa. capacity that God has provided. I have committed a With the help of vaedhii bhakti (formal This is nothing to hide, nor is it anything to brag and grave error in not doing what I should have done.” mechanical devotion) a person can approach Parama boast about. I love Him because it makes me happy”. What is the force that awakens this psychic outlook? Puruśa but cannot become one with Him. Vaedhii This is rágánugá bhakti. “I don’t ask for anything, not It is the samvit shakti of vidyámáyá. In colloquial bhakti does not have that power. To attain oneness even liberation or salvation. I love Him because that Bengali, samvit shakti is called hunsh (sudden with Parama Puruśa a sádhaka requires rágánugá brings me joy.” awareness). When people suddenly return to their bhakti or rágátmiká bhakti. Unless a sádhaka

10 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 11 PROUT | October 2013 Rágátmiká Bhakti Him and dissolve finally in Him.] This is the highest stage of pure devotion. In this Innumerable waves are constantly emerging type of devotion the ideation is, “I love Parama Puruśa from the ocean only to merge back into the ocean because it makes Him happy. I meditate on Him itself. This universe is like an ocean of waves of bliss. thinking that my meditation will bring joy to Him. Parama Puruśa is the nucleus of all these countless This is my sole intention.” This is rágátmiká bhakti. rhythmic waves. Innumerable microcosms are Regarding rágátmika bhakti, Maháprabhu Caetanya constantly rotating around this nucleus, and will has said, continue their orbits until they finally become one Paripúrńa Krśńa prápti sei prem haite with Him. Se preme báṋ dhá Krśńá kahe bhágavate. Every movement has a rhythm, and every [One attains Krśńa through rágátmiká bhakti rhythm has a sound. The countless waves of this vast because Krśńa is bound by that love.] universe also have their respective sounds. The Lord Krśńa also said in the Giitá, devotees say that Parama Puruśa is an embodiment of Api cet sudurácáro bhajate mámananyabhák love. They say that out of His infinite love for the So’pi pápavinirmukto mucyate bhavabandhanát. microcosms He eternally plays His sweet flute, “Even if the worst of the sinners meditates on me vibrating this vast universe with its divine sound. with unwavering devotion, he or she will be liberated When spiritual aspirants attain a certain degree of from all worldly bondages and freed from all reactive spiritual progress, they are able to hear that divine momenta (saḿskáras) and will become one with the sound. This divine sound is called oṋ ḿkára. All the Supreme Entity”. sound waves of this universe have their source in Is worshipping the Lord with unwavering Him. They emanate from the point of devotion vaedhii bhakti or rágátmiká bhakti? This beginninglessness to the point of endlessness, and entire universe is nothing but an ocean of unending will continue to emanate eternally. bliss. Numerous waves are emerging from this ocean. The kulakuńd́alinii shakti (serpentine power) Puruśottama is the nucleus of all these waves. All rises upwards in accordance with the divine sound. As not do something which should be done. For example, original form he would not be a mahápátaka; but he waves originate from Him and finally merge in Him. it rises through successively higher stages one hears one should nurse a sick person. If one does not do that chose to abduct Siita in the guise of a sádhu (saint). As The poet Vidyápati wrote, the sound of crickets, ankle bells and the melodious one is committing pratyáváya. Pratyáváya is more a result, in the future people will never fully trust Kata caturánana mari marijáota na tu ádi avasáná sound of the flute. This is called the sweet sound of harmful than pápa. Pápa and pratyáváya are both of sádhus again. Whenever they will see a sadhu they Tohe janama punah tohe samáota Ságaralaharii Krśńa’s flute. It is neither a dream nor a fantasy. All of three types: pátaka, atipátaka and mahápátaka. If one will immediately question his intention. So Shiva samáná you will hear it one day. A mystic poet said, compensates for the loss caused by the performance refused to help Rávańa because he was a mahápátaka. [Innumerable living beings emerge from the Chut́e ye jan bánshiir t́áne of an improper action or by the non-performance of a Lord Krśńa said that whoever meditates on Him with Supreme Entity, who has neither beginning nor end. Se ki tákáy pather páne proper action it is called pátaka. Suppose someone has exclusive, unwavering devotion will be liberated Just like the waves of the ocean, they emanate from “For those who listen to that melodious flute stolen five rupees from a person. If the thief repays the from all sins. When microcosms ideate on the sound, nothing is an obstacle. They will move amount in full it is said that she or he has atoned. This Supreme Entity they feel joy, and the Supreme Entity irresitibly towards the Supreme.” is a case of pátaka. also feels joy. Everyone wants joy; the devotees also This is pure devotion (shuddhá bhakti) and not Atipátaka refers to a sinful action for which there want joy. Devotees worship Parama Puruśa with the vaedhii bhakti. If one does not move towards Him can be no atonement. Suppose someone chops off a sole intention of giving Him joy. A mother derives with one’s entire being, one cannot develop exclusive hand of an innocent person. This is atipátaka. But if in more pleasure from seeing her own child eat than by devotion for Him. a fight someone chops off the hand of their enemy, a eating her own food. Similarly, those who are the Api cet sudurácáro. Who is a durácárii? A person wrongdoer, it cannot be called a sin. In the Bhagavad greatest devotees rush towards Him to give Him joy. in whose contact one degenerates is called a durácárii. Giitá Lord Krśńá advises people that their dharma is They feel much more joy than their Lord feels. Lord Krśńa said that whoever will meditate on Him to fight against adharma. A chopped-off hand cannot Maháprabhu Caetanya said, with undivided attention will attain liberation from all be put back on the wrist easily. Gopii darshane Krśńer ye ánanda hay; accumulated saḿskáras. Devotees who run towards What is mahápátaka? Mahápátaka is a sinful Tadapekśá kot́iguńa gopii ásváday. Parama Puruśa with all the strength of their soul need action for which there can be no atonement and which [The devotees are a million times more pleased not be afraid of anything. has a recurring effect. Once I told you a story from the when they see Krśńa than Krśńa is upon seeing them.] What is pápa? Paropakárah puńyáya pápáya Rámáyańa. Ráma and Rávańa were engaged in a You are following the path of sádhaná. Always parapiiŕańam. Any action that leads to one’s physical, bitter combat. When Ráma began to get the upper remember that you must establish yourself in pure psychic and spiritual well-being is called punya or a hand Rávana entreated Shiva to save his life. On devotion and not formal devotion. And to become virtuous deed; and any action which leads to one’s hearing Rávańa’s desperate pleas, Parvatii’s heart established in pure devotion you must perform physical, psychic and spiritual degeneration is called melted, and she requested Shiva to save Rávana’s life. virtuous deeds, practise spiritual sádhaná regularly, pápa or sin. There are two types of pápa or sin: pápa, Shiva said unambiguously, “I cannot save him. He is a render selfless service to the world, and wage a which occurs when one does something one should mahápátaka, a sinner of the worst type”. Shiva relentless fight against wrongs and injustice. There is not do, and pratyávaya, which occurs when one does explained that if Rávańa had abducted Siitá in his no room for cowardice. May you be victorious.

12 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 13 PROUT | October 2013 Rágátmiká Bhakti Him and dissolve finally in Him.] This is the highest stage of pure devotion. In this Innumerable waves are constantly emerging type of devotion the ideation is, “I love Parama Puruśa from the ocean only to merge back into the ocean because it makes Him happy. I meditate on Him itself. This universe is like an ocean of waves of bliss. thinking that my meditation will bring joy to Him. Parama Puruśa is the nucleus of all these countless This is my sole intention.” This is rágátmiká bhakti. rhythmic waves. Innumerable microcosms are Regarding rágátmika bhakti, Maháprabhu Caetanya constantly rotating around this nucleus, and will has said, continue their orbits until they finally become one Paripúrńa Krśńa prápti sei prem haite with Him. Se preme báṋ dhá Krśńá kahe bhágavate. Every movement has a rhythm, and every [One attains Krśńa through rágátmiká bhakti rhythm has a sound. The countless waves of this vast because Krśńa is bound by that love.] universe also have their respective sounds. The Lord Krśńa also said in the Giitá, devotees say that Parama Puruśa is an embodiment of Api cet sudurácáro bhajate mámananyabhák love. They say that out of His infinite love for the So’pi pápavinirmukto mucyate bhavabandhanát. microcosms He eternally plays His sweet flute, “Even if the worst of the sinners meditates on me vibrating this vast universe with its divine sound. with unwavering devotion, he or she will be liberated When spiritual aspirants attain a certain degree of from all worldly bondages and freed from all reactive spiritual progress, they are able to hear that divine momenta (saḿskáras) and will become one with the sound. This divine sound is called oṋ ḿkára. All the Supreme Entity”. sound waves of this universe have their source in Is worshipping the Lord with unwavering Him. They emanate from the point of devotion vaedhii bhakti or rágátmiká bhakti? This beginninglessness to the point of endlessness, and entire universe is nothing but an ocean of unending will continue to emanate eternally. bliss. Numerous waves are emerging from this ocean. The kulakuńd́alinii shakti (serpentine power) Puruśottama is the nucleus of all these waves. All rises upwards in accordance with the divine sound. As not do something which should be done. For example, original form he would not be a mahápátaka; but he waves originate from Him and finally merge in Him. it rises through successively higher stages one hears one should nurse a sick person. If one does not do that chose to abduct Siita in the guise of a sádhu (saint). As The poet Vidyápati wrote, the sound of crickets, ankle bells and the melodious one is committing pratyáváya. Pratyáváya is more a result, in the future people will never fully trust Kata caturánana mari marijáota na tu ádi avasáná sound of the flute. This is called the sweet sound of harmful than pápa. Pápa and pratyáváya are both of sádhus again. Whenever they will see a sadhu they Tohe janama punah tohe samáota Ságaralaharii Krśńa’s flute. It is neither a dream nor a fantasy. All of three types: pátaka, atipátaka and mahápátaka. If one will immediately question his intention. So Shiva samáná you will hear it one day. A mystic poet said, compensates for the loss caused by the performance refused to help Rávańa because he was a mahápátaka. [Innumerable living beings emerge from the Chut́e ye jan bánshiir t́áne of an improper action or by the non-performance of a Lord Krśńa said that whoever meditates on Him with Supreme Entity, who has neither beginning nor end. Se ki tákáy pather páne proper action it is called pátaka. Suppose someone has exclusive, unwavering devotion will be liberated Just like the waves of the ocean, they emanate from “For those who listen to that melodious flute stolen five rupees from a person. If the thief repays the from all sins. When microcosms ideate on the sound, nothing is an obstacle. They will move amount in full it is said that she or he has atoned. This Supreme Entity they feel joy, and the Supreme Entity irresitibly towards the Supreme.” is a case of pátaka. also feels joy. Everyone wants joy; the devotees also This is pure devotion (shuddhá bhakti) and not Atipátaka refers to a sinful action for which there want joy. Devotees worship Parama Puruśa with the vaedhii bhakti. If one does not move towards Him can be no atonement. Suppose someone chops off a sole intention of giving Him joy. A mother derives with one’s entire being, one cannot develop exclusive hand of an innocent person. This is atipátaka. But if in more pleasure from seeing her own child eat than by devotion for Him. a fight someone chops off the hand of their enemy, a eating her own food. Similarly, those who are the Api cet sudurácáro. Who is a durácárii? A person wrongdoer, it cannot be called a sin. In the Bhagavad greatest devotees rush towards Him to give Him joy. in whose contact one degenerates is called a durácárii. Giitá Lord Krśńá advises people that their dharma is They feel much more joy than their Lord feels. Lord Krśńa said that whoever will meditate on Him to fight against adharma. A chopped-off hand cannot Maháprabhu Caetanya said, with undivided attention will attain liberation from all be put back on the wrist easily. Gopii darshane Krśńer ye ánanda hay; accumulated saḿskáras. Devotees who run towards What is mahápátaka? Mahápátaka is a sinful Tadapekśá kot́iguńa gopii ásváday. Parama Puruśa with all the strength of their soul need action for which there can be no atonement and which [The devotees are a million times more pleased not be afraid of anything. has a recurring effect. Once I told you a story from the when they see Krśńa than Krśńa is upon seeing them.] What is pápa? Paropakárah puńyáya pápáya Rámáyańa. Ráma and Rávańa were engaged in a You are following the path of sádhaná. Always parapiiŕańam. Any action that leads to one’s physical, bitter combat. When Ráma began to get the upper remember that you must establish yourself in pure psychic and spiritual well-being is called punya or a hand Rávana entreated Shiva to save his life. On devotion and not formal devotion. And to become virtuous deed; and any action which leads to one’s hearing Rávańa’s desperate pleas, Parvatii’s heart established in pure devotion you must perform physical, psychic and spiritual degeneration is called melted, and she requested Shiva to save Rávana’s life. virtuous deeds, practise spiritual sádhaná regularly, pápa or sin. There are two types of pápa or sin: pápa, Shiva said unambiguously, “I cannot save him. He is a render selfless service to the world, and wage a which occurs when one does something one should mahápátaka, a sinner of the worst type”. Shiva relentless fight against wrongs and injustice. There is not do, and pratyávaya, which occurs when one does explained that if Rávańa had abducted Siitá in his no room for cowardice. May you be victorious.

12 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 13 PROUT | October 2013 ISSUES for all the different variables, or w o u l d h a v e t o c o n s t r u c t experimental situations. And of course neuroscience is not yet really so far advanced. But “in principle, if not in practice”, which is Harris's argument, it should be possible for Can Science Determine science to do all this. Note that this all depends on the assumption that that which is moral is that which produces the greatest possible well-being for all human and animal life. (An idea closely expressed by the traditional Moral Values? formulation “the greatest good for the greatest number”. Harris broadly c o n s i d e r s h i m s e l f a consequentialist, and “the greatest good for the greatest number” is k n o w n a s t h e m a x i m o f utilitarianism, which can be c o n s i d e r e d a f o r m o f to disagree with it. other societies, “You should not kill consequentialism.) Let's find an example of a innocent persons merely for We sometimes hear that the moral value that a particular culture revenge.” customs and moral codes of one might hold. Harris himself gives an Establish a moral value, such culture cannot be judged by the example of one cultural tradition as the value of life or the value of standards of another. But Harris that he considers to be destructive, happiness, and it is not hard to derive would say that all customs and which he describes as follows: a moral principle, such as “Do not moral codes will have to be judged The people of Albania have a act with the intention of harming,” by the standard of well-being, as venerable tradition of vendetta or “Do unto others as you would determined by science. called Kanun: if a man commits a have them do unto you.” Would Proutists Agree? murder, his victim's family can kill Though Harris does not How would Proutists say that any one of his male relatives in elaborate further about the particular we should determine that which is reprisal. If a boy has the misfortune example of Kanun, from the rest of moral? Many Proutists take quite a of being the son or brother of a his book we can understand how different approach from the one that murderer, he must spend his days science would proceed to evaluate it Harris recommends. While each of ð Ácárya Acyutánanda Avadhúta and nights in hiding, forgoing a as a moral value: It would employ us as Proutists has his or her own proper education, adequate health the technology of neuroimaging, conscience, developed to one extent In 2010 neuroscientist Sam Harris published The Moral Landscape: care, and the pleasures of a normal d i r e c t i n g t h a t t e c h n o l o g y or other through spiritual practices, How Science Can Determine Human Values. He has stated that the central Establish a moral life. Untold numbers of Albanian specifically at brain centres we also think that the propounder of argument of his book is as follows: value, such as the men and boys live as prisoners of involved with the senses of well- Prout had a far more developed Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds — and value of life or the their homes even now. Can we say being and of misery. If by luck conscience, such that we can rely on specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well- that the Albanians are morally scientists could find a culture the moral principles that he taught being and suffering in this universe. Conscious minds and their states are value of happiness, wrong to have structured their identical to the Albanian culture and elaborated. natural phenomena, fully constrained by the laws of the universe (whatever and it is not hard to society in this way? Is their tradition Harris has described, but with one What exactly is the source of these turn out to be in the end). Therefore, questions of morality and values of blood feud a form of evil? Are exception – the absence of Kanun – the moral principles that the must have right and wrong answers that fall within the purview of science (in derive a moral their values inferior to our own [i.e., then those scientists would simply propounder of Prout gave us? Could principle, if not in practice). Consequently, some people and cultures will be principle, such as “Do Western European values]? have to select a representative and the basis of his understanding have right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to not act with the Assuming Harris's description statistically-significant sample of been simply the deepest form of what they deem important in life. is accurate, then in this particular the citizens of each culture, study intuition, or could he actually have First we should clarify that Harris asks us to start with a small intention of harming,” Albanian culture, revenge is a moral their brain activity to see which been able to foresee the long-term assumption: that the greatest possible well-being for all human and animal life or “Do unto others as value – or at least is considered sample has a greater sense of well- consequences, in terms of the well- would be good, and the greatest possible misery for all human and animal life you would have them acceptable. And “You should being, and then declare that Kanun is being of humans, animals and would be bad. This is a moral principle which, Harris admits, cannot be avenge your murdered relative by or is not a worthy moral value. plants, of adherence to a certain set determined by science. It is determined by our intuitions. Yet any do unto you.” killing an innocent person” is the If scientists could not find such of moral principles? He often disagreement with this principle would be purely of a philosophical nature; related moral principle; or at least a similar culture, they would have to referred to “welfare” as a standard, everyone would agree intuitively. It would be only an arid intellectual exercise there is no moral principle, as in find ways to correct their findings as Harris refers to “well-being”;

14 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 15 PROUT | October 2013 ISSUES for all the different variables, or w o u l d h a v e t o c o n s t r u c t experimental situations. And of course neuroscience is not yet really so far advanced. But “in principle, if not in practice”, which is Harris's argument, it should be possible for Can Science Determine science to do all this. Note that this all depends on the assumption that that which is moral is that which produces the greatest possible well-being for all human and animal life. (An idea closely expressed by the traditional Moral Values? formulation “the greatest good for the greatest number”. Harris broadly c o n s i d e r s h i m s e l f a consequentialist, and “the greatest good for the greatest number” is k n o w n a s t h e m a x i m o f utilitarianism, which can be c o n s i d e r e d a f o r m o f to disagree with it. other societies, “You should not kill consequentialism.) Let's find an example of a innocent persons merely for We sometimes hear that the moral value that a particular culture revenge.” customs and moral codes of one might hold. Harris himself gives an Establish a moral value, such culture cannot be judged by the example of one cultural tradition as the value of life or the value of standards of another. But Harris that he considers to be destructive, happiness, and it is not hard to derive would say that all customs and which he describes as follows: a moral principle, such as “Do not moral codes will have to be judged The people of Albania have a act with the intention of harming,” by the standard of well-being, as venerable tradition of vendetta or “Do unto others as you would determined by science. called Kanun: if a man commits a have them do unto you.” Would Proutists Agree? murder, his victim's family can kill Though Harris does not How would Proutists say that any one of his male relatives in elaborate further about the particular we should determine that which is reprisal. If a boy has the misfortune example of Kanun, from the rest of moral? Many Proutists take quite a of being the son or brother of a his book we can understand how different approach from the one that murderer, he must spend his days science would proceed to evaluate it Harris recommends. While each of ð Ácárya Acyutánanda Avadhúta and nights in hiding, forgoing a as a moral value: It would employ us as Proutists has his or her own proper education, adequate health the technology of neuroimaging, conscience, developed to one extent In 2010 neuroscientist Sam Harris published The Moral Landscape: care, and the pleasures of a normal d i r e c t i n g t h a t t e c h n o l o g y or other through spiritual practices, How Science Can Determine Human Values. He has stated that the central Establish a moral life. Untold numbers of Albanian specifically at brain centres we also think that the propounder of argument of his book is as follows: value, such as the men and boys live as prisoners of involved with the senses of well- Prout had a far more developed Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds — and value of life or the their homes even now. Can we say being and of misery. If by luck conscience, such that we can rely on specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well- that the Albanians are morally scientists could find a culture the moral principles that he taught being and suffering in this universe. Conscious minds and their states are value of happiness, wrong to have structured their identical to the Albanian culture and elaborated. natural phenomena, fully constrained by the laws of the universe (whatever and it is not hard to society in this way? Is their tradition Harris has described, but with one What exactly is the source of these turn out to be in the end). Therefore, questions of morality and values of blood feud a form of evil? Are exception – the absence of Kanun – the moral principles that the must have right and wrong answers that fall within the purview of science (in derive a moral their values inferior to our own [i.e., then those scientists would simply propounder of Prout gave us? Could principle, if not in practice). Consequently, some people and cultures will be principle, such as “Do Western European values]? have to select a representative and the basis of his understanding have right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to not act with the Assuming Harris's description statistically-significant sample of been simply the deepest form of what they deem important in life. is accurate, then in this particular the citizens of each culture, study intuition, or could he actually have First we should clarify that Harris asks us to start with a small intention of harming,” Albanian culture, revenge is a moral their brain activity to see which been able to foresee the long-term assumption: that the greatest possible well-being for all human and animal life or “Do unto others as value – or at least is considered sample has a greater sense of well- consequences, in terms of the well- would be good, and the greatest possible misery for all human and animal life you would have them acceptable. And “You should being, and then declare that Kanun is being of humans, animals and would be bad. This is a moral principle which, Harris admits, cannot be avenge your murdered relative by or is not a worthy moral value. plants, of adherence to a certain set determined by science. It is determined by our intuitions. Yet any do unto you.” killing an innocent person” is the If scientists could not find such of moral principles? He often disagreement with this principle would be purely of a philosophical nature; related moral principle; or at least a similar culture, they would have to referred to “welfare” as a standard, everyone would agree intuitively. It would be only an arid intellectual exercise there is no moral principle, as in find ways to correct their findings as Harris refers to “well-being”;

14 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 15 PROUT | October 2013 might he have agreed with Harris's minds and their states are natural Kanun is a valuable custom or not; with discursive thought, our failure consequentialism, and might he phenomena, fully constrained by the which wars are just; whether selfless moment to moment to recognize have been psychically developed laws of the universe (whatever these service is a good thing to encourage; thoughts as thoughts, is a primary enough to calculate future turn out to be in the end). Proutists whether capital punishment should source of human suffering. And consequences as well as or better theorize that the mind includes more be practised or not; whether purdah when a person breaks this spell, an than the ideal future science that than just physical matter; that the is a socially healthy system; whether extraordinary kind of relief is Harris theorizes? Proutists may have deeper levels of the mind consist of parents should spank their children available. thought little about this, but if we did substances more “subtle” than when they misbehave; whether . . . Another common mistake is think, we would probably not want physical matter. But Proutists would cartoons defaming religious figures to imagine that such experiences are to think that there would ultimately not deny that those deeper levels should be protected by law; whether necessarily equivalent to states of be much difference between a operate “constrained by the laws of abortion should be legal or not; mind with which many of us are perfect intuition and a perfect the universe”! To my knowledge whether Facebook does more harm already familiar – the feeling of consequentialist calculation. That is, Proutists might not even deny that, or good. scientific awe, or ordinary states of we would not want to think that however subtle (immaterial) some The Limitations – “Saint Well- aesthetic appreciation, artistic adherence to teachings stemming levels of the mind may be, Being” inspiration, etc. from a perfect intuition would not everything that we experience at To use Harris's landscape Harris doesn't quite say that lead ultimately, as consequences, to least correlates in some way with metaphor, however (in which meditation experiences are better the greatest possible well-being of brain activity and the crude matter of correct moral codes take us to the than The Good Life or scientific humans, animals and plants. the brain. highest “peaks” on “the moral awe, etc., but his explanation here of Another question, of course, Some future science (even if it landscape”, while incorrect codes how identification with thought is a that Proutists might ask about remains objective science only and leave us short or even take us into primary source of suffering makes Harris's approach would be: are all not what Proutists call subjective valleys of misery), I would not agree that at least a high probability, which human and animal experiences of science) may also be able to detect that science can take us quite to the a n y p r o p o s e d m e t h o d o f well-being and misery completely and measure feelings of well-being highest peaks. maximizing human well-being will reducible to our physical brains, or is and misery even if they have no 1. Science is objective in have to encompass. there at least brain activity that correlates in the brain. viewpoint; therefore, though it may He does not come as close to correlates with all such experiences? So personally, I am persuaded one day be able to fully measure identifying any other single variable But perhaps this question is not to a considerable extent by Harris's someone's subjective experience, it as the source of the greatest well- really relevant. Though Harris is a argument. I am ready to think that, if will not be able to share the being, as he does meditation. neuroscientist and though all of his the future development of science subjective viewpoint of that Thus it is quite persuasive examples that seek to demonstrate were to know no limits, men and experience nor hence any of the some purposes than the direct well-being, and then bring everyone when Harris says that some people the feasibility of his approach are women in white coats could make it experience. In attempting to experience; but science cannot give else up to their level, or close. I think who spend decades on retreat examples of brain studies, his clear to us, purely by studying the meditating become “true saints,” or determine morality and values, this us as students or audience the direct it would not be possible to maximize “central” argument does not activities of the brain (and of any is a limitation that, because it is experience. human well-being more than this. “spiritual geniuses.” So let us completely depend on the other possible structures whose inherent in science by nature and I think that at least the first two What people experience the greatest suppose there is an individual whom reducibility of experience to the activity correlates with our definition, cannot be overcome by of these points limit science in the life-long well-being? The Moral we can call Saint Well-Being (W-B) brain. His argument says: Conscious subjective experience), whether the ongoing development of science. determination of values. Landscape describes, under the who experiences greater well-being 2. One consequence of said It is correctly assumed that heading “The Good Life”, a couple than anyone else on earth. We are all limitation is that science may be able well-being is good (the highest who are intelligent, healthy, have “far more similar than we are to know everything objectively value) and suffering is bad. Let us psychically and financially different;” we all have potential knowable concerning someone's accept the assumption also that each rewarding jobs, etc. But that couple somewhat similar to that of W-B; so correct belief about X (that is, is based in brain or other events that do not, apparently, practice clearly one component of the concerning someone's “feeling of are scientifically measurable, and meditation. In a 2007 lecture, Harris endeavour to effect the maximum knowing,” or “ring of truth”, which that are evaluable in terms of well- said: overall well-being must be that happens to be correct, about X), being to an important extent. But is . . solitary confinement . . . is science identify W-B and recognize without knowing whether the belief there also an extent to which even considered a punishment even inside his/her well-being as the highest is correct. The person will know after precise measurement, the a prison. . . . And yet, for thousands known human value on the something about X, but science, e v e n t s , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h o s e of years, contemplatives have individual level; and then that many, absent other sources of information, underlying the highest levels of claimed to find extraordinary depths if not all, of the rest of us learn the won't. well-being, will not be scientifically of psychological well-being while meditation techniques, lifestyle and 3. In the case of any object of evaluable? spending vast stretches of time in code of morality that have worked human experience, science, with its Here the above-mentioned total isolation. . . . there is no for W-B. objective viewpoint, can give us, as limitations of science begin to limit question in my mind that people However, Harris has said: “the scientists' students or audience, a also the scientific determination of have improved their emotional lives sciences of mind are largely representation of the object value. Suppose we could identify . . . through . . . practices like predicated on [correlating] first- (including a simulation), and the those few people on earth who meditation. person reports of subjective representation may be better for experience the greatest life-long . . our habitual identification experience with third-person states

16 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 17 PROUT | October 2013 might he have agreed with Harris's minds and their states are natural Kanun is a valuable custom or not; with discursive thought, our failure consequentialism, and might he phenomena, fully constrained by the which wars are just; whether selfless moment to moment to recognize have been psychically developed laws of the universe (whatever these service is a good thing to encourage; thoughts as thoughts, is a primary enough to calculate future turn out to be in the end). Proutists whether capital punishment should source of human suffering. And consequences as well as or better theorize that the mind includes more be practised or not; whether purdah when a person breaks this spell, an than the ideal future science that than just physical matter; that the is a socially healthy system; whether extraordinary kind of relief is Harris theorizes? Proutists may have deeper levels of the mind consist of parents should spank their children available. thought little about this, but if we did substances more “subtle” than when they misbehave; whether . . . Another common mistake is think, we would probably not want physical matter. But Proutists would cartoons defaming religious figures to imagine that such experiences are to think that there would ultimately not deny that those deeper levels should be protected by law; whether necessarily equivalent to states of be much difference between a operate “constrained by the laws of abortion should be legal or not; mind with which many of us are perfect intuition and a perfect the universe”! To my knowledge whether Facebook does more harm already familiar – the feeling of consequentialist calculation. That is, Proutists might not even deny that, or good. scientific awe, or ordinary states of we would not want to think that however subtle (immaterial) some The Limitations – “Saint Well- aesthetic appreciation, artistic adherence to teachings stemming levels of the mind may be, Being” inspiration, etc. from a perfect intuition would not everything that we experience at To use Harris's landscape Harris doesn't quite say that lead ultimately, as consequences, to least correlates in some way with metaphor, however (in which meditation experiences are better the greatest possible well-being of brain activity and the crude matter of correct moral codes take us to the than The Good Life or scientific humans, animals and plants. the brain. highest “peaks” on “the moral awe, etc., but his explanation here of Another question, of course, Some future science (even if it landscape”, while incorrect codes how identification with thought is a that Proutists might ask about remains objective science only and leave us short or even take us into primary source of suffering makes Harris's approach would be: are all not what Proutists call subjective valleys of misery), I would not agree that at least a high probability, which human and animal experiences of science) may also be able to detect that science can take us quite to the a n y p r o p o s e d m e t h o d o f well-being and misery completely and measure feelings of well-being highest peaks. maximizing human well-being will reducible to our physical brains, or is and misery even if they have no 1. Science is objective in have to encompass. there at least brain activity that correlates in the brain. viewpoint; therefore, though it may He does not come as close to correlates with all such experiences? So personally, I am persuaded one day be able to fully measure identifying any other single variable But perhaps this question is not to a considerable extent by Harris's someone's subjective experience, it as the source of the greatest well- really relevant. Though Harris is a argument. I am ready to think that, if will not be able to share the being, as he does meditation. neuroscientist and though all of his the future development of science subjective viewpoint of that Thus it is quite persuasive examples that seek to demonstrate were to know no limits, men and experience nor hence any of the some purposes than the direct well-being, and then bring everyone when Harris says that some people the feasibility of his approach are women in white coats could make it experience. In attempting to experience; but science cannot give else up to their level, or close. I think who spend decades on retreat examples of brain studies, his clear to us, purely by studying the meditating become “true saints,” or determine morality and values, this us as students or audience the direct it would not be possible to maximize “central” argument does not activities of the brain (and of any is a limitation that, because it is experience. human well-being more than this. “spiritual geniuses.” So let us completely depend on the other possible structures whose inherent in science by nature and I think that at least the first two What people experience the greatest suppose there is an individual whom reducibility of experience to the activity correlates with our definition, cannot be overcome by of these points limit science in the life-long well-being? The Moral we can call Saint Well-Being (W-B) brain. His argument says: Conscious subjective experience), whether the ongoing development of science. determination of values. Landscape describes, under the who experiences greater well-being 2. One consequence of said It is correctly assumed that heading “The Good Life”, a couple than anyone else on earth. We are all limitation is that science may be able well-being is good (the highest who are intelligent, healthy, have “far more similar than we are to know everything objectively value) and suffering is bad. Let us psychically and financially different;” we all have potential knowable concerning someone's accept the assumption also that each rewarding jobs, etc. But that couple somewhat similar to that of W-B; so correct belief about X (that is, is based in brain or other events that do not, apparently, practice clearly one component of the concerning someone's “feeling of are scientifically measurable, and meditation. In a 2007 lecture, Harris endeavour to effect the maximum knowing,” or “ring of truth”, which that are evaluable in terms of well- said: overall well-being must be that happens to be correct, about X), being to an important extent. But is . . solitary confinement . . . is science identify W-B and recognize without knowing whether the belief there also an extent to which even considered a punishment even inside his/her well-being as the highest is correct. The person will know after precise measurement, the a prison. . . . And yet, for thousands known human value on the something about X, but science, e v e n t s , p a r t i c u l a r l y t h o s e of years, contemplatives have individual level; and then that many, absent other sources of information, underlying the highest levels of claimed to find extraordinary depths if not all, of the rest of us learn the won't. well-being, will not be scientifically of psychological well-being while meditation techniques, lifestyle and 3. In the case of any object of evaluable? spending vast stretches of time in code of morality that have worked human experience, science, with its Here the above-mentioned total isolation. . . . there is no for W-B. objective viewpoint, can give us, as limitations of science begin to limit question in my mind that people However, Harris has said: “the scientists' students or audience, a also the scientific determination of have improved their emotional lives sciences of mind are largely representation of the object value. Suppose we could identify . . . through . . . practices like predicated on [correlating] first- (including a simulation), and the those few people on earth who meditation. person reports of subjective representation may be better for experience the greatest life-long . . our habitual identification experience with third-person states

16 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 17 PROUT | October 2013 of the brain.” “Third-person states of third-person), researchers will fall I2 is correct, but how can science PERSECUTION the brain” means states of the brain back on an approach suggested by a know that I2 is correct? To science, of a subject that can be observed and remark of Harris's: “if Jesus was a my I2 is a measurable sense certified by researchers in white spiritual genius, you know, a of correctness, but the sense itself Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar — propounder of Prout — was persecuted and prosecuted by coats. Researchers may eventually palpably non-neurotic and remains subjective: I have the the then demonic government. We are giving here hair raising account of some of the be able to objectively know charismatic and wise person, I can experience; science knows I have torturous events of His life on the occasion of His birth anniversary on May 14 this year. everything about W-B's brain states, well imagine the experience of his the experience, but science doesn't but they will know that his/her brain disciples. I can well imagine the have the experience. So science states represent the greatest kind of influence he could have on doesn't experience, and therefore Prologue subjective well-being on the planet their lives . . .” Traditionally, W-B's, doesn't know, the correctness On December 31, 1966 after taking extended leave from Railway office, Prout's founder Shrii Prabhat Ranjan only if they believe his/her first- along with their moral authority, of I1. Sarkar left Jamalpur for Anandanagar in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. There he took personal charge at the person report to that effect. They can have been identified by the So science will not be able to Headquarters of Ananda Marga and being available full time to oversee all activities he kept personally guiding whole- confidently accept similar reports of intuitions of others: “He/she seems help with this indispensable element timers and volunteers, and reviewing their activities. The stage was set for Ananda Marga to become a powerful lower levels of well-being to have found something.” And of achieving the greatest well-being influence in India and the rest of the world. The powerful social ideals of Prout and its rapid progress alarmed the local correlating with other brain states in science will try to provide scientific for all: identifying the W-B's if few communist leaders in the area. To counter that they spread rumours among simple tribal village folk that Ananda Marga other subjects, because 1) numerous confirmation that W-B's disciples – especially if their well-being planned to steal their lands and livelihood. On March 5, 1967, came the first attack, hordes of villagers armed with bows subjects with almost-identical brain are correct in identifying W-B as a continues to evolve. and arrows, spears and clubs descended on Anandanagar screaming. This happened at a time when the Education states have reported the same levels; spiritual genius. However, as we I think that science will be able Relief and Welfare Section (ERAWS) team was actually engaged in relief work. Within minutes five monks Acaryas and 2) the lower levels may be have seen in 2 above regarding to determine values well enough to Abhedananda and Saccidananda, Brahmacaris Awadh, Bharat and Prabhas were killed, and the Jagriti, School and within the researchers' own range of correct beliefs, “The person will vastly improve on the average of Hospital were ransacked. As the main target was none other than Shrii Sarkar, he was spirited away to safety. All this experience, and they may have know something about X, but humanity's present mish-mash of while police officials took no action but launched criminal cases against the Ananda Margis. In the subsequent trial the measured their own brain states. But science, absent other sources of moral codes – it will be able to Sessions Judge of Midnapore sentenced eight persons to life imprisonment and jailed ten others for the brutal attack. W-B may be one of a kind in terms of information, won't.” expose the bankruptcy of Kanun, for After this invasion of Anandanagar the Headquarters of Ananda Marga was shifted to Ranchi. Within the next four potential human well-being Suppose I have a particular instance – and I think that therefore years the organisation grew tremendously so much so that it alarmed the Central and State governments of Bihar and achieved. intuition, I1, about some person. Harris's thesis will play a big role in West Bengal. The activities of Ananda Marga had penetrated deep into the high officials of the Government both at the Having failed to confirm W-B's Suppose that that intuition is correct. humanity's future evolution. But centre and the state and while they greatly appreciated their relief work, they saw Ananda Marga especially PROUT to spiritual genius by the only direct Suppose also that I have another science alone will not be able to be a rival in the social and political field of the country. These were in direct conflict with capitalistic as well as means science has of “referring to a intuition, I2, which is the intuition guide us to the very highest of those communistic philosophies. The rapid growth and development of Ananda Marga and its popularity caused serious person's subjective experience” (the that I1 is correct; and suppose that I2 peaks in the landscape “which apprehensions in the minds of the ruling party and they became very much afraid of losing their vice like grip over the correlation of first-person with is also correct. I2 is an experience. remain to be discovered.” people. Moreover their social and economic principles that condemned caste conflicts and orthodox beliefs, their emphasis on spirituality made it an anathema to secularists, particularly the Marxists. Its call for a Government of moralists and its attacks on corruption made it suspect in the eyes of the politician and administrator who were prone to such activities and the Government was bent upon to crush it. To begin with there was surveillance. All movements of Shrii Sarkar's were followed covertly and overtly. In June 1971 the headquarters of Ananda Marga was shifted to Ranchi - surveillance continued. At this juncture, he confided to few of his trusted aides that a few politicians of the ruling party having close links to Moscow assisted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), had made him their target and that he was aware of his imminent arrest. 6 YEARS 7 MONTHS 4 DAYS

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Arrest and Torture timing couldn't have been better as he was produced before the Sub Thirteen days after the Indian then the popularity of Mrs. Indira Divisional Officer Patna Miss S Army's stunning victory and the Gandhi the Prime Minister was at an Sinha, who did not ask him a single surrender of the Pakistani Army at all time high. question and sent him to Buxur Jail Dacca in December 1971, the Shrii Sarkar was arrested early at 11 in the night. The remand order Government of India cleared the in the morning from his home in was kept in readiness. decks for the CBI to arrest Shrii Patna on December 29, 1971 on As the day before was Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar the spiritual many fake charges and he was not Ekadashi his fasting date he had Guru of Ananda Marga - also known allowed to perform his morning remained without food and water for as Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. The spiritual practices. At 10 in the night the past 24 hours and added to that 18 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 19 PROUT | October 2013 of the brain.” “Third-person states of third-person), researchers will fall I2 is correct, but how can science PERSECUTION the brain” means states of the brain back on an approach suggested by a know that I2 is correct? To science, of a subject that can be observed and remark of Harris's: “if Jesus was a my I2 is a measurable sense certified by researchers in white spiritual genius, you know, a of correctness, but the sense itself Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar — propounder of Prout — was persecuted and prosecuted by coats. Researchers may eventually palpably non-neurotic and remains subjective: I have the the then demonic government. We are giving here hair raising account of some of the be able to objectively know charismatic and wise person, I can experience; science knows I have torturous events of His life on the occasion of His birth anniversary on May 14 this year. everything about W-B's brain states, well imagine the experience of his the experience, but science doesn't but they will know that his/her brain disciples. I can well imagine the have the experience. So science states represent the greatest kind of influence he could have on doesn't experience, and therefore Prologue subjective well-being on the planet their lives . . .” Traditionally, W-B's, doesn't know, the correctness On December 31, 1966 after taking extended leave from Railway office, Prout's founder Shrii Prabhat Ranjan only if they believe his/her first- along with their moral authority, of I1. Sarkar left Jamalpur for Anandanagar in Purulia district of West Bengal, India. There he took personal charge at the person report to that effect. They can have been identified by the So science will not be able to Headquarters of Ananda Marga and being available full time to oversee all activities he kept personally guiding whole- confidently accept similar reports of intuitions of others: “He/she seems help with this indispensable element timers and volunteers, and reviewing their activities. The stage was set for Ananda Marga to become a powerful lower levels of well-being to have found something.” And of achieving the greatest well-being influence in India and the rest of the world. The powerful social ideals of Prout and its rapid progress alarmed the local correlating with other brain states in science will try to provide scientific for all: identifying the W-B's if few communist leaders in the area. To counter that they spread rumours among simple tribal village folk that Ananda Marga other subjects, because 1) numerous confirmation that W-B's disciples – especially if their well-being planned to steal their lands and livelihood. On March 5, 1967, came the first attack, hordes of villagers armed with bows subjects with almost-identical brain are correct in identifying W-B as a continues to evolve. and arrows, spears and clubs descended on Anandanagar screaming. This happened at a time when the Education states have reported the same levels; spiritual genius. However, as we I think that science will be able Relief and Welfare Section (ERAWS) team was actually engaged in relief work. Within minutes five monks Acaryas and 2) the lower levels may be have seen in 2 above regarding to determine values well enough to Abhedananda and Saccidananda, Brahmacaris Awadh, Bharat and Prabhas were killed, and the Jagriti, School and within the researchers' own range of correct beliefs, “The person will vastly improve on the average of Hospital were ransacked. As the main target was none other than Shrii Sarkar, he was spirited away to safety. All this experience, and they may have know something about X, but humanity's present mish-mash of while police officials took no action but launched criminal cases against the Ananda Margis. In the subsequent trial the measured their own brain states. But science, absent other sources of moral codes – it will be able to Sessions Judge of Midnapore sentenced eight persons to life imprisonment and jailed ten others for the brutal attack. W-B may be one of a kind in terms of information, won't.” expose the bankruptcy of Kanun, for After this invasion of Anandanagar the Headquarters of Ananda Marga was shifted to Ranchi. Within the next four potential human well-being Suppose I have a particular instance – and I think that therefore years the organisation grew tremendously so much so that it alarmed the Central and State governments of Bihar and achieved. intuition, I1, about some person. Harris's thesis will play a big role in West Bengal. The activities of Ananda Marga had penetrated deep into the high officials of the Government both at the Having failed to confirm W-B's Suppose that that intuition is correct. humanity's future evolution. But centre and the state and while they greatly appreciated their relief work, they saw Ananda Marga especially PROUT to spiritual genius by the only direct Suppose also that I have another science alone will not be able to be a rival in the social and political field of the country. These were in direct conflict with capitalistic as well as means science has of “referring to a intuition, I2, which is the intuition guide us to the very highest of those communistic philosophies. The rapid growth and development of Ananda Marga and its popularity caused serious person's subjective experience” (the that I1 is correct; and suppose that I2 peaks in the landscape “which apprehensions in the minds of the ruling party and they became very much afraid of losing their vice like grip over the correlation of first-person with is also correct. I2 is an experience. remain to be discovered.” people. Moreover their social and economic principles that condemned caste conflicts and orthodox beliefs, their emphasis on spirituality made it an anathema to secularists, particularly the Marxists. Its call for a Government of moralists and its attacks on corruption made it suspect in the eyes of the politician and administrator who were prone to such activities and the Government was bent upon to crush it. To begin with there was surveillance. All movements of Shrii Sarkar's were followed covertly and overtly. In June 1971 the headquarters of Ananda Marga was shifted to Ranchi - surveillance continued. At this juncture, he confided to few of his trusted aides that a few politicians of the ruling party having close links to Moscow assisted by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), had made him their target and that he was aware of his imminent arrest. 6 YEARS 7 MONTHS 4 DAYS

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Arrest and Torture timing couldn't have been better as he was produced before the Sub Thirteen days after the Indian then the popularity of Mrs. Indira Divisional Officer Patna Miss S Army's stunning victory and the Gandhi the Prime Minister was at an Sinha, who did not ask him a single surrender of the Pakistani Army at all time high. question and sent him to Buxur Jail Dacca in December 1971, the Shrii Sarkar was arrested early at 11 in the night. The remand order Government of India cleared the in the morning from his home in was kept in readiness. decks for the CBI to arrest Shrii Patna on December 29, 1971 on As the day before was Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar the spiritual many fake charges and he was not Ekadashi his fasting date he had Guru of Ananda Marga - also known allowed to perform his morning remained without food and water for as Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. The spiritual practices. At 10 in the night the past 24 hours and added to that 18 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 19 PROUT | October 2013 was denial of food and water from condition in Patna Medical College The most important evidence was home (which he was entitled to as an Hospital and followed by a barbaric withheld by the Government namely under trial) he remained without attempt to poison him on the night of among others to interview Shrii food and water for 60 hours at a February 12, 1973 in Bankipore Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, the main stretch. Central Jail, Patna, the people of witness in the case, and record his Due to severe mental and Bihar representing the general evidence as also his followers physical torture in Buxur jail in a feelings of the outraged public lodged in jail. The Government also very unhealthy cell with unhygienic against the Government's refusal to withheld important documents from conditions he fell ill off and on. His conduct a judicial investigation into the Commission. All these were condition became so serious he was these allegations approached the brought to the attention of the shifted to Patna Medical College People's Welfare Council to Government of Bihar headed by Hospital (PMCH). He was taken in a consider appointing a non official Abdul Ghafoor. police van (to which he was carried Enquiry Commission. Still the Commission went by two guards with arms across their On May 15, 1974 at 8.30 pm, a ahead with its judicial investigative shoulders) and not in an ambulance subcommittee of the Council met in work. During the first sitting and was brought in an unconscious t h e i r o f f i c e p r e m i s e s a t procedures were laid down to Protests overseas state to the hospital. He was Ramakrishna Avenue, Patna and strictly follow norms applicable to admitted for treatment in Room No. after due deliberation decided Commissions of Enquiry as per 17 of the hospital where too basic unanimously to appoint a Fact Civil and Criminal Procedure Codes and the Prime Minister of India Tyageshwarananda was beaten to became intolerable when I found facilities were denied and no one Finding Commission comprising and the Indian Evidence Act as (PM) that the Government of a death inside the jail in Bhagalpur, that my beloved Guru was actually Shri Amar Prasad Chakrabarty and applicable. The Commission democratic country like India that not far from Patna where his Guru poisoned in jail. ... Hundreds and Shri Bhakti Bhushan Mondal, both beginning from August 15, values human rights should hold a was being tortured and was on fast thousands of Ananda Margis sent Advocates of Calcutta High Court, examined 43 witnesses including six judicial enquiry into the alleged for three years in jail. urgent and anxious telegrams to the to probe the issue. Members of Parliament (MP) and attempt to poison Shrii Sarkar in Self Immolation in India Prime Minister, the President of The Commission held its first two Members of Legislative Patna Jail on February 12 and that The torture and harassment of India and the Governor of Bihar sitting on June 15, and all concerned Assembly of Bihar including an ex the latter has been on partial fast the Marga Guru and his followers demanding a judicial probe but to no including the Central Government, Chief Minister and 29 documents from April 1, to press his demand for reached its zenith. Hundreds of effect. Under these circumstances I the CBI and other Government produced as exhibits. The detailed such an investigation and that his thousands of anxious Ananda am determined to draw attention of officials were served notices report of the Commission was condition was fast deteriorating. Margis sent urgent telegrams to the the whole world through self allowing three weeks to file submitted on December 12, 1974. Subsequently eight MPs issued President of India and the PM but to immolation and I myself took this statements. 17 citizens complied but Protests Worldwide a statement criticizing the treatment no avail. In a symbol extreme protest decision and not on anybody's no one from Government did or Before the Commission was being meted out to the spiritual head to focus attention on the continuing persuasion. In the name of the most ancient order of Indian yogis I informed the Commission why they constituted there was hectic public of Ananda Marga and his followers tortures to the Marga Guru, monks impeach this Government in the chose not to do so. activity at all levels to protest against and demanded protection and an end and nuns of Ananda Marga both in to the tortures being inflicted upon India and overseas, just like soldiers Shrimati Abharani In fact the Government of the inhuman tortures meted out to Bihar tried their best all along to the Marga Guru. On August 11, 1973 him and his followers. The in battle for a cause laid down their Government steadfastly refused. was allowed to meet him, not even interfere in the working of the Fact 9 MPs (these among others included lives for their Guru. Thereafter thousands of people his relatives and his disciples he Finding Committee, whose Shri LK Advani the Deputy Prime These are supreme acts of carried out peaceful demonstrations was kept in complete isolation. members personally met the Minister in the NDA Government sacrifice by spiritual aspirants on the streets of Patna on July 18 and Mother's Death Governor and the Chief Minister. 1999-2004) wrote to the President especially monks and nuns as was In the first week of April 1972, August 28 only to face inhuman done in the past in times of he was sent to Bankipore Central brutality at the hands of the Police. persecution by the immoralists. All Jail, Patna and such tortures In New Delhi on April 23, these hearts burned in the intensity continued. A month later his mother around 15,000 Ananda Margis and of the fire of their devotion and their Shrimati Abharani died. Being the sympathizers after a public meeting mortal remains scattered in the wind eldest son he should have performed at the Boat Club, India Gate, as ashes of their faith to be the last rites according to Indian proceeded in a peaceful manner to remembered forever and more. customs and traditions, but was not submit a memorandum to the On April 9, 1973 Acarya allowed to do so. When she was on President of India. Despite the Delhi Divyananda immolated himself. He her deathbed the Government did Administration having been had stopped taking food and water not allow him to visit her. informed in advance, they were for the past three days. He felt it was brutally lathi charged and about 300 sinful to even drink water from a Fact Finding Commission falsely implicated in fabricated planet where his beloved Baba was Following the arrest and criminal cases. There were also poisoned. His poignant words subsequent inhuman torture meted protests overseas. But one of the penned in a letter the day before out to him in Buxur jail resulting in Peaceful protesters being beaten at Patna. most tragic incidents occurred in reveals the pain he felt for the torture Procession in Sydney, Australia his hospitalization in a serious 1 9 7 5 w h e n A c a r y a being meted out to his Guru, “It

20 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 21 PROUT | October 2013 was denial of food and water from condition in Patna Medical College The most important evidence was home (which he was entitled to as an Hospital and followed by a barbaric withheld by the Government namely under trial) he remained without attempt to poison him on the night of among others to interview Shrii food and water for 60 hours at a February 12, 1973 in Bankipore Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, the main stretch. Central Jail, Patna, the people of witness in the case, and record his Due to severe mental and Bihar representing the general evidence as also his followers physical torture in Buxur jail in a feelings of the outraged public lodged in jail. The Government also very unhealthy cell with unhygienic against the Government's refusal to withheld important documents from conditions he fell ill off and on. His conduct a judicial investigation into the Commission. All these were condition became so serious he was these allegations approached the brought to the attention of the shifted to Patna Medical College People's Welfare Council to Government of Bihar headed by Hospital (PMCH). He was taken in a consider appointing a non official Abdul Ghafoor. police van (to which he was carried Enquiry Commission. Still the Commission went by two guards with arms across their On May 15, 1974 at 8.30 pm, a ahead with its judicial investigative shoulders) and not in an ambulance subcommittee of the Council met in work. During the first sitting and was brought in an unconscious t h e i r o f f i c e p r e m i s e s a t procedures were laid down to Protests overseas state to the hospital. He was Ramakrishna Avenue, Patna and strictly follow norms applicable to admitted for treatment in Room No. after due deliberation decided Commissions of Enquiry as per 17 of the hospital where too basic unanimously to appoint a Fact Civil and Criminal Procedure Codes and the Prime Minister of India Tyageshwarananda was beaten to became intolerable when I found facilities were denied and no one Finding Commission comprising and the Indian Evidence Act as (PM) that the Government of a death inside the jail in Bhagalpur, that my beloved Guru was actually Shri Amar Prasad Chakrabarty and applicable. The Commission democratic country like India that not far from Patna where his Guru poisoned in jail. ... Hundreds and Shri Bhakti Bhushan Mondal, both beginning from August 15, values human rights should hold a was being tortured and was on fast thousands of Ananda Margis sent Advocates of Calcutta High Court, examined 43 witnesses including six judicial enquiry into the alleged for three years in jail. urgent and anxious telegrams to the to probe the issue. Members of Parliament (MP) and attempt to poison Shrii Sarkar in Self Immolation in India Prime Minister, the President of The Commission held its first two Members of Legislative Patna Jail on February 12 and that The torture and harassment of India and the Governor of Bihar sitting on June 15, and all concerned Assembly of Bihar including an ex the latter has been on partial fast the Marga Guru and his followers demanding a judicial probe but to no including the Central Government, Chief Minister and 29 documents from April 1, to press his demand for reached its zenith. Hundreds of effect. Under these circumstances I the CBI and other Government produced as exhibits. The detailed such an investigation and that his thousands of anxious Ananda am determined to draw attention of officials were served notices report of the Commission was condition was fast deteriorating. Margis sent urgent telegrams to the the whole world through self allowing three weeks to file submitted on December 12, 1974. Subsequently eight MPs issued President of India and the PM but to immolation and I myself took this statements. 17 citizens complied but Protests Worldwide a statement criticizing the treatment no avail. In a symbol extreme protest decision and not on anybody's no one from Government did or Before the Commission was being meted out to the spiritual head to focus attention on the continuing persuasion. In the name of the most ancient order of Indian yogis I informed the Commission why they constituted there was hectic public of Ananda Marga and his followers tortures to the Marga Guru, monks impeach this Government in the chose not to do so. activity at all levels to protest against and demanded protection and an end and nuns of Ananda Marga both in to the tortures being inflicted upon India and overseas, just like soldiers Shrimati Abharani In fact the Government of the inhuman tortures meted out to Bihar tried their best all along to the Marga Guru. On August 11, 1973 him and his followers. The in battle for a cause laid down their Government steadfastly refused. was allowed to meet him, not even interfere in the working of the Fact 9 MPs (these among others included lives for their Guru. Thereafter thousands of people his relatives and his disciples he Finding Committee, whose Shri LK Advani the Deputy Prime These are supreme acts of carried out peaceful demonstrations was kept in complete isolation. members personally met the Minister in the NDA Government sacrifice by spiritual aspirants on the streets of Patna on July 18 and Mother's Death Governor and the Chief Minister. 1999-2004) wrote to the President especially monks and nuns as was In the first week of April 1972, August 28 only to face inhuman done in the past in times of he was sent to Bankipore Central brutality at the hands of the Police. persecution by the immoralists. All Jail, Patna and such tortures In New Delhi on April 23, these hearts burned in the intensity continued. A month later his mother around 15,000 Ananda Margis and of the fire of their devotion and their Shrimati Abharani died. Being the sympathizers after a public meeting mortal remains scattered in the wind eldest son he should have performed at the Boat Club, India Gate, as ashes of their faith to be the last rites according to Indian proceeded in a peaceful manner to remembered forever and more. customs and traditions, but was not submit a memorandum to the On April 9, 1973 Acarya allowed to do so. When she was on President of India. Despite the Delhi Divyananda immolated himself. He her deathbed the Government did Administration having been had stopped taking food and water not allow him to visit her. informed in advance, they were for the past three days. He felt it was brutally lathi charged and about 300 sinful to even drink water from a Fact Finding Commission falsely implicated in fabricated planet where his beloved Baba was Following the arrest and criminal cases. There were also poisoned. His poignant words subsequent inhuman torture meted protests overseas. But one of the penned in a letter the day before out to him in Buxur jail resulting in Peaceful protesters being beaten at Patna. most tragic incidents occurred in reveals the pain he felt for the torture Procession in Sydney, Australia his hospitalization in a serious 1 9 7 5 w h e n A c a r y a being meted out to his Guru, “It

20 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 21 PROUT | October 2013 highest bar of Almighty Lord. Men the flames and rushed him to to draw world attention, they suppression, injustice and most public and now sacred place, And on January 14, 1973, Shrii may go and men may come but the hospital, but he succumbed six hours together wrote, “Every previous u n r i g h t e o u s n e s s . O u r s e l f and doused her body in gasoline and Sarkar's four co-accused who were ideas, ideals, dreams, hopes and later. social theory or economic concept immolation is done after personal set fire. lodged in the same jail, and would aspirations remain forever”. As he was under close watch all has failed to create ONE humanistic and independent decision. It is out of A n u n b e l i e v a b l e t h i n g attend on him in his weak condition Two weeks later on April 24, the time this self immolation within society. The strength of human love love for all human beings, for the happened. Her whole body had were suddenly transferred out to within the walls of the historic t h e j a i l p r e m i s e s w a s a n alone can change this world, The poor, the exploited, the suffering”. burned but not her face. Her body other jails leaving Shrii Sarkar Purana Qila (Old Fort) at Delhi, u n b e l i e v a b l e a c t i n t h e spiritual philosophy of socio- Eight days later on February 16 was kept in the Yoga House, Manila alone. The field was cleared for the beneath whose soil lies ruins of circumstances. After this incident, economic (progressive utilisation) in Dallas, Texas, USA, Brahmacari where hundreds came to pay her last heinous act about to follow. ancient Indraprastha, Acarya security in the jail was tightened, theory of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Gagan after a day of silence, fasting respects. Her last words were, Meanwhile all of January his Dineshwarananda immolated Shrii Sarkar was not allowed Sarkar offers the solution to all and intense meditation sat at his “When immorality is dominating all lawyers tried very hard to get bail himself. The day before he said visitors, even lawyers and in his questions of life for all the people. typewriter in the Ananda Marga corners of the planet, when but were unsuccessful. (recorded on tape), “Tell all my weakened condition his followers Shrii Sarkar has been imprisoned on house in Dallas, calmly typed out righteous human beings become In this context para IV 8 of the brothers and sisters that I have laid were forbidden to attend to his need false charges since last 6 years and four letters of protest against his victims of arbitrary misuse, maybe Commission's Report makes down my life to history and show instead convicts were assigned by after poisoning attempt is fasting in Gurus prolonged imprisonment and the sacrifice of an innocent human horrifying reading. “Some whitish that Anandamurtiji also had a the jail authorities. protest since 5 years. Ananda Marga torture to radio and TV stations and, life will burn the seeds and roots of liquid in the name of milk mixed proper band of disciples who are Self Immolations Overseas is persecuted and defamed all over one to President, Jimmy Carter, corruption, exploitation and with blotting papers etc. was “Shrii Shrii Anandamurti has been injustice the cause of the suffering supplied to him and also a whitish ready to die at His wishes at any Besides these there were other the world, its workers are in jail for years now. He has been and degradation of mankind”. She substance in the name of curd also moment, who had not joined Ananda devoted souls overseas who sacrificing their lives in selfless poisoned and tortured by the Indian had given the greatest gift — it was mixed with many dirty things Marga or His mission just for power immolated themselves. On February service. The flame of our bodies Government. Ananda Marga in the an intense longing to see justice including skins of lintels, grains of or for anything else save to love 8, 1978 in Berlin, Germany shall only be a symbol of the fire of United States has made many done to her beloved Guru. The entire sand and mud. The game plan was Him, to be with Him and to merge in Bramhacarini Uma (24) and selfless service of Ananda Marga. It attempts from demonstrations, national news media had branded obvious. First make him sick by Him”. Both the letter and the audio Brahmacari Lokesh (28) together will consume the power of public fasts, so far nothing has Ananda Marga as a terrorist providing food unfit for human tape were produced before the immolated themselves. The same immorality and the darkness of the prompted the American Government organisation, suddenly news of consumption, which they knew he Commission as evidence on record. day before taking this extreme step evil forces of exploitation, And there was Acarya to take any concrete action. And that Asitiima's death in the front pages would refuse then make him sick Atulananda. He was also lodged in is why I have made a decision to changed all that. Ananda Marga was and weak. And the opportunity came Bankipore Jail, whose cell was near immolate myself tonight somewhere portrayed as a humanitarian when the jail physician Dr. HM his Guru's, he had witnessed the in the Dallas area. My self- organisation. Ghose went on short leave of 10 many tortures, of him fasting and immolation is a decision that I made Uma, Lokesh, Gagan and days. Dr. Rahamatullah from becoming too sick to talk, still he entirely on my own. I have this Asitiima, four elevated humans Muzzaffarpur was urgently posted was continuously harassed in sacred opportunity to give my life to hadn't even seen their Guru in in his place on telephonic orders. unspeakable ways — his spiritual my beloved Guru. He has given me person. And finally Brahmacarini When Dr. Ghose returned from practices was disturbed as also while Life and I am privileged to die for Shanti (24, Australian) immolated leave and was not allowed to take answering calls of nature and him”. herself on October 2, 1977 in Place back charge he represented, but was p e r f o r m i n g a b l u t i o n s . O n Afterwards he drove four miles des Nations Geneva, Switzerland forcibly evicted from his quarters November 26, 1974 a search party to a lonesome field late that cold and due to the continuing torture of and Rahmatullah was permanently led by the Jail Superintendent cloudy night with a snow storm members of Ananda Marga. installed. The die was cast. entered Shrii Sarkar's cell, treated brewing on the horizon. Treading The Die was Cast The Poisoning him with much disdain and softly over the field with a can of It is on record of the Around 3 pm on February 12, humiliated him by bodily lifting him gasoline and matches he went ahead. Commission how the treatment 1973, Shrii Sarkar complained of time and again and scattered all his Moments later a woman in a distant meted out to Shrii Prabhat Ranjan severe headache. Dr. Rahamatullah belongings on the floor. At the same farm house saw the flames. Next Sarkar from the very day of his arrest was informed by Suresh Singh who time they disrobed Atulananda. In morning she called the Police, they and his stay in Buxur Jail to PMCH was also lodged in the same cell as the process Baba's pearl ring which came and found Dada Gagan's then to Bankipore Central Jail, a an under trial. was kept in his purse was stolen. charred body covered in a thick planned way of torture was The doctor came and gave As if all this wasn't enough in blanket of snow, and the car not far perpetrated on him. some medicine without examining December 1974, the curtain from away. On November 12, 1972 the him. At about 9 pm he again Shrii Sarkar's cell door was removed And the same year on June 14 Inspector General of Prisons, Bihar complained of severe pain and this was at the height of winter. All Brahmacarini Asitiima immolated went and met Shrii Sarkar in his cell. suspecting something was amiss he this was too much for Atulananda to herself, at Manila, Philippines far A heated discussion followed and told Suresh Singh to inform the jail bear and on December 12, he gave a from Switzerland where she grew the former threatened the latter with doctor to get the Civil Surgeon to written ultimatum that if the ring up. At 8 in the evening she went to the words, “I will show you the examine him. The doctor was was not restored by noon the next Luneta the main and busiest park in consequences”. This incident is also informed accordingly and came to day he would immolate himself. town. She handed over leaflets to on record, and three days later he the cell at 11 in the night and said This plea heartlessly went unheeded hundreds of people exposing the petitioned the Special magistrate for that he has consulted the Civil and shortly before midday next, he injustice done to her loved ones. protection in jail as he had reasons to Surgeon who could not come and poured kerosene and set himself on When the leaflets were gone, she believe that some officials were that he had brought the medicines fire. The jail officials tried to douse calmly sat down to meditate in that plotting against him. prescribed by the former. These

22 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 23 PROUT | October 2013 highest bar of Almighty Lord. Men the flames and rushed him to to draw world attention, they suppression, injustice and most public and now sacred place, And on January 14, 1973, Shrii may go and men may come but the hospital, but he succumbed six hours together wrote, “Every previous u n r i g h t e o u s n e s s . O u r s e l f and doused her body in gasoline and Sarkar's four co-accused who were ideas, ideals, dreams, hopes and later. social theory or economic concept immolation is done after personal set fire. lodged in the same jail, and would aspirations remain forever”. As he was under close watch all has failed to create ONE humanistic and independent decision. It is out of A n u n b e l i e v a b l e t h i n g attend on him in his weak condition Two weeks later on April 24, the time this self immolation within society. The strength of human love love for all human beings, for the happened. Her whole body had were suddenly transferred out to within the walls of the historic t h e j a i l p r e m i s e s w a s a n alone can change this world, The poor, the exploited, the suffering”. burned but not her face. Her body other jails leaving Shrii Sarkar Purana Qila (Old Fort) at Delhi, u n b e l i e v a b l e a c t i n t h e spiritual philosophy of socio- Eight days later on February 16 was kept in the Yoga House, Manila alone. The field was cleared for the beneath whose soil lies ruins of circumstances. After this incident, economic (progressive utilisation) in Dallas, Texas, USA, Brahmacari where hundreds came to pay her last heinous act about to follow. ancient Indraprastha, Acarya security in the jail was tightened, theory of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Gagan after a day of silence, fasting respects. Her last words were, Meanwhile all of January his Dineshwarananda immolated Shrii Sarkar was not allowed Sarkar offers the solution to all and intense meditation sat at his “When immorality is dominating all lawyers tried very hard to get bail himself. The day before he said visitors, even lawyers and in his questions of life for all the people. typewriter in the Ananda Marga corners of the planet, when but were unsuccessful. (recorded on tape), “Tell all my weakened condition his followers Shrii Sarkar has been imprisoned on house in Dallas, calmly typed out righteous human beings become In this context para IV 8 of the brothers and sisters that I have laid were forbidden to attend to his need false charges since last 6 years and four letters of protest against his victims of arbitrary misuse, maybe Commission's Report makes down my life to history and show instead convicts were assigned by after poisoning attempt is fasting in Gurus prolonged imprisonment and the sacrifice of an innocent human horrifying reading. “Some whitish that Anandamurtiji also had a the jail authorities. protest since 5 years. Ananda Marga torture to radio and TV stations and, life will burn the seeds and roots of liquid in the name of milk mixed proper band of disciples who are Self Immolations Overseas is persecuted and defamed all over one to President, Jimmy Carter, corruption, exploitation and with blotting papers etc. was “Shrii Shrii Anandamurti has been injustice the cause of the suffering supplied to him and also a whitish ready to die at His wishes at any Besides these there were other the world, its workers are in jail for years now. He has been and degradation of mankind”. She substance in the name of curd also moment, who had not joined Ananda devoted souls overseas who sacrificing their lives in selfless poisoned and tortured by the Indian had given the greatest gift — it was mixed with many dirty things Marga or His mission just for power immolated themselves. On February service. The flame of our bodies Government. Ananda Marga in the an intense longing to see justice including skins of lintels, grains of or for anything else save to love 8, 1978 in Berlin, Germany shall only be a symbol of the fire of United States has made many done to her beloved Guru. The entire sand and mud. The game plan was Him, to be with Him and to merge in Bramhacarini Uma (24) and selfless service of Ananda Marga. It attempts from demonstrations, national news media had branded obvious. First make him sick by Him”. Both the letter and the audio Brahmacari Lokesh (28) together will consume the power of public fasts, so far nothing has Ananda Marga as a terrorist providing food unfit for human tape were produced before the immolated themselves. The same immorality and the darkness of the prompted the American Government organisation, suddenly news of consumption, which they knew he Commission as evidence on record. day before taking this extreme step evil forces of exploitation, And there was Acarya to take any concrete action. And that Asitiima's death in the front pages would refuse then make him sick Atulananda. He was also lodged in is why I have made a decision to changed all that. Ananda Marga was and weak. And the opportunity came Bankipore Jail, whose cell was near immolate myself tonight somewhere portrayed as a humanitarian when the jail physician Dr. HM his Guru's, he had witnessed the in the Dallas area. My self- organisation. Ghose went on short leave of 10 many tortures, of him fasting and immolation is a decision that I made Uma, Lokesh, Gagan and days. Dr. Rahamatullah from becoming too sick to talk, still he entirely on my own. I have this Asitiima, four elevated humans Muzzaffarpur was urgently posted was continuously harassed in sacred opportunity to give my life to hadn't even seen their Guru in in his place on telephonic orders. unspeakable ways — his spiritual my beloved Guru. He has given me person. And finally Brahmacarini When Dr. Ghose returned from practices was disturbed as also while Life and I am privileged to die for Shanti (24, Australian) immolated leave and was not allowed to take answering calls of nature and him”. herself on October 2, 1977 in Place back charge he represented, but was p e r f o r m i n g a b l u t i o n s . O n Afterwards he drove four miles des Nations Geneva, Switzerland forcibly evicted from his quarters November 26, 1974 a search party to a lonesome field late that cold and due to the continuing torture of and Rahmatullah was permanently led by the Jail Superintendent cloudy night with a snow storm members of Ananda Marga. installed. The die was cast. entered Shrii Sarkar's cell, treated brewing on the horizon. Treading The Die was Cast The Poisoning him with much disdain and softly over the field with a can of It is on record of the Around 3 pm on February 12, humiliated him by bodily lifting him gasoline and matches he went ahead. Commission how the treatment 1973, Shrii Sarkar complained of time and again and scattered all his Moments later a woman in a distant meted out to Shrii Prabhat Ranjan severe headache. Dr. Rahamatullah belongings on the floor. At the same farm house saw the flames. Next Sarkar from the very day of his arrest was informed by Suresh Singh who time they disrobed Atulananda. In morning she called the Police, they and his stay in Buxur Jail to PMCH was also lodged in the same cell as the process Baba's pearl ring which came and found Dada Gagan's then to Bankipore Central Jail, a an under trial. was kept in his purse was stolen. charred body covered in a thick planned way of torture was The doctor came and gave As if all this wasn't enough in blanket of snow, and the car not far perpetrated on him. some medicine without examining December 1974, the curtain from away. On November 12, 1972 the him. At about 9 pm he again Shrii Sarkar's cell door was removed And the same year on June 14 Inspector General of Prisons, Bihar complained of severe pain and this was at the height of winter. All Brahmacarini Asitiima immolated went and met Shrii Sarkar in his cell. suspecting something was amiss he this was too much for Atulananda to herself, at Manila, Philippines far A heated discussion followed and told Suresh Singh to inform the jail bear and on December 12, he gave a from Switzerland where she grew the former threatened the latter with doctor to get the Civil Surgeon to written ultimatum that if the ring up. At 8 in the evening she went to the words, “I will show you the examine him. The doctor was was not restored by noon the next Luneta the main and busiest park in consequences”. This incident is also informed accordingly and came to day he would immolate himself. town. She handed over leaflets to on record, and three days later he the cell at 11 in the night and said This plea heartlessly went unheeded hundreds of people exposing the petitioned the Special magistrate for that he has consulted the Civil and shortly before midday next, he injustice done to her loved ones. protection in jail as he had reasons to Surgeon who could not come and poured kerosene and set himself on When the leaflets were gone, she believe that some officials were that he had brought the medicines fire. The jail officials tried to douse calmly sat down to meditate in that plotting against him. prescribed by the former. These

22 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 23 PROUT | October 2013 were unlabelled tablets and were even from a short distance. On administered to him, after that he felt February 19, a first class Magistrate uneasy and lay down in the bed to was deputed by the District sleep. Magistrate to record my statement. Suresh Singh testified before In statement I said that for medical the Commission that he too slept in treatment the faith of a patient plays the same cell that night. He said, a very important role and as I have “Usually Baba woke up at 4 am. On lost faith in these Government February 13, morning I got up at 4 doctors, a strong suspicion has been am expecting Baba to rise as usual created in my mind that they have but he did not do so till 6. He poisoned me as per direction of the appeared to be drugged in a state of CBI. I want to be treated by my sedation. At 7, I tried waking him by private doctor ... please appoint a touching his feet and calling out judicial commission to go through Baba, Baba. He woke and the above mentioned complaint. I complained of severe pain all over have got suspicion that certain black the body, his whole body burned, hands are working against me ... water was oozing from his eyes, he some of those are important persons felt very weak and the mind File photo of Shrii Sarkar being taken to Court in an ambulance circa 1975, ... I want to disclose their names remained in a state of inertness”. The before the Judicial Commission”. Jailor was informed to get the Civil This letter and others were shown to Surgeon who arrived at 9 and and prescribing medicines on phone. and administered unlabelled the Commission. Thereafter he Jubilations in Calcutta, on the release of Shrii Sarkar from the prison examined him. He flatly denied Therefore the Commission medicine on his own accord. This wrote another letter to the Governor having spoken to Dr. Rahamatullah concluded that Dr. Rahmatullah lied was reported to the Government but on March 12, 1973. This was his case was finally committed to fast in which he took only liquids. no action was taken against followed by another on the day he trial on that day. William T Wells, They even had to take his thumb Dr. Rahmatullah. began his fast to press for his former British MP and Queen's print as signature when required. Letters to Governor demands viz. April 1. Three more Counsel who had been acting as And on December 26 the same year Shrii Sarkar crossed his 1000th day Since February 13, he was such communications were Defense Counsel had visited India of fasting suffering from reaction of poisoning addressed on May 13, June 15 and and saw Shrii Sarkar in Court, by still from February 16 he was not September 21. then three years of fasting had Commission's Findings given a single drop of medicine. But But the Governor did not show passed. On his return to UK he After examination of medical soon after Shrii Sarkar regained courtesy of even acknowledging far informed International Affairs co- experts, the findings viz. para V-6 of some degree of health he less taking any action on the letters. chairman Chandra Shekhara that t h e R e p o r t c l e a r l y s t a t e s , complained about the poisoning On July 9, 1975, Shrii Sarkar Shrii Sarkar was physically too “Poisonous drug in overdose was attempt to the authorities and again was brought into the court room on a weak and was actually unable to sign administered on Shrii Prabhat no action was taken by the stretcher. After three and a half years his name because of his three years Ranjan Sarkar in jail on February 12, Government. Moreover this vital piece of evidence was withheld from the Commission. Meanwhile it took a month of severe physical stress for him to regain some of his health. On March 5, 1973 he wrote the first letter to Shri Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, the Governor of Bihar, on the incident. “... At about 11 O' Clock in the night of February 12, 1973 the jail doctor said the Civil Surgeon cannot come to see you but he has prescribed a medicine. He administered the so called medicine which was actually, poison. Just after taking the medicine I became senseless. I came back to senses at about 7 O' Clock in the morning on February 13. On the 14th morning I Jubilations in Pueblo, California, USA was unable to see anything clearly

24 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 25 PROUT | October 2013 were unlabelled tablets and were even from a short distance. On administered to him, after that he felt February 19, a first class Magistrate uneasy and lay down in the bed to was deputed by the District sleep. Magistrate to record my statement. Suresh Singh testified before In statement I said that for medical the Commission that he too slept in treatment the faith of a patient plays the same cell that night. He said, a very important role and as I have “Usually Baba woke up at 4 am. On lost faith in these Government February 13, morning I got up at 4 doctors, a strong suspicion has been am expecting Baba to rise as usual created in my mind that they have but he did not do so till 6. He poisoned me as per direction of the appeared to be drugged in a state of CBI. I want to be treated by my sedation. At 7, I tried waking him by private doctor ... please appoint a touching his feet and calling out judicial commission to go through Baba, Baba. He woke and the above mentioned complaint. I complained of severe pain all over have got suspicion that certain black the body, his whole body burned, hands are working against me ... water was oozing from his eyes, he some of those are important persons felt very weak and the mind File photo of Shrii Sarkar being taken to Court in an ambulance circa 1975, ... I want to disclose their names remained in a state of inertness”. The before the Judicial Commission”. Jailor was informed to get the Civil This letter and others were shown to Surgeon who arrived at 9 and and prescribing medicines on phone. and administered unlabelled the Commission. Thereafter he Jubilations in Calcutta, on the release of Shrii Sarkar from the prison examined him. He flatly denied Therefore the Commission medicine on his own accord. This wrote another letter to the Governor having spoken to Dr. Rahamatullah concluded that Dr. Rahmatullah lied was reported to the Government but on March 12, 1973. This was his case was finally committed to fast in which he took only liquids. no action was taken against followed by another on the day he trial on that day. William T Wells, They even had to take his thumb Dr. Rahmatullah. began his fast to press for his former British MP and Queen's print as signature when required. Letters to Governor demands viz. April 1. Three more Counsel who had been acting as And on December 26 the same year Shrii Sarkar crossed his 1000th day Since February 13, he was such communications were Defense Counsel had visited India of fasting suffering from reaction of poisoning addressed on May 13, June 15 and and saw Shrii Sarkar in Court, by still from February 16 he was not September 21. then three years of fasting had Commission's Findings given a single drop of medicine. But But the Governor did not show passed. On his return to UK he After examination of medical soon after Shrii Sarkar regained courtesy of even acknowledging far informed International Affairs co- experts, the findings viz. para V-6 of some degree of health he less taking any action on the letters. chairman Chandra Shekhara that t h e R e p o r t c l e a r l y s t a t e s , complained about the poisoning On July 9, 1975, Shrii Sarkar Shrii Sarkar was physically too “Poisonous drug in overdose was attempt to the authorities and again was brought into the court room on a weak and was actually unable to sign administered on Shrii Prabhat no action was taken by the stretcher. After three and a half years his name because of his three years Ranjan Sarkar in jail on February 12, Government. Moreover this vital piece of evidence was withheld from the Commission. Meanwhile it took a month of severe physical stress for him to regain some of his health. On March 5, 1973 he wrote the first letter to Shri Ramchandra Dhondiba Bhandare, the Governor of Bihar, on the incident. “... At about 11 O' Clock in the night of February 12, 1973 the jail doctor said the Civil Surgeon cannot come to see you but he has prescribed a medicine. He administered the so called medicine which was actually, poison. Just after taking the medicine I became senseless. I came back to senses at about 7 O' Clock in the morning on February 13. On the 14th morning I Jubilations in Pueblo, California, USA was unable to see anything clearly

24 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 25 PROUT | October 2013 FACE TO FACE as I have taken a solemn On hearing the verdict Shrii Sarkar oath, I do not wish to smiled and remarked that soon the break it. One day I will tables would turn. And true to those certainly come out and words, on July 4, 1978 a two judge break my fast taking food bench of the Patna High Court from your hands. acquitted him honourably of all On February 17, charges. This judgment was the 1975 Sri Ganguli the Jail triumph of truth and justice and S u p e r i n t e n d e n t exposed the conspiracies of the Timeless Great Mind reportedly mentioned, Indira Gandhi Government to crush “He has been without Ananda Marga and its spiritual ð Prabhakar food for months together, head because he wanted to bring yet how strange he has about social, economic and political I thought it most eyes which I had seen in no other, kept himself up. You don't changes for the betterment of Great visionaries tend to be not even among my family unusual this most know how often I face humanity. Three months before his viewed as “larger than life” members, friends, teachers, etc. I Government officials and release on January 3, he told one of characters. Their profound ideas e n e r g e t i c a n d Hiraprabha thought of him as an actually others all of them ask the his visitors a nun from Australia, affect others deeply. Many, who are obviously very fit person spiritual person. He had in fact same question, 'Is he “When I went to jail Ananda Marga fortunate enough to come in their moved me to do something had recently emerged 1973. Political motivation induced really on fast? Mr. Ganguli, he was in 5 countries. Now it's in 87 contact, regain long lost hope and worthwhile in life, after which I had the Government to do such a surely takes food at night without countries”. pick up essential life work. Others from years of hard travelled to India to see Shrii Sarkar. nefarious act in applying the your knowledge?' ... Or 'how is it A f t e r t h e v e rd i c t w a s may become their hateful enemies suffering, poor health And there I was along with two or medicine which undoubtedly acted possible for a human being to pronounced, his only comment was, due to the fresh challenges presented three office workers, standing by the and long fasting under as poison. If by an administration of survive without taking food for so “I am not a political man and I have by them. Theirs become a meeting of door of his tiny office chamber at poisonous drug in overdose and due long'? I protest by saying, 'How dare my hearty goodwill for the entire the new and the old, progress and dismal conditions in one end of the upstairs hall of the to its chemical reaction serious you say so? I can guarantee one human society”. He was not regress. Controversial to some and jail. unassuming head office of his global deterioration of health is caused, that hundred percent, except a small released from prison the same day loved by many, men and women of organization in Jodhpur Park, application of medicine comes quantity of Horlicks he takes though, as there was yet another true greatness make a difference to Kolkata, waiting for him to come up within the definition of poison; as nothing'. After a pause he added, false case pending at Ranchi. such an extent that history wastes no mischievous smile and that the stairs. such administration of barbiturates, “Everything is happening before my Finally at 10 minutes past 3 in the time in turning them into fairy tale particular gleam in the eye of my When he finally came towards which is a poisonous drug, eyes ... everything unbelievable ... afternoon of August 2, 1978, 6 years like, mythical figures. friend only topping it a thousand me across the floor it wasn't as if he administered in overdose without my men keep watch on him day and 7 months and 4 days after he was This type of transformation times over! walked normally by any human prescription and examination of night, so where is the question of imprisoned, the car with Shrii took place immediately when I first For the rest of the day I was standard. He seemed to bounce with Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar taking food surreptitiously”. When Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar in it, drove met Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. greatly overwhelmed with the every step. I thought it most unusual amounts to poisoning him by the asked why doesn't he issue a press out of the jail. Thousands and But first a little background. In my powerful impact of having met Shrii this most energetic and obviously Administration”. statement when there is so much thousands of his followers from all home place far, far away on another Sarkar in person. The idea kept very fit person had recently emerged And the Commission also doubt about the fast, he replied that over India and overseas lined the continent, I had a friend whom I buzzing in my head that here was from years of hard suffering, poor observed in its report, “He is a very that was beyond his jurisdiction, route outside the gates of the regarded as an awakened person. He someone who indeed was at both health and long fasting under dismal important and famous man who only the Inspector General of Bankipore Central Jail chanting was an activist and a most ends of the joke, setting it up and conditions in jail. It was then I was could be recognised and respected Prisons or other higher officials slogans of victory in their Guru's inspirational figure who always delivering it, as it was. I was in no really taken by surprise. He greeted by the world for his new ideology could do. name, “Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ki used to greet me with a broad playful two minds about who was in charge me with exactly the same and philosophy. But he was treated Meanwhile the trial went on in jai”. There were scenes of jubilation smile and a particular gleam in the “in this office” and who it was who in such a savage condition the Sessions Court No. 2 Patna, all over the world. kept inspiring even my friend at something intolerable for a man of based mainly on the evidence of one And at 4.30 that day, 5 years 4 home. his stature”. of his ex associates turned approver. months and 2 days later, he broke his I am a trained psychological There was no other evidence either fast by taking a glass of coconut c o u n s e l l o r a n d k n o w t h a t Epilogue documentary or circumstantial. Mr. water from the hands of his elder “recognition by projection” can be In Bankipore Central Jail, Wells Queen's Counsel and part of sister. That was for the first time explained in simple terms. But such Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar began the Defence team said one day in after he was sent to jail that he took an idea was nonsense to me. Instead, his fast from April 1, 1973, taking no open court that the judge Shri Radha anything outside. the idea that “Shrii Sarkar's world is food at all. But at the behest of his Ballabh Singh made a telling It is however, a different matter also my inner and outer world” was elder sister Shrimati Hira Prabha, comment. He said that every night that, generally newspapers and instantly established as a basic truth he began drinking a cup of liquid he awoke at three in the morning and magazines and radio bulletins of and tradition of my life. I now knew Horlicks twice a day. During the could not sleep again for worry over those days gave extensive coverage this to be true, just as I knew the second week of April she requested where the truth lies in this case? Still to fasts of few days by political number of fingers on my hands, my him to take solid food but he On November 26, 1976 he leaders, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan mother and father, the way to my declined with a smile and said, I pronounced Shrii Sarkar guilty and Sarkar fast was not even mentioned childhood school, etc. With the never went against your desires but sentenced him to life imprisonment. once. smoothest of humour and charm, Shrii Sarkar had outshone my

26 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 27 PROUT | October 2013 FACE TO FACE as I have taken a solemn On hearing the verdict Shrii Sarkar oath, I do not wish to smiled and remarked that soon the break it. One day I will tables would turn. And true to those certainly come out and words, on July 4, 1978 a two judge break my fast taking food bench of the Patna High Court from your hands. acquitted him honourably of all On February 17, charges. This judgment was the 1975 Sri Ganguli the Jail triumph of truth and justice and S u p e r i n t e n d e n t exposed the conspiracies of the Timeless Great Mind reportedly mentioned, Indira Gandhi Government to crush “He has been without Ananda Marga and its spiritual ð Prabhakar food for months together, head because he wanted to bring yet how strange he has about social, economic and political I thought it most eyes which I had seen in no other, kept himself up. You don't changes for the betterment of Great visionaries tend to be not even among my family unusual this most know how often I face humanity. Three months before his viewed as “larger than life” members, friends, teachers, etc. I Government officials and release on January 3, he told one of characters. Their profound ideas e n e r g e t i c a n d Hiraprabha thought of him as an actually others all of them ask the his visitors a nun from Australia, affect others deeply. Many, who are obviously very fit person spiritual person. He had in fact same question, 'Is he “When I went to jail Ananda Marga fortunate enough to come in their moved me to do something had recently emerged 1973. Political motivation induced really on fast? Mr. Ganguli, he was in 5 countries. Now it's in 87 contact, regain long lost hope and worthwhile in life, after which I had the Government to do such a surely takes food at night without countries”. pick up essential life work. Others from years of hard travelled to India to see Shrii Sarkar. nefarious act in applying the your knowledge?' ... Or 'how is it A f t e r t h e v e rd i c t w a s may become their hateful enemies suffering, poor health And there I was along with two or medicine which undoubtedly acted possible for a human being to pronounced, his only comment was, due to the fresh challenges presented three office workers, standing by the and long fasting under as poison. If by an administration of survive without taking food for so “I am not a political man and I have by them. Theirs become a meeting of door of his tiny office chamber at poisonous drug in overdose and due long'? I protest by saying, 'How dare my hearty goodwill for the entire the new and the old, progress and dismal conditions in one end of the upstairs hall of the to its chemical reaction serious you say so? I can guarantee one human society”. He was not regress. Controversial to some and jail. unassuming head office of his global deterioration of health is caused, that hundred percent, except a small released from prison the same day loved by many, men and women of organization in Jodhpur Park, application of medicine comes quantity of Horlicks he takes though, as there was yet another true greatness make a difference to Kolkata, waiting for him to come up within the definition of poison; as nothing'. After a pause he added, false case pending at Ranchi. such an extent that history wastes no mischievous smile and that the stairs. such administration of barbiturates, “Everything is happening before my Finally at 10 minutes past 3 in the time in turning them into fairy tale particular gleam in the eye of my When he finally came towards which is a poisonous drug, eyes ... everything unbelievable ... afternoon of August 2, 1978, 6 years like, mythical figures. friend only topping it a thousand me across the floor it wasn't as if he administered in overdose without my men keep watch on him day and 7 months and 4 days after he was This type of transformation times over! walked normally by any human prescription and examination of night, so where is the question of imprisoned, the car with Shrii took place immediately when I first For the rest of the day I was standard. He seemed to bounce with Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar taking food surreptitiously”. When Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar in it, drove met Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar. greatly overwhelmed with the every step. I thought it most unusual amounts to poisoning him by the asked why doesn't he issue a press out of the jail. Thousands and But first a little background. In my powerful impact of having met Shrii this most energetic and obviously Administration”. statement when there is so much thousands of his followers from all home place far, far away on another Sarkar in person. The idea kept very fit person had recently emerged And the Commission also doubt about the fast, he replied that over India and overseas lined the continent, I had a friend whom I buzzing in my head that here was from years of hard suffering, poor observed in its report, “He is a very that was beyond his jurisdiction, route outside the gates of the regarded as an awakened person. He someone who indeed was at both health and long fasting under dismal important and famous man who only the Inspector General of Bankipore Central Jail chanting was an activist and a most ends of the joke, setting it up and conditions in jail. It was then I was could be recognised and respected Prisons or other higher officials slogans of victory in their Guru's inspirational figure who always delivering it, as it was. I was in no really taken by surprise. He greeted by the world for his new ideology could do. name, “Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ki used to greet me with a broad playful two minds about who was in charge me with exactly the same and philosophy. But he was treated Meanwhile the trial went on in jai”. There were scenes of jubilation smile and a particular gleam in the “in this office” and who it was who in such a savage condition the Sessions Court No. 2 Patna, all over the world. kept inspiring even my friend at something intolerable for a man of based mainly on the evidence of one And at 4.30 that day, 5 years 4 home. his stature”. of his ex associates turned approver. months and 2 days later, he broke his I am a trained psychological There was no other evidence either fast by taking a glass of coconut c o u n s e l l o r a n d k n o w t h a t Epilogue documentary or circumstantial. Mr. water from the hands of his elder “recognition by projection” can be In Bankipore Central Jail, Wells Queen's Counsel and part of sister. That was for the first time explained in simple terms. But such Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar began the Defence team said one day in after he was sent to jail that he took an idea was nonsense to me. Instead, his fast from April 1, 1973, taking no open court that the judge Shri Radha anything outside. the idea that “Shrii Sarkar's world is food at all. But at the behest of his Ballabh Singh made a telling It is however, a different matter also my inner and outer world” was elder sister Shrimati Hira Prabha, comment. He said that every night that, generally newspapers and instantly established as a basic truth he began drinking a cup of liquid he awoke at three in the morning and magazines and radio bulletins of and tradition of my life. I now knew Horlicks twice a day. During the could not sleep again for worry over those days gave extensive coverage this to be true, just as I knew the second week of April she requested where the truth lies in this case? Still to fasts of few days by political number of fingers on my hands, my him to take solid food but he On November 26, 1976 he leaders, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan mother and father, the way to my declined with a smile and said, I pronounced Shrii Sarkar guilty and Sarkar fast was not even mentioned childhood school, etc. With the never went against your desires but sentenced him to life imprisonment. once. smoothest of humour and charm, Shrii Sarkar had outshone my

26 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 27 PROUT | October 2013 IN PERSPECTIVE previous notion of greatness and inspiration as well as of their source, much like the sun outshines a firefly. Not only that, the very experience of meeting him had been most emphatic, thunderous, light as a feather, undeniable, bound by no limitation, other worldly like no other before … Explain that! The Practice Electricity in the brain? Then produce it to me! Not only was I stunned. After having gone through a number of of Yoga aftershocks that followed upon seeing Shrii Sarkar, I concluded that ð I must have had what the American Ravi Logan humanist psychologist Abraham Yoga means to yoke that which thousands of years. As a discipline, M a s l o w t e r m e d a s “ p e a k Some Yoga practices is separate with the whole, to unite as a practice, Yoga came from two experience”, one of those rare develop the mind; these that which is individual with all. The sources. One was from the moments of spiritual significance practices of Yoga are many, with development of the Vedas in the that people secretly treasure as are practices of Jinana many schools, many branches. It is a Aryan culture that came across from precious high points of their life. Yoga, the path of vast and broad subject, dealing with Eastern Europe and settled into the Only, in the days and months the most subtle and sublime of Indus Valley. The other was from the that followed in that Kolkata office an amazingly powerful mind may and devotees from all over the knowledge. Some develop human endeavors. And the roots of indigenous Harappan culture of the floor they kept coming, and in great easily influence other minds, just as world. the wisdom of the heart; these practices have an ancient and Indus Valley. and most surprising variety. My time a large container may hold smaller My personal plug is that the these are practices of obscure history. So rare is the One historical figure, Lord of volunteering in Shrii Sarkar's ones. Therefore, there is no need to truly great, by force of the personality who can speak with Shiva, was of primary importance in office took the form of a very long go into arguments over whether irrefutable, irresistible magnitude of Bhakti Yoga. And some authority and depth on the practices development of Yoga. Shiva was an freight train of baffling peak Shrii Sarkar actually knew about my their being, essentially help develop one's sense of of Yoga. The perspectives in this historical figure who lived about experiences. Every weekday he admiration for my local friend or humanity to move forward. The universalism and destroy article draw extensively on the vast seven thousand years ago. Shiva turned up for “office work”, and not, via some form of telepathy or published works and statements by wisdom of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, married three wives. One wife, with that arrived, the extraordinary otherwise, whether Shrii Sarkar was numerous disciples prove that Shrii one's sense of self- whose teachings on Yoga and Tantra Parvati (who came from the Aryan just as would the daily mail delivery omniscient, etc. It is enough to Sarkar during his lifetime motivated centeredness; these are have imbued new vitality to these culture), sat before Shiva and asked at home. determine that his being was indeed scores of people throughout the practices of Karma Yoga. ancient spiritual practices. for teachings. Shiva gave Parvati As far as psychological very vast, a fact that has been richly world to take to the path of rectitude Yoga practices go back teachings on many aspects of Yoga, analysis is concerned, it is a fact that documented by numerous disciples and spiritual progress. and these teachings were passed on After having met him on within an oral tradition for several occasions decades ago, and thousands of years. This began the having studied his magnificent yogic disciplines to yoke the small vision, down to earth approach, as mind to the great cosmic mind, to well as the unfathomable theoretical unite the consciousness separated scope of his works, my enduring from the whole with the Infinite feeling is that many, many more Being. Due to the inquiry of people will be aided by his legacy in Parvati,Shiva revealed the practices the future. that were handed down through the It is our good fortune that we centuries. In time, some teachings experienced him directly. It is our changed, but the essence remained misfortune that we are so far behind due to the powerful imprint of the in applying most of his ideas. I am consciousness of Shiva. confident in stating that decades and Ashtanga Yoga centuries from now, upright people Some Yoga practices develop everywhere will continue to the mind; these are practices of experience feelings of recognition Jinana Yoga, the path of knowledge. similar to mine whenever they Some develop the wisdom of the practice Shrii Sarkar´s teachings. heart; these are practices of Bhakti And they will, like we all do, deem Yoga. And some develop one's sense themselves blessed for having that of universalism and destroy one's opportunity.

28 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 29 PROUT | October 2013 IN PERSPECTIVE previous notion of greatness and inspiration as well as of their source, much like the sun outshines a firefly. Not only that, the very experience of meeting him had been most emphatic, thunderous, light as a feather, undeniable, bound by no limitation, other worldly like no other before … Explain that! The Practice Electricity in the brain? Then produce it to me! Not only was I stunned. After having gone through a number of of Yoga aftershocks that followed upon seeing Shrii Sarkar, I concluded that ð I must have had what the American Ravi Logan humanist psychologist Abraham Yoga means to yoke that which thousands of years. As a discipline, M a s l o w t e r m e d a s “ p e a k Some Yoga practices is separate with the whole, to unite as a practice, Yoga came from two experience”, one of those rare develop the mind; these that which is individual with all. The sources. One was from the moments of spiritual significance practices of Yoga are many, with development of the Vedas in the that people secretly treasure as are practices of Jinana many schools, many branches. It is a Aryan culture that came across from precious high points of their life. Yoga, the path of vast and broad subject, dealing with Eastern Europe and settled into the Only, in the days and months the most subtle and sublime of Indus Valley. The other was from the that followed in that Kolkata office an amazingly powerful mind may and devotees from all over the knowledge. Some develop human endeavors. And the roots of indigenous Harappan culture of the floor they kept coming, and in great easily influence other minds, just as world. the wisdom of the heart; these practices have an ancient and Indus Valley. and most surprising variety. My time a large container may hold smaller My personal plug is that the these are practices of obscure history. So rare is the One historical figure, Lord of volunteering in Shrii Sarkar's ones. Therefore, there is no need to truly great, by force of the personality who can speak with Shiva, was of primary importance in office took the form of a very long go into arguments over whether irrefutable, irresistible magnitude of Bhakti Yoga. And some authority and depth on the practices development of Yoga. Shiva was an freight train of baffling peak Shrii Sarkar actually knew about my their being, essentially help develop one's sense of of Yoga. The perspectives in this historical figure who lived about experiences. Every weekday he admiration for my local friend or humanity to move forward. The universalism and destroy article draw extensively on the vast seven thousand years ago. Shiva turned up for “office work”, and not, via some form of telepathy or published works and statements by wisdom of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, married three wives. One wife, with that arrived, the extraordinary otherwise, whether Shrii Sarkar was numerous disciples prove that Shrii one's sense of self- whose teachings on Yoga and Tantra Parvati (who came from the Aryan just as would the daily mail delivery omniscient, etc. It is enough to Sarkar during his lifetime motivated centeredness; these are have imbued new vitality to these culture), sat before Shiva and asked at home. determine that his being was indeed scores of people throughout the practices of Karma Yoga. ancient spiritual practices. for teachings. Shiva gave Parvati As far as psychological very vast, a fact that has been richly world to take to the path of rectitude Yoga practices go back teachings on many aspects of Yoga, analysis is concerned, it is a fact that documented by numerous disciples and spiritual progress. and these teachings were passed on After having met him on within an oral tradition for several occasions decades ago, and thousands of years. This began the having studied his magnificent yogic disciplines to yoke the small vision, down to earth approach, as mind to the great cosmic mind, to well as the unfathomable theoretical unite the consciousness separated scope of his works, my enduring from the whole with the Infinite feeling is that many, many more Being. Due to the inquiry of people will be aided by his legacy in Parvati,Shiva revealed the practices the future. that were handed down through the It is our good fortune that we centuries. In time, some teachings experienced him directly. It is our changed, but the essence remained misfortune that we are so far behind due to the powerful imprint of the in applying most of his ideas. I am consciousness of Shiva. confident in stating that decades and Ashtanga Yoga centuries from now, upright people Some Yoga practices develop everywhere will continue to the mind; these are practices of experience feelings of recognition Jinana Yoga, the path of knowledge. similar to mine whenever they Some develop the wisdom of the practice Shrii Sarkar´s teachings. heart; these are practices of Bhakti And they will, like we all do, deem Yoga. And some develop one's sense themselves blessed for having that of universalism and destroy one's opportunity.

28 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 29 PROUT | October 2013 secret for a reason. Tantra explores and parcel of this. But the sexual But it is not to be used in an unsavory the subtle energies in the psyche and Tantra came about in the Middle fashion or merely for pleasure. the physical body. Tantra developed Ages in India when the caste system In the Middle Ages, this sexual knowledge of kundalinii and the was very strong. Due to oppression Tantra that was misunderstood as the chakras. Tantra developed by the ruling priestly class, tantrics surface meaning of the words began understanding of the flow of psychic w h o i n i t i a t e d w o m e n a n d to spread. The true teachings of energies and subtle energies, of the untouchables were in grave danger, Tantra continued hidden beneath systems of nadiis (subtle energy as were their disciples. This this veil so that the priest class and channels) that are developed behavior was a heresy in the rigid those in the rigid society could not through Tantric practices. The society of that time. Therefore, they see that deep teachings were being tantrics learned to manipulate these developed a secret code they called conveyed even to the untouchable energies, to raise the kulakundalinii the "Five M's". In this code, they hid caste and the women. and unblock the channels that the teachings of Tantra beneath what There was also the path of the prevent this universal energy from appeared to be purely degenerative, avidyatantrics, who used their rising to sahasrara chakra, where with drinking of wine and having knowledge of subtle sound and the union of Shakti (divine energy sexual intercourse. This is what the subtle energies to gain power, f o r c e ) w i t h S h i v a ( p u r e words meant on the surface to control and wealth. They developed consciousness) can take place. deflect the interest of the priest class. their own way. The tantrics who Tantra was kept subdued because to But, underneath, the words had developed practices for spiritual life raise these forces without proper secret meanings to initiates. are the vidyatantrics; they were guidance was somewhat dangerous. Not everyone who heard these seeking truth rather than power and For this reason, one was expected to teachings was an initiate, and many wealth. Of the vidyatantrics, there both yogi and bhogi an enjoyer of take initiation and learn from a people did not know the esoteric are several paths, and within each of life, because all is Brahma, all is part qualified teacher so that there could meanings. To drink wine is to drink these are many divisions. and parcel of the one eternal being. be no difficulty as one opens the the nectar of amrita [immortality]; Thus, Yoga has a long history There is no rejection of this world, energies within the subtle body. to have sexual union is to have union in which there are different types of but incorporation in knowledge of Tantrics studied the process of with the Divine. To the uninitiated, practice, but all intended to move the the eternal Self. This is the approach sense of self-centeredness; these are which means "pose comfortably creation, the emanation of the the misunderstandings came that mind towards union. As Tantra of Tantra. Tantra uses the three practices of Karma Yoga. Out of held". In Western society today, omkara (Om sound) and the division Tantra was talking about sexuality moved forward there became primary paths of Yoga, along with these three primary paths of Yoga asana is called "Yoga", but this is a of the omkara into the biija sounds and drinking wine and so on. There different understandings. There mantra (the science of sound), have developed so many secondary misunderstanding. In the beginning, (seed sounds) in the chakras that then came to be one school of Tantra were tantrics who wanted only the certain pujas and rituals, all to Yogas or schools that apply this or these postures were simple sitting emanate the sounds of creation. The that pursued this path because of the purest teachings, only truth and realize the eternal nature of the Self. tantrics studied the science of sound secrecy of the teachings for those not rejected the world. There were that practice. postures for meditation and no more. Hatha Yoga and developed mantras with the initiated. From this evolved sexual tantrics who wanted the world only P r o m i n e n t a m o n g t h e Over time, more asanas developed.) Out of the teachings of Tantra, ability to empower sound and Tantra as a practice of its own. and formed the paths of self- secondary Yogas is Ashtanga Yoga, Tantra and the internal research of the perform vibratory changes in the Sexuality is not to be denied, and, in pleasure. There were tantrics of the popularized, coalesced, and Tantra greatly predates subtle body that the great tantrics subtle body, and even in the physical the teachings of Tantra, sexuality is a middle path who wanted to know the recorded by Patanjaliin hisYoga Patanjali's Sutras, which were developed, grew in the Middle Ages world. The tantrics realized that part and parcel of the spiritual path Supreme but not to reject the world. Sutras. In Ashtanga Yoga, the recorded some time in the second to the system of Hatha Yoga. In the s u c h c a p a c i t i e s c o u l d b e and expression of subtle energies. In this approach, the tantric can be practice of yama(restraints) and fourth centuries. Shiva gave Parvati present era, so many teachers have benevolently used to open one's niyama (observances) develops the systemization of the practices of come to the West teaching strictly awareness to the Divine or one's sense of Karma Yoga, one's Tantra, and they were already asanas and saying they are hatha destructively used to gain personal relationship to the world. Then ancient when Shiva formed them yogis. They name their systems of power, control, and do harm to asanas (postures) are to develop the into a system. asana after themselves or their others. When these subtle sciences body. And pratyahara (withdrawal), The practices of Tantra teachers or some school of Yoga were explored and developed, the dharana (concentration), dhyana systematized by Shiva became they like. Most of these schools have potential danger in them was (meditation) and Samadhi (union in secret, spoken only from guru to come from south and central India. realized, and so the masters of these oneness) are internal practices to disciple and handed down in a secret Teachers in the West think that sciences kept this knowledge quiet develop one's sense of relationship manner that required diiksha, or people will not be receptive to all the and taught it only to qualified to the divine, to enhance one's transmission from guru to disciple. teachings of Yoga, so they have disciples who were ready to receive it. connection to the Divine by These esoteric practices were popularized the asanas alone. “Ha- meditation practices, by sadhana. hidden, and the philosophies and Confusion about Tantra tha” means "sun-moon"; it is the Together with pranayama, these understandings of Tantra were There is some confusion today sun-moon channel in the subtle f o r m t h e e i g h t l i m b s o f quietly transmitted. It was not until about Tantra because there is a very energy system. AshtangaYoga. This system existed the Fourth Century that the first popular movement in the West of The first hatha yogis were long before Patanjali recorded it. recorded books on Tantra came sexual Tantra. When one is working tantrics who began to feel they didn't (The yogis of the time about. with subtle forces and energies, want to explore the subtle body so developed the practice of asanas, The teachings of Tantra were naturally the sexual energies are part much. They still wanted to realize

30 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 31 PROUT | October 2013 secret for a reason. Tantra explores and parcel of this. But the sexual But it is not to be used in an unsavory the subtle energies in the psyche and Tantra came about in the Middle fashion or merely for pleasure. the physical body. Tantra developed Ages in India when the caste system In the Middle Ages, this sexual knowledge of kundalinii and the was very strong. Due to oppression Tantra that was misunderstood as the chakras. Tantra developed by the ruling priestly class, tantrics surface meaning of the words began understanding of the flow of psychic w h o i n i t i a t e d w o m e n a n d to spread. The true teachings of energies and subtle energies, of the untouchables were in grave danger, Tantra continued hidden beneath systems of nadiis (subtle energy as were their disciples. This this veil so that the priest class and channels) that are developed behavior was a heresy in the rigid those in the rigid society could not through Tantric practices. The society of that time. Therefore, they see that deep teachings were being tantrics learned to manipulate these developed a secret code they called conveyed even to the untouchable energies, to raise the kulakundalinii the "Five M's". In this code, they hid caste and the women. and unblock the channels that the teachings of Tantra beneath what There was also the path of the prevent this universal energy from appeared to be purely degenerative, avidyatantrics, who used their rising to sahasrara chakra, where with drinking of wine and having knowledge of subtle sound and the union of Shakti (divine energy sexual intercourse. This is what the subtle energies to gain power, f o r c e ) w i t h S h i v a ( p u r e words meant on the surface to control and wealth. They developed consciousness) can take place. deflect the interest of the priest class. their own way. The tantrics who Tantra was kept subdued because to But, underneath, the words had developed practices for spiritual life raise these forces without proper secret meanings to initiates. are the vidyatantrics; they were guidance was somewhat dangerous. Not everyone who heard these seeking truth rather than power and For this reason, one was expected to teachings was an initiate, and many wealth. Of the vidyatantrics, there both yogi and bhogi an enjoyer of take initiation and learn from a people did not know the esoteric are several paths, and within each of life, because all is Brahma, all is part qualified teacher so that there could meanings. To drink wine is to drink these are many divisions. and parcel of the one eternal being. be no difficulty as one opens the the nectar of amrita [immortality]; Thus, Yoga has a long history There is no rejection of this world, energies within the subtle body. to have sexual union is to have union in which there are different types of but incorporation in knowledge of Tantrics studied the process of with the Divine. To the uninitiated, practice, but all intended to move the the eternal Self. This is the approach sense of self-centeredness; these are which means "pose comfortably creation, the emanation of the the misunderstandings came that mind towards union. As Tantra of Tantra. Tantra uses the three practices of Karma Yoga. Out of held". In Western society today, omkara (Om sound) and the division Tantra was talking about sexuality moved forward there became primary paths of Yoga, along with these three primary paths of Yoga asana is called "Yoga", but this is a of the omkara into the biija sounds and drinking wine and so on. There different understandings. There mantra (the science of sound), have developed so many secondary misunderstanding. In the beginning, (seed sounds) in the chakras that then came to be one school of Tantra were tantrics who wanted only the certain pujas and rituals, all to Yogas or schools that apply this or these postures were simple sitting emanate the sounds of creation. The that pursued this path because of the purest teachings, only truth and realize the eternal nature of the Self. tantrics studied the science of sound secrecy of the teachings for those not rejected the world. There were that practice. postures for meditation and no more. Hatha Yoga and developed mantras with the initiated. From this evolved sexual tantrics who wanted the world only P r o m i n e n t a m o n g t h e Over time, more asanas developed.) Out of the teachings of Tantra, ability to empower sound and Tantra as a practice of its own. and formed the paths of self- secondary Yogas is Ashtanga Yoga, Tantra and the internal research of the perform vibratory changes in the Sexuality is not to be denied, and, in pleasure. There were tantrics of the popularized, coalesced, and Tantra greatly predates subtle body that the great tantrics subtle body, and even in the physical the teachings of Tantra, sexuality is a middle path who wanted to know the recorded by Patanjaliin hisYoga Patanjali's Sutras, which were developed, grew in the Middle Ages world. The tantrics realized that part and parcel of the spiritual path Supreme but not to reject the world. Sutras. In Ashtanga Yoga, the recorded some time in the second to the system of Hatha Yoga. In the s u c h c a p a c i t i e s c o u l d b e and expression of subtle energies. In this approach, the tantric can be practice of yama(restraints) and fourth centuries. Shiva gave Parvati present era, so many teachers have benevolently used to open one's niyama (observances) develops the systemization of the practices of come to the West teaching strictly awareness to the Divine or one's sense of Karma Yoga, one's Tantra, and they were already asanas and saying they are hatha destructively used to gain personal relationship to the world. Then ancient when Shiva formed them yogis. They name their systems of power, control, and do harm to asanas (postures) are to develop the into a system. asana after themselves or their others. When these subtle sciences body. And pratyahara (withdrawal), The practices of Tantra teachers or some school of Yoga were explored and developed, the dharana (concentration), dhyana systematized by Shiva became they like. Most of these schools have potential danger in them was (meditation) and Samadhi (union in secret, spoken only from guru to come from south and central India. realized, and so the masters of these oneness) are internal practices to disciple and handed down in a secret Teachers in the West think that sciences kept this knowledge quiet develop one's sense of relationship manner that required diiksha, or people will not be receptive to all the and taught it only to qualified to the divine, to enhance one's transmission from guru to disciple. teachings of Yoga, so they have disciples who were ready to receive it. connection to the Divine by These esoteric practices were popularized the asanas alone. “Ha- meditation practices, by sadhana. hidden, and the philosophies and Confusion about Tantra tha” means "sun-moon"; it is the Together with pranayama, these understandings of Tantra were There is some confusion today sun-moon channel in the subtle f o r m t h e e i g h t l i m b s o f quietly transmitted. It was not until about Tantra because there is a very energy system. AshtangaYoga. This system existed the Fourth Century that the first popular movement in the West of The first hatha yogis were long before Patanjali recorded it. recorded books on Tantra came sexual Tantra. When one is working tantrics who began to feel they didn't (The yogis of the time about. with subtle forces and energies, want to explore the subtle body so developed the practice of asanas, The teachings of Tantra were naturally the sexual energies are part much. They still wanted to realize

30 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 31 PROUT | October 2013 practices. Yoga is not Hindu or Bhakti Yoga, the abstraction is given The path of Bhakti Yoga is very Buddhist, but was taken by both personal form. One sees one's beneficial to many people because it traditions to realize the Supreme, to Gurudeva, one's Iishtadeva. Lord is simple, and one practices it in an attain Self-realization. Some Hindus appears to the yogi in a personal ordinary way. When one hears do not practice Yoga, but they form. And due to this grace of the beautiful devotional music, it brings perform rituals and worship gods appearance of the Divine Entity in a the mind to another level. When one and goddesses. Some Buddhists do personal form, a person will follow hears stories of great love, of the not practice Yoga, but are very the path of Bhakti Yoga because they beauty of Parama Purusha, one's involved in the practice of feel their heart has been touched in mind is transported by these stories. Buddhism. Yet in both are those who such a deep way. Perhaps they are Bhakti Yoga involves the hearing of want the deep esoteric knowledge meditating and suddenly there bhajan (devotional songs), and and they do the practices of Yoga. appears a divine form in their kiirtana (chanting), the use of story, Bhakti Yoga meditation, or their Gurudeva the use of meditation, the In Bhakti Yoga one sees the comes and they see the beatitude and development and encouragement of Divine Entity in a personal form. Of splendor of the Supreme in this love, and all different manner of all the Yogas, Bhakti Yoga is said to personal form. devotional practices so that the be the simplest form, and the most In this way, the bhakti yogi has bhakti yogi feels, "Lord is with me effective for the most people the experience of the Lord appearing every moment and is my nearest and because it engages the heart and the in the simple form of a human being. dearest. Everything I do is to please passions. It engages not just the For the bhakti yogi, Lord graces my Lord, to serve my Lord." Life mind and intellect, as Jinana Yoga them to see the true form of the becomes a dance of love. It is the does, but it engages the passions, the divine to one degree or another, as it sweetest of paths. Parama Purusha; they wanted to primarily the sitting poses. Then the practices? Simply know the truth; feelings, and the heart. In Bhakti is behind the ordinary form. In this Path to Liberation realize the Self; but they felt that to tantrics further developed asanas know that you are the eternal one, Yoga, one's Iishtadeva, one's focus way, by the grace of the Sadguru, In Tantra, one pursues all three realize the Self they must move because in the body will naturally the eternal divine being. They call it on divine consciousness, takes form. their hearts open because they see a primary yogic paths (karma, jinana beyond the focus on the subtle body move in different ways to bring the direct path because they are very In JinanaYoga, focus is often on a little bit of the Divine Entity and bhakti) simultaneously because to focus on the physical body. They forward the kundalinii energy. direct in their approach; they don't void, an abstraction that cannot be associated with an ordinary form to this gives maximum development to developed more emphasis on When the yogis realized that the want to hear about anything else. No understood in the mind. But in which the ordinary mind can relate. the mind. One develops knowledge asanas. Now asanasand pranayama kundalinii energy requires the body asanas, no subtle body, no to bring the mind to understand, " I are part of Tantra and part of to move into different positions they kundalinii; just “You are the Self.” am that Self." One develops love and AshtangaYoga, but the hatha yogis decided to imitate the poses. Those who were engaged in devotion. And one develops selfless wanted to put more emphasis on Additionally, they observed animals JinanaYoga wanted to realize the service to living beings and an pranayama, asanasand the and saw how they stretched to move nature of Self, to go directly to the attitude of compassion. shatkarmas (cleansings). These the vital force, the life force of the point. The problem with Jinana The three paths train the cleansings include practices such as body, and to keep it strong and Yoga is that the body is the vessel of understanding of mind, open the swallowing a rag and bringing it vibrant, and they developed the mind in this world, and it cannot heart, and rid the mind of back up and putting salt water different poses based on their be ignored. It must be used and cared narrowness through living one's life through the nose. The hatha yogis observations. The first ones to do so for. There are no teachings in Jinana in compassionate service to all put more emphasis upon these were tantric yogis. Then as hatha Yoga for this, and there are no beings. This provides a base for practices. yogis broke away from the tantrics teachings to make the mind Brahma sadhana, for meditation. In recent years, the hatha yogis in the Middle Ages, they began to magnanimous. One can so focus on Asana practices provide a very good who come to the West to popularize put more and more emphasis on the one's own enlightenment that one base for the care of the temple of the their teachings dropped nearly all asana practice. In Ashtanga Yoga, forgets the condition of humanity body. Pranayama enhances the teachings but asanas. But the the asana practice also began to and of living beings. One forgets mind to go deeper. But if one does original system of Hatha Yoga does grow in magnitude. that one lives in all beings, and the kiirtana, the same effect occurs on not recognize asanas apart from Jinana Yoga being of all beings is one's own and the mind as doing pranayama, and pranayamas and cleansings and In the strictly JinanaYoga the joy of all being is one's own. This with less danger and more meditation practice. All three are practice, asanas never developed. knowledge, this expansive sweetness. As we see, the practices part of the limbs of Hatha Yoga, and The jinana yogis came from the magnanimity of mind, can get lost of Yoga are vast, encompassing all the Hatha Yoga system incorporates Vedantic tradition out of the concentrating only on one's own areas of human life physical, mental all. To separate asanasis a new trend tradition of the Vedas through enlightenment. Jinana Yoga has and spiritual to transmute one's life of the last forty or so years. Dividing Samkhya. Many strictly Vedic great merit, but is problematic for from a path of suffering to a path of asanas from the other practices and practitioners maintained themselves some people. deep joy and divine union. then stylizing, naming, and teaching without asanas. In Jinana Yoga their JinanaYoga was adopted as Every human life has pain and asanas in classes is a new trend in approach is to simply to drop all of part of the The ravada system of suffering. A person may think, "I am the history of Yoga. one's self-delusion and realize the Buddhism. Both Buddhists and above it all. I have no suffering in my In early times, asanas were truth here and now. Why do so many Hindus incorporated yogic life." But sooner or later something

32 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 33 PROUT | October 2013 practices. Yoga is not Hindu or Bhakti Yoga, the abstraction is given The path of Bhakti Yoga is very Buddhist, but was taken by both personal form. One sees one's beneficial to many people because it traditions to realize the Supreme, to Gurudeva, one's Iishtadeva. Lord is simple, and one practices it in an attain Self-realization. Some Hindus appears to the yogi in a personal ordinary way. When one hears do not practice Yoga, but they form. And due to this grace of the beautiful devotional music, it brings perform rituals and worship gods appearance of the Divine Entity in a the mind to another level. When one and goddesses. Some Buddhists do personal form, a person will follow hears stories of great love, of the not practice Yoga, but are very the path of Bhakti Yoga because they beauty of Parama Purusha, one's involved in the practice of feel their heart has been touched in mind is transported by these stories. Buddhism. Yet in both are those who such a deep way. Perhaps they are Bhakti Yoga involves the hearing of want the deep esoteric knowledge meditating and suddenly there bhajan (devotional songs), and and they do the practices of Yoga. appears a divine form in their kiirtana (chanting), the use of story, Bhakti Yoga meditation, or their Gurudeva the use of meditation, the In Bhakti Yoga one sees the comes and they see the beatitude and development and encouragement of Divine Entity in a personal form. Of splendor of the Supreme in this love, and all different manner of all the Yogas, Bhakti Yoga is said to personal form. devotional practices so that the be the simplest form, and the most In this way, the bhakti yogi has bhakti yogi feels, "Lord is with me effective for the most people the experience of the Lord appearing every moment and is my nearest and because it engages the heart and the in the simple form of a human being. dearest. Everything I do is to please passions. It engages not just the For the bhakti yogi, Lord graces my Lord, to serve my Lord." Life mind and intellect, as Jinana Yoga them to see the true form of the becomes a dance of love. It is the does, but it engages the passions, the divine to one degree or another, as it sweetest of paths. Parama Purusha; they wanted to primarily the sitting poses. Then the practices? Simply know the truth; feelings, and the heart. In Bhakti is behind the ordinary form. In this Path to Liberation realize the Self; but they felt that to tantrics further developed asanas know that you are the eternal one, Yoga, one's Iishtadeva, one's focus way, by the grace of the Sadguru, In Tantra, one pursues all three realize the Self they must move because in the body will naturally the eternal divine being. They call it on divine consciousness, takes form. their hearts open because they see a primary yogic paths (karma, jinana beyond the focus on the subtle body move in different ways to bring the direct path because they are very In JinanaYoga, focus is often on a little bit of the Divine Entity and bhakti) simultaneously because to focus on the physical body. They forward the kundalinii energy. direct in their approach; they don't void, an abstraction that cannot be associated with an ordinary form to this gives maximum development to developed more emphasis on When the yogis realized that the want to hear about anything else. No understood in the mind. But in which the ordinary mind can relate. the mind. One develops knowledge asanas. Now asanasand pranayama kundalinii energy requires the body asanas, no subtle body, no to bring the mind to understand, " I are part of Tantra and part of to move into different positions they kundalinii; just “You are the Self.” am that Self." One develops love and AshtangaYoga, but the hatha yogis decided to imitate the poses. Those who were engaged in devotion. And one develops selfless wanted to put more emphasis on Additionally, they observed animals JinanaYoga wanted to realize the service to living beings and an pranayama, asanasand the and saw how they stretched to move nature of Self, to go directly to the attitude of compassion. shatkarmas (cleansings). These the vital force, the life force of the point. The problem with Jinana The three paths train the cleansings include practices such as body, and to keep it strong and Yoga is that the body is the vessel of understanding of mind, open the swallowing a rag and bringing it vibrant, and they developed the mind in this world, and it cannot heart, and rid the mind of back up and putting salt water different poses based on their be ignored. It must be used and cared narrowness through living one's life through the nose. The hatha yogis observations. The first ones to do so for. There are no teachings in Jinana in compassionate service to all put more emphasis upon these were tantric yogis. Then as hatha Yoga for this, and there are no beings. This provides a base for practices. yogis broke away from the tantrics teachings to make the mind Brahma sadhana, for meditation. In recent years, the hatha yogis in the Middle Ages, they began to magnanimous. One can so focus on Asana practices provide a very good who come to the West to popularize put more and more emphasis on the one's own enlightenment that one base for the care of the temple of the their teachings dropped nearly all asana practice. In Ashtanga Yoga, forgets the condition of humanity body. Pranayama enhances the teachings but asanas. But the the asana practice also began to and of living beings. One forgets mind to go deeper. But if one does original system of Hatha Yoga does grow in magnitude. that one lives in all beings, and the kiirtana, the same effect occurs on not recognize asanas apart from Jinana Yoga being of all beings is one's own and the mind as doing pranayama, and pranayamas and cleansings and In the strictly JinanaYoga the joy of all being is one's own. This with less danger and more meditation practice. All three are practice, asanas never developed. knowledge, this expansive sweetness. As we see, the practices part of the limbs of Hatha Yoga, and The jinana yogis came from the magnanimity of mind, can get lost of Yoga are vast, encompassing all the Hatha Yoga system incorporates Vedantic tradition out of the concentrating only on one's own areas of human life physical, mental all. To separate asanasis a new trend tradition of the Vedas through enlightenment. Jinana Yoga has and spiritual to transmute one's life of the last forty or so years. Dividing Samkhya. Many strictly Vedic great merit, but is problematic for from a path of suffering to a path of asanas from the other practices and practitioners maintained themselves some people. deep joy and divine union. then stylizing, naming, and teaching without asanas. In Jinana Yoga their JinanaYoga was adopted as Every human life has pain and asanas in classes is a new trend in approach is to simply to drop all of part of the The ravada system of suffering. A person may think, "I am the history of Yoga. one's self-delusion and realize the Buddhism. Both Buddhists and above it all. I have no suffering in my In early times, asanas were truth here and now. Why do so many Hindus incorporated yogic life." But sooner or later something

32 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 33 PROUT | October 2013 YOGANOMICS will go wrong and suffering will separation the feeling that, "I am the dance of love until lost in that come. Life always has suffering separate," "I am small in a vast love they see no difference of "I" and because there is clinging, needing, universe; alone and fragile." "Thou" and dissolve their desiring, and all that people cling to The yogis realized they must separateness and loneliness in love. is transitory; all changes and fades. address this fundamental difficulty For the jinani yogi, with the mind This creates a fundamental of human life or there can be no free of all limitation, knowing only condition of suffering, because even lasting happiness, no deep peace in the Self, the mind dissolves into a when we achieve what we want the mind. So they established the state where love, truth and today, tomorrow it will pass. This science of Yoga to address the core blessedness become one. For the creates the dilemma that we cannot pain at the very heart of all other karma yogi, the one serving, the one find eternal happiness in anything pains. They realized that the source served, and the act of serving we achieve in this world. of the dilemma is to identify oneself become one. The ancient yogis, realizing as limited. One is free from bondage One established in this this, developed the Yogas, the when one relinquishes all belief in knowledge, this realization of one's techniques, for development that limitations, in one's smallness. true nature, lives in this world but can solve this fundamental dilemma Freedom comes when one sees the does not live in duality, for all that of human life. They saw that needing interconnectedness of all life and the exists is seen like a play of images, and grasping is suffering. Even the wholeness of being, when one like a flickering of imposed forms sweetness of whatever brings you realizes that the whole world exists on the substantive nature of pleasure today is tomorrow's pain. within and that there is no existence. The yogis established in They saw this human condition and separation. One is free when one knowledge of the Self see only the realized there must be a way to find realizes that one is an eternal, pure, unchanging Brahma, the eternal peace and happiness that is lasting. immortal being, divine and sublime, nature of being, through all creation. Those yogis developed the path of and that the true origin of one's There is no duality, no separation; all Yoga. They found when they did existence is this most exquisite is the one eternal Self. deep self-inquiry that the source of beloved Self. Then the lesser If you want to do something suffering in human life is separation identities fall away and one is free. very important with your life, the sense of individuality and The bondage is in the mind. Yoga is realize the eternal Self and realize separation from the whole. Due to the science to unbind whatever is your own inner freedom. This is the feelings of separateness, there is bound. greatest achievement of human life. always a desire to find wholeness. All yogic paths and techniques And you do the greatest service to Whether one seeks wholeness in are for this single purpose. In the living beings by moving to this The Yoga of Economics clinging to material wealth or loved practice of Bhakti Yoga, Parama realization, for you open the ones, or in power, name, fame, and Purusha appears as the Sadguru, or pathway to release from bondage being strong and dominant, it is to as different deities, in one's mind to and suffering by your own ð Sohail Inayatullah resolve the core difficulty of show the path to liberation, to dance realization. Yoga, defined alternatively, to West valued at 42 billion dollars As with economics, this unite with the infinite or as series of (courses, clothes, mats, for means that there are poses to regulate the body's example). Indeed, business glandular system is usually not strategist and futurist Sudhir Desai natural cycles in the life of linked to the economy. However, o f B o s t o n , M a s s a c h u s e t t s a person or organization. there is much we can learn from the humorously comments that perhaps Pauses need not be practice of Yoga in creating more it is time to outsource Yoga to India. effective business strategy and a However, what I wish to considered negative more balanced world economy. explore is how the principles of growth but as chances to As a physical exercise or Yoga can be used to transform our evaluate what part of the commonly known as “innercise,” current world economy as well as to Yoga is linked to enhanced strategically help organizations business or organization wellbeing. In a study using manoeuvre and create alternative are worth maintaining, Magnetic resonance spectroscopic futures. what parts need to be imaging, regular Yoga practitioners 1 Flexibility exhibited higher levels of the amino First, Yoga is about flexibility. jettisoned and what acid, GABA, which is linked to a Enhanced flexibility is gained aspects transformed. This reduction in anxiety. GABA helps through holding postures. Done fight of depression and is essential daily and slowly, harmonized with is true at the personal for a healthy and relaxed mind. Yoga breathing, Yoga over time increases level as well. has also become a big business in the flexibility. Those who don't practice

34 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 35 PROUT | October 2013 YOGANOMICS will go wrong and suffering will separation the feeling that, "I am the dance of love until lost in that come. Life always has suffering separate," "I am small in a vast love they see no difference of "I" and because there is clinging, needing, universe; alone and fragile." "Thou" and dissolve their desiring, and all that people cling to The yogis realized they must separateness and loneliness in love. is transitory; all changes and fades. address this fundamental difficulty For the jinani yogi, with the mind This creates a fundamental of human life or there can be no free of all limitation, knowing only condition of suffering, because even lasting happiness, no deep peace in the Self, the mind dissolves into a when we achieve what we want the mind. So they established the state where love, truth and today, tomorrow it will pass. This science of Yoga to address the core blessedness become one. For the creates the dilemma that we cannot pain at the very heart of all other karma yogi, the one serving, the one find eternal happiness in anything pains. They realized that the source served, and the act of serving we achieve in this world. of the dilemma is to identify oneself become one. The ancient yogis, realizing as limited. One is free from bondage One established in this this, developed the Yogas, the when one relinquishes all belief in knowledge, this realization of one's techniques, for development that limitations, in one's smallness. true nature, lives in this world but can solve this fundamental dilemma Freedom comes when one sees the does not live in duality, for all that of human life. They saw that needing interconnectedness of all life and the exists is seen like a play of images, and grasping is suffering. Even the wholeness of being, when one like a flickering of imposed forms sweetness of whatever brings you realizes that the whole world exists on the substantive nature of pleasure today is tomorrow's pain. within and that there is no existence. The yogis established in They saw this human condition and separation. One is free when one knowledge of the Self see only the realized there must be a way to find realizes that one is an eternal, pure, unchanging Brahma, the eternal peace and happiness that is lasting. immortal being, divine and sublime, nature of being, through all creation. Those yogis developed the path of and that the true origin of one's There is no duality, no separation; all Yoga. They found when they did existence is this most exquisite is the one eternal Self. deep self-inquiry that the source of beloved Self. Then the lesser If you want to do something suffering in human life is separation identities fall away and one is free. very important with your life, the sense of individuality and The bondage is in the mind. Yoga is realize the eternal Self and realize separation from the whole. Due to the science to unbind whatever is your own inner freedom. This is the feelings of separateness, there is bound. greatest achievement of human life. always a desire to find wholeness. All yogic paths and techniques And you do the greatest service to Whether one seeks wholeness in are for this single purpose. In the living beings by moving to this The Yoga of Economics clinging to material wealth or loved practice of Bhakti Yoga, Parama realization, for you open the ones, or in power, name, fame, and Purusha appears as the Sadguru, or pathway to release from bondage being strong and dominant, it is to as different deities, in one's mind to and suffering by your own ð Sohail Inayatullah resolve the core difficulty of show the path to liberation, to dance realization. Yoga, defined alternatively, to West valued at 42 billion dollars As with economics, this unite with the infinite or as series of (courses, clothes, mats, for means that there are poses to regulate the body's example). Indeed, business glandular system is usually not strategist and futurist Sudhir Desai natural cycles in the life of linked to the economy. However, o f B o s t o n , M a s s a c h u s e t t s a person or organization. there is much we can learn from the humorously comments that perhaps Pauses need not be practice of Yoga in creating more it is time to outsource Yoga to India. effective business strategy and a However, what I wish to considered negative more balanced world economy. explore is how the principles of growth but as chances to As a physical exercise or Yoga can be used to transform our evaluate what part of the commonly known as “innercise,” current world economy as well as to Yoga is linked to enhanced strategically help organizations business or organization wellbeing. In a study using manoeuvre and create alternative are worth maintaining, Magnetic resonance spectroscopic futures. what parts need to be imaging, regular Yoga practitioners 1 Flexibility exhibited higher levels of the amino First, Yoga is about flexibility. jettisoned and what acid, GABA, which is linked to a Enhanced flexibility is gained aspects transformed. This reduction in anxiety. GABA helps through holding postures. Done fight of depression and is essential daily and slowly, harmonized with is true at the personal for a healthy and relaxed mind. Yoga breathing, Yoga over time increases level as well. has also become a big business in the flexibility. Those who don't practice

34 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 35 PROUT | October 2013 Yoga find themselves becoming Other measures could include how like a series of rolling hills. There which in turn correlated with faster rigid. Metaphorically, they are employees respond to stressful are pauses between climbs what he physical recovery from a stressful unable to adapt to changing situations. calls systaltic pauses. We rest, regain situation”. conditions. They cannot bend to the 2 Breathe in, Breath out focus, and then move forward. Even Specifically: “The results show changing wind. Thus, when there are Second, Yoga is about breath, if one believes life is like climbing a a down-regulation of genes that changes in the world economy or in prana. Breathe in, breathe out. Yoga ladder or a race, it is important to rest h a v e b e e n i m p l i c a t e d i n one's personal economy, they is about slowing the heart rate down, between rungs or after a race, to inflammation. The affected genes remain rigid. The Yogic principle of slowing the mind down. Yoga is gather energy and momentum. include the pro-inflammatory genes flexibility suggests that we always about being present. As economic or As with economics, this means RIPK2 and COX2 as well as several need to be able to bend and bow. social crises result, the lesson from that that there are natural cycles in histone deacetylase (HDAC) genes, This does not mean, however, letting Yoga is to breathe, to slow down, to the life of a person or organization. which regulate the activity of other the wind carry us wherever, as Yoga reflect and not be carried away by Pauses need not be considered genes epigenetically by removing a postures are held with inner the challenge at hand. By being negative growth but as chances to type of chemical tag. What's more, strength. present, relaxed, often an answer to evaluate what part of the business or the extent to which some of those One strategy to negotiate the problem can emerge from the organization are worth maintaining, genes were down-regulated was dramatic changes is to develop intuitive part of the mind, from what parts need to be jettisoned and associated with faster cortisol scenarios so as to reduce risk. A another self. By slowing down, we what aspects transformed. This is recovery to a social stress test deeper approach is individual and can see the problem anew as panic true at the personal level as well. On involving an impromptu speech and organizational flexibility, so and fear either disappear or are can ask: what aspects of my life tasks requiring mental calculations irrespective of which scenario decreased. The “fight or flight” b e h a v i o u r s , a t t i t u d e s a n d performed in front of an audience occurs, the person/organization does reaction does not dominate. assumptions - need to be pruned and and video camera”. n o t b r e a k . F l e x i b i l i t y i n 3 Pause what aspects need to grow and what This is important as there is a organizations is about enhancing Third, yoga is based on pauses parts need to transform? direct correlation, argue the authors, capacity and to some extent can be fits and starts. It is not a continuous 4 Concentration and between chronic low-grade operationalized as policies that linear pattern of endless growth. Meditation inflammation and the most common ensure that employees do not Rather, like the breath, there are While yoga may begin with problems of the modern world experience conflict between work pauses. The stopping allows for external exercises it tends to including cardiovascular and and family. This leads to cost reflection, for gathering energy, conclude with innercises- the most metabolic disease, cancer and savings and higher productivity as before the next speeding up. Mystic powerful is concentration and neuropsychiatric disorders. Occupy wall street movement has santosh on economics. family life is not sacrificed for work. Shrii P.R.Sarkar suggests that life is meditation. The benefits are Meditation can make the person and made it clear that the inequity built The first Yama is ahimsa or overwhelming. Meditation can the nation healthier. By reducing into capitalism needs to end. The least violence, even non-violence. increase the thickness of regions that national health care costs, debt can delinking of the financial system For the Yoga practitioner, the simple control attention and process be reduced and capital reinvested in from the real economy needs to end. question is: Am I partaking in sensory signals from the outside prevention. And by increasing well- Others, more radically, assert that aspects of the economy that lead w o r l d . I n a p r o g r a m t h a t being and purpose, meditation can Shiva needs to engage in the dance directly to violence (person to neuroscientist Amishi Jha of the enhance productivity, increasing the of tandava on capitalism itself. Five person, person to nature, person to University of Miami calls quality of life. hundred years of one system is more animal) or indirectly through mindfulness-based mind-fitness 5 Tandava, creative than enough. Time for a change? structural violence, where the training, participants build destruction Time for Shiva's tandava? system creates violence, as in the concentration by focusing on one Fifth, associated with Yoga is a 6 The Ethical context Indian caste system. Applied to the object, such as a particular body dance called tandava. This is the Sixth, whether exercise or economy, this would mean moving sensation. The training, she says, has dance of Shiva, wherein Shiva spiritual unification, Yoga also has a away from Big M or the Big meat shown success in enhancing mental dances between life and death, the critical ethical context. This context industry. In the USA, estimates vary agility and attention “by changing infinite and finite, the eternal and the is called Yama and Niyama. Yama, but generally a conservative number brain structure and function so that temporal. The narrative is Shiva is w r i t e s , Y o g i D a d a is 10 billion land animals are brain processes are more efficient,” not just the creator and the Vedaprajinananda, means that slaughtered annually. Globally the the quality associated with higher maintainer but also the destroyer. which controls and the practice of number is 58 billion. intelligence. Without overdoing the link to Yama means to control actions In a switch to a vegetarian Meditation, as well, can switch Joseph Schumpeter's notion of related to the external world. economy, certainly there would be genes on and off. In a recent study creative destructive as one of the Niyama, in contrast, is focused on many losers and winners. And it is on the impact of meditation on the hallmarks of capitalism's strengths, self-regulation. Both are crucial for only fair that Big Meat gets a decade body, researchers concluded: it is important to note that Yoga is not creating a context for the expansion or so to start to switch over to “…meditators showed a range of just about stretching and feeling of goods, services, ideas and vegetarian options. Structurally, this genetic and molecular differences, good. Yoga also highlights the needs purpose. In this section, I explore means the end of subsidies for the including altered levels of gene- for destruction of behaviours, five aspects of Yama and Niyama, in meat industry and the support of regulating machinery and reduced attitudes and assumptions about self, specific, the implications of ahimsa, education and policies that moves levels of pro-inflammatory genes, economy and planet. Certainly the aparigraha, tapah, asteya, and toward a vegetarian society.

36 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 37 PROUT | October 2013 Yoga find themselves becoming Other measures could include how like a series of rolling hills. There which in turn correlated with faster rigid. Metaphorically, they are employees respond to stressful are pauses between climbs what he physical recovery from a stressful unable to adapt to changing situations. calls systaltic pauses. We rest, regain situation”. conditions. They cannot bend to the 2 Breathe in, Breath out focus, and then move forward. Even Specifically: “The results show changing wind. Thus, when there are Second, Yoga is about breath, if one believes life is like climbing a a down-regulation of genes that changes in the world economy or in prana. Breathe in, breathe out. Yoga ladder or a race, it is important to rest h a v e b e e n i m p l i c a t e d i n one's personal economy, they is about slowing the heart rate down, between rungs or after a race, to inflammation. The affected genes remain rigid. The Yogic principle of slowing the mind down. Yoga is gather energy and momentum. include the pro-inflammatory genes flexibility suggests that we always about being present. As economic or As with economics, this means RIPK2 and COX2 as well as several need to be able to bend and bow. social crises result, the lesson from that that there are natural cycles in histone deacetylase (HDAC) genes, This does not mean, however, letting Yoga is to breathe, to slow down, to the life of a person or organization. which regulate the activity of other the wind carry us wherever, as Yoga reflect and not be carried away by Pauses need not be considered genes epigenetically by removing a postures are held with inner the challenge at hand. By being negative growth but as chances to type of chemical tag. What's more, strength. present, relaxed, often an answer to evaluate what part of the business or the extent to which some of those One strategy to negotiate the problem can emerge from the organization are worth maintaining, genes were down-regulated was dramatic changes is to develop intuitive part of the mind, from what parts need to be jettisoned and associated with faster cortisol scenarios so as to reduce risk. A another self. By slowing down, we what aspects transformed. This is recovery to a social stress test deeper approach is individual and can see the problem anew as panic true at the personal level as well. On involving an impromptu speech and organizational flexibility, so and fear either disappear or are can ask: what aspects of my life tasks requiring mental calculations irrespective of which scenario decreased. The “fight or flight” b e h a v i o u r s , a t t i t u d e s a n d performed in front of an audience occurs, the person/organization does reaction does not dominate. assumptions - need to be pruned and and video camera”. n o t b r e a k . F l e x i b i l i t y i n 3 Pause what aspects need to grow and what This is important as there is a organizations is about enhancing Third, yoga is based on pauses parts need to transform? direct correlation, argue the authors, capacity and to some extent can be fits and starts. It is not a continuous 4 Concentration and between chronic low-grade operationalized as policies that linear pattern of endless growth. Meditation inflammation and the most common ensure that employees do not Rather, like the breath, there are While yoga may begin with problems of the modern world experience conflict between work pauses. The stopping allows for external exercises it tends to including cardiovascular and and family. This leads to cost reflection, for gathering energy, conclude with innercises- the most metabolic disease, cancer and savings and higher productivity as before the next speeding up. Mystic powerful is concentration and neuropsychiatric disorders. Occupy wall street movement has santosh on economics. family life is not sacrificed for work. Shrii P.R.Sarkar suggests that life is meditation. The benefits are Meditation can make the person and made it clear that the inequity built The first Yama is ahimsa or overwhelming. Meditation can the nation healthier. By reducing into capitalism needs to end. The least violence, even non-violence. increase the thickness of regions that national health care costs, debt can delinking of the financial system For the Yoga practitioner, the simple control attention and process be reduced and capital reinvested in from the real economy needs to end. question is: Am I partaking in sensory signals from the outside prevention. And by increasing well- Others, more radically, assert that aspects of the economy that lead w o r l d . I n a p r o g r a m t h a t being and purpose, meditation can Shiva needs to engage in the dance directly to violence (person to neuroscientist Amishi Jha of the enhance productivity, increasing the of tandava on capitalism itself. Five person, person to nature, person to University of Miami calls quality of life. hundred years of one system is more animal) or indirectly through mindfulness-based mind-fitness 5 Tandava, creative than enough. Time for a change? structural violence, where the training, participants build destruction Time for Shiva's tandava? system creates violence, as in the concentration by focusing on one Fifth, associated with Yoga is a 6 The Ethical context Indian caste system. Applied to the object, such as a particular body dance called tandava. This is the Sixth, whether exercise or economy, this would mean moving sensation. The training, she says, has dance of Shiva, wherein Shiva spiritual unification, Yoga also has a away from Big M or the Big meat shown success in enhancing mental dances between life and death, the critical ethical context. This context industry. In the USA, estimates vary agility and attention “by changing infinite and finite, the eternal and the is called Yama and Niyama. Yama, but generally a conservative number brain structure and function so that temporal. The narrative is Shiva is w r i t e s , Y o g i D a d a is 10 billion land animals are brain processes are more efficient,” not just the creator and the Vedaprajinananda, means that slaughtered annually. Globally the the quality associated with higher maintainer but also the destroyer. which controls and the practice of number is 58 billion. intelligence. Without overdoing the link to Yama means to control actions In a switch to a vegetarian Meditation, as well, can switch Joseph Schumpeter's notion of related to the external world. economy, certainly there would be genes on and off. In a recent study creative destructive as one of the Niyama, in contrast, is focused on many losers and winners. And it is on the impact of meditation on the hallmarks of capitalism's strengths, self-regulation. Both are crucial for only fair that Big Meat gets a decade body, researchers concluded: it is important to note that Yoga is not creating a context for the expansion or so to start to switch over to “…meditators showed a range of just about stretching and feeling of goods, services, ideas and vegetarian options. Structurally, this genetic and molecular differences, good. Yoga also highlights the needs purpose. In this section, I explore means the end of subsidies for the including altered levels of gene- for destruction of behaviours, five aspects of Yama and Niyama, in meat industry and the support of regulating machinery and reduced attitudes and assumptions about self, specific, the implications of ahimsa, education and policies that moves levels of pro-inflammatory genes, economy and planet. Certainly the aparigraha, tapah, asteya, and toward a vegetarian society.

36 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 37 PROUT | October 2013 their own capacity to earn wealth, goal orientation, sacrificing neural ethical guidelines in Yoga, I and they trust the rules of the game pathways that are not productive. conclude w ith s an tos h or when there is transparency, a fair Asteya, as a well, the yogic contentment for things received. judiciary and accountability. And principle of not stealing or This is principle of acceptance, of when the maximum and minimum renouncing the desire to acquire or “enoughness.” In spiritual are linked to each other, as the retain the wealth of others is crucial traditions, this is similar to allowing, maximum goes up so does the if we wish to ensure the economy of appreciation of what is. While minimum, then wealth and equity has legitimacy and trust. If there is seemingly in contradiction with can increase. theft at the top senior government other principles of expansion of the Tapah, a yogic principle, ministers, corporate CEOs or civil mind, in Yoga there is a both-and suggests that one must undergo social society leaders then the approach, of being present to the some physical hardship to attain the system loses legitimacy. Those dialectics of the present, of both goal, counters much of New Age closer to the bottom feel that if the t a n d a v a ( d e s t r o y i n g o r thinking, which often asserts that elite can get away with it, why can't deconstructing what-is) and santosh hard work is not necessary. In Yoga, they take short cuts or engage in (accepting and appreciating what- there is great value to persistence micro-corruption. Good governance is). Behind this is the notion that and perspiration. Every successful is essentially about ensuring that the happiness is a virus. The happier I individual, organization or nation political-economy is transparent, am, the happier others will be, as knows this. Short term desires are that at every level of society, there is contentment radiates from person to sacrificed for the long term. no theft. Laws thus must be fair and person. Like money, which needs to Children who say no to the doughnut there must be equality before the keep rolling, happiness needs to in front of them for two doughnuts law. With asteya as an operating keep moving, from person to person, later do much better in life. Delayed principle, trust increases, legitimacy economic system to ecosystem, and gratification, putting in the hours, expands and wealth can grow and flower to planet. and “no short cuts” are all crucial for circulate. It is not siphoned off at In conclusion, Yoga leads to success (within our contemporary every step of the way, rather, it prama or dynamic equilibrium, worldview). And the hard work may moves and moves, allowing all to appreciating what-is and creating Overtime the goal would be an aparigraha which is essentially contextual. Each epoch and each be simply thinking different benefit. Thus: higher ethics leads to more wealth and equity for all - local economy rooted in ahimsa. about voluntary simplicity. It is the region has different levels of examining one's narratives and stronger economies. and global, self and planet, inner Big Tobacco would also be ecological principle of asking before appropriate technologies and seeing if they are sabotaging one's While there are other important and outer. directly impacted. The World Health accumulation of a physical object, as consumption. And one can reduce Organization estimated that one well as a mental object, do I need this material items but still collect billion people will die this century in my life? Am I purchasing it unnecessary thoughts or reduce from tobacco related illnesses and because I can use it or because I wish material items but secretly desire over 165,000 children die annually to demonstrate to my neighbours them. Aparigraha is an economics of from complications of second hand and others that I am important? wise consumption not repressed smoke. What am I truly purchasing is the asceticism. Yoga teacher, Dada An ahimsa-based economy yogic question. Am I purchasing the Vedaprajinanda writes that would also support anti-bullying object or is at issue the lack of aparigraha means to “not hoard legislation in workplaces and create inferiority I feel? wealth which is superfluous to our legislation where there was none. While the implication of actual needs,” what Shrii Sarkar has Programs that reduce bullying such aparigraha is to some extent an called, “keep the money rolling.” as meditation programs would as economics of austerity, this does not Applied to the world economy, well be encouraged. Essentially, mean a reduction in standard of aparigraha suggests that if one instead of a focus on social living. There are billions of objects, person or nation hoards wealth, it Darwinism, ahimsa would create, as the basic needs of education, health, may lead to others having less. It Riane Eisler argues, a caring c l o t h e s , h o u s i n g , f o o d , certainly slows down the movement economics. The question asked by communication and connectivity of goods and services. Fluidity and regulatory authorities would be: that need purchasing. Aparigraha is flexibility disappear as trust and does this economic activity create about intent. It is also about full legitimacy decrease in the overall violence or peace. Where there are information. Who made the product, system. The results of hoarding are conflicts, is there harm reduction how much did the worker make, obvious throughout the global policies? That we spend globally how much did the middle man, the economy. At the external level, 1.62 trillion dollars on military trader? Was anyone or nature hoarding decreases when there are expenditures tells us that our world harmed its production? Aparigraha regulations that create a maximum economy does not follow ahimsa. leads to a questioning of income. At the inner level, hoarding As relevant as ahimsa is consumption. Aparigraha is also decreases when individuals trust

38 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 39 PROUT | October 2013 their own capacity to earn wealth, goal orientation, sacrificing neural ethical guidelines in Yoga, I and they trust the rules of the game pathways that are not productive. conclude w ith s an tos h or when there is transparency, a fair Asteya, as a well, the yogic contentment for things received. judiciary and accountability. And principle of not stealing or This is principle of acceptance, of when the maximum and minimum renouncing the desire to acquire or “enoughness.” In spiritual are linked to each other, as the retain the wealth of others is crucial traditions, this is similar to allowing, maximum goes up so does the if we wish to ensure the economy of appreciation of what is. While minimum, then wealth and equity has legitimacy and trust. If there is seemingly in contradiction with can increase. theft at the top senior government other principles of expansion of the Tapah, a yogic principle, ministers, corporate CEOs or civil mind, in Yoga there is a both-and suggests that one must undergo social society leaders then the approach, of being present to the some physical hardship to attain the system loses legitimacy. Those dialectics of the present, of both goal, counters much of New Age closer to the bottom feel that if the t a n d a v a ( d e s t r o y i n g o r thinking, which often asserts that elite can get away with it, why can't deconstructing what-is) and santosh hard work is not necessary. In Yoga, they take short cuts or engage in (accepting and appreciating what- there is great value to persistence micro-corruption. Good governance is). Behind this is the notion that and perspiration. Every successful is essentially about ensuring that the happiness is a virus. The happier I individual, organization or nation political-economy is transparent, am, the happier others will be, as knows this. Short term desires are that at every level of society, there is contentment radiates from person to sacrificed for the long term. no theft. Laws thus must be fair and person. Like money, which needs to Children who say no to the doughnut there must be equality before the keep rolling, happiness needs to in front of them for two doughnuts law. With asteya as an operating keep moving, from person to person, later do much better in life. Delayed principle, trust increases, legitimacy economic system to ecosystem, and gratification, putting in the hours, expands and wealth can grow and flower to planet. and “no short cuts” are all crucial for circulate. It is not siphoned off at In conclusion, Yoga leads to success (within our contemporary every step of the way, rather, it prama or dynamic equilibrium, worldview). And the hard work may moves and moves, allowing all to appreciating what-is and creating Overtime the goal would be an aparigraha which is essentially contextual. Each epoch and each be simply thinking different benefit. Thus: higher ethics leads to more wealth and equity for all - local economy rooted in ahimsa. about voluntary simplicity. It is the region has different levels of examining one's narratives and stronger economies. and global, self and planet, inner Big Tobacco would also be ecological principle of asking before appropriate technologies and seeing if they are sabotaging one's While there are other important and outer. directly impacted. The World Health accumulation of a physical object, as consumption. And one can reduce Organization estimated that one well as a mental object, do I need this material items but still collect billion people will die this century in my life? Am I purchasing it unnecessary thoughts or reduce from tobacco related illnesses and because I can use it or because I wish material items but secretly desire over 165,000 children die annually to demonstrate to my neighbours them. Aparigraha is an economics of from complications of second hand and others that I am important? wise consumption not repressed smoke. What am I truly purchasing is the asceticism. Yoga teacher, Dada An ahimsa-based economy yogic question. Am I purchasing the Vedaprajinanda writes that would also support anti-bullying object or is at issue the lack of aparigraha means to “not hoard legislation in workplaces and create inferiority I feel? wealth which is superfluous to our legislation where there was none. While the implication of actual needs,” what Shrii Sarkar has Programs that reduce bullying such aparigraha is to some extent an called, “keep the money rolling.” as meditation programs would as economics of austerity, this does not Applied to the world economy, well be encouraged. Essentially, mean a reduction in standard of aparigraha suggests that if one instead of a focus on social living. There are billions of objects, person or nation hoards wealth, it Darwinism, ahimsa would create, as the basic needs of education, health, may lead to others having less. It Riane Eisler argues, a caring c l o t h e s , h o u s i n g , f o o d , certainly slows down the movement economics. The question asked by communication and connectivity of goods and services. Fluidity and regulatory authorities would be: that need purchasing. Aparigraha is flexibility disappear as trust and does this economic activity create about intent. It is also about full legitimacy decrease in the overall violence or peace. Where there are information. Who made the product, system. The results of hoarding are conflicts, is there harm reduction how much did the worker make, obvious throughout the global policies? That we spend globally how much did the middle man, the economy. At the external level, 1.62 trillion dollars on military trader? Was anyone or nature hoarding decreases when there are expenditures tells us that our world harmed its production? Aparigraha regulations that create a maximum economy does not follow ahimsa. leads to a questioning of income. At the inner level, hoarding As relevant as ahimsa is consumption. Aparigraha is also decreases when individuals trust

38 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 39 PROUT | October 2013 NEO-HUMANISTIC EXPLORATION such as love, happiness, bliss, grief, sized deciduous tree with crooked PS 1882, the poet has described that disappointment, devotion etc. Shrii trunk and irregular branches. in spring season, flowers of Palásh Sarkar has very well described Scientifically, it is known as Butea are saying that, they ignite fire and The versatile genius of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has expressed itself in such fields as significance and botanical monosperma (Lamk.) Taub.; that fire is not generating heat but music. He has created a new school of music known as Prabhát Samgiita (songs of dawn). In characteristics of many plants in member of dicotyledonous family pouring joy and happiness (Kinshuk this article below the authors portray the mystical mention of flora (specially Palásh Tree) in beautiful melodious language in Fabaceae and distributed throughout bole ámi águn jváli, E águne tát nei Prabhát Samgiita. It also shows Shrii Sarkar's love for plants and trees. around 1080 songs out of total 5018 India. It is known by various names khushi d́háli..). songs. There are total 81 plants in different languages such as In Prabhát Samgiita, beauty of which have been mentioned in Kimshuk, Khakhra, Dhak, Tesu, spring- the King of all the seasons is Prabhát Samgiita. Maximum ten Polashi and most commonly by described very attractively by plants have been mentioned in a Flame of the Forest tree due to its blooming of many trees such as single PS (No. 3701); based on bright orange-red flowers. Trifoliate Ashok, Champa, Palásh, Bakul, glorification of Lord Shiva whereas leaves, 2-lipped petals which are Semal, Mango, Mahua, Kadamb 8 plants have been depicted in PS silky outside and green flattened and Parul and arrival of fresh new 1549, 4159, 4479 and 4708. silky pods are some of its prominent leaves. Among this, blooming of Prabhát Samgiita and Palásh morphological characteristics. Palásh tree in the forest is elegantly Palásh tree is mentioned in 71 Family Fabaceae tops the list of total discussed to express panoramic songs of PS. Out of these 71 songs, 81 plants mentioned in PS with total beauty of spring season in PS 102, one is in Sanskrit (PS 3951), six are six plants and Palásh is one of them. 103, 3050, 3293, 3774, 4159, 4300, in Bánglá dialect (PS 468, 478, 487, Palásh and its Botanical 4319. In PS 1557, the spring season 512, 4005, 4243) and rest 64 songs Illustration is nicely described, in a mystical ( P S 1 0 2 , 1 0 3 , 1 0 5 , 1 1 0 , 2 5 9 , Palásh tree flowers in spring way that what an intoxicating 520,819,912,983,986,1101,1170,12 season (Fálgun) i.e. during months fragrance floats in the breeze of a 21,1280,1304,1345,1367,1369,139 of February to mid April and with its colorful floral garden (Gul bágicáy 8,1501,1549,1557,1579,1760,1882, orange-red hue, it seems that the raungiin haoáy, Parág bhese jáy kii 1931,2453,2799,2809,3050,3068,3 whole forest is ignited with fire and nesháy…). Why do the flowers of 116,3243,3248,3256,3293,3357,34 for this aspect; it has been named as Palásh tree are intoxicated with 76,3537,3619,3685,3743,3774,394 Flame of the Forest tree. This enthusiasm, doubling the heat of 6,3962,4032,4159,4190,4192,4214, particular characteristic of Palásh Phálgun with joy? (Phágune águn 4276,4295,4299,4300,4307,4380,4 tree has been very beautifully jhariye dviguńa, Palásh ulláse keno 319,4414,4480,4538,4644,4660,47 depicted in 19 songs (PS 259, 983, mátáy…). PS 4032 is on celebration 08,4929) are in Bengali language. 986, 1170, 1304, 1398, 1557, 1760, of Nav-Samvatsar (Hindi New Year) Palásh – Botanical Characters 1882, 2453, 2809, 3050, 3068, 3256, which usually comes during Palásh is a small to medium 3293, 4190, 4300, 4307, 4708). In March/April months when the Palásh tree is in full bloom to Palásh Tree welcome Chaitri New Year. Interestingly, many of these songs reflect immense knowledge Prabhát Samgiita and command of Shrii Sarkar on in Botany and its allied branches as well as human emotions and ð Vartika Jain and S.K. Verma s e n t i m e n t s . F o r e x a m p l e , beautifully colored flowers of Interestingly, many of Prabhát Samgiita - New Dawn languages and beautifully express Palásh are however, without any in the World of Samgiita every emotion and sentiment of life smell. Shrii Sarkar has also these songs reflect Prabhát Samgiita (PS); is a and take the listener in devotional highlighted this character in PS immense knowledge collection of 5018 songs written and flow to ultimate bliss. Songs are on 2799 where it is described that and command of Shrii composed by Shrii Prabhát Ranjan every occasion of life, to express Palásh flowers are overwhelmed Sarkar in a short period of 8 years, 1 every feeling of a spiritual aspirant, with colors, but they are looking Sarkar on Botany and its month and 7 days. It is popularly mysticism and on Lord Shiva and towards Param Purusha (Supreme allied branches as well as known as songs of new dawn and is Lord Krishna in beautiful tunes entity) in the hope to get fragrance as which are totally unique and human emotions and considered as a class in itself. This they are smell-less in nature collection is a complete pack of unexampled. (Kiḿshuk phúl varńe ákul, Gandher sentiments. For example, good ideation, excellent lyrics, Plants in Prabhát Samgiita áshe ceyechilo…). beautifully colored flowers harmonious rhythm and sweet Plants with their enormous Another morphological melodies with inherent therapeutic colors, forms, fragrance, blooming character of the tree has been very of Palásh are however, benefits. seasons etc. always find place to inconceivably depicted in PS 487 without any smell. These songs are written in 8 express various human emotions where devotee is insistently asking

40 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 41 PROUT | October 2013 NEO-HUMANISTIC EXPLORATION such as love, happiness, bliss, grief, sized deciduous tree with crooked PS 1882, the poet has described that disappointment, devotion etc. Shrii trunk and irregular branches. in spring season, flowers of Palásh Sarkar has very well described Scientifically, it is known as Butea are saying that, they ignite fire and The versatile genius of Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has expressed itself in such fields as significance and botanical monosperma (Lamk.) Taub.; that fire is not generating heat but music. He has created a new school of music known as Prabhát Samgiita (songs of dawn). In characteristics of many plants in member of dicotyledonous family pouring joy and happiness (Kinshuk this article below the authors portray the mystical mention of flora (specially Palásh Tree) in beautiful melodious language in Fabaceae and distributed throughout bole ámi águn jváli, E águne tát nei Prabhát Samgiita. It also shows Shrii Sarkar's love for plants and trees. around 1080 songs out of total 5018 India. It is known by various names khushi d́háli..). songs. There are total 81 plants in different languages such as In Prabhát Samgiita, beauty of which have been mentioned in Kimshuk, Khakhra, Dhak, Tesu, spring- the King of all the seasons is Prabhát Samgiita. Maximum ten Polashi and most commonly by described very attractively by plants have been mentioned in a Flame of the Forest tree due to its blooming of many trees such as single PS (No. 3701); based on bright orange-red flowers. Trifoliate Ashok, Champa, Palásh, Bakul, glorification of Lord Shiva whereas leaves, 2-lipped petals which are Semal, Mango, Mahua, Kadamb 8 plants have been depicted in PS silky outside and green flattened and Parul and arrival of fresh new 1549, 4159, 4479 and 4708. silky pods are some of its prominent leaves. Among this, blooming of Prabhát Samgiita and Palásh morphological characteristics. Palásh tree in the forest is elegantly Palásh tree is mentioned in 71 Family Fabaceae tops the list of total discussed to express panoramic songs of PS. Out of these 71 songs, 81 plants mentioned in PS with total beauty of spring season in PS 102, one is in Sanskrit (PS 3951), six are six plants and Palásh is one of them. 103, 3050, 3293, 3774, 4159, 4300, in Bánglá dialect (PS 468, 478, 487, Palásh and its Botanical 4319. In PS 1557, the spring season 512, 4005, 4243) and rest 64 songs Illustration is nicely described, in a mystical ( P S 1 0 2 , 1 0 3 , 1 0 5 , 1 1 0 , 2 5 9 , Palásh tree flowers in spring way that what an intoxicating 520,819,912,983,986,1101,1170,12 season (Fálgun) i.e. during months fragrance floats in the breeze of a 21,1280,1304,1345,1367,1369,139 of February to mid April and with its colorful floral garden (Gul bágicáy 8,1501,1549,1557,1579,1760,1882, orange-red hue, it seems that the raungiin haoáy, Parág bhese jáy kii 1931,2453,2799,2809,3050,3068,3 whole forest is ignited with fire and nesháy…). Why do the flowers of 116,3243,3248,3256,3293,3357,34 for this aspect; it has been named as Palásh tree are intoxicated with 76,3537,3619,3685,3743,3774,394 Flame of the Forest tree. This enthusiasm, doubling the heat of 6,3962,4032,4159,4190,4192,4214, particular characteristic of Palásh Phálgun with joy? (Phágune águn 4276,4295,4299,4300,4307,4380,4 tree has been very beautifully jhariye dviguńa, Palásh ulláse keno 319,4414,4480,4538,4644,4660,47 depicted in 19 songs (PS 259, 983, mátáy…). PS 4032 is on celebration 08,4929) are in Bengali language. 986, 1170, 1304, 1398, 1557, 1760, of Nav-Samvatsar (Hindi New Year) Palásh – Botanical Characters 1882, 2453, 2809, 3050, 3068, 3256, which usually comes during Palásh is a small to medium 3293, 4190, 4300, 4307, 4708). In March/April months when the Palásh tree is in full bloom to Palásh Tree welcome Chaitri New Year. Interestingly, many of these songs reflect immense knowledge Prabhát Samgiita and command of Shrii Sarkar on in Botany and its allied branches as well as human emotions and ð Vartika Jain and S.K. Verma s e n t i m e n t s . F o r e x a m p l e , beautifully colored flowers of Interestingly, many of Prabhát Samgiita - New Dawn languages and beautifully express Palásh are however, without any in the World of Samgiita every emotion and sentiment of life smell. Shrii Sarkar has also these songs reflect Prabhát Samgiita (PS); is a and take the listener in devotional highlighted this character in PS immense knowledge collection of 5018 songs written and flow to ultimate bliss. Songs are on 2799 where it is described that and command of Shrii composed by Shrii Prabhát Ranjan every occasion of life, to express Palásh flowers are overwhelmed Sarkar in a short period of 8 years, 1 every feeling of a spiritual aspirant, with colors, but they are looking Sarkar on Botany and its month and 7 days. It is popularly mysticism and on Lord Shiva and towards Param Purusha (Supreme allied branches as well as known as songs of new dawn and is Lord Krishna in beautiful tunes entity) in the hope to get fragrance as which are totally unique and human emotions and considered as a class in itself. This they are smell-less in nature collection is a complete pack of unexampled. (Kiḿshuk phúl varńe ákul, Gandher sentiments. For example, good ideation, excellent lyrics, Plants in Prabhát Samgiita áshe ceyechilo…). beautifully colored flowers harmonious rhythm and sweet Plants with their enormous Another morphological melodies with inherent therapeutic colors, forms, fragrance, blooming character of the tree has been very of Palásh are however, benefits. seasons etc. always find place to inconceivably depicted in PS 487 without any smell. These songs are written in 8 express various human emotions where devotee is insistently asking

40 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 41 PROUT | October 2013 body is told to be anointed with lying below and one can easily fall In few songs, devotee's desire A Treasure for All sandal paste, decorated with on them when influenced by of meeting with Lord is beautifully In a nutshell, talking about the precious gems and His beautiful red emotions and feelings. This is a discussed in bloomed forest of treasure of Prabhát Samgiita is lips are compared with flowers of wonderful simulation of life's Palásh trees (PS 259, 520, 1170, unceasing. From a botanist's point of Palásh tree (Candan carcita intricacies which one suffers when 1398, 2809, 3242, 4708). In PS 819, view, it is a wonderful collection kaostubh nandita, Kinshukádhárah he starts on path of spiritual with a beautiful description of where so many botanical characters Mathurája..). The use of such meditation. spring season, the devotee is telling as well as phenological information interesting characters for God In PS 2453, where devotee is that many plants and birds are doing about plants have been beautifully chosen from nature itself affirms the saying that Param Purusha has vivid activities to welcome Supreme expressed and the present article is a immense observation power and kindled fire in the forest through red entity and Palásh tree has applied small attempt to endorse this fact. linguistic wealth of Shrii Sarkar. He flowers of Palásh trees and that fire color to its eyes and watching that Palásh tree is very radiantly has used the word 'Krishánu' for fire also reached to his mind and colored who is coming in forest full of described, mystically compared and in PS 4276 and 4300 which shows it with song after song. Colorful red flowers and in that color, earth's linguistically expressed in PS. Apart his excellent art of linguistic fire of Palásh flowers is also beauty is also illuminating very from this, Shrii Sarkar has also expression. In PS 4276, he has compared with Supreme entity in PS well. described medicinal importance of brilliantly compared upwardly 3068. In another song, colorful In PS 512, pain of separation of its flowers for treatment of inclined flowers of Palásh with Palásh tree is crying and telling that devotee from his beloved Supreme Gonorrhea in his book Yaogic flame of the fire which always nobody has come on to its petals entity is wonderfully described by treatments and natural remedies. inclines upwards. whereas the beloved Lord has come saying that devotee has wore out In the end, it is not hyperbolic Palásh in Flow of Mysticism in forests of Shál and Mahua trees wandering through shady Palásh to say that PS is like a bag of Santa There are many PS based on and even on flowers of Piyashál (PS groves for Him and almost died with Claus which has always got mysticism and depict very good 4299). In PS 4192, Supreme entity grief. In PS 1304 also, feeling of something for everybody. Beautiful analogy of Supreme entity's various sings that I drift along with beauty of separation is discussed and it is said melodious music for a music lover, Supreme entity that please tell me, actions with Palásh tree and its red Palásh flowers and remain in that Palásh tree has intoxicated an excellent linguistic expression of of dry trees and at that time the why lotus doesn't bloom in winter, flowers. For example, in PS 3962, it every part of this nature and tells that itself to full with its bright red nature for literature enthusiastic, brilliant red bloom of these trees why Palásh tree is devoid of any is said that delusion of fire in forest He has no comparison with anybody flowers in spring season to see Him. wonderful illustration of botanical decorate the complete landscape. He fruit and why He is so cruel that for o f P a l á s h t r e e s c r e a t e s (Ámi jharńa dháray náci go, Ámi Supreme entity in nature characters in elegant language for a has also described simple whom devotee took birth, and disappointment (Kiḿshuke kánan kimshuke bhese jái, Ámi puspa In PS 1280, beauty of Supreme botanist, a perfect kit to treat mental ethnobotanical information about perform all the actions, even then He májhe, Hutáshane hatásha kare..) korake madhu go, Ámi áveshe dhará entity is said to be glorified with and physical illnesses for a the joy of tribal girls playing with makes devotee to shed tears and like in life of a spiritual aspirant má'tái, Mor tulaná nái…). pollen of flowers and bright psychologist, a soulful explanation flowers of Kadamba and Palásh in refuses to come to his house!(Palásh when Supreme entity doesn't radiance of Palásh flowers. of every feeling for a devotee and lovely shade of Mahua trees in a gáchete keno náhi dhare phal, Jár respond to his call yet in the end, this Similarly, in PS 1101, beauty of even for an ignorant man, a simple sweet way in PS 468. lági janam jár lági karam, Se keno song creates optimism with the 'Param Purusha' is wonderfully medium to express emotions – this jharáy mor ánkhi jal, Torá bal go Palásh in Linguistic Beauty grace of love in the nights of sorrow, described in various elements of collection is unrivalled in its own. It could be analyzed from various torá more bal…). In fact, Palásh tree Prabhát Samgiita is an Supreme entity shows rays of hope, nature including plants, animals, points of view and for this purpose; bears green, flattened, silky pods unparalleled collection from the to those who remain submerged in birds, water and sky and said that humanity is awaiting for a good which appear to be leaves of the language point of view. In spite of pessimism. PS 1760, where it is He, the most beautiful entity, is team of scientists, academicians, plant and so, when these pods appear using eight languages, Bengali asked that who has come into the vibrant in Ashok and Palásh trees musicians, poets and spiritual on the leafless tree just after bright language dominates, respecting the mind, coloring it like kindling fire (Ashoke Paláshe Durvá gháse, aspirants to uncover many of its flowering it seems that the tree laws of musical jurisprudence. It is a through red Palásh flowers and Chandáyiita he sundar, Tumi, underlying mystic meanings, inner doesn't produce any fruit. Shrii lively language containing more deluded and intoxicated the life sundar ati sundara…). In one song thoughts, message of new hope and Sarkar has beautifully illustrated than 92% words of Sanskrit and through melodies and rhythms? composed in Bangla dialect, it is therapeutic benefits in a proper way. this aspect in the melodious predominantly uses soft sound (Paláshe águn jvele maner májhe said that Supreme entity dances on expression through a devotee in a letters (komal svara). raunga lágále,Ke ele go man branches of Mahua tree, on cheeks Acknowledgment sentimental way. In songs related to Palásh tree bhuláno, Práńa mátáno sure tále..). of Champa and Marigold and on Authors express sincere thanks He has also depicted status of also, this is clearly visible. For Niice áche kánt́á kiḿshuk, Palásh and Shimul trees, but devotee to Sister Ananya Sengupta for help nature during blooming of Palásh example, in PS 4380, devotee's Badha nei tár kono, Kata liilá tumi could not recognize Him (PS 4243). in translation. flowers in very esoteric way in PS beloved Lord has been compared jáno… (PS 4538); in this song, This gives indications towards Neo- The writers are from Deptt. of 1345, where Supreme entity is with immortal and non-decaying devotee is saying to Supreme entity humanistic concept of Shrii Sarkar Botany, S.B.P. Govt. College, telling to barren land that despite it smiling flowers of Palásh tree that You only know your Liilá by suggesting that all this natural Dungarpur (Rajasthan) and Dept. doesn't bear any green tree, He loves (Amará Jar Tumi Abhismita (illusive game). I am a small human beauty in form of plants also possess of Medicine, RNT Medical College, * it and doing its silent coronation Kim´Shuk). Its flower has two- being, a balloon full of feelings, fraction of Him. Perching and call of and Society for Microvita with flowers of Shimul and Palásh lipped corolla which appears like a floating in the sky without knowing birds such as Papiha (Common Research and Integrated Medicine trees. Both the trees bloom during beautiful smile and another fact is that below are lying thorns and Hawk-Cucko) and Dahuk (White- (SMRIM), Udaipur, Rajasthan, spring season. These deciduous that even after drying, their shape flowers of Palásh tree. It can be breasted Waterhen) on Palásh tree India and may be reached at trees shed their leaves during spring and texture remains same as when interpreted as there are thorns and has also been mentioned in PS 110 [email protected], season and all the land looks like full fresh. In PS 3951, Lord Krishna's red hot cinder like Palásh flowers and 4276 respectively. [email protected]

42 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 43 PROUT | October 2013 body is told to be anointed with lying below and one can easily fall In few songs, devotee's desire A Treasure for All sandal paste, decorated with on them when influenced by of meeting with Lord is beautifully In a nutshell, talking about the precious gems and His beautiful red emotions and feelings. This is a discussed in bloomed forest of treasure of Prabhát Samgiita is lips are compared with flowers of wonderful simulation of life's Palásh trees (PS 259, 520, 1170, unceasing. From a botanist's point of Palásh tree (Candan carcita intricacies which one suffers when 1398, 2809, 3242, 4708). In PS 819, view, it is a wonderful collection kaostubh nandita, Kinshukádhárah he starts on path of spiritual with a beautiful description of where so many botanical characters Mathurája..). The use of such meditation. spring season, the devotee is telling as well as phenological information interesting characters for God In PS 2453, where devotee is that many plants and birds are doing about plants have been beautifully chosen from nature itself affirms the saying that Param Purusha has vivid activities to welcome Supreme expressed and the present article is a immense observation power and kindled fire in the forest through red entity and Palásh tree has applied small attempt to endorse this fact. linguistic wealth of Shrii Sarkar. He flowers of Palásh trees and that fire color to its eyes and watching that Palásh tree is very radiantly has used the word 'Krishánu' for fire also reached to his mind and colored who is coming in forest full of described, mystically compared and in PS 4276 and 4300 which shows it with song after song. Colorful red flowers and in that color, earth's linguistically expressed in PS. Apart his excellent art of linguistic fire of Palásh flowers is also beauty is also illuminating very from this, Shrii Sarkar has also expression. In PS 4276, he has compared with Supreme entity in PS well. described medicinal importance of brilliantly compared upwardly 3068. In another song, colorful In PS 512, pain of separation of its flowers for treatment of inclined flowers of Palásh with Palásh tree is crying and telling that devotee from his beloved Supreme Gonorrhea in his book Yaogic flame of the fire which always nobody has come on to its petals entity is wonderfully described by treatments and natural remedies. inclines upwards. whereas the beloved Lord has come saying that devotee has wore out In the end, it is not hyperbolic Palásh in Flow of Mysticism in forests of Shál and Mahua trees wandering through shady Palásh to say that PS is like a bag of Santa There are many PS based on and even on flowers of Piyashál (PS groves for Him and almost died with Claus which has always got mysticism and depict very good 4299). In PS 4192, Supreme entity grief. In PS 1304 also, feeling of something for everybody. Beautiful analogy of Supreme entity's various sings that I drift along with beauty of separation is discussed and it is said melodious music for a music lover, Supreme entity that please tell me, actions with Palásh tree and its red Palásh flowers and remain in that Palásh tree has intoxicated an excellent linguistic expression of of dry trees and at that time the why lotus doesn't bloom in winter, flowers. For example, in PS 3962, it every part of this nature and tells that itself to full with its bright red nature for literature enthusiastic, brilliant red bloom of these trees why Palásh tree is devoid of any is said that delusion of fire in forest He has no comparison with anybody flowers in spring season to see Him. wonderful illustration of botanical decorate the complete landscape. He fruit and why He is so cruel that for o f P a l á s h t r e e s c r e a t e s (Ámi jharńa dháray náci go, Ámi Supreme entity in nature characters in elegant language for a has also described simple whom devotee took birth, and disappointment (Kiḿshuke kánan kimshuke bhese jái, Ámi puspa In PS 1280, beauty of Supreme botanist, a perfect kit to treat mental ethnobotanical information about perform all the actions, even then He májhe, Hutáshane hatásha kare..) korake madhu go, Ámi áveshe dhará entity is said to be glorified with and physical illnesses for a the joy of tribal girls playing with makes devotee to shed tears and like in life of a spiritual aspirant má'tái, Mor tulaná nái…). pollen of flowers and bright psychologist, a soulful explanation flowers of Kadamba and Palásh in refuses to come to his house!(Palásh when Supreme entity doesn't radiance of Palásh flowers. of every feeling for a devotee and lovely shade of Mahua trees in a gáchete keno náhi dhare phal, Jár respond to his call yet in the end, this Similarly, in PS 1101, beauty of even for an ignorant man, a simple sweet way in PS 468. lági janam jár lági karam, Se keno song creates optimism with the 'Param Purusha' is wonderfully medium to express emotions – this jharáy mor ánkhi jal, Torá bal go Palásh in Linguistic Beauty grace of love in the nights of sorrow, described in various elements of collection is unrivalled in its own. It could be analyzed from various torá more bal…). In fact, Palásh tree Prabhát Samgiita is an Supreme entity shows rays of hope, nature including plants, animals, points of view and for this purpose; bears green, flattened, silky pods unparalleled collection from the to those who remain submerged in birds, water and sky and said that humanity is awaiting for a good which appear to be leaves of the language point of view. In spite of pessimism. PS 1760, where it is He, the most beautiful entity, is team of scientists, academicians, plant and so, when these pods appear using eight languages, Bengali asked that who has come into the vibrant in Ashok and Palásh trees musicians, poets and spiritual on the leafless tree just after bright language dominates, respecting the mind, coloring it like kindling fire (Ashoke Paláshe Durvá gháse, aspirants to uncover many of its flowering it seems that the tree laws of musical jurisprudence. It is a through red Palásh flowers and Chandáyiita he sundar, Tumi, underlying mystic meanings, inner doesn't produce any fruit. Shrii lively language containing more deluded and intoxicated the life sundar ati sundara…). In one song thoughts, message of new hope and Sarkar has beautifully illustrated than 92% words of Sanskrit and through melodies and rhythms? composed in Bangla dialect, it is therapeutic benefits in a proper way. this aspect in the melodious predominantly uses soft sound (Paláshe águn jvele maner májhe said that Supreme entity dances on expression through a devotee in a letters (komal svara). raunga lágále,Ke ele go man branches of Mahua tree, on cheeks Acknowledgment sentimental way. In songs related to Palásh tree bhuláno, Práńa mátáno sure tále..). of Champa and Marigold and on Authors express sincere thanks He has also depicted status of also, this is clearly visible. For Niice áche kánt́á kiḿshuk, Palásh and Shimul trees, but devotee to Sister Ananya Sengupta for help nature during blooming of Palásh example, in PS 4380, devotee's Badha nei tár kono, Kata liilá tumi could not recognize Him (PS 4243). in translation. flowers in very esoteric way in PS beloved Lord has been compared jáno… (PS 4538); in this song, This gives indications towards Neo- The writers are from Deptt. of 1345, where Supreme entity is with immortal and non-decaying devotee is saying to Supreme entity humanistic concept of Shrii Sarkar Botany, S.B.P. Govt. College, telling to barren land that despite it smiling flowers of Palásh tree that You only know your Liilá by suggesting that all this natural Dungarpur (Rajasthan) and Dept. doesn't bear any green tree, He loves (Amará Jar Tumi Abhismita (illusive game). I am a small human beauty in form of plants also possess of Medicine, RNT Medical College, * it and doing its silent coronation Kim´Shuk). Its flower has two- being, a balloon full of feelings, fraction of Him. Perching and call of and Society for Microvita with flowers of Shimul and Palásh lipped corolla which appears like a floating in the sky without knowing birds such as Papiha (Common Research and Integrated Medicine trees. Both the trees bloom during beautiful smile and another fact is that below are lying thorns and Hawk-Cucko) and Dahuk (White- (SMRIM), Udaipur, Rajasthan, spring season. These deciduous that even after drying, their shape flowers of Palásh tree. It can be breasted Waterhen) on Palásh tree India and may be reached at trees shed their leaves during spring and texture remains same as when interpreted as there are thorns and has also been mentioned in PS 110 [email protected], season and all the land looks like full fresh. In PS 3951, Lord Krishna's red hot cinder like Palásh flowers and 4276 respectively. [email protected]

42 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 43 PROUT | October 2013 PROUTISTIC SCHOOL GOVERNANCE wealthy district a reflection of the we all ignore something.” short-lived; thus the struggle of the oversaw what was one of the most so-called paradoxes of a painfully The construction of political- students and teachers of Ñanderoga violent series of religious killings in unequal Argentina. They try to work pedagogical projects by the to receive the official status for the the Nation's history. Condemnation with the neighbors, positioning Bachilleratos Populares unleashes establishment becomes an arduous A question arises what an individual can do with…… He cannot do poured in, but Modi seizing the themselves politically and challenges and tensions when it one. They walk through the alleys of mood of the Gujarati people, emotionally in each alley they walk comes to establishing relations with the neighborhood and to the offices anything when the nations are warring; religions are fighting causing declared this condemnation as an An Argentine Bachillerato Popular at the Crossroads through, building together a more the State. Inside Ñanderoga, just as of the ministries, they collect panic all around or creating tension, worries or economic problems insult to the Gujarati people and took just and humane society. They in other spaces in which popular signatures of neighbors who support in the minds of the people in general. out a yatra (march) to proclaim the The Encroachment of the State emphasize being part of an education is considered an their education proposal, and meet Who will Rule pride of the Gujarati people. This a u t o n o m o u s o r g a n i z a t i o n , alternative to the hegemonic system with the district inspectors of propelled him to power. independent of any institutions or of formal education, debates about Vicente López and with officials of Once in power in Gujarat, overwhelming in this election that as head of the Delhi government. on the Demands of Social Organizations political parties, and have decided to the kind of engagement to maintain the Ministry of Education. They he attracted people by stable many of the poor voted in this The AAP's success in Delhi self-manage their activities and with different federal and local march with joy and hope to La Plata, government and extensive building election thinking that Modi would was a setback for Modi but ð Written by Lucas Christel and Nancy Piñeiro, Translated by Nancy Piñeiro projects, taking collective decisions levels and the demands raised to capital city of Buenos Aires, and of infrastructure. More importantly bring them prosperity and justice. Kejriwal's attack on Ambanis (who in regular assemblies called them are heated. As time passed, raise their demands. Thus far, Modi, BJP or the People he gave Gujarati people tremendous The poor know that every day they have tremendous influence on both Jajotopa (“To meet”). The and in the midst of different official recognition is denied to feelings of pride in themselves have to face same mafias, exploiters tBJP and the Congress) led media to The mate passes from hand to whose name means “our house” in and the hands and flours will join organization also has a women's struggles, several collectives them. through constant advertising. but voting in elections is like t u r n h o s t i l e a g a i n s t h i m . hand. On one of the crooked benches the Guaraní language). There, once more; in the afternoon the group, community study group, (among them Ñanderoga) were able O n e o f t h e a rg u m e n t s Furthermore, corporates were drinking toddy -- it is not about Disappointed people however that stand in a circle in the several adults commit themselves to place will be filled with debate, youth group, an area for recreation to group themselves in the employed by the State is that in attracted to Gujarat through facing the truth and fighting for thought that the disciplined RSS classroom, and as part of a reflection finishing secondary school. The ideas and stories, and thus the cycle and meals for the children, and Coordinadora de Bachilleratos recent years a series of public programs of rapid processing of freedom. It is about temporarily network offered a chance for stable exercise on identity during the smell of freshly baked bread will repeat itself through the week. “Dreams of Freedom” a working Populares en Lucha (Coordinator of policies have been implemented to projects without any corruption and escaping from one's misery and government, free from the Social Science class, Florencia permeates through the classroom The Bachillerato Popular and space for people who have been Bachilleratos Populares in offer different sectors of the without any delays due to the protest ultimately falling drunk at the feet of hegemony of the Congress. In writes about how she struggled to because the space is right now, the Cooperative are part of deprived of their freedom or are Struggle) in 2008. From that space, population especially those from of farmers whose lands were taken the victorious Neta (Leader). Later addition, Modi skillfully stole the make the National Congress pass the separated by a wooden divider, Ñanderoga, the social organization judicially processed. agreeing on common positions and popular background the possibility or from any labour organizations. when the kicks of the Neta wakes rhetoric of Swaraj (Self-rule) used Assisted Fertilization Law. Next to forming two rooms. It was only a located in Las Flores neighborhood, The Bachillerato Popular actions, they denounced that the of finishing primary and secondary Due to his vice-like grip on Gujarat, them to reality, they angrily turn to by Kejriwal thus swaying away her, Adriana disagrees with Zigmunt couple of hours earlier the working in the district of Vicente López, opened its doors in 2009, as a result formal education system is school. In 2008, the first stages of Modi was able to negotiate and another toddy seller and then, the those who had been energized by Bauman over some of his arguments place of Ñamba Apo (“Our work”), a north of Greater Buenos Aires. of the continuous work carried out precarious, privatized and the Plan for the Completion of deliver deals to corporates like a whole debauchery of democracy Anna and AAP's movement. about liquid modernity. It is June cooperative that manufactures Ñanderoga, established in 2004, sets by Ñanderoga on the issue of commodified which impoverishes Primary and Secondary Education Nawab and not like a democratic begins afresh. India's mass voted for Modi as 2013, and the scene takes place in bakery products. Tomorrow out to organize around cultural, education. Three classes have the pedagogic proposal and the work (FINES, as per its Spanish acronym) leader. This made him very popular We know the world economy is an alternative to dynastic rule of t h e B a c h i l l e r a t o P o p u l a r morning the divider will slide again, social, and educational activities in already graduated and 57 young of teachers, and excludes popular w e r e i n i t i a t e d . A s t r o n g among the corporates, who gave him in trouble, as is China's. The Indian Congress. BJP however won by Ñanderoga (a popular high school an impoverished neighborhood of a people and adults have finished their sectors. The Coordinator regularly development of the plan in constant propaganda in their economy is completely dependent approximately 18% votes, which is secondary school. The decision to mobilizes in demonstrations and subsequent years, an expansion of newspapers. Thus Modi's natural on the joothan (leftovers) thrown by only 31% of the total votes cast. create an educational space was activities through which they its premises, the availability of flair for sharp insults and them. Modi has claimed to be Now Modi has to prove so called born based on the idea of a public demand the State to effectively meet wages for the teachers and the humourous bantering took him on Thatcher of India. This means he charisma of his leadership, whether and popular school, taking up the one of their historic claims: granting of scholarships had a strong centre stage. will cut public programs for the poor he will be caught in the grip of BJP experience of the bachilleratos “Immediate recognition of all the impact on the political construction When the Congress national and start giving welfare, land and stalwarts or will he stand for the populares that emerged in the heat of Bachilleratos Populares of Buenos of the Bachilleratos Populares. In leaders came to Gujarat to help the deals for corporations like he has Common People, needs to be seen. [1] the 2001 struggles. Conceiving the Aires City and the Province of such a way the State attempts to ð Antarang Anand Yogi Modi and the BJP-RSS has chemistry Modi has with the BJP- Gujrarat Congress campaign against done in Gujarat. The poor by voting If Modi maintains a Universal Bachillerato Popular as part of a Buenos Aires…” Furthermore, supersede with “attractive” come into power with record- RSS people. It is said that Modi was Modi, their insults to Modi and his for such a person have drunk a toxic outlook and works for the welfare of political pedagogic project, their issues such as wages for teachers, institutional policies the possibility Voting in elections is like breaking, thumping majority. The a chaiwala (tea seller) and got the brilliant replies made him the sole toddy. But their despair to escape all Indians, he can establish himself objective is to build a different grants for students and full funding of obtaining a high school degree drinking toddy -- it is not media is painting Modi as a chaiwala opportunity to serve leaders of the spokesman for all those who reel from facing their present and their as a National Leader. He has also to school, one that recovers alternative are part of the debate about the space through popular education about facing the truth and (tea-seller) who rose to become RSS in Gujarat and then became under the rule of the endlessly desperate thirst for delirious dreams remember that welfare of the pedagogic experiences such as those given to the State by the experiences (their only raison d'être corrupt Congress and their foreign- fighting for freedom. It is Prime Minister. This is not a great interested in their ideology. He came of prosperity make them not to care. poorest, which he has been declaring of the Popular Education, one that organizations, and the relations they in the State's viewpoint). Thus the achievement for a karmayogi. to manhood in the shakha (unit) origin leader. The new middle class Earlier Swami Ramdev, Anna in his speeches, is possible by taking allows for the creation and re- chose to maintain with it. demands of the Bachilleratos about temporarily escaping History has seen similar such self- discipline of the RSS and developed created by the corporatization of the Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal were certain measures against the erring creation of ideas, and not just for the The first of those claims, Populares start to be deemed from one's misery and made statesman like Lal Bahadur nationalistic sentiments and studied Indian economy became the biggest rousing People's rage against corporate sector. repetition and memorization of official recognition, is one that obsolete. ultimately falling drunk at Shastri and contradictorily history the RSS ideology and worked hard admirers of Modi. government corruption while being Inspite of all this, if at all Modi concepts. As they affirm in their keeps students and teachers of Possibly as a result of the above the feet of the victorious has also seen self-claimed with the party to rise ultimately to The poor who make up for the studiously silent about corporate wants to make history as a Moralist manifesto, they seek to collectively Ñanderoga awake. Even if the mentioned FINES, there is a clear politicians like Lalu Prasad Yadav. the position of Chief Minister of majority of the population in Gujarat corruption. This national wave led to Leader (the image which made him build a school in which “nobody degrees obtained by the students are decline in the number of students Neta (Leader). Later when What is important is that, if this rise Gujarat. In Gujarat, he attracted his and the nation, never had the the success of the Aam Admi Party win), then he will have to take up the learns on their own and all of us made official by the Ministry of registered in the Bachilleratos the kicks of the Neta wakes is due to morality and service to the party by his hard work and as enlightenment or courage to protest. in Delhi, where even traditional RSS leadership out of the control of BJP's make an effort to do it as a team, Education of Buenos Aires, this is Populares, while at the same time them to reality, they angrily people like Shastriji, then alone organizing secretary of the party, he Gujarat despite having such a high supporters voted AAP to power. political and capitalistic nexus and from the teachers to the students, so only possible through an agreement some organizations decide to accept turn to another toddy seller would it be of greater significance steered it to win the State election. GDP has one of the highest Though Kejriwal is a brilliant make his own Spiritual Moralist that what we know is not an element with another Bachillerato Popular the FINES management plan as an for the nation and humanity, for Then came the Gujarat riots percentages of children with campaigner, he is also an indecisive force in times to come. Genuine of power over a friend or a student, that is recognized as an official alternative to their previous and then, the whole Modi to become a peoples' leader which came as a God-send for him. malnutrition. Yet the Gujarat model populist whose deceptive promises spirituality cannot be found in those but a tool to share and circulate, educational establishment. But as is education projects. Against this debauchery of democracy and make history. Claiming to be protecting Hindus is portrayed as paradise. The amount and questionable behaviour turned who promote hatred based on because we all know something and well known, agreements tend to be backdrop, tensions are generated begins afresh. Now let us see who he is and against Pakistani terrorism, he o f p r o p a g a n d a w a s s o people against him after he resigned religious dogmas.

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morning “our house” will be filled again with the smell of bread, and in the evening the classroom will overflow with ideas. The cycle repeats so that the students, the ones who struggle every day for more just and equitable worlds, can write their own stories, so that education and work are created by them and for them; so that other educational spaces exist in which to discuss the State's logics of learning, challenge their oppressive effects, rescue the communal experiences typical of each territory, and the relationships they weave as a mate passes from hand to hand. [1] The strong political, social, and economic crisis –besides causing the resignation of Argentina’s President-elect Fernando de la Rúa on December both within the organizations and refuge deserved. Some other days, 20, 2001, and the succession of 5 the Coordinator, from where certain conflicts unraveled by the lack of presidents in less than a month— sectors threaten to withdraw. The land and decent housing emerge, inaugurated a series of new political problem around the relationship tension heightens and the threat of a e x p r e s s i o n s t h a t c o m b i n e with the State is again at the core of “war” of poor against poor hovers in n e i g h b o r h o o d a s s e m b l i e s , t h e d e b a t e s w i t h i n s o c i a l the air. However, life goes on: the unemployed workers’ movements, organizations. This new picture can sun continues to rise each morning, occupation and self-management of be conceived as an example of what doors and windows remain open, factories, solidarity economy the Uruguayan writer and analyst neighbors drink mate in those very p r a c t i c e s a n d m a n y o t h e r Raúl Zibechi regards as the same alleys, they share, they experiences of the autonomous and incapacity of social movements or communicate, and they help each popular organizations. organizations to keep their own other. The afternoon settles in and Lucas Christel holds an MA in agendas, for most of them have been many neighbors head to their class at Public Policy and Development expropriated by the State. In this the Bachillerato Popular with a Management from the Universidad situation, the State intends to notebook in their hands. Nacional de San Martín, where he is diminish the deep political Florencia and Adriana already currently doing a PhD in Political pedagogic proposals of the finished their studies. In December Science. As a research fellow from Bachilleratos Populares of their 2013, amid tears and applause, they CONICET (National Research meaning, and it allows them to fulfill received their secondary school Council of Argentina) he studies with greater facilities and incentives diploma. Both will remain involved social resistance to mega-mining the beautiful dream of finishing their in the organization, fighting for the projects. He also a teaches in studies. Therefore, popular official recognition of Ñanderoga. Ñanderoga and is an amateur organizations are at a crossroads: Adriana, in her “debate” with photographer. either they accept the new rules of Zigmunt Bauman wrote: “We have Nancy Piñeiro is a Technical, the game, reinvent themselves, or to say 'enough' to a society that Scientific and Literary translator, c o n t i n u e s t r u g g l i n g a l o n g makes us believe that we are and Conference Interpreter. She is increasingly hostile paths. powerless, 'enough' to everything an active collaborator at Upside L i f e i n L a s F l o r e s being watered down, let's be solid Down World and has been working neighborhood is not easy: stories of and let's keep our dreams and goals in the fields of Human Rights, need abound, in addition to the lack firm for a new future.” Florencia, Politics, and Social Movements of state presence, and the lack of under the Assisted Fertilization Law over the last years. economic, working and educational for which she fought alongside opportunities. In days of persistent different organizations, is after her rain and bitter cold, the narrow dream of being a mother again. alleys and the roofs of crammed Tomorrow will be another day in Las houses do not suffice to provide the Flores neighborhood, in the PROUTISTIC SCHOOL GOVERNANCE wealthy district a reflection of the we all ignore something.” short-lived; thus the struggle of the oversaw what was one of the most so-called paradoxes of a painfully The construction of political- students and teachers of Ñanderoga violent series of religious killings in unequal Argentina. They try to work pedagogical projects by the to receive the official status for the the Nation's history. Condemnation with the neighbors, positioning Bachilleratos Populares unleashes establishment becomes an arduous A question arises what an individual can do with…… He cannot do poured in, but Modi seizing the themselves politically and challenges and tensions when it one. They walk through the alleys of mood of the Gujarati people, emotionally in each alley they walk comes to establishing relations with the neighborhood and to the offices anything when the nations are warring; religions are fighting causing declared this condemnation as an An Argentine Bachillerato Popular at the Crossroads through, building together a more the State. Inside Ñanderoga, just as of the ministries, they collect panic all around or creating tension, worries or economic problems insult to the Gujarati people and took just and humane society. They in other spaces in which popular signatures of neighbors who support in the minds of the people in general. out a yatra (march) to proclaim the The Encroachment of the State emphasize being part of an education is considered an their education proposal, and meet Who will Rule pride of the Gujarati people. This a u t o n o m o u s o r g a n i z a t i o n , alternative to the hegemonic system with the district inspectors of propelled him to power. independent of any institutions or of formal education, debates about Vicente López and with officials of Once in power in Gujarat, overwhelming in this election that as head of the Delhi government. on the Demands of Social Organizations political parties, and have decided to the kind of engagement to maintain the Ministry of Education. They he attracted people by stable many of the poor voted in this The AAP's success in Delhi self-manage their activities and with different federal and local march with joy and hope to La Plata, government and extensive building election thinking that Modi would was a setback for Modi but ð Written by Lucas Christel and Nancy Piñeiro, Translated by Nancy Piñeiro projects, taking collective decisions levels and the demands raised to capital city of Buenos Aires, and of infrastructure. More importantly bring them prosperity and justice. Kejriwal's attack on Ambanis (who in regular assemblies called them are heated. As time passed, raise their demands. Thus far, Modi, BJP or the People he gave Gujarati people tremendous The poor know that every day they have tremendous influence on both Jajotopa (“To meet”). The and in the midst of different official recognition is denied to feelings of pride in themselves have to face same mafias, exploiters tBJP and the Congress) led media to The mate passes from hand to whose name means “our house” in and the hands and flours will join organization also has a women's struggles, several collectives them. through constant advertising. but voting in elections is like t u r n h o s t i l e a g a i n s t h i m . hand. On one of the crooked benches the Guaraní language). There, once more; in the afternoon the group, community study group, (among them Ñanderoga) were able O n e o f t h e a rg u m e n t s Furthermore, corporates were drinking toddy -- it is not about Disappointed people however that stand in a circle in the several adults commit themselves to place will be filled with debate, youth group, an area for recreation to group themselves in the employed by the State is that in attracted to Gujarat through facing the truth and fighting for thought that the disciplined RSS classroom, and as part of a reflection finishing secondary school. The ideas and stories, and thus the cycle and meals for the children, and Coordinadora de Bachilleratos recent years a series of public programs of rapid processing of freedom. It is about temporarily network offered a chance for stable exercise on identity during the smell of freshly baked bread will repeat itself through the week. “Dreams of Freedom” a working Populares en Lucha (Coordinator of policies have been implemented to projects without any corruption and escaping from one's misery and government, free from the Social Science class, Florencia permeates through the classroom The Bachillerato Popular and space for people who have been Bachilleratos Populares in offer different sectors of the without any delays due to the protest ultimately falling drunk at the feet of hegemony of the Congress. In writes about how she struggled to because the space is right now, the Cooperative are part of deprived of their freedom or are Struggle) in 2008. From that space, population especially those from of farmers whose lands were taken the victorious Neta (Leader). Later addition, Modi skillfully stole the make the National Congress pass the separated by a wooden divider, Ñanderoga, the social organization judicially processed. agreeing on common positions and popular background the possibility or from any labour organizations. when the kicks of the Neta wakes rhetoric of Swaraj (Self-rule) used Assisted Fertilization Law. Next to forming two rooms. It was only a located in Las Flores neighborhood, The Bachillerato Popular actions, they denounced that the of finishing primary and secondary Due to his vice-like grip on Gujarat, them to reality, they angrily turn to by Kejriwal thus swaying away her, Adriana disagrees with Zigmunt couple of hours earlier the working in the district of Vicente López, opened its doors in 2009, as a result formal education system is school. In 2008, the first stages of Modi was able to negotiate and another toddy seller and then, the those who had been energized by Bauman over some of his arguments place of Ñamba Apo (“Our work”), a north of Greater Buenos Aires. of the continuous work carried out precarious, privatized and the Plan for the Completion of deliver deals to corporates like a whole debauchery of democracy Anna and AAP's movement. about liquid modernity. It is June cooperative that manufactures Ñanderoga, established in 2004, sets by Ñanderoga on the issue of commodified which impoverishes Primary and Secondary Education Nawab and not like a democratic begins afresh. India's mass voted for Modi as 2013, and the scene takes place in bakery products. Tomorrow out to organize around cultural, education. Three classes have the pedagogic proposal and the work (FINES, as per its Spanish acronym) leader. This made him very popular We know the world economy is an alternative to dynastic rule of t h e B a c h i l l e r a t o P o p u l a r morning the divider will slide again, social, and educational activities in already graduated and 57 young of teachers, and excludes popular w e r e i n i t i a t e d . A s t r o n g among the corporates, who gave him in trouble, as is China's. The Indian Congress. BJP however won by Ñanderoga (a popular high school an impoverished neighborhood of a people and adults have finished their sectors. The Coordinator regularly development of the plan in constant propaganda in their economy is completely dependent approximately 18% votes, which is secondary school. The decision to mobilizes in demonstrations and subsequent years, an expansion of newspapers. Thus Modi's natural on the joothan (leftovers) thrown by only 31% of the total votes cast. create an educational space was activities through which they its premises, the availability of flair for sharp insults and them. Modi has claimed to be Now Modi has to prove so called born based on the idea of a public demand the State to effectively meet wages for the teachers and the humourous bantering took him on Thatcher of India. This means he charisma of his leadership, whether and popular school, taking up the one of their historic claims: granting of scholarships had a strong centre stage. will cut public programs for the poor he will be caught in the grip of BJP experience of the bachilleratos “Immediate recognition of all the impact on the political construction When the Congress national and start giving welfare, land and stalwarts or will he stand for the populares that emerged in the heat of Bachilleratos Populares of Buenos of the Bachilleratos Populares. In leaders came to Gujarat to help the deals for corporations like he has Common People, needs to be seen. [1] the 2001 struggles. Conceiving the Aires City and the Province of such a way the State attempts to ð Antarang Anand Yogi Modi and the BJP-RSS has chemistry Modi has with the BJP- Gujrarat Congress campaign against done in Gujarat. The poor by voting If Modi maintains a Universal Bachillerato Popular as part of a Buenos Aires…” Furthermore, supersede with “attractive” come into power with record- RSS people. It is said that Modi was Modi, their insults to Modi and his for such a person have drunk a toxic outlook and works for the welfare of political pedagogic project, their issues such as wages for teachers, institutional policies the possibility Voting in elections is like breaking, thumping majority. The a chaiwala (tea seller) and got the brilliant replies made him the sole toddy. But their despair to escape all Indians, he can establish himself objective is to build a different grants for students and full funding of obtaining a high school degree drinking toddy -- it is not media is painting Modi as a chaiwala opportunity to serve leaders of the spokesman for all those who reel from facing their present and their as a National Leader. He has also to school, one that recovers alternative are part of the debate about the space through popular education about facing the truth and (tea-seller) who rose to become RSS in Gujarat and then became under the rule of the endlessly desperate thirst for delirious dreams remember that welfare of the pedagogic experiences such as those given to the State by the experiences (their only raison d'être corrupt Congress and their foreign- fighting for freedom. It is Prime Minister. This is not a great interested in their ideology. He came of prosperity make them not to care. poorest, which he has been declaring of the Popular Education, one that organizations, and the relations they in the State's viewpoint). Thus the achievement for a karmayogi. to manhood in the shakha (unit) origin leader. The new middle class Earlier Swami Ramdev, Anna in his speeches, is possible by taking allows for the creation and re- chose to maintain with it. demands of the Bachilleratos about temporarily escaping History has seen similar such self- discipline of the RSS and developed created by the corporatization of the Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal were certain measures against the erring creation of ideas, and not just for the The first of those claims, Populares start to be deemed from one's misery and made statesman like Lal Bahadur nationalistic sentiments and studied Indian economy became the biggest rousing People's rage against corporate sector. repetition and memorization of official recognition, is one that obsolete. ultimately falling drunk at Shastri and contradictorily history the RSS ideology and worked hard admirers of Modi. government corruption while being Inspite of all this, if at all Modi concepts. As they affirm in their keeps students and teachers of Possibly as a result of the above the feet of the victorious has also seen self-claimed with the party to rise ultimately to The poor who make up for the studiously silent about corporate wants to make history as a Moralist manifesto, they seek to collectively Ñanderoga awake. Even if the mentioned FINES, there is a clear politicians like Lalu Prasad Yadav. the position of Chief Minister of majority of the population in Gujarat corruption. This national wave led to Leader (the image which made him build a school in which “nobody degrees obtained by the students are decline in the number of students Neta (Leader). Later when What is important is that, if this rise Gujarat. In Gujarat, he attracted his and the nation, never had the the success of the Aam Admi Party win), then he will have to take up the learns on their own and all of us made official by the Ministry of registered in the Bachilleratos the kicks of the Neta wakes is due to morality and service to the party by his hard work and as enlightenment or courage to protest. in Delhi, where even traditional RSS leadership out of the control of BJP's make an effort to do it as a team, Education of Buenos Aires, this is Populares, while at the same time them to reality, they angrily people like Shastriji, then alone organizing secretary of the party, he Gujarat despite having such a high supporters voted AAP to power. political and capitalistic nexus and from the teachers to the students, so only possible through an agreement some organizations decide to accept turn to another toddy seller would it be of greater significance steered it to win the State election. GDP has one of the highest Though Kejriwal is a brilliant make his own Spiritual Moralist that what we know is not an element with another Bachillerato Popular the FINES management plan as an for the nation and humanity, for Then came the Gujarat riots percentages of children with campaigner, he is also an indecisive force in times to come. Genuine of power over a friend or a student, that is recognized as an official alternative to their previous and then, the whole Modi to become a peoples' leader which came as a God-send for him. malnutrition. Yet the Gujarat model populist whose deceptive promises spirituality cannot be found in those but a tool to share and circulate, educational establishment. But as is education projects. Against this debauchery of democracy and make history. Claiming to be protecting Hindus is portrayed as paradise. The amount and questionable behaviour turned who promote hatred based on because we all know something and well known, agreements tend to be backdrop, tensions are generated begins afresh. Now let us see who he is and against Pakistani terrorism, he o f p r o p a g a n d a w a s s o people against him after he resigned religious dogmas.

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PBI in Indian Parliamentary Elections 2014 Amra Bengali and Proutist Sarva Samaj Bhubaneswar ( Odisha ) : First time Proutist in the Elections Bloc, India (PBI) tookpart in the recently concluded New Delhi : Two Proutist organisations – Amra Bengali and Proutist Sarva Samaj – have too contested in the Parliamentary elections in India. Votes obtained by Parliamentary elections. Some of their candidates have secured good number of votes. They however need to do lot of them is a clear message that they have a long way to go efforts for success in the contest. Hopefully they will not lag behind and will work with greater determination in future and that they have to work very hard in order to get elections for success. Following is their result : success at the hustings. When our correspondent interviewed the three Constituency Candidate Party Votes candidates, they had exuded confidence that they will Dhanbad Mantosh Kumar Mandal Amra Bangalee 3413 attain success in the next general elections to be held Jamshedpur Angad Mahato Amra Bangalee 12632 five years hence. Tripura East Smt Subarnamala Debbarma Amra Bangalee 4152 When asked about the reason of their confidence, Tripura West Rakhal Raj Datta Amra Bangalee 2879 their reply was almost the same. They said they had Bangaon Tarapada Biswas Amra Bangalee 2848 contested this election without any work in their Coochbehar Dalendra Nath Ray Amra Bangalee 4169 constituency, and had only about 12 days for Prof. Kulmani Nayak Shankar Lal Agrawalla Darjeeling Niranjan Saha Amra Bangalee 2029 campaigning. Whatever votes they received shows Bhuvaneswar Constituency Sambalpur Constituency Ghatal Goutam Kouri Amra Bangalee 5547 support for Proutistic views. People have appreciated 1128 votes 3110 votes Jalpaiguri Dhirendra Nath Roy Amra Bangalee 2835 the ideas and want us to continue the work for people's cause. Shankar Lal was throughout in vibrant mood, and felt Jangipur Dhananjay Banerjee Amra Bangalee 3019 confident of victory in the next election after experiencing people's mood during electoral campaign. Jhargram Rampada Hansda Amra Bangalee 8478 Kolkata Dakshin Hitangshu Banerjee Amra Bangalee 2921 Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Maldaha Uttar Bishnupada Barman Amra Bangalee 4225 Muzaffarpur ( Bihar ) : Neelu Singh had campaigned in the election very Medinipur Ashok Bera Amra Bangalee 7883 hard since morning 6 am to night 10 pm with her small team of 4-5 persons. She Murshidabad Swapan Kumar Mandal Amra Bangalee 4260 Dr. Kulmani Nayak Shankar Lal Agrawala Dolakar Bhoi Aditya Pradhan was not satisfied with the result, and felt lack of proper infrastructure Raiganj Nandakishor Singha Amra Bangalee 3338 Acting Chairman of Odisha State PBI Sambalpur Parliamentary Constituency Deogarh Assembly Constituency Kantamal Assembly Constituency throughout the constituency was the main reason of her poor showing. She Hazaribagh Pramod Kumar Mahtha Pragatisheel Magahi Samaj 3076 Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency Symbol : Flute Kosal Samaja Symbol : Flute Kosal Samaja Symbol : Gas Cylinder Kosal Samaja therefore felt need to concentrate on building the structure of PBI till village Katihar Satyanarayan Bhagat Proutist Sarva Samaj 2550 level , which will in all probability bring her success in the next election. She Khagaria Tej Bahadur Singh Proutist Sarva Samaj 4053 will therefore not sit idle, and will constantly work for the redressal of people's Ujiarpur Vindeshwari Sahni Proutist Sarva Samaj 7969 grievances. Bhopal Rajaram Mehar Proutist Sarva Samaj -- Dr. Neelu Singh Muzaffarpur Constituency 2271 votes “Education for Peace: Widening our circle of love in all directions” PBI in Odisha Assembly General Elections 2014 Global Conference on Neohumanist Education Bhuwaneswar : The six candidates fielded by PBI in the Assembly General Elections 2014 which was Caracas, Venezuela April 14-18, 2014 simultaneously held with Parliamentary Elections, could not make impressive performance. They have to do much more to get desired result. Following is their vote count: The first Global Conference on 1. Aditya Pradhan (PBI ) : 2791 Neohumanist Education held in Caracas, 1 2 3 His position was fifth amongst the 11 Venezuela concluded with much inspiration candidates who were contesting from this and positive interactions among educators, Hrisikesh Sadangi Khageswar Bal Pitambar Bhuiyan Chandramani Dehuri constituency. social activists and project coordinators Bhubaneswar North Assembly Constituency Bhubaneswar Ekamra Assembly Constituency Bhubaneswar Central Assembly Constituency Telkoi Assembly Constituency Following parties were positioned below from South and North America and Europe. Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja ( Keonjhar District ) Symbol : Flute Utkal Samaja him : Kosal Kranti Dal : 1630 votes / It was co-sponsored by the Prout Research Paschimanchal Vikas Party : 868 votes / Institute of Venezuela and Ananda Marga Aam Admi Party : 847 votes / Bahujan Gurukula. Samaj Party : 845 votes / Odisha Jan On Monday, April 14, more than 180 Morcha :697 votes participants came to the science faculty 2. Chandramani Dehuri :1264 votes auditorium at the largest and oldest educational institute in the country, the 4 5 6 3. Dolakar Bhoi ( PBI ) :795 votes Universidad Central de Venezuela, for an all 4. Pitambar Bhuyia ( PBI ) : 71 votes day program, to hear dynamic speakers Following three Parties were below him in from around the world. Presentations respect of vote count : Samajwadi Party: included cutting edge holistic educational 65 votes / Trinamool Congress : 62 votes / initiatives that are taking place in Brazil, CPI ( ML ) : 40 votes Colombia, Denmark, India, Venezuela and the United States. Professor Iraida Sulbaran of UCV and Dada Shambhushivananda, Chancellor of Ananda Marga 5. Khageswar Bal ( PBI ) : 69 votes Gurukula, gave the welcoming remarks. At the end of the day, beautiful printed certificates of attendance were given to 6. Hrisikesh Sadangi (PBI) : 67 votes all participants.

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46 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 47 PROUT | October 2013 PBI Agitation at Ghatanji, Vidharbha PBI, Vidarbha under the leadership of Madhukar Nistane, held agitation against the inaction of Municipal Council, Ghatanji on 16th May, 2014. They were demanding to get the debris and sewer lines cleaned before the rainy season, which otherwise leads to flooding of city area in case of heavy rains. This is a cause for great inconvenience to the inhabitants of the area and the stagnant water becomes breeding ground for life threatening diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Diarrhoea etc. Eric Jacobson Dada Shambhushivananda Ole Brekke Dada Maheshvarananda Mary Jane Glassman Also they urged the Municipal Council to take up issues related to other civic amenities including roads and sanitation on urgent basis. The first day’s speakers were as follows: 1. “Introduction to Neohumanist Education” by Eric Jacobson, Director Progressive School of Long Island, NY, USA 2. “Education in the Barrios of Sao Paolo, Brasil” by Didi Ananda Jaya Proutist Bloc India – Voice of the Oppressed 3. “Puppets in Education” by Nora Manrique, Lecturer of Culture in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela 4. “Neohumanist School of Caracas” by Didi Ananda Amegha PBI unit of Vidarbha is striving hard to voice the genuine 5. “Project Peru” by Didi Ananda Muktivrata demands of the local people. In the same vein, Madhukar Nistane, 6. “Project Porto Alegre” by Edeliane Rios and Fabricio L. Viana the PBI leader organised a mass movement 'Bemuddat Dharna 7. “Ecological and Community Education in Bogota, Colombia” by Jorge Sanchez Andolan' in association with other social organisations of Ghatanji 8. “The Transformative Power of Neohumanist Education in Social Change” by Dada Maheshvarananda, to demonstrate against the corrupt practices of Government Director of the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela officials, on May 23rd, 2014. 9. “Plasticine in Education” by Ricardo Saavedra They were demonstrating outside the Block Development 10. “Ananda Marga Gurukula” by Dada Shambhushivananda Officer's office, demanding justice for 700 farmers who were 11. “Centro Madre Community Project in Barlovento, Venezuela” by Didi Ananda Sadhana promised a grant of Rs. 2 lacs under MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi 12. “Theater in the Classroom” by Ole Brekke National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) against digging of 13. “Organic Agriculture Education” in Venezuela by Luisana Barico and wells in their areas. Inspite of the disbursal of funds, the money has Simon Avila of IUTY not reached its beneficiaries. They were demanding for the suspension of the corrupt officials who have already been 14. “Kaoshikii Dance” by Didi Ananda Amegha transferred. Agitators were assured by the authorities about quick redressal of their genuine demands. The event was 15. “Meditation for Teachers” by Mary Jane Glassman, Director of Morning Star Neohumanist Preschool, widely covered by the local media. Denver, Colorado, USA 16. “Circular Dances” by Dayse Dos Santos Seminar: Following this one-day program, fifty-two people attended the three-day intensive seminar held at the A Global Revolutionary Marriage Convention Quinta Prout. Seven Brazilian Neohumanist Schools in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre sent representatives to this meeting, plus the preschool in Lima, Peru and of course the preschool in Caracas, Venezuela. The conference presented on 7th and 8th of July 2014, at Patna a unique opportunity for them all to meet and share their experiences. Workshops included “Applying Neohumanism The propounder of Prout, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has made many contributions for the welfare of the society. to the Layers of a School” by Eric Jacobson, “How to Be the Most Effective Preschool Teacher in the World” by Mary Jane Glassman, “Five Petals of PRO U T (Progressive Utilization Theory) Based on Neohumanist Education” by Dr. One of them is revolutionary marriage with its unique system. The Revolutionary system has evolved in the back drop Shambhushivananda, Ole Brekke, Jorge Sanchez, Dada Maheshvarananda, Niliima, Edeliane Rios and Fabricio L. of the ideal marriage of the Shiva and Parvati. Both of them proved themselves as an asset of society while discharging Viana. their personal and family responsibility. Dada Shambhushivananda’s introduction to Ananda Marga Gurukula was followed by a group envisioning of Continuing with the same old tradition, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar encouraged inter-caste, interlingual, the future of Ananda Marga Gurukula through a “Grammar of Fantasy” by Ole Brekke. During this workshop pairs interstate, international marriages. He totally prohibited social ills viz. Dowry, Tilak and Kanya'da'na. Instead He expanded their imaginations and using fantasy explored possible futures of Gurukula 500 years in the future, then 100 redefined the concept of marriage to honour the independence of the opinion of the bride as well as the groom and years in the future and then finally focused on the present exploring the possibilities for the global network of Gurukula awakening a new sense of social responsibility. today. Much fun and inspiration were enjoyed by all. It must be accepted that even the so called progressive humanity of the twenty second century has failed to Evening programs included presentations of the projects of Didi Ananda Jaya, Didi Ananda Muktivrata, Didi establish a genuine indivisible society worthy of its name. The divisiveness and discrimination based on caste, high Ananda Sadhana and Didi Ananda Amegha. and low, rich and poor, developed and undeveloped and black and white is constantly weakening and eating up into the Much inspiration was shared during the closing ceremony. Here are two of the comments: vitals of human society. The illusion of false prestige of money power, and consequential social evils of tilak, and “One month before the conference I had a dream in which many people were dancing in an auditorium with the dowry, and Kanya'da'na (as if our children are commodities for sale in the market place) has caused the loss of the colors of the rainbow. When I saw the poster for this conference with the colors of the rainbow, I was very happy. And purity and glory of the pious marriage relation. That is why the Revolutionary Marriage System proposed by Shrii when at the end of the conference in the university auditorium we did circular dancing on the stage and then together Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar is a strong step towards social goodwill and unity. sang the song, “Venezuela”, I realized that my dream had come true.” The first revolutionary marriage was performed in His presence on 8th July 1960. On that historical occasion He “I am very grateful for the organizing staff, the support, the rich learning in the lectures, the wonderful food, the planted the seeds of a revolutionary movement for social justice. Following this event thousands of couples around the kiirtan, meditation and to meet everyone. I leave with great affection and memories of all.” world got inspired and adopted this revolutionary marriage system. And this process has continued through many Complementary programs during week included a trip on April 7th with 70 people to the local Botanical inspired boys and girls and among the children of these couples. Gardens where Shrii PR Sarkar had visited. Dada Shambhushivananda gave a public talk to 70 students and teachers at To re-energize this socio-spiritual movement, many efforts have been made in the last 58 years. A Global the International School, and to 50 students and professors at the Pedagogical Institute. A bus trip to visit Centro Madre Revolutionary Marriage Convention is being organised on 7th and 8th of July 2014 at Patna, in which all the Master Unit on Friday, April 18 had 30 participants. Ole Brekke gave a one-day clown workshop to 41 very revolutionary married couples and many prospective girls and boys planning to get married are joining together to enthusiastic participants on Saturday, April 19. Four radio interviews took place before the event, two on Venezuelan make the event a success. Ways and means to popularize the movement for wider acceptance in the society will be National Radio. discussed in length. All are cordially invited.

48 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 49 PROUT | October 2013 PBI Agitation at Ghatanji, Vidharbha PBI, Vidarbha under the leadership of Madhukar Nistane, held agitation against the inaction of Municipal Council, Ghatanji on 16th May, 2014. They were demanding to get the debris and sewer lines cleaned before the rainy season, which otherwise leads to flooding of city area in case of heavy rains. This is a cause for great inconvenience to the inhabitants of the area and the stagnant water becomes breeding ground for life threatening diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Diarrhoea etc. Eric Jacobson Dada Shambhushivananda Ole Brekke Dada Maheshvarananda Mary Jane Glassman Also they urged the Municipal Council to take up issues related to other civic amenities including roads and sanitation on urgent basis. The first day’s speakers were as follows: 1. “Introduction to Neohumanist Education” by Eric Jacobson, Director Progressive School of Long Island, NY, USA 2. “Education in the Barrios of Sao Paolo, Brasil” by Didi Ananda Jaya Proutist Bloc India – Voice of the Oppressed 3. “Puppets in Education” by Nora Manrique, Lecturer of Culture in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela 4. “Neohumanist School of Caracas” by Didi Ananda Amegha PBI unit of Vidarbha is striving hard to voice the genuine 5. “Project Peru” by Didi Ananda Muktivrata demands of the local people. In the same vein, Madhukar Nistane, 6. “Project Porto Alegre” by Edeliane Rios and Fabricio L. Viana the PBI leader organised a mass movement 'Bemuddat Dharna 7. “Ecological and Community Education in Bogota, Colombia” by Jorge Sanchez Andolan' in association with other social organisations of Ghatanji 8. “The Transformative Power of Neohumanist Education in Social Change” by Dada Maheshvarananda, to demonstrate against the corrupt practices of Government Director of the Prout Research Institute of Venezuela officials, on May 23rd, 2014. 9. “Plasticine in Education” by Ricardo Saavedra They were demonstrating outside the Block Development 10. “Ananda Marga Gurukula” by Dada Shambhushivananda Officer's office, demanding justice for 700 farmers who were 11. “Centro Madre Community Project in Barlovento, Venezuela” by Didi Ananda Sadhana promised a grant of Rs. 2 lacs under MGNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi 12. “Theater in the Classroom” by Ole Brekke National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme) against digging of 13. “Organic Agriculture Education” in Venezuela by Luisana Barico and wells in their areas. Inspite of the disbursal of funds, the money has Simon Avila of IUTY not reached its beneficiaries. They were demanding for the suspension of the corrupt officials who have already been 14. “Kaoshikii Dance” by Didi Ananda Amegha transferred. Agitators were assured by the authorities about quick redressal of their genuine demands. The event was 15. “Meditation for Teachers” by Mary Jane Glassman, Director of Morning Star Neohumanist Preschool, widely covered by the local media. Denver, Colorado, USA 16. “Circular Dances” by Dayse Dos Santos Seminar: Following this one-day program, fifty-two people attended the three-day intensive seminar held at the A Global Revolutionary Marriage Convention Quinta Prout. Seven Brazilian Neohumanist Schools in Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre sent representatives to this meeting, plus the preschool in Lima, Peru and of course the preschool in Caracas, Venezuela. The conference presented on 7th and 8th of July 2014, at Patna a unique opportunity for them all to meet and share their experiences. Workshops included “Applying Neohumanism The propounder of Prout, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar has made many contributions for the welfare of the society. to the Layers of a School” by Eric Jacobson, “How to Be the Most Effective Preschool Teacher in the World” by Mary Jane Glassman, “Five Petals of PRO U T (Progressive Utilization Theory) Based on Neohumanist Education” by Dr. One of them is revolutionary marriage with its unique system. The Revolutionary system has evolved in the back drop Shambhushivananda, Ole Brekke, Jorge Sanchez, Dada Maheshvarananda, Niliima, Edeliane Rios and Fabricio L. of the ideal marriage of the Shiva and Parvati. Both of them proved themselves as an asset of society while discharging Viana. their personal and family responsibility. Dada Shambhushivananda’s introduction to Ananda Marga Gurukula was followed by a group envisioning of Continuing with the same old tradition, Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar encouraged inter-caste, interlingual, the future of Ananda Marga Gurukula through a “Grammar of Fantasy” by Ole Brekke. During this workshop pairs interstate, international marriages. He totally prohibited social ills viz. Dowry, Tilak and Kanya'da'na. Instead He expanded their imaginations and using fantasy explored possible futures of Gurukula 500 years in the future, then 100 redefined the concept of marriage to honour the independence of the opinion of the bride as well as the groom and years in the future and then finally focused on the present exploring the possibilities for the global network of Gurukula awakening a new sense of social responsibility. today. Much fun and inspiration were enjoyed by all. It must be accepted that even the so called progressive humanity of the twenty second century has failed to Evening programs included presentations of the projects of Didi Ananda Jaya, Didi Ananda Muktivrata, Didi establish a genuine indivisible society worthy of its name. The divisiveness and discrimination based on caste, high Ananda Sadhana and Didi Ananda Amegha. and low, rich and poor, developed and undeveloped and black and white is constantly weakening and eating up into the Much inspiration was shared during the closing ceremony. Here are two of the comments: vitals of human society. The illusion of false prestige of money power, and consequential social evils of tilak, and “One month before the conference I had a dream in which many people were dancing in an auditorium with the dowry, and Kanya'da'na (as if our children are commodities for sale in the market place) has caused the loss of the colors of the rainbow. When I saw the poster for this conference with the colors of the rainbow, I was very happy. And purity and glory of the pious marriage relation. That is why the Revolutionary Marriage System proposed by Shrii when at the end of the conference in the university auditorium we did circular dancing on the stage and then together Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar is a strong step towards social goodwill and unity. sang the song, “Venezuela”, I realized that my dream had come true.” The first revolutionary marriage was performed in His presence on 8th July 1960. On that historical occasion He “I am very grateful for the organizing staff, the support, the rich learning in the lectures, the wonderful food, the planted the seeds of a revolutionary movement for social justice. Following this event thousands of couples around the kiirtan, meditation and to meet everyone. I leave with great affection and memories of all.” world got inspired and adopted this revolutionary marriage system. And this process has continued through many Complementary programs during week included a trip on April 7th with 70 people to the local Botanical inspired boys and girls and among the children of these couples. Gardens where Shrii PR Sarkar had visited. Dada Shambhushivananda gave a public talk to 70 students and teachers at To re-energize this socio-spiritual movement, many efforts have been made in the last 58 years. A Global the International School, and to 50 students and professors at the Pedagogical Institute. A bus trip to visit Centro Madre Revolutionary Marriage Convention is being organised on 7th and 8th of July 2014 at Patna, in which all the Master Unit on Friday, April 18 had 30 participants. Ole Brekke gave a one-day clown workshop to 41 very revolutionary married couples and many prospective girls and boys planning to get married are joining together to enthusiastic participants on Saturday, April 19. Four radio interviews took place before the event, two on Venezuelan make the event a success. Ways and means to popularize the movement for wider acceptance in the society will be National Radio. discussed in length. All are cordially invited.

48 June 2014 | PROUT PROUT | June 2014 49 PROUT | October 2013 PRABHAT SAMGIITA { Song No. 55 } Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

NO ONE IS ALIEN TO US

SUR SAPTAKE MÁDHURI- BHARI, Filling the seven notes with sweetness, MORÁ, EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁI Singing songs of moving ahead MANA MANDIRE MAMATÁ- MÁKHI, BOLI, Because we spread tenderness KEU TO MODER PAR NÁI In the temple of the mind, MORÁ, EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁI No one is alien to us.

DYULOKER JATA PULAK RÁ-SHI, All celestial joys BHU-LO-KETE NÁCICHE Á-JI Dance on the earth today. SAPTA LOKER JATA SUDHÁ RÁSHI, All nectar of the seven worlds EKÁKÁR HOYE GECHE BHÁ--I Dissolves, becoming one, brother. MORÁ, EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁ--I Pouring out the honeyed scent MADHU CAMPAK SURABHI- D́HÁLI, Of magnolia blossoms SABÁI KE PRAŃATI JÁNÁ-I- We offer salutations EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁI, MORÁ, To everyone. EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁI SUR SAPTAKE MÁDHURI- BHARI, MORÁ, EGIE CALÁR GÁN GÁI (Translated from original Bengali)

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ETERNAL SONG OF The Proutists - Shrii P.R. Sarkar Morality is the demand of the day. 'Prout' - the cry of the suffering humanity. Wise you be, may not or may, If sincere, success a certainty. Fee fy fo fum. Expel the demons from physical stratum. Fee fy fo fum. Expel the exploiters from economic stratum. Fee fy fo fum. Expel the brutes from psychic stratum. Fee fy fo fum. Expel the parasites from spiritual stratum. Human body is to serve one and all, Human mind to attend Cosmic Call, Human spirit at the altar Supreme, Surrender and be Supreme.

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