Some Clarifications on Previous Births of Baba

[An Editor’s note in Prajina Bharati October 1983]

There has been some confusion regarding 2 previous births of Baba:

1. In a family of a Muslim fakir
2. As Ram Chandra Upadhyaya

Actually, Anandamurtiji and Prabhat Ranjain Sarkar are two different entities.

These 2 births have been referred to Shrii Prabhat Ranjain Sarkar.

Baba writes that Taraka Brahma is a devotional concept.*

• Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji is the Taraka Brahma.

Dear Editor,

Namaskar,

In the 9th installment of Ananda Katha published in your esteemed journal ‘Ananda Yuga’ for the month of May-June 1983 at page 19 under head Namami Baba Jagatharnam Vishwarupam I have mentioned about the previous 2 lives of Baba as He told to me in 1955 at Jamalpur.

It was revealed by Reverend Baba Himself. Nothing was added by me.

I learned that this fact has hurt the sentiments of some of my brothers.

This is why I requested you in the very beginning to spare me from this responsibility of writing Ananda Katha and to leave it as my treasure.

But you insisted.

You also insisted me to write in Hindi since Reverend Baba always used to talk with me in Hindi.

You thought that translation in any other language would not have been a faithful reproduction of Baba’s dialogue.

Some brothers expressed their views of not approving the idea of publishing the previous lives of Revered Baba.

It was conveyed to me twice by one Shrii Ramswarnathji and once by Acarya Shrii Vishwanathji of Muzaffarpur.

These questions that deserve a serious thought are:

1. Whatever I have reproduced about the previous 2 lives of Revered Baba was confirmed by Baba Himself.

For disciples, it is said in shastras that ‘Mantramulam Gururvakyam’, and will such discussions and talks of hurting the sentiments on the sayings of Revered Baba be in accordance with His honour?

2. Should the historical fact be ignored only because it may hurt the sentiments of someone?

3. During Emergency, very many excesses were done to the Marga and to Baba by the government itself.

Will such incidents be removed from the History of Ananda Marga only because it would hurt the sentiments of the Margii brothers?

4. At times, some disciples of Baba due to their very earnest and intense sadhana take Baba bhava and start feeling themselves to have become Baba Anandamurtiji.

Does it mean that they will also be called Mahakaul and Mahasambhuti like Revered Baba Anandamurtiji?

If not, will it not hurt their sentiments too?

5. Why some of the speeches (pravacan), compiled in forms of books of Reverend Baba are published in the name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurtiji while others in the name of Shri Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar?

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