Some Clarifications

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

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

• in a family of a Muslim fakir and
• as Ram Chandra Upadhyaya.

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

These two 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.

This act was given under inverted commas only with a view that everyone should know that it was revealed by Reverend Baba Himself, and nothing was added to it by me.

Even then, I learned that this fact has hurt the sentiments of some of my brothers despite my best efforts to reproduce it in the same words of Reverend Baba.

I am neither a writer nor a critic.

I do not have the required knowledge of writing and that too, about Revered Baba.

With this view in my mind 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 were not at all prepared to extend any realisation to your order and finding no way out I had to comply. You also insisted and wanted me to write in Hindi only as Reverend Baba always used to talk with me in Hindi. You were of the opinion that translation in any other language would not have been a faithful reproduction of Baba’s dialogue.

You left my place fully satisfied. But in absence of any clarification published so far, some more brothers expressed their views of not relishing and 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.

Such indigents of excesses must have offended very much the feelings of every Margii brother. 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?