Society Building

18/11/2025

But one secret you should know, when the physical body is properly exercised for its development, and the mental body is neglected, those physically strong people will become a bit deficient intellectually. So in that respect it is a bit harmful.
There should be an adjustment between physical development and psychic development; that is, along with physical exercise for development of the physical body there should be psychic exercises for development of the psychic body.
And if physical exercises go on generation after generation, what will happen? The cranium itself will become smaller in size, as a result of which the brain will also be smaller and intellectual faculties will go on lessening.

Do you follow me? There should be proper exercise of your physical body, of your psychic body, and also of your spiritual body. A man may be physically strong, and by dint of proper psychic exercise he may be psychically strong, but if there is no spiritual practice he will be no better than a plant, and such persons are called “satans” of the society – they are polished satans.
They are, in common mass language, known as “hypocrites”. So there should be samyak vyáyáma, proper exercise of your physical body, your psychic body, and also of your spiritual body.

Shrii Shrii Ánandamurtii
Ananda vacanamrtam part 12.
Chapter 28
Astaunga Marga

14/11/2025

𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲'𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

Sing in the shower.
Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated.
Watch a sunrise at least once a year.
Never refuse homemade brownies.
Strive for excellence, not perfection.
Plant a tree on your birthday.
Learn three clean jokes.
Return borrowed vehicles with the gas tank full.
Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
Leave everything a little better than you found it.
Keep it simple.
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Be forgiving on yourself and others.
Say "thank you" a lot.
Say "please" a lot.
Avoid negative people.
Wear polished shoes.
Remember other people's birthdays.
Commit yourself to constant improvement.
Have a firm handshake.
Send lots of valentine cards, sign them.
Look people in the eye.
Be the first to say "hello."
Return all things you borrow.
Make new friends but cherish the old ones.
Keep secrets.
Plant flowers every spring.
Have a dog.
Always accept an outstretched hand.
Stop blaming others.
Take responsibility for every area of your life.
Wave at kids on school buses.
Be there when people need you.
Don't expect life to be fair.
Never underestimate the power of love.
Drink champagne for no reason at all.
Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.
Don't be afraid to say. "I made a mistake."
Don't be afraid to say, "I don't know."
Compliment even small improvements.
Keep your promises no matter what.
Marry only for love.
Rekindle old friendships.
Count your blessings.
Call your mother
And your dad too, if they happen to be alive.

(Given by a 95- year -old friend named William Snell, 1993.)

10/11/2025

TRANSITORY RELATIONSHIPS
FROM ADVENT OF MYSTERY
Demonstrations relating to reincarnation were a commonplace occurrence in Jamalpur. On many occasions Baba showed the past lives of different sadhakas. There was a special reason behind these demonstrations. Their purpose was to show how a particular trait or an inborn skill in a person's present life was inextricably linked to qualities he had possessed in his past life. The demonstrations also revealed the transitory nature of human relationships and had the objective of inspiring the Margis to try to establish a permanent relationship with the Supreme Entity.
Damayanti came from a village in Monghyr District; she had lost her young son to a fatal disease. Even after the passage of more than a year, she could not get over the acute grief she felt due to the loss of her child and looked for solace in sadhana. She also regularly attended Baba's Sunday darshans, where she would often see Baba giving demonstrations about the Margis' past, present and future lives.
Damayanti had a friend named Kamini. She would often confide in Kamini her grief about the loss of her son. Kamini was a regular visitor to the jagrti where she sold snacks. Out of sympathy for her deep anguish, Kamini informed Baba about Damayanti's distress during one of the darshans.
She pleaded with him, "Baba, she is not able to get over the loss of her son. He was her only child. Please do something to comfort her."
While Kamini was speaking to Baba, Damayanti was overcome by strong emotions and she fell at Baba's feet, crying inconsolably.When Kamini tried to pull her away, Baba stopped her saying, "Let her grief get expressed through her tears."
After she calmed down a little, Baba started his discourse. In his talk he explained that every animate and inanimate entity moves according to its own speed. Owing to the variation in momentum, the relationship between two entities cannot last forever. Everything that comes together moves together for a certain period but is destined to separate one day. In the case of developed living beings, this separation causes pain.
Baba then instructed Dasharath to concentrate his mind on his Ishta chakra. Touching the back of his head, Baba asked him to see the fate ofDamayanti's son. After a moment's concentration Dasharath said, "I see that he has been reborn and is now a small baby boy."
"Enter the mind of the baby and see whether he misses his previous family. Find out whether he would want to come back to the mother of his previous birth, if it were somehow possible."
"Baba, the baby is very happy where he is, as he gets a lot of love and affection in his new family. He would not like to be disturbed or taken away from his present environment. He is not thinking about his previous family at all."
"What is the baby's future?"
"The family is affluent. He has a bright future."
"Where has he been reborn?"
"In Guwahati. The name of the family is ...
Precisely at that moment, before he could finish his sentence,Baba pulled away his hand from Dasharath's head, withdrawing his ability to continue to see into the future of the child.
"If you reveal the location and the name of the family, Damayanti will go there and try to locate the child," he said. "That will cause needless distress to her and to the family of the child in Guwahati. It will also affect the development of the child's personality as he grows up. He will experience an identity conflict if he is told about his previous life.
That is why Nature does not allow anyone to know about their past lives."
Baba continued, "Like this, every life is just one of innumerable links in the chain of birth and death.
Everyone comes for a certain,fixed period of time and then departs according to his or her samskaras. Thus every relationship lasts for only a short period. It is the samskaras that propel this movement and decide the speed. No two entities can move together at the same speed forever. One has to move ahead, leaving the other behind in tears. It is like a train journey. Suppose you are travelling from Calcutta to Delhi by the Kalka Mail. A person gets on the train at Burdwan and sits down next to you. He is going to Chandigarh, and on the way you tall a lot together. You share your parathas, vegetables and sandesh with him.
"He says, 'I have some delicious mihirdana, the sweet for which our Burdwan is famous. Please take some.'
“As you travel, a certain fondness for each other may develop. On reaching Delhi you say, 'I must get down here."'
"Then you exchange addresses.
"'Please come to Chandigarh some time.'
"Yes, we will meet again. Do visit me whenever you come to Delhi.'
"But the fact is that this relationship that developed during the short period you were together ends there. Neither do you bother to go to Chandigarh to see him nor does he come to visit you when he comes to Delhi. You have different rhythms and goals in life and you move accordingly. Such are the relationships we form during the course of our lives.
Due to love for each other, people vow to remain together for several lives. But the reality is that their relationship ends in separation.
"Guided by their individual samskaras, people move according to their own speed and direction. While you are together you have to discharge your responsibilities to each other. But don't regard this relationship as a permanent one. The only permanent relationship you have is with Parama Purusha. He has been with you all the time since the moment your mind evolved from matter some hundreds of millions of years ago. He was with you during the innumerable lives that you have passed through in the course of your evolution. He is with you now and He will be with you until you merge with Him forever. So establish a bond with Parama Purusha and look at everyone else as only His temporary expression."
Damayanti left the jagrti feeling great solace that her son was happy where he was. After listening to Baba's discourse, she also developed a clearer understanding about the transitory nature of all human relationships and of the fact that God alone is our permanent friend, relative and fellow traveller..

17/02/2025

07/08/2024

BABA'S STORY
By: Dada Shivananda

At one time in Madras, some margiis of Balakrsna Goenka family told me that Ba’ba’ showed so many things before. So many miracles but lately He stopped showing miracles.
And they said, “The government is not convinced, people are not convinced and many of them opposed Ananda Marga. Ba’ba’ should show some miracles to convince them”.
I said, “ Ba’ba’ has never shown any miracles to people when He is asked by anyone”. His spiritual teachings are miracles. So it is not in our hands to desire or request miracles from the Guru. He will not do it under any compulsion.
There was a program that day and some of the children of Balakrsnaji went to a hotel. I did not go with them. Then the heavy rain poured down and they all came back and told me the rain spoiled the program. They said, “ Dada how can we watch the show when it is raining?”
Suddenly, I heard the voice of Ba’ba’ saying, “Shivananda, tell them to do sadhana (Meditation) for an hour”. I did not understand what Ba’ba’ told me but instead I told them that, “ Since we have a car, let us go to the seashore”. Bharatji, one the sons of Balakrsna replied that, “Let us do what Dada says, lets us go to the sea”. So four of us, Shrii Bhagavan, Bharat Kumar, Kamalesh and myself went to the seashore instead of the program. When we reached the seashore, the rain had stopped. We all got out of the car, I told Shrii Bhagavan and Bharat Kumar that, “ Look at that, it is indeed surprising. The dark clouds are moving and breaking away. We sat down for sadhana after which we went back to the car and drove home. Just when we entered the car, it started drizzling and when we reached the house the
rain dropped down like cats and dogs. everybody were amazed. They were surprised how a modern day miracle was given by Ba’ba’.
I then told them that, “Ba’ba’ does miracles to make us happy and understand His cosmic liila and spirituality. He doesn't want to do miracles
for miracles sake”.

11/05/2024

Who do you want to be?
Abhidhyana or Ajinani.
Abhidhyána means withdrawing yourself from all transitoriness of this world and goading that withdrawn propensity or those withdrawn propensities into the Nirakśara (Taraka Brahma).

09/05/2024

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07/05/2024

Preyaskará Yá buddhih sá buddhih pránaghátinii
Shreyaskará yá buddhih sá buddhih mokśadáyinii.
Suppose, a man has no devotion or love for the Supreme, but he is a jiṋánii, an intellectual. ..
But jiṋána without Paramátmá is like the skin of a banana. It is not the real banana, it is the skin of a banana. One will get no taste from it. His knowledge is not parávidyá, his knowledge is aparávidyá, that is, his relative knowledge pertains to the crude materialism. This type of crude material knowledge concerned with the crude materialism has done much harm to human society during the last one century. It has misguided the entire human society, it has converted human beings into animals. Indeed, animals also have been exploited by the propounders of these crude philosophies.