(April 19, 2014 at 10:18 am)enrico Wrote: 1) My spiritual teacher is the late P.R.Sarkar.
I answer your question as a mean of courtesy but i am sure that
rasetsu now will start barking and telling that i proselytize.
2) Nothing to do with religions like Hinduism.
He was teaching Yoga.
3) Yes, there is a website.
If i would indicate to you the dogs would bark again
accusing me of proselytize.
Have a good day anyway.
Thank you for answering my question. I can now get a better idea of what you're talking about by going to the website etc.
I found this on the website - Spiritual Philosophy
Quote:The spiritual philosophy of Ananda Marga recognizes that God is one, and that the universe is the creation of His mental thought-waves. Thus it is said: "Brahma is the absolute truth, and the universe is also truth, but relative."
Brahma is a Hindu concept.
Tantra
Quote:Tantra[note 1] is the name given by scholars to a style of meditation and ritual which arose in India no later than the 5th century AD.[1] The earliest documented use of the word "Tantra" is in the Rigveda (X.71.9).[2] Tantra has influenced the Hindu, Bön, Buddhist, and Jain traditions and silk road transmission of Buddhism that spread Buddhism to East and Southeast Asia.[3]
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar[note 2] describes a tantric individual and a tantric cult:
A person who, irrespective of caste, creed or religion, aspires for spiritual expansion or does something concrete, is a Tantric. Tantra in itself is neither a religion nor an "ism". Tantra is a fundamental spiritual science. So wherever there is any spiritual practice it should be taken for granted that it stands on the Tantric cult."[6]
So, the meditation technique originated in India and he used as least one Hindu term to express a concept. This isn't really surprising seeing as he came from India. Brahma is also a useful term because it means his idea of God is nothing like the monotheistic deity of Judaism/Christianity/Islam.
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