The redneck strike again.

[Confused Ape]

Humans are stuck in the physical-psycho world therefore it is obvious that the body and the mind are involved when spirituality take place.
When Sarkar explained that the .......the mind becomes apexed, pinnacled........he means that through spirituality you are able to control the mind so the mind stop wondering around and get concentrated allow you to go ahead with spirituality.

But he still called it psychology.

The psychological factor can not lead to spiritual progress as a hard drive of a computer can not add anything new to what you already add to it but when does not interfere with your concentration it will allow you to perform the spirituality unhindered.

The Ananda Marga Garakula site is Ananda Marga's educational branch. At the bottom of one of the website pages is this - Newsletter Issue 38

The real meaning of education is trilateral development – simultaneous development in the physical, mental and spiritual realms of human existence. This development should enhance the integration of the human personality. By this, dormant human potentialities will be awakened and put to proper use. Educated are those who have learnt much, remembered much and made use of their learning in practical life.

Emphasis should be given to moral education and the inculcation of idealism – not only philosophy and traditions. The practice of morality should be the most important subject in the syllabus at all levels.

The sense of universalism should also be awakened in the child. Etiquette and refined behaviour are not enough. Real education leads to a pervasive sense of love and compassion for all creation.

Shrii PR Sarkar

I then looked up what courses Garakula is running - Faculties.

Neohumanist Education
Yoga and Intuitional Science
Integrated Medicine
Socio-Economics (Prout)
Science of Microvita
Psychology
Women’s Studies
Philosophy
Music
Fine Arts
Ecology

Then there's the aims of the educational branch.

The blueprint for Ánanda Márga Gurukula includes over fifty faculties spanning the arts and sciences: from fine arts, literature, languages and history to physics, biology, medicine and engineering. Non-traditional subject areas are also included, such as intuitional science, morality, astrophysics, astrology, biopsychology and parapsychology to name just a few. The all-round self-development of the student is fundamental across all areas of study. Both theoretical and applied study is included in all disciplines with a focus on the application of learning to contemporary problems facing society: political, economic, social, educational, environmental, psychological, etc.

Maybe you'd better contact the educational branch and tell them they're teaching people all kinds of intellectual stuff which has nothing to do with spirituality.

It wouldn't sound nice to tell that the Jews holocaust was the direct consequence of crimes perpetrated in previous lives by these people or tell that a lovely girl was raped and killed because in previous life she was a man that did the same horrible thing to somebody else.
As you get deep in Sarkar philosophy you may understand a bit better how the system works.
In the meantime try not to rush to quick judgement.

Last night I watched an Ananda Marga documentary explaining what it was all about. There was a very heavy emphasis on service. There are Ananda Marga followers working in slums and poverty stricken areas of the world to improve people's lives. Belief in the system you're talking about isn't supposed to be a barrier to having love and compassion for all creation as it is at the moment. What you think an animal or human might have got up to in a past life isn't supposed to be a barrier to helping them in their current life.

Let's say that the system you're talking about is true. Is that any excuse for adopting a holier than thou attitude? "I've got a healthy body and a comfortable lifestyle so I must be more spiritually advanced than that blind, homeless beggar over there." It's up to the system to judge how spiritually advanced someone is and what they are to learn the next time round. Maybe that blind, homeless beggar had a healthy body and comfortable lifestyle last time round but he neglected love and compassion for all creation so now has to learn what it's like to be in need of love and compassion.

This topic has run for 113 pages. You've had many opportunities to mention Neohumanism and the PCAP organisation but you didn't. Why not?

It is up to you to investigate these issues if you like.

You're just dismissing them as issues? Neohumanism is the Ananda Marga philosophy while PCAP is an ecological organisation which Sarkar started back in the 1970's. It includes running animal sanctuaries.

I am not here to preach or to proselytizing.

Really? You surprise me. You have spent most of this topic preaching and proselytizing in barely comprehensible posts peppered with emoticons. What I've failed to pick up from your posts is any sense of compassion for animals suffering in factory farms and laboratories etc or any sense of compassion for people who are living miserable lives due to poverty and/or exploitation. The only thing you go on about is that they are probably suffering because of what they got up to in past lives.

When you will feel like entering the spiritual world then you will search and search until you will find what will give an answer to your question.

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I'm not interested in your version of spirituality. All it's come across as is trying to ensure you get a healthy body and comfortable lifestyle the next time round.

I shall now go back to learning more about what Ananda Marga is really about.