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   The Upanishads say that the salt doll could not come back to tell how many   
   fathoms was the ocean. The secret esoteric texts support this, saying that   
   after attainment of the highest state of nirvikalpa samádhi, the body has to   
   be shed in three to seven,    
   or at the most 20 days. It is like an elephant trying to enter a small hut.   
   The hut (one's body) cannot accommodate such intense spiritual energy and it   
   disintegrates.   
      
   In Baba's case, however, His ensconcement in the Supreme state did not produce   
   a ripple. The salt doll never dissolved. He moved with ease through the ocean   
   and told us not only its depth but everything else about it. Baba was always   
   calm.   
      
   When asked how He could display such vast knowledge so effortlessly, He would   
   quip "I have an uncommonly developed common sense," and so lightly sidestep   
   the question.   
      
   Our modem age badly needed a worthy legacy of Shiva and Krs'n'a. Their   
   unfinished work needed a conclusion. Baba revived their forgotten   
   contributions in Namah Shivaya Shantaya and Namami Krs'n'a Sundaram. He also   
   added Neohumanism (The Liberation of    
   Intellect) as well as an appendix in the form of the Progressive Utilization   
   Theory (Prout).   
      
   In order to create this legacy Baba worked hard and suffered greatly. He   
   created the model of a new society with the active participation of both   
   householders and sannyasiis who mutually help each other. The sannyásiis take   
   spiritual care of the    
   householders, and they in turn provide the basic necessities of the   
   sannyasiis. For the protection of dharma, this mutual help is essential.   
      
   The beauty of this legacy has as its focal point a happy blending of oriental   
   sublimity and occidental dynamicity. What qualities are needed by those who   
   will carry this legacy into the future? He trained His sons and daughters to   
   be:   
      
   Nafz par kabu rahe   
   Aur dost banjaye zamir   
   Shan phir hogi ata   
   Sab se juda sab se alag.   
   With well-controlled nerve And conscience as friend, You glow in esteem   
   With intimacy to all and detachment from all.   
      
   During my posting in Himachal Pradesh, I met saints who lived alone and   
   remained aloof from our society. From them I came to know about a language   
   known as Sandya Bhasha in which the Prayoga Shas'tra, a practical Tantric cult   
   text, is written. During one    
   of Baba's Sunday darshans He talked about it and said that this language is   
   prevalent among the Tibetan yogis who call it charya pad   
      
   In the Mahabharata, there is a story of Yudhistira and a _yaks 'a (a luminous   
   being). More than a hundred and twenty questions are asked by the yaks 'a (who   
   was dharma in disguise) and Yudhistira answers all of them correctly. One of   
   the questions is:    
   what is the number that exceeds the combined number of all the floras and   
   grasses of this planet? Answer: the number of thoughts that pass through the   
   human mind!   
      
   One Ekádashii (fasting day) I was distracted by the thought of a particular   
   food item while travelling in a bus. I brushed the thought aside and chastised   
   myself (with a little pain) for stooping so low as to think about food on my   
   fasting day. I then    
   forgot it. After Baba came out of the jail, He took me to task for that   
   thought. He asked me to remember the actual occasion but I could not, even   
   after some effort. Then He touched my head with His stick and I remembered   
   instantly. I was amazed to    
   realize that He remembered every thought of mine, yet only with His power   
   could I remember my own thoughts!   
      
   During another reporting session, Baba asked Ac. Citkrs'n'ananda Avt. about   
   conversations he had when he was an engineering student in his hostel in   
   Coimbatore. He could not remember anything. Then Baba temporarily gave him a   
   special power to recollect    
   his conversations about a haunted room and many other matters with his   
   friends. He was amazed how Baba could do it.   
      
   Baba praised Gandharii of the Mahabharata. e told how when her son, the   
   immoral Duryodhana, went before the battle to receive her blessings of   
   victory, she only said, "Where there is Krs'n'a, there is dharma, and where   
   there is dharma, there is victory."    
   She did not give importance to filial love, but to dharma. Viewers of the   
   popular TV serial that was made of this epic may remember that this part was   
   included by the script writer, the late Mr. Rahi Mazum Raza. In fact I knew   
   Mr. Raza personally and he    
   happily included these lines after I mentioned them to him.   
      
   Once while I was talking with Baba in March or April of 1982, He traced my   
   ancestry back to 544 BC. He also described my home village perfectly, named   
   many of the local places and explained many local words. He illustrated how   
   each word and name evolved    
   out of the ancient history of the place and then became simplified. The things   
   He spoke about are known only superficially by the local people of my village,   
   yet He spoke in great detail. I think someday someone with a highly developed   
   intuition will    
   rediscover this knowledge. Some are in Baba's book, Varna Vicitra.   
      
   In Jamalpur, about February 1966, one new Acarya asked Baba, "When You know   
   everything, why do You ask questions of us?"   
      
   He replied, "My son, do you want that I not speak to you at all?"   
      
   In the early 1950's in Jamalpur, Baba carefully selected His disciples and   
   purposely maintained an aura of secrecy. At that time they could not   
   comprehend Baba's vision for the future of Ananda Marga because they were very   
   few, perhaps less than 50. His    
   plans seemed impossible to realize in their lifetime.   
      
   His extreme secrecy conveyed both a good and bad impression to the public. In   
   fact, His extreme aversion to public recognition was a special facet of His   
   mysterious existence. He told Harigovind Dada then, "Malicious propaganda is   
   the real propaganda."   
      
   In the early seventies when Baba was arrested and the most horrible slander   
   about Him and the organization was carried by the national and even world mass   
   media, He used to console me by saying that, "Apapracar is the real pracar."   
   This means that    
   negative reporting and sensationalism is a highly effective means of getting   
   well known.   
      
   Throughout His life He refused to meet journalists. He explained that He was a   
   spiritual Guru, not a politician, and so only gave audiences to initiated   
   Ananda Margiis. In this way He hid His multi-faceted divine expressions from   
   mass recognition; and He    
   left this earthly abode when His genius could remain hidden no more. The   
   recognition and the garlands He left for His disciples.   
      
   He did not want cunning and conceited people around Him. In March 1968 in   
   Ranchi He told me categorically that He did not want misdirected millionaires   
   and self-serving politicians to join Ananda Marga. He said, "Wherever they go,   
   they pollute society."    
   While good people welcome Ananda Marga, its strong moral stand causes   
   headaches for bad people. "Let all good people of the world love my sons and   
   daughters," He said.   
      
   Nevertheless, these last 28 years I have been wondering and worrying why such   
   a beautiful ideology and its founder should remain in oblivion. Once He told   
   me that India's main defect is that her leaders are over jealous. They never   
   allow others to come    
   to prominence. By hook or by crook they sabotage the emergence of any   
   independent great personality. So there was a concerted effort to undermine   
   the glory of Ananda Marga and keep the middle class intelligentsia away from   
   it.   
      
      
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