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   [3] Baba daily met with different groups of workers to review the progress of   
   Ananda Marga's social service work around the world. During these reporting   
   sessions He pressured us to do more, taught us many different things,   
   individually corrected and    
   blessed us, and also made us laugh and relax.   
      
   [4] Baba explained in Human Society Part II that the Vaesnavas and the Sufis   
   both drew their inspiration from Tantra. Sufism came to India with the Muslim   
   conquest. When Islam clashed with the Persian civilization, Islam won   
   physically. Yet the vacuum in    
   Islamic thought was filled with Sufi ideas. The Taj Mahal is a Persian form of   
   Islamic art. Though Islamic ideas were in juxtaposition with Indian ideas for   
   many centuries, their influence on Indian thought was meager. Sufi spiritual   
   ideas were, however,    
   already present in India in the form of Vaesnava philosophy. These two   
   spiritual trends enriched each other and took root in the minds of the Indian   
   people.   
      
   [5] This is the Hindu concept of God descending to earth in bodily form.   
      
   [6] Generally, in the history of India, spiritual or sentient people did not   
   use force to protect themselves or the weak. Virtuous persons were considered   
   physically weak and therefore a physically powerful person had to be present   
   to protect them. For    
   example, in 1857 a sannyasii, who had been observing maona (silence) for 18   
   years, was bayoneted to death by an English soldier because he did not reply   
   to the soldier's questions. While dying the sannyasii said, "You are Brahma   
   who has appeared as a    
   soldier and who kills me." Krs'n'a urged the virtuous kings of his day to   
   fight against their malevolent kinsfolk. In my vision also, I understood that   
   devotion (bhakti) should be protected from the evil intentions of   
   non-spiritual people and that to    
   achieve this end, force (shakti) should be used if necessary.   
      
   [7] Baba founded Renaissance Universal (RU) in the late 1950's as a public   
   forum for intellectual discussion and debate of new social and scientific   
   ideas. He served as President of the organization and gave regular discourses   
   on this platform that were    
   later compiled in the series, A Few Problems Solved.   
      
   [8] Microvita are subtle, subatomic entities which are the smallest emanations   
   of the Cosmic Faculty. Baba proposed this new scientific concept in 1986.   
      
   [9] Occult is derived from the word cult. Occult is that which is cultured or   
   acquired through the spiritual practices taught by a cult, an esoteric group   
   devoted to self realization.   
      
   [10] For a more complete account of the eight occult powers, the reader is   
   referred to Discourse XXIII, `Parthasarathi Krs'n'a and Bhakti-Tattva' in   
   Namami Krs'n'a Sundaram by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, pub Ananda Marga 1981.   
      
   [11] As a footnote to this story, in 1968 Tej Karan took his only son, a   
   graduate, to visit Baba offering that he could become a WT (whole-timer   
   worker). Baba declined the offer gracefully saying that WT's are person's   
   already selected at birth. They are    
   born from time to time to join His mission.   
      
   [12] Baba declared 1969 to be 'Sadhana Year' and He conducted all sorts of   
   demonstrations that year.   
      
   [13] Her application for the Nobel prize was submitted in 1954, but was   
   neglected by the scientific community because she was a woman.   
      
   [14] Dagdhabiija means that the seeds of all one's sam'skaras are burnt by the   
   grace of the omniscient Master.   
      
   [15] DMC means Dharma Maha Cakra, a large spiritual gathering held at least   
   twice a year at which Baba used to deliver a major discourse.   
      
   [16] The yogic practices of strict vegetarian diet, asana postures and   
   pran'ayama breath control gradually purify the nerves and glands of the body,   
   allowing one to experience higher states of spiritual bliss.   
      
   [17] The Sixteen Points are a set of physical, intellectual, social and   
   spiritual practices of Ananda Marga that promote all round health and personal   
   development.   
      
   [18] An intense love for the Supreme, epitomized by Radha, the idealized   
   consort of the boy Krs'n'a.   
      
   [19] Some scientists now point to the hormone melatonin, a nocturnal secretion   
   of the pineal gland, as a possible source of this spiritual bliss.   
      
   [20] Idea and Ideology, Chapter 7, "Life, Death and Samskara".   
      
   [21] Sudarshan cakra was a hand thrown disk that Krs'n'a used during battle.   
   It had a saw-tooth circumference with magnets attached. I once asked Baba   
   about it. He said that the magnetic power was used to retrieve the disk after   
   throwing.   
      
   [22] Anandanagar is a huge rural development project of Ananda Marga in   
   Purulia District, West Bengal, India. It is also a tremendously vibrated   
   spiritual centre, where many great tantrics practiced sadhana and achieved   
   liberation as far back as 15,000    
   years ago. The author lives there now.   
      
   [23] The first name given to the Gurukula University was Bhagavat Dharma   
   University. For more information on Bhagavat Dharma, see next appendix, Baba’s   
   Namah Shivaya Shantaya: Shivokti 11.   
      
   [24] "The dharma to attain the Supreme" – Trans.   
      
      
      
      
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