In my yogic path,
I have researched several yoga practices by different groups. I found
Ananda Marga meditation and yoga practices far advanced than any
others. Anybody doing Ananda Marga meditation will reach soon a state
where daily life becomes like constant meditation practice.
The six different
meditation lessons of AM develop one in different ways,opening the whole process of
self realization, but that is not enough one has to do also service
in order to progress on the spiritual path. Service means to
practically help others in different ways. If someone
doesn’t have enough food, one can’t concentrate on her mental or
spiritual development, in that case you have to offer food. If one is
mentally disturbed and unable to take care of oneself, you have to
offer psychic and health related services. If one is yarning for
spiritual elevation you have to offer spiritual inspiration and teach
methods for spiritual upliftment.
Now why service is so important in Ananda Marga? If you don’t help needy, your ego may grow up and you will become isolated yogi in ‘Himalayan loneliness’, which doesn’t benefit much humanity. Fortunately when you do Ananda Marga meditation practices it increases also naturally empathy for others, besides the company where everyone else is doing service inspires everyone to help.
Meditation
and Social Service
On the other hand
while doing meditation one is able to help better, to stand better
catastrophic situations, and it increases also creativity for finding ways to help. I
have myself worked on service projects, in children’s homes in
Africa and Romania and in collective farms meant to be
service centers.
Nowadays I also recommend service for those who have mental problems, because while they concentrate rather to others, they forget their own miseries, and also they get some feelings of gratitude coming from those served, and certainly by doing service own karma reduces.
Humanity is on
state where almost everyone starts to ponder questions like, who am I?
Where am I going? What is the purpose of life? That is the beginning state of awakening, it can be
also the beginning state of ascension if one chooses the positive
path. One can advance just by oneself, but in order to really advance
one needs a teacher. In Ananda Marga nuns and monks have dedicated
their life to teach yoga and meditation practices. They roam around
the world in about 150 countries. These yogis not only teach, but
they are also living examples what they teach. Family people in Ananda Marga might
not have that much time for service work, but they are
also participating many ways, and living yogic lifestyle.
Starkids and
psychics often seems to think that they don’t need to practice anything, and
if they need help their astral helpers and guides will teach and take
care of them. What I see they often have developed big ego, although
some of them do also meditation and service like Reiki or other
methods of psychic healing. If you just look at channeling webinars,
most participants just ask advises for themselves from their spirit
helpers, request infusions to heal their cakras etc. I do appreciate
that they show up to the world, so that we can learn of their unic
experiences, but they could get much further by doing more service,
yoga and meditation practices.
What comes to
common people, practical and individual instructions will benefit one
much more faster and painlessly than if one would try to advance alone in the spiritual path. Fear of getting into something unknown
is the biggest obstacle, one has to follow the hearth not the head. Not
everyone is ready for serious yogic path, they might need first
something else even religions. Any experiences on spiritual path even
negative burn the karma, and make ready for further teachings. Best way is to
ask divine guidance in every step of life, and search - you will find the right
teacher or the teacher will find you.
How did I come to Ananda Marga? I have told this story many times, but if you still haven’t heard; I became interested of UFOs at a young age and was very inspired of reading a message from one alien; ‘one day on planet earth everyone will speak one common language, the language of love.’ I thought, ‘wow, there must be then already some group of people practicing this language of love.’ I started searching. I went to all sorts of groups, religious, spiritual etc. Once I went to Ananda Marga lecture. And I was totally ‘sold out’, (as we say in Finnish), when the weird monk, often times staring at his third eye, spoke about the path of love, which leads to self realization and service to humanity.
How did I come to Ananda Marga? I have told this story many times, but if you still haven’t heard; I became interested of UFOs at a young age and was very inspired of reading a message from one alien; ‘one day on planet earth everyone will speak one common language, the language of love.’ I thought, ‘wow, there must be then already some group of people practicing this language of love.’ I started searching. I went to all sorts of groups, religious, spiritual etc. Once I went to Ananda Marga lecture. And I was totally ‘sold out’, (as we say in Finnish), when the weird monk, often times staring at his third eye, spoke about the path of love, which leads to self realization and service to humanity.
I asked him to
teach me their meditation process which he told he can’t do as the teacher needs to be
a female. Besides I was told by a member attending the
lecture that I was not suitable. I thought to show him and myself
that I would be suitable one day, (although I was just ‘junk’
at that time).
Me, I knew for
sure this monk was a teacher of the language of love, and I wanted desperately to learn their language at any prize….I never regret of
joining the path of the greatest yogis in the world, you may follow
if you wish!
Didi Annapurna, if you post this for inspiration, link it here, thanks!
