Ananda Marga Caryacarya
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File:Ananda Marga Caryácarya Part 1-2-3 Cover.jpg "Ananda Marga Caryacarya": the front covers of Parts 1, 2 and 3[note 1] | |
| Author | Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Philosophy |
| Publisher | Ananda Marga Publications |
| Publication date | 1999 (1987) (IND) |
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| Pages | Part 1=100 pp., Part 2=54 pp., Part 3=76 pp. |
| ISBN | ISBN 81–7252–028–X (Part 1), ISBN (na) (Part 2), ISBN 81–7252–154–5 |
| Location in Sarkarverse |
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Ānanda Mārga Caryácarya ("Ananda Marga Code") is a series of 3 books which constitutes the "social treatise" (samája shástra)[note 2] of the social and spiritual movement Ananda Marga[note 3][note 4](as given by his founder, the philosopher and social reformer Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar[note 5] aka Shrii Shrii Anandamurti (1921–1990).[note 6] These three volumes set out both the organization and the cultural basis of the Ananda Marga movement and has been translated into several languages.[note 7]
Tree-Planting Ceremony
Verses repeated while pouring some water on a new planted tree:
- Onḿ madhu vátá rtáyate madhu kśarantu sindhavah;
- Mádhviirnah santvośadhiih.
- Madhu naktamutośaso madhumat párthivaḿ rajah;
- Madhu dyaorastu nah pitá.
- Madhumán no vanaspatirmadhumán astu súryah;
- Mádhviirgávo bhavantu nah.
- Onḿ madhu onḿ madhu onḿ madhu.
- “May the tree planted today prove felicitous for us with its fruits,
- flowers, fragrance, floral nectar, leaves and shade. May we
- ourselves prove helpful to the tree through our regular service in
- providing manure, water and sunshine to it. Onḿ shántih, onḿ
- shantih, onḿ shantih."
Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. "Tree-Planting Ceremony" described in Ānanda Mārga Caryácarya Part 1, chapter 11 :[1]
Contents
- Part 1:[2] originally written in 1956, almost immediately after the Ananda Marga mission was founded, is composed of 100 pages and contains 45 chapters. Starts with the chapter "Infant's Játakarma: The Naming of and First Feeding of Solid Food to an Infant" that explains the ceremony of the infant naming. The book explains in detail all ceremonies to perform during other functions like spiritual marriage,[note 8][note 9] birthday, tree-planting. On the text all the system of rules to govern the local and central branches of the organization are detailed explained too.
- Part 2:[3] starts with the chapter "Sádhaná (Intuitional Practice)" and is composed of 54 pages, contains 9 chapters and gives various guidelines and rules for sadhana (intuitional practices), for the body and many others including advices for a proper social conduct.
- Part 3:[4] starts with the chapter "Bathing Procedure and Pitr Yajiṋa" (explaining the right procedure for bathing with a special mantra) and is composed of 76 pages, contains 10 chapters with dos and don'ts to follow for progress in mental and spiritual sadhana. In this last part the author explains yogic asanas (postures), yoga practices like the procedure for fasting and other health procedures like the Self-massage "usually used after Asana practice, but before Savasana (final relaxation)".[note 10]
References
Footnotes
- ^ "Ananda Marga Caryacarya (Parts 1, 2, and 3) as it appears on the publisher's site" Ananda Marga Publications 2012 retrieved 2012-12-24
- ^ This is also stated by the mention of Caryacarya in several legal documents produced in the Courts of different Countries at any time Ananda Marga has appeared. See f.e.: -India (2004-1): Supreme Court; -India (2004-2): Supreme Court; -Australia (2010): Federal Court; -USA(2011): District Court of Denver.
- ^ The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS) 2011, p. 45.
- ^ The quoted official document of "The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies" states "the Ananda Marga religion includes a governance system (Ananda Marga Pracaraka Samgha or AMPS) which is set out in a sacred text called Carya Carya".
- ^ Giani Zail Singh, seventh president of India has said about Sarkar: "Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar was one of the greatest modern philosophers of India. (Inayatullah, 2002).
- ^ Between 1955 and 1990 the author wrote in English, Bengali and Hindi. He wrote in the name "Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar" when treating sociology, economics, philology and various other subjects, and in the name ""Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti"" when focusing on spiritual topics. Many of his books he gave as dictations; others were compiled from his discourses, some of them in small pocket-books.
- ^ The Spanish edition -retrieved 1 January 2013.
- ^ Ánanda Márga marriage ceremony as prescribed in Caryacarya part 2
- ^ The researcher Garda Ghista quoted p. 15 of this volume on the paper The Status of Women in World Religions-2001
- ^ United States Sports Academy, 2010.
Citations
Sources
- The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies (ACPNS), Edited By Myles McGregor-Lowndes (2011), Legal Almanac.
Working Paper No 53 , Queensland University of Technology, pp. 205, ISBN 978-1-921897-00-9
- Anandamurti, Shrii Shrii (1995-6th ed.), Ananada Marga Caryacarya, part 1, Ananda Marga Publications, ISBN 81–7252–028–X