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A central point in Sarkar's philosophy is the concept of ''[[Sadhana]]''. He describes ''Sadhana'' as a practice for "the transformation of fearful love into fearless love".  ''Sadhana'' is concretised in particular with the practice of meditation for complete merger and unification. Sarkar recommends to his disciples the daily practice of individual meditation and the weekly practice of collective meditation. These meetings called ''Dharma Chakras'' are preceded by the collective singing of a few ''[[Prabhat Samgiita]]'' (or "Songs of the New Dawn", composed by P. R. Sarkar himself) followed by ''Baba Nam Kevalam'' [[kiirtan]], then the well-known [[:wikipedia:Rigveda|Rigvedic]] [[mantra]] called ''Samgacchadvam''. The mantra ''Nityam Shuddham'' marks the end of the collective meditation, then the spiritual gathering will end with the ''Guru Puja'' ''mantra''.

The vast linguistic work of Sarkar has been published in several volumes including: ''[[Varna Vijinana]]'' (Science of Letters), ''[[Sarkar's English Grammar and Composition]]'', ''[[Varna Vicitra]]'' (Various Uses of Letters) (8 volumes), and the Bengali encyclopaedia ''[[Shabda Cayanika]]'' (A Collection of Words) (26 volumes) (unfinished).

Although Sarkar spent only seventeen years of his life working full-time for his organisations (1966–1971 & 1978–1990), he left behind a vast legacy, including over 250 books written on a wide variety of topics. Many of this books are compilation or collections of speeches given by the author during spiritual or social meetings. He is primarily known as the [[spirituality|spiritual]] teacher behind [[Ananda Marga]], but Sarkar wrote over 1500 pages on his economic [[Progressive Utilization Theory]] (PROUT) and several thousand more pages dedicated to [[linguistics]] and the study of [[language]]s; Sarkar's writings on linguistics included among other works, ''Shabda Cayanika'' ("A Collection of Words"), an unfinished, twenty-six volume dictated encyclopaedia on the [[Bengali language]].{{sfn|Ānandamūrti|1996|p=9}} Beyond this he wrote books on sociology, agriculture, history, literature, education, medicine, [[cosmology]], and philosophy, also notably founding the philosophy of Neohumanism in 1982 and the Theory of Microvita in 1986. In his Theory of Microvita, Sarkar "believed that the atoms and the subatomic particles throughout the boundless universe are imbued with life."<ref name="The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies">{{cite book|title=The Quarterly Review of Historical Studies|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WzxQAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=6 November 2012|year=1998|publisher=Institute of Historical Studies.|page=101}}</ref>

On 1982 Sarkar started composing songs. In eight years, until the date of his death, He completed the composition of 5,018 songs, mainly in Bengali but also in various other languages.{{sfn|Ghista|2006|p=174}} This vast collection of songs is called [[Prabhat Samgiita]] ("Songs of the New Dawn").