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== Relationship with Parama Purusa ==
== Relationship with Parama Purusa ==
A magician creates a living pigeon out of a clod of earth and surprises his spectators.To know about his trick, one needs to befriend with the magician. Parama Purusa is continuing his creation with a similar kind of magic power. If someone wants to know about these secrets he has to establish a relationship of love with Parama Purusa Himself. One will have to enlist oneself in the inner circle of His followers. Then the Controller of this universe, because of His intimate relationship with that person, will disclose the secret of His controlling power.
A magician creates a living pigeon out of a clod of earth and surprises his spectators.To know about his trick, one needs to befriend with the magician. Parama Purusa is continuing his creation with a similar kind of magic power. If someone wants to know about these secrets he has to establish a relationship of love with Parama Purusa Himself. One will have to enlist oneself in the inner circle of His followers. Then the Controller of this universe, because of His intimate relationship with that person, will disclose the secret of His controlling power.<ref name="Parama Puruśa and His Creation">{{cite book|title=Ananda Marga Ideology and Way of Life in a Nutshell Part 11|author=Shrii Shrii Anandamurti|chapter=Parama Puruśa and His Creation}}</ref>


== Unification with Parama Purusa ==
== Unification with Parama Purusa ==

Revision as of 02:28, 15 September 2014

Parama Purusa (Roman Saḿskrta: Parama Puruśa, Devanagari: परम पुरुष, Bengali: পরম পুরুষ) or Paramapurusa (Roman Saḿskrta: Paramapuruśa, Devanagari: परमपुरुष, Bengali: পরমপুরুষ) is an oft-used name or description of the Supreme Being or Supreme Consciousness in Ananda Marga philosophy.[1] According to Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Parama Puruśa is the human being's ultimate object of devotion, being the creator, sustainer, and destroyer of the universe. He is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. He is ever-blissful and the only abiding friend one may have in life.

In the "Supreme Direction" (also known as "Supreme Command"), Sarkar states that one should regularly perform sádhaná (spiritual practices, primarily meditation) twice a day so that the thought of Parama Puruśa will arise in the mind at the time of death and liberation may thereby be attained. He also told that failure to do such sádhaná might result in a very slow spiritual progress, requiring many, many lifetimes and hence millions of years of animalistic existence.

A huge number of songs of Prabhat Samgiita address or contemplate Parama Puruśa. In all these songs Sarkar reveres Parama Puruśa. For example, the very first song implores Parama Puruśa to show the way "unto the fountain of effulgence", to overcome the unbearable "pain of darkness". While describing the meaning of the song, Sarkar stated: "Paramapuruśa (the Supreme Consciousness) is the real friend." In song number 73, the lyrics are about going through life only to attain Him (Bengali: তোমায় পেতে আলোর পথে চলি আমি).[2]

Relationship with Parama Purusa

A magician creates a living pigeon out of a clod of earth and surprises his spectators.To know about his trick, one needs to befriend with the magician. Parama Purusa is continuing his creation with a similar kind of magic power. If someone wants to know about these secrets he has to establish a relationship of love with Parama Purusa Himself. One will have to enlist oneself in the inner circle of His followers. Then the Controller of this universe, because of His intimate relationship with that person, will disclose the secret of His controlling power.[3]

Unification with Parama Purusa

According to Anandamurti, initially jiivas (i.e. individual beings) are different from Parama Puruśa and consider themselves as separate entities. but, but in the final stage of their sadhana, and by the grace of Parama Purusa, they realize they are not separate from Parama Purusa and get unified with Him. Anandamurti-ji used the following metaphor to describe it—

When sugar and sand are mixed together they still maintain their separate identities; they are said to be united but not unified. But when sugar and water are mixed together they become syrup, thus losing their separate identities. In this case they have not been united but unified: two entities have been fused into one.

References

  1. ^ Anandamurti, Shrii Shrii Subhasita Samgraha Part 19 Ananda Marga Publications 
  2. ^ Shrii Shrii Anandamurti "Vraja Krśńa and Dvaetadvaetaváda (Discourse 19)" Namámi Krśńasundaram 
  3. ^ Shrii Shrii Anandamurti "Parama Puruśa and His Creation" Ananda Marga Ideology and Way of Life in a Nutshell Part 11