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ࡱ> 7 bjbjUU m<7|7|l.......B%%%%.%|BW%%%%%&&&hWjWjWjWjWjWjW$Y [W.&&&&&WD..%%WDDD&.%.%hWD&hWD>DJT ..\W%% `B %gAV<\W W0W W<e\eD:e\\WDBB.... Thakur - The Divine (An Introductory Reading on Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra) Objective The objective of this exercise is to be familiar with a personality known as Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra. Pre-thought Two prerequisites at thinking level are required for this exercise: Each human being has immense potentiality to grow; has further scope to broaden his view and has possibility to live in harmony and peace. For each one, at any status and level of existence, there is a hope to grow beyond; a way to change and to promote his interest further. There exists somewhere a power, a super power with all pervading presence, may be unseen, may to difficult to configure. But some extraordinary force, which might have caused to create and regulate the whole universe including the life in the world, does exist and operate in some mysterious way. That supernatural power has been called in various ways; sometimes the Law of Nature or the Creator. It is that which has always baffled human mind in its quest for unknown and for refinement and might have resulted in inventions in science and arts and expressions of human feelings and emotions. That is something beyond and something that has caused man to pursue the path of being and becoming. ******************************************************************************************** At the end of this reading, you will know: Who was Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra? He was a person who lived in India during most part of twentieth century He was a Prophet. That has been known: By way of self revelation by Sri Sri Thakur himself By finding similarities with other Prophets of the past By seeing his divine qualities By seeing him as incarnate of love Through peoples realization He was a Guide, an Ideal to follow Knowing his limitations would also help you to know him You will know a brief life sketch of Sri Sri Thakur His childhood days His period of early youth The formative period of his movement The period of calmness and serenity in his life You will get some ideas about his ideology Be Ideal centric Have a progressive go of life Be inquisitive and acquisitive Know the cause and effect relationship Nourish your body and mind Render service to your environment Cohesion in community life through common Ideal Manipulation of habits and behaviour is education Marriage and eugenics ******************************************************************************************** Sri Sri Thakur, a person He was Anukul Chandra Chakravarty. His father was Shiv Chandra Chakravarty and mother was Manmohini Devi. He was born in a hamlet called Himaitpur, in Pabna district of Bangladesh, erstwhile East Bengal in pre-independent India. He was born on fourteenth September 1888 and passed away on twenty sixth January 1969. His was a life of intense activities in material, social and spiritual realm. He lived a life that can be called more of a public life than a life of individual attainment and glory. He lived in society, with family and friends. He had experienced all the worries and anxieties of a human life in struggle. Human feelings and emotions were all there with him for every body to share. He was a father of three sons and a daughter. Being elder son of a poor Indian family, he had his family burden to carry from an early age for his widowed mother, two younger brothers and a sister. He was husband of two wives and father of three sons and a daughter. He was victim of all kinds of social, economic, political, ethnic and communal upheaval that his time passed through. He had all the physical and psychological symptoms of a normal human being, may be at a refined and intense level. He expressed his feelings and emotions, just like any other human being, may be in more intimate way than most of us would do. There was nothing strange in him, which would have put him at a distance from ordinary human being. There was of course something great in his personality, which distinguished him from others. But all these were on a human plane, within the reach of human touch. Amidst all the aura of divinity that surrounded him, the man in him was very much there for every body to feel. When some one came, he would receive him in the most cordial and native style. He would speak a common mans language. He lived in a very simple and natural ambient. His dress was just minimum and yet quite decent. He followed all the trait of the culture and tradition in which he was born and brought up. He subjected himself to the laws of the land. When he became old and physically weak, he passed through all the ordeals of illness, seclusion of old age and defiance of younger generation. He subjected himself to the prescriptions of doctors, he availed the helping required for him to survive the old age. He wailed in pain and prayed for recovery. He longed for a healthy and prolonged life, but just like any human being he breathed his last leaving every thing around. Sri Sri Thakur, the Prophet Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra was an incarnate of God, in the lineage of all the past prophets namely, Sri Ramachandra, Sri Krishna, Lord Buddha, Lord Jesus, Prophet Mohammed, Sri Chaitanya and Sri Ramakrishna. All the past prophets, including Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra, are the embodiment of the supreme power, the great Creator. They descended at various times with His message for the welfare of the mankind. They came to save the mankind by demonstrating the path of virtue and virility. They all were the living image of God during their contemporary period. They lived a life, which was the most appropriate for the contemporary humanity to adopt and seek growth and happiness in all spheres of life. At all times, they carry the message of peace and prosperity, love and life, and above all they tell us exactly how to live a life thereby the ultimate objective of mankind can be achieved. They came for the whole mankind. They did not discriminate among caste, creed, ethnic division and geographical boundaries. They suffered for the mankind, still they showed us the path out of sheer mercy for their creation. In all ages, they have shown the path for the evolution of the mankind. In essence, there is no difference in the ideology preached by all the prophets. All of them had a deep and abiding respect for the past prophets. Sri Sri Thakur, being the latest one, did show utmost regard and reverence for all the past prophets. While glorifying the past prophets, Sri Sri Thakur has carried forward the tasks left incomplete by his predecessor prophets. The life style, the philosophy of all the prophets have a striking similarity among them, excepting the difference in style with regard to time and place, when and where they descended and performed their mission. There is no ideological conflict among them. The differences in so called religions are of mankinds own creation and are result of corrosive effects of time. Today, if Lord Krishna, Lord Rama and Prophet Mohammed or Lord Jesus have to be heard, then we get their voice in Sri Sri Thakurs words. If today the humanity has to follow the path shown by any of the past prophets, then we can see the path in the ideology of Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra. If God is one, then logically their messengers have to be the same. Gods message has been resounded through all the past prophets at various times. The latest and most update version of Lords message were heard through the kind words of Sri Sri Thakur. None of us have seen God, hence we cannot prove with the help of similarity that Sri Sri Thakur was the God in flesh and blood. The god hood of Sri Sri Thakur has been established by various means. Self revelation The foremost basis of identifying Sri Sri Thakur with the Supreme father is the self-revelation of Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Sri Thakur did reveal his own self to a few disciples, under various circumstances. Some of his early associates could know by various incidents that the God has taken the form of Anukul and they got their findings tested again and again. When they were confirmed of their findings, they started spreading this message for the benefit of the humanity. There were a number of symptomatic happenings of the grand descend, even before the child Anukul was born. There were early predictions made by some monks and sages, who apparently were precursors of the prophet and made preparatory arrangement for the Supreme Soul to arrive and serve his mission. The mother Manmohini Devi was blessed and was foretold by few devoted souls about her child. From his childhood days, a number of happenings confirmed that child Anukul was not an ordinary child. His words, behaviour, deed and above all his love and service to his immediate surroundings made him a crowned child. He became saviour to many. He did perform such extraordinary feats that he was liked, appreciated and adored by one and all. He started spreading a holy message, he performed mass spiritual arousal, he cured many a patient, he created a movement by sheer strength of his personality, which radiated nothing but purity and divinity of the highest order. All these happened normally, without Sri Sri Thakur making any effort for that. He lived a divine life from the early childhood days. His masterly qualities were inborn. During his span of life, he had never taken time off for achieving any kind of power, which he displayed all along. His words became prophetic. His prescribed ideology brought solace and salvation to many souls. People found a normal resemblance with the known divine personalities of immediate past in Bengal like Sri Chaitanya dev and Sri Ramkrishna dev. The belief and perception that Sri Sri Thakur was the incarnate was put to test by a number of skepticals, and their skepticism was turned into faith and was confirmed by their realization and even hardened criminals got transformed into sages. Faith of a few gradually gathered wings of reason and a nucleus of mass hysteria was generated. Whoever came into the contact of Sri Sri Thakur got a new vision and the vision transformed not only the individual, but created a new sensitivity around. As if, the society came to posses something it was looking for ages in desperation. That was the early twenties in the twentieth century, when Sri Sri Thakur was in his thirties. That was a period of revelation, when a charming and loving youthful Sri Sri Thakur was spreading the message of love and divinity like wild fire. Who ever came in his touch was finding a sacrificial fire for purification and elevation. Then came the age of consolidated ideology based on science and constructive social and political activities. That was in thirties in twentieth century, when a few intellectuals of high order and social activist found their ultimate in Sri Sri Thakur and left no opportunity to make the best use of their life. Literatures were created. Socio-political message of Sri Sri Thakur was given a shape. Scientific experiments were conducted. Entrepreneurial and economic activities relevant to the need of the society were organized. Sri Sri Thakurs mission was put in the form of an ideological package, so that it could be delivered to people at distance places. The movement got a brand and that was Satsong ashram at Pabna. Satsong ashram was then operating like nerve center, where the future destiny of mankind was being shaped and demonstrated. A new world order where science and religion got synthesized, where matter and spirit were integrated, promised to evolve out of Sri Sri Thakur. A new kind of empowerment was felt by each and every disciple of Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Sri Thakur made beautiful statue out of raw clay and he universalised that mode of operation. All these were a process of revelation of Sri Sri Thakurs masterly role that he came to play for the humanity. The humanity saw the manifestation of the highest form of knowledge, realization, guidance, wisdom, direction and what not, which could only be found a resemblance with similar personalities of the yesteryears, who were the prophets of the past. Similarity with past prophets Sri Sri Thakurs style of living and approach to people was similar with those of past prophets. Sri Sri Thakur played more or less same type or role with regard to his mission and his instruments, as were done by Lord Krishna, Lord Rama, Lord Jesus or Prophet Mohammed. All of them had the welfare of existence as their goal, preservation of virtue and eradication of evil as their mission. All of them were lovers of existence. Being and becoming was their slogan. Love and service was their instruments. The whole creation, living and non-living alike, was their province. The concept of dharma as explained by Sri Sri Thakur was strikingly similar with that espoused by all the past prophets. Dharma is way of living and thinking where by our existence along with the environment remains in tact and gets further elevated by way of balanced growth of spiritual and material being. The codes of conduct and spiritual practices were also essentially similar. A thorough study of all the religious scriptures have brought out that the essence of the preaching of all the prophets are same as what Sri Sri Thakur has taught, but there is difference in style and appearance which is to be attributed to the difference in time and space. Sri Sri Thakur was found to quote the contents of Gita, Bible and Koran, both in letters and meaning. It is difficult to believe as to how was he doing that without studying those scriptures even once. Many of the apparent contradictions in religious practices were resolved by Sri Sri Thakur by unraveling their true meaning and context. He was able to establish a fine similarity and synthesis among the plethora of versions and interpretations of religion. He in fact would tell what is the intended meaning of the sayings of Gita, Bible & Koran by the respective authors and how the meaning in course of time has suffered distortion. He would even go to the extent of saying the setting under which a particular event did take place and what are causality factors, sequence of events and the characters involved in a particular event. The exact meaning of all the scriptural inscriptions were found crystal clear with Sri Sri Thakur. He could see, what happened and who were the people present when a particular scene in Bible was discussed with him. A number of such happenings leave little doubt in our mind that Sri Sri Thakur was reincarnation of all the prophets. The highest manifestation of divine qualities Sri Sri Thakur has been measured to be much more than what human mind can do up to. By any standard of assessment, one fails to reach the bottom of his depth. During his span of lifetime, it is difficult to estimate as to how many persons would have tried to assess him. People from all walks of life have come, seen, talked and have surrendered at his height of greatness. A look at Sri Sri Thakur, a word from his mouth was enough to fill ones heart with content. It is something like watching the vast expanse of the sea standing on a beach. When humanity failed to fathom his depth while was overwhelmed by his love and effulgence, then humanity placed him at the highest pedestal and that was the place of the Supreme father. Sri Sri Thakur was seen to be infinite in finite form. By his extraordinary power, he was christened as omnipotent. He could do wonders. So he was the most powerful. He could find solution to all kinds of problems, so he was omniscient. Who else he could be, if he was found to be the dearest and nearest one to every body and does nothing but good to every one? His expertise in any subject, be it knowledge or action, was seen to be unparalleled. The sheer volume of literature that he has dictated, covering a wide range of topics, is something unprecedented in human history. The incarnate of love When a bereaved mother came and broke down before Sri Sri Thakur, Sri Sri Thakur felt the mothers pang so much that he also started wailing. When the mother saw Sri Sri Thakurs miserable condition, which was becoming worse with every passing moment, the mother started consoling Sri Sri Thakur. The mother then started to reason with Sri Sri Thakur and prayed to contain his grief. She felt that, she has lost a son, but she has another son that was Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Sri Thakur was near and dear to every ones heart. Sri Sri Thakurs love for every body made him to work for everybodys betterment. His love for others was never at the level of feeling and emotion; it was always at the level of action. There were so much of feelings and the way Sri Sri Thakur communicated that feelings, everybody felt as if Sri Sri Thakur exclusively belonged to him. He really did things by which people can be benefited; their destiny can be altered; new vistas get opened up before them; life takes a wing of joy and success. With an excuse for our ability to understand him, let me put it forth that Sri Sri Thakur always appeared to be pragmatic, purposeful and down to earth in his approach. When Sri Sri Thakur was at Pabna, some of his household items were lost in theft. One day, he was talking to some people and he came out with arguments in favour of theft. The tenor of his argument was that a thief commits wrongdoing out of compulsion. People, who are well do to, do not usually think about others who are deprived. Even if the needy people would beg, no body would oblige them. Then the only path left for them is to resort to theft. Having listened to Sri Sri Thakurs genuine sympathy even for thieves, the one who committed theft felt so guilty that privately he confessed his wrongdoing to Sri Sri Thakur and returned some of the items he took away. Those items he already sold away, he said he would pay up the value for those items. He became Sri Sri Thakurs friend. For some time, he was still committing theft, while associating with Sri Sri Thakur. One day Sri Sri Thakur accompanied him while he was on his act of stealing. From that day onwards, he gave up his stealthy habit. A stream of love and service was perennially flowing out of Sri Sri Thakur. Whoever got an opportunity to bathe in that stream, was transformed beyond recognition. There was magic in the air surrounding Sri Sri Thakur. Whoever came to Sri Sri Thakur felt empowered. One of the feelings that normally come to the disciples of Sri Sri Thakur is that, I am powerful, because I am His offspring. He would work through me. Who can love all without discrimination and take positive steps for the welfare of all, may be without explicit knowledge of the beneficiary, if he is not the Creator himself? In fact, Sri Sri Thakur was feeling that every thing in the creation was the extension of his own self. The affinity between Sri Sri Thakur and with rest of the creation was natural and organic. Sri Sri Thakur was seen to identify himself with others and his interest was others interest. Self realization Sri Sri Thakur is best known through ones own realization. It is a process that happens at the core of a persons being and gets built up within, through feelings, understanding, conviction and experience. It may come intuitively like a flash that yes, I have got the most wanted person in my life, the most preferred path, the most precious object in life, that is the God. It is like a natural freshness that one feels after seeing a bud of rose; it can be like a spontaneous outburst of emotion that gets exchanged between a child and parents. Just an encounter and few exchanges with Sri Sri Thakur brought out in many persons a deep faith that Sri Sri Thakur was that proverbial figure, whom Arjun got in the form of Krishna; Hanuman and Kabir Das got in the form of Sri Rama and Mira bai got in Nanda lala. It is like a reunion, a rendezvous, discovery of a long lasting intimacy. It is just like a flow of electric current resulting in a light switched on. Not much argument is required to come to that level of realization that Sri Sri Thakur is the ultimate Guide, the God, who has to be placed in the place of a Guru and derive the most out of him. The same realization does come for some people out of long perseverance and hard experience in life. People with rational arguments and practical basis, may come to know the true self of Sri Sri Thakur, after some hard evidence and experience. Man with intellect may come to know Sri Sri Thakur after doing a comparative study of religions and great men. They put Sri Sri Thakurs words to test through real life experiment and then realize how serious can be Sri Sri Thakurs words, which otherwise may appear to be quite terse and simple. Whatever may the path of realization, the hard fact has to be dawned in some ones mind that yes, I do not need any thing more after I have got Sri Sri Thakur with me. It is like the brightness of the rising sun that comes in the morning when the darkness gets vanished. Of course, realization of Sri Sri Thakur is not a static state. It is a level of conviction, a grain of faith, a moment of satisfaction, which comes and goes, continue to grow with ones life. Knowing that Sri Sri Thakur is the God and the Guide is just a beginning in the lifes journey. With Sri Sri Thakur in the forehead, there is no end to realization in life as it is likely come in abundance as one proceeds on the path of self-discovery. Sri Sri Thakur, the Guide Sri Sri Thakur as a living Guide plays the most active and relevant role in our life. He is the role model, the ideal for us. He is such a living model before us that we can follow him and can give shape to our lives in the most appropriate manner, as per our potentiality and distinctiveness. He is a living example before us whom we can follow with regard to every conceivable aspect of life. He personifies all virtues, all superior instincts in life. As an example before us, he leads a perfect and impeccable life. It is very significant to learn that as a living ideal, there is no illusion, no deception and no limitation in his life. He has not done any single act, which by any kind of wisdom, can be considered to be an error, a wrong and inappropriate step. As a guide, we can see our own reflection in his life. He is like a mirror, who tells us in unmistakable term what we look like and what is there within us. With the help of those glimpses, it becomes impending for us to refine and reshape our life in his manner. If only we can please him, that will be the highest achievement in our life. To earn his pleasure can be any ones life long objective. As a guide, if we can translate his desire in our life, then life can achieve supreme status. As our ideal, we have to have a deep affinity and loving bondage with him. Affinity with him would keep ourselves away from all our worldly attachment, which usually keeps us linked with complexes. We can keep ourselves away from the clutches of complexes and obsessions, if only we are tied with Sri Sri Thakur by means of our thought and deed. Uninterrupted devotion and adherence on Sri Sri Thakur would bring out the best in our life. As a living Guide, Sri Sri Thakur is unparalleled, in comparable and occupies the supreme place in our lifes scheme. In all our priorities, if we can uphold the interests of Sri Sri Thakur, then we remain focused. Wen we do things as per his will, we remain concentrated, composed and all our energy is used in doing things in inquisitive and acquisitive way and life takes an enthusiastic uphill elatement. A lot of dormant energy within us gets unlocked and life takes a glorious uplift. As a Guide, Sri Sri Thakur leads us with kindness and tender, which we see in a mother for an infant. He inspires us, provides sustenance and leads the way with utmost perfection that can not be expected from any other quarter. As a guide, he plays the role of the most gracious father. Sri Sri Thakur during his lifetime has guided people with living instruction. Today he is guiding us in invisible way. Strange are his ways of guidance. His blessing is there for all of us at all times. His protective hands and his magnetic pull are actively working for us, like air and sunshine are serving our lives as provided by nature. We only need to pay heed to his words and keep ourselves tuned to his spirit. The ways and methods of keeping ourselves logged on to him are also prescribed by him. We only need to follow his prescription faithfully. Rest of the mechanism will be taken care by him. As a guide he has taken our responsibility, which he would not let it go under any circumstances. Limitations of Sri Sri Thakur The greatest limitation of Sri Sri Thakur was his appearance. It is difficult to measure him and very hard to get to know his true identity. It is true that the human form, by which he presented himself for a brief time, made it easy for us to comprehend him. But that human form itself made him so natural that his super natural ability became a subject of deep mystery. His finite form every now and then tried to defy and conceal his infinite power. It was a real puzzle to see the all powerful God, the Creator of the Universe, is sitting under a shade in the premise of the Thakur Bungalow at an underdeveloped tribal locality that was Deoghar in Santal Pragana District in Bihar. He had no artificial surrounding, no security cordon and no miraculous performance. There was nothing grand about his setting, except of course the charming and lovable personality that was never missed. How can my mind experience something, which requires me to overcome my limitation? Sri Sri Thakur had another handicap, which was that he could not publicize himself. He never proclaimed in so many words that he was the God incarnate, so, you foolish folk, better listen to him otherwise perish. He had given enough hints of that. To some devotees, he had displayed his cosmic image, as per the requirement of that particular devotee. At one point he said, like light does not proclaim that I am light, like air does not announce that I am air, similarly if God hood has revealed in anybody, he does not say so in so many words. He has to be seen, to be felt and more so to be loved and be surrendered at. Sri Sri Thakur had another limitation, which was that he could not reject any body. He could not discriminate between good man and not so good man. All were his children. He once was heard to lament, I am a foolish father of fallen sons. Sri Sri Thakur could not threaten any body. He did not try to apply his force on any body. He was just trying to pursue, cajole, guide and implicitly take care. He respected individual dignity and sovereignty, which he as the Creator, had given to us. Perhaps the last thing that Sri Sri Thakur did not do was that he could never take care of himself. He did not run away from the torture and suffering heaped upon him by innumerable fellows like us. He was subjected to all kinds of humiliation, pain, and whatnot. People misunderstood him, defamed him and implicated him in legal proceedings. His own near and dear defied his wish and did things against his will. His own disciples tried to impersonate him and spread slender against him. He was physically assaulted. Assassination was attempted on him. It was sad commentary as alleged by some that towards the last part of his life, he was kept in apparent seclusion, in solitary confinement, against his will. Sri Sri Thakur at times was wailing of pain. He said once, Jesus is being crucified even today. The humanity as a whole neglected him. He did not do any thing for his own self, for his life, for his health and for his image. In fact, as I feel, all these are limitations of his time and bore misfortune for the human race. Sri Sri Thakurs brief life sketch It may not be accurate to bind Sri Sri Thakurs activities in the time scale of eighty-one years. Because Sri Sri Thakur was sometimes operating on a multidimensional time scale. How does one estimate the activities of a person present at different places and performing different acts at the same time? How does one calculate the one to one communications that Sri Sri Thakur used to have with crowd surrounding him and each one getting their unique message? Mind you, these are not certain exceptional events with Sri Sri Thakur. This is how Sri Sri Thakur was naturally seen to act. Then comes the intensity and effect of his activities. The involvement of Sri Sri Thakur in a particular act and the outcome of that act also had some kind of a different scale. The smallest thing did not escape his notice. The minutest details are there in his scheme. At the same time, the whole world is under his vigilant notice. His yardstick of result of a work is again different. He views things in a different way. For every thing he finds a lasting meaning and each of his action has a far-reaching consequences. His values are something different than what usually we have. These are some of the peculiarities that we saw in Sri Sri Thakurs life and while describing his life sketch we need to be aware of these, which poses a grave risk to the writer of improper appreciation of his great life. Childhood Anukul as a child was quite dear to all his friends and neighbours. Every one liked him and enjoyed his company. Right from his childhood, one feature that was very prominent in his character was his sympathy and service to others. As a child he would share his warm clothing with others during winter. He would insist his mother to feed some needy guy, even if mother would not have enough food to feed her own children. He paid the examination fee for others and deprived himself the chance of sitting in the examination. His feeling oneness with others was visible right from his early age. He would serve any body in need at the first instance. Another feature of his childhood days was his extraordinary love and obedience to his mother. Mother was very dear to him. He would do any thing to please his mother. As if he derived justification of his own existence for his mother till he was quite grown up. Still another feature that was quite surprisingly seen during his early age was his extraordinary divine power. That was perhaps a revelation of his godhood, which was getting expressed naturally. He was highly devotional; he was performing certain acts that identified him with God. He would say something in his child like manner, which would turn out to be predictive. Many saints and learned persons of that time started coming from unknown places to pay their obeisance to the boy Anukul. They would like to take the boy in their lap and enjoy celestial bliss. They would praise mother Manmohini for her fortune to bear the great child. Predictions were made that her child would be highly detached soul, yet would possess the wealth of the world like a monarch. Another significant development was that mother Manmohini, when she was a girl in her teen age saw her Guru in dream, who was Saint Huzur Maharaj, living at Agra. She also came to know a word, a sound, a name, which was advised to her as a mantra, that is a clue for spiritual practice. Accidentally, through some distant contacts, mother Manmohini, when she was a young girl, could visit Saint Huzur Maharaj. Maharaj was in fact waiting for her. He blessed the young girl taking her in his lap and did tell her that she would be a glorious mother and her motherhood would be a cosmic event which would facilitate the Gods descend on the earth. Formally the Saint consecrated the girl with the divine mantra. It was subsequently known by long chain of events that, Sri Sri Thakurs incarnation was known to Saint Huzur Maharaj and the latter was instrumental for preparing a ground for the great descend. The mantra which is said to be the cardinal sound, supposedly the cause of the universe, is heard at the highest level of spiritual attainment. Huzur Maharaj by virtue of his high level of spiritual achievement could sense that name and was also aware about the embodiment of that highest spiritual force, who would born through the girl Manmohini. Huzur Maharaj guided Manmohini for a long time till boy Anukul was born. When the child Anukul placed his head on the earth, Huzur Maharj breathed his last in a state of fulfillment. His job of paving the passage for the greatest man on earth was performed. As a boy, Anukul was occasionally experiencing some kind of thrill, something similar to trance, which made mother Manmohini anxious of his sons health. She though it to be a disease, may be similar to epilepsy. She anxiously sought the advice of her successor Guru in Saint Sarkar Saheb at Agra. She was advised that the symptoms being expressed through her son was symptomatic of his high spiritual power. She was advised to impart the holy name to the boy. When mother did that, boy Anukul confided to mother that he was doing practice of the holy name ever since he was in the womb. The fact which was known later that the boy Anukul was the personification of the holy name. The holy name has taken physical shape in boy Anukul. He was the living name. There are a number of anecdotes, which speak about the miraculous deeds of boy Anukul. People started loving him and had a lot of expectation from him that as the boy grows he would bring relief to the suffering of the mankind. Boy Anukul lost his father at quite young age. His mother was finding it difficult to run the family expenses and the boy was a promising support to the mother. Boy Anukul had to walk long miles for his school. The teacher was somehow not very kind to the boy. There is a story which Sri Sri Thakur was heard recounting later in his life about an oral question in arithmetic. The question teacher asked to boy Anukul that what would be the sum of one plus one. The student Anukul was lost in a riddle and hesitatingly blurted out that there are no two ones in the universe. Nothing is exactly similar to some thing else. No two leaves on a tree are exactly alike. When there are no two ones, where is the scope to add them together. Boy Anukul completed his schooling but did not sit in the examination as he deposited his examination fee for some one else who did not have the required sum to pay the fee. That was the end of Anukuls schooling. Then he got himself educated in National Medical College at Calcutta. He did some study there but it is not known whether he completed his medical study. Much before his completion, he started practicing medicine and was curing patients. During his stay in Calcutta, he was made to pass through a hard life. He did not have a place to stay comfortably. So he was adjusting his accommodation with the porters of in a coal godown. There again he was serving the need of the most down trodden people and was making them happy. It was recounted by Thakur himself that in those days he did not have enough money to have a square meal a day. He used to spend days together in fasting. One day he took some soda to kill his appetite and then he had stomach pain. He did not have few paise to pay for his fare to travel in tram. With the passage of time, the student Anukul got transformed to doctor Anukul. Early youth In the early youth, Sri Sri Thakur was found to be engaged in healing the people. As a doctor, he was treating people from physical illness. There was magic in his treatment. Supposedly incurable diseases were getting cured miraculously. Another type of healing he was rendering people was mental and spiritual healing. The process was holy name and mass kirtan. It was a flood of spiritual upheaval, which Sri Sri Thakur created along with a few associates and that attracted people from far and wide and gave them a divine touch. By various miraculous events during that period some wise people could feel that Anukul Chandra was no ordinary human being. It would perhaps help us to be reminded that Sri Sri Thakur was born in a very poor part of the world, where suffering of the people was unbelievable. There was poverty, hunger, destitution, illiteracy, malnutrition, superstition; all these after centuries of social decadence following political wilderness. In this ambience, Sri Sri Thakur started healing the people, physically and mentally and brought about enlightenment. In retrospect, we have to of course admit that there was a conducive environment as well. The society had a cultural heritage, which though was faded and was still decaying, but did not die out entirely. The cultural fabric was being turned asunder, people were getting suffocated, but the deep psyche and spirit of the people was not corrupted, was not entirely debilitated. A remarkable manifestation that took place during that early age of Sri Sri Thakur was that he was often getting into trance, a state of suspended animation, during the time of kirtan, a mass recital of divine rhymes, arising a frenzied state of mind and body. And during that period, his body was sometime falling flat like a corpse and at times was passing through various wriggling postures and motions, which had some kind of symbolic yogic significance. During that process he used to utter many a kind of sounds, words, known and unknown type of voices. A part of that spontaneous pouring from unconscious mind has been recorded and published with title as holy book. Most of the recorded messages are in Bengali and a little in English. Other languages could not be noted. Strange were the happenings in those days, which was incomprehensible to many. The attraction of the personality of Sri Sri Thakur in those days was something irresistible. Who ever has came into the spell of his vicinity, got a touch of his devotion and started unquestioning following. He was seen to be an embodiment of love, grace, mercy and divine charisma. In a very short period, his name and fame threw the whole undivided Bengal into hysteria. Words of mouth spread that Sri Sri Thakur was the incarnate of the era, he would relieve the mankind of the suffering and he was the hope for the world to survive the danger of extinction. Formative period in his movement This was the era, when Sri Sri Thakurs views were crystallized, codified and was given a shape of complete ideology. Gradually Sri Sri Thakurs image of a friend, philosopher and guide was transformed to that of a universal teacher. He had mass following. His preaching were codified. His views were tested against the contemporary philosophies. His views on various complex social, political, economic and strategic subjects were circulated. Books and journals were published. Public personalities came to take Sri Sri Thakurs guidance on various macro and global issues. Scientist came to explore the mysteries of the universe. Sri Sri Thakurs message went all over the globe and few westerners flew to India to have a first hand glimpse of his person. Around this time, Sri Sri Thakur codified a way of living for universal use, which was imparted to others in the form of indoctrination, which is called diksha. Those who surrendered at him had to follow a few dicta, as a daily rite and slowly by this process the desired transformation and elevation would come. Sri Sri Thakur formulated a system where people, living at far off places, could follow his path and could avail his guidance. That is how he nominated some preachers, who at the instance of Sri Sri Thakur could impart the diksha all around. A lot of socially constructive and economically productive activities gradually started building around Sri Sri Thakurs man making programme. Providing gainful employment to people was Sri Sri Thakurs immediate objective. But in the long run he wanted to build such productive and creative character of the human being who will be not only self employed, but also will work like productive agent in the society. In the process socially meaningful projects like community deep tube well, wind powered electricity and public hospital etc. were grown by employing unskilled, people. Sri Sri Thakur kept people busy by various novel ways. Sri Sri Thakurs ashram at Pabna had a lot of industrial activities in small scale. People who were involved in these activities were kind of dedicated souls, who performed wonderful things. They were also refining themselves by way of leaning culture and attaining spiritual heights. Sri Sri Thakur by mid forties in the twentieth century did so many organized activities with a view to build human character that Pabna ashram was considered to be beehive from where a new era in human civilization was being churned out. That was also a period when the world was passing through wars, nuclear explosion, anti colonial revolution and all that, which were not left outside Sri Sri Thakurs active manipulation. His intervention, by way of changing the mind of people and by bringing about a change in the course of events, had gone a long way in saving the humanity from total extinction. By now Sri Sri Thakurs movement came to be known as Satsong movement and his ashram was known as Satsong ashram. It may be worth mentioning here as a postscript that Sri Sri Thakur cannot be put in the role of a social reformer nor of a social activist. Institution building, though he did it from scratch, was not in his agenda. His areas of operation were human mind and spirit and the whole of world was his field. What he could do during his lifetime was only seeding an ideology for the future, for how far in to the future we really do not know. A period of Calmness and Serenity By the time Sri Sri Thakur migrated to Deoghar in Bihar (in India) in 1946, he was 58 years old. That was just the eve of Indias independence and partition. A new era in Satsong movement began from there. A new Satsong ashram started to build up from the scratch, on the backdrop of separation from the original land, loss of life and property, a new inhospitable environment (in the eye of the local people it was a rehabilitation of refugees) and all that. Sri Sri Thakur was after his mission of man making without any sign of letting up. Ashram building was not at all in his agenda, though he was instrumental in mobilizing man, money and material for making minimum arrangement of food, shelter and clothing for his associates. We find two main stream activities that did happen during these days, meaning 1950s. One was Satsong as an organization started grew in a very big way, out of nothing, keeping Sri Sri Thakur in the heart. It was felt necessary to build an organized force in order to withstand the negative social and economic pressures coming from the environment, which was posing a threat to the mission of Sri Sri Thakur. Hence a formidable public opinion, financial mobilization and socio-economic activities etc. were given a very big push by Sri Sri Thakur. His disciples also did a stupendous task of mobilization, being inspired and guided by him. Satsong, Deoghar became a holy place of pilgrimage and people in large number poured in from distant places for the blessing of Sri Sri Thakur. There was exponential growth in the number of disciples of Sri Sri Thakur all around India and abroad. Sri Sri Thakurs mission and ideology was widely circulated and got far flung acceptance. People came in mad rush to derive whatever they could from Sri Sri Thakur. The second stream of development that took place during that time was that Sri Sri Thakurs health started failing his spirit. Sri Sri Thakurs mobility and activities was becoming restricted very fast. During May 1956, Sri Sri Thakur suffered from paralytic stroke. He miraculously recovered from that within a couple of months. But he never came back to his normal health from that time onwards. Nevertheless, his grace and his powerful impact on the surrounding was fully felt by the old and new disciples alike. Sri Sri Thakur was sitting, talking, moving around with a magnificent posture and divine calmness. During this period, he started giving a lot of emphasis on creating and preserving literature. He was dictating a lot of sayings on various complicated issues, which were being recorded. He wanted them to be published fast. He came out with some constructive schemes like building a university, a massive irrigation project, spreading out Satsong colony at different places and some such mega projects. One gets an impression that Sri Sri Thakur was accelerating his man making and culture building programme on a war footing and there was a clear indication that he was racing against time. Sri Sri Thakur was found pleading before people to give shape to his schemes before he departs. Despite failing health, his contact with people did not diminish. During that period Sri Sri Thakur was mostly living in shades and was changing his place of abode from one shade to another. He was as accessible to people as he was ever. Human being was his greatest asset. He enjoyed peoples company. Against medical advice, he would meet people, talk to them, share their anxiety and would radiate his celestial impact and make people happy. The end of his worldly play came cruelly in the early morning of 26th January 1969. It was a quiet withdrawal. For past number of years, it appeared, he was preparing for this and was also hinting to his close associates. He lived his mortal life exactly for the period that he wanted to live. Death was under his will. He descended, did a grand play, left a formidable legacy of divine wealth for the future, left behind an image of an Ideal and body of ideology, fulfilled his mission, left rest of the tasks to the future humanity and withdrew himself for eternity. Sri Sri Thakurs Ideological sketch Be Ideal Centric Like all the planets move on their orbit centering around the sun, the life of a person exists and continue to move on, based on a pull which remains outside his own self. This is perhaps a primordial affinity in mans nature, which sometimes has been said as the genial current of the soul. A persons life gets shaped and formed based on who or what is there at the center. Sri Sri Thakur wants us to put a superior beloved, nay the Supreme Beloved, at that place and tells us to make him the pivot of life. Life is in any way concentric, by origin; we have to only put an Ideal there. If we do not place an Ideal there, there will be something else in that place, knowingly or unknowingly, which would then drive us in the manner it likes. Invariably, it is any of the various kinds of complexes, which are called obsessions, are found to be there, may be by design or by default. It is a complex psychological process, which is not always perceptible to all of us. But we can understand this at times, may be when we are at a distress, or in a dispassionate mood or may be by some kind of enlightened vision. Whatever may be our perception on this issue, since the issue is very complex, it is advisable to go as per the view of the great sages. Our rational understanding may not be enough to drive deep into it unhurt. Our vision may be shrouded by emotion and indulgence. Nevertheless, it is easier to grasp this while paying attention to the sayings of wise man. An Ideal is said to be fulfiller the best. We need to have such an ideal before us whom we can follow and be fulfilled to the best of our requirement and who can guide us in the most unerring way. Theoretically, we can have any one as ideal whom we love and to whom we are prepared to surrender. The fact is that as we follow the ideal, the strength and limitation of the ideal also would have influence on us. It is not very difficult to appreciate that higher is the goal better would be the progress. Similarly, higher is the ideal, better would be our benefit. On the strength of that argument, it is to be said that our ideal should the best, the highest, the most evolved person, the best guide and hence the God himself. We need to have an ideal like Lord Rama was for Hanuman, Lord Krishna for Arjuna, Sri Ramakrishna for Swami Vivekananda; all these are live examples. On the basis of these yardsticks, Sri Sri Thakur Anukul Chandra comes out the most appropriate Ideal for us, as has been said about his identity in the previous paragraphs. Another very reassuring fact for us is that Sri Sri Thakur himself has given us his words that once you surrender before him, he takes care of you. Keeping ideal at the center of life essentially means to make him an integral part your core being. There has to be a deep and intimate relationship between you and Sri Sri Thakur. Sri Sri Thakur should have such emotional link with you that you would do every thing what he says. Consciously and sub consciously your thought and action will be guided by him. This is a kind of subconscious and automatic process. It has a natural force of its own, as Sri Sri Thakur is a very loveable personality and he has a strong pull effect. But a conscious effort also needs to be put in that direction. Sri Sri Thakur has provided the required path as to how to do that. We need to just mentally condition ourselves to listen what he says and do accordingly, Among many other things that Sri Sri Thakur says, he says one simple thing. You just love me- a very short and sweet advice. In fact very high level spiritual practices become easier, if only we love him. Attachment to him is devotion. With love and devotion on the Ideal, there would be a continuous progressive refinement, which would take place almost imperceptibly. It is like how a plant grows after putting it in the soil and providing it with water, air and sunlight. Basically, after that, it is the law of nature that takes over. With ideal at the center, life would become concentrated and focused. Having a framework of Sri Sri Thakurs ideology in your mind and as that framework can solve all your ideological conflicts and can fulfill all other established ideologies, then you would not be torn asunder by a plethora of apparently contradictory views and emotions. Basically you now have a formula by which very difficult problems in life can be solved. You would rarely find yourself at a crossroad, as you have a compass in your own hand. You can get live guidance when it is required. Now let us pass through an interesting dilemma. Either you are ideal centric or you are complex oriented. Complexes can give you temporary enjoyment, but can jeopardize your long-term interest (you may not come to know of that). Ideal can give you a balanced long-term growth oriented tenor of life. All these have to be understood in relative terms. There is nothing good or bad in absolute sense. In real life things are not always in black and white. Each one of us has to find a solution to this dilemma. Sri Sri Thakurs has provided a very simple solution to the mystery surrounding complexes. He says complexes like lust, anger, greed and such other obsessions are natural tendency of human being. These have been part of human psychology; hence these are not to be shunned of; nothing very much to worried about at their manifestation in our behaviour. In fact these are useful tools provided by nature to ourselves and each one of these feelings has got a very useful function to do. Only thing is that they need to be handled appropriately. The best way to handle them is to keep oneself under the influence of the Ideal. These complexes are very dreadful to the Ideal, as Ideal has got complete mastery on them. As long as a person is in touch with the Ideal, all these complexes would play only their assigned role. The moment, a person gets outside the area of influence of the Ideal, these complexes will assume various devilish role and start acting on the head of the person. Once they rise up the head, the person on his own cannot get rid of it. Again he needs the Ideal to come out their clutch. That is why Sri Sri Thakur advises hid disciples always to remain within the focal area of the Ideals light, so that the shadow of complexes will automatically shy away. Like we cannot fight with darkness without the help of light, similarly we cannot get rid of complexes without the help of the Ideal. Once man is away from the clutches of complexes, then he is in fact master of his own self. In that state man can explore all the potential lying dormant in him. He can concentrate; he can regulate himself and can do whatever he wants to do. Then he can drive and play with emotions. The attachment to ideal opens up so many fronts in a mans mind that he out grows his boundary. The Ideal inspires him to go on achieving and acquiring more and more. The attachment with Ideal is a sure way to unfetter oneself from all kinds of bondage that man builds around himself. Sri Sri Thakur always inspired and supported people to live, grow, enjoy and acquire. Sri Sri Thakur promised peace and prosperity by means of the ideology that he preached. The more we are attached to Sri Sri Thakur, more the chances that we get all what he wanted us to give. It all now is in our hand as to how much attached we feel for him and how much we translate his advises into practice and accordingly we get our selves rewarded. Attachment with Ideal is not merely emotional issue, though Sri Sri Thakur at one place said that attachment has to be sentimental and fanatic. Attachment has to be inquisitive, active and volitional. Attachment has always to be followed by service and sacrifice. So attachment with Sri Sri Thakur will also necessarily have all these elements of activism. When a person will be actively fulfilling the wishes of Sri Sri Thakur, he will be outgrowing his own former self and possibilities for him will be immense. Sri Sri Thakur wants us to grow and be evolved into a very superior variety of human being. Let us make a realistic appraisal of ourselves and admit that we do not have that kind of attachment. Sri Sri Thakur has provided way and means of acquiring that feeling of attachment. He has prescribed such ideological rites and formulae that the attachment will grow and culminate in the supreme state of devotion and faith. Have a Progressive Go of Life By continuously reminding us about our goal, Sri Sri Thakur has attempted to keep us alert about our goal and the desired path. In fact growth is a natural tendency of life. From the day man takes birth, he aspires to grow and this desire to grow has made it possible for man to scale the heights of evolution passing through generations. Though the tendency to grow is the most natural and most ancient instinct of man, but there are factors to pull him down and keep him distracted from his goal. Besides, every person has his in built limitations, which are woven around him at any point f time. Notwithstanding all these constraining factors, one has to have a progressive zeal and up hill motion, for which Sri Sri Thakur has provided the clues, which act through various sub systems in our life, namely psychological, physical as well as spiritual. The human body and mind is a very complex system. Sri Sri Thakur knows all the complexities of the system and has outlined a scheme by which the system is maintained and is driven towards its destination. Be progressive is not a piece of advice from Sri Sri Thakur. It is Sri Sri Thakurs wish for us and he has provided the mechanism to fulfil his wish. Be Inquisitive and Acquisitive One very important point we need to remind ourselves is that Sri Sri Thakur is not a preacher, who habitually goes on churning out talks and sermons. It may sound disbelieving considering the volumes of literature that has come out of talk of Sri Sri Thakur. Let us be very clear on this issue that Sri Sri Thakur was a man of few words. His talks were very little as much as they were very meaningful and profound. Whenever he has spoken, it is only out of a need, or from an impulse, or in response to a query and at all times, he was very precise. Sri Sri Thakur has not said thing by way of advice. He has given ideas, solutions, clues and every thing to help someone to do some thing. His every word had an action oriented push to the person whom he said. His words were like a knife in the hands of an expert surgeon. He made people to do things. He guided, he goaded, he traveled along side, he shared loads and he healed wounds, every thing simultaneously. He has never made a public speech, except a few times from his seat addressing his disciples by way of giving them a plan of action and direction. If Sri Sri Thakur wanted us to be inquisitive and acquisitive, he also showed us the way as to how can we do that. Inquisitiveness in observation and inquisitiveness in service to others are the two qualities Sri Sri Thakur wanted us to practice. Acquisitiveness in skill, knowledge and experience is what Sri Sri Thakur wanted us to develop a habit for. All these to have a healthy and progressive life for oneself along with the environment. When one follows these dicta of being inquisitive and acquisitive, one encounters a lot of other challenges and tasks, which brings new dimensions to life and in the process life goes on rolling and getting refined. Know the Cause & Effect Relationship Spiritualism is those thought and deeds, which make mind cause oriented, says Sri Sri Thakur. Most of our problems in life spring from our ignorance of the cause and effect relationship. If we knew what causes what, then things would have been very simple for us and we would have oriented ourselves accordingly. Whatever Sri Sri Thakur has said and done during his life is only perhaps to explore the hows and whys of life. Why does man behave in the manner that we see him to behave; and each one behaves in a typical way. How does the society functions, how can the social problems be taken care? What is the solution to the mans problem in all spheres? How can science and technology be further used for mans welfare? What is the relationship between spirit and matter? How can man live in peace and prosperity? How can the environment be preserved and promoted? How can we take care of our mental and physical health? What is happening to our cultural fabric; can it be further refined and be made relevant to the present time? Sri Sri Thakur has provided clue to all kinds of issues to understand and manipulate. After Sri Sri Thakurs advent on this earth, humanity should not commit any serious mistake. The key to knowledge has been left behind by Sri Sri Thakur in a very explicit manner. After coming in association with Sri Sri Thakur and accepting his discipleship, Deshabndhu Chitta Ranjan Das confessed that now he could see things more clearly than how he used to see earlier. Having coming to know Sri Sri Thakur, if a little more clarity of vision does not occur to a person, then one has to find a reason for that. It is unusual. Sri Sri Thakur figuratively can be put in the slot of a mastermind and a hero in action. He knows what is happening at any point in the deep recess of your mind and what can be done to alter the orbit of the planets. For Sri Sri Thakur, there is no miracle. Every cause, every feeling and all wealth of the universe are within his ability to maneuver. The supreme father that he is, he reigns over every thing. Nourish your Body & Mind No one would perhaps dispute the necessity of nourishing body and mind. More or less every one does take care of body and tries to keep mind peaceful. This is perhaps one of the basics of human conduct and living. The problem is with the complexity of the task and ability (or inability) of each person to take care of them. Sri Sri Thakur has provided the codes of health and hygiene including that of mental health. It is not enough that we know these; what is important is that we should practice all these. Sri Sri Thakur by his scheme of ideology has made such provision that health and well being of body, mind and spirit are taken care. In this context comes the issues of environmental condition, community health, family ambience and so many other issues like values, beliefs and emotions. The way of living and thinking determines our health. Sri Sri Thakur has woven all these issues into a framework and has provided us some guidelines to follow by which the whole issues are taken care. He has codified laws and rules for a healthy living at each stage of human life that life becomes pure, progressive and prosperous. Render Service to your Environment Environmental service is essential for the existence and growth of man, said Sri Sri Thakur very clearly. He urged his disciples to serve the environment and help the environment to upgrade. He himself has done it in a very splendid way during his lifetime. It is because of his service, sympathy and sense of one ness towards others, people loved him so much. Out of barren stretches of land in Pabna, Sri Sri Thakur made rich harvest and converted the area in to thick vegetation. One of his principles of his keeping good health is to be in touch with the elements of nature and, of course, pure nature. Nowadays most of us feel that environmental service is a collective job and hence no one single person can be held accountable for that. Be it environment in term of society or environment in terms of nature, we take things granted, and leave them for someone else consideration. Sri Sri Thakur said, no; each one has an environment surrounding him and it his individual responsibility to serve the environment in the interest of his Lord and in the way that the Lord wanted. It is a very tall order on each one of us. But Sri Sri Thakur has said, unless we do it, we will not get rid of our misery and we will only multiply our miserable living. It is important for us to recollect that the service to environment will not be an act of charity. It will be in our self-interest, as desired by our Lord. Let us also bear in mind that collective means of service to the environment has not been ruled out by Sri Sri Thakur. Depending upon the scale and magnitude of job, collective strength has to be utilized within the framework of brotherhood, keeping the interest of the Lord in the forefront. Cohesion in Community Life through Common Ideal Sri Sri Thakur said the only way to bring about a cohesive society is to mobilize the members of the society around an Ideal. It is imperative that a society has to have a common ideal. That ideal should be such a person who fulfills each one as per distinctiveness. That person can guide and goad all the people on the path of progression without destroying their individual traits, liking and specialties. Once that person is upheld as Ideal and every body follows him a scene of collective prosperity dawns in the society. From the persons point of view his interest in the Ideal also makes him inter-interested with others following same Ideal. Unity in diversity becomes a reality, when the diverse interests are fulfilled and diverse perspective are properly focused and streamlined. Sri Sri Thakur was such an Ideal who can be, perhaps who has to be, projected that he is our national Ideal, if we want to have national integrity. Ideologically Sri Sri Thakur fulfills all other sectarian ideals. He does not have conflict with any sect, ism or viewpoint as long as it is brings about existential welfare. He said all isms get culminated in existentialism. Sri Sri Thakurs ideology makes a person so refined and flexible that he can accommodate others and serves others, so that collective co-existence becomes a reality. Integrity in thought and action, which comes out of practice of Sri Sri Thakurs ideology sets the precondition for a collective harmony. History is witness to the fact that a nation suffers when distorted ideologies are imposed on the lives of the people by leaders, who are mostly short sighted, who gets swayed away by their limited and selfish perception. Macro policies, which are set by such narrow objectives, make the people and society to pay a heavy price in terms of various kinds of set back. It is important that our leaders are led by Ideal like Sri Sri Thakur. They need to have understanding of the dynamics of eternal growth of man and mankind. Short-term expediency may kill the nations drive towards long term growth. Clarity in vision, interest in the good of others will sprout in the mind of a leader if he is guided by a seer, a master visionary like Sri Sri Thakur who knows what is required to be done at what level in which proportion and with kind of discrimination. By placing Sri Sri Thakurs all fulfilling ideology, we can save ourselves from the invasion of the degrading culture that is taking place now. Indian culture has something special, which keeps on bringing out the best in a person and goes on evolving through generations. That culture is being polluted by so called western culture, which basically degrades a person by the pull of the lower instincts. Indian culture can be brought to its height of glory, if we highlight Sri Sri Thakurs image and ideology. It is Sri Sri Thakur who can perhaps be the best epitome of our culture and the quintessence of the best elements of our tradition. Sri Sri Thakur has glorified Indo-Aryan culture in thousand words. No one has brought out the true nature of Indo-Aryan culture as Sri Sri Thakur has done. Sri Sri Thakur has also provided the ways and means of reviving our culture with scientific and rational temper. He has provided various kinds of schemes as to how administration will be done, how economic development can come, how can our people be gainfully employed and how can communal harmony be brought about and so many things covering the life of individual, family and society. Manipulation of Habits & Behaviour is Education Once Sri Sri Thakur said, Try to perform those things which are said to be impossible, for the welfare of existence. Sri Sri Thakur wanted us to out grow our possibility. Sri Sri Thakur said that each one of us has got immense possibilities, which we are not aware. We need to just go on acquiring and growing forgetting all negatives and overcoming all obstacles. Basically by this process, you turn out to be a doer, leaving the rein in the hands of Sri Sri Thakur. But it is easier said that done. Why? It is our action, which puts a limitation on our possibilities. The activities we normally do are largely governed by our habits and instincts. It is those habits and behaviour, which we need to organize in such a manner that we can do immense things, in a short time, in a right way, in such a manner that the possibilities are realized. To get all these things right, there is only one clue, which is that be attached with the Ideal and get engaged in taking care of his interests. Through this process, our actions and thought get such a boost that we get propelled towards becoming. No worry, no anxiety, no depression, no aimless searching. Get on to the job, which is what Lord Krishna said to Arjun, pick up your bow and do what I say. In Sri Sri Thakurs words, that is education; the process of growing and evolving. Marriage & Eugenics Eugenics is one of the most important areas on which Sri Sri Thakur has laid emphasis from the point of view of having a better society, more evolved human being and a peaceful conjugal life. Biological wealth of a person sets the foundation on which a person builds his life. It is also necessary to bring about continuous refinement in that biological wealth by following the principles of eugenics. If we want to breed qualitatively better persons in the society than it is important that proper matching between male and female is done at the time of marriage. Principles of biology and eugenics need to be followed for having progeny, who would bring about the best out of parents. Selection of partners at the time of marriage plays a very important role. Compatibility from the point of view of health, family tradition, age, educational attainment, aptitudes and the hereditary family groups (i.e., varna) all these need to be carefully seen before choosing partners. Varna, that is the cultural groupings, helps to indicate the biological and hereditary qualities of a person. Sri Sri Thakur wanted us to maintain the distinctiveness of groupings in a homogeneous way, so that the cultural traits which any particular varna represents are maintained in an identifiable way. Good progeny also need so many other factors, which Sri Sri Thakur has identified and analyzed and has urged every body to follow them. It is important for us to bear in mind that if there is any kind of anomaly that takes place in the stage where the seed of a human being is sown and if that results in an unwanted child, then nothing much can be done to bring about any change in that childs life. If we want the society to improve then the first step is to follow the principles of good progeny. It is an esoteric subject, which needs proper exposition and that has not been attempted here. Sri Sri Thakur has given so much emphasis on this, that he has urged his disciples to literally fight it out, if any breach of marriage as per Varna does take place in the society. We all mature adults need to understand that marriage is a sacred thing in life and child rearing is a serious business. We need to remind ourselves that we relive life through our children and evolution in human gene takes place through the process of berth passing through heredity. Conclusion This exercise perhaps cannot see a conclusion, as it is an exercise in discovery of life. Before we opt for a break, we need to review the objective with which we started our exercise. May be by now we have known something about Sri Sri Thakur. But do we know Sri Sri Thakur? There is rhyme in Bengali, which sings, I know since I follow; they dont know who do not follow. 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