Thakur Anukulchandra and His Mission

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Satsang, a Sanskrit word, literally means a gathering or association to uphold existence and truth. The Satsang movement was inspired by Anukul Chandra Chakravarty, respectfully called Sri Sri Thakur, by his followers and admirers. Sri Sri Thakur was born in 1888 in Pabna, Bengal (now in Bangladesh) and later moved along with his followers to Deoghar, India, where the main centre of the Satsang ashram is today. Sri Sri Thakur completed his earthly work and left for his heavenly abode in 1969.

Trying to describe who Sri Sri Thakur was and the Satsang movement in a few lines is like trying to put an ocean in a teacup. How do you even start describing a person who had the love of Christ, the spontaneous eloquence of Prophet Muhammed, the enlightenment of Buddha and the spiritual realization of Ramakrishna Paramhansa? The people who felt his loving touch have described him variously as an Avatar, Saint, Prophet, Master and by other such names. To his devotees, however, he remains an ocean of love who came to fulfill and to uphold all life and existence.

When Mahatma Gandhi came to visit Sri Sri Thakur at Pabna, he sought guidance in resolving the increasing divide between the Hindus and Muslims in India. Sri Sri Thakur replied that if every Hindu were a true Hindu and every Muslim were a true Muslim, all cause of conflict would melt away. This in essence, is the spirit of the Satsang movement. Sri Sri Thakur called this movement a "Man Making Movement". He believed that the aim of all religions and "isms" was "Existentialism"- the "Being and Becoming" of existence. He said "Religions may be many but the principles and the realization thereof are ever the same." His emphasis, and hence the emphasis of the Satsang, is to create ideal human beings through "Ideal-centric" attachment.

The number of members of the Satsang have reached tens of millions in India and abroad and are growing every day.

Taken from “Ocean in a Teacup—Ray Houserman

 

The Three Basic Principles For Satsangi's


The basic principles which each disciple had accepted on initiation and which were the basis of Thakur’s faith are given below as they were understood by Ray A. Houserman :------


Jadjan:     --to exalt others through active service… or in Thakur’s words, “To roam midst family, friend, and foe, with the mission and tiding of thy Lord. To serve all in his name with every compassion to make them proficient for existence.”

Istobrity: --a daily love offering …. Or
“If the offering is achieved through energetic volition and ability, it renders one abler and abler, gradually. And makes one rocky in his stand. It generates an undaunted energy within when others quiver in the blast.”

Jawjan:   --  to meditate on mantra every day…..or
“The word that vibrates in all life, within and without, is the hunger to be united from molecule to man. When that word behaves into life, blood, and flesh, the word is incarnate. It is the word with behaviour and is the existance for all".

 

 

Sri Sri Thakur said that the Supreme being ( Ultimate GOD) is one & only one. All the Prophets are same and there is no difference. His ideology is based on three major concepts:

1. GOD is one and all Prophets are the same. The Latest Prophet is always the Fulfiller of all the previous prophets.He said Ram, Krishna, Jesus Christ, Mohammad, Chaitanya & Ramkrishna Paramahans have been the Prophets & we should respect them all. Blasphemy to anyone of them is blasphemy to all.

2. Living Ideal ( Guru in flesh & blood/ a living Guru). He said that the abstract God can not be comprehended by humans. So, we need a living Guru who has the attributes (some, if not all) of God. This Guru is the living embodiment of all ideals of life. When a Prophet comes He is called Sad-Guru, the most perfect Guru, and blessed are those who get such a Prophet. This chain of Prophets will continue as long as the creation exists.

3. Marriage on the priciples of Varna system. That is first marriage of a man in his own varna ( Savarna Marriage), then he can marry females of the lower varnas ( Anulom Asavarna marriage/ Hypergamous marriage). The former is to preserve the original genetic stock of the lineage, and the subsequent ones to breed new bio-diversities. But he warned against Hypogamous ( Pratiloma) marriages, where the girl is from higher varna. Progeny of such marriages are distorted by birth, as, Sri Sri Thakur "inferior sperm destroys the nodules of a superior ovum". These people, however brilliant, are anti-existence, anti-life by birth, and can not be cured.

 

 

 

 

" The degeneration of humanity began at that moment when the unseen God was made infinity and, ignoring the Seers, the worship of their Sayings began.

Oh Mankind ! If you desire to invoke your good, forget sectarian conflict. Be regardful to all the past Prophets. Be attached to your living master or God and take only those who love him as your own. Because all the past Prophets are consummated in the divine Man of the present." - Sri Sri Thakur Anukulchandra- Satyanusaran-