Originally Posted by Arjuna
No I don't belong to anandamarga. I only know about that organization as one which had clashes with the communist regime in bengal. There was a famous incident more than a decade back when some of the monks of that order were murdered in broad day light. I don't know much about their belief, little I have heard points to a bhavabadi organization (the term we use for spiritual oraganizations who use sentimentalism and imagination istead of sceintific yoga and philosophy). Neither I refer to "Anandamata".
AnadaMatha (Matha as in JoshiMatha) is the tradition of swami satyananda saraswati ji - the founder of Shaktibad doctrine. Details of what I know will be provided below.
Oviously, I didn't knew about this.Originally Posted by Arjuna
And without Vira-bhava there is no Divya bhava? - may be true in the general sense. AnandaMatha tradition as I have read, didn't involve any Vira-Bhava rituals.Originally Posted by Arjuna
.Originally Posted by Arjuna
Well there is an element of faith on my part here. swamiji has written, there were texts which he had read which show the tree from Gaurapada swami (the param guru of Adi Shankaracharya) to his time. He was 142nd in the line. Simple arithmatic imples it actually should be much older than 2000 years - may be couple of thousand years more. Both Gourapada swami and Govindapada swami were said to be alive for 1000 years. All these enters a realm which doesn't make much meaning to me. I accept it since swamiji wrote it somewhere, and is quite insignificant a point to me since it doen't mean anything for Shaktibad. Had swamiji been alive and I was following the path of the anandamatha tradition beyond the basic, it may been much more important.
Swami Satyananda=Anandamatha TraditionOriginally Posted by Arjuna
And Kriya Yoga (if you mean the shamyacharan lahiri's line which is still alive in bengal and elsewhere in the world) has little to do with this. I have got very little knowledge of Tantras. But to me the entire anadamatha tradition starting from the basic is divya bhava upasana. It's focus is in Tantrik Yoga. I'll elaborate in the next post.
Anadamatha has 8 stages of initiation - swamiji wrote in his autobiography, that it took 10-12 years to complete all initiations and enter Raja Yoga.Originally Posted by Arjuna
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