Word: marga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ananda Marga Yoga Society has collected 2500 names of Harvard and Radcliffe students who are willing to donate the price of one meal for relief of East Pakistani refugees encamped in India...
...that is only the bleak side. Many people agree with Doug Ravenel, a Brandeis graduate student, who simply says that joining Ananda Marga has "changed my life and made me happier than I ever thought I could be." It has taken struggle, to be sure, but many earlier difficulties have been overcome. From the viewpoint of Ananda Marga, life is struggle, and to avoid struggle is like giving up and dying...
...GOAL of Ananda Marga is not the denial or obliteration of each human personality, but its perfection: Ananda Marga is unabashedly striving to create a one-world society of Universal Men, human beings' each unbound by the limitations of time, space, and person, and yet each uniquely personal. In such a context the Guru, Shrii Sarkar, appears in sharper focus as a model man than as a human...
Still, in lived life, we seem so many light-years away from any such "cosmic society" that even accepting such goals as realistic is a major step. But through their meditation and service, local members of Ananda Marga are beginning to realize these goals in themselves and with others. They are taking the first steps to transform ideology into reality; and it is whether steps are taken, and not how long the road is, that matters...
...most important local developments, in this light, is that at least ten Boston people plan to work full-time for Ananda Marga this summer, and many plan brief trips to India. Wendy Jenner, a 3rd year student at Northeastern who plans to work full-time, says that she "earlier doubted that this rather inept group of people could really do much. But now the prospect and responsibility of full-time work have catalyzed in me a new sense of purpose, of reality: that Ananda Marga here is no longer just a 'socializing-spiritual' thing but a live work group, something...