Word: marga
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through the agency of some 2000 Acharvas. He is now married and has a child to demonstrate that a Yogi, a man of God, need not be an ascetic or world-renunciate. His wife Mata ("Mother") is said, in spiritual terms, to be his female complement; she directs Ananda Marga's women's liberation sector. Shrii Sarkar has assumed the burden of his own obligations during his entire life. As a younger man, he worked as an accountant at a railway factory (he gave lectures during lunch hour); now, as prime mover and Guru of Ananda Marga...
...following is the story of how a grandfather and senior Indian government official. Mr. Mangal Bihari, came to Ananda Marga. Mr. Bihari is Chief Director for Sugar and Oil in the Indian Ministry of Food and Agriculture and has been in the U.S. recently on state business. I taped his story last weekend at a gathering of Margiis in Stony Brook...
...that point he was visited at his office one day by an Acharya of Ananda Marga. Bihari thought the man must have wanted a grant for a school or something, but the Acharya informed him that he wanted instead to discuss spiritual matters. Bihari told him that this was not the right time or place, that, besides, he was no longer interested, and directed him to someone else. But the Acharya went that evening to Bihari's house, where Bihari finally yielded, and they talked-for ten hours, non-stop. During this time Bihari brought up all the arguments, reservations...
...apparently ordinary man, clad in simple white clothes, with short-cropped hair and eyeglasses, but dignified adults were breaking into tears and near-hysterics in his presence. But later Bihari began to feel the Guru's presence himself, and after receiving personal contact became devoted to him and Ananda Marga...
...Bihari has taken a week off from his official government work to speak with Americans about Ananda Marga and the solutions it offers tothe problems of the world. He is in Cambridge now, helping members of the local unit make contact with interested adults...