Word: marga
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...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...
...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...