Bábá
Namaskára Respected Márgii Brothers and Sisters,
Namaskára Respected Márgii Brothers and Sisters,
Distortion
in Yoga Psychology Chapter 22: The Mind Grows in Magnitude
Lord Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrtiji has given a famed Renaissance Universal Discourse on 2 June 1990 in Anandanagar . This discourse, “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”, has been published by our AMPS Publishers in the book Yoga Psychology in 1998. (1)
Here we present critical distortions introduced into this discourse by the AMPS Publishers. The discourse was given in June 1990, and in those years there were multiple technologies available for the recording of Bábá's discourses. Discourses were routinely recorded via multiple media formats, including video. For that reason, the recording is readily available and its sound of good quality especially compared to that of discourses from earlier years.
Bábá
Titled DMC and RU Discourses Himself
Bábá used to title the Dharma Mahácakra (DMC) discourses as well as Renaissance Universal (RU) discourses Himself. In DMC and RU discourses, given before generally larger numbers of Márgiis, it was Bábá's custom to title the discourse in His opening sentence. And these were historic events, with Márgiis traveling from far and wide. The atmosphere was highly spiritually vibrated, and all present used to await Bábá's arrival and His announcement of the DMC or RU discourse title with eager anticipation. His customary words, introducing these important discourses, are well-known to all: “The subject of today's discourse is ...”. And with that, Bábá would announce the title of the discourse. This discourse title would become the name by which the discourse was to be known and published.
AMPS
Publishers Left Out First Sentence of RU Discourse—In Which Bábá
Gave Discourse Title
Given the great significance of Bábá's DMC and RU Discourses as well as the fact that He always titled them in the first sentence of the discourse, it is indeed disturbing and unfortunate that our AMPS Publishers failed to print the first sentence of the discourse, “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”. Firstly, all sentences which Lord Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrtiji speaks carry tremendous importance. And in particular, the very first sentence of an RU Discourse, in which Bábá announces the subject of the discourse and the title under which it is to be published—this carries special significance indeed. The first sentence is of course present on the sound recording, so there is no reason for the AMPS Publishers to have left it out.
AMPS
Publishers Distorted the Discourse Title Bábá Gave in First
Sentence
The omission of this particular “first-sentence-of-an-RU-discourse” is all the more disturbing, because the very discourse title Bábá has announced in this opening sentence, was erroneously published by the AMPS Publishers.
How they
Printed It
Yoga Psychology, Chapter 22. The way the beginning of the discourse is printed in the book:
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The Mind Grows in Magnitude
2 June 1990 RU, Anandanagar
Amongst the different faculties of this globe in the physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots.
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Same
Passage from Printed Discourse,
with
Distortion in Red
Here is how our AMPS Publishers wrongly printed the opening to this famous discourse in Yoga Psychology, Chapter 22. The way it is printed in the book. Please pay special attention to the word in red, where distortion has occurred.
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The Mind Grows in Magnitude
2 June 1990 RU, Anandanagar
Amongst the different faculties of this globe in the physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots.
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About
above passage
Color Key: Serious errors from the published discourse appear in red.
Explanation
ONE: Discourse Title Wrong
The opening sentence of the discourse is missing. And significantly, the discourse title Bábá announced in that sentence is wrongly published.
Here we are presenting the opening to the printed discourse again. Please pay special attention to the word in red, where distortion has occurred. Also note the opening sentence in purple, which was omitted entirely from the printed discourse:
Same
Passage from Printed Discourse,
with
Distortion in Red & Omissions in Purple
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The Mind Grows in Magnitude
2 June 1990 RU, Anandanagar
The subject of today's discourse is—Mind Flows In Magnitude.
Amongst the different faculties of this globe in the physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots.
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About
above passage
Color Key:
- Serious errors from the published discourse appear in red.
- Sections highlighted
in purple are missing entirely from
the printed discourse.
Explanation
TWO: Missing Opening Sentence—Key
to Wrong Discourse Title
Please take special note of the title which Bábá has personally given this discourse: “Mind Flows In Magnitude”. And compare it with the discourse title published by our AMPS Publishers: The Mind Grows in Magnitude . The AMPS Publishers changed Flows to Grows. No one can say why or how the AMPS Publishers omitted the discourse's opening sentence in which Bábá announced the discourse title as “Mind Flows In Magnitude”. And no one can say why they changed the title from Flows to Grows. But both happened. The AMPS Publishers omitted the very sentence containing the correct discourse title, and from that very omitted sentence they distorted the title from “Mind Flows In Magnitude” to “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”.
There is yet another critical error in the opening sentences. Here we are presenting the opening to the printed discourse again. Please pay special attention to the words in red, where distortion has occurred. Also note the opening sentence in purple, which was omitted entirely from the printed discourse:
Same
Passage from Printed Discourse,
with
Distortions in Red & Omissions in Purple
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The Mind Grows in Magnitude
2 June 1990 RU, Anandanagar
The subject of today's discourse is—Mind Flows In Magnitude.
Amongst the different faculties of this globe in the physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots.
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About
above passage
Color Key:
- Serious errors from the published discourse appear in red.
- Sections highlighted
in purple are missing entirely from
the printed discourse.
Explanation
THREE: “Flow” Distorted to “Globe”
Bábá has actually used the word “flow” twice in the first two sentences of the discourse. The first sentence sentence was omitted by the AMPS publishers, and from that missing sentence the AMPS Publishers changed the word Flows to Grows in the discourse title. In the second sentence of the discourse, Bábá spoke “the different faculties of this flow”—and the AMPS Publishers changed it to “the different faculties of this globe” as you see above. So Bábá has used the word “flow” twice in the first two sentences: the first time the AMPS Publishers deleted the sentence, and changed the Flows to Grows; the second time they changed flow to globe.
It should be mentioned additionally that the word “globe” makes no sense in the sentence. The globe i.e. this earth is a physical entity; faculties of the physico-psycho-spiritual realms are not under its aegis. To speak of the “mental faculties of this globe” makes no sense. And Bábá did not say this. He spoke of the “mental faculties of this flow”.
“As Is
Version” of what Baba Speaks. Note the Purple Words.
Here below is the actual “as is” passage spoken by Lord Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrtiji that day, exactly as heard on the audio recording. This time words and sentences entirely omitted by the AMPS Publishers are highlighted in purple:
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The Mind Flows in Magnitude
2 June 1990 RU, Anandanagar
The subject of today's discourse is—Mind Flows In Magnitude.
Amongst different faculties of this flow, faculties in physico-psycho-spiritual realms, mental faculties are of maximum importance. These faculties may be categorized into four main groups or offshoots.
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In
Ananda Marga Mind Flows—Not Grows
It is of note that Bábá speaks of “mental flow” in literally dozens of discourses, so there is plenty of precedent for Bábá's usage of mind and flow together. Whereas there is not a single discourse in which Bábá speaks of mind “growing”. Bábá uses the word “grow” in association with physical things. A search in ZY Find for “grow” reveals 385 matches in 115 discourses where Bábá has used the word. These uses of “grow” are virtually all in reference to various types of crops growing, animals growing, hair growing, and trees growing. So the AMPS Publishers' coining the title “Mind Grows in Magnitude” is not in character with the rest of Bábá's discourse and teachings. Mind does not grow; it flows. And the bottom line is that this is what Bábá said that day in the opening sentence to the discourse: “The subject of today's discourse is—Mind Flows In Magnitude”.
Summary of
Distortions
In summary, there are three critical errors in the first two sentences of the discourse published in the name “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”:
- AMPS Publishers omitted the opening sentence in which Bábá announced the discourse title.
- AMPS Publishers changed the discourse title from “Mind Flows In Magnitude” to “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”.
- AMPS Publishers
changed Bábá's second sentence from “The
different faculties of this flow”,
to “The different faculties of this
globe”.
Three
Editions of Book, Never Repaired
It is to be noted that three separate editions of this discourse have been published by AMPS Publications, each time in the book Yoga Psychology: the first edition in 1991, the second edition in 1994, and the third edition in 1998. The editor for all three editions was Ác. Vijayánanda Ávt. It has furthermore been published in all the four electronic editions by our AMPS publishers. The same three critical errors are present in all editions, both printed and electronic. In twenty-two years, the discourse has not be repaired.
Fix Errors
in Your Edition
The critical errors in the title and the first two sentences of the RU discourse “The Mind Grows in Magnitude”, are something all Márgiis should be aware of. Please take care to make corrections in your copy of the book Yoga Psychology.
Volunteers
Needed
As always we welcome your thoughts and comments on this vital subject of the preservation of the discourses of Lord Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrtiji.
In addition, we would like to make a special request for volunteers to help in this work of producing and reviewing the “as is” discourses. Márgii volunteers are needed from all countries around the world, to help with translating the “as is” discourses into your mother tongue, and also to help with translating these announcements of distortions so that all Márgiis around the world can be made aware. Help with comparing the “as is” discourses to the discourses published by AMPS is also needed. We welcome the help of any and all who are inspired and interested to serve in the protection of the discourses of Lord Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrtiji.
In His service,
Ciranútana
Ánanda Márga Discourse network Editors
(1) “The Mind Grows in Magnitude” has been published in 1991, 1994, and 1998 by Ác. Vijayánanda Ávt., Ánanda Marga Publications, 527 VIP Nagar, Tiljala, Calcutta.
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The following letter is from Márgii brother Devesh ji, and in this he forwards an email from Márgii brother Kirit ji who is communicating to him about the work of B group Publications, Tiljala.
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 11:37:44 +0530
Subject: Namaskar
From: Devesh Kumar
To: anandamargadiscourses@sunlink.net
Namaskar,
Please refer trailing email sent by brother Kirit ji. He has created a
website in order to make corrections in Baba books. Please comment on
his effort.
In HIM,
Devesh kumar
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: kirit dave
Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 15:17:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: thanks again
To: devesh devesh
Dear Devesh bhai
You might be happy to know that Publication web site that I have been
working on for a long time is now near completion and I have added a
section it is called Errata. We will be placing all the corrections in
all the books on the web site as well as a way for people to report
errors. This then will be handled by the publication dept to go to the
correction of the future prints and would also listed on the web site.
Other than that, I consider publication department fairly self
sufficient and in due course of time, I will withdraw my efforts
unless I am needed for specific things.
