Belief — Ananda Marga

Figures

who it looks to — gods, spirits, ancestors; some rooms are empty on principle All 1 →

P Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar — Baba. A railway clerk who wrote a complete system of meditation, a social theory, a philosophy of history and more than five thousand songs, and spent seven years in prison on a charge later found unsustainable. Domain The meditation system, the social theory, the whole corpusStanding Guru to initiates and not a deity; the movement is explicit that it worships no person Meet them — context & 1 source →

Core Tenets

2 — a sample of the center, never the sum All 2 →

The shared center — held across the tradition

Realisation and service are one practice. Sarkar's formula was self-realisation and service to all beings, and he built the second half into the structure: every monk and nun runs a school, a clinic or a relief unit. Go deeper — context →

The economy is a spiritual question. PROUT, set out in 1959, proposes a floor and a ceiling on income, local cooperative ownership and a cap on the accumulation of physical wealth. Ananda Marga treats it as part of the teaching, not as politics attached to it. Go deeper — context →

Cosmos & Afterlife

how reality is built, and what follows death

The nature of reality

One consciousness, moving out into matter and working its way back into mind

After death

Rebirth driven by samskara until the mind merges in consciousness