Shrii Mangal bihari Story with Baba

The janta government after its installation instituted a Commission — National Commission which is called as Shah Commission. This Commission was to inquire into excesses during emergency and to suggest  remedies against those excesses. I applied to the Shah Commission that I was tortured during emergency — not paid; I had no post; I was asked to vacate my government bungalow. I was insulted, humiliated and isolated.

So, I approached the Shah Commission. Shah Commission was like a judicial body.  It was like a High Court judge also … the ex-Supreme Court judge, Justice Shah. was the head of the shah commission. He was a very respectable man all over the country and our judicial system allows anybody who’s a complainant to see all the files wherein adverse notes or adverse records against him are there. So when I appeared before the Sah commission I was asked to inspect the files and to counter the charges that were in official files against me and during the process I was especially helped by an indian police service officer, who was from Rajasthan cadre, mr. ML sharma, to be very specific.

And he not only showed me the files which were concerning me but he also showed me the files which were concerning Anand Marga because I was really supposed to be punished for being a member of the Anand Marga. Indira Gandhi did not punish me because I did not send labour to her rally.  That was you kno. She was intelligent enough to punish me when Anand Marga had been banned during the emergency, and I was a member of the Anand Marga, and therefore the charge was that I was an active Anand Margii and that I helped Anand Marga in various ways in various stages of its development — that was the charge.

And in order to see what is the content of that charge, I was shown the files — CBI files, IB files, intelligence files — all files that were there.  I was free to inspect them totally and thus I came to know who had reported against Anand Marga, who had reported against particular dadas, particular sannyasis and who had reported against me or my son. I saw them myself in the files that I was allowed to see because I was a complainant to the Shah Commission and there I discovered that

Rudrananda was one of these informers and he used to give the names of prominent sannyasis and

prominent margiis who are so-called pillars of Ananda marga. So I came to see that at that time, but thereafter I came back. I had my post and I joined again Anand Marga as usual and began to work

for it, but I never let it out that I have seen files and I have seen names because you know Baba has said, “Look at the bright side of everything”, so I said that all right, Baba knows everything, why should I inform anybody as to who is Ananda Marga’s enemy and who is all that. Baba knows

everything and once in Baba’s presence one forgets to take a small revengeful or small, you know, anti personal activities. I did not tell anybody, except in private conversation with somebody I used to say that there are enemies of the Marga within the organization who had brought the organization to crisis during emergency and on whose complaints Baba was …. and whose complaints many many Avadhutas were arrested and there were many many Margiis in trouble because they were proceeded against by Margiis themselves.

There were many names not only Rudranand, but there was one Ujjawal from Bihar, Bhagalpur. There was another person from Bhagalpur whose name I forget but he was the brother of Prakashanand and like that you know that it is a long list. There were many people who had falsely reported , falsely implicated many people so that they could be in trouble and you know that in those days, pre-emergency days, there were elections in Bihar and I was approached by some friends including Acharya Raghunath ji, who was President of Anand Marga and who was in charge of Samaj movement. He asked me he has asked some candidates to stand from Bihar and there will be some financial requirements for them.

So this Ujjawal and that another man. I used to send money to Raghunath ji for helping those candidates in their elections. Two such drafts which were prepared by Punjab National Bank near

my office, that they were on official records, and this man really used to come to me and he would, and I would, you know that  in my ignorance and in my I used to say that please this is the money you go to the Punjab National Bank and get a draft prepared so that can send. So he knew exactly what was the amount, what was the date and what was where it was sent.  Those were very specific charges against me, but they were not by Rudranand, they were by other people, but anyway the Shah Commission discovered that I had been maltreated, that I’d been illegally removed from service and all my salary, all back arrears, all my back seniority were well-restored, and as you know, thereafter, I occupied the highest of the positions in government of India and government of Rajasthan. So that was the manner and the method and the occasions when I happened to see the files and the names of people who were working against me and against Anand Marga.

Interviewer: How big is this report? hHw big was it? Was it like many volumes or many pages that you looked through everything or only particular parts you were given insight into? Like the report

itself how big is it? Is it like one big book or many books …?

Mangal Bihari: It was many, many files. You know that the government has a system of maintaining files on every small subject or sub-subject so there were many files files — files regional, files topical, files on particular issues and they were many files. I must have examined at least six to ten files and I must have seen several names, several occasions, several reports.  My own acharya Lalan also had given a long report against me.  He had said that this man is a pillar of Ananda Marga and  if he is allowed to work while occupying high posts, them Ananda Marga will remain strong in these areas and those areas. There were many, there were others from Rajasthan and there were others from Bihar, and  many places, who had personally complained against me and who had, not the same person, but another who had complained against Ananda Marga, against its activities falsely implicating Ananda Marga into violent activities, falsely implicating Anand Marga into anti-national activities, falsely implicating Ananda Marga into several things, which if they could prove them, Ananda Marga would have been destroyed forever. So it was a web of conspiracy, a web of falsehood,  a web of little mindedness the web of small benefits with many of these people who were feeding the government were allowed small post in this government or in that corporation. Even now there are many of these people are occupying influential or small posts. Even private industries were asked to employ them on small post so they lost nothing really. They did not remain sanyasi, but they became clerks and there, I think that some of them are retired and some of them may still be serving.

So this is the allurement which CBI and government offered them for giving information or for charging Anand Marga in various ways. So I had not, I had not told people or publicly gone into some kind of a public information office, because I thought that Baba knows everything and if somebody has done something wrong, then Baba will take care of it.  Why should I?

Interviewer: what about after Mahaprayan?

Mangal Bihari:  But then one fine morning I found that when I was returning from my native place, Kota, I found that 4-5 people were sitting here in my room, including Rudranand ji , Nigmanand ji, Nirmohanand ji, and one from Jaipur, PC sharma and other. 

I was surprised, happily surprised, ….. but Why didn’t you inform me otherwise I would have come earlier. Anyway, after introductory talk, Nigmanada started attacking me that you are working against us, that you are not cooperating with the organizational wing and you are with our enemies,  anyway I gave them my reply, the substance of it was that you have not inherited that post. Why don’t you ask for a change and create more peace in the organization? Why, why should you stick to something which is controversial and all that ? Why don’t you withdraw, ask for a quiet posting in some master unit or somewhere you do sadhana and not politics?

He felt very angry. Then Rudranandji acquired peaceful manner said that you are definitely a good man because in Calcutta you had defended me against Vijayanand ji. Vijayanand ji was, you know, was a top Avadhuta in Calcutta. He was doing all publication work and he at some moment  had informed that Rudranand ji is the agent of CBI and I had opposed that saying that CBI does not maintain any agent, CBI, Rudranand is not an agent of. Anyway it was a brief which pleased Rudranand very much. And he said that you were very good, you defended me before Vijayanand ji.  I said I did not defend you I only corrected him that CBI does not have agents, it has only informers and that you are not an agent but you are an informer of CBI. He said how do you know that?  I said I had seen the files myself, that had become an informer during emergency and implicated many people.

Anyway he felt very much upset and I told it before him, to him and then as there were more people here. the news leaked out and through emails and through other channels it became known that I have blamed Rudranand as an informer of CBI. After it became public and after I came to be knowledgeable on the subject, many people who came they asked me about it and I did tell them what I know about it, but it was not in an organized way like a press conference or like a seminar or anything.  It was communicated to individuals on conversation on request. It was really a file which was concerning complaints of Ananda Marga. In that file I saw several names including that of not Rudranand but his laokik name RN Sharma or something, RN Pandey, loakik  name, and along with

his name and reports against, not reports against but reports in his favour, there were other names  which I think I don’t remember now because it was in 1977 that shah commission