Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar was born in Bihar, India on a full moon day in May of 1921 to a family belonging to the intellectual caste of Brahmins. Sarkar became known as an spiritual teacher or guru. In 1955, he founded the socio-spiritual movement Ananda Marga (the Path of Bliss) and became known as Shrii Shrii Anandamurti but was affectionately referred to as simply Baba by his disciples. Sarkar dictated a large body of works on spiritual matters, including theories of cosmological, spiritual and social evolution, over 5.000 inspirational songs (Prabhat Samgiit) and built up an organisation with an international network spreading his ideas, spiritual practices and social services around the planet. A precursor of Sarkar is Sri Aurobindo, who wrote earlier about many of the same topics, including the quadri-divisional (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra) basis of historical evolution in "The Human Cycle", spirit based evolution of the species, et cetera. Bihar (बिहार in Devanagari) is a state of the Indian union situated in the eastern part of the country. ... Young Indian brahmachari Brahmin A Brahmin (less often Brahman) is a member of the Hindu priestly caste. ... References ^ Tirha, B. B. A Taste of Trascendence, (2002) p. ... Ananda Marga is a social and spiritual organization founded in India in 1955 by spiritual master and philosopher Prabhat Rainjain Sarkar, known by his spiritual name of Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. ... ... Baba can mean: Look up baba in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, Hindu mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. ...

By the early 1970s, due to the rapid growth of his grass-roots movement, based on ancient Hindu idealism, the government of West Bengal felt the social activisim of his organisation had become a threat to their imported materialist ideology of Marxism as well as undermining the power base of the Communist party, which sought its support among the poor. As a result, Ananda Marga was banned and its members came under often fierce attacks by Marxist organised mobs whereby many monks and nuns were killed. Sarkar was imprisoned on trumped up charges, of having conspired to kill his former disciples. The government of Indira Gandhi and the CBI supported the bans and charges and became active in spreading corroborating information about him and his movement internationally. Only after Indira Gandhi and her Congress Party had been voted out of office in 1977 was there a retrial. After Sarkar was cleared of the charges, he was released from prison in 1978. At the outset of his seven years of imprisonment Sarkar was allegedly poisoned by the prison doctor but lived. From then on he took to fasting, and subsisted only on half a cup of butter milk twice a day. Due to the poisoning, long-term fasting and restricted movement, his health deteriorated. Despite that, he remained active promoting his mission until his death, from a series of heart attacks at his residence in Calcutta, on October 20, 1990. Hindu idealism is a precursor of western idealism and the philosophical opposite of materialism. ... This article primarily focuses on the general concepts of matter and existence. ... Marxism is the social theory and political practice based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century German philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Central Bureau of Investigation (C.B.I.) in India traces its origin to the Special Police Establishment (SPE) which was set up in 1941 by the Government of India. ... This article is on Calcutta/Kolkata, the city. ...

One of his best known disciples is Ravi Batra, an internationally recognised economist and best selling author living and teaching in Dallas, Texas. In his works, Batra has relied heavily on Sarkar´s "Social Cycle Theory" and "PROUT", a theory of sustainable and equitable economics. Ravi Batra is a U.S. economist and professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. ... PROUT or Progressive Utilization Theory is a socio-economical theory developed in 1959 by Indian philosopher Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar (1921-1990). ...