MAI-ISM

Mai is the Universal Mother, the Motherhood conception of God Almighty,easily propitiable by living a life of Love, Service, Devotion and Unconditional Cheerful Self-Surrender, and by the recognition of the spiritual co-equal status of man and woman.

Any idol or image, symbol or emblem, picture or the sacrificial altar or any object, installed anywhere, either in a Church or a Temple or a Mosque or a Synagogue and worshipped by any people in any manner and any mode they decide, with any gospel or scriptures they prefer but based on the conception that it represents Universal God, whether Mother or even Father or Jointly as Mother & Father etc., easily propitiable on living the life on the lines of the above-sated tenets by itself, is MAI or the Universal Mother.

Similarly, any preceptor preaching or teaching or propagating or inculcating the doctrine of Universal Religion with Mai, the Universal Mother as its pivot and rallying focus and wedded to the said tenets, is MAIJI of that particular group or area or generation or even age.
The followers of the Universal Religion of Mai-ism, with the Universal Mother or Mai as the Universal God easily propitiable on living out the oft-repeated principles, whether they form individuals or groups or associates or multitudes or adherents or co-workers or devotees, are all MAI-ISTS. Mai-ists that have taken their oath of allegiance are U.R.M.s of the general or lifelong oath.

The doctrine of Universal Religion entwined round Mai the Universal Mother, with its said indispensable cardinal principles of love, service, devotion and unconditional cheerful self-surrender and recognition of the spiritual co-equal status of man and woman, is MAI-ISM.

These universal conceptions and interpretations represent the quintessence of the Universal Religion of Mai-ism and it is this, that has been meant to be conveyed whenever the terms MAI, MAIJI, MAI-ISTS and MAI-ISM are used under the universal religion of Mai-ism.

MAIISM THE UNIVERSAL MOTHER’S UNIVERSAL RELIGION FOR ALL THE NEW RELIGION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

FOR THE NEW AGE

Mai-Ism’s Appreciation in the Universal Religious Alliance

Institute’s Permanent World Congress of Man

Convened in 1959-60 in Havana, Cuba.

Mai-ism Founder: – H. H. MAI SWARUPA MAI MARKAND URA Grand Patron:- H. H. PR OM LIND SCHERNREZIG

Mai Bless us All. We are glad here, to give information of a reliable nature for the religious world, that believes in human happiness through true morality, religiosity and spirituality of the whole world on reconciliation and unification of all religions under one parental religion, which respects and gives individual respect and welcome place to each religion and yet unites them all collectively to help each religion to keep intact and independent individually. It is something not easily understandable and believable at once as a subject of usual familiarity and daily routine news information and discussion.

This is a subject by itself for them that have great value for morality and religion on one hand and universality on the other.

Since 1893, when there was the world parliament of all religions in Chicago where revered Swami Vivekanand opened the eyes of the world and Hindus themselves, regarding the greatness of Hinduism, there have been so many deep religious thinkers all over the world, who have seen the full need of one universal religion, and every year there have been congresses and conferences in different parts of the world to bring about tolerance and fellow feeling and sympathy amongst different religions, as religions in the past have been inimical to each other and there have been bitterness, hatred, persecution and massacre as a result of different religions.

As every honest and prideless religious man should admit, West is the source of science and wonderful discoveries; East is the source of religions. It was in 1932 that a miniature of a universal religion by name Mai-ism, i. e, the Universal Mother’s religion for one and all of any religion, to be followed without leaving one’s own religion, was proclaimed and Universal Mother Mai was installed by Mai Swarupa Mai Markand on 2-9-1932. It has the simplest principles to be followed, viz., universal love and service to all human beings, to the extent of one’s practicability and possibility and devotion with unconditional, cheerful self – surrender to one’s God, whichever God one is devoted to.

Mai-ism has been doing its slow, steady and silent work since 1932. It was started in Poona by Mai Swarupa Mai Markand (Markand Ratanlal Dholkia).

Naturally enough, Mai-ism being the universal religion cannot be confined to any one country, one nation or one religion. The universal name Mai for God as Mother has been by now extremely well known in Gujarat and Saurashtra and South India. Mai – ism has held on Daserah days sisters’ socials (in strict purdah) to pray to Mai for showering peace and happiness through true morality and religion, over the whole world, not simply the Bharata Bhoomi of Indians or the followers of Hinduism. Sisters’ socials were held in Poona in 1932, in Madras in 1949, in Calicut in 1954, in Trichur in 1957, in Trivandrum in 1958. The further two advanced functions of Mai-ism of the Mai Convocation were held in Trichur on 30-9-1960 and in Ernakulam, Cochin on 7-10-1962, each starting on Daserah day and lasting for three days, an idea about the universal nature of Mai-ism can be gathered from Mai-ism literature of Mai -Sandesh Mai – Sahasranama Mai-ism and World’s Need and Mai-ism by late Rev. Brother Ernest Kirk, editor of “Life” at Coimbatore, India.

Being not restricted to any one religion but to universal religion, Mai Swarup Mai Markand was invited to advise on world’s peace against the third world war through religion, in Japan by the founder Yonusuke Nakano of Ananai Kyo, in Shimuzu city, in May 1955. Mai Swarup was so much appreciated there that an institute named International Religious Federation (I.R.F.) was started jointly by the two founders and Mai Swarup has been elected to be the Sub-Councilor-in-Chief of the Institute (second in rank only to the Founder Yonusuke). So many Hindu saints and religionists have been in touch with the said Institute.

This meant that Mai-ism was fully known and appreciated in the extreme East. It was in June 1959, five years after that, Mai Swarup was invited by one of the greatest universal religious institutes in the West. It is known under the denomination of “Universal Religious Alliance” (U. R. A.)

Mai-ism and Mai Swarupa (in Mai Niwas, Santa Cruz West, Bombay- Mumbai  54 India), for the said object of happifying the world through religion (universality, love, service, devotion and self-surrender to one’s own God, whoever that God be) have been in close contact with Dr. Yeang in extreme South East Malaya, who has been the organizer of the peace prayer for the whole world under “World-wide Divine Love Radiation Service”.

The latest thing that we are giving information about, to the religious world is the appreciation of the universal religion Mai-ism (the new religion for the incoming new age of a new mentality, a new belief and the new condition of the world, for the new future one religious world) evinced by the Universal Religious Alliance (U. R. A.) comprising of ministers, members, secretaries, spiritual ambassadors and participants, etc., from all parts of the world.

Mai Swarup was invited to advise the Institute, but he had to satisfy himself with merely conducting correspondence as he had exhausted his money for the mission conducted in Japan. And naturally enough, for a new religion and a universal religion and not an individual religion like Hinduism, he had no financial backing from any rich or truly religious millionaires in India.

Mai-ism and Mai Swarupa were however extremely appreciated through mere airmail correspondence and greatest sympathy was felt for the universal and simplest all-acceptable principles of Mai-ism, viz., universal love, service, devotion and self-surrender, in the permanent world congress of man held in the national capital Havana, Cuba, for the period from 23rd October 1959 to 22nd January 1960.

A reference made to the new relation of Mai-ism and U. R. A. in the invitation pamphlet for Mai Convocation on the last Dasara Day (30-9–1960) is reproduced below with a view to give an idea about the vastness of U. R. A. with the figures in the preliminary report of the U. R. A. world congress.

“Mai-ism was represented, explained, discussed and commented upon in the world congress by Duchesse Blanche Ledran, the Grand Chancellor of the U. R. A. Maiism received the greatest approbation in this permanent world congress of man convened by U. R. A., which has a standing of over five decades.

“The complete attendance was around 3800 persons, 2184 of which integrated about 318 different official delegations coming from 96 countries and the representation of 449 different sections and sub-sections of religions and various organizations.”

The congress expressed its approbation of “Maiism” in these words:

“We have received valuable literature from all quarters of the world, which amply reveal that “Regeneration of man is at hand, a new age (Aquarian) is being ushered in, taking the shape of a brand-new spiritual civilization. We recommend such sources of new religious research. We particularly and specially recommend, in this respect, Mai-ism and the Mai Institute of Santa Cruz West, Bombay 54, India.

Mai-ism has been most intelligently and without any special personal love, narrated by Rev. Bro. Ernest Swift, Editor of “Steps unto Him” (Wiltshire, England) as under page 13 of June 1960 issue.

“Mai Swarupa Mai Markand concerning whose work we wrote in a recent number, has reminded us of the “Raison d’Etre” of his movement, which he perfers to call “Religion”, not in the sense of a new form of hierarchy. If has its object to bring nearer all religions into one harmonious whole. The idea is to pro. vide a center in the shape of a religion where that which unites could be shared and developed, whilst each religion would retain its own forms and rituals. Mai-ism welcomes and respects all that is best in every religion and holds that there can be no such thing as “The last word”, if we have the wisest conception of the word. It stands for the universality of God and keeps the door open for changes of approach as the world evolves.”

A skipping glance of the report received later regarding the said permanent world congress of man and its summit spiritual meeting affords more interesting details which give us an idea about the huge volume of the work and the vastest world area and humanity that U. R. A. has been dealing with.

(A) Official congratulations were received from several Governments and Republics :

UNESCO, Kingdom of Afghanistan, India, Japan, Ghana, USSR, Vietnam, Jordan, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, Peru, Brazil, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, Argentina, China, USA, Poland, Lebanon, Pakistan, Muli, etc.

(B) Some of the important high personages, known to India generally, that sent their congratulations and best wishes to the world congress were as under.

The list is too long to be fully reproduced here; mostly Indians have been enumerated below:

Rev. Sister Annie Marie Leopold (Germany); Rev. Prof. Dr. D. V. Gokhale; Dr. K. J. Nathwani; Dr. M. Hafiz Syed; Aldous Huxley (one of the world’s foremost philosophers); Ven. Mai Swarupa Mai Markand; Ven. Dr. Radhakrishnan; Bhikkhu Shiveshvaranand; Ven. Vinoba Bhave; Rt. Hon. Earl Atlee; Sir W. Churchill; Dr. Albert Scheweitzer; Bertrand Russell; Prof. B. L. Atreya; Prof. Sant Rajgopal; Dr. Sivabakshaguru; Dr. K. Seshadri; Ananta Shri Karapatriji Maharaj; Dr. Jyoti Prasad Tain; Tagadguru Shankaracharya; Swami Shri Ananta Krishna Bodhashramji Jain, Muni Sushilkumarji, Swami Shri Chidbhavanand, Meher Baba, Pandit Satawlekar Maharaj, Dr. Tara Shanker Bhattacharya, Dr. G. H. Bhatt, Shri Amratlal Zinda, Arnold Toynbee (the world historian), Saint H. K. Iranschaar (Germany), and others.

(C) Some of the organisations especially of India that sent greetings were as under:

The Light of Lahore (Pakistan), Institute of Oriental Philosophy (Vrindavan), Divine Life Mission (Haridwar), Maha Bodhi (Calcutta), League of Universal Faith (PEPSU, India), Bharathi Association (Ghaziabad), Mai Adherents’ Institute (Bombay), Bharata Sneha Vardhini (Poona), Indian Institute of Culture (Bangalore), Latent Light Culture (Tinnevelly), Priesthood of the Holy Sanctuary (Banaras).

(D) There are more than 463 Institutes or illustrious persons whose names have been shown as participants and who sent friendly messages. Few of them especially those in India and Pakistan are enumerated below:

Brahmanic Holy Realm, Biblical Society of India, Great Brotherhood of Buddha, World Association of Sadhus and Sages, Universal Religion of Mai-ism for the New Age, Santa Cruz, Bombay 54, The World Jnana Sadhak Society, Jalpaiguri, Meher Baba Institute, World Congress for World Federation, Suryasthanam, Gorakshanath Order of Yogism, Paramanand Publication Society, Divine Life Society, (Himalayas). Mumtaz League (Lahore), University of Punjab, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, (Bombay), Arya Peshwa (New Delhi), Jain Society (Ahmedabad), Jain World Mission (Pilani), Bible University (Ambut), The Yoga Vedanta Forest University (Himalayas), Rajasuya Ashvamedha Avinashigyana Yajna (Mt. Abu), Raj Bhavan (Bombay), The Islamic World Light (Lahore), Holy Society, All Asia Association of Noblesse (Bombay), Mira (East and West), International Cultural Forum (Delhi), Great World Brotherhood, The Universal Mother (Calcutta), The Animals’ Friend Association (Delhi).

The object under the patience-trying enumeration above is not that of impressing the importance of any of the Institutes mentioned, but to give a picture about the immensely vast region of great persons, institutes and organizations and the activities of the U. R. A. Institute Which has been for over fifty years in continued communication with them. Here we especially apologize in as much as very likely so many names of important institutes or high personages might have been omitted in the lists above. It is also a matter for our inward regret that institutes and eminent persons of India alone have been mentioned whereas there are so many more important personages and institutes all over the world in so many other countries of the world whose names have not been included. However, we make it very clear here that the omission is out of fear lest the reading be tiresome and on account of the shortage of space and printing costs. There is another bigger consideration as well, Viz., the far-fetched relation of the whole world information to the subject matter and purpose of this publication. The inclusion of long lists would rather look ridiculous. All the same, we are not the least unconscious and un-apologizing lest the omission be misunderstood as arising from any notion of isolating India from all other countries of the whole world.

We therefore once again sweep our eye over the huge lists and add some few more names from other countries, only as they happen to come up.

Even though it may look ridiculous to give big lists, we specially wish that very ordinary readers may thereby have a much greater picture about what the word “world” means in different minds of different developments. Usually, for so many, even educated persons, the word “world” is so often only a vague, hazy, faint, poorly limited word, with widest range of conceptions for different persons. Details alone are capable of giving the definite, rpecise, appropriate shape to any conception and especially about the vague word “world”. Fewest have the full picture of the whole world, about its number of human lives, countries, square miles, etc.

One is often staggered at the vastness of the world when he compares the actualities after statistics of accurate figures with what he had previously conceived without details. More of true information immensely widens the outlook. At least there is one greatest benefit. The more we have of information and knowledge, the more do we sometimes feel we are simply nothing”. At least for that benefit we prefer to be lavishly superfluous and we feel it a pleasure to add more names of important personages and institutes of other countries outside India. The well-frog pride of “None like us and ours” evaporates as the mind receives hammers after hammers, through more and more true knowledge being added. Many of us have developed our humility, on constantly revolving in our mind, one notion, viz., that there are hundreds and thousands like us in this largest whole world.

Some important institutes outside India that are in connection with U. R. A. are the following:

Scientific Yoga School (Germany); Holy Priesthood of Divine Truth (Jerusalem); Healing Presence (U. S. A.), Spiritual Congress of the New World (Santiago, Chile); World Fellowship (California); World Peace Association (U. S. A.); Universal Spiritual Healing Mission (England); Universal Spiritual Religious and Science Church Fellowship (England); Spiritual Unity Church (U. S. A.); New Age New Thought World Alliance (England); Christo-Jewism Union Church (U. S. A.); Fellowship of the Disciples of Mahatma Koothumi and Morya (London); New Universal Union (Tehran); God Life and Man Society (U. S. A.); Union Spirituelle Universelle (France); Union Espirituelle Universelle (Colombia); Order of Eternal Light and Sages (Burma); Religious Digest (Ceylon); World Federation (Japan); Inter-religious Organisation (Singapore); God’s Powers of Protection (England); Universal Brotherhood of Prayer (Brazil); Universal Spiritual Healing Mission (Nigeria, West Africa).

All Asia Grand Modern Spiritual Revival Movement (Burma); Federation of East and West (England); World Council of Spiritual Culture (Germany): World Peace Association (USA); The Holy Dalai Lama Organisation (Tibet); General Welfare (Trowbridge Wilts, England); Spiritual Healers Survey (England) Spiritual Centre (Egypt); World Federator (Australia); Universal Spiritual Order (China); The Islamic World (Pakistan); The International Goodwill Association (Denmark); Worldwide Prayer-Meditation Association (Germany); World Brotherhood (Geneva, Switzerland), etc., etc.

Regarding the names of high personages outside and abroad, we have little knowledge, but we give some few ones:

Venerable Nishimura (Japan); Prince Dr. Lucianu (Italy); Prof. Dr. Johannes (Austria); Prof. Andre Tuledanu (France); Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hailer (Germany); Rev. Dr. Albertureane (Ceylon); Rev. Billy Graham (USA); Capt. Lange (Egypt); His Holiness Cad Dai Pope (Laos); Dr. Lund (Sweden); Dr. Whitley (Transwal) and others.

Messages of goodwill and moral support were received from religious authorities as under:

Lord Abbot of the Buddhist Shrine (Peking, China); Archbishop Maria Van Assendlift,; The Grand Rubbi of Jerusalem; The Head of the Spiritualist Church (England); Roman Catholic Cardinal Fulton Cheen (Philadelphia); The Holy Dalai Lama (Tibet); Roman Catholic Cardinal (Yugoslavia); The Orthodox Grand Patriarch of Moscow; Orthodox Patriarchs of Constantinople and Alexandria; The Graceful Leader of Sufis (Islam) The Archbishop of the Catholic Church (Germany); The Grand Teacher of the Tao-ists (China); The Lutheran Bishop of America, etc. Etc.

In a word, this institute has been working since over fifty years for the revival of true religiosity, morality, spirituality, virtue, character, devotion, prayer, righteousness and best man-to-man relationship and treatment of humanity and has quite an immensely vast region of contact. In fact, it has been working as one of the largest universities of spiritual, religious and moral education. It has various religious bodies affiliated thereto.

It is the highest joy and happiness for truly God loving and God-relying universal-minded religionists to have the idea we have attempted here to give, namely, that while the modern world has gone to the lowest abyss of materialism, selfishness, vice and warfare, there is not yet, in the words of Mai Swarupa “the deadest quietude resulting from any complete death of “religion”. “There are yet thousands of true religionists who, in their obscure corner, pray to God for God’s greatest mercifulness and as Mai Swarupa openly declares, “But for the sum-total of combined spiritual and religious forces, the third world war would have smashed the major portion of our earth planet, ere long.”

In the opinion of Mai Swarupa, there are certain most intricate points in the realm of religion:

(1) To turn irreligious to be religious;

(2) To infuse universality as without that the different supernatural forces of different religions would be neutralizing one another as in the past and would pave the easiest open path for the irreligionists, materialists and atheists.

(3) Consolidating them together to create the mightiest sum-total of scattered spiritual and religious forces to throw out evil Mammon and Satan through the establishment of the full-fledged Universal Religion.

(4) Working out the principal concretized indispensable provisions for the full-fledged establishment and efficient harmonious outspreading of a Universal Religion.

Since 1893, most of the religious-minded thinkers have begun to see the indispensability of the element of a universal outlook and there have been innumerable societies especially in the West, laying highest emphasis on brotherhood, morality, virtue, and character. Through various societies and institutes the world has surely advanced with most wonderful progress in the Understanding of religion when it has begun to realize the importance of the Universal Out- look”

Mai-ism and Mai Swarupa say to the religionists’ world “You have surely brought the religious world to a much higher plane by emphasizing the element of “universality”. Yet one further stage is needed. A society which preaches universal outlook is surely the greatest benefactor of the world. But such institutes themselves should unite to form a Universal religion with entire intactness and respectfulness and welcomeness of all individual religions and with every facility and freedom. Such a universal religion can be preferably the parental religion of the universal motherhood or universal fatherhood or mother-fatherhood or father-mother-hood.

Mai-ism is the 20th century universal religion for the new age. It has to be ever borne in mind that every new religion in order to grow up from its infantile stage, takes its own time, usually in units of centuries and quarters. For the routinistic individual religion’s world to come to the stage of appreciating the greater efficacy of a universal religion is bound to take its own time and sacrificing true universal religionists have to work with great love, service, unflinching faith and with the martyr’s spirit as that of the Grand Patron of U. R. A. His Holiness Pr. OM Lind Schernrezig and His Holiness Mai Swarupa Mai Markand.

The final conclusion, viz., the appreciation of Maiism and Mai Swarupa by U. R. A. is made with the ending important information contained in the letter dated 26-10-1960, addressed by His Holiness Pr. OM Lind, the Grand Patron of the Universal Religious Alliance to Mai Swarupa Mai Markand regarding the general election of the staff bearers of the institute.

This letter represents the essence of the working of the institute and is summarized here below giving only the relevant important information.

USEFUL EXTRACTS FROM THE ACCOMPANIMENTS TO THE LETTER DATED 26-10-1960 FROM THE GRAND PATRON OF U. R. A., H. H. PR. OM LIND TO MAI SWARUPA MAI MARKAND, MAI-ISM FOUNDER.

“General elections results for the Universal Humanist Cultural and Spiritual Alliance (briefly named Universal Religious Alliance or U. R. A.)

“In accordance with the regulations of the world congress of man in presence of 271 official designations the world board was constituted for a period of six years from 1959 to 1965.”

There are three principal parts of these elections, namely, first, the list of the spiritual ambassadors for 78 countries; second, the list of ministries or secretaries with under-secretaries for each minister and their portfolio subjects and third, the principal office-bearers of the institute.