What is a Master Unit

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WHAT is a Master Unit?

Notes based on article "Master Units" 10 November 1989, Calcutta

WHAT IS A Master Unit?

  • The biggest structure of Ananda Marga that includes all departments of Ananda Marga.
  • The main center of Ananda Margiis
  • Should be treated as the nerve center of society
  • Each Master Unit should be developed on the model of Ananda Nagar ( short description about Ananda Nagar is missing )
  • Master Unit is economically self-sufficient in all respects (gives to spiritualists independence from wealthy class in terms of money)
  • Has min 5 acres that is:
24,20 sq yards
217,80 sq feet
20.234,30 sq meters
2,02 hectares

Every Master Unit must have

  • Schools, including primary, post-primary and higher secondary schools.
  • Hostels, including junior hostels, senior hostels and higher hostels.
  • Children’s homes, including junior homes, senior homes and student’s homes.
  • Medical units.
  • Cottage industries.
  • Dairy Farms.
  • Plantations.

Special features for MU

  • A wheat grinding machine or flour mill to produce flour.
  • A bakery to produce bread, etc.
  • A seed bank
  • A Sulav Biija Vitaran Kendra or Cheap Seed Distribution Centre. The centre will collect good quality seeds and sell them at cheap rates. Seeds may be purchased from local farmers at the end of each harvest, purchased at cheap rates in the market or cultivated, but the centre should provide good quality seeds at cheap rates to the people.
  • A Free Plant Distribution Centre. This centre will grow plants from seeds and seedlings. The following system should be used to prepare plants for distribution. The seedlings should be grown until they are one and a half feet tall. The plants should then be uprooted and their roots soaked in water for half an hour. Next, the main root of each plant should be cut off one inch below the base of the plant, and the remaining roots should again be soaked in water for ten minutes. The plants should then be planted in a field or packed for distribution. Plants which are prepared in this way will produce large, sweet fruits. The fruits will be better than those produced from seedlings, but not as good as those produced from grafted plants.
  • Sericulture and silk weaving centre.
  • Bio-gas plants. This means that there must be a dairy farm. Water hyacinths are also good for producing bio-gas.
  • Butter production.
  • Apiculture.
  • An Ideal Farm Training Centre.
  • A sanctuary. On all our Master Units, only bio-fertilizers like compost, cow dung, neem paste, neem spray, etc. should be used. Chemical fertilizers must be avoided.

Our Master Unit program is a combination of oriental sublimity and western dynamicity.

WHAT is the purpose of MU

Preserves the Ananda Marga local structure (Baba: There has to be active representation and participation from all the departments, branches and sub-branches of Ananda Marga in the Master Units. Those who fail in representation will be lost in non-existence.)

Master Units will expand all possible services, particularly in the fields of

  • education,
  • culture,
  • economics
  • spiritual upliftment.

These Master Units will work to improve the fate, first of all human beings, and then of all living beings, irrespective of caste, creed, color, religion and national barriers. Humanity knows no artificial barriers. Humanity is the only criteria.

Master Units are a way of life. (Baba: Through Master Units and PROUT, we will elevate the standard of the people in a few months or a few years. We should also serve the people immediately by all-round service. PROUT and all-round service may render temporary service – they move along the flow of life – but our spiritual philosophy is above the flow of life. Hence, with spiritual philosophy as the hub, we are to start as many Master Units as possible. All-round service, PROUT and Master Units are the ways of life.)

Through Master Units and PROUT, we will elevate the standard of the people in a few months or a few years.

WHAT are the primary requisites of an ideal Master Unit?

There are five, which correspond to the five minimum requirements in PROUT.

  1. First, to provide food throughout the year, sufficient local raw materials must be produced through agriculture and scientific farming. These raw materials will provide the basis for industrial units and agro-industries such as dairy farms, horticulture, sericulture, etc. For such industries, you cannot depend on raw material from anywhere else.
  2. Secondly, there should be production of sufficient fibres and fabrics for clothing. For example, fibres from ladies fingers, pineapple, sugar beet, banana, basil, cotton, sisal, etc. can be used for clothing.
  3. Thirdly, primary and post-primary schools should be started on all Master Units. Higher education institutions should be established later.
  4. Fourthly, general and special medical units should also be established. Special medical centers would accommodate invalid people for a certain periods because Master Units may or may not run big hospitals. Medical units should emphasize alternative medical treatments.
  5. Fifthly, Master Units should undertake schemes to construct houses for extremely poor people. This special housing scheme for the poor must be immediately established.

Additional notes

With spiritual philosophy as the hub, we are to start as many Master Units as possible.

All-round service, PROUT and Master Units are the ways of life.

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