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Who is Brahma Kumaris? - Highly informative
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If you have any instinct for social justice and care for your community, you risk losing this if you get involved with Brahma Kumaris; BK regards us as being in the Kali Yuga dark age, and that this is unreformable.
You will cease to be of service to your friends and community and turn into another meditating drone who enriches BK.
For Ex-BKs: Why did you leave the Brahma Kumaris?
[www.brahmakumarisforum.net]
Brahma Kumaris -- information from ex members
[www.google.com]
Who is Brahma Kumaris? - Highly informative
[ex-brahmakumaris.blogspot.com]
A few small quotations - go to the site for additional material.
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"The BKWSU is still politically ambitious and noted for its focus on “VIP service” and inflitrating multi-faith organizations."Quote
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) or Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya is a monastic, renunciate, millenarian new religious movement(NRM) of Indian origin whose teachings are based on, and practises, involve both mediumship and channelling. It promotes a form of meditation called Raja Yoga, which differs from classical Raja Yoga as described by Pantanjali. As a neo-Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris (BK) pre-date the New age movement but have developed characteristics that link them to its thinking. Active within the United Nations Organization and likes to promote itself and its leaders as “advisers” to the UN. Notable in its early years for pamphleteering the British and Indian establishment encouraging them to suspend civil law, impose martial law and embark on a scorched earth policy in order to purify the world and help create a heaven on earth for its followers. Has toned down the public face of its political lobbying in recent year but is still strictly millenarianist and supremecist at heart and has incorporated an imminent and desirable nuclear holocaust into its theology.
The BKWSU is still politically ambitious and noted for its focus on “VIP service” and inflitrating multi-faith organizations.
The spirit guide the leadership consider to be God informs them via their mediums that shortly in the future, the Government of India will hand over power to them.
All Western nations are to be destroyed and sink below rising oceans leaving only picnic islands where Brahma Kumari centers once stood. The organization was recently outed for making claims over a period of 30 years that their global leader Ms Janki Kripalani was scientifically proven to be “the most stable mind in the world” by the University of Texas where no such claims or even department could be found. Elsewhere on the internet, the organization has been reported to have made claims for cancer and other miracle cures.
It recently lost a domain name dispute legal action against a support group website set up by ex-members.
If you have any instinct for social justice and care for your community, you risk losing this if you get involved with Brahma Kumaris; BK regards us as being in the Kali Yuga dark age, and that this is unreformable.
You will cease to be of service to your friends and community and turn into another meditating drone who enriches BK.
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ActivitiesEdit Activities section
The Brahma Kumaris conduct seven one-hour-long courses in their philosophy and open-eyed meditation technique. The organization offers courses in ” positieve thinking”, “Self management leadership”, and “Living Values”. Service requires active support of the movement, especially by participating in its many proscelyting activities. Great emphasis is placed on the value of bringing converts into the movement, particularly converts who stick. Meditation is the movement’s most significant ‘effort’.
Efforts to reform the Kaliyug are not in accord with Shiv Bab’s will.
The Brahma Kumaris also have a number of voluntary outreach programs in prisons.
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Central beliefsEdit Central beliefs section
Central to its faith are the beliefs that:
The human being is an eternal soul living within a physical body and is not the physical body which is dualistic “I am a soul, my body is a garment”.
Reincarnation happens only from one human body to another.
Humanity is currently reaching the end of the current cycle and thus the world will be destroyed, a time referred to as “Destruction”.
Indian subcontinent will be the site of the future Golden Age paradise and that a form of Hindi is the original language of humanity, all other continents being destroyed.
Followers are taught that only they will live in the coming Golden Age paradise as Gods and Goddesses.
God has incarnated into Dada Lehkraj, the founder, and is teaching them directly and exclusively.
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The aim of the individual Brahma Kumari is to gain a high status in the coming paradise where a select 108 who are ‘totally victorious’ and will rule there. Members of the physical families of Brahma Kumaris who have contact with the “University’ are said to become members of the 16,000 top souls and at the end of each Cycle, everyone will see visions in which their personal destinies will be fully disclosed.
MeditationEdit Meditation section
The Brahma Kumaris teach a form of meditation through which members are encouraged to purify their minds and ‘burn away’ the Karmic effects of past misdeeds. This may be done by sitting tranquilly in front of a screen on to which Dada Lekhraj’s image is projected, then making affirmations regarding the eternal nature of the soul
Lawrence Babbs described another practise where “the student or students sit in a semi-darkened room facing the teacher (usually a woman). Just above and behind the teacher’s head is a red plastic ovoid that glows from a lightbulb within, in its center is a tiny hole which appears as an intense whitelight against the red glow. This device represents the Supreme Soul (known as Shiv Baba) who is the presiding deity of the universe. With devotional songs playing softly in the background, student and teacher gaze intently at each other, either in the eyes or at the forehead. While doing this the student is supposed to imagine him or herself as a soul and not as a body. The student is told to think of themself as separate from the body, as bodiless, as light, as power, as bathed in the love and light of the Supreme Soul, and so on. This might continue for fifteen or twenty minutes”.Babb also states that while staring (gazing into the eyes of an adept) at the teacher, many students experience visual hallucinations involving lights.