The BKs certainly seem to live in an alternative universe and consider themselves the rightful heirs of all creation!
Pullman’s image of the immortal but now old and frail Supreme Being being carried around in a palanquin while subordinates are in control, strategising apocalyptic battles against other cosmic armies with no concern for the welfare of the rest of creation, the hungry, humbled, homeless huddled masses struggling to make their way through a hellish underworld with an innocent as intrepid heroine, shows how art (artifice) and life imitate each other, the BK story is like some crazy fantasy fiction in three parts.
An excellent comparison of the current BK organisation and BK world !!!
With all the craziness that we have seen and continuing to see in India, these are "business as usual" situations.
In an irrational society, where pseudo-godmen can spit linga from their mouth, where they can celebrate Shiva's birthday (at night) by dancing to Bollywood tunes with movie stars, where another nut job can claim to be god incarnation and state that he has formed a separate country (and the Govt is unable to trace or find him on an arrest warrant !!!) ... and many more ...
The BKs are to be considered to be "
very mild", can I say "like soft ****"? Their distributed system, share the wealth at the top (not just one individual), grease and appease the palms of govt and govt officials, now that they are a close ruling party ally, using the Ministers for their propaganda ... all of these helps them thrive in India.
In spite of all this, we have to keep pounding ... these pseudo-spiritual organisations WILL come to crash and burn !