19 May 2022
The crucial false syllogism found in BKism and its betrayal of the mythic roots of Hinduism (or if your prefer tantric, esoteric traditions) is seen in their insistence that Destruction, like everything, is all about them, and in particular, all about their founder and guru Dada Lekhraj.
The essence of the Trimurti, Brahma Vishnu and Shankar in tantric Hinduism is that Creation, Sustenance and Destruction are all constantly occurring at every moment. They are co-dependently co-arisen in each moment, cannot have one thing being created without another being destroyed and that ongoing process is what "sustains" reality (the Buddhists call it Pratityasamutpada . This is the process, the Tao. There is no being that is fixed and unchanging, there is only becoming.
That which is becoming is destroying that which it used tobe, at the same time. This process is what sustains life, life is constant change, stasis is death.
The arrogance of BKs - or B himself more particularly - is seen in how they painted Lekhraj's face onto their images of Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar. The man's ego is protean. Lekhraj at different times pronounces himself as God Prajapati Brahma, as Shiva, as all three of the Trimurti Brahma Vishnu Shankar, as Krisna, as Adi Dev, as Adam, Narayan, Rama, KIng Vikramajit. etc etc.
This'd be kind of OK if he preached that everyone is all these figures, then rationalised it with some spiritual equivocations, analogies or other mumbo jumbo but, no, it's only about him and around him that the world revolves.
The BKs gladly buy into it, the whole rosary numberwise fantasy, because it's basically a slightly humble form of ego wish fulfilment. "I instinctively know I cannot be a perfect person like BB (or any other idealised fantasy perfect person I might imagine) but I can accept someone else might be "perfect", and if I can be 109th in the rankings, or 16109th, that's pretty good! That'll do me".
Blimey. What a way to go through life, trying to please teacher by being like teacher whiel always remaining the student. Puerile.