Abrahma Kumar wrote:But what does the BKWSU do with the money?
Giving money to the BKWSU and giving money to God are not one and the same thing. You can give all of your own money "to God" without giving it away. Its merely superstition, and the encouragement or exploitation of superstition, to keep passing into their hands, like "somehow" the karmic reward on my donation to the Kirpalani Klan is worth more than giving it eslewhere, say to feed starving kids or provide clean water and sewage systems.
I was a bit surprised to read about the first and business class air travel for the Seniors, that seemed a bit excessive. Questions have been raised about private bank accounts but my guess is that those are "private affairs" between the senior involved and her supporters. Purchasing property is surely the major expenditure with those big, impress the neighbors type service events coming second ... and they do like their central heating on warm!
They spent Million Pounds on a retreat center in Worthing, on the south coast of England that has not even been mentioned in any big service plan. Some say it is going to be a retirement home for the trusted and faithful. But one of the difficulties is knowing whose is what and what is not. It seems that many centers are mortgaged in the names of the center-in-charge or supporters and not actually the organization. There are large gray areas in the transfer of "donations" to payments for the above. Then there are questions about where the "big donations" from the Hindiwallas go when they come in.
The really surprising issue is that few if any BKs question the financial dealings of the organization to which they give their lives, never mind their wallets. The infantilization process, and probably fear of ostracization which is used in my opinion quite willfully by individuals, is almost entirely successful.
Few BKs would dare try and question Mother Janki. And none of those that tried would be able to get anywhere near her ... or the honey pot ... as Mr Green has illustrated painfully with his life. I am personally disgusted at the manner in which he was dismissed for over a year and then played off a junior BK accountant. Mr Green may well be the only BK to have done so over financial abuse ... and to date failed. But I hope that we can support him to continue.
As tinydot states, these assets have a life of their own, but they are managed by the human trustees. At least those that go into the charities accounts. As such they are subject to human intentions and frailties. Arjun reported from India cases where sisters-in-charge were named and shamed in public over their misuse and let us be honest, the organization's ambitions are hardly Gandhi-esque in nature.
What disgusts me even more is that in any other commensurate organization (e.g. a company, NGO etc of its size), if senior administrators had behaved in such ways (e.g. the financial abuses, the handling of the child sex abuses), they would have been severely reprimanded and expected to stand down. And yet within the BKWSU, these people are not just protected by the self-programming but upheld as divine and unquestionable.
The structure they have chosen to adopt is one whereby the financial investors have no say in how the money is spent and "unpaid" administrators, e.g. the Kirpalanis/Kripalanis do not carry the ulimate legal responsibilities. Those responsibilities are carried by the rolling trustees. In theory, the trustees could sack the administrators (... but who appoints the trustees?) but we know this is impossible.
So you have a situation whereby those that we know very well have "all power" over BKs and the BKWSU conveniently carry basically no responsibility; and the charity's trustees are basically their willing court flunkies. And the position with which to re-write the Godly message.
Its marvellous. And open to abuse in the manner Mr Green has illustrated to well, where the senior administrator of the charity, Dadi Janki, can be seen to offer compensation for abuse she and organization had been informed about for one year and then have it over turned by an unelected and unqualified* trustee. How wonderful for them. So who are the top dogs in the BKWSU, the Dadi Jankis or the accountants?
What is obvious to me is that this lot consider themselves entirely above any law. In my opinion, they are just running their own medieval fiefdom using religion as the metaphor, and business, with which to do so. On the basis of these cases, I cannot say that individual's spiritual benefit is at the heart of their campaign when it is so lacking in even Kali Yugi Shudra transparency and accountability.
It appears that they have just taken what Baba offers every one equally ... and let their old Mogul Rajput sanskars run wild. Sadly, old Mrs Kirpalani has to be seen at the forefront of this particular branch of the river of knowledge as it was she that chose to start interpreting The Knowledge her way. Those BKs that like power and influence will love and follow her. Her devotees as BapDada calls them.
It would be good to know of the detailed situation and structures in other BK Zones where these influences are not so strong. Also, it would be good to document just how the BKWSU handles their financial dealings from the local center upwards. There is no written manual or accountable system ... it seems to be entirely ad hoc and improvised.
Posted: 01 Jan 2007
