Relax kids
Posted: 02 May 2008
I have raised this issue before but now have a better example if it. Here is a link to a RelaxKids (... "Visit Secure ONLINE SHOP - Click Here") meditation for kids. Now, would someone please tell me this is not a straight forward, pure and unadulterated BKWSU meditation?
So why is a BK, and I understand the child of BKs, allowed to turn Gyan into a business, allowed to use the BKWSU's facilities to promote her business, used by the BKWSU to promote the BKWSU ... while it would appear to my impure intellect that it is all contrary to the Maryadas and Shrimat? When was the word given that it was OK, and is it OK for all now. I mean, can I sell BK-style Raja Yoga meditation tapes on the internet and if anyone is now allowed to ... why did they attempt to register Trademarks to protect their "online shopping" university.
There are also a few more general ones, although these are just clips, so who knows where they go. I think it is fair to say, we know what the intent is;
Special Angel ...
Its funny, but when Marneta "UK's leading expert in children's relaxation" Viegas appeared on the TV show called The Dragons ... one of the business investors immediate clicked asking her if she was in a cult and 'panicking' because he felt like he was "being hypnotised". Allegations, specifically invloving trance and children, the Brahma-kumaris have lived with for 70 years and Om Mandli.
Why is this allowed and the other business venues?
Well, my feeling is that the leadership does not have enough positions of rank for all the gifted Westerners (especially) ... and does not quite trust them enough to hand over centers and zones. By preference, they appoint more dependent and less non-conformist Hindu imports to those role, e.g. the Gujerati Sister parachuted into a God forsaken center that some white BK set up, in some foreign country whose language she does not speak, and with no way out.
The Brahma-kumaris accept those with financial support, e.g. "wives of" with husband funding, pensions and others with state funding, heir souls with family money but they do not want to spend their finances supporting gifted Westerners, especially Brothers who are expected to go out and bring the bread in. (Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis ... Charlie Hogg in Australia and Golo Pilz the sun powered specialist in India ... although I wonder if Brian Bacon ever got any money out of the Yugya, or just the use of premises, like Mike George as well, and accommodation?). Partly, in my opinion, this might be because they see gifted Westerners as "cavaliers" rather than elephant riders or maharatis ... partly racial discrimination perhaps?
So ... my working theory is ... that the BKWSU leadership allows some gifted and talented Western BKs to run businesses interlaced with Godly Knowledge (TM) as a way of rewarding them, keeping them business ... and keep their hooks in owning the rest of theirs lives in other words. Kind of in the same way the gangs sets up drug dealers by supplying them with their first delivery "free, upfront and on credit" and then owning their supply chain afterwards.
I imagine, "We wont support you, you have to support yourself ... but you cant leave us because it is not just your religion but also your livelihood and when we want you, we will call."
Any contradictory theories?
The get out clause for the Brahma Kumaris is, "If Dadi says it is OK, it is Shrimat and so therefore God will take care of karma". But don't expect either to be there when the **** hits the fan or you get old and die.
So why is a BK, and I understand the child of BKs, allowed to turn Gyan into a business, allowed to use the BKWSU's facilities to promote her business, used by the BKWSU to promote the BKWSU ... while it would appear to my impure intellect that it is all contrary to the Maryadas and Shrimat? When was the word given that it was OK, and is it OK for all now. I mean, can I sell BK-style Raja Yoga meditation tapes on the internet and if anyone is now allowed to ... why did they attempt to register Trademarks to protect their "online shopping" university.
There are also a few more general ones, although these are just clips, so who knows where they go. I think it is fair to say, we know what the intent is;
Special Angel ...
Its funny, but when Marneta "UK's leading expert in children's relaxation" Viegas appeared on the TV show called The Dragons ... one of the business investors immediate clicked asking her if she was in a cult and 'panicking' because he felt like he was "being hypnotised". Allegations, specifically invloving trance and children, the Brahma-kumaris have lived with for 70 years and Om Mandli.
Why is this allowed and the other business venues?
Well, my feeling is that the leadership does not have enough positions of rank for all the gifted Westerners (especially) ... and does not quite trust them enough to hand over centers and zones. By preference, they appoint more dependent and less non-conformist Hindu imports to those role, e.g. the Gujerati Sister parachuted into a God forsaken center that some white BK set up, in some foreign country whose language she does not speak, and with no way out.
The Brahma-kumaris accept those with financial support, e.g. "wives of" with husband funding, pensions and others with state funding, heir souls with family money but they do not want to spend their finances supporting gifted Westerners, especially Brothers who are expected to go out and bring the bread in. (Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis ... Charlie Hogg in Australia and Golo Pilz the sun powered specialist in India ... although I wonder if Brian Bacon ever got any money out of the Yugya, or just the use of premises, like Mike George as well, and accommodation?). Partly, in my opinion, this might be because they see gifted Westerners as "cavaliers" rather than elephant riders or maharatis ... partly racial discrimination perhaps?
So ... my working theory is ... that the BKWSU leadership allows some gifted and talented Western BKs to run businesses interlaced with Godly Knowledge (TM) as a way of rewarding them, keeping them business ... and keep their hooks in owning the rest of theirs lives in other words. Kind of in the same way the gangs sets up drug dealers by supplying them with their first delivery "free, upfront and on credit" and then owning their supply chain afterwards.
I imagine, "We wont support you, you have to support yourself ... but you cant leave us because it is not just your religion but also your livelihood and when we want you, we will call."
Any contradictory theories?
The get out clause for the Brahma Kumaris is, "If Dadi says it is OK, it is Shrimat and so therefore God will take care of karma". But don't expect either to be there when the **** hits the fan or you get old and die.