mr green wrote:BKs tend to say they had a powerful thought after something has gone their way
Ignoring all the times that they had the same "power" of thought and it did not go their way. This is the problem. (And a different topic).
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Brahma satyam jagan-mithya jivo-brahmaiva naparah" which means, "the Brahman is real, world is false, every jiva is basically the infinite and limitless Brahman and nothing else ". Its classic Advaita philosophy (Shankaracharya's lot) and would not be accepted by all the Vashnavite traditions, of which Lekhraj Kirpalani was a follower. However, it is very close to what the Om Mandli believed. Jagan-mithya is perhaps better translated as "
all that is available for experience is transient".
Thanks for an honest easy answer this time. No offence meant to you. The BKWSU ought to teach real Theology at their so-called Spiritual University to give their adherents some idea of what is going on in the world. Be open to learning and understand that there are things you do not know, even about the Brahma Kumarism. Look at that two of Asia's greatest religions, influencing the lives of 25% of world's populations and your God does not mention them one. Does that not seem strange to you, no?
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The Brahman is real, world is false This so-called universe that you are endowing with a reality is a non-existent myth. One alone is real. One alone is the solid truth and fact, and that is Brahman, the non-dual Reality".
It is interesting that Lekhraj Kirpalani, a follower of the Vaishnava Vallabhacharya sect, ought change direction entirely (
LEAVE HIS RELIGION) and head towards Advaitism for 20 years. It raises again the question of who was the mysterious Bengali Sadhu that rumour says he encountered during his time in Calcutta and what was his tradition?