Tanya wrote:Why is it that God Shiva comes to meet His children through Dadi Gulzar, in a specific season only i.e. from October till March ? Why not from April to September ? I find this quite mysterious and would really want to know the truth behind it.
I suppose Save Innocents gives you the answer in his own way, but to put it simply ... because it is not, and cannot be "God".
You cannot expect rational, logical answers from the Brahma Kumaris. They have none. Despite marketing their philosophy as "The Knowledge", they have none ... only the very same 'faith', or Bhakti, that they practising criticising others for.
Faith ... beliefs ... gambles ... nothing more.
Save Innocents,
it might interest you to know that even in the Western mystic tradition, the same thing is said ... albeit in different terms.
It is said that high souls (aka spirits, angels, higher beings etc) would never enter into human beings to put on a gorss show like the BKs do. Therefore, by definition, the soul ...
let's accept the theory behind the BKs' claim for just one moment ... entering Gulzar is not a high soul. As you say, they would not or could not enter an impure human being like Gulzar.
Nor would high souls coerce, manipulate, make false and failed prediction, and speak a fraction of the rubbish Lekhraj Kirpalani did, directly nor through Gulzar ... supposing it is the soul of Lekhraj Kirpalani who is returning.
However, you do know that the BKs use the term Shiva different from Hinduism. Whom you call Shiva, they would call Shankar (again projecting Lekhraj Kirpalani upon it) and they do not believe in any of classical Hinduism. Like the Sindi entrepreneurs they were, they have taken someone else's goods and re-marketed as their own ... making a financial profit from it.
Just for the record, Pink Panther, I have seen a sceptic/non-believer/materialist "possessed by another spirit" at a seance and it made for interesting viewing.
What it was or what was happening, I cannot say for sure, but I know it confused the hell out of the sceptic too. It was not via hypnosis but, at a push, you might argue it happened via a form of mesmerism ... but that is one area where science - for historical reasons - has a hard time explaining as yet.
What I am talking about was the manifestation of an entirely different personality. In this case, not a high or special souls whatsoever. Quite the opposite, it was a suffering weak soul during what is called a "rescue circle". It interacted with the medium for many minutes, manifesting physical changes in its unwitting "host" - someone sceptical who I had taken there - and then when it left, the individual was complete confused and did not know what had happened.
Of course, absolute habitual skeptics could rush to their habitual armoury of all the well worn explanations that have been re-cycled since the Fox Sisters ... but seeing such a "possession" does make one think.
I've also seen a channeller being possessed, allegedly by a "benign being" who communicated through her ... but, again, no great claims made. what it was I cannot say but it was *very* similar to how both Jayanti and Gulzar were either "possessed" or went into trance. And, like the Indians say, the same is claimed all over India and elsewhere.
I think the big difference with the BKs spiritualist sideshow is just their business acumen, marketing budget and the degree of conceited audacity to claim that their god spirit is the god of all religions etc.
In 1925 and Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler coined the expression was of the "big lie" (German: Große Lüge) as a propaganda technique. It was the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler asserted the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany. A more complete version of the quote, which is even more interesting, is
here.
Gobels took it further and what he said could have been written about the Brahma Kumaris. Indeed, if what the Brahma Kumaris teach is true ... what Goebbels said is a memorial of the Brahma Kumaris and the Confluence Age!
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
- Joseph Goebbels
Correct me if I am wrong.