Pink Panther wrote:The friend in need is the friend in deed.
I always thought it was "a friend in need is a friend indeed". But playing with the pun, I am thinking it should be ...
a friend indeed, is a friend in deed.
That is to say, someone who will actually do something, not just "send positive thoughts" at you.
The BKs take everyone's time, labour and money to build comfortable homes, or even palaces in India. In return, their charity to the world is to think 'at' them. Not even think 'of' them. And somehow they think this is the highest charity!?!
I think what "hurts" or rather ... perhaps shocks "the soul" ... is when you see the BKs as ugly, small minded, conceited, conniving, insular and so on as they are. Followed shortly by a realisation of regret at how much time you spent on them.
I actually struggle to find the words to describe how some of them are. I don't know any quite bad or accurate enough.
Most of the nice ones are just a little weak and fearful. For them, the BK centre is a little lifeboat in a dark storm, perhaps.
But the "school prefect" ones, those who think themselves superior, they are rank.
And it never fails to surprises how vicious they can be when you challenge them.
Looking back, I think I was just literally "out of my mind" during the time I spent with the BKs and that the BKs encourage people to be - not "out of their bodies" - but out of their mind.
We were all out of our minds. It was like taking a kid and putting them in a psychiatric ward, and telling them this is real life and leaving them to try and work out a way to accommodate and survive amongst all the inmates. The chief inmates - the Queens of the Nuthouse - being the likes of Janki and Jayanti Kirpalani.
They have to distance themselves from you because your normality and now sanity is too difficult a mirror for them to look into.
They see in you their own realisation of how much of a madhouse the Brahma Kumaris actually is. Fun, perhaps, for a while but ultimately a mad house full of people maddened by its leaders into order to live out their fantasy world and exploit.