I need to check more details but 'The Report on the Second World Religion Congress (under auspices of the Ananai-Kyo)' is dated 1954 and there appears to be further reference in 1955. Therefore, we have a clearly dated and well referenced pin point ...
well beyond the destructive reach of the Brahma Kumaris censors and historical revisionists ... to gain a better understanding of their mental, philosophical and cultural evolution.
One of the reason this is good and worthwhile to do is that it debunks forever the idea that somehow, magically, God appeared in 1936, possessed a 60 year old Lekhraj Kirpalani, and said, "Shivoham, Shivoham ...". It starts to portrays the nature and character of the BKs, both past and present, for who and what they really were and are and pulls back a large part of the facade that cult expert Robert J. Lifton called '
Mystical Manipulation.
lifton wrote:Totalist leaders claim to be agents chosen by God, history, or some supernatural force, to carry out the mystical imperative ... put forcibly and claimed exclusively, so that the cult and its beliefs become the only true path to salvation (or enlightenment) in which the individual then develops the psychology of the pawn, and participates actively in the manipulation of others. The leader becomes the center of the mystical manipulation (or the person in whose name it is done) more real than an abstract god and therefore attractive to cult members which legitimizes the deception used to recruit new members and/or raise funds, and the deception used on the "outside world".
Bullseye on all that.
BK Tamasin Ramsay, who has a PhD, and Jayanti Kripalani, who is widely regarded by the BKs as one of the top 108 souls on earth, say ...
1952 and 1956: the divine entity known as Piu [Sister in charge, we usually write Piyu] identified Himself as Shiva Baba."18:47"
Early 50s: Shiva Baba thought of as oval form ... By then everyone knew two distinct beings".
In short ... no. Or at least, not yet.
As of 1954/55, there is no mention of Shiva.
There is no reason why they would not put his name on the page as they are ridiculously open about other whacko ideas; and typically condescending to other religion, especially the Hinduism which they are supposed to be "promoting" these days. Even to a "World Congress" of other religions.
By 1954, they have visualised their God in the shape of a Shivlingum and realized there is a difference between Him and "the Home" but it reads to be as if they still see god as a force or will rather than a person, and they see Lekhraj Kirpalani as Lord Brahma and god's manifestation on earth as the Creative force.
Their "God" is the Incorporeal form of Lekhraj Kirpalani.
It is all written in perfect English. Is this Anand Kishore's or someone else's because Prakashmani and Ratanmohini certainly couldn't speak English this well never mind write it?
Firstly, there were actually only 24 people at the Congress although submissions by correspondences were received from others and, presumably, the books sent out afterwards.
A few more random notes. The Brahma Kumaris mention ..."Sun-God" ... a "Creative-Directive Power should also have the capacity and capability to end this Drama to repeat or set it going over again".
"One Supreme Being ... in the incognito corporeal form of Brahma".
"the Father Almighty gave the all true knowledge though the Supreme Saviour"
"The Supreme Soul as we have ourselves visualised is of the shape of the Shiv-Linga, a symbol very widely worshipped in India since the beginning of the Copper Age ... sages-seers have wrongly been taking this Infinite Light for God Himself. In other words, they have been mistaking God's home for God Himself."
"... the mad baldman ..."
"the Knowledgeful Lord has fulfilled his promise of (... coming back 5,000 years etc)"
"malicious-minded ignorant so called Hindus have detamed the lord by spreading ignominious cock and bull stories about the Lord. These degraded man of today diving deep into the ditch of the poisonous sensuous pleasures malign their Lord Brahma ..."
"old man, jeweller in Calcutta ... about 60 when he became God Brahma ... people without discrimination consider him as a humble being"
"a 16 years period"
"world philanthropist God Brahma ... Incorporeal God in his Corporeal Form ... Saviour, the Supreme Father, Mother, Friend Preceptor and Guide".
"(after the Gold and Silver Age) ... the Sun of Knowledge sets .. "glow-worm religions arise ... broken-reed faiths"
"the rise of the Sun-Light religion in the east ... in Dev-Bhumi Land" (note: means either 'Land of Gods' or, literally, Uttarakhand province of India which served as a habitat for Rishis and Sadhus and is believed that the sage Vyasa scripted the Hindu epic Mahabharata)
"Incorporeal Father has descended on a corporeal human form in the East in Bharat, the ancient land of deities"
"energy-giving rays of Sun-God"
"God has incarnated in some lonely corner of Bharat"
Now, why is that two BK PhDs and Sister Jayanti Kripalani, who has spent the last 40 odd years as Janki Kripalani's third leg, cannot tell you any of this ... and *still* cannot tell you the real history of their own religion. A religion they do infer they are the leaders of and which will propel them to a high status ruling the world for 2,500 years?
A history Janki Kirpalani actually lived through.
And it's not just two BK PhDs ... the BKs have more PhD, multi-millions of dollars a multi-national media and IT team and are flying people around the world to research all of this stuff.
Why cannot they tell you any of this?
They are not trying to ... They are trying *not* to tell you all of this.
They are trying to play it all down and cover it all up and they are using their PhD to con academia and the institutions which are influenced by and depend on academia portraying as objective truths as possible.The questions then are,
Are well respected individual BKs like Tamasin Ramsay and Gayatri Naraine willingly playing along with this and knowing deceiving non-BKs, or are they just impotent and under the influence of "totalist leaders" such as Janki Kirpalani?
Do I think high ranking individuals like BK Jayanti Kripalani is "in on the con"? I think my answer to that must be, "yes, of course". There is no way she can have been involved in the religion as long as she has and as closely to the leadership without knowing all this and much more.
As a small footnote, as of 1954 the BKs claim that there were "250 dwellers in Mount Abu". This is higher than previous reports suggested.
- Anand Kishore and Prakashmani in Japan