Vlakshmi/Golden Heart,
Your definition of BK Brahmins as being "BROAD-MINDED" is your own manmat. It's not BKism and it is not broad-mindedness as generally understood. It is your own definition pertaining to a belief in the 5,000 year cycle. "Broad in your terms" means believing that the world goes round in a 5,000 years, identically repeating cycle.
Stop perverting the meaning of words. It's not Hindi, it's not sanskrit, it's just made up.
And, as Rita has pointed out, BKs will not allow their "Shudra" (non-BK) children to "lovingly prepare food" for them. Non-BKs' (shudras) "love" is too impure for a BK to eat their food. This belief for BKs is a fact. I know it as I was told it by the Seniors, and saw it happen many times. It is part of the Maryadas.
Ditto, BK children will not allow their "Shudra" (non-BK) parent to lovingly prepare food for them for the same reason ... it is designed to divide and separate BKs from their families and outsiders based on BKs' belief in their own superiority ... just like caste Brahmins.
I doubt the chefs in the White House "loving cared" anything. My guess is they just did they job. Catering for vegetarians is no big thing in the USA, there are many in the government, and vegetarian and vegan options on United States Capitol building canteens already exist.
In fact, at worst, many chefs are likely to resent it.
The joke is, when Ivanka Trump came to India, Modi "loving" prepared meat kebabs and spicy chicken for her ... and Modi went to the USA for an arms deal ... so much for the value of his "purity".
vlakshmi wrote:The case of James Lovelock is a case of peer pressure.
How amazing that you know Lovelocks mind and research better than he did?
I tend to believe James Lovelock knew his mind better. Particularly because he wasn't a mainstream scientist and deliberately crafted a life independent of the mainstream scientific system.
He also admitted he made many mistakes.
vlakshmi wrote:Brahmins (Brah=broad, open + ma = mind); thus Brahmakumaris would literally mean daughters of broad/open-mindedness because they see EVERYONE as child of God. Even their motto is “One God, one world family.”
I am sorry but that is total crap on several counts.
1) the word Brahmin does not broad minded. Which you have now repeated.
2) Kumaris does not "literally" mean daughters, it mean princesses. The "princesses of Lekhraj Kirpalani" would be a better literal translation (as Lekhraj Kirpalani was not Brahma).
3) BKs may "see EVERYONE as child of their god spirit, but they most certainly do not see everyone as an equal child.
4) The BKWSU motto is not “One God, one world family” and has never been. It may have been adopted as a public relations slogan for some conference or another but to suggest it was their universal motto is an outright lie.
It amazes me how much distortion you can add to the shortest of statements.
they take money [from] fellow BK members put their contribution out of love for Baba and the world depending on their capacity — absolutely self-motivated.
How "self-motivated" is a brainwashed and hypnotised person ... manipulated by center-in-charge and senior Sisters, and theoretical concepts of karma (
getting rid of bad and acruing multi-million fold return in an imaginary "next 5,000 year cycle")?
Have you've seen how well hypnotists can manipulated their entranced subjects?
To some extent you are posting what the BK theory is; here we are deal with what the BK reality is.
Can you accept that there have been any abuses within the BK system?
What would you say to those individuals who gave away their fortunes and properties having been told for 10 years that the end of the world (Destruction) was going to be in 1976? Or 1986? Or 1950? Or during WWII?