24 May 2014
I hope Shivsena is right this time and the BKWSU becomes a graveyard. In my dreams, I hope someone of some goodness comes forward and hands over all of their wealth and property to some other NGO who uses it for the sake of genuine good.
I won't bet on it though. They'll want to keep the properties and shops to financially support themselves in their old age.
Let's define parochial as "having a limited or narrow outlook or scope", and use narcissism in its more psychological form as a personality disorder in which "a person is excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to themselves and to others in the process" not just a preoccupation with the self.
Looking back to the early days of the Om Mandli, it has to be true. Lekhraj Kirpalani had to be suffering from it. It's said about 1% of the population does. He, and they, were obsessed with him being god believing even, literally, responsible for WWII. Most of them had not even seen outside of their own cloister world and yet believed themselves to be gods and goddesses going off to heaven and all of the rest of the world ... meaning their tiny community ... destroyed in an infantile fit.
You are right Pink, they are all about them, them, them ... their importance, their status and they are seemingly unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to 10,000s of families and 100,000 of individuals all over the world.
Shivsena's posts made me think simply that either the BKs are true, or they are false. And the unfortunately truth is, they have been false time and time again. Therefore they are not true. They only manage to maintain their business by cover ups, re-inventions and blatantly lying to newcomers safe in The Knowledge based on experience that they can skim 5% or 10% cash off anyone unfortunately enough to be lured into their centres for a few years (and 100% off a small proportion).
Shivsena and the PBKs' primary point is interesting in a way. They are saying that the utterances are true but that BKs have interpreted it wrong. That their god spirit is not speaking about the outside world but 'metaphorically' about the inside BK world ... and they are trying to understand the signs and metaphors he is using.
They cannot give up the belief that the utterances, The Knowledge, is somehow still "true". Why? Is it like a gambler who cannot stop gambling, or a victim of a fraud who cannot believe they have been defrauded and keeps pouring more and more money into the fraud believing that at some point they will get a return?
It is a narcissistic response such as, "surely I could not have been so wrong to be fooled ... surely it must still be the truth somehow, somewhere!!!"?
It may well be true that their god spirit is only talking about their world ... that Gulzar is in some bizarre language mirroring back what is going on in their collective consciousness. It may also be like trying to understand the world through the mind of a very repetitive and obsessed madman. And does it just not fall right back into the same trap of "two to three years" ... 'two to three years" ... which we all remember the BK leaders telling us about world Destruction.
I am remembering Sister Jayanti Kirpalani saying exactly the same, will full faith it was the truth ... 30 years ago.
If Gulzar dies, the BKs will have a problem on their hands and it is becoming more and more likely as she gets older. Will they be able to produce another puppet show to engross the adherents and make them believe?
Who knows? What does it matter? What can we predict? All we need predict is that the same thing will keep carrying on ... two to three years ... for as long as they can use it to extra rupees out of their followers.
I'll predict they re-invent themselves again, destroy all the old books and posters and turn themselves into a retreat business for corporation and middle class people. That's basically all they are now anyway.