Why are so many Indian Brahma Kumaris fat or obese?
Posted: 26 Jun 2014
Researching the number of child deaths in India the BKs ignore, I was reading a state wise study of the nutritional status of women and men in India (2005-06) It stated that in Rajasthan, where the Brahma Kumaris have their headquarters and their god spirit is supposed to descend, the percentage of (non-BK) women whose body mass index is below normal is 36.7% (the mean is 40.5%).
Allow me to state the obvious, this is caused by the pernicious malnourishment poverty and hunger brings.
The Brahma Kumaris have established charities to "alleviate poverty"? I recently wrote to them to ask how much poverty they had alleviated, how much of their budget goes into poverty alleviation and how they went about it.
They, of course, ignored me.
Therefore, please allow me to ask a different question ... why are so many Indian Brahma Kumaris fat or obese in a nation were there is so much hunger and starvation?
BKs often claim the BKWSU is such a good cult because there are not the kind of financial excesses seen in other cults ... that the leaders live such frugal lives (example, ... we have only seen pictures of their leader in one white Rolls Royce!).
In return, I point out that in comparison to the vast majority of Indians, they actually live lives of luxury.
Having lived for the whole of their lives being financially supported by others ... not having any skills, trade or education and never having to have a real job ... if after their money ran out in the 1950s they had not turned their cult into a business to life off, they would have been reduce to begging or the lowest and hardest labouring jobs in India. And without doubt a premature death. Instead, they float about in their angelic saris being driven from centrally heated or air conditioned centre to centre, being fed, clothed and looked after by unpaid servants, flying business class from VIP meeting to VIP meeting etc etc etc.
Nice life if you can afford it ... and all free of taxes!
So, let me ask again, whilst 40% of Rajasthan is going hungry ... why are so many Indian Brahma Kumaris fat or obese?
Do they or their god spirit not care about the poor? Is sitting on their fat asses, being fed and served by unpaid servants, really "serving humanity"?
Taking a single photo at random ... you would be hard pressed to find one skinny BK amongst them.
Allow me to state the obvious, this is caused by the pernicious malnourishment poverty and hunger brings.
The Brahma Kumaris have established charities to "alleviate poverty"? I recently wrote to them to ask how much poverty they had alleviated, how much of their budget goes into poverty alleviation and how they went about it.
They, of course, ignored me.
Therefore, please allow me to ask a different question ... why are so many Indian Brahma Kumaris fat or obese in a nation were there is so much hunger and starvation?
BKs often claim the BKWSU is such a good cult because there are not the kind of financial excesses seen in other cults ... that the leaders live such frugal lives (example, ... we have only seen pictures of their leader in one white Rolls Royce!).
In return, I point out that in comparison to the vast majority of Indians, they actually live lives of luxury.
Having lived for the whole of their lives being financially supported by others ... not having any skills, trade or education and never having to have a real job ... if after their money ran out in the 1950s they had not turned their cult into a business to life off, they would have been reduce to begging or the lowest and hardest labouring jobs in India. And without doubt a premature death. Instead, they float about in their angelic saris being driven from centrally heated or air conditioned centre to centre, being fed, clothed and looked after by unpaid servants, flying business class from VIP meeting to VIP meeting etc etc etc.
Nice life if you can afford it ... and all free of taxes!
So, let me ask again, whilst 40% of Rajasthan is going hungry ... why are so many Indian Brahma Kumaris fat or obese?
Do they or their god spirit not care about the poor? Is sitting on their fat asses, being fed and served by unpaid servants, really "serving humanity"?
Taking a single photo at random ... you would be hard pressed to find one skinny BK amongst them.