33% of the world’s starving people live in India. 212 million are undernourished. As many as 3,000 to 6,000 children die every day. 42% of children under five are underweight, 57% are stunted, 20% wasted and 70% to 79% anaemic. As many as 99% in the adivasi classes experience chronic hunger on a daily basis (unable to have two meals).
But that's OK, say the Brahma Kumaris ... "they are "scorpions and snakes", untouchable "devils" suffering from their own bad karma!!!"
Meanwhile, back in Brahma Kumari land, a lifelong and obese Brahma Kumari, Nalini Didi from Mumbay, is rewarded for her indulgence with $10,000s of surgery caused by her overeating.
In India, being fat is a sign of power and wealth, and therefore attractiveness or to aspire to.
ex-l wrote:Please note, I do not mean to hurt the feelings or offend any of you who might be a little overweight ... [i]out of your earnings. What you do with the money you earn is your own business. My criticisms here are firmly targeted on religious charlatans, in a nation like India, who have never worked and become obese out the donations of the poor under them ... while children drop like flies around them. (That is also what the god spirit of the Brahma Kumaris teach, that impure "Kali Yugi" souls come and die like flies on the dung heap of the old world).
As a BK, I at first lost my health and struggled with the large amount of weight I put on. In an effort to stop it, it was physically uncomfortable, I started to learn about healthy eating, chi exercises etc but was put down by the leaders for being a body conscious "health Bhagat".
Whereas "health Bhakti" - healthy eating, sport and exercise etc portrayed as an alternative religion - was looked down up, no one questioned emotional overeating or those who indulged in it. Intense, overly sweet confectionaries, sweet rice, oily food and puddings etc were the only sanctioned indulgences, and used directly as rewards.[/i]
Nalini Joshi "surrendered" to the Brahma Kumaris aged 14, (elsewhere stated as 17, or 15), after being introduced to BKism by her mother. Hailing from a royal family of Kutchchi Saraswat Brahmins in Kutch, she has never had a proper job. All of that fat comes has been eaten from the donations of her followers without any censure from the leadership ... presumably a good bit of the family wealth, her dowry, inheritance etc, went into the Kirpalani Klan's coffers?
Nalini Didi's health problems, and misplaced concerns, became a newsworthy event in the Brahma Kumari world. For many years she hah had health problems due to her obesity which was so bad it even restricted her movement. She is portrayed by the BKs as having "reached the pinnacle of spirituality" and given the title -Ji, normally given to saints.
- On 15th August she was admitted to the Brahmakumaris's built and funded by government and big business donations Mumbai hospital for urgent surgery for an umbilical hernia ($4,000 Indian rates) as well as an "Tummy tuck" (abdominoplasty) to remove excess fat and skin from her abdomen ($6,000 to $12,000 US rates).
So on 19th August she underwent triple surgeries for Hernia, abdominoplasty & gastric bypass with the Brahma Kumari follower Dr Ashok Mehta calling in Mumbai's top metabolic surgeon, Dr.Sanjay Borude & his team, to perform these triple surgeries as a one of its kind event.
Cost of gastric bypass, a surgery only usually available to people with potentially life-threatening obesity, ($24,000 in the United States). A gastric bypass is where your digestive system is re-routed past most of your stomach, so when you eat it takes much less to make you feel full.
The 6 hours of surgery were followed by two days in the ICU ($6,000 to 7,000 per day average US rates) and two days in her hospital room ($1,500 to $2,000 each).
On 25th August, she was to be discharged, however she experienced acute angina pain in her chest and, on further investigation, her team of doctors found that she needed an immediate Angiogram ($5,000) performed by a renowned Cardiologist, Dr M.G.Pillay & his team, followed by angioplasty to open a major block in her right coronary artery. (Say $20,000 in California, angioplasty can cost anywhere from $44,000 to $144,000).
Followed by another two days in ICU (intensive care unit) at $12,000.
Needless to say, she will now be careful for 24/7 by a team of Brahma Kumaris indentured servants, the young girls they use as unpaid workers - who will have to empty out her urine and stools and wash her afterwards - and, for some reason, she was the recipient of coordinated official prayers, aka "positive thoughts".
Let's conservative estimate, at relative rates in the USA, of $120,000 worth of medical treatment, and remember, the BKs called in some of India's top people.
- Why when the same money could have save 100s of children's lives?
Good Wishes Messages for Nalini Didi can be sent on "nalinididiji@gmail.com".
Nalini's mother wanted her to visit the Brahma Kumaris often. Reluctantly, she agreed on one condition, that nobody should start preaching to her, that she would do as she liked. Her mother took her to Mateshwari at Mt. Abu. Nalini's first impression of Mateshwari was that she looked beautiful. Clad in white sari, with long, open hair, a nice face ...
Nalini was a BK for about 10 years while Lekhraj Kirpalani and Om Radhe were alive, hence her value to the BKs as a living connection to them. If so, she must have joined around 1955. She is and has been a principal teacher for giving training to young girls aspiring to become Brahma Kumari Teachers.