GuptaRati 6666 wrote:Pink, when there is the recruiting of souls from the bottom of the barrel ...
My concern would not be so much about "the recruiting of souls from the bottom of the barrel" but the promotion of them into unchallengeable position of authority!
I suppose, in a way, BK Indo-centrism was part of the appeal for early Western BK who want to play out which ever "Back to India" role they were attracted to, be it "Colonial", "Hippie trail" or Orientalist ... in my own case, I was just about to embark on a "Seeking the Master" type guru fantasy when I fell into their hands instead.
Was it an attraction of feeling superior, or being accepted by a more family/community oriented society - in contrast to Western individualistic society?
If there was any intelligent discussion within BKism, 'BK Indo-centrism' would be an interesting discussion.
In the early days, for example, Lekhraj Kirpalani was in essence very pro-British and portrayed Gandhi and Congress as being unpatriotic devils .. Gandhi a "traitor" (literally) and Congress "the Crow Party". the BK "God" most certain did not predict them winning and Partition happening.
It was only after the winds of change blew, that they embraced Gandhism and very much aligned themselves with the Indian Right, eg the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had close ideological and organisational links to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Equally so would be a study of Western BKs political alignments and awareness of Indian BKs' political alignments.
I suppose the first accommodation for Western BKs were two fold
- a) the idea that after Destruction - in which every nation except for India was supposed to sink below the oceans - BK foreign centres would become islands to which the reborn BK deities would fly in the nuclear powered, mind controlled flying machines for picnics.
Latterly, we've even seen plenty of blonde haired, blue eyed "Golden Aged deities" images (largely, I think from BK Russia, calling on their own mythic past) ... but not so many dark skinned or 'negroid' deities. However, I don't know what the current party line on "diversity" is.
- b) a sub-clause in the so called BK "Law of Karma" - this show you what a joke it is - that made Western BKs efforts to follow BKism worth - how much was it? - 10% or 50% more because we had to do it all in a foreign language?