Mr Green wrote:Better to live and love.
Or let's say, live, love and learn for yourself.
It's just a way of the BKs separating you from all and any other social, intellectual and emotional influences except them and their leaders.
It only sort of works if you buy into their End of the World theory, and think it is worthy giving up everything to earn a high status in their heaven on earth.
It works by denying all of your natural needs, wants and feelings in order to heighten any experience or expression they might allow you ... like a kind of fasting.
Indians have weird and screwed up customs, superstitions and cultural values when it comes to stuff like sex, touching, affection, male-female relationships some of which are Victorian in natured. Women particular are repressed by patriarchal systems.
The BKs are just exporting that and not challenging it, they are just putting themselves at the top of it as the mediums of a patriarchal, dominant male.
The BKs actually know very little about life and even spirituality. They are marketing themselves as top knot Brahmin and so must put on an act of being religious in order to conform to their society's expectations.
Western BKs have then had to work out justifications and embellishments for that borrowing from other religions like Buddhism.
There are also strong veins of narcissism and psychopathology within BKism and amongst its leaders, e.g. women willing to leave there own children, women willing to cover up child sex abuse for sake of their own reputation, leaders willing to hide serious accidents where children lost limbs from their parents, a founder who ditched the mother of his children to married a teenage girl as his "spiritual" wife and future Empresss ... and they are ruthless when it comes to splitting apart families if their is money in it for them.
They want you to be unfeeling towards others in order ti capitalise on your time, money and energy, e.g. they are anti normal charity.
Ask them what they think and do for all the starving children in India.