I look forward to Search’s response on the discussion so far, however, I would like to note in advance a huge shift in the BKs’ attitude towards other religions, and that of their tribal god spirit, from the early “pure” days of BKism.
Which was, of course, hugely critical and insulting, calling them devilish, de-crying them as a waste of time, and so on. Special criticism always being reserved for Mahmud Ghazni, who brought Islam to India and his invasions of India 1,000 years ago.
Since the 1980s, they seem to have allied themselves with other religions more and more, first by way of establishing their own credibility ("We are a religion too") and to learn other tricks; latterly adopting a patronisingly surperior and apologetic role towards them ("We are the source of all spirituality"). And, as they extend service into Muslim countries, they have had to softer than claims and criticism, and edit out the Murli.
They super carefully avoid conflict of opinion as they do, e.g. Lekhraj Kirpalani and the Murli is right and the truth, Muhammed is wrong and only half-baked, now degraded. He never ascended to heaven.
The latter concerns me because to do so it means that the BKs must become more and more dishonest and clandestine about their own religion and beliefs, and hide their true beliefs instead making mealy mouthed statements about "recognizing the divinity in all souls/religion".
Such as statement sounds good, and is very well practised by them, but is basically an outright lie contradictory to their original teachings.
Perhaps they have changes their original teachings yet again? Is anyone tracking how many times the Murlis have been re-written by human beings?
Which was, of course, hugely critical and insulting, calling them devilish, de-crying them as a waste of time, and so on. Special criticism always being reserved for Mahmud Ghazni, who brought Islam to India and his invasions of India 1,000 years ago.
Since the 1980s, they seem to have allied themselves with other religions more and more, first by way of establishing their own credibility ("We are a religion too") and to learn other tricks; latterly adopting a patronisingly surperior and apologetic role towards them ("We are the source of all spirituality"). And, as they extend service into Muslim countries, they have had to softer than claims and criticism, and edit out the Murli.
They super carefully avoid conflict of opinion as they do, e.g. Lekhraj Kirpalani and the Murli is right and the truth, Muhammed is wrong and only half-baked, now degraded. He never ascended to heaven.
The latter concerns me because to do so it means that the BKs must become more and more dishonest and clandestine about their own religion and beliefs, and hide their true beliefs instead making mealy mouthed statements about "recognizing the divinity in all souls/religion".
Such as statement sounds good, and is very well practised by them, but is basically an outright lie contradictory to their original teachings.
Perhaps they have changes their original teachings yet again? Is anyone tracking how many times the Murlis have been re-written by human beings?