India is India and Hinduism is Hinduism and money corruption are part of the system ... but it is fair to say the temples do have a long tradition of using donations to do some social good rather than just build properties and promote themselves to VIPs like the BKs.
I still cannot understand why, if Destruction was in two to three years, they are building such huge and luxurious complexes and buying freehold properties. It strikes me they don't believe what they teach.
'End of the World -ism' (millenarianism) is a wonderful tool of mental coercion and the BKs have learned from direct experience it is a good way to get money. Remember in 2000, Didi Manmohini was actually telling people to take money out of the bank ... where do you think it went? The same place as it did in 1976 ...
moreclearnow wrote:I have seen many families ...
Good answer Pawan, you are perfectly correct. I have seen many family build themselves up and becoming very healthy, wealthy and well educated, happy and productive within society without any influence of BKism ... unfortunately, moreclearnow, discussion at that level is not really worth very much. It's the same as the BKs do, as on their new site.
They know for 75 years they have been accused of splitting up families, so what do they do ... they put up a page with ONE family, BKWSU PR spin doctor Neville Hodgkinson, and even on it it mentions problems. I am sorry, we've been BKs too. We know what happens.
Normal rules of family conflicts do apply whenever there are problems in a family.
They don't because in a normal family it is just 'family versus family'. In a BK related problem, it is 'family versus BKs plus family' with the BKs giving advice and interfering from behind and filling the family member's head full of stuff about Golden Ages etc which distorts their decision making processes and alters their behaviour.
We've even had cases where BKs encourage and advice BK women how to divorce husbands and take property from them to give to the BKs. There's is both official and unofficial BK influence; Shrimat from Seniors and gossip level from adherents.
I don't think there is coercion in BKWSU about this and people are free to donate if they wish ... As a matter of fact, this urge to donate is much deep rooted in Hinduism
Of course, I have long made the obvious conclusion that when millionaire Lekhraj Kirpalani's money ran out, and they could not longer steal from their families and get grants from the government etc, they turned their cult to religion because they knew it was a huge source of income.
How else were the untrained, uneducated women going to survive?
In BKWSU, it's indeed possible for people to go to any centre in the world without paying a fee ...
Sure, that's what the BKWSU says. I know of cases where poor villagers were encouraged to donate their jewellery to buy/make some offering to the Seniors higher up, all center-in-charges are encouraged to collect donations ... so where does that leave us? We've all seen the 100s of young Kumaris queuing up nervously to hand over their center donations/dowry to the Seniors in Abu? How does the money magically jump into Baba's box?
Anyone handing over money and property to the BKWSU under the irrational belief that it is going to buy them a high status in Heaven, or Palace of God has been deeply and persistently coerced. They even say stuff like, Om Radhe had to come back in another life to do "service via money" because she brought none with her the first time around.
For every unqualified suggestion you make, we can give you numerous specific example of when, e.g. Janki Kirpalani rattled the class for donations because the mortgage needed paid and donations were low, or another senior lectured a class telling them to support their local center more etc.