Just a pet peeve of mine. It's something the BKs do from an individual to an organizational level. They call themselves "the BK's".
It's a giveaway clue ... never trust a self-professed "University" that cannot spell and does not know basic grammar.
As to the guru story, I think the meaning of the story is you don't need to "seek the guru" and climb the Himalayas (or Aravalis) to find god or "the spiritual path, he and it are right here in the now, right in front of you in what you have to do next ... that your "perfection" is in doing the very next thing you have to do well (sticking your stamps on straight).
All of that grandiose "seeking" is imbalanced egotistical self-importance ... stuff that the knowing shysters in this world recognise and lead you around by the nose with until you, and your bank balance, is empty.
For me, my starting point with BKism is to recognise that Lekhraj Kirpalani had some kind of mental illness of which all the expansive grandiosity, self-importance - and dishonesty/denial - was part ... and that BKism is partially the institutionalisation of that mental illness into a religion. That in a sense, you are initiated into his and their manic mental illness(es).
No one needs that. It's not good for any to take on someone else mental illness. We need to deal with our own, not theirs (of course, this is also typical of what happens with kids growing up in families where there are problems/traumas in previous generations too).
Your path is, as you recognise, your path. Not Lekhraj Kirpalani's. Not Dadi "Power" Janki's. Not some bogus, amateur, inexperienced center-in-charge or middle management BK's. It starts where you are today and lead you where you need to go, not where the Kirpalani Klan wants you to go to alleviate and enable their mental illnesses.
You know that now, onthor. Well done for getting to the beginning of the rest of your life and rejecting theirs.
- One BK
Two BKs
The BK's mistake (A mistake carried out by one BK)
The BKs' mistake (A mistake carried out by many BKs)
It's a giveaway clue ... never trust a self-professed "University" that cannot spell and does not know basic grammar.
As to the guru story, I think the meaning of the story is you don't need to "seek the guru" and climb the Himalayas (or Aravalis) to find god or "the spiritual path, he and it are right here in the now, right in front of you in what you have to do next ... that your "perfection" is in doing the very next thing you have to do well (sticking your stamps on straight).
All of that grandiose "seeking" is imbalanced egotistical self-importance ... stuff that the knowing shysters in this world recognise and lead you around by the nose with until you, and your bank balance, is empty.
For me, my starting point with BKism is to recognise that Lekhraj Kirpalani had some kind of mental illness of which all the expansive grandiosity, self-importance - and dishonesty/denial - was part ... and that BKism is partially the institutionalisation of that mental illness into a religion. That in a sense, you are initiated into his and their manic mental illness(es).
No one needs that. It's not good for any to take on someone else mental illness. We need to deal with our own, not theirs (of course, this is also typical of what happens with kids growing up in families where there are problems/traumas in previous generations too).
Your path is, as you recognise, your path. Not Lekhraj Kirpalani's. Not Dadi "Power" Janki's. Not some bogus, amateur, inexperienced center-in-charge or middle management BK's. It starts where you are today and lead you where you need to go, not where the Kirpalani Klan wants you to go to alleviate and enable their mental illnesses.
You know that now, onthor. Well done for getting to the beginning of the rest of your life and rejecting theirs.