ex-l wrote:Lekhraj Kirpalani retired in 1932 to start the Om Mandli when population was just over 2 Billion. Shiva entered into the equation, by name, after 1950 when population was around 2.5 Billion. The PBKs say Murlis started in, what, 1947? In the 60s, when predictions were definitely made, the population was up into the 3 billions. When Lekhraj Kirpalani died, it was only around 3.7 billion.
So the "5 Billion" was a future prediction that went wrong and then had to be re-written. Does anyone want to pick out other specific numbers from the early papers?
I don't know how ShivBaba (through Brahma Baba) got the figure of 5 billion when the actual population of the world was less than 4 billion at the time when Brahma Baba left his body. But here is a Murli point from the BK section that says that the population reaches 5-6 billion in 5000 years.
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"Manushyon nay Satyug kee aayu laakhon varsh samajh lee hai. Toh tum hisaab-kitaab bataatey ho 5 hazaar varsh kaisey hai. Christ ko do hazaar varsh hua, Buddh ko 2250 varsh hua, fir Islami ko 2500 varsh huay. Sabko milaakar aadhakalpa hua. Inkay pehley toh devtaaon ka raajya tha fir devtaaon ko laakhon varsh kaisey kah saktey. Itnay varsh hotey fir toh manushya bahut ho jaatey. Itney toh hain nahee. 5 hazaar varsh may hee 5-6 sau karod manushya ho jaatey hain. Kahtey bhi hain Christ say 3 hazaar varsh pehley Bhaarat may aadi sanaatan devi-devtaa dharma tha." (Brahmakumariyon dwara prakaashit revised Sakar Murli, dinaank 5.04.08, pg 2)
“Human beings have thought the duration of the Golden Age to be lakhs of years. So, you tell them the calculation as to how it is 5000 years. It has been two thousand years since Christ, 2250 years since Buddha; then 2500 years since the Islamic people (came). It has been half a Kalpa including all of them. Before them there was a kingship of deities, then how can (the rule of) deities be said to have existed for lakhs of years? Had it been so many years, then the population of human beings should have been enormous. So many (human beings) don’t exist. In just 5000 years the population of human beings reaches 5-6 hundred crores. It is also said that the ancient deity religion existed in India 3 thousand years before Christ.” (Revised Sakar Murli dated 05.04.08, pg 2 published by BKs in Hindi, narrated by ShivBaba through Brahma Baba; translated by a PBK; the words within brackets in the English version have been added by the translator to clarify the meaning)