BKDimOk wrote:Dear soul. Om Shanti. Do you indeed now all about Janki's youth. I mean exactly. What was she doing or what she was not doing? How many was sick?
Do you have this full information in order to make negative statements. Or you are doing them because of the habit? What is your true intention? ... Objective means that you have all the information and do not want to persuade somebody in something. Objective means truth.
I did not/don't have any personal issues with Janki. She never really affected me. So many used to be quite frightened of her. I don't feature in her world. I am not sure what the organization is really all about but I respect her part in building up a multi-million Pound empire from no where. That is not nothing. She could be personally invasive but may be she was right.
My personal opinion was that she was the yogi rather than an intellectual. I could not say I got proper answers to questions I asked. Fair enough, most Eastern mystics always criticise the Western mind for "thinking too much". She put on her show for the BKWSU and that was that. She was not infallible and could be very wrong. Few would and could challenge her. But you have to realise that there is a load of stuff going on that you do not get to see as a happy BK. What the Indian community gets is a little different than the Westerners and there is a whole load of internal stuff that rank and file BKs do not get to see. My advice is keep out of it and just be happy. Life is short enough.
My only person gripe with "King Janak" is that it was she that brought in the Brahma worship ... pictures of Lakhraj Kirpalani everywhere ... contrary to the Murlis. And by doing so brought in and sanctioned the Dadi worship too ... pictures of Dadis by bedside and all that ... And, as I said, the Dadi worship is not according to Gyan. It is idol worship. Gyan is being turned into personality cults.
I am asking you honestly DimOk for an answer, if "God" is saying one thing, day in day out in the Murli for 50 years, you lived with him personally for 10s of years ... and you keep going about doing the opposite ... what does make you and where else does the same principle lie?
My "intention", my wish, my desire, my service ... is to the make the BKWSU
have to be honest and stop hiding behind all the deceit. And as I know they read this, I hope they understand that. The BKWSU, which I separate from Gyan and even the Babas has lost itself in a mire of half-truths to outright lies. I do not believe that God can be revealled to the world through tricky PR Yuktis. This is another typical expample. Better, in my opinion, just to be simple and honest. Tell Gyan as it is. And keep the money out of it.
Objectively, on this book cover, Janki Kripalani is portrayed as some sweet Mother Theresa character. She was not. She is a tough little Kingdom-making cookie. It seemed to be her job to pull the money in, as she was not afraid to push the issue. My guess is it is/was her job to work the Hindi/Sindi community too. Again, honestly, do BKs "pray for sick people?" So how does that make the BKWSU look and is it not confusing people?
I have sat at their knees and heard them say clearly, "BKs do not do social work ... Godly service only" etc. No ministering to the sick. We know what they are referring to. It was in the sick bay during the days in Retreat before they had to go out into the World looking for money to support the Yagya. The rest of the world does not. In my opinion, it is unfair for the rest of the world to be duped, fooled by clever advertizing. How many people out of 300 were sick at any one time? Was it as hard as working as child labor in a sweatshop that m illions suffer today? Unfortunately, generations of young Brahmins grow up being fed lies by the BKWSU, e.g. re-edited Murlis, and believe them.
As much as the early period of life in Gyan is a Honeymoon and the middle-period is an exciting status grabbing adventure for some and backseat ride for others, the later part of Gyan is a sort of sickness when one wakes up to what is going on, and with a hangover from all the stupid things you did and were encouraged to do ... and starts to face the ugly side of yourself and the organization. May be this is what the PBKs call the Iron Age of Gyan.
I just call it facing human reality. I hope that helps.