Funnily enough, this is one of the points the PBKs make ... that the Murli clearly stated *not* to buy properties (leading to that the religion should only expand family home to home). However, like the "no pictures of Lekhraj Kirpalani rule", the "Baba" was thrown out with the bath water.
Did he realise in advance what an economic and spiritual/egotistic burden it would create?
A few years back now, as an experiment addressing attachment/power plays, the cult tried to move around a load of center-in-charges to other centres. Apparently they were so unhappy that it only lasted a few weeks and then they all went back to their own "kingdoms".
Shame the cult is not more mature to document all such episodes. It lack a true chronicler/s as other religions had. Indeed,, it prefers whitewash and reinvention ... the pretentiousness of pretending the polished, wealthy now is how it has always been. And certainly not acknowledging all the lack of ethics, abuse and exploitation - and waste of resources - that has got them to where they are today.
I think it is attracting/engendering a kind of conceitedness/arrogance amongst followers ... not just what we would have called body consciousness but property conscience or status conscience in people quite often not capable of doing it for themselves, e.g many of the 'mata matriarchs' who, essentially, have evolved a strategy to live off men and other younger women, or the drop out, odd ball Westerners ... the 'welfare benefit BKs'.
I suppose for the donors there is some kind of egoistic pay back too?