Hi ex-l,
1) You wrote: “We know how the BKs are taught to think, eg "If you mother dies, eat halva". What they call detachment is the ultimate, unfeeling insensitivity.”
This is not about insensitivity. It is told to the BKs who attend Murli class who are deeply convinced about eternally repeating drama of life. When I heard it first time in the Murli class I understood its essence behind those words. It’s all about asking us to view the death of a beloved one as a natural event — an event that took place under the influence of many factors and forces (discernible and indiscernible) — and in which soul changes its worn out costume to take a new one elsewhere — just like one changes his dress and puts on another one — an act it has done billions of time in the past and will be doing billions of time in the future. Even if one dies apparently prematurely, this too can be seen as natural with no need of sinking the ship in the ocean of sorrow, so to say. Because in view of eternity, one dies after/before 20 years, 10 years or after 10 minutes is not important.
2) You wrote: “And your analogy does not make sense from a BK point of view ... souls born in the second half of the Kalpa can never make it into the first ...it was predestined fixed in Drama to happen every 5,000 years. There's no question of them choosing ...”
The very fact that you chose to enter BK-ism and chose to exit BK-sim shows that there is choice.
The very fact God says if a BK engages in vices, he/she will no longer be BK, will forfeit his/her inheritance shows that there is choice.
Point to be noticed is that everyone is thinking that he is making choice, but in fact each one is only UNFOLDING according to his sanskar — which is, of course, fixed — BUT FIXED BY WHOM? — BY THE INDIVIDUAL HIMSELF.
For example, three persons go to ice cream parlor and each one “chooses” ice-cream according to his taste — each ice-cream in different taste and different flavor. Superficially, it would look that each one is choosing, but in reality each one is only unfolding according to his sanskar — he does things he enjoys doing.
Another example: One person is trying to cross a road in a busy street, and found an old lady who is blind too wants to cross the road. Though he wanted to pass as though he did not see her, he thought he is planning to contest election in the future — hence if I help this blind old lady, that will be an investment toward my good-will build-up. And he helps her. This too is not a choice in its real sense because he was doing this favor as an expression of his deep-rooted selfishness which is his original sanskar which is fixed—and he will always act in that fixed way of selfishness. Water goes upward as vapor when boiled — this is a temporary behavior under special circumstance. Remove that special circumstance, water will show its original sanskar of flowing downward. Humans too act in a fixed way so long as they are in body-consciousness.
Typical example is the wife of my client who came to me seeking advice on his plan of divorce. His wife is an air hostess by profession, but he wanted to divorce her because of her aggressive, rough behavior back at home — just opposite to her sweet, soft and lovely behavior towards passengers in the plane. I advised him “not to divorce her because her rough behavior with husband and dear and beloved ones is her original sanskar which she takes delight in. You are not the object of her behavior, she is only unfolding according to her sanskar.” And his problem with her wife is no longer viewed as a problem, but is viewed as her sanskar by him. Thus every one is unique, having unique sanskar which means people will act in a fixed way when under no pressure, but may act differently only under pressure.
This is true in the case of nations too. 11 countries (such as Switzerland ...) have never taken part in any wars in all their history, and other nations do not learn from this good example. There are countries such as Germany which opted for reunion. But this good example has no effect on other countries (such as South Korea and North Korean).
3) You wrote: “And still no explanation from you about how a universe can reset itself identically every 5,000 years according to the law of entropy. The law of entropy states that it cannot be identical and every other cycle you mention exhibits irregularity.”
God makes his descent in the concluding phase of each Kalpa TO TRAIN PEOPLE ON HOW TO BECOME A Golden Aged PEOPLE, not to teach the scientific details about how he resets each cases of entropy. When you occupy an advance-booked hotel room, you find the room contains things and provisions more than you imagined could be there. You would simply enjoy those provisions without going into details of how those provisions were being arranged there. So is the case with me. I am now leading a Golden Aged life, and God says such people will inherit Golden Age.
Yet if we act like Einstein, we can get some clue as to how he will renew the provisions for life’s enjoyment. In 1915, Albert Einstein realized that Newton's laws of motion and gravity did not apply to objects in high gravity or at high speeds, like the speed of light. In his General Theory of Relativity, Einstein envisioned gravity as a distortion of space caused by mass, and predicted existence of Gravitational Waves which are produced when two objects orbiting one another end up producing ripples in the actual fabric of space and time. Now see what happened after 100 years.
The 2017 physics Nobel prize was awarded for the detection of Gravitational Waves. This discovery is praised as so significant that it would usher in “
a new era of astronomy” because it proved what Albert Einstein predicted in his 1915 Theory of General Relativity. It was scientists working in LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) who have detected Gravitational Waves from the violent merging of two Black Holes roughly a billion light-years away.
The amazing fact about this is that what scientists in LIGO have detected now with physical equipments HAD ALREADY BEEN SEEN BY EINSTEIN'S Third Eye, or eye of his intuitive wisdom or meditative eye. Similarly, each person should use his meditative eye to see how God renews this old decadent system of things.