It's headed off topic but I'll allow myself a little divergence in this ... if you want to know the history of rock'n'roll, you are looking at the wrong sort of Indians in the BKs. Sure be that the spirit speaks to us through music far more than scripture.
And has it not been all the way through history that one of the first thing the imperialists & colonisers did, was ban, oppress or outright just kill off indigenous musical & artistic expression, cut off hair & dress uniformly? I've not considered it but there's probably a whole other thread of discussion to be had around that.
Although I left BKism a long time ago, it took a very long time to get it as out of me as it is, & when I finally came to address it all with peers via these forums, I found music, specifically genres of rock'n'roll to be very liberating.
However, of the years I did spend in BK circles, the one thing that I'd like to be remembered & take credit for, was playing David Bowie's Starman during one of the long, intense meditation sessions instead of the awful Bollywood music or the "acceptable" but fey New Agey stuff. I thought the lyrics & sentiments were all very suitable. The center-in-charge had to leave the room. All of these little things, like Diamond Harbour, were tiny incremental shifts that made the BKs into what they are now, whatever that it. But they all came from outside BKism.
Starman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKEt3MhNMM
And has it not been all the way through history that one of the first thing the imperialists & colonisers did, was ban, oppress or outright just kill off indigenous musical & artistic expression, cut off hair & dress uniformly? I've not considered it but there's probably a whole other thread of discussion to be had around that.
Although I left BKism a long time ago, it took a very long time to get it as out of me as it is, & when I finally came to address it all with peers via these forums, I found music, specifically genres of rock'n'roll to be very liberating.
However, of the years I did spend in BK circles, the one thing that I'd like to be remembered & take credit for, was playing David Bowie's Starman during one of the long, intense meditation sessions instead of the awful Bollywood music or the "acceptable" but fey New Agey stuff. I thought the lyrics & sentiments were all very suitable. The center-in-charge had to leave the room. All of these little things, like Diamond Harbour, were tiny incremental shifts that made the BKs into what they are now, whatever that it. But they all came from outside BKism.
Starman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBKEt3MhNMM