The daftest thing I ever did in my Honeymoon Period was when I had an imperfect week, I cant remember what but say I missed one Amrit Vela ... no, I think it was eating chocolate bars bought from a sweetshop with which a wrestled with ("dirty sweets from the market", as it says in the Murli) ... or something, I would give ALL my wages to the bandhara instead of the 10% they told you was "Brahmin thing to do" to punish me and clear my karma.
I wonder where I got that idea from!?! They would be even richer by now if I had kept that up!!! Its funny but there are all sort of folk stories or superstitions floating around the BKWSU that really did not come from Shiva Baba/DB but which BK eggs each other on with, like this.
I knew the husband of one BK that broke Shrimat big time during her Honeymoon Period (the wife not the husband) and tried madly to get money from all her non-BK family to give to the BKs. I have to guess in a mania too clear her "sins" as well. It is a superstition the BKs obviously profit widely from.
It is probably a good thing to have a senior check one's chart and talk about these things ... but we saw from Mitra's post about Om Radhe coming back to do "service via money" because it was the one she had missed out on. So there must be some sort of consciousness about this inside the organization.
Keeping a journal or diary is fine and an agreeable thing. I always thought keeping a "chart" was hugely stupid and embarassing ... Can anyone list the questions the BKs gave us? How the hell could one tell "how long did I remember Baba for?", "Did I have negative thoughts about anyone? etc" when the brain thinks, e.g.;
rate of thought during waking hours (10 per second) = 36000 thoughts per hour
rate of thought during sleeping hours = 3600 thoughts per hour
Therefore number of thoughts per day = 604,800 thoughts per day
(BTW, scientists actually calculate the brain operates at 10 to the power of 16 (16 zeros) synapse operations per second ...)
Now subtract the number of thoughts you are having thinking about the number of thoughts you are having then the number of thoughts that you have had to remember the number of thoughts that you had and then the number of thought you need to write them all down ... then tell me how many thoughts are left (... whilst still remembering saying, "Baba, Baba, Baba" 16,108 times a day a la Janki Kripalani, of course).
As an aside, did you know that the brain uses as much as 25 Watts of energy. Enough for a small light bulb.
The biggest punishment I ever heard of was for some Brother, clearly a educational sub-normal or a bit of a dim lightbulb, who had ... ahem ... indulged himself by himself (so as to say), being banned from going to Madhubhan to meet Baba that season and prescribed another 9 months of perfect Maryadas (I think it was .. specifically longer that the minimum for a new BK), e.g. morning class every day, absolute celibacy/purity before he could go again. And this was int he old days when individuals actually met the Holy Ghost on a one to one basis rather than in a rock stadium environment.
The bottomline was, if you did such a thing - nevermind sexing with someone else - that you had to and did confess it to a Senior Sister in personal ... and you were ultimately judged or punished for it in a subtle most powerful manner, i.e. banned from meeting with God in person and banned from going to the family home. I thought it was a little bit hypocritical because the SS would also at the same time invite non-BK VIPs following no Maryadas to Madhuban and to meet BapDada.
I have no idea
HOW it affected such an individual's Brahmin life afterwards but it would be interesting to discuss as. From a bystander's point of view, one could argue that it was hugely invasive and all about power. The BKs might argue it was all about forgiveness ... the PBKs probably say it was all out of order and corrupt because the BKs have no Baba to fulfill this role.