Brahma Kumaris Info - the Truth about the BKWSU

Re: Please guide me

Author: ex-l
Forum: Newcomers
Date: 2012-02-04

Don't waste your life giving it to the Brahma Kumaris. Find someone you like and start your own life. Get the BKs out of your mind. They've been misleading people for decades with false knowledge.

Life is not always easy, nothing is guaranteed, and so you have to be practical first.

If a man is married and trying to seduce you, you should complain to your boss or speak to his wife. Put a full stop to the harassment immediately. If you want to explore your sexuality, find someone that is available and don't risk hurting a third person (e.g. his wife).

Please guide me

Author: BKsujatha
Forum: Newcomers
Date: 2012-01-30

Om Shanti

My name is Sujatha

I would like to share with you my problem. I got a Brahma Kumaris gnana past 4 years but I cant go to every day class because there is no class near to me & also i having Bhandan in my family side. Am going only weekly once but in my home all are forcing to get marry, am not ready to get that commitment. Actually am a working woman, in my working environment am facing so many problem. One of the my colleague is disturbing for me every day but he is already married then also why the people are like that why they are thinking like that? Am avoiding so many times telling with Baba every thing but some time I fear when I fell down in that lust. How to escape from this type of situation. How to control our self?

Regards

BK sujatha

A Brief History of Disbelief (video)

Author: ex-l
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-28

A documentary called "A Brief History of Disbelief" in 6 parts. Be part of a proud and ancient tradition! Probably it should read, "A Brief History of Disbelief in the West" as the East has its own schools.

Two quotes shine a light back at the sweet rulers of the BKWSU ...

Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false,
and by rulers as useful.A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
And, of God ...
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FjLMmphzME

Re: Global Brahma Kumaris

Author: Mr Green
Forum: Commonroom
Date: 2012-01-26

it's a funny old world

Re: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revis

Author: maria
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-22

And what about this?313921_181030131969869_100001886503780_417088_7803868_n.jpg

Re: Why diamond merchants like Lekhraj Kripalani were not co

Author: jann
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-22

If Lekhraj was such well known diamond merchant visiting kings, how come it is never in any independent media? Only BK seems to be exaggerating about it.

Diamond Trade History

Re: Inspiration, Good Deeds, Acts of kindness, Serving Human

Author: tete
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-21

Killing Kerosene in rural India with solar energy.

Please click on the video to see something positive. :-)

http://ht.ly/8AsyO

Re: Infertility the biggest threat to the future

Author: tete
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-21

When you are a woman, when you are told you are 'infertile', it is by far the most harsh word to hear. I am 'infertile', I conceived via IVF via Monash University on my first go. My 'infertility' was caused due post ectopic pregnancy and due to health issues. IVF was my only avenue.

Interestingly enough though having married a Westerner, I would too hear, "I never complained about not having more children", but it was only code for not having a boy, and yes one day I would hear that too. Sad, but I found the latter more devastating. Us women have such burdens to carry, but it is really ignorance, no matter how enlightened the 'soul' is or rather thinks he is.

I leave you with this film: It's a Girl! Documentary Film - Official Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISme5-9orR0
If some of you have wondered why you are my friend, but very MALE, I will now tell you. My Father so wanted a boy, I arrived, being the third girl and thus he settled on me ... vanity as I look like him. He put that energy that normally goes into a boy (imprint) into me and, in the process, I learned to connect with men on a one to one basis as friends. Interestingly enough, I have one female close friend (I also have the friendship of your beloved ladies ... plus for me) and the rest seem to be men. Yup, odd is it not ... Five years later after my birth, a Brother would arrive and then two more but my dad was hooked. It seemed vanity was more powerful a drug to him ... I only recently recognized this, when my grandmother seemed lost looking at me ... and I smiled and realized she was remembering her son whilst looking at me.

Interestingly enough I came here to post something positive.

Mr. Green yup, I consider you a friend as wicked as you are at times and funny beyond measure.

p.s. thank you Mike.

Re: Early days Children chant Shivahom Shivahom

Author: john
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-21

Overall I did not think the video was that challenging. I felt it was a bit of 'we'll admit what we have to and gloss over it' because the 1940's documentation has come to light. The portray the Indian who opposed Om Mandli as just jealous because his classes weren't doing so well, really silly and I think false. I am wondering if it was one big group who broke up and the other person, was it Sevak Ram? took his followers, just speculation on my part at the moment.
I've just joined the Brahma Kumaris Open Forum.

Re: Early days Children chant Shivahom Shivahom

Author: ex-l
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-20

I don't know, but as a matter of principle I want anything I believe about the BKs to be ratified by some 3rd or original evidence.

Robin is on the Brahma Kumaris Open Forum if you wish to ask him there. I thought the video was very good of them but I find them still a little too fond of the BKWSU to be purely objective, moreso the daughter than the Father. Did you read it ruffled feather for even it being too true to the history and was basically banned?

If we take the statement, "practise of seeing the self as God" and then look at the available publications that are available from that time, it does not match up. Their concept of God was either 'Infinite Divine Light', which they also say humans are superior to, or of deities. Perhaps they visualised each other to be deities as that was key to their religion. Likewise, I don't remember any mention of Shivohum. Other mantras, yes, but not that one.

Starring at someone and seeing weird things like face changes, is a game many teenagers play in their "experimenting with magic" or spooky phase. But perhaps this was also when dhristi started? Again, I don't know. Pure speculation on my behalf.

Early days Children chant Shivahom Shivahom

Author: john
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-20

In the Movie: THE AVINASHI SOCIAL CLUB. (around 43 mins into the movie)

Dadi Gulzar (by the use of an actor) explains how in the early days they used to face each other in meditation with the "practise of seeing the self as God" and chant Shivahom Shivahom. I wonder if this is where the famous Shivahom myth decent of God Shiva into Dada Lekhraj came from?

Dadi Janki's memory mysteriously returns?

Author: john
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-20

In a Dadi Janki Morning class of June 10th 2010 she talks of Shiva Baba using another body not Dada Lekhraj's and of how the name Piyu was used.

Re: BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: john
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-19

I would say the credit for the revelations leading to the new revision of history actually goes to this forum, the PBKs and the bk-pbk.info forum, none of which get a mention in the document.

Re: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revis

Author: john
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-19

What I found interesting about the Yagya history document is how twice the former knowledge/Gyan was instructed to be destroyed; once early on, and the second time in 1965, which explains why the early Murlis are not available from the BKs but only 5 years worth 1965 to 1969.

The second thing was how they describe Piyu entering Pushpa to give the early knowledge not Dada Lekhraj.

Re: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revis

Author: ex-l
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-18

For me, accepting that it is a 1930s document, it was written in a second language and, for the most part, the Sind would be 'behind the times' ... the report comes across as rational, reasonable and modern. There is none of the Victorian pompousness, superiority complexes and hyperboles of the equivalent BK documents.

More and more I am taking the position that the Bhaiband Committee was genuinely in the right to be concerned by Lekhraj Kirpalani behavior. Even the "Anti-Party" name is a BK invention and an exaggeration. They were merely the Bhaiband's Om Mandli Committee. A committee set up to investigate and address the problems raised by Lekhraj Kirpalani and the early BKs.

Imagine today if some cult leader caused an accident in which a child had to have their arm amputated ... and tried to cover it up ... there would be outrage. And is it any wonder that when the child abuse reports started to come out of the BKWSU, that they covered those up as well?

"Child Abuse. All well. Inform parents" ... except they did not. They covered up.

Re: Global Brahma Kumaris

Author: pari
Forum: Commonroom
Date: 2012-01-18

The Global BK Forum does not exist anymore. If anyone wants to read the articles which I have written, the names and links for articles and videos by me can be found at:
Global Brahma Kumaris - Pari's articles and videos

The links to the latest articles are on the top so that one can easily know if there are new articles that have been written. One can also get the links through the words in the Index. Please click on the alphabets below (which links you to the relevant pages).

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Re: BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: ex-l
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-17

So according to BK Wendy Sargent, official historian of the Brahma Kumaris, the important thing is not whether something is true, but whether it is serviceable : that is will it advance the cause of Brahma Kumaris.
I wonder how much she was struggling to maintain her own faith and wanted to gloss over the emerging discrepancies rather than look at them for their full worth.

I mentioned a long time ago on this forum that I spoke to an elderly Sini who was a direct neighbour of the Om Mandli and the descriptions of the early seances are exactly the same. Far, far, far from the image we have been given of saintly silent souls in Tapasya. It was one of the reasons for the conflict between them and the Mangarams who not only lived next door. He recounted them screaming and crying. What caused this?

For me, deception, not purity was and is the binding factor of the Brahma Kumaris. I think that accounts for the strong reaction we received from them. Yes, the motor accident stands out for me, no mention of that in Mama's autobiography. Yes, the lack of respect for any external authority other than themselves.

But is not it strange that even though BK Wendy went this far ... there is no story yet of how and when Shiva entered the religion nor an account of the discussion they had to cover this up and stick with the new story. We still don't know how and when Lekhraj Kirpalani finally decided or accepted that he was not the God of the Gita.

Writing frankly, one has to be a nut to believe oneself is God for 18 years amongst a dwindling community of individuals (down to 40 at the end). Or a fantastic egoist. You cannot hide that away saying, "Baba releases The Knowledge slowly according to what the children could accept".

I wonder too about Wendy's relationship with the Seniors. A proper historian, at least in the free world, would put the truth above offended some old lady. It make me wonder what kept Wendy hooked into it all? Perhaps the regard of the Senior BKs? Perhaps she thought she was going to get a position, and even a retirement, out of the organization in a way that no Westerner has to date if she stuck in?

I still have to read the document more closely.

Re: BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: leonard
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-17

So according to BK Wendy Sargent, official historian of the Brahma Kumaris, the important thing is not whether something is true, but whether it is serviceable : that is will it advance the cause of Brahma Kumaris. It is not a very proper position for a historian is it?

Re: BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: bkti-pit
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-16

A few interesting new documents lately:
- the BK Archives Project's report to RCOs dated May 2010
- the rewritten Yagya history as of October 2011
- the 1938 Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee report.

I have been aware for quite a while that, since it had become obvious and known to many, from what had been published on this site, that what had been offered as the truth about the coming of God Shiva on earth was a bunch of lies, the BK leadership had asked a selected group of Western BKs to come up with a more credible version of its history.

What amazes me is that the whole thing is not about telling the truth but creating something that more likely resembles it, and that seemingly bright people full heartedly cooperate with such a deceptive endeavor. I think it says a lot about the power of belief and how our beliefs shape our perception of reality.

On one hand BK Archives Project writes
At the heart of the story is purity and divinity of the young girls who surrender their lives to bring about the Golden Age in Bharat.
and Yagya rewritten history offers
The seed of our Yagya (the spiritual heart of the Brahma Kumaris), planted all those years ago, is a powerful and
benevolent one.
Experiences in the early days were characterized by visions and divine experiences of inexplicable love, belonging, purity and faith, contextualized deeply in Bhakti. Shiv Baba had to unveil the new knowledge gradually, in order for people to accept something so different, something so distinctly at odds with their tradition and understanding.
whilst the 1938 Bhaibund Committee report says
With the aid of his black art, he renders his Sakhis unconscious and in that state of insensibiity they scream, they turn pale, they tremble visibly and are un-mindful of everything. Sometimes they laugh up-roarously and again weep and wail and invoke Krishna and run after "Dada Lekhraj" as Krishna incarnate and cath him, and embracing and clinging to him cry out "you have steln our butter etc".
and
These children are hypnotised into unconsciousness for hours on end, and when they recover themselves, they look vacant and besotted and on their distraction is put the interpretation that they have had communion with God.
Are not these different perceptions or interpretations of the same events?

I would argue that the young girls and women going into trance for hours on end, sometimes screaming and howling and clinging to Dada Lekraj crying out "you have stolen our butter" seems factual. BKs from the 80's would remember little Mohini acting out like Krisna whilst in trance like state. Now, whether you interpret that as divinity and purity or black art, hypnotism or simply madness is up to you.

What is apparent for me also from the Bhaibund Committee report is that the culture of deceit and lie within the Brahma Kumaris was present already in 1938 as illustrated by them lying about the bus accident incident and breaching their commitment to an agreement with the local community.

Re: Om Cafe: Brahma Kumaris target youth through new Front

Author: jann
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-16

http://v.calameo.com/2.3/cviewer.swf?BK ... &langid=en

Re: BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: ex-l
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-14

'Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive''.
I was disappointed by this. Wendy was capable of much better. But it gives us an interesting insight into the processes the BKWSU is going through and the hoops and rings through which it must jump. What is most interesting is that while this is going on in amongst a tiny minority of BKs, the majority are stilling being encouraged to believe Jagdish Chander's fairystory.

For example, Wendy basically peddles the party line that failed predictions of Destruction were all down to BKs' misinterpretations rather than coming directly from the Murlis or publications directly conceived under Lekhraj Kirpalani.

She also quotes Stephen Nagel as an "academic source" failing to point out that he was BK Surya of Germany, the first Western BK and his thesis was widely inaccruate depending directly on the standard BKWSU version.
Later on, again there was confusion in 1976 about destruction and this was due to the literal translation of Brahma’s 100 years. Since he was said to have been born in 1876, the 100 years of creation by Brahma must be assumed to be complete in 1976. Then the date of birth was thought to be later and then the date of destruction was changed to the mid 80s. During the 80s, destruction was assumed to be in 50 or 60 years time, late 80s or in the 90s.

It is difficult with some of the points of knowledge spoken commonly by Brahmins to distinguish between points that have been taken directly from the Murlis and points that are the result of assumption or churning that are thought to be based on real facts. III 2 Further explanation for destruction of early Murlis and publications
Early, pre-1969 publications were destroyed or made unavailable to members of the Brahma Kumaris, in part because the revelations being reported were not accurate according to later knowledge given by Shiv Baba. Secondly, the Murlis spoke of other religions and ideologies in a critical style, which is no longer perceived by the BK Seniors as serviceable. For the service of other religions and other movements and it is important to leave differences aside and learn to work with other movements and religions. These early references to other ways of thought were either revised out of the Murli or were only found in the Murlis that were no longer made available, pre-1965.
I need more time to go through it. Comments from others are welcome.

BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to RCOs)

Author: news editor
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-14

For those individuals interested in the ongoing efforts of historical revision within the BKWSU, Brahma Kumari Dr Wendy Sargent produced the following report

'BK Archives Project (March to May 2010 report to Regional Coordinating Offices)'.
Dr_Wendy_Sargent_report-2010.doc

BK Wendy Sargent died on April 27, 2011 but her report highlights that the BKWSU is developing an historical archive of documents not yet made public, is carrying out extensive original research in India and Pakistan, and has contacted many individuals and organizations in an attempt to resolve the anomalies in its "official history".

She notes the conflicts and dissonance created within the BKWSU by revelations from outside the religion.

This report does not seem to have been widely circulated amongst Brahma Kumari followers. It has also been norted that, whereas in Australia the BKWSU published 'Adi Dev' version has been removed from the public, in India it remains the "official" if inaccurate history. A tangle which extends between the organization's authored publications and the channelled spirit messages it claims is God speaking directly through its psychic mediums but which the leadership is also re-editing.

Neither she nor the religion credits the work done by members of this forum to bring to light the hidden truths of the BKWSU.

Re: Good quotes

Author: maria
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-13

y que el miedo del hombre ...
ha inventado todos los cuentos.
Yo no sé muchas cosas, es verdad,
pero me han dormido con todos los cuentos…
y sé todos los cuentos.
and that fear of man ...
has invented all the stories.
I do not know many things, indeed,
but I have slept with all the stories ...
I know all the stories.

Re: Good quotes

Author: ex-l
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-13

Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time.

Re: Heaven and Hell

Author: Mr Green
Forum: Commonroom
Date: 2012-01-11

the BKs don't believe in one world family, they believe in death to most, they are completely non scientific, and don't provide value based education!

Re: Heaven and Hell

Author: raghav_am
Forum: Commonroom
Date: 2012-01-10

I like one god, one world family concept of Brahmakumaris. There are many paths who give spiritual knowledge. Brahmakumaris knowledge very scientific and unique. Such an accurate knowledge can only be given by supreme GOD himself. They are giving very good value based education.

Re: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revis

Author: Mr Green
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-09

I agree.

Re: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revis

Author: maria
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-08

It took ex-BK many years to come to a conclusion much of what the Brahma Kumaris was doing was hypnotism. Amazingly, that is precisely the conclusion the Brahma Kumaris critics in the 1930s came too as well.

It's outrageous what they have done to us.

Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee Report 1938

Author: news editor
Forum: News
Date: 2012-01-07

From: 1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revision.

In academia, the BKWSU has been described as predating the New Age movement and has managed to avoided being classified as a cult, along with other extreme religions now generally known as "new religious movements", as it spread into the West in the 1970s. Closer inspect of original material shows that it in fact underwent an identical period of cultic fervour, and social and familial reaction, back in the 1930s in Pakistan. Even to have been named as such.

Accusations of its tendency to break apart families, to split wives from husband and given them the encouragement on how to do so, to use of hypnotic suggestion, and it attitude of self-professed superiority and being above the law - all of which have continued in various communities as it has expanded around the world to this day - are all present in this snapshot from its earliest days.

[Some very minor spelling correction made for clarification. A "moulivies: (sister in charge) is generally better known as a Maulvi or Mawlwi. It is an honorific Islamic religious title given to Sunni Muslim religious scholars similar to the title of Mullah and generally means a highly-qualified Islamic scholar who would have completed full studies in a madrassa.

A "Sakhi" is one of the eight main Gopis (or female followers of Krishna), as in the Asta Sakhis. Female adherents of the BKWSU are often named after the "Gopis" of the Vedic scriptures and their founder thought to be Krishna incarnate.]
Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee Report
1st November 1938

Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee Report

Om Mandli founded by Bhai Lakhraj of Hyderabad Sind has been the subject of criticism in many articles that have appeared in the various papers throughout India from time to time. Many people, especially those residing outside Hyderabad, seem to be very imperfectly acquainted with the affairs of the Mandli. The Hyderabad Bhai Bund Committee that had specially been instituted to face this danger, feels called upon to place before the public a tree and detailed account of the activities of the Mandli. The opinions of the Committee are based on authentic reliable evidence of persons, many of them whom have been the Members of the Mandli, and have stayed there for months together. They have been eye witnesses of the accounts they have given in their evidence.

This Committee was started in May 1938, as a demand of a public meeting and it was commissioned together to study facts regarding OM MANDLI and the evils it has produced in the Hindu Community, and to draw up its report.

The Committee met twenty two times in the period of one month and recorded statements of great many persons, some of whom were partisans of Bhai Lekhraj and were Members of the Mandli at that time. In order to thoroughly investigate into the matter and have the evidence properly sifted and to gate at the truth, the Committee especially deputed some persons to enlist themselves as Members of the Mandli and to take notes of everything that transpired within it.

The Committee on 22nd June 1938 submitted its report at a Public Mass Meeting, which authorised it to take such steps as they were advised against the Mandli. The Committee is working upto-date.

On the basis of facts collected, statements recorded, and some interviews with Bhai Lekhraj, the Committee came to the conclusion that the following evils and abuses, now in evidence, are the direct result of the existence of the Mandli and the propagation of its cult.

1. Under the guise and outside veneer of high sounding Vedantic philosophy and spiritual exaltation, a systematic ridicule of Vedas, Shastras and Guru Granth Sahib is going on with a view to infuse and spread hatred and contempt for our sacred religious books.

2. All sacred places of Worship and prayer, like mosques, temples and churches are being dubbed as bedlams and their frequenters as fools and priests, preachers, pandits and Brahmins, are all being stigmatized as deceitful and hypocritical charlatans. Not only that, all Rishis, Mahatmas and Gurus also come for their share of abuse, and poor innocent women are duped into the belief that One Redeemer in the world is "Dada Lekhraj" and salvation can only be attained through him and his Mandli.

3. The founder of the Mandli, Bhai Lekhraj, is a master hypnotists, and some of his Sakhis have also been trained by him into that nefarious art. With the aid of this black Art, he, with his powerful gaze, through from his, and his female disciples' magic laden eyes, hypnotises youthful women, and when they are completely under his sway, he sports with them, plays "Krishna LILA", makes them dance, rocks them in swings, exchanges with them morsels off ood, embraces them, lies with them on the same cot, bathes with them in the same tank - in short outrages all cannons of descency.

4. His constant and continuous advice to maidens and married women is to set at naught the advice of their parents and husbands, and to continue to come to him and if their guardians put pressure on them, to leave them altogether and reside in his Mandli. He sends out his Sakhis to lure them into coming to him.

5. For women duped into his possession, he keeps all luxuries ready. Rich foods, appetising sweets, creamed milk, luscious fruits, almonds and pistachios are always ready for them. In order to take them out to the gardens and excursions, he maintains motor buses, and also a car for giving them lessons in driving. In this huge house of sensuous luxury, many servants are maintained and to make women oblivious of their husbands and parents and their responsibilities, the supplies them with all sorts of comforts and silken beds scented soaps and fragrant powders and sweet perfumes.

6. He acquises in being proclaimed as Lord Krishna Incarnate, and call his Sakhis as his Gopies and declares that the Age of Krishna has come back. He likens himself and his "Gopies" to Pandavas and their husbands and parents to Kauravas, Demons, "Kans" and Rahu, and preaches violence against, and separation from them. He plays upon their vanity by calling them in such flattering terms as "Yogishwaris", "Gopies", "Lachimis" etc, and incites them to deny to their husbands their conjugal rights. He constantly dins into their ears that their husbands are passion-ridden and lascivious and their children cannot be much different. On that account, ther are never to be given their marital rights. And in order to put their husbands off, they are taught all sorts of tricks and dodges. An amorous husband is to be told that she is having her menses, that she is sick, and if he continues to be insisten, be is to be delivered a knock out blow or a smashing kick.

7. With the aid of his black art, he renders his Sakhis unconscious and in that state of insensibiity they scream, they turn pale, they tremble visibly and are un-mindful of everything. Sometimes they laugh up-roarously and again weep and wail and invoke Krishna and run after "Dada Lekhraj" as Krishna incarnate and cath him, and embracing and clinging to him cry out "you have steln our butter etc". In that way, under the influence of hypnotism, they regard Bhai Lekhraj as God Incarnate, the person who has lit the torch of Truth and dispelled all evil forces. It is due to this mismeric influence that they pant for his Darsham, their vision gets blurred and through their purblind eyes they see no difference between right and wrong. Such is the staff from which the "Dada" draws his transports of joy and delight.

8. To conseal his real purpose and with a view to show himself off as a lover of education, Bhai Lekhraj has nomially opened an infant school and boarding house in his place "OM NIVAS". Here also the same series of lies and mis-representations masquerading in the guise of Truth and Light are being sedulously imparted to these young and impressionable children. Poor innocent girls who know nothing of marriage and the processess of birth are taught that men are tyrants, that pregnancy is painful and therefore marriage is to be avoided. They who have drunk at the Fount of Light, how can they associate with husbands groping in darkness? These children are hypnotised into unconsciousness for hours on end, and when they recover themselves, they look vacant and besotted and on their distraction is put the interpretation that they have had communion with God. Poor girls know not the difference between hypnotised insensibility and the yogic Samadhi.

9. To cheat the parents into the belief that their children are not wasting their time in the "OM NIVAS", a sewing class has been opened, which is more for their entertainment than for their training. There are no fixed hours of work, The whole day is wasted in idle merriments and in devising ways of enticing new members.

10. To pass off as Mahatama immune from terrestrial attachments, he has hit upon the clever idea of calling every person as "OM NIJ ATMA" but there is so such of ego and vanity in him and his language is so venomous and foul that one begins to wonder as to how can such a man claim to teach "GIAN".

11. Bahi Lekhraj is 54 yearas old and has a wife and five children. For years together he was a partner in a Firm at Calcutta and later on started his own jewellery business. He is not educated nor had he had time or leisure to associate with Saints and Sadhus. He is innocent of Sanskrit, and can have no knowledge of the sublime truths of the Shastras. Since the last four years he has closed his business and settled down in Hyderabad. His partner who was with him for 20 - 25 years informs us that at the time of closing his business he spent Rs 10,000/- in Benares to receive training under a Sadhu in spiritualism for a few weeks which in truth is hypnotism. A person who has spent all his llife in business, who has neither made any study of Shastras nor has associated with Sadhus and Mahatamas, who has never shown any leanings towards being spiritual, nor has undergone any spiritual exercises how can he boast of giving salvation to others? His only method of approach is hypnotism, with the aid of which he easily subjugates weak minds and moulds them to his will. Bhai Lekhraj's "Power" is effective only with young women and crumble down in case of men. If he were an all powerful prophet as he claims himself to be, would his influence be limited exclusively to the weaker sex? He loves young womenfolk and openly affirms that only they are worthy to be our spiritual guides. Is it not merely an eye wash to have introduced this device of claiming his women disciples as the only religious and spiritual leaders? Who ever heard of women as Priests, Mahatamas, Pandits, Moulivies and Clergy?

At the time of sitting of the Enquiry Commitee, when Bhai Lekhraj realized that the public in general was up in arms against him, he requisisioned the services of the police to guard the OM MANDLI. This was treated by street urchins as a matter of fun and a crowd collected to witness this sight. To disperse them, the Mandli people threw pails of water and other articles over them which on the contrary enraged them and they retaliated by throwing stones and sticks and bricks and break the doors and window glass-panes. At this time the Members of the Committee arrived on the spot and pacified the excited mob. Thereafter Bhai Lekhraj who was panic stricken declared to the Members of the Committee in the presence of Mr Bhagwandas, District Superindendent of Police, that he had closed the OM Mandli and a letter to that effect was despatched to the Collector by Lekhraj's Chief Disciple Radha Bai - a girls of two and twenty and un-married. It was about this time that Bhai Mangharam Uttamchandani's wife owing to the influence of Bhai Lekhraj, refused to associate with her husband and permitted him to re-marry. But as our panchayat was strongly opposed to such a course, some of our influential Members undertook to ween the young wife back to her normal life. She however remained absolutely imprevious to all the appeals and efforts they put to persuade her. Her talk clearly indicated that she was under the dominence of some sinister and perverse influence. MrBhagwandas, Dy Supdt Police intervened and pressed Bhai Lekhraj to ask Bhai Mangharam's wife to go back to her place. One word from Bhai Lekhraj had the talismanic effect on her and she hurried back home. As puppets to jugglar masters, so are women to Bhai Lekhraj. There are a number of such other cases.

By about the end of June 1938, Bhai Lekhraj shifted his activities to "OM NIVAS". Though ostensibly the Mandli was closed, it went on working merrily at Om Nivas. At this time the citizens of Hyderabad sent a petition to the Collector under some 17000 signatures and formed a deputation which waited upon him. Three Sakhis represented the OM MANDLI and an amicable settlement was brought about, the terms of which subsequently published. The Mandli people guaranteed to observe not only the letter but the spirit as well of the agreement. The following is the substance of the agreement.

1. Mandli and Sat Sang shall be thrown open only and exclusively to women.
2. No male including Bhai Lekhrak shall have any contact, direct or indirect with OM MANDLI or OM NIVAS or its school.
3. The Mandli shall be located in the original premises in Khatu Bund Lane and not in "OM NIVAS" which place is outside the town proper.
4. No woman or girl shall be allowed to come to the Mandli except with the permission of their parents and guardians.
5. "OM NIVAS" shall remain only as an infant boarding school adn Bhai Lekhraj;s residence shall be separated from it.
6. Only religious and spiritual education shall be imparted in the Mandli and not the type of education calculated to loosen the social fabric of the bonds of family life and disrupt homes.
But the OM MANDLI honoured the agreement more in its breach than its observance and not a single term was kept. In order to express its sorrow and regret, the Committee resorted to peaceful perusation in the front of the "OM NIVAS". With folded hands the Sakies were request not to set at naught the united voice of the whole community, but nothing availed. Once again, the Committee met the Mandli people at the Collector's Bungalow, but th talk of the Mandli representatives was so indifferent, irresponsible and definate that the Committee had to leave in utter despair.
The husbands, parents, guardians, Brothers and near relatives of Sakhies all had joined the Committee in remonstating with the Mandli people to desist from their ill-conscieved and obstitate opposition. But how can appeals based on reason succeed against hypnotic forces? The Sakhies made bold to say that Dada Lekhraj is Lord Krishna Incarnate, that they are Pandavas and their opponents Kauravas that Pandavas would ultimately triumpn, because they were spiritually evolved and their opponents spiritually lost. It is sad to note that even Bhai Lekhraj's wife, who is supposed to be steeped in deep spiritual exultation, used fould and abusiveie language against the Members of the Committee who sid not a word in return.

When people were convinced that prayers, persuations of the Committee had failed and that Bhai Lekhraj's hold over women was unabated, they made preparations for launching a city wide satyagraha independent of the Committee.

Apprehending a breach of peace, Government applied Section 107.C.P.C. against the promoters of the Mandli and some of the public. The matter is now ending before the Court.

Since last two years Bhai Lekhrak has opened a branch of OM Mandli in Karachi as well. About 3 weeks ago he migrated there with minors. It is said that their number is nearly 150. The parents have reported to the Police that their children and wards have been decoyed from their lawful custody and taken to Karachi; the matter is being investigated by the Police.

In the mentime a telegram dated 29th October 1938 was recevied from the OM Mandli saying "Bus Accident, all well, inform parents". But the facts as reported by various papers are different. The bus which was carrying some 30 women and girls and was being driven by Radhika, Bhai Lekhraj's daugher-in-law who had not yet learnt driving properly, met with an accident; injuring all or most of them. About 10 were admitted in the Civil Hospital suffering from severe injuries as indoor patients and one's arm had to be amputated. This is about the telegram from OM Mandli described as "ALL WELL". It is learnt that Radhika who drove the Bus has been challenged by the Police.

The parents of the decoyed girls who were already in distrubed and worried state of mind, waiting anxiously the action of the Police to get them back their minor children from Karachi. When they heard of this accident, they wree naturally alarmed and waited all the time before proper information could be got for them.

If by the English law, the parents and guardians cannot have any legal control over girls of 16 years old even the minor girls of less than 16 years are being decoyed. Thus all feel helpless.

It is evident from the above, what havoc Bhai Lekhraj and his Mandli has brought about in the Soceity; and the public ask how long will this state of things remain as it seem to do now? Is there no one who can successfully meet the situation created by him?

Further information will be placed before the public in due course.

Secretary,

Bhaibund Committee

1st November 38

Printed by Mr C. K. Kodwani at the Kohinoor (Elc:) Printing Workds, Mula Babur Lane, Shahi Bazar, Hyderabad Sind

&

Published by:- Bhai Ladharam Durgdas Bharwani
Secretary Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee
Shahi Bazar Hyd, Sind.

1938 Bhaibund Om Mandli Report & latest BK History Revision

Author: ex-l
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-05

Some individuals in the Western Brahma Kumari Order continue to work on a polished "official history", attempting to resolve many of the anomalies in their religion's published, and oft repeated by academia, history. Meanwhile, the BKWSU in India, for reasons yet unknown, insists on sticking with made up and whitewashed Adi Dev version. One reason for this position was said to be the "tradition of showing respect for their elderly leaders", (i.e. not portraying them to be the pack of liars and manipulators of the truth which they have been for 50 years). Perhaps once they all finally die off the younger ones amongst them might be able to admit what we and even the PBKs have been saying is quite true.

I suppose another is not wanting to re-open dirty wounds caused by the early attitudes of the Brahma Kumari elite towards other religions, attitudes which the current leaders all went along with and which are currently still in the process of being written out of the Murlis and so on.

Much banging on the side of the great Shiv Shakti vessel has elicited a copy of an "Om Mandli Bhaibund Report", dated 1938. Please note, that is not the same as, the "Om Mandli : a true authenticated story about its activities being a reply to 'Is This Justice?'" report by the same Om Mandli Committee, which is dated Hyderabad, 1940 but it is a good start ... and is surprisingly modern in its criticisms of the early Brahma Kumaris. The latter report has yet to turn up yet and we have no idea if it is going to appear in public yet.

BKWSU_Yagya_Story_Summary-2011_Oct.pdf
Om_Mandli_Report_1938.pdf
It took ex-BK many years to come to a conclusion much of what the Brahma Kumaris was doing was hypnotism. Amazingly, that is precisely the conclusion the Brahma Kumaris critics in the 1930s came too as well.

No news as yet of the actual events of how Shiva Baba entered the BK canon, nor how and when the old history was decided to be re-written and erased. One has to wonder who misdirected the fantasist BK Jagdish Chander to write his made up versions, and even if he was in on the secrets?

Quite a different picture of the early days is painted giving rise to a far more fair and natural reaction against it. Juicy highlights include:

Lekhraj Kirpalani paying a Sadhu in Benares to learn spiritualism
Lekhraj Kirpalani accused of hypnosis which only worked on women, and the BKs as being a cult
Lekhraj Kirpalani's wife having a foul mouthed attack against the Bhaibund Committee
Lekhraj Kirpalani lying about and hugging young female followers, supplying them with silks, fragrances and servants
An improperly trained Om Radhe driving the bus which crashed injuring most passengers, including one amputation, but the Om Mandli sending a telegraph lying that all members were unharmed, and so on.
I find the tone of the document to be fair and accept it to be pretty much accurate and true. It's documentation of the early seances/hypnotic sessions are in line with other independent personal witnesses of events recall them, and quite different to how the BKWSU portrays them. And, yes, Lekhraj Kirpalani was not 60 in 1936, nor did Shiva Baba enter into him then. Why then are all the BKs, and academia, running round repeating that story and what benefit is there is doing so?

Please bear in mind that although this is a rare show of openness from BKWSU adherents, for which we should be grateful, the organization as a whole is still being very conservative about releasing the whole truth. It is still withholding much information.

One question, who might this "Sadhu in Benares" have been?

Socioeconomic and political structure of BK society

Author: ex-l
Forum: Commonroom
Date: 2012-01-04

What people think and feel is rooted in their character and their character is moulded by the total configuration of their practice of life - more precisely, by the socioeconomic and political structure of their society.

Erich Fromm (1950) Psychology and Religion, Yale University, p.52
What is the the socioeconomic and political structure of the BK society?

Economic structure is easy ...

"Your wallet is Baba's wallet" if they can manage to get you to believe it, along with your home and any free time you have!
Social structure is of two classes ...

'Senior Sisters and privileged advisors' and 'powerless, undemocratic mass', to which you might add, "... and untouchable outcasts" such as the PBKs and a few ex-BKs.

I find it hard to see the Brahma Kumaris as little more than a Mafia. An international secret society with little to no "formal" structure and a few front "shell" organizations. The "structure" seems to have evolved out of the early days of adversity when it was avoiding persecution making it secretive, hidden and clandestine in tendency even today.
Political structure is more difficult ...

Royalist/Imperialist by pretension, obviously. Rulers of others by self-professed divine right. I think at the top there are seem to be a number of power structures within the BKWSU, based around individuals and their followers, which exist in subtle tensions to each other. Authority seems to depend largely on:

a) How long you have stuck around and when the last time you had sex was
b) How much money you can pull it and how many VIPS you know

The sex issue is 'negotiable' if you happen to be very intelligent and talented and can add marketing benefits to the organization, or if you own the center property you work for them from.

At the bottom, many smaller centers exist as relatively quiet, content little out of the way kingdoms of a center in charge plus subjects
Any other opinions?

The Decline of Violence

Author: ex-l
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-03

In their books, 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined' by Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard, and 'Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide' by Joshua S. Goldstein, a professor emeritus of international relations at American University, the professors of real universities argue that war is in long-term decline around the world, both in frequency and in deadliness. They arguing evidence suggests violence in the world, especially the Western part, has declined both in the long run and in the short.

How does this fare with Brahma Kumari philosophy? Brahma Kumari philosophy says the world keeps getting worse until the end. That it had it high point 5,000 years ago, 2,500 years ago was not so bad and that right now we are at the dirty, vicious, impure "Fag End" of civilisation with no hope. Destruction, the End of the World as they teach it, by Nuclear and civil wars and natural disasters, happened 60 ... 36 ... 25 years ago, and by now India should be a vast construction site where jewel encrusted, golden palaces are being built for them to live in.

So what has gone wrong? How can things be getting better over a long period of history when according to "the God of the BKWSU" they are getting worse? How can the BKs be "celebrating" 75 years when in reality it is a failure of them to cause Destruction 25 years ago? Oh, that is easy ... again they borrow from Christianity the idea that right before The End there is a period of false peace that lulls humanity into an even deeper sleep of ignorance and then when Armageddon arrives, we are all caught with our trousers down and only they gain high status in heaven on earth.

It is called Easy Raja Yoga ... Easy Raja Yoga means, easy to borrow, easy to make up and easy to re-writing because adherents are taught not to think, not to question, not to read books and not to become educated. What could a couple of impure, delueded, body conscious Kali Yuga university professor know about truth?

Oh, and what is the End of the World does not happen? Let me speak to God personally and make a prediction! First I need someone to give me lots of donations to build a nice, big campus ... ah, now here is God's answer ... God says, "it was the Brahma Kumaris saved the world by their purity and He was just testing their faith by telling them He was going to destroy it". Now it is OK to re-writing the Murlis again.

Meanwhile, here is Pinker at a recent TED lecture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk
Perhaps the deepest cause of the waning of war is a growing repugnance toward institutionalized violence. Brutal customs that were commonplace for millennia have been largely abolished: cannibalism, human sacrifice, heretic-burning, chattel slavery, punitive mutilation, sadistic executions. Could war really be going the way of slave auctions? Nothing in our nature rules it out. True, we still harbor demons like greed, dominance, revenge and self-deception. But we also have faculties that inhibit them, like self-control, empathy, reason and a sense of fairness. We will always have the capacity to kill one another in large numbers, but with effort we can safeguard the norms and institutions that have made war increasingly repugnant.“War” is a fuzzy category, shading from global conflagrations to neighborhood turf battles, so the organizations that track the frequency and damage of war over time need a precise yardstick. A common definition picks out armed conflicts that cause at least 1,000 battle deaths in a year — soldiers and civilians killed by war violence, excluding the difficult-to-quantify indirect deaths resulting from hunger and disease. “Interstate wars” are those fought between national armies and have historically been the deadliest.

These prototypical wars have become increasingly rare, and the world hasn’t seen one since the three-week invasion of Iraq in 2003. The lopsided five-day clash between Russia and Georgia in 2008 misses the threshold, as do sporadic clashes between North and South Korea or Thailand and Cambodia. [...]

What about other kinds of armed conflict, like civil wars and conflicts that miss the 1,000-death cutoff? Remarkably, they too have been in decline. Civil wars are fewer, smaller and more localized. Terrible flare-ups occur, and for those caught in the middle the results are devastating — but far fewer people are caught in the middle. The biggest continuing war, in Afghanistan, last year killed about 500 Americans, 100 other coalition troops and 5,000 Afghans including civilians. That toll, while deplorable, is a fraction of those in past wars like Vietnam, which killed 5,000 Americans and nearly 150,000 Vietnamese per year. Over all, the annual rate of battle deaths worldwide has fallen from almost 300 per 100,000 of world population during World War II, to almost 30 during Korea, to the low teens during Vietnam, to single digits in the late 1970s and 1980s, to fewer than 1 in the 21st century. [...]

Re: How to prevent someone from your family being trapped

Author: ex-l
Forum: Admin
Date: 2012-01-03

no self confidence.
It no self confidence the same as, or part of, hypnotic susceptibility? I agree with you that what the BKs do not a meditation alone. Or perhaps many never even do it.

So what do you suggest to prevent someone in your family from being trapped by them and what should you suggest family members do if the other starts to fall or has become trapped? Many people ask.

I think there is another element and I do not know if there is a psychological explanation or model to confirm this theory.

Built up over decades of daily practise and ritual, the Brahma Kumaris have a relatively power collective energy which confirms all sort of untrue things in followers minds. Large parts of the religion are false but that does not matter, they are repeated constantly and adherents are subtly encouraged to believe in them and less subtly discouraged to question them.

This "collective unconscious", perhaps it is called, acts upon individuals enter into the religion. Someone a long time ago also suggest the idea of the group spirit or "egregore".

What I think is very clear is that a large part of "collective unconscious" or "egregore" is built upon madness. A 'god-possessed madness', starting from their founder Lekhraj Kirpalani and his long term devotees, which has been built up layer upon layer by countless devotees since until it is like a huge ball kinetic energy or electricity.

What seems to happen is that 'some people', never all (not even in one family), are lulled into a passive state by the hypnosis and are then "zapped" by this huge ball of madness. Imagine it like some kind of osmosis where the stronger energy state of the collective BK unconscious pours into the lower energy state of, generally, a vulnerable, weak, insecure, inexperience individual.

When this happens, the individual and much of their faculties are overwhelmed. They have not felt anything like it. They become "intoxicated", literally like they are drugged. They become over emotional. Their old identity is replaced by a ready made BK angelic mask. And the BKs are then able to start working on their minds ... and wallets ... to take control over them, separating them from their families and friends and so on.

Therefore, the number one way of preventing someone from your family being trapped by the BKs is not letting them anywhere near the BKs. Separating them clearly from anyone promoting the BKs. And pre-educating them about the BKs and their philosophy. No one is a rational state of mind would believe them and no one is a sober state of mind would gamble their life on what the BKs offer.

Once they have tasted the BK "drug" it is very hard to get them off it until, usually, about 6 months or at the most two years later. It will wears off and their old personality will re-emerge. Most will start to think again and leave. The race the BKs have is in that 6 months to capture the individual for life ... or take as much off them as possible.

Please bear in mind that the device the BKs use now is not direct conversion or evangelism. They use a virtual army of demi-BKs to do the initial recruiting ... BK supporters who do not follow the full principles, probably do not even know the full philosophy, and certain do not know the full history of the religion. For example, the woman in the BK Shivani TV shows. They dress not in white but in "lokik" clothes, live perhaps quite modern or even privileged lives, and are basically on the far outsides of the Brahma Kumaris system.

They use a very softly-softly approach and practise "taking the pulse" of individuals to see how much they can reveal to them. Largely, the Brahma Kumaris have become financially secure and so they are not so bothered about recruiting. In the past, if there were problems, they were more concerned about the financial damage and damage to their reputation it might cause ... but now they do not need to be, and so they are quite bold.

However, please remember, whatever the shop window dressing they adopt, nothing has really changed about their core philosophy and core ethics.

Or as I would call it, their core lack of ethics.
"What to do if your family being trapped become trapped by the BKs?" is the next question to ask

Mukhi Mangharam husband of Dadi Nirmala Shanta

Author: ex-l
Forum: BKWSU History
Date: 2012-01-03

One for the history buffs ... Mukhi Mangharam was the son of the leader of the so called Anti-Party and son in law of Lekhraj Kripalani by being the husband of Dadi Nirmala Shanta.

Therefore, Dadi Nirmala Shanta the daughter that Lekhraj Kripalani took back thereby inflaming the problems between the two neighbouring families. She used to live in the Kolkatta center but might have died. She must be very old now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkmMzD-eM3I

Re: How to prevent someone from your family being trapped

Author: JPhilip
Forum: Admin
Date: 2012-01-03

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnosis

This is how they manipulate people with no self confidence. This not a meditation.

Dangerous Persuaders

Author: maria
Forum: Abuse & Recovery
Date: 2012-01-03

Dangerous Persuaders: An exposé of gurus, personal development courses and cults, and how they operate by Louise Samways

How do cults gain recruits? Why do so many people seeking personal development find themselves becoming dependant on a powerful organisation? Are there any legal restraints on how groups recruit members? How dangerous are cults and personal development courses?

Louise Samways, a practising psychologist, explains what cults and personal development courses are, how they operate, and the mind-control techniques they use on recruits. She describes how these types of organisations ensure their message is continually reinforced, and how people become unable to question the group's demands or to break away from it.

Louise Samways offers practical help and advice to the victims and their families. She also provides information about organisations that are involved in releasing members from the grip of cults, and that provide support for the families. She alerts readers about how approaches are made, and suggests strategies for avoiding them.

Many organisations tried to stop Publication of this book. Louise and Penquin fought legal battles and Louise was physically attacked. ( For the full story read the Preface to this online edition)
Original link: http://www.cifs.org.au/publications.php, download PDF, here.

Re: How to prevent someone from your family being trapped

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2012-01-02

For almost 15 years my parents have been members of the BK. They also forced me into it in the beginning until I moved away, leaving behind some scars of course. I have grown up and become mature about my issues but, how would I be able to help my parents get rid of this non sense? The problem is that they can not accept valid reasons, they are so stubborn, seems almost impossible for them to chance back to being plain old Catholics.

Since then, I have become an atheist, same as 2 of my Brothers. I would like to get them a book that indirectly attacks people with such beliefs. They have tone down their attack on other peoples believes and now they go about just following in what they blindly think is god’s teachings.

Anyways, I would like to get some info from you or even chat to people that went into the well as hard as my parents and finally realizing how wrong this was.

Thanks,

Best regards

Human Brain Hardwired for Optimism

Author: ex-l
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2012-01-01

Our brains, not our souls, may be hardwired to look on the bright side, says neuroscientist Tali Sharot in her new book called The Optimism Bias. "A growing body of scientific evidence points to the conclusion that optimism may be hardwired by evolution into the human brain."

On average, research shows that we expect things to turn out better than they end up becoming. People hugely underestimate the chances of negative things happening to us. The belief that the future will be much better than the past and present is known as 'the optimism bias'. It abides in every race, region and socioeconomic bracket. Our tendency towards overly positive assumptions can lead to disastrous miscalculations in our lives. Dare I say it, even in our choice of commitment to a religion promising us a heavenly Golden Age.

So what if you knew this? Would you start up a religion to exploit individuals' tendency to wishful thinking, or would you build into your religion protections against individuals being exploited?

If any individual who has a tendency to be optimistic sends me 10% of their earnings, and gives me their home, I will promise to increase its value multi-million fold in the next life and they will receive a palace made out of gold in return. What ... don't you believe me? Damn. You must be cured of Brahma Kumarism. How about a one off donation for a quiet weekend in the country then? Or may be I can sell you a book which will cure you of all your problems or CD?
We are not born with an innate understanding of our biases.

The brain's illusions have to be identified by careful scientific observation and controlled experiments and then communicated to the rest of us. Once we are made aware of our optimistic illusions, we can act to protect ourselves. The good news is that awareness rarely shatters the illusion. The glass remains half full. It is possible, then, to strike a balance, to believe we will stay healthy, but get medical insurance anyway; to be certain the sun will shine, but grab an umbrella on our way out — just in case.
There was a second quote in the extract I also found intriguing ...
Scientists who study memory proposed an intriguing answer: memories are susceptible to inaccuracies partly because the neural system responsible for remembering episodes from our past might not have evolved for memory alone. Rather, the core function of the memory system could in fact be to imagine the future – to enable us to prepare for what has yet to come. The system is not designed to perfectly replay past events, the researchers claimed. It is designed to flexibly construct future scenarios in our minds. As a result, memory also ends up being a reconstructive process, and occasionally, details are deleted and others inserted.
Tali Sharot is a research fellow at University College London's Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging

Re: Merry Christmas

Author: ex-l
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2011-12-31

And let's remember the time when the darkest days of the year, the Winter Solstice, were celebrated with feasting, drinking and merriment and not overrun by suffering, bloody or control freak jealous Gods ... Yule, Hogmanay and Saturnalia. Times, when the ordinary rules were turned upside down, to conquer darkness, banish evil spirits and bring luck for the coming year.

For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere ... "lang mey yer lum reek".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmwmX-mni8

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-31

Author: b.k.santoshkumar
Email: kumarhiremathss@xxxxx.xxx
Comment:
"i want daily Murli in Hindi on my email. Om Shanti."

Re: Merry Christmas

Author: alladin
Forum: Anything goes
Date: 2011-12-31

Happy New Year to all of you,love peace and freedom.

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : kritika dhiman
E-mail : kritikadhiman@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Comment:
kindly send me Murlis on my e-mail

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : BK Viswanathan
E-mail : rajamvisu@xxxx.xxx
Comment:
I REQUEST Shiv Baba TO SEND Hindi Murli IN MY EMAIL. EVEN OLD Murli, I WILL READ TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. IF POSSIBLE DAILY Murli. OTHERWISE OLD Murli WILL DO. ......BK Viswanathan, New Delhi.

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : neenaaggarwal
E-mail : neenaaggarwal1985@xxxxx.xxx
Comment:
pl.sent me daily Murli in Hindi on my email

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : Sonali
E-mail : cre1.kolhapur@centurywells.com
Comment:
Om Shanti,

REQUESTING YOU TO PLEASE SEND ME Hindi Murli DAILY..

THANKING YOU

BK

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : BK tarun
E-mail : bktarunlovesgodfather@xxxxx.xxx
Comment:
Om Shanti..
i want full Murli daily on my e mail id that is bktarunlovesgodfather@xxxx.xxx...
and pleeez send all Avyakt Murlis to my email id...
pleeez i need them..

thanx and regards !
BK Tarun

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : Dr Manju Seewal
E-mail : manjuseewal@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Comment:
THESE Murlis [on brahmakumaris.info] are my life line.

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : Vijayalakshmi
E-mail : vijayaluckshmi@xxxxx.xxx
Comment :
I am regular student of Murli. Please send me the Tamil Murli to my e-mail address

Re: [Campaign] Murli requests from BKs to BrahmaKumaris.Info

Author: admin
Forum: Admin
Date: 2011-12-30

Author : Rajesh Bhandare
E-mail : bhandare_rahesh@xxxxx.xx
Comment:
Om Shanti. I am 10 years Regular Student but My Center is so very far therefore Please send Hind Murli on my website Thank You. Om Shanti.