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As soon as the word ”I” is spoken or even comes into mind, that is the ego. There is no more self-contradictory statement than to say ”I have no ego”. Even if we look at this in the negative way ( the via negativa), as soon as I carry a thought of what is not me, what I am not, what is left is a co...

It seems to be part of a "successful" BK to believe and not believe at the same time. The believing part being about fitting in socially, being accepted and achieving status. The not believing part being about carrying on as usual, in opposition to the beliefs, eg amassing wealth and buil...

Do they even clearly definite what they mean by "ego" ? Agree that there is no single literal definition which is used word by word across BKs. But we get lot of cautions in Murli about the context specific symptoms of 'ego' which I feel is equally (sometimes more) effective. Here are few...

The BKs aversion to ego is just plain wrong. We all have a healthy ego, which sustains us all, even on the spiritual path. The BKs need to clearly delineate an authentic and positive ego from the ego of the shadow self. The latter can be destructive and masking to truth, authentic truth. Even the D...

Please don't take it personally. Ego is a disease and almost all of us are under it's influence. This disease affects our objectivity and ability to see the truth as it is (depending on how much influenced we are). Kind of makes us partially blind to the accurate truth. Your interpretation/speculati...

The girl has been raped, her name and the story has been published in popular local media. Her mental pain is caused by the violence and hypocrisy of her attacker, along with any social stigma such events may still carry in her immediate society but which should only evoke compassion. It is not cau...

I am just trying to understand how 'ego' works. A girl has been raped. And instead of understanding the severe mental pain she might be going through and being a little sensitive to her, 'ego' tries to find its 'pride' by using this news to enforce it's view point. Second quality of'ego' is, it shad...

Hi Ex-I, The answer to first set of questions is that I liked 'Gyan' (BK knowledge) very much. Answer to second set of questions is that I am fully convinced with 'core' points of Gyan like: 1) Why should we be in high self-respect ('swamaan') all the time. (Little bit attention is required to ensur...

There are two reasons people adopt BK life - they either need a crutch for dealing with the rest of life, i.e otherwise they’d really fall over, or it is a vehicle for moving forward. I think those who used it as a ”moving forward” vehicle inevitably leave it behind sooner or later because they rea...

I don't have full context about this case. Particularly without understanding true wish of the deceased soul, it would be inappropriate for me to make any comment. However, if the same thing happens to me, this is what I would wish for as a win-win agreement. Suppose I have four flats in my name and...

Well, what Baba says about those families which have collapsed after one of the family member followed them wholeheartedly. If God is there(where you think) in manifested form, there should not be even a single case like that. And if it happens, he should put everything right with his mighty power....

more educated the Indian was, the less respect they had for BKs as a religious movement or as having anything to offer and what was the survey size? I guess, you must have surveyed more than a million people before reaching this conclusion :) If not, I'd like to disagree with your conclusion as it ...

Hi Save innocent, Thanks for your comments. I really found them very helpful. there are still hundreds of them which you may be having in your daily consumption currently that also cast same tamsik effect? I understand what you mean and agree with you that there are other foods as well which have ta...

Hi Jann, I agree with you that not all the BK student stick to BK rules throughout the life. However, you would agree with me that the benchmark in itself tells a lot. While some organisation are facing serious charges on their Gurus, small-2 events (like someone decides to leave BK and marry) are q...

Hi ex-BK Jan Sorry to hear that you had to go through pain. I am not being judgmental here, have nothing against you, sharing my experience so that it can help other people who may be facing the same questions. Only intent is to help others. The problem 1- Vegetarian lifestyle. Well, I was already o...