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It’s reported here on this forum somewhere. Maybe I heard it from someone and shared it here? Not sure. I remember it because it involved a guy whom I met and knew back in the early 1980s, his name was Gopal. I always distrusted him, always something sleazy and shifty about him. Like he ran some rac...

I remember many BKs taking cash to Madhuban. Often it was broken up and shared among a group of travellers i.e a number of people each taking smaller sums rather one person with a big lump sum, probably for legal reasons usually to do with how much someone can take out of a country rather than bring...

Very interesting point as that would leave none, as there is no yardstick for proof..none that I know of. How about this: Recruit a group of 10 desperately poor and hungry people, they will attend the experiment every day. Recruit a group of 10 believers from various religions. Recruit a group of 1...

Who is genuine and who is fake is a good question but even if a decent way to define them was found, India gets a lot of tourism and foreign exchange from "spiritual pilgrims" etc, and especially under Modi’s BJP, is a major part of it is ”identity”. Indeed, given the recent examples of bi...

Questioner : "I have definite spiritual ambitions. Must I not work for their fulfillment?" Nisargadatta : "No ambition is spiritual. All ambitions are for the sake of the ‘ I am .’ If you want to make real progress you must give up all idea of personal attainment. The ambitions of th...

Reads like the diary of a plantation owner from the days of the Raj. Maybe we should call them ”memsahib” instead of ”Sister"? The BKs and many groups (and individuals) like them have been sucked into what Teju Coles calls The White Saviour Industrial Complex”. From Wikipedia - " In essenc...

The feeling from the BK tactic discussed and the eating together thing seems to be to appeal to superiority. Hey! We real BKs just relax, man. We have learnt how to get "people to strictly conform to certain types of behaviour, abandon their past friends and family, ask for mandatory donations,...

Anyone involved in BKs for any length of time has become conditioned to associate certain actions, postures, words, feelings with the BK paradigm. Humans are no different to Pavlov’s dog, we become conditioned to respond. It is unsurprising that adopting a meditation position will bring up BK associ...

Real Estate agents are notorious for trying any and every angle to make a sale, so if someone has decided to target BKs who might be interested to buy or rent property in India that is just them doing what is Real Estate business. Why should the official BK organisation tell people where they should...

Even though they present a more polished and acceptable look to the public with their public merchandise, they don't realise how much disservice they do with their shoddy in-house merchandise, the cheap rubbish they sell to the converted, the BK fanboys and girls for whom every utterance and product...

I watched that a few years ago, it was screened here on television. An excellent social experiment and observation.

Kevin Rowland’s story is a good one, reflects what I think a lot of people experience in probably less dramatic ways when they encounter the BKs. Kevin Rowland - I felt guilty, and thought low of a woman for letting me have sex with her. Women were either saints or prostitutes. That sounds exactly l...

Arcane, Sounds like your dad is resentful of being bound in family life. The BKs create a multi-tier system of worth. Although on one hand they say any BK can rise to be one of the top "Beads of the rosary of victory” (Vijayanti mala?) what they practice is a distinct caste system based on: whe...

... that if he remained submissive to them, all his wealth would end up supporting their lifestyles ... when, with a little razzle dazzle, he could get others to support him ! I think what I don't get is, if he saw through it, how he did not see right through it, or reject it all? Is some other ins...

He obviously thinks he offers a better product otherwise why would he be doing it, and why not profit (!) from it personally rather than pay "royalties” :D ? There is also a disproportionate number of Roman Catholics amongst Western BKs in my experience. They tend to BK in a very RC way. !! Wha...