Mr. Green, you making all of us work hard. We should not get worried guys, the pdf as what ex-l suggested and what Bansy thought of using to wrap toli is on it's way... I've asked one of my graduate students to do this research for us as part of his thesis/research project to earn his Master's Degree in Philosophy... we'll that was only a joke. But I do hope somebody out there will put these pieces together for us. But we can start before this idea gets burried in the ground.
BKs probably are still having a sort of doubt if we can put all of these information together. Well, we're just going to massage the English grammar and the order with which we want to convey to the world the inconsistencies surrounding the BK philosophy and history. Tomorrow (Sunday), I've got to go to a computer shop to buy a new CD burner 'because my old one is slow and might break down recording 100's of pdf-CD copies.
Format of Draft Open Research and Letter addressed to BKWSU (Feel free to add/delete and revise as you see fit).
***Front Page***
70 Years of Cover-ups of the Philosophy and History
of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University
(193?-2007)
The http://www.BrahmaKumaris.info Research Project
Description of a Brahma Kumaris World Sprirtual University (BKWSU) Research Project of international scope, presenting a documentation of 108 Questions, Anomalies and Comments on the History and Philosophy of BKWSU, distributing this documentation to libraries, to the printed media and to eminent representatives of public opinion, and addressing open letters to the Senior Members of BKWSU, Religious Communities, NGOs and to journalists of several prestigious newspapers worldwide.
by
BrahmaKumaris.info Members
Preliminary manuscript delivery for testing purposes
September 2007
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Communications to the Research Project
70 Years of Cover-ups of the
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University's Philosophy and History
(193?-2007)
may be sent to the administrators of this website:
URL: http://www.brahmakumaris.info
E-mail: info@brahmakumaris.info
The following documentation were used for the Research Project:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahma_kumaris
2. Brahma Kumaris: A New Religion?. Reender Kranenborg, Free University of Amsterdam. Retrieved on 2007-07-27.
3. Brahma Kumaris: Conquering A Callous World with Purity. Hinduism Today. Retrieved on 2007-07-28. “"The most
strict will not eat food which is not prepared by a BK. While traveling they abstain from public fard and carry
their own utensils for cooking."”
4. Hardy, Hardayal (1984). Struggles and Sorrows: The Personal Testimony of a Chief Justice. Vikas Publishing
House, 37-39. ISBN 0706925637.
5. Walliss, John (2002). The Brahma Kumaris As a Reflexive Tradition: Responding to Late Modernity. Ashgate
Publishing, 99-129. ISBN 978-0754609513.
6. Chander, B. K Jagdish (1981). Adi Dev: The first man. B.K. Raja Yoga Center for the Brahma Kumaris World
Spiritual University..
7. Walliss, John (2001), Reflexive Traditions: New Religious Movements and the 'Negotiation' of Identity
8. Brahma Kumaris Administration. BKWSU. Retrieved on 2007-08-10. “Present statistics indicate that the University
has 825,000 students and over 8,500 centres in 100 countries and territories.”
9. Babb, Lawrence A. (1981). "On celibate marriages: the Polish Catholics' encounter with Hindu spirituality".
Glancing: Visual Interaction in Hinduism", Journal of Anthropological Research Winter (4): 387-401.
10. Ratan, Vishwa (2000). A Unique Experience. Autobiography of Dada Vishwa Ratan. Om Shanti Press, 57. ISBN 955-
95823-3-X.
11. Brahma Kumaris: Landmarks in History. BKWSU. Retrieved on 2007-07-18.
12. Om Radhe (1939), Is This Justice?. The Pharmacy Printing Press, Bunder Road, Karachi
etc. additions/deletions?
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Contents:
Preface
The Research Project
The documentation
Open Letter
Questions, Anomalies and Comments directed to BKWSU
Recommendations by BrahmaKuris.info Members
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Preface
In most countries of civilized human beings, the freedom of religion is a part of the Law of the Land. Together with this freedom is a responsibility of the founding members or its representatives to supply, clarify and guide the members about the true and accurate information pertaining their establishment. With this, it is naturally understood that people has a right to know the true philosophy and history of the institution that established the
religion.
The questions and arguments found on this research project are a partial lists of the many questions found and documented at the brahmakumaris.info website. These questions and arguments were discussed thoroughly by the forum members but sadly without the participation of the Senior Members of the Brahma Kumaris Institution.
The general public does not know the real teachings and history of the BKWSU. Hence, they do not know also the institution's true value in the society.
How can these problems be solved?
The possibility that BKWSU could eventually recognize their undemocratic and unlawful behaviour against the critics and could correct themselves can be excluded on the ground of their powerful and successful censorship of their true teachings and history, working perfectly until today. Therefore, our research project is working to solve these problems with democratic methods.
One way would be to start a legal action against the institution of BKWSU for the reinstitution of the freedom of religious information pertaining to their teachings. As far as we know unfortunately, we have little or no right to bring our complaint to court. Evidently the ruling class in BKWSU may violate our democratic laws unpunished and without any limitation.
Another way is to inform the most important representatives of public opinion about the existence of the documentation and to ask them to inform the general public about the need of reinstoring the freedom of religious information and to start a free public discussion with the Senior Members of the institution. This we have started without the participation of the BKWSU Senior Members in 2005 (xbkchat.com forum which was shut down for no valid reason) and the next forum at brahmakumaris.info website has been going on up until today but still without the participation of the BKWSU Senior Members.
Anonymity of the project.
While featuring some 300 members of our online community, who are identified by their usernames, a main feature of our project is the anonymity of the persons who work on the documentation. The Open Research Project has decided to present itself to the public only through the results of research and not through persons. The documentation and the progress reports are published under the collective name of brahmakumaris.info Members,
on the Internet. As a consequence of anonymity there is no way of material transfer to the Research Project. To distribute its publications to selected addressees the Research Project uses exclusively ordinary mail.
Why do we need strict anonymity? The reason is to be found in the undemocratic and unlawful and uncivilized behaviour of the governing BKWSU Senior Members against any criticism of their “holy teachings” from the Supreme Father, they call God Shiva. Therefrom do arise five strong motivations to remain anonymous.
(1) To preserve the autonomy of the project, prevent any influence and hindrance from outside the project.
(2) No lawful citizen has to expose himself to the slander and calumny usually thrown upon the critics by the BKWSU Senior Members, as their only means to answer the criticism.
(3) The BKWSU Senior Members can divert the attention of the public from the criticism of their teachings to the persons of the critics by stating that the person has personal agenda or issues. Since we don’t present persons the public only has to look at the documentation of criticism.
(4) In our documentation we present a great number of living critics or forum members who are waiting for a free public discussion. They have to say the decisive word. There is no anonymity of the critics - only the anonymity of the organizers of the documentation.
(5) Some people behind the project only research and report the factual information about the history and teachings of the BKWSU as discovered and revealed to them by knowledgeble individuals who must remain anonymous.
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Open Letter to BKWSU
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Questions and Comments addressed to BKWSU
Q001
Q002
Q003
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