truly_awake wrote:One more question arises and that is, why did Brahma Baba Himself arrange Gandharva Vivah of many BKs?
Good question and interesting observations or historical record which I accept to be true. However forget, "Brahma Baba". Let's not play their game. Call him by his name and say Lekhraj Kirpalani. A faulted human like us all, not a god.
The answer is simple ... it was for the sake of fraud. To defraud the families, usually of woman involved (... and one that I suspect the BKWSU probably benefited in terms of dowry and family inheritances).
In the West, we had another case. Dr Hansa Raval of Texas. In that case, it was to defraud the immigration department of the USA. Although she had left her husband and young child to join the BKWSU, allowing her to rise up the ranks, she married a foreign Brahma Kumar who was doing free renovations and extensions to her property. (She also attempted to defraud the US Immigration again later bringing in other Indian Brahma Kumar on the basis of them being "priests ... required to work in the community". I think the simple explanation would be more like they would bring in donations, their highly paid IT wages, to fund the center).
In Raval's case, I have no idea if it was "officially sanctioned" but the BK also left in a mess, leaving behind everything and giving over all rights to their joint "marriage property" and his work. It appears there were sexual/emotional tangles ... but still the BKWSU supports her. Why? I suspect because of "money" again. She gives money and held the center in her name.
If one was to be generous, one might say "to appease the parents of daughters who were subject to cultural demands and commonsense concerns about the future of their daughters in her old age and infirmity" but it is still a dishonest fraud. The BKWSU gives no welfare nor pension guarantees to surrendering Kumaris.
The BKWSU go a long way to "divinise" Lekhraj Kirpalani but he was also a tricky businessman and if you look closely as many of the moves he and his organization makes, it is based on deceiving others whether individuals, families or the authorities.
The other aspect of Lekhraj Kirpalani that I think this raises is a massive vanity or narcissism. Not something we have really look at.
Even though his predictions of Destruction kept failing, even though those he gave Golden Ages names and married off kept leaving, at no point does he seem to have questioned his own fallibility or godhood.
I would be very grateful for more reports of the Brahma Kumaris activities in Indian. Thank you for raising this.