lakhpatimanali wrote:Frankly, I do not know about this Didi ... explain.
What Pink Panther is saying is that BK Shivani program is an advertisement to sell Brahma Kumarism.
Key to Brahma Kumari beliefs is that the world is going to end cataclysmically very shortly and every will be killed except for a few thousand who will then build a heaven on earth for Brahma Kumaris to reincarnate into. Vaikunth with Sri Krishna returning. They believe their founder, Lekhraj Kirpalani, will reincarnate as Krishna very shortly.
The BKs use Shivani as a "modern girl" facade, a shop front. They present her like a spiritual master, which she is not. She is basically a clever parrot repeating typical BKisms, that the BKs have been using to promote BKism for decades. In her case, she is borrowing many of the Western BK developed sales techniques, but underneath than facade, the BKs have a very narrow and fundamentalist view of life, with lots of rules, and want total control over followers.
It's not a good environment for students or people at the start of their careers to go into as, essentially, it makes them give up any hope of a future.
I agree with Pink, the spiritual lesson you have to learn is trusting in yourself and making your own decisions. There are factors which will go against making good decisions ...
anything from tiredness and poor health/nutrition to anxiety and depression, and pressure from others ... but learning how to handle them is also part of life.
The problem with BKism is that it makes people believe in the End of the World. Nuclear Destruction. Any minute now. And it has been doing so since the 1930s and 40s. Their god spirit has made wrong predictions about this "end of the world" many times but each time many 1,000s of people have wasted their lives, given away their properties and fortunes, destroyed their education and careers.
In short, wasted their life on a mad goose chase.
The BK prey on people at insecure or unhappy times in their lives, grab them, and brainwash them. Their meditation can be very addictive but ultimately leads to people neglecting their real lives.
What do you want to do in life? What are the alternatives you have in mind? What are your strengths and weaknesses?