warrior wrote:Hope you can view this paper cutting about the age of your Brahma. BKWSU is saying that Dada Lekhraj was 60 in 1936, but, he was only 44 according to Daily Mail. So, was any one there in the beginning that was 60 years old? If so, why are you BKs covering it up?
warrior
Thank you Warrior.
44 years old in 1939. But the Murlis say 60 years old. So, was God wrong, or who was 60 years old, when?
For the record, I actually think this is a slight mistake. In "Is this Justice?" and elsewhere, Lekhraj Khubchand Kripalani is listed as being 54. The probable date of that publication being 4 th July 1938. I think we will find more records of this if someone is willing to look. What amazes me is why despite all their millions and 100,000 of followers ... cannot the Brahma Kumaris of the BKWSU do so and provide an accurate history? What are they hiding?
Do you have the complete piece? Is someone now willing to go and do some footwork researching original documents in India? For the record, Liz Hodgkinson would be one person to start talking to as she researched much of the early days, and as a journalist, had newspaper record access. Her BK husband Neville Hodgkinson I feel, steered her away from seeing and publishing the truth in her book "Purity and Peace". Liz is not stupid and no longer a BK.
Daily Mail, 13 March 1939 wrote:Five thousand angry husbands, parents, and guardians yesterday marched on the Sind Government secretariat in protest against the activities of the Om Mandli celibacy cult here.
The cult has aroused fierce indignation by inducing young girls to refuse to marry and wives to leave their husbands.
A clash seemed inevitable as the march had been banned by the Government.
The crowd, led by the crippled Hindu leader Vaswani in a wheel chair, came face to face with a cordon of police.
Then the Minster of Public Works, Mr Vazirani, intervened. He gave a written guarantee that the Government would order the cult to discontinue certain practises. The crowd dispersed.
Driven Out
Founder of the cult is handsome 44-years old Bhai Lekhraj against whom charges of kidnapping are being heard in the magistrate's court. OmRadhe, his pretty daughter-in-law and president of the Om Mandli soceity, is charged with abetting him.
The cult was started two years ago in Hyderabad, but was driven from there by an organised campaign of opposition and murder threats.
What is clear, for sure, was that Lekhraj Kirpalani was not 60 in 1936 as the BKWSU claim in their Adi Dev, websites and elsewhere. So who was ... why do the Murlis say so ... and so on?
But what is all this talk of "orgies"? I spoke to an old Sind who was a neighbour to the Om Mandli. I know the BKWSU version is a fairy tale. But I have never heard of this ... smoke without fire?