Free Speech wrote:Till 1950 there was no mention of it, correct it if I am not right factually? After that, teams of BKs from Abu were sent to different parts of India to spread the reformed cult. I think this is the time when they might have found that there were more Shri Shiva worshippers followed by Shri Krishna worshippers.
After 1955.
Personally, I am utterly cynical about them. I think they added Shiva just to increase their market value. After all, they have claimed every other major Hindu god by that time; Krishna, Vishnu, Shankar, Narayan, Brahma ... and Shiva was the last market competitor.
Yes, you've recorded BKism beliefs accurately.
There is nothing quite so conceited ... never mind just plainly bananas ... as their claim to be the original source of all religions, even those which started 3,000s years ago.
Again, to me, it is actually a reflection of Lekhraj Kirpalani's utterly egocentric mental illness. The delusion that he was god on earth and they were at the centre of all world events and history.
For example, in the early days they believed they and the minuscule reaction to their cult was the actual cause of WWII.
Can you believe that?
I think it's "works" as a confidence trick because it is so audacious that it stuns people and they cannot believe that the BKs really believe it. But they do. All other religions are just faulted memorials of their religion ... Abraham, Jesus, Mohammed, Guru Nanak etc - right down to the small cult leader today - must come to the Brahma Kumaris to re-learn their religion before the End of the World. That is what they believe.
As to the Murlis, did Lekhraj Kirpalani really keep speaking the same thing day in day out for 14 years? Did his understanding really not develop at all? Did they not bore of it, especially given that they were denied all other mental stimulation?