Personally, I would not say Virendra Dev Dixit was an outright charlatan but, unfortunately, the scale of the anomalies - and his response to them - completely blow his "medium of god" like claims out of the water.
If that's not enough, his claim of being the "permanent Chariot" demonstrate his broken logic ... how can he be the permanent one if Lekhraj Kirpalani was it for decades!?! What I see is both the BKs, the PBKs and other such groups is that - like con artists - they generally use a huge, grandiose, impossible lie to filter out the vulnerable or susceptible and they prey on them.
Just like the Nigerian 419 advance fee fraudsters offering you a cut of $45 million dollars ... if you just send then $10,000 commission.
99.9% of people look at the offer, sniff a rat and sensibly knee-jerk, "too good to be true". Unfortunately, a 0.1% fall for it ... and hypnotised by it like rabbits in the head lights of a car ... and get taken for $10,000s.
BKism is no different (and I was one of those 0.1% suckers, or fools, or naive broken people).
Virendra Dev Dixit and PBKism, whilst he and it could offer a good service weaning people off BKism, seems to still carry it on. Methadone to the BKs' heroin.
What do I think is going on?
Well, if it is "God" it would simply have to be infallible, true and accurate. And it's not. So it's no. No need to go further ... but if "God" is not infallible, true and accurate then I have zero interest in dealing with him. It's hard enough dealing with the part of life you can see, and sue if necessary, never mind relating or fighting with an invisible friend.
What do I think is going on?
I think Virendra Dev Dixit started off as a very sincere God seeking BK like the rest of us ... saw throw the holes ... was very badly hurt and traumatised by his treatment by the BK leadership ... and has since developed some kind of 'induced delusional disorder'.
I'd go further to say that he had some kind of pre-disposition to this *before* BKism, but that his unjust and unrighteous traumatisation by the BK literally drove him a little mentally ill.
I start from the point of view that Lekhraj Kirpalani suffered from some kind of mental illness -
not denying a supernatural element to it, e.g. spirit possession or triggered by the saddhu's initation - and that BKism is basically a kind of
folie à plusieurs ("madness of many")or shared psychosis. A way of life based on a community of 'structured' women and children (i.e. uneducated, immature, inexperienced etc) forming themselves around a mentally ill centre point (Lekhraj Kirpalani).
I don't think Lekhraj Kirpalani's mental illness was permanent. I think it was episodic. And I think the Om Mandli and consequently the Brahma Kumaris, develop to mask it from society and portray it as divinity. No hard to do in India. In fact, quite common in many unevolved societies. This is based on the events of his family sending him away to draw circles on the wall at their house in Benares and his become like a child, third party reports during his time in Abu of him "zoning out" in the middle of conversations etc, and the extensively dishonest and expansively grandiose proclamations and claims he and they made.
Virendra Dev Dixit then came along and "did such Yoga" (in BK terms) on Lekhraj Kirpalani and Lekhraj Kirpalani's stream of consciousness ramblings, that he literally re-formed his mind according to them. The combination of the all absorbing focus, the trauma and no doubt inner feelings of anger/resentment/frustration etc at the stupid but dominant BK leaders (
he was outcast by Kumarka Dadi who was a bit of a bull BK) literally drove him over the top to become better than them and their god or god medium.
That does not mean Virendra Dev Dixit is not intelligent and does not know the
K-nowledge™ better than the BKs. I think he is and I think he does. But that does not make him god.
Whether consciously or sub-consciously ...
I'll pressume the latter ... he appears to be mirroring or replicating Lekhraj Kirpalani's patterns. Not seeing the cause, he - and then his followers - interprets this effect as the "proof" or evidence but really it's no big thing.
And those that are attracted to follow him, are just those who have been hurt or disaffected in a similar manner by the same BKs.
He explains all this is BK terms because he must in order to sustain the shared delusion, e.g. the "Muslim element" invading pure BK India and taking it over etc, and it is the language of the community. He does so because, in many case e.g. the young girls or the now old uneducated ladies, it is the only language - and the only world - they know.
I am not saying this is all necessarily consciously let alone cynically done. I doubt that it is. I suspect much is happening all on a sub-conscious level ... but how much are his primal needs for food, shelter, sex and power coming into play?
If these are things anyone else is willing to consider, I'd like to explore them further. But, in the meanwhile, the best response anyone should have is just to demand firm real world proof of divinity before dedicating one's life to someone else's psychosis.
After all, dedicating one's life to someone else's psychosis is only a massive procrastination ... of escaping from one's own neuroses and psychoses.