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I am not sure what Sacred Earth is, or what she is doing. It is ... Sacred Earth 2016?
Bizarrely, on related business, I did find her fronting up for Fast for the climate and Hindu Environment Week organised by the Bhumi Project.
I've always found the Brahma Kumaris exploitation of the environmental movement as disengenuous* as their previous exploitation of the "peace" ... as in anti-war/anti-nuclear ... movement. We all know that from a BK point of view, attempting to save the planet in futile and the ultimate degredation and destruction of it is inevitable (for them). I can remember her personally dismissing environmentalism and environmentalist as a kind of pointless "Bhakti" and "bhagats". About the worst BK put down.
However, she and they will turn up pretty much anywhere there is an audience, anywhere there are VIPs to network with to look good and make contacts.
The BKs will exploit any angle that is paying off for them.
You can almost imagine the script, "Fasting for the body is good, but what we also need is 'fasting for the mind' ... It's so easy, anyone be an instant Senior Sister overnight. You take what ever the subject is and then give it a little twist to lead into BKism, e.g "Purifying the environmental is good, but what we need to do is purify the mind first ...", "Education is good, but what we need is education about who we are - the soul - first ..." etc etc.
It all just leads back to the same thing, sitting doing nothing, living a lifestyle for them based on donations, targetting that percentage of the audience, be it 1% ... 0.1% ... 0.01%, that will be curious enough to come along to the centre and buy a book or DVD.
They are not really there to support the cause. Sister Jayanti does not believe the planet and humanity can be saved. Sister Jayanti "knows" - and has been preaching for all her life - that the planet and humanity will be ... must be ... destroyed, so that she and her BK peers can reincarnate and enjoy a heaven on earth free of all the impure and ignorant human beings. Sister Jayanti "knows" - and has been preaching for all her life - that every human being that suffers due to climate change etc is suffering because of their own bad karma - nothing to do with corporations and pollution etc. No other fixes but doing BK Raja Yoga.
And if you look at the amount of environment destroying gases she has pumped out flying all over the world for the last 35 years (approx), she a worse hypocrit than Al Gore.
Every one else "Save the World" but don't stop my non-stop international business class air travel!
May be instead of "Fasting for a Day" ... can someone check if she actually did? ... perhaps she should just stop flying for a year and spend all that money on a real environment project ... and not just another BK peace garden?
Choosing not to eat doesn’t mean sitting around feeling miserable! What some people say on fasting: “It’s a rich personal experience, it gives a sense of revival, and cleansing, and joyfulness.” “To bring climate change under control we need to exercise self-control, we need to act together, fasting enhances our focus and determination.”
Here we have her "Celebrating Mother Earth the Hindu way" ...
It's funny, in this video she says, "this planet has supported life for millenia".
Whew ... that was close. "Millenia"? Do we mean 100,000 millenia, or just 5 millenia?
* Disingenuous
Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Anyone care to calculate the pollution she has produced doing BK PR at environmental gigs? These are, of course, on top of other VIP hob-nobbing AND straight forward international BK promotions.
The original list is the usual exercise in social climbing ... a game of 'status by association' by listing all the other "famous" names.
Sister Jayanti Kirpalani ‘Climate Change & Sustainability’ Speaking Engagements, see also, here: BK Jayanti environmental speaking-engagements
2015
Paris, France - SIF15: Sustainable Innovation Forum. Arranged by Climate Action and UNEP.
Hotel Zonheuvel, Doorn, Netherlands - Dialogue with Ruud Lubbers (former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
2014
New York, USA – Interfaith & Climate Change Summit, September. Faith Communities, Divestment and Renewable Energy. Panel member with Rev. Fletcher Harper (Greenfaith) and Archbishop Emeritus Anders Wejryd (Church of Sweden Uppsala).
Hamburg, Germany – EU Sustainable Energy Week, 23–27 June, World in Transition.
Sheraton Hotel evening event, Brussels, Belgium – EU Sustainable Energy Week, 23–27 June, New Thinking Creates New Realities.
Bonn, Germany – Climate Change Conference, June. Integrating the heart makes a difference.
Global Co-operation House, London – Values, conscience and climate change, June. Panel speaker with Rev. David Rose (Chair, World Congress of Faiths).
Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India – Hindu Environment Week, February. Keynote speaker.
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy – Fifth International Forum on Food and Nutrition (hosted by Barilla),
November. Keynote speaker: The value of food for the future of our planet.
Warsaw, Poland – COP 19, November
Thimphu, Bhutan – Integrating Material and Spiritual Development for an Economy of Greater Wellbeing, June. Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW)
Brussels, Belgium - EU Sustainable Energy Week, 24–28 June
Berlin, Germany - EU Sustainable Energy Week, 24–28 June. The Ecology of Consciousness – Science and Spirituality.
2012
Doha, Qatar – COP 18, November-December – Protecting our atmosphere: State and individual responsibilities and the rights of Mother Earth.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Rio +20, June – Sustainable Societies. New Paradigms and New Forms of Governance.
2011
Durban, South Africa – COP 17, December
Geneva, Switzerland – Participation in the first meeting of an informal group of faith-based NGOs that constitute the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights, October.
Geneva, Switzerland – Cultural Rights and Climate Change: Spiritual and Ethical Perspectives (supported by with the World Council of Churches), May.
Oxford, United Kingdom – Global Retreat Centre, May.
2009
Copenhagen, Denmark – COP 15, December
2008
Johannesburg, South Africa – UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, August. Member of the Brahma Kumaris delegation.
2007
London, United Kingdom – Event To Protect the Earth. Owning our responsibility with Ranchor Prim, author and founder of the environmental charity Friends of Vrindavan.
2005
Madrid, Spain – Keynote speaker during Businesses with Soul and Responsibility in a Changing Environment, special conference for business people organised by La Fundación Sagardoy and the Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad.
1992
Geneva, Switzerland – Participation in the Geneva preparatory meetings at the UN leading up to the Rio Earth Summit