Consequent to pressures arising from this website and the PBKs, the BKs are having to reinvent their history yet again. What version are we up to now? I have lost count ... version 4.0?
According to the "official BKWSU history" the BK conmen made Lekhraj Kirpalani's very own daughter lie to say that in 1936 she walked into a room where her Father was bathed in a golden red light and voice from within him said, "Shivoham ... Shivoham ..." (which is, of course, a very common place mantra within Hinduism but which they translate as "I am Shiva ... I am Shiva ...") and claimed it to be evidence that God Shiva had come to earth and had announced his presence in 60 year old Lekhraj Kirpalani's home in Hyderabad.
Until very recently, and still widely across the cult's websites and printed media, the official BKWSU history claims that Shiva announced his present in 1936 to start the religion off.
Except that it never happened. "God's Chosen Ones", the "Highest on High", most spiritual on Earth Brahma Kumaris have been lying about it to the world for decades.
Original documents we found and published prove that there was *NO* mention of God Shiva in the cult's history until sometime after 1955. Up until 1955, they believe in God Brahma (Lekhraj Kirpalani). And, indeed, that the cult started around 1932 and Lekhraj Kirpalani was no where near 60. In order to make the falsehoods fit, they even had to change his date of birth and have fought to sustain those falsehoods against people, like ourself, trying to tell the truth to the world.
Now, in 'Asian American Religious Cultures' [2 volumes], edited by Jonathan H. X. Lee, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, Ronald Y. Nakasone" BK Chandrika Desai, a vice president of the BKWSO and founder/director of the BKs' West coast Anubhuti Retreat centre writes a new, improved, updated version of the cult history in which it is now claimed that 1948 was the date for the Shivoham-Shivoham event.
Really?
What evidence does she present for that and why then was there still no mention of God Shiva in the cult when it started its first overseas ventures (sending representatives to a tiny, unimportant interfaith meeting in Japan)?
BK Chandrika still gets Lekhraj Kirpalani's date of birth wrong ... she claims 1876, not the 1884 it actually was.
She continues the corporate whitewashing of events, like the destruction of early documents was to "prevent the dissemination of misunderstanding".
Clearly borrowing from our findings and not crediting us, she brings forward the channelled spirit entity the early Om Mandli called "Piyu*", arguing that it was one and the same as the Shiva soul claiming "Piyu is synonymous with Incorporeal Shiva Baba" (which will confuse real experts in Hinduism), and record the title Lekhraj Kirpalani took for himself as "Prajapati God Brahma" but again interprets it in an idiosyncratic way, saying it meant Lord of the World (again, not how Hinduism conceives it).
She claims there was a revelation of Shiva "as a distinct incorporeal god" in 1952 and that trance "clearly revealed Shiva Baba and Brahma Baba to be distinct".
Why then was there still no mention of the latter?
She continues the fudge between BK practice and Raja Yoga (an entirely separate tradition they stole the name from) ... and even goes on to lie about how BK service in the USA started, writing out of the history BK Simon Vivian (who left long ago) and BK Hansa Raval (who secretly married and had a relationship with him) of Texas "two celibate teachers with 41 years experience", the BKWSO claimed in 1985.
A deception which continues on the BK Texas website (complete with faked up picture of Dadis Prakashmani and Janki in cowboy hats!)
"Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive" ...
To the BK mindset, none of this matters. Fake is fine if it sounds good and sells. Details do not matter. What matters is "the experience" (and that the money keeps rolling in).
But the question still remains, could such a mess truly be "of God" or enlightened beings?
Strange they have so many millions of dollars, so many servants and slave workers, and yet still don't employee a professional or official historian.
Problem is, I guess, they just cannot tell the whole truth.
[* "Piyu", name given to a spirit entity who used to appear and speak through various young BK women at early seances and reveal secret actions and personal thoughts of Om Mandli members to the group (a term most likely coming from Sufi influences which were common in the Sind) who they seemingly thought was also Lekhraj Kirpalani.]
According to the "official BKWSU history" the BK conmen made Lekhraj Kirpalani's very own daughter lie to say that in 1936 she walked into a room where her Father was bathed in a golden red light and voice from within him said, "Shivoham ... Shivoham ..." (which is, of course, a very common place mantra within Hinduism but which they translate as "I am Shiva ... I am Shiva ...") and claimed it to be evidence that God Shiva had come to earth and had announced his presence in 60 year old Lekhraj Kirpalani's home in Hyderabad.
Until very recently, and still widely across the cult's websites and printed media, the official BKWSU history claims that Shiva announced his present in 1936 to start the religion off.
Except that it never happened. "God's Chosen Ones", the "Highest on High", most spiritual on Earth Brahma Kumaris have been lying about it to the world for decades.
Original documents we found and published prove that there was *NO* mention of God Shiva in the cult's history until sometime after 1955. Up until 1955, they believe in God Brahma (Lekhraj Kirpalani). And, indeed, that the cult started around 1932 and Lekhraj Kirpalani was no where near 60. In order to make the falsehoods fit, they even had to change his date of birth and have fought to sustain those falsehoods against people, like ourself, trying to tell the truth to the world.
Now, in 'Asian American Religious Cultures' [2 volumes], edited by Jonathan H. X. Lee, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, Ronald Y. Nakasone" BK Chandrika Desai, a vice president of the BKWSO and founder/director of the BKs' West coast Anubhuti Retreat centre writes a new, improved, updated version of the cult history in which it is now claimed that 1948 was the date for the Shivoham-Shivoham event.
Really?
What evidence does she present for that and why then was there still no mention of God Shiva in the cult when it started its first overseas ventures (sending representatives to a tiny, unimportant interfaith meeting in Japan)?
BK Chandrika still gets Lekhraj Kirpalani's date of birth wrong ... she claims 1876, not the 1884 it actually was.
She continues the corporate whitewashing of events, like the destruction of early documents was to "prevent the dissemination of misunderstanding".
Clearly borrowing from our findings and not crediting us, she brings forward the channelled spirit entity the early Om Mandli called "Piyu*", arguing that it was one and the same as the Shiva soul claiming "Piyu is synonymous with Incorporeal Shiva Baba" (which will confuse real experts in Hinduism), and record the title Lekhraj Kirpalani took for himself as "Prajapati God Brahma" but again interprets it in an idiosyncratic way, saying it meant Lord of the World (again, not how Hinduism conceives it).
She claims there was a revelation of Shiva "as a distinct incorporeal god" in 1952 and that trance "clearly revealed Shiva Baba and Brahma Baba to be distinct".
Why then was there still no mention of the latter?
She continues the fudge between BK practice and Raja Yoga (an entirely separate tradition they stole the name from) ... and even goes on to lie about how BK service in the USA started, writing out of the history BK Simon Vivian (who left long ago) and BK Hansa Raval (who secretly married and had a relationship with him) of Texas "two celibate teachers with 41 years experience", the BKWSO claimed in 1985.
A deception which continues on the BK Texas website (complete with faked up picture of Dadis Prakashmani and Janki in cowboy hats!)
"Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive" ...
To the BK mindset, none of this matters. Fake is fine if it sounds good and sells. Details do not matter. What matters is "the experience" (and that the money keeps rolling in).
But the question still remains, could such a mess truly be "of God" or enlightened beings?
Strange they have so many millions of dollars, so many servants and slave workers, and yet still don't employee a professional or official historian.
Problem is, I guess, they just cannot tell the whole truth.
[* "Piyu", name given to a spirit entity who used to appear and speak through various young BK women at early seances and reveal secret actions and personal thoughts of Om Mandli members to the group (a term most likely coming from Sufi influences which were common in the Sind) who they seemingly thought was also Lekhraj Kirpalani.]