Murli Tax 1 Rupee a week & BKs skimming for personal gain
Posted: 15 Dec 2017
From a comments on a BK related blog.
It seems the BKWSU has started taking "1 rupee per person for everyone who attends the Murli on each Thursday.
1 rs times the usual 800,000 followers times 52 weeks a year equals 41,600,000 rupees, or 646,474 US Dollars (poster claims only 440,000 members, BKs claim over 1 million).
Some what like the medival Catholic Church, the Brahma Kumaris also "sell" various other religious services and access to high ranking leaders and their god spirit.
No global accounts are available for how much wealth the cult has. "Ration vegetables appear to be public distribution system distributing subsidized food and grain. Not sure how or what free electricity bills they score.
Another commentor replies,
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It seems the BKWSU has started taking "1 rupee per person for everyone who attends the Murli on each Thursday.
1 rs times the usual 800,000 followers times 52 weeks a year equals 41,600,000 rupees, or 646,474 US Dollars (poster claims only 440,000 members, BKs claim over 1 million).
Some what like the medival Catholic Church, the Brahma Kumaris also "sell" various other religious services and access to high ranking leaders and their god spirit.
No global accounts are available for how much wealth the cult has. "Ration vegetables appear to be public distribution system distributing subsidized food and grain. Not sure how or what free electricity bills they score.
The BK centre is taking free service [donations] for [the] supply of ration vegetables, electricity bills, and other free services.
In addition, "as per Baba instuctions" (so the BKs says) 1 rupee per person who attends the Murli on every Thursday.
I think that is rasonable because on every Thursday, in 8800 centres, about 50 people attending the Murli will fetch them around rs 8 lacs. Which is not sufficient to maintain all the centres and therefore they can increase to rs 10 and make it self sustaintable.
This suggesion I gave the centre where I have recently started attending.
Another commentor replies,
Brahma Kumaris destroy young youth future, by brainwashing them by giving them seven days course.
It's followed by sweet words and talk by this teachers. In the beginning they speak sweet, offer sweets, slowly they make us work as slave in name of Shiv Baba seva. They degrade us, start demanding donations frequently in name of bhogs, flat rent, electricity bills, miscellenous expenses such as vegetables, food grains, fruits, dry foods, ghee, all expensive foods.
These BK Sisters are gold diggers. One instance I remember one BK Sister used to visit one old rich man home in Mumbai to give God's preaching in his last days. She brainwashed him and got a luxury house in her name and crore rupees in her account. After one year she transfer it in her Brother name.
It's is one example, many so called surrender Brahma Kumar’s in Mount Abu, takes hidden donations in forms of property and services to favour their family members.
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