27 Mar 2008
I follow this debate because at its heart, there is the exact same quandary the BKWSU suffers from. The faith that all of Lekhraj Kirpalani's written down words were at all times Shrimat/God inspired/God speaking through him ... AND applicable to all times after.
Of course, to my mind that is nuts. It cannot be so.
I feel that the PBKs are handicapped by having to accept this surely because of the politics between the PBKs and the BKs. If Virendra Dev Dixit or PBKs starts to say, well sometimes he was right and sometimes he was wrong, then their heresy increases to the points it would put off potential followers - and, of course, be distorted by the BKWSU.
I think Virendra Dev Dixit has done/is doing a better job that most and trying to make sense of the disparate Murlis ... but when are we ever going to grow out of the child-like - and very bhaktish - addiction to "the Word of God".
As I read it, shivsena does not say "every word from Virendra Dev Dixit is poison". He is trying to account for the anomalies (the errors, the wrong things, the contradictions) with a plausible theory within the context. He is saying that at different times, Virendra Dev Dixit is under different psychic influences. Potentially, I think that it highly likely. However one understands "psychic influences". I think that the psychic (e.g. either spookery or group-psychological) influences surrounding and influencing the BK religion are like the weather, i.e. sometimes calm, clear and sunny, sometimes blowing a cyclone storm where the sun is obscured.
I think being strong enough to recognise and admit all the anomalies and evidence to the contrary, and attempting to resolve and explain them is braver than just coming up very bhaktish non-answers such, "Baba is testing us" etc. It does not mean I agree with him. It does not mean I support him. It just means that I am trying to understand him in a non-confrontational, non-binary fashion (e.g. right/wrong, good/bad, nectar/poison). The truth is, we don't know, we all are guessing and it is just a lottery of faith until whatever end comes.
What would happen if Virendra Dev Dixit died?