arjun wrote:I think an ordinary or middle-rung BK with good ideas for service might be feeling helpless given the fact that they cannot have direct access to BapDada when he comes to meet BKs for a few hours every year.
There are also the trance messengers who are used on a regular basis to varying degrees of accuracy. They are already surrendered and the request would be made for free ... why not at least via them?
Given the successes of non-leadership projects and the failures or limits of leadership-led projects, is it not time that "the family" was allowed to make decision on a more democratic basis of what BapDada was asked? I mean, the BKWSU could have a "noticeboard" where proposals were made and those receiving the most support from "the family" then went forward to the boss for checking?
I remember this came up when Janki Kripalani was elected global chief by "the family" but no one knew who "the family" was ... as no one was asked.
Yes, I know, I am wasting my time even thinking of such enlightened ideas ... back to BK schooling, let us see what comes of it. My prediction is that they first come up with a private BK school for BK children which parents have to pay for. Even that they should have thought of years ago. They could have made a small fortune accepting bad rich kids for "spiritual" disciplining at a private residential or boarding school up in the mountains.
Amongst many others,
Vivekananda's followers thought of it 20 plus years ago and started one. It is hardly a new idea, its as old as religion itself. In 1894, the Theosophical Society founded a school for the children of poor and destitute families, the Hare Krishnas had many (albeit plagued with abuse) and in London today there is even a
private school run by Westerners that teaches meditation, Sanskrit and universal spirituality which the BKs have made some inroads to but of which they ought to be jealous of.
Whilst the BKs amass property, scrabble after VIPs and lick up to the UN at the expense of all those business class international airfare ... this is a good wake up call of what can be achieved by impure, "Shudra" non-BKs aspiring to create a "spiritual school" serving organic vegetarian food and providing a proper all round education. See,
here.