kamaferro wrote:... it looks like a cult, believing in spirits and so on. Could anyone who was or is an active member explain the real truth.
And they really are heavily involved in spirit mediumship or spirit worship ... which they do not make clear or advertising until you are well enculted into their groups.
I used to study Yoga, traditional Hatha Yoga exercises. I wanted to study "Raja Yoga" because, it is said, Hatha Yoga is only a preparation, or one of the "8 arms" of path of Raja Yoga. I was suckered in by the Brahma Kumaris, partly because they advertise their practise as "Raja Yoga" ... which it is not. It is something entirely different and new. This misuse of traditional Hindu and religious terms is something that is VERY common through out their cult.
When the Brahma Kumaris talk about "God", they mean a spirit which they believed possessed their millionaire businessman founder and started to speak through him. Since the death of their founder, the Brahma Kumaris claim that BOTH the God spirit AND the businessman is channeled by their mediums. Their mediums around the world also claim to channel other spirits such as their dead leaders and Hindu gods like "Krishna".
Of course, this spirit claims to the the God of all religions and the path of the Brahma Kumaris is to surrender EVERYTHING to this spirit ... your mind, your body, your WEALTH (
naturally) and all of your free time. Their teaches consist of more and more encouragements to give all to their spirit ... for whom (
naturally) they will bank the money and register the property in their name.
They probably have not told you that they say this God predicts the End of the World is about to come too, have they?
Well ... it is a good way to make your surrender more and keep you making efforts because you think the world is about to be destroyed soon, killing over 6,000,000,000 humans being so that they can inherit a "purified" heaven on earth.
What they don't tell you is that he predicted this "Destruction" in WWII, 1950, 1976, mid-1980s ... the leaders claimed around Year 2000 and continue to teach their followers "in 2 to 3 years". They have been doing so from the 1930s.
And then they have removed or re-written all their failures and hidden them from newcomers like yourself.
These are hard facts. You can take any of them, ask your BK teachers and then come back to us and let us know what they say. The evidence is all on this site. We can even tell you in advance what they will say and how they will answer, e.g. "
Baba (the spirit) has never given a precise date for 'Destruction' (the end of the world)".
Getting involved in easy. It is like getting sucked into taking drugs. For the first 3 or 6 months it feels great, you will get "high", all your family and friends will wonder what has happened to you. Then the high stops but you are hooked. You keep make more "efforts" to try and regain it. You won't. But by that time they have got you and the combination of the self-hypnosis and the repetitive teachings will be starting to re-shape your mind and behavior ... Get it out of your mind is tough.
Most of all, they get you to switch off your emotions and feelings, and "detach" from your body ... from simple, innocent pleasures like touch, nature, other humans including your family and friends. They, or the spirits behind them, want to own you 100%.
The problem that most of us here who were serious about a "spiritual path" have them is that it is impossible to know what is really going on with them because they have told so many lies, covered up so much truth of their own histories and religion and changed so many elements. In fact, that is the only thing you can be sure of them.
I was particularly upset with them because I was very, very sincere about following "the spiritual path". I had no idea they was so dishonest - and basic - until years after leaving them. I left because I got sick of their worship of, and chasing after VIPs and their lack of real care for society. "Service of humanity" for them is evangelizing their cult beliefs like some secret service.
Like many of us here, I tried discussing change and reform from within but they are not really interested in, or capable of doing so ... in my opinion. In short, I find the leaders around who they flock, like their "Dadi Janki", narrow-minded, bigoted and full of themselves. Her "divine art", in particular, is pulling money out of Hindu followers.
They really do believe that they are the only true religion, all others are partial copies of theirs, and that their leaders are "one of the 8" top souls in the world or twice as "spiritual" as Christ or Buddha.