X-kumari wrote:Unfortunately, all women in my family: my Sister, mom, aunt and granny were involved into the "knowledge" and "service" of BKWSU.
Wow ... I am so sorry but I am happy to hear you have freed yourself.
I think it is true to say all ex-BKs had good thoughts about the BKWSU for a long time ... even longer than the actually evidence suggested to us when we were in ... and it takes some time for the rose-tinted glasses to fall off from our face. Even once they do, we often struggled on trying to prop up and patch back together our fantasy version until eventually the effort becomes too much. For a long time it can be like being in a love affair that you do not want to admit is finished and over.
For me, what finally finished all my doubts was discovering all the covered up history from the 1930s and 40s which we show and discuss on this website and I suggest you start by reading some of that and sharing it with your family.
We discovered that there was no God Shiva until after 1950 ... that Destruction was to have happened in WWII, 1950, 1976, mid-1980s but that they had hidden all the failures and covered it all up. Then I discovered about the business people using the BKWSU and The Knowledge to establish business networks and earn money and how the leadership allowed them to do so. Then I discovered all the serious abuses, like:
- the many suicides,
the cover up of the child sex abuse,
the financial and immigration scandals,
how the BKWSU members were being used to beat up the PBK members.
Excuse me if I speak really strongly here to you. I want to say something very controversial here which needs to be qualified.
Most of all I realised that I was stupid or naive to what Sindis and Gujeratis, were like. By that, obviously, I do not mean ALL Sindis or ALL Gujeratis ... I mean the sort of religious fraudsters and religious business makers that the BKWSU is run by. People who can say one thing and do another, believing entirely unproven and contradicting theories all at the same time. And the fool Whites who copy them.
On the surface, they can appear very weak or sweet but, I feel, that underneath they are actually very ruthless. Their culture is very different. I do not care what anyone else says but for them, running the religion as a business to make money and feed them is the only thing they can do. I now take a very rationalist point of view on it. All the pomp, all the talk, all the show is just a front ... behind it is the business. Bringing in the money. To which they are VERY QUICK and HAPPY to make compromises to the principles.
I am speaking mainly of the leadership, not the followers who do not know all of this. I just wish they found some more positive to do with their lives.
I thought good of the people. I loved India, I loved Indian culture, I loved Yoga ... but I did not know what these Indian were really like. All I saw was a "museum grade" or Hollywood version of the best of it. I trusted them and I made myself open to them ... and then I found out they were just stinking, manipulative frauds, Dadi Janki downwards. In fact, Dadi Janki - their bag woman (VIP fund raiser) - is probably the worst of them. And if they think SHE is the best of them ... "One of the 8 Top Souls in the World, twice as spiritual as Buddha or Christ" ... then their world is insane and upside down. We were conned by a consummate con-woman ... an individual who knows basically all of the real history, and most of the dirt, and keeps it hidden.
What more can you say about a woman who claims never to have lied or always to have been honest ... and then we discover what we have.
One question please, were you in the BKWSU when the court case happened over the center in Moscow? When the rich donator woke up and asked for it back? Can you tell us more about that?