Hi ex-l
The old days were quite special - memories of sleeping on the floor in large rooms and bathing in winter using buckets - ice cream and chippies prepared especially for us - great stuff. I found India a wonderful experience despite the inevitable illnesses that struck us all.
Ha! Not enough BKs around at that time. I was told a few times by students that I was immature but I think I did an OK job despite this - lightened things up a bit. In retrospect, not enough training and no background in eastern spirituality and not enough regard for our Western heritage but these just made me convinced that I needed to study more to find out what is going on. I wanted to have a broader perspective - lack of understanding makes us open to manipulation.
I had quite a few meetings with BapDada. You have posed a deep question about his identity. It would be easy to write a superficial answer but I want to let that one go because perhaps, honestly, I am not clear enough to say at present. What I can say is that reality is what we make it and everyone creates their own reality - people fight and quarrel over beliefs in the world but I think its time we learn to accept our differences as being part of the richness of the human experience. The philosophical approach.
Cheers
Shanti
ex-l wrote:I bet you would not recognise the place and system if you were to go back now.
The old days were quite special - memories of sleeping on the floor in large rooms and bathing in winter using buckets - ice cream and chippies prepared especially for us - great stuff. I found India a wonderful experience despite the inevitable illnesses that struck us all.
ex-l wrote:Here you say you were in your 20s, with less than a couple of year experience as a BK before you became a center-in-charge.
Ha! Not enough BKs around at that time. I was told a few times by students that I was immature but I think I did an OK job despite this - lightened things up a bit. In retrospect, not enough training and no background in eastern spirituality and not enough regard for our Western heritage but these just made me convinced that I needed to study more to find out what is going on. I wanted to have a broader perspective - lack of understanding makes us open to manipulation.
I had quite a few meetings with BapDada. You have posed a deep question about his identity. It would be easy to write a superficial answer but I want to let that one go because perhaps, honestly, I am not clear enough to say at present. What I can say is that reality is what we make it and everyone creates their own reality - people fight and quarrel over beliefs in the world but I think its time we learn to accept our differences as being part of the richness of the human experience. The philosophical approach.
Cheers
Shanti