One excuse for asking me to leave the center was the delays in me finding a job that matched my academic credentials.
At the time, I was a doctor with a bachelors degree and a doctoral degree. The other reason I was asked to leave was because the Sister whom I regarded as a mentor was having an affair with one of the Brothers and thought that I was unaware of their love relationship under Janki's nose and the BK top brass in the US, London, and India. So I left the center and even though I was asked to go to another center in another city, I never did. In fact, it has been over 25 years and I have never entered another BK ashram.
Do I miss them? Not really.
Baap Dada from our first meeting had publicly told me that I would leave the Court of Indra and establish a kingdom of my own. On the day I left the center, I was sad. However, I knew that it was not the end for me. There was life after the BKs and a rich exciting life.
The BKs close their doors on me and many other doors were opened to me. I went back to my lokik family, who were puzzled, though I never discussed my banishment until a decade later. I worked for less than a year in a clinic and was accepted by an Ivy League medical school for postgraduate studies. I remembered the stories of Christian Bernard and Denton Cooley, two of the world's greatest heart transplant surgeons. Both were mistreated during their early years as physicians and would not have become great cardiovascular surgeons had it not been for some of their negative experiences.
In fact, during medical school I did an externship in the research laboratory of a contemporary of Professor Bernard and Professor Cooley. That was a great honor and I was inspired to become a pioneering biomedical scientist, which I am today. The BKs may think I am too impure and dark skinned to be glorified by their bells and whistles. That's also cool by me.
I do not wish the BK ill and respect Baap Dada as I would spirits who enter bodies to change the world.
At the medical school where I did my post graduate studies I met my soul mate and we had a wonderful love relationship, because she is also very spiritual and became a Buddhist without much of my influence.