milanmagan wrote:I am a bit confused about terminology; could someone please help me out? I wanted to know what the difference was between Bap Dada and Shiv Baba? (In the literature they use Shiv Baba when talking about Dada Lekhraj's reception of visions, but the name of the movement is Brahma Kumari?) I am just a bit confused.
Thanks!
Now, doesn't this post highlight the need for the BKWSU to free-up a little. Milanmagan, you have to take the BKWSU seven day meditation course, and beyond that you study the BKWSU Murli, before you can begin to get a self-informed opinion about that. I am smiling. What a simple question! But oh, what a question! Maybe the BKWSU can answer that one for us.
Milanmagan, in response I will appear to digress for a while but bear with for a while, I hope that we will get back online. Soul, I advise you to seek a second opinion about everything you read on the www about the BKWSU. Why? Chances are that it has been doctored! By the BKWSU themselves. So be careful about what you use and/or come to regard as definitive in your study of this institution. Thanks.
Elsewhere on this site you will see posts that unearth and discuss the BKWSU in its Daughters of Brahma (Brahma Kumari) flavour. A scholar would observe that in the West that historical essence attached to the BKWSU has been downplayed. However the literal translation of Brahma Kumari is as you say Daughter of Brahma. In the BKWSU the term Brahma Kumar commonly refers to a male student of Raja Yoga; and Brahma Kumari a female student doing the same. You need to get hold of the BKWSU publication Adi Dev which talks about Lekhraj Kirplani (later to be known as Brahma Baba i.e Adi Dev after he became host to the Shiva (God) soul). Term Brahma Kumar (BK) has become through popular use to refer to any individual that studies Raja Yoja with the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University.
The BKWSU student becomes familiar with the term BapDada in the BKWSUs most important spiritual literature known as the Murli.
The Murli is regarded as the words of God (Shiva) spoken through a human Lekhhraj Kirplani (given the name Prajapita Brahma by Shiva) at times when Shiva was descended into the body of Dada Lekhraj for the purpose of revealing to the BKs (and eventually the world of souls) the true nature of God, Souls and the Eternal World Drama the combined entity has become regarded as BapDada (the name Prajapita Brahma has come to be shortened as Brahma).
I am sure that there will be much more said on this so we give others a chance.
AbeK