kumar53 wrote:My basic interest is better, basic & logical understandings acceptable to my inner mind ... I have also started taking 7 Days Course.
The 7 Day's Course, and Brahma Kumarism in general, are more about conforming to a simple mental model and surrendering your mind, body and wealth to the will of the leaders of the organization. Sadly, I don't think you will find they help you develop intellectually, nor that their logic is very good. Quite the opposite actually.
They are pretty fundamentalist and believe in a lot of crazy things, like dinosaurs existing 2,500 years ago.
If you are interested, we have a copy of the
teachers manual for the 7 Days Course in the Library section. You can read it in advance and prepare yourself and questions. We also have copies of their final teachings from their god called "Murlis". You can read then and see if you like them, you had better get used to them because it the best they have.
In essence, they believe they are initiating you into a relationships with a bodiless spirit being they believe in the God of all religions. They belive the End of the World is coming any minute now and that following them is the only way to gain moksha and a high status in a future birth. You might get quite high or space out from the meditation, if or when you do, that is when they capture you and start to control your mind.
I was once like you ... searching for deeper spiritual teachings and practises. I believe the Brahma Kumaris *were* a spiritual university and studied such things. Sadly they are not. It took me a few years to work out that they only go to a certain level then start holding you back.
Whatever you do, don't give up your education or career for them, take their predictions of the End of the World with a pinch of salt ... they have been telling people it is going to end in two to three years for decades. Since WWII. It's part of the way they trap people.
Be very careful of the way they use language. You think they mean one thing when actually they are saying something different.