John wrote:I am starting to get the impression from BKs who have posted on this forum that Sakar Murlis (Murlis written whilst Brahma Baba was still in the corporeal world) are not that important in the BKworld anymore. They generally don't seem to care whether they are rewritten, bits taken out, sentences altered to give different meanings.
I am not an official spokesperson for the BKWSU but I can tell you my personal opinion that rewriting of the Murli is not acceptable to me in the slightest. I've touched on the subject to various people at our centre (and other nearby centres), who are pretty free thinkers as BKs go, and very few of them feel as strongly as I do about it.
On January 16th of this year, I actually brought it up in Murli class. There was a line where Baba mentioned that there were 6 billion souls. I immediately perked up my ears and raised my hand to ask a visiting Sister who was in class that day to tell us what it said in the Hindi copy of the Murli. She said it did not use a number at all: the quote was something like "In 5000 years, there are exactly these many billions...". It stimulated a good discussion in class (or after class, I cannot remember) where some suggested that the mistranslations were either unimportant or not mistranslations at all but sanctioned by Baba. However, no one had an official line on it.
I brought it up to Sister Denise that I did not think it was right that the Murli could be changed and "brought up to date" and she told me that she couldn't speak for the translations but that in the original Murli, Baba has only ever used one number: 6.5 billion.
Even the souls who acknowledged that there was a problem disagreed with me about what to do with that information. They felt that getting worked up about it wasn't going to lead to a solution and that you need to find a way to work within the system. One day, maybe I'll figure out how to do that
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With the exception of a handful of people, no one else felt that there was anything insidious about the revisions. If this is the only time we get to hear the untainted work directly from God, I cannot begin to understand how anyone can simply accept this. As much as I know it's not terribly soul conscious to feel this way, I am disgusted by the acceptance of doctoring of the Murli.
Regards, Kurosh