because.parmeshwar wrote:How did he (Lekhraj) become so successful in brainwashing thousands of people so fast. Now, also they are spreading in the name of seva and social service. Who is behind it all? ... What is their ultimate agenda other than destroying lives of individuals? Many are saying that it's some plan of anti-Hinduism activists who trying to destroy Hinduism by making them child-less and hence can stop the further growth of Hindu population in India. Your insight please.
Firstly, the funny thing is, Lekhraj Kirpalani wasn't successful in "brainwashing thousands of people" during his life. I don't know how many BKs there were in 1969 when he died but all the way through the 1950s and early 1960s, there were only a dwindling number of followers
the original group from Hyderabad and Karachi who were there because he supported them financially. It went from a few hundred people to tens of mostly older, dependent women who ate through his wealth, their wealth, and the wealth of a few supporters, until the money finally ran out, and some of them were sent out to fleece the primarily Sindhi community and then Hindus, of more money to support their lifestyle.*
We essentially have two opposing views here; one that accepts a spiritualistic/psychic worldview of spirits and possession, and one that suggests it is all just down to archetypal human psychology and collective energy. I tend to accommodate both and look closely at the dynamics within history of Lekhraj Kirpalani and the Om Mandli, and see how it has just expanded as the organisation has grown.
Part of that is, as you point out, a sort of anti-Hindu sentiment. On one hand jealous of the position of priests and Brahmins while being utterly dependent on them for words, ideas and structures; on the other hand utterly critical and contemptuous of them and full of his/their own self-importance. I see that as an expansion of Lekhraj Kirpalani's relationship with Saddhu Vaswani and the Bhaibund; Vaswani personifying a sort of pure ideal of Hinduism, and the Bhaibund as the traditional Hindu community upon which they prey for money and labour.
I see that as some kind of archetypal/psychological model or group energy that has just evolved and expanded over time and would reject any idea that there is a specific conspiracy behind BKism.
So the mystery then is how they expanded AFTER Lekhraj Kirpalani's death through the use of their hypnotism and mediumship.
Many will reject the idea of spirit mediumship, spirit channelling etc but I would suggest accepting the model of how it is supposed to work (however it works) as a way of understanding the manipulation of people using psychic influences ON TOP OF group influences. I think both happen.
Long ago, on this forum and the one that came before it, member discussed the idea of "
the egregore", a non-personal group spirit that can possess people and sweep them along, that increases in power and influence the more people engage with it. I think that's a good model to start with. But, yes, I think there are individual "spirits" within it, whipping it up and directing it.
Now, again, other people might just argue that those "spirits" are just subconscious parts of real individuals and, again, I would say those ALSO exist within BKism. I am not qualified to speak in depth about psychology and the subconscious but, obviously, we all have a little grasp of its theories about how humans are driven by subconscious desires and have [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology)"]a "shadow" element[/url].
At the deepest level of the shadow, we find manifestations of evil so the questions arises, is the evil of the BKs individual, collective (based on the collective suppression and manipulation of the following who are forced into the unnatural 'box' or archetypal model created through the Om Mandli experience, or supernatural? Again, I'd say all 3 and that we shouldn't dismiss any of them, nor force an explanation of BKism as an expression of just one.
You ask,
Is the so called spirit still active through them? What ultimately do they want to achieve?
Ultimately, I think we have to accept "yes", and that 'it' or 'their' agenda is to kill of all humanity and the world as we know it, damaging the natural environment as much as possible. I think we have to take BKism and its god at face value and believe what it taught and ingrained into the minds of its leaders for decades. It wants to destroy.
Therefore, unless you see the destruction and death of humanity as a good thing, it or their 'spirit' is part of the greatest darkness or evil the world has ever known and all consuming as it pursues its aim, "to inspire the Yadavs to use the nuclear weapons to wipe humanity out". Remember, the way the BKs taught it was that Destruction, the final act of setting off the nuclear arsenal, was an act of mercy. A act of mutual suicide to release a suffering humanity.
Now accepting that is the core ethos of the BKs, the end to which all of their lies, manipulation and acquisitions are leading to, one still has to ask, how much of it is real and in anyway likely ... and how much of it is just a kind of turbo-charge and exaggerated version, of the infantile rage at the world that Lekhraj Kirpalani? A "rage at the world" that Lekhraj Kirpalani had for rejecting him as their god Krishna, the "world" which, at that time, was merely the Hyderabad Sindhi community?
Infantile rage is again something psychologist explore a lot.
Therefore, in summary, to understand what the BKs and BKism is about, I think you have to start with a rough knowledge of their history, then go back further do a psychoanalysis of Lekhraj Kirpalani's mental illness and social problems, THEN add on top any theories about group or individual spiritual influences because BKism is at least part a repetative acting out or dramatisation of the Om Mandli experience.
As to the "devils" that are devilling within it all, I cannot see them as good at all. Anything good within the BKs has been begged, borrowed or stolen from outside, and then stuck on like bandages to create an appearance of good that serves their financial and egotistical interests ... and ultimate agenda.
The "conspiracy" behind BKism is that the idiot leaders still believe that they are going to destroy humanity and the world and their commitment towards that end is largely based on it being ... the only way out of the mental box they have created to trap themselves. As in they cannot leave because it would mean they have no money and would lose all face that they have.
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I forget the precise details of the history now, e.g. numbers, but it is all recorded on this site).