What happens when an Indian woman leaves the Brahma Kumaris?

We know a lot about Western ex-BKs. What happens when an Indian woman leaves the Brahma Kumaris?

From discussion on Reddit 9 months ago (2023).

People who were once deeply involved with brainwashing cults like the Brahmakumaris, etc. but no longer are. Please share your experiences

I am close with someone who lived that life.

She came from an ordinary family and at the age of 13 went to a BK meeting with her Father. They were obviously speaking like a cult, but at that age she was taken with the sense of community there.

Some context, she is sweet, innocent, unassuming and a people pleaser. For her, it was always about community and the sense of higher purpose that attracted her to the BK movement. She began regularly attending sermons and events on her own. At 16, she announced that she was quitting school and enrolling in the Ashram. Her culture values education, so her parents really tried to stop her from spiralling into this. But the BK cult leaders quickly put an end to their objections.

She lived the end of her teen years and her 20s and 30s in the Ashram. Obviously, she needed experience, proper exposure and education to grow up and train herself out of the people pleasing mindset. At the Ashram, there was none of that. All she got was oppression by cult leaders. She ingratiated herself to most of them, but others who did not take to her approach were cruel. That damaged her more. She transferred between Ashrams, struggled emotionally and psychologically.

One lonely, wealthy and elderly widower who attended BK classes took a strong liking for her and became her mentor. He helped her escape the Ashram at 36. But without any skills or real world experience, he was concerned about her ability to survive once she left. So he arranged her marriage to a lonely, kindly man who had struck up a friendship with the elderly widower over spiritual discussions. The elderly widower got them married and secured her escape from BK.

But the couple eventually fell into another post-bk cult when she was in her 40s. They never got a stable job, the husband drove to make money but they lived at the empty homes of well meaning BK followers/their relatives on minimal rent. They then became teachers in the post-bk cult, and then left it after a few years.

Now they live on faith.