World Spiritual University / Brahmin Kumaris / Raja Yoga
Posted by:
SeekingTruth
()
Date: December 07, 2012 08:05AM
World peace organization appears to be doomsday cult.
Brahma Kumaris listed as dangerous cult.
[youtu.be]
There has been an increasing amount of confusion created by the so-called “World Spiritual University” using such classical terms as “Brahmin” or “Raja Yoga” for its practises. Likewise, despite its inception 70 years or less ago, “senior faculty members” are increasing claiming its teachings to be “ancient” or centuries old when they are not. Again trading on other quite separate traditions. The BKs run a considerable number of front organizations to give credability to what are the same evangelic ambitious, that it was thought time to start documenting these on the internet.
Given that significant controversies over child abuse cover up, violence towards breakaway groups and the experience of ex-members have arisen, an independent website on the BKWSU has been established, run by a variety of ex-BKs with teacher and administrator experience within the organization, please see; [www.brahmakumaris.info] For a support discussion site on the BKWSU Brahma Kumaris, please see;
[www.brahmakumaris.info]
This website makes public most if not all of the teachings, practises and personal experiences of BKs, ex-BKs and PBKs allowing individuals to make up their own minds, including copies of the core scriptures – allegedly channelled messages direct from God – called Sakar Murlis.
What ever good may exist within the BK community, one should realise that it is an “End of the World” cult based on channelled mediumship. A channelled Spirit that claims to be the one God of humanity and predicts the Destruction of the world by Nuclear Holocaust, death of 6 Billion people, the sinking of the continents followed by a Heaven on Earth for its BK followers only. This spirit that is, or claims to be, “God” predicted this “Destruction” would happen in 1975 or 1976. The date keeps being pushed back but business keep becoming better for them. Likewise, the population figures of the world are regularly revised as actual figures increase. Currently, they are speculating on the virgin birth of their leader Lekhraj Kirpalani who is going reincarnate as Shri Krishna immanently.
As one recruiter for the group writes on many web forums, “the bombs have been made … they will be used”. They expect their heaven to follow a Nuclear holocaust. This is all a far cry from the “Peace of Mind”, “Values Education”, “Self Management Leadership” that they use as a New Age front to their many organizations but, scripturally it is accurate. The main concern if that the Seniors within the organization are re-editing the original channelled teachings.
The channelled Spirit is, it claims, the Supreme God and the process of channelling continues at the organizations headquarters in India via a little old Indian lady. They claim that not just “God” comes into but that the spirit of their dead founder Kirpalani does so too. They are engaged in a continual process of revising their history and re-editing
their God’s teachings.
The BKWSU is also sees itself as the single, true source of all other religions. It teaches its followers that all other religious leader must and will come to it to learn spirituality. Its god is the only one Supreme god that all other religions worship and the BKWSU are the only true teachers. The God states that only the or BK Brahmin are pure and the rest of the world is Impure, or Shudras. That is the Hindi word for lowest class Untouchables. Consequently, it hides the teaching of its god, called Sakar Murlis, and does not allow public access to them as the general public has “Impure Intellect” and would not understand them.
Central to their faith is belief in time being only 5,000 years long. In fact, one identically, eternally repeating 5,000 years Cycle; a pure elevated heaven on earth with Krishna and Radha for them 5,000 years ago becoming a “devil-filled” hell on earth at the end of the 20th Century for us now. Hell on earth destroy by their God coming and the power of their yoga making way or their Heaven again in approximately 2036 with Krishna.
They teach that dinosaurs existed only 2,500 years ago. Followers must be strictly vegetarian and celibate, no procreation nor even masturbation. Followers can only eat the food cooked by themselves or other followers.
Physical relatives are no longer seen as family, only other BK Brahmins are, and relatives are referred to as “lokiks, or “worldly”, shudras if they do not become members.
Lifestyle involved getting up at 4 am every day to meditation for 45 mins, daily class at 6.30 am, more meditation or service in the evenings and weekends. No days off, no holidays as such. Followers are expected to visit the headquarters to meet “God”, hear the “Murli”, God speaking and be recharged.
Sadly, the BKWSU has not been immune to controversy and, indeed, is increasingly finding itself exposed to more mainly due to the power of the internet;
* the cover up of the child sex abuse
* organized violence in numerous states of India targetting break away revisionist group called PBKs
* validity of charity status
* criticism from UN due to its over exaggeration of relationship with the UN that it has used to establish its credibility.
* suicides of ex-members
* knife murder in center
* many broken marriages and families
* acquisition of properties
* targetting of recently bereaved women etc
So, is the BKWSU Brahma Kumaris a cult? Perhaps the question is not to ask, “does it have cult-like nature?” but “Does God need to run a cult in order to teach humanity?” It may be that humanity needs and likes being in one cult or another.
It is worthwhile mentioning what you are likely to experience in dealing with BKs. In the early days of “Knowledge”, they go through a kind of high called “The Honeymoon Period. They are very pleasant to deal with in a kind of spaced out, peaceful innocent manner. This high does not last and they experience a come down from where they are encouraged to “make efforts” in order to reach the high. It is really in this period that they enter into denial and dealing with many BKs becomes difficult.
They do operate in groups internationally, they do pool information about individuals outside of the organization and share it, they will press ex-members for information about others and tend to target critics with ad hominen attacks, e.g. the founder of the PBK movement was apparently subjected to many trumped up police charges. Their global IT team is a classic example of this behavior. In such attacks, they will use and have the co-operation of part-time members or associates that are unaware of the full teachings.
The BKWSU also uses institutional pressure to remove critical articles and control the media produced about them. They will work in groups to hunt down sources of information, using ex-members as contacts, targetting media people. In this manner, the organization is starting to appear more cult-like, as per the Scientologists. They are becoming more paranoid about their Murli teachings being revealled on the internet and hide them security-encrypted behind passworded websites. When “God” speaks in India via the old Indian lady that is the channel medium, he is streamed by secure audio video channels only. Students are discouraged from emailing Murlis.
In the beginning of their history there was a strong “Anti-Party” movement against them that hounded them out of Pakistan. Their teachings predict similar events towards the end of the time/Destruction. Any inklings of natural disaster, war, resistance tend to trigger off “End of the World” speculations within them.
They are very precious about the United Nations affiliations which have in the past been exaggerated to the point where the UN had to caution them.
These are used universally to give status and credibility to their front organizations which tend to hide the actual claims or teachings they follow.
From the Wikipedia article on the BKWSU; A list of BKWSU front organizations and business that are run and staffed by BKs involved in promoting BKWSU beliefs. At events promoted by any one of these entities, one might find other BKs present under the mantle of “representing” one of the other organizations rather than the BKWSU in aself-reciprocating manner.
Terms used:
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation
Inner Space
Living Values Education Program
Self Management Leadership
Visions of a Better World Foundation
The Janki Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Study Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Educational Society
Global Retreat Centre
Oxford Leadership Academy
BK Publications [BKIS Limited]
Relax 7
Soul Power Seminars
World Renewal Trust and others.
Brahma Kumaris listed as dangerous cult.
[youtu.be]
There has been an increasing amount of confusion created by the so-called “World Spiritual University” using such classical terms as “Brahmin” or “Raja Yoga” for its practises. Likewise, despite its inception 70 years or less ago, “senior faculty members” are increasing claiming its teachings to be “ancient” or centuries old when they are not. Again trading on other quite separate traditions. The BKs run a considerable number of front organizations to give credability to what are the same evangelic ambitious, that it was thought time to start documenting these on the internet.
Given that significant controversies over child abuse cover up, violence towards breakaway groups and the experience of ex-members have arisen, an independent website on the BKWSU has been established, run by a variety of ex-BKs with teacher and administrator experience within the organization, please see; [www.brahmakumaris.info] For a support discussion site on the BKWSU Brahma Kumaris, please see;
[www.brahmakumaris.info]
This website makes public most if not all of the teachings, practises and personal experiences of BKs, ex-BKs and PBKs allowing individuals to make up their own minds, including copies of the core scriptures – allegedly channelled messages direct from God – called Sakar Murlis.
What ever good may exist within the BK community, one should realise that it is an “End of the World” cult based on channelled mediumship. A channelled Spirit that claims to be the one God of humanity and predicts the Destruction of the world by Nuclear Holocaust, death of 6 Billion people, the sinking of the continents followed by a Heaven on Earth for its BK followers only. This spirit that is, or claims to be, “God” predicted this “Destruction” would happen in 1975 or 1976. The date keeps being pushed back but business keep becoming better for them. Likewise, the population figures of the world are regularly revised as actual figures increase. Currently, they are speculating on the virgin birth of their leader Lekhraj Kirpalani who is going reincarnate as Shri Krishna immanently.
As one recruiter for the group writes on many web forums, “the bombs have been made … they will be used”. They expect their heaven to follow a Nuclear holocaust. This is all a far cry from the “Peace of Mind”, “Values Education”, “Self Management Leadership” that they use as a New Age front to their many organizations but, scripturally it is accurate. The main concern if that the Seniors within the organization are re-editing the original channelled teachings.
The channelled Spirit is, it claims, the Supreme God and the process of channelling continues at the organizations headquarters in India via a little old Indian lady. They claim that not just “God” comes into but that the spirit of their dead founder Kirpalani does so too. They are engaged in a continual process of revising their history and re-editing
their God’s teachings.
The BKWSU is also sees itself as the single, true source of all other religions. It teaches its followers that all other religious leader must and will come to it to learn spirituality. Its god is the only one Supreme god that all other religions worship and the BKWSU are the only true teachers. The God states that only the or BK Brahmin are pure and the rest of the world is Impure, or Shudras. That is the Hindi word for lowest class Untouchables. Consequently, it hides the teaching of its god, called Sakar Murlis, and does not allow public access to them as the general public has “Impure Intellect” and would not understand them.
Central to their faith is belief in time being only 5,000 years long. In fact, one identically, eternally repeating 5,000 years Cycle; a pure elevated heaven on earth with Krishna and Radha for them 5,000 years ago becoming a “devil-filled” hell on earth at the end of the 20th Century for us now. Hell on earth destroy by their God coming and the power of their yoga making way or their Heaven again in approximately 2036 with Krishna.
They teach that dinosaurs existed only 2,500 years ago. Followers must be strictly vegetarian and celibate, no procreation nor even masturbation. Followers can only eat the food cooked by themselves or other followers.
Physical relatives are no longer seen as family, only other BK Brahmins are, and relatives are referred to as “lokiks, or “worldly”, shudras if they do not become members.
Lifestyle involved getting up at 4 am every day to meditation for 45 mins, daily class at 6.30 am, more meditation or service in the evenings and weekends. No days off, no holidays as such. Followers are expected to visit the headquarters to meet “God”, hear the “Murli”, God speaking and be recharged.
Sadly, the BKWSU has not been immune to controversy and, indeed, is increasingly finding itself exposed to more mainly due to the power of the internet;
* the cover up of the child sex abuse
* organized violence in numerous states of India targetting break away revisionist group called PBKs
* validity of charity status
* criticism from UN due to its over exaggeration of relationship with the UN that it has used to establish its credibility.
* suicides of ex-members
* knife murder in center
* many broken marriages and families
* acquisition of properties
* targetting of recently bereaved women etc
So, is the BKWSU Brahma Kumaris a cult? Perhaps the question is not to ask, “does it have cult-like nature?” but “Does God need to run a cult in order to teach humanity?” It may be that humanity needs and likes being in one cult or another.
It is worthwhile mentioning what you are likely to experience in dealing with BKs. In the early days of “Knowledge”, they go through a kind of high called “The Honeymoon Period. They are very pleasant to deal with in a kind of spaced out, peaceful innocent manner. This high does not last and they experience a come down from where they are encouraged to “make efforts” in order to reach the high. It is really in this period that they enter into denial and dealing with many BKs becomes difficult.
They do operate in groups internationally, they do pool information about individuals outside of the organization and share it, they will press ex-members for information about others and tend to target critics with ad hominen attacks, e.g. the founder of the PBK movement was apparently subjected to many trumped up police charges. Their global IT team is a classic example of this behavior. In such attacks, they will use and have the co-operation of part-time members or associates that are unaware of the full teachings.
The BKWSU also uses institutional pressure to remove critical articles and control the media produced about them. They will work in groups to hunt down sources of information, using ex-members as contacts, targetting media people. In this manner, the organization is starting to appear more cult-like, as per the Scientologists. They are becoming more paranoid about their Murli teachings being revealled on the internet and hide them security-encrypted behind passworded websites. When “God” speaks in India via the old Indian lady that is the channel medium, he is streamed by secure audio video channels only. Students are discouraged from emailing Murlis.
In the beginning of their history there was a strong “Anti-Party” movement against them that hounded them out of Pakistan. Their teachings predict similar events towards the end of the time/Destruction. Any inklings of natural disaster, war, resistance tend to trigger off “End of the World” speculations within them.
They are very precious about the United Nations affiliations which have in the past been exaggerated to the point where the UN had to caution them.
These are used universally to give status and credibility to their front organizations which tend to hide the actual claims or teachings they follow.
From the Wikipedia article on the BKWSU; A list of BKWSU front organizations and business that are run and staffed by BKs involved in promoting BKWSU beliefs. At events promoted by any one of these entities, one might find other BKs present under the mantle of “representing” one of the other organizations rather than the BKWSU in aself-reciprocating manner.
Terms used:
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organisation
Inner Space
Living Values Education Program
Self Management Leadership
Visions of a Better World Foundation
The Janki Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Study Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Educational Society
Global Retreat Centre
Oxford Leadership Academy
BK Publications [BKIS Limited]
Relax 7
Soul Power Seminars
World Renewal Trust and others.
Re: World Spiritual University / Brahmin Kumaris / Raja Yoga
Posted by:
corboy
()
Date: December 09, 2012 12:04AM
Over the years, others have corresponded on the RR.com message board about BK
[forum.culteducation.com]
From what I have seen as an outsider, watching BK members walk through their neighborhood, they dress in white, they look sincere. Once, at a fundraiser, someone from our local BK ashram gave a musical , backed up by a harmonium.
Everyone looks very sweet and benign. There is no outward indication that the belief is apocalyptic. Perhaps at the entry level, aspirants are not given full disclosure about the belief system of the sect.
In mainstream society, we have learned a lot about the heavy effect of sleep deprivation on mental and physical health. But many ashrams do not apply this knoweldge.
The schedule described above sounds like it would lead to chronic sleep deficit. Add in a a tough work schedule, a and is living with many other people, one can become more susceptible to upper respiratory infections.
All that can lead someone to believe that they are failing to flourish on their new and pure life because they are sinful or tamasic and undergoing purification/kriyas.
When whats happening is something typical when people are not getting enough sleep, are bunched together and on a tough workload.
PS Welcome to the message board. It can be searched.
This message board is ten years old (thank you, Mr Ross and the attorneys and legal firms who have donated their support!),
If you are a visitor and want to see what if anyone has written something about what you are interested in or concerned about, go to the search button (upper right corner), and because the message board is a decade old, select the "all dates" option for your search.
Enter the words or names that interest you, and run the search--see what comes up.
[forum.culteducation.com]
From what I have seen as an outsider, watching BK members walk through their neighborhood, they dress in white, they look sincere. Once, at a fundraiser, someone from our local BK ashram gave a musical , backed up by a harmonium.
Everyone looks very sweet and benign. There is no outward indication that the belief is apocalyptic. Perhaps at the entry level, aspirants are not given full disclosure about the belief system of the sect.
In mainstream society, we have learned a lot about the heavy effect of sleep deprivation on mental and physical health. But many ashrams do not apply this knoweldge.
The schedule described above sounds like it would lead to chronic sleep deficit. Add in a a tough work schedule, a and is living with many other people, one can become more susceptible to upper respiratory infections.
All that can lead someone to believe that they are failing to flourish on their new and pure life because they are sinful or tamasic and undergoing purification/kriyas.
When whats happening is something typical when people are not getting enough sleep, are bunched together and on a tough workload.
PS Welcome to the message board. It can be searched.
This message board is ten years old (thank you, Mr Ross and the attorneys and legal firms who have donated their support!),
If you are a visitor and want to see what if anyone has written something about what you are interested in or concerned about, go to the search button (upper right corner), and because the message board is a decade old, select the "all dates" option for your search.
Enter the words or names that interest you, and run the search--see what comes up.
Brahma Kumaris VIP Service & infiltrates multi faith organizations
Posted by:
corboy
()
Date: December 30, 2017 11:58PM
Brahma Kumaris Open Forum
For Ex-BKs: Why did you leave the Brahma Kumaris?
[www.brahmakumarisforum.net]
Brahma Kumaris -- information from ex members
[www.google.com]
Who is Brahma Kumaris? - Highly informative
[ex-brahmakumaris.blogspot.com]
A few small quotations - go to the site for additional material.
If you have any instinct for social justice and care for your community, you risk losing this if you get involved with Brahma Kumaris; BK regards us as being in the Kali Yuga dark age, and that this is unreformable.
You will cease to be of service to your friends and community and turn into another meditating drone who enriches BK.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2017 12:09AM by corboy.
For Ex-BKs: Why did you leave the Brahma Kumaris?
[www.brahmakumarisforum.net]
Brahma Kumaris -- information from ex members
[www.google.com]
Who is Brahma Kumaris? - Highly informative
[ex-brahmakumaris.blogspot.com]
A few small quotations - go to the site for additional material.
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"The BKWSU is still politically ambitious and noted for its focus on “VIP service” and inflitrating multi-faith organizations."Quote
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) or Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya is a monastic, renunciate, millenarian new religious movement(NRM) of Indian origin whose teachings are based on, and practises, involve both mediumship and channelling. It promotes a form of meditation called Raja Yoga, which differs from classical Raja Yoga as described by Pantanjali. As a neo-Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris (BK) pre-date the New age movement but have developed characteristics that link them to its thinking. Active within the United Nations Organization and likes to promote itself and its leaders as “advisers” to the UN. Notable in its early years for pamphleteering the British and Indian establishment encouraging them to suspend civil law, impose martial law and embark on a scorched earth policy in order to purify the world and help create a heaven on earth for its followers. Has toned down the public face of its political lobbying in recent year but is still strictly millenarianist and supremecist at heart and has incorporated an imminent and desirable nuclear holocaust into its theology.
The BKWSU is still politically ambitious and noted for its focus on “VIP service” and inflitrating multi-faith organizations.
The spirit guide the leadership consider to be God informs them via their mediums that shortly in the future, the Government of India will hand over power to them.
All Western nations are to be destroyed and sink below rising oceans leaving only picnic islands where Brahma Kumari centers once stood. The organization was recently outed for making claims over a period of 30 years that their global leader Ms Janki Kripalani was scientifically proven to be “the most stable mind in the world” by the University of Texas where no such claims or even department could be found. Elsewhere on the internet, the organization has been reported to have made claims for cancer and other miracle cures.
It recently lost a domain name dispute legal action against a support group website set up by ex-members.
If you have any instinct for social justice and care for your community, you risk losing this if you get involved with Brahma Kumaris; BK regards us as being in the Kali Yuga dark age, and that this is unreformable.
You will cease to be of service to your friends and community and turn into another meditating drone who enriches BK.
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ActivitiesEdit Activities section
The Brahma Kumaris conduct seven one-hour-long courses in their philosophy and open-eyed meditation technique. The organization offers courses in ” positieve thinking”, “Self management leadership”, and “Living Values”. Service requires active support of the movement, especially by participating in its many proscelyting activities. Great emphasis is placed on the value of bringing converts into the movement, particularly converts who stick. Meditation is the movement’s most significant ‘effort’.
Efforts to reform the Kaliyug are not in accord with Shiv Bab’s will.
The Brahma Kumaris also have a number of voluntary outreach programs in prisons.
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Central beliefsEdit Central beliefs section
Central to its faith are the beliefs that:
The human being is an eternal soul living within a physical body and is not the physical body which is dualistic “I am a soul, my body is a garment”.
Reincarnation happens only from one human body to another.
Humanity is currently reaching the end of the current cycle and thus the world will be destroyed, a time referred to as “Destruction”.
Indian subcontinent will be the site of the future Golden Age paradise and that a form of Hindi is the original language of humanity, all other continents being destroyed.
Followers are taught that only they will live in the coming Golden Age paradise as Gods and Goddesses.
God has incarnated into Dada Lehkraj, the founder, and is teaching them directly and exclusively.
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The aim of the individual Brahma Kumari is to gain a high status in the coming paradise where a select 108 who are ‘totally victorious’ and will rule there. Members of the physical families of Brahma Kumaris who have contact with the “University’ are said to become members of the 16,000 top souls and at the end of each Cycle, everyone will see visions in which their personal destinies will be fully disclosed.
MeditationEdit Meditation section
The Brahma Kumaris teach a form of meditation through which members are encouraged to purify their minds and ‘burn away’ the Karmic effects of past misdeeds. This may be done by sitting tranquilly in front of a screen on to which Dada Lekhraj’s image is projected, then making affirmations regarding the eternal nature of the soul
Lawrence Babbs described another practise where “the student or students sit in a semi-darkened room facing the teacher (usually a woman). Just above and behind the teacher’s head is a red plastic ovoid that glows from a lightbulb within, in its center is a tiny hole which appears as an intense whitelight against the red glow. This device represents the Supreme Soul (known as Shiv Baba) who is the presiding deity of the universe. With devotional songs playing softly in the background, student and teacher gaze intently at each other, either in the eyes or at the forehead. While doing this the student is supposed to imagine him or herself as a soul and not as a body. The student is told to think of themself as separate from the body, as bodiless, as light, as power, as bathed in the love and light of the Supreme Soul, and so on. This might continue for fifteen or twenty minutes”.Babb also states that while staring (gazing into the eyes of an adept) at the teacher, many students experience visual hallucinations involving lights.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2017 12:09AM by corboy.
Brahma Kumaris - many, many front groups
Posted by:
corboy
()
Date: December 31, 2017 12:21AM
Alternative Names
BKWSU is also known as and operates through the following titles and many others.
Some of these have a blurred distinction between what is Brahma Kumari evangelism and what are the personal business interests of favoured adherents.
Some of these operate independently, others have become business for individuals or apparently stand alone NPO/NGOs incorporating non-BK directors who are generally unaware of full agenda.
In addition, there are a number of splinter or reform movement borrowing some or all of the BKWSU teachings, such as the PBKs (Advance Party or AIVV), Shankar Party, Vishnu Party, and others
Academy For Better World
America Meditating
Anubhuti Retreat Center
Earth Care
Eternity Ink
Global Forum for Public Relations
Global Harmony Foundation
Global Retreat Centre
Good Wishes Bank
Happy House Meditation Centre
House of International Media
Images & Voices of Hope
Inner Space
India One Solar Energy
Invisible Doctors
Le Centre de Méditation Parenthèse
Learning Center For Peace
Living Values Education Program
Meditation Museum
Om Shanti Studios
Peace of Mind TV
Peace Village
Perpetual Yogic Agriculture (Shashwat Yogic Kheti)
Rajyoga Education & Research Foundation (RERF)
Raja Yoga Center
Relax 7
Relax Kids
Saligram Studios
Self Development Consultants Group
Self Management Leadership
Shri Shiva Adhyatmic Foundation
Soul Journey Retreat
Space for Truth
Spirituality and Justice
The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care
The Meditation Center
The Transformation Center
The Yoga Shop
BK Publications
BKmedia
Brahma Kumaris Association
Brahma Kumaris Community Education Resources
Brahma Kumaris Educational Society
Brahma Kumaris Health Communications
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Centre
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Learning Centre
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Study Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Spirituele Akademie
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University [BKWSU]
Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Visha Vidyalaya [PBIVV]
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization [BKWSO]
Village Outreach Programme (VOP)
Visions of a Better World Foundation
Yayasan Studi Spiritual Brahma Kumaris, and others
[www.brahmakumaris.info]
BKWSU is also known as and operates through the following titles and many others.
Some of these have a blurred distinction between what is Brahma Kumari evangelism and what are the personal business interests of favoured adherents.
Some of these operate independently, others have become business for individuals or apparently stand alone NPO/NGOs incorporating non-BK directors who are generally unaware of full agenda.
In addition, there are a number of splinter or reform movement borrowing some or all of the BKWSU teachings, such as the PBKs (Advance Party or AIVV), Shankar Party, Vishnu Party, and others
Quote
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Academy For Better World
America Meditating
Anubhuti Retreat Center
Earth Care
Eternity Ink
Global Forum for Public Relations
Global Harmony Foundation
Global Retreat Centre
Good Wishes Bank
Happy House Meditation Centre
House of International Media
Images & Voices of Hope
Inner Space
India One Solar Energy
Invisible Doctors
Le Centre de Méditation Parenthèse
Learning Center For Peace
Living Values Education Program
Meditation Museum
Om Shanti Studios
Peace of Mind TV
Peace Village
Perpetual Yogic Agriculture (Shashwat Yogic Kheti)
Rajyoga Education & Research Foundation (RERF)
Raja Yoga Center
Relax 7
Relax Kids
Saligram Studios
Self Development Consultants Group
Self Management Leadership
Shri Shiva Adhyatmic Foundation
Soul Journey Retreat
Space for Truth
Spirituality and Justice
The Janki Foundation for Global Health Care
The Meditation Center
The Transformation Center
The Yoga Shop
BK Publications
BKmedia
Brahma Kumaris Association
Brahma Kumaris Community Education Resources
Brahma Kumaris Educational Society
Brahma Kumaris Health Communications
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Centre
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Learning Centre
Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Study Foundation
Brahma Kumaris Spirituele Akademie
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University [BKWSU]
Prajapita Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Visha Vidyalaya [PBIVV]
Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization [BKWSO]
Village Outreach Programme (VOP)
Visions of a Better World Foundation
Yayasan Studi Spiritual Brahma Kumaris, and others
[www.brahmakumaris.info]
Re: World Spiritual University / Brahmin Kumaris / Raja Yoga
Posted by:
corboy
()
Date: December 31, 2017 12:28AM
Friends, we have to do "due diligence" and run a background check on any good cause, period.
Having a building inspected before you purchase it is considered wise business practice; you'd be considered a fool if you did not do so.
It is time to recognize that the same alertness is needed when some group offers to teach yoga to your kids in school, markets meditation to your health organization, offers "free meditation classes".
Learn to be your own private eye -- even when your dearest friend urges you to try something out.
Free meditation classes and recommendations from friends -- those are two major
ways that dishonest groups get at us.
And, dishonest people and groups often manipulate Google so that bad news
about them is hard to find.
So, put search terms in quotation marks alongside the names. "cult" "abuse" "scam" "fraud" "plaintiff" "money" "former disciple" "complaints".
If the group or a guru has published books, go to Amazon, read the reviews and especially look at the one and two star reviews. These reviews do NOT show up on
Google searches - but can contain useful information.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2018 03:27AM by corboy.
Having a building inspected before you purchase it is considered wise business practice; you'd be considered a fool if you did not do so.
It is time to recognize that the same alertness is needed when some group offers to teach yoga to your kids in school, markets meditation to your health organization, offers "free meditation classes".
Learn to be your own private eye -- even when your dearest friend urges you to try something out.
Free meditation classes and recommendations from friends -- those are two major
ways that dishonest groups get at us.
And, dishonest people and groups often manipulate Google so that bad news
about them is hard to find.
So, put search terms in quotation marks alongside the names. "cult" "abuse" "scam" "fraud" "plaintiff" "money" "former disciple" "complaints".
If the group or a guru has published books, go to Amazon, read the reviews and especially look at the one and two star reviews. These reviews do NOT show up on
Google searches - but can contain useful information.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2018 03:27AM by corboy.
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