IN 2017 BK's BIG DAY QUIETLY PASSES...

Advertisement from the 'The Age' Melbourne, Saturday January 15 1983.Prajapita Brahma(1884-1969) founded the Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya in 1937 in colonial India. His 'day of ascension' was January 18 1969.

NEWSPAPER AD FROM 1983 CELEBRATES 'BABA'S DAY': CHANGIN' TIMES?

               Once upon a time, not so many years ago, the biggest day in the BK calendar was January 18: the day that BKWSU founder Prajapita Brahma (Lekhraj Kripalani) passed on in 1969 at the age of 84.

             Public programs were held in his honour, his virtues were extolled, and his understandings celebrated. In countries around the world the BK's never held back in enthusiastically sharing Brahma Baba's deeply held convictions.

           As you can read on this site, the story of how Brahma Baba came to settle on what is now the 'BKWSU knowledge', and what this knowledge is, is either fascinating or easily dismissed. Essentially though, looking at BKWSU websites, meditation is now what is primarily promoted by the BKs on their sites, in a world already crowded with trendy meditations online. We recall that for the last 30 years, we have consistently promoted the philosophy of the BKs, especially through theatre and film, with a fondness for it's dedicated outrageousness and 'take it or leave it' attitude.

           In an apparently Godless world, the  core philosophy of the BKs, once so proudly proclaimed in newspaper interviews and on the front pages of websites, has largely faded from public view.As we noted previously even the official BKA website, which we reference here +NEW! BK LITE! has no mention of core beliefs, that is the present 'descent of God', and the role of 'Brahma as God's unique agent'.

           However, this is one site where you can find the beliefs and knowledge of the BKs celebrated, and we believe these concepts are lively, confronting and worthy of debate. Another informed website you might like to visit is   www.brahmakumarisresearch.org  a most interesting site presented by independent minded BK academics...essential reading for 2017.🙂

 

It'sMayaByaNose 01.02.2017 17:34

Hey Robin, your BKresearch link location is misspelled, brahmakumarisreserch.org - missing the a, so the link is broken.

A Fistful of Shivratri 31.01.2017 20:37

Hey, old-timer, you need to fix your bottom link location. Currently, it reads
http://www.brahmakumarisreserch.org/

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18.07 | 05:20

dadi prakashmani was a great leader and one of babas favourite students baba use to take her name in sakar murli as an example. Baba used to call her kumarika.

18.07 | 05:16

baba uses destruction word so that brahmins do teevra purusharth

18.07 | 05:11

in murli baba has said sangamyug is 100years baba talks about destructrion so that brahmins purusharth can take lift.babas words are kalyankari

14.06 | 22:39

Goodonya Robin.