In tradition-bound patriarchal India, these personal life decisions were the exclusive right of men. The group also advocated that young women had the right to elect not to marry and that married women had the right to choose a celibate life.
People from any caste were allowed to attend meetings. The group had named a 22-year-old woman, Radhe Pokardas Rajwani (then known as "Om Radhe") as its president, and her management committee was made up of eight other women. Mysuru Vijaynagar, Yelwala, Mysore, India.Īfter about three years of meetings it became clear that Om Mandali was giving very special importance to the role of women, and was not adhering to the caste system. The majority of those who came were women and children from the Bhaibund caste - a caste of wealthy merchants and business people whose husbands and fathers were often overseas on business. He said he believed there was a greater power working through him and that many of those who attended these gatherings were themselves having spiritual experiences.
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He reported what he said were a series of visions and other transcendental experiences that commenced around 1935 and became the basis for the discourses.
The founder, Lekhraj Khubchand Kirpilani (who became known in the group as "Om Baba") was a wealthy jeweler. The original discourses were closely connected to the Bhagavad Gita. The Brahma Kumaris, originally called Om Mandali, started in Hyderabad, Sindh in north-west India (present-day Pakistan) It received this name because members would chant "Om" together, before having discourse on spiritual matters in the traditional satsang style.
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