Since 2009 I am a fixed part of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. We have our headquarter at Mt. Abu, India, and Dada Lekhraj was our founder. He was a very successful jeweller while selling diamonds and precious stones to royal houses. In 1936 he started to dedicade his life to the spiritual organization. Our mostly female teacher teach Yoga, meditation and spiritual philosophies and from an early stage on it were the sisters who Dada kept in the forefront. During this process they held key functions which were part of positions during these years in India only men use to own. From the 80s onwards we began to be active at the UN as an NGO and today yearly we contribute to the climate conferences COY and COP, its little brother for young members of the United Nations. In cooperation with the Indian and German government or Fraunhofer Society on our ground at Madhuban (forest of honey, as we also name our main spiritual home) we built a solar power station which for some time was the biggest in the earth. That means in the last century on the globe in our world history we won a lot of humans as a friend, made beautiful connections with high politicians and very many souls locally, nationally or globally.
In my artwork Jewel Caterpillar I speak about and reflect on my role as a Yogini and the vocabulary of sect or religious movement.
At the same time from the very beginning onwards also sometimes constantly like in villages or at cities from time to time negative voices started to surround us, too. I think it were definitely maybe understandable heavy fears of women and men in the community, negative press and groups against us opposing. A very strong and one of my favorite idols Tom Cruise helps me much to reflect on this and assimilate it. So much I wondered about how ever he managed to for his whole life being a very famous and successful actor and additionnally a well-known face of Scientology. In my artwork Jewel Caterpillar I speak about and reflect on my role as a Yogini and the vocabulary of sect or religious movement. In Stuttgart, Germany, the local government comforted us that there is really no problem existing with our name due to the freedom of worship in our nation. While thinking of this topic in the past I had the thought during the process of various Yoga forms arriving in the western world, appearing spiritual movements, ways and other alternative religious paths up to today huge things changed. I feel possibly old dominance of Christians and former hegemony keeps on vanishing to more tolerance and understanding. Personally I myself in the last years not once got to know anything very noxious or shocking about Scientology in the daily news. A few years ago the Raja Yoga school in Stuttgart invited to a interreligious event in the city. One of our guests was the local Church of Scientology. Within these years I still was much surprised by it, but today I feel it was a huge win and I am proud my organization was involved in the effort of mutual understanding. I can imagine dark news about them only were cases of slander, black sheep or sweet individual cases.
After moving to Hamburg to start my work with Hip Hop I celebrated countless successes and kept on being happy for endless reasons. As well at the same time I found a fragile music industry in many spaces in the city. As it is nothing unusual I guess quite quickly it got known to collegues, journalists or artists that I belong closely with Brahma Kumaris. Until this point I within the last years never worried about my finances or work. Being part of many teams at the University or the University radios in my daily life and studies I close to zero had any problems at any point in time or situation. Very naturally peacefully and amazingly I was a part of our unbelievable successful student initiative and many activities like interviewing great politicians. This was due to my fellow students not knowing about my membership numerously or they were trusting me though not finding anything bad with it. Then in the north of Germany I saw quite not only a few fellow manager or bosses acting possibly only subtly or much roughly towards me. I nevertheless only pretty late concluded one of the reasons for this might me being a Brahma Kumari because I experienced soo collosal great harmony, efficient volunteering and work cooperations up to then in the past. Until today noone ever said anything to me 'bout this, though I can imagine this unspoken is a seething volcano within our communities. While maybe I saw this being the reason for hostilities, contacts breaking off relations with me without any more comment, growths failing to come or lower numbers of sellings in my eyes this is a huge social climatic catastrophe and not to speak of the economic problem.
"Possibly still we need some small steps to fix in our law, consciousnesses and daily habits completely that not a small amout of citizens in their lives are bright fixed stars not deserving blocks in being a star who livelonlgy is fixed at the art and music heaven."
My this time's blog article therefore aims to help solving this problem for me by creating tolerance and understanding, building bridges as I am convinced it opens very fascinating worlds for women who did not know me yet. To possibly worrying parents or teens I hope it brings relaxation and the opportunity to think about and reflect on it. When any time u or a friend of yours are having a question I always make time to listen and speak to u. I'm very happy to have lines of u dropping into Whatsapp, Twitter or hear from u via any other of the ways I'm offering. Simultaneously may my words, too, be a support for other animals of any religious form, spiritual love or diverse minorities still fighting for final equality. Possibly still we need some small steps to fix in our law, consciousnesses and daily habits completely that not a small-sized amout of citizens in their lives are bright fixed stars not deserving blocks in being a star who livelonlgy are fixed at the art and music heaven.
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