Official Contact with Sister Jayanti BKWSU (UK) - legal

[fluffy bunny]

In response to news that Global and BKWSU (UK) chief administrator Janki Kripalani was in the UK, and in response to the delays in receiving a detailed and substantial response to letters sent in March 2008, I sent the following to the BKWSU (UK) charity secretary Jayanti Kirpalani.

Alka,

I am writing in the understanding that you are Jayanti Kirpalani's secretary and wanted to address this concern to her.

Thank you

• Jayanti,
  
  I understand that UK and Global chief administrator of the BKWSU, Janki Kripalani, is current in the UK and I am looking for assurances that I am going to receive substantial and detailed responses to the correspondence that I have sent to her. I am sorry to say that I feel as if I am being left in the dark and obstructed yet again, and I am not receiving the requested acknowledgements from her appointed legal representative.
  
  As you will remember, one of the issue that I raised was of the use of BKWSU charity facilities in the US and UK for a personally motivated legal action by Colonel Hansa Raval, as evidenced by your IT team representative, and I am seeking to resolve this issue with the organization of which Janki Kripalani leads.
  
  I am of the impression that the matter is being studiously ignored in the hope that it goes away and that by the decision of having Michelmores LLP represent only the UK branch, international issues can be swept aside. Despite that Janki Kripalani also leads the UK branch.
  
  Being an initiate, or even if you wish an ex-adherent of the Brahma Kumaris, I am perfectly aware that the real power structure within the Brahma Kumaris is entirely separate from the legal or "lokik" one, of Janki's and your own position and hence my direct request to you both again. To be frank, we know that Sanjay Tulsidas has very little real spiritual status within the organization, we have learnt from previous experiences and I am at a loss to understand what this latest episode is all about. Other than more deflection.
  
  I have requested specific acknowledgement that Ray Bhat was actually acting on your and Janki Kripalani's behalf and the information I supplied to him was requested by, and provided to, Janki Kripalani as we were told. I am specifically referring to the letter sent to you as an attempt to resolve issues in a Brahmin manner but which was supplied instead to Colonel Hansa Raval. A draft which was then re-edited by her and presented as correspondence I had allegedly sent to her as a "blackmail" letter (by her attorney).
  
  As I am sure you will agree that within Brahmin circles Shrimat and the Maraydas rise above manmat and even worldly laws. And it is those that we are judged by first. Principles which non-BKs will not fully appreciate. If required I have extensive evidence of the correspondence (examples given) that I can provide again for the organization.
  
  I look forward to a moral and ethical resolution of these and other matters. I think it is now high time time for the Brahma Kumaris to make a visible example of internal reform, been seen to treat their own with justice and others lives with respect.
  
  
  cc Shivaji Shiva, Michelmores LLP (lawyer)

[mr green]

Very true about the ignoring thing. Jayanti hates having to deal with tricky matters. She wants to get on with the intoxication of Sangum Yuga.

[fluffy bunny]

Very true about the ignoring thing. Jayanti hates having to deal with tricky matters. She wants to get on with the intoxication of Sangum Yuga.

Its an interesting development because, basically, what the BKWSU is doing is outsourcing its karmic account for a "Shudra" (i.e. as non-BKs are called inside) to deal with in a care-less "lokik" fashion. What a lawyer will do is not "make them have to do the right thing" ... especially as he wont value the Brahmin Maryadas ... a lawyer will advise them on the least amount they have to do to cover their ass, or "compliancy" as it is called, and what they can get away with without getting in trouble.

You see, here they represent "a lawyer acting for us" but when asked if he acts for the BKWSU global he says no. He acts for the charity Janki Kripalani is chief of ... but they ignore all of the contents of the letter sent to her.

Of course, I do not mean this as an insult to the lawyer involved. I am representing the Brahmin view. What it all DOES represent is the REAL BK Brahmin "way to deal with things". And it is, in my opinion, frankly lacking in moral backbone or ethics.

How can they go on a stand and lecture other people about VALUES? Here are their living values.

[fluffy bunny]

It goes on. This is the advance of hiring a highly qualified and intelligent lawyers. With regarding my confusion over why Janki Kripalani, as chief administrator of the BKWSU (UK) cannot answer letters sent to her as chief administrator of the BKWSU worldwide, I am told "While individuals may from time to time be involved in the administration of both the Indian organisation and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK) those roles are distinct."

As there appears to me to be no such thing in reality as the 'Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University', can anyone tell me if Janki Kripalani actually has an official, 'on the paper' role within the World Renewal Spiritual Trust, or is it all just notional?

Who are the trustees of the World Renewal Spiritual Trust now? Has it been transfered from Mumbai to Abu?

Dear Sir

Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK) (Charity Registration No. 269971)

Thank you for your messages of 4, and 5 August. Thank you also for copying to us your letter of 8 August to Ms Alka Patel.
We have now had an opportunity to discuss your messages with our clients and can respond.

The further queries you raise are matters for the Indian organisation. The address of that organisation is freely available on the Internet. For ease of reference we are happy to include it here:

• Pandav Bhawan
  Post Box No 2
  Mount Abu 307501
  Rajasthan
  India

While individuals may from time to time be involved in the administration of both the Indian organisation and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK) those roles are distinct. The Indian organisation is an independent organisation governed by its own trustees. We are not instructed by that organisation and neither this firm nor our clients are able to speak on its behalf.

Yours faithfully

Michelmores LLP

[alladin]

The situation seems "fluid", as it is with the spooks invoked and involved with the BKs; more than one entity, a "catch me if you can" style.

Like in conjurer's tricks: look, one moment here; next, disappeared :shock:.

[fluffy bunny]

The further queries you raise are matters for the Indian organisation ... While individuals may from time to time be involved in the administration of both the Indian organisation and Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (UK) those roles are distinct ... We are not instructed by that organisation and neither this firm nor our clients are able to speak on its behalf.

Remarkably, what we are being told here is that BKWSU (UK) chief administrator Janki Kripalani, and to a lesser Jayanti Kirpalani, as Michel Mores clients cannot speak on behalf of the BKWSU ... now, anyone who has been in the BKWSU 7 Days knows that is ridiculous. Janki's role as global chief aside, Jayanti is a regular representative of the BKWSU to the United Nations, Royalty, Politicians and VIPs.

I checked and it appears that the World Renewal Spiritual Trust is not registered in Rajasthan, as given above, and is listed only as a sister organisation. So what is and who does run the BKWSU? From the http://www.brahmakumaris.org.in/about.htm;

World Renewal Spiritual Trust is a sister institution, and Raj Yoga Education and Research Foundation is a creation of Brahma Kumaris Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya. Both these institutions also are serving the society through education in Values, etc.

I reply requesting a copy of the constitution and by-Laws for surely there must be confirmation that the above is so. How many BKs have seen their organization's constitution or know where copies are kept?

Shivaji,

your clients appear to continuing to ignore the issues raised in a perfectly reasonable manner to the BKWSU (UK) secretary Jayanti Kirpalani including, at the very least,

* a copy of the complete collection of original unedited Murlis and regular updates
* confirmation of the conduct of Ray Bhatt in representing the BKWSU (UK)
* the request for a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws and center co-ordination manual

Can you tell me when I might expect a full and respectful reply from her? I enclose a copy of the primary letter as a reminder.

Could you please clarify for my benefit the differentiation between Janki Kripalani's role as chief administrator of the BKWSU and her role of chief administrator of the BKWSU (UK)?

We have made a search via publicly available records and cannot find a World Renewal Spiritual Trust registered in Rajasthan at the address given.

Therefore, I repeat my request for clarification of where it is registered, who exactly are the responsible trustees and if, indeed, it is actually the ultimately responsible body for the BKWSU (UK) ... I think you can appreciate that anyone in my position would be feeling as if they are being runaround or deliberately obstructed at this point and could not see why Janki Kripalani in her position as chief administrator of the BKWSU (UK) is unable to provide a substantial response to the correspondence sent to her.

Could we please progress this matter?

[bkti-pit]

We are not who we say we are. We are what we do and what we did. This is as true of ourselves as individuals as it is of ourselves as institutions. It is as true of me as it is the so-called and numinous BKWSU.

What I am doing here is offering the BKWSU a chance to prove its ethics in public. What I have done and I am doing here is offer them sufficient evidence of a clearly unethical situation and showing how they personally and institutionally respond to it.

Ethics? Is there such a word in the Brahmin dictionary?

[fluffy bunny]

One learns much more about the leaders of an organization by examining at how they ACT, rather than what they SAY, especially when confronted with a difficult situation.

I received a reply which underlines both the BKWSU's refusal to discuss and ignorance of the issues which we have raised.

The lawyer for the BKWSU (UK), Shivaji Shiva leaves all requests unanswered and says it is all BKWSU India's problem (whilst refusing to actually informing us of which is the overall responsible body or who are the trustees are). The BKWSU (UK) does not wish to communicate any more. BKWSU India refuses to acknowledge any correspondence at all, despite many efforts.

One might suggest that he is advising his clients to do nothing, and pass the buck and play the transnational game because, legally, they can get away with doing nothing. The likelihood of anyone throwing money at the situation and getting anywhere is so low, my guess he is just advising them to sit tight. I am not sure karma works like that.

Anyone that is, or has been, a BK Brahmin knows how "agyani" from a Brahmin point of view this is. Janki Kripalani, widely accepted amongst BKs as one the top eight souls in the world and near to spiritual perfection, is God's chosen global chief.

How ridiculous is it to suggest that a letter sent to her via the UK is entirely different to a letter sent to her in India (when she regularly deal with correspondence sent to her from every country) and this somehow excuses her from answering it?

Does it make a mockery of the whole BK system, or does it expose it?

15 August 2008

Thank you for your messages of 11 and 14 August.

I have passed your messages to my clients, who feel they have adequately answered your queries via my response of 12 August. I will only respond further if and when instructed to do so by my clients.

Yours sincerely

Shivaji Shiva

_________________________________________________________

Shivaji Shiva
Associate, Head of Charities and Social Enterprise

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23 August 2008

Dear Shivaji


your clients have clearly not responded to any of the enquiries and issues we have raised in previous correspondence.

I wish to resolve with the trustees and chief administrator of the BKWSU (UK) the matter of individuals within the BKWSU (UK) using the facilities of the charity and colluding for the personal gain of another individual within the organization.

I have clearly evidence this from their own correspondence. I know from discussion with senior members that they are entirely aware of the matters that I wish to resolve.

To whom should I re-address my concerns?


Thank you

[arjun]

Dear fluffy bunny,
Saw your above post just now. In my view, the only way to get a proper response from BKWSU either in UK or in India would be to file a case in the Court of the land. Otherwise they will not respond and keep passing the buck or just remain silent. This is the strategy adopted even in government offices in India. Generally people do not get proper replies or solutions to their problems until they file an application under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or until they move the Indian Court. But the latter option is very time consuming and it may take even years for a case to settle.

This is the strategy that they adopted to stop the spread of the Advance Party (AIVV) for many many years in the beginning. They simply did not used to acknowledge even the existence of PBKs. They even used violence to frighten the PBKs. But now they cannot rule them out completely.

OGS,
Arjun