REPORTS FROM KARACHI + MORE 'ADI DEV' CONSTRUCTS

1936-1939 : AMAZING TALES!

Om Radhe, President of Om Mandli.

 

                  The Om Mandli/Bhaibund Community confrontation took place in 1938 and 1939 in both Hyderabad and Karachi.

Is This Justice? (1939) and Reply to Is This Justice (1940)  present forthright, opinionated and dramatic records of the intense politicking, misunderstandings, bullying + harassment of the Om Mandli, provocations, misinterpretations, community outrage + fear, riots, chaos and trance...as well as detailing the several court cases. The books present, of course, opposing points of view, and their documents are sometimes selective, but overall they make fascinating reading...we present the essence of both sides for your interest below 

OM RADHE IS CALLED TO THE CITY MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

On January 1 1939 Om Radhe was called to the Hyderabad City Magistrate’s Court and cross examined by a Mr Balchand. She introduced herself in this way : "I am the president of Om Mandli.The basis of Om Mandli teaching is that everyone is God and Om Mandli itself is God". (This Om Mandli belief in the omnipresence of God is confirmed in original Om Mandli documents in the British Library).

Om Radhe's appearance followed the questioning of four young ex-Om Mandli women, who shared their 'experiences'. Their stories were disturbing in terms of the behaviour of Bhai Lekhraj, but there was a strong feeling among some  pro Om Mandli citizens that the girls had been ‘tutored’ to speak as they did, and certainly no Om Mandli supporters were present to offer opposing views, and be  questioned. However, what seemed to lend some credence  to the girls' story was Om Radhe herself telling the court that Bhai Lekraj embraced and kissed female Om Mandli members, adding that neither he nor any one in the Mandli was capable of sin.  Is This Justice doesn’t mention this court case, as Reply to Is This Justice doesn’t mention court cases unfavourable to the Bhaibund Anti Om Mandli Committee.

However, Adi Dev puts an entirely different  interpretation on Om Radhe and the event. The book  tells us that Om Radhe attended  an unspecified court room,  on an unspecified date, presided over by an unnamed judge. In the course of a reportedly lengthy exchange with the judge,  Adi Dev (p.126-130) tells us that Om Radhe was asked to swear to tell the truth on the Gita. I cannot, she replied, because the Gita says God is omnipresent. This response, indeed the whole chapter,stretches credibility, as Bhai Lekhraj was still teaching from the Gita at the time, and, as we now know, a core Om Mandli belief then and for some years after was, Aham Brahm Asmi, I am God,  each one of us is God.

Summing up, Reply to ITJ says: ‘She (Om Radhe) admitted that Bhai Lekraj kisses and embraces herself and other girls, although this, she said, was done in the spirit of Gyan Father. Even according to that defence of such actions of Bhai Lekhraj, his conduct would not be tolerated for a moment not only in the Hindu society, but in any civilised community of the world.No gyan father ever indulges in kisses and embraces extended to grown up girls of 20 or more. And it was mainly this that raised the wrath of most of the people of Sind'.

The complaints of the Bhaibund community against Om Mandli/Avinashi Gyan Yagya/Bhai Lekhraj were published in the 'Om Mandli Bhaibund Committee Report' of November 1938, referencing earlier events. Support for Om Mandli came in the form of affidavits, letters and newspaper articles,. 

Of interest.. in the BKWSU book 'Bestower of Fortune' Dadi Prakashmani (then 16) recalls: 

'Baba said he would be going to Karachi for a month, but he stayed there for 3 months. We children were crying day and night: Where did my Giridhar Gopa ( Shri Krishna ) go? we acted as if crazy, calling out...we were desperately distressed!'

  

 

Show_N_Tell 17.01.2015 20:45

Doesn't that put a different perspective on things! Perhaps some of these gopis have been hogging the limelight?

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Latest comments

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.