Lifestyle
Brahma Kumaris follow a lifestyle of disciplines in order to achieve a high social status in the paradisiacal world which they believe will follow the apocalyptic calamity soon to befall humanity.:
- Celibacy and practice of chastity in marriage in order to focus energies on the world to come
- Sattvic vegetarianism, a strict lacto-vegetarian diet. (excluding eggs, onions, garlic and/or spicy food) cooked only by the self or other members.
- Abstaining from alcohol, tobacco and non-prescription drugs.
- Daily early morning meditation at 4:00 to 4:45 am, called 'Amrit Vela'.
- Daily morning class at approximately 6:30 am.
- Men and women traditionally sit on separate sides of the room at the centers during classes.
- Brahma Kumaris can be identified by their frequent adoption of wearing white clothes, to symbolize purity.
- Recommends that companions (friends/family) be good (satsang) other Brahma Kumari adherents as opposed to non-BKs given over to worldly pleasures known as bhogis.
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