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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''''Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya''''' ([[Hindi]], translates as "Spiritual Godly University". [[Devanagari]]: आध्यात्मिक ईश्वरीय विश्वविद्यालय) claims itself to be a reformative <ref name="whaling" /> splinter group within the [[Brahma Kumaris]] religious movement.<ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive">{{cite book<br />
| last = Walliss<br />
| first = John<br />
| title = The Brahma Kumaris As a Reflexive Tradition: Responding to Late Modernity <br />
| year = 2002<br />
| publisher = Ashgate Publishing<br />
| isbn = 978-0-7546-0951-3<br />
| quote = Another rendition of the University's Millenarianism [is] put forward by a group named the Advance Party. This group is made up of predominantly disaffected ex-members of the BKWSU University. Some of those had conflict with the BKWSU's local representative, whereas some disagreed with too strict ascetic lifestyle of Brahma Kumaris. These members of are highly critical of the BKWSU University. This group also called themselves the Advance Party and deeply criticises the BK theodicy and the manner in which they allege its millenarianism has been understood.<br />
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Followers of the ''Adhyatmik Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya'' (AIVV) refer to themselves as the '''''Prajapita Brahma Kumaris''''' (PBKs) <ref><br />
{{cite web<br />
| url = http://www.shivbaba.org.pl/<br />
| title = Advance Knowledge<br />
| accessdate = 2007-07-22<br />
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070717133545/http://www.shivbaba.org.pl/<br />
| archivedate = 17 July 2007<br />
| url-status = dead<br />
| df = dmy-all<br />
}}<br />
</ref> or Advance Party.<ref name="whaling" /><ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive" /> The AIVV sees itself and the Brahma Kumaris Organization as two halves of the same spiritual family who will eventually re-unite to transform this world from hell into heaven, {{Citation needed|date=October 2013}} although the [[BKWSU]] does not share the same belief.<br />
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The organisation is based in [[Kampil]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]<ref name="whaling" /><ref>{{cite book<br />
| last = Robbins<br />
| first = Thomas<br />
| title = Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem: Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements<br />
| year = 1997<br />
| publisher = Routledge<br />
| isbn = 978-0-415-91648-6<br />
| url-access = registration<br />
| url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780415916493<br />
}}</ref><br />
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==Beliefs==<br />
Central to the PBKs' beliefs is that at the beginning of the movement, there was a different [[spiritual medium|medium]], [[Dada Lekhraj]]'s business partner, who died in 1942, reincarnated as the AIVV's leader [[Virender Dev Dixit]] and has, since Lekhraj Kripalani's death, become once again the authoritative medium of [[God]] through whom he speaks clarifying the earlier teachings.<ref name="whaling" /><br />
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The PBKs accuse the BKWSU's hierarchy of "censoring or altering" the spiritualistic messages called "Murlis".<ref name="whaling">{{cite book<br />
| last = Whaling<br />
| first = Frank<br />
| title = Understanding the Brahma Kumaris <br />
| year = 2012<br />
| publisher = Dunedin<br />
| isbn = 978-1-903765-51-7<br />
| pages = 81–82<br />
| quote = <br />
}}</ref> They consider that the Brahma Kumaris misinterpret and misunderstood their predictions. PBKs refer to the Brahma Kumaris' teachings as ‘Basic Knowledge’ and message presented by Shiva through Dixit as the ‘Advance[d] knowledge’.<ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive"/><br />
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The PBKs claim that God is now manifesting himself through a different [[mediumship|medium]] to correctly interpret the original teachings and reject the Brahma Kumaris belief that [[God]] and their deceased founder [[Dada Lekhraj]] is being channelled via an elderly woman called Hiradaya Mohini or "Dadi Gulzar".<ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive"/><br />
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Shivbaba narrated Gyan Murlis (flute of knowledge) through Brahma Baba and is now giving the advanced knowledge i.e. He is clarifying the true meaning (the true Gita) of those murlis, to the AIVV Prajapita Brahma Kumar/Kumaris (i.e. Advance Party or AIVV). {{citation needed|date=November 2013}}<br />
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==Membership==<br />
The group is made up of predominantly disaffected ex-members of the BKWSU University, some of whom had conflict with the BKWSU's local representative.<ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive"/><br />
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Walliss identifies the Advance Party as radically re-interpreting the millenarianism of the BKSWU to regain its "true" original form. As a result, they set a specific date of 2008 as that expected for the destruction of the world and the emergence of the millennial kingdom in 2036.<ref>Walliss. Introduction to ''The Brahma Kumaris As a ‘Reflexive Tradition’ (Responding to Late Modernity)''</ref><br />
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==BKWSU use of term==<br />
Within the Brahma Kumaris movement, the term "Advance Party" is also used for the group of deceased [[Brahma Kumaris]] followers who they claim reincarnate back into the world at this time in order to physically prepare the [[paradise|paradisical]] heaven on earth, called the [[Golden Age]].<ref name="whaling" /><br />
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The breakaway group's use of the name is seen within the BKWSU as impertinent and they therefore refer to them as the 'Shankar Party'.<ref name="John_Walliss_reflexive"/><br />
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==Criminal allegations==<br />
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In December 2017, Indian police raided the group's [[ashram]]s to free hundreds of female followers said to be being kept in terrible conditions. 250 women and 48 girls were released many of whom, it was alleged by Swati Maliwal the city's commissioner for women, appeared to be drugged. According to a lawsuit lodged at Delhi's High Court, the leader of the group Virendra Dev Dixit had sexually assaulted multiple women and keeps residents confined in conditions “worse than farm animals”.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/29/india-ashrams-thousands-women-feared-trapped-adhyatmik-vishwa-vidyalaya?CMP=twt_gu</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[New religious movement]]<br />
* [[End times]]<br />
* [[Channeling (mediumistic)]] <br />
* [[Meditation]]<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* http://www.pbks.info - PBK website<br />
* http://vimeo.com/advanceknowledge - Vimeo channel<br />
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