Chicago Brahma Kumaris

03/20/2026

Please join us in honoring International Women’s Month and be inspired 🙏

09/13/2025

🌈 PAINT THE WORLD PEACEFUL 🌈

Organized by Brahma Kumaris, Chicago, in collaboration with HAnSA.

🎨 Join us for a CREATIVE POT PAINTING EVENT to celebrate the *UN Day of Peace*! 🕊️ Express yourself, connect with others, and spread peace vibes through art!

It’s a FREE of charge event offered as a community service. Lunch will be served.

Please REGISTER
https://bkmetrochicago.org/events/paint-the-world-peaceful-in-person/

06/22/2025

06/16/2025

Happy Summer! Please register online bkmetrochicago.org. Looking forward to seeing you. Please check the flyer for 🙏more details,

06/11/2025

In dealing with difficult situations, we might be tempted to blame others, or think we are being victimized. However, the seed of blame does not produce good fruit. What bears good fruit is to nurture the seeds of self-respect, courage and altruism, and put these values into the way we treat others and ourselves. When it is the season for planting, a farmer knows he has work to do. His attention goes to what seeds he has to sow. He cannot afford to lose time or be careless. He makes no excuses! Now is the time to put this much attention on ourselves.
Take a minute to sit and listen to your mind and heart talk to each other. The mind says, “I am so exhausted and confused, I can hardly hear you. All I want to do is sleep.” Notice also, how unhappy the heart has become. The heart says,"I’m not happy being driven by desires; I have never found what I really wanted." But no one was listening. So these things were left inside, layering us in sorrow and pain.
“When the mind and heart do not understand each other, the result is loss of hope and depression.” - Dadi Janki
What can be done about this?
One positive solution is to consider the mind to be a small child who has been neglected for a long time. Give your mind a lot of tender, loving care. Accept it as it is and don’t worry about changing it.
Another solution is to go within and talk to yourself patiently in a positive, trustful and respectful way, as the mind and heart have been thirsting for peace and love for so long. Love yourself by studying and thinking about spiritual knowledge; spend time in meditation remembering you are a peaceful soul separate from the body.
Finally, listen to the silence within and remember God. We truly love ourselves when we learn to catch the love God is sharing with us. We have been searching for this pure love. Opening up to God’s love finishes our inner restlessness, dissolves the unfulfilled desires and blame, and unifies the heart and mind.
Values, when lived from the heart, can move mountains. It is not a big thing. Human beings can do whatever they set their mind to. A better life is in our own hands and no one else's. Now is the season for goodness and greatness to take root and be allowed to grow! 'Become the kind of human being the world needs right now. From this day onward the world needs your power. And in order to feed your soul with power put God’s love and light in it.'
Contact: Sr Chirya [email protected], [email protected]

05/16/2025

Free from Anxiety, Part 2: The Practice – On Zoom
Saturday, May 17,10:00 – 11:30 am CT
This is a follow up to Free From Anxiety workshop offered in April. Part 2 presents practice techniques that replace anxious thoughts with peaceful, calming thoughts. Daily practices will be presented as well as practices for times when anxiety arises. If you missed the April workshop, it is recommended that you view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGlhcmxe_W4
Here is the Zoom link:
https://brahmakumaris.zoom.us/j/87573670795...
Meeting ID: 875 7367 0795
Passcode: peace360

04/27/2025

See you all Sunday, 27th April at 11am at our Chicago Center