Remembering Dadi Janki
Dadi Janki was a spiritual leader with the rare ability to speak of elevated things in ways that everyone could understand and apply to their own lives. She was one of the founding members of The Brahma Kumaris in the 1930’s in pre-partition India. She served the world as a spiritual teacher based first in India, then for over 30 years in London. In 2007, when the head of The Brahma Kumaris passed, Dadi Janki returned to and assumed leadership of the organisation until her passing in 2020 at age 104.
The Call-of-the-Time was her creation. She used to say, “There are many very good people serving the world at this time, but they are growing tired. Who is serving the servers? We must do that.” At each gathering she shared from her heart with the many influential people who had come together for a dialogue or retreat. Here’s something she shared in November of 2015:
“When I look at anyone, you may think I’m looking through these eyes, but the method is love. My own consistent effort is ‘I am a soul’…Whatever the news is in the world, we have to share love, peace, and happiness. This is what we have to bring into our interactions because this will bring happiness. This meeting and spiritual sharing makes us forget things that are mundane, but these spiritual things, we don’t forget. The atmosphere here is such that no one is even having ordinary thoughts. Whatever is the quality of the atmosphere we create, so this is also the quality of the vibrations. These things cannot be taught, but we learn these things by being in spiritual company.”
Mohini Didi
ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD FOR THE BRAHMA KUMARIS
BK Mohini Panjabi is the Administrative and Spiritual Head of The Brahma Kumaris, the sixth female elder to lead this global movement since its founding in 1936. Journeying from post-Partition India to leading The Brahma Kumaris, BK Mohini Didi’s visionary leadership continues to make spirituality tangible, accessible, and deeply relevant. Before accepting this position, she spent more than six decades channeling silent strength, spiritual knowledge, and universal love as Regional head of the Americas region of The Brahma Kumaris, transforming countless lives, through her love of truth, natural dignity, and light.
Sister Jayanti
ADMINISTRATIVE HEAD FOR THE BRAHMA KUMARIS
Sister Jayanti is a senior teacher of The Brahma Kumaris. She is the Additional Administrative Head of The Brahma Kumaris and the Director of The Brahma Kumaris activities in Europe and the Middle East and CEO for Brahma Kumaris UK. Sister Jayanti is also The Brahma Kumaris representative to the UN in Geneva. As a spiritual teacher for over 50 years, she has dedicated her life to self-transformation and service to humanity. She is a much sought after international public speaker, author of more than a dozen books and a visionary leader guided by spiritual values and principles. Known for her deep compassion and tireless commitment to the spiritual dimension of life, her clarity, simplicity and warmth have inspired millions across the globe to empower themselves to make positive changes in their own lives.
Charlie Hogg
National Coordinator, Brahma Kumaris in Australia
Charlie Hogg is a senior teacher of The Brahma Kumaris and the National Coordinator for Brahma Kumaris Australia. On a committed spiritual path for over 50 years, he is a seasoned meditator, teacher, and international speaker who has travelled to around 100 countries, presenting at conferences, retreats, and public programs worldwide. Drawing from lived experience, Charlie shares spirituality as a practical wisdom for contemporary life. He feels spirituality has a vital role to play in helping us navigate the inner world and reconnect with the intrinsic self, believing the first relationship in life is with our inner being—and when that relationship is harmonious, clarity and balance extend to everything we do.
Partners are companions in service, helping this work unfold and reach further.
Peter Senge
Facilitator
Peter is an American systems scientist and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning, and co-founder of the Center fo Systems Awareness. He has been interested in states of awareness for a long time and studied with Master Nan (Nan Huai-Chin) in China for many years. He has known the Brahma Kumaris since the 1990’s and helped to start The Call-of-the-Time Dialogues and Retreats in 1998. He understands that powerful work on the fields of action in the world begins with clear, elevated levels of awareness, which make visible subtle connections between the individual and the collective. He believes this has always been the essence of leadership though it’s been mostly forgotten in the modern materialistic world. Cultivation of these states of awareness seems more important now than ever.
Tex Gunning
Facilitator
Tex has been a friend of the Brahma Kumaris since 2002. It all started with a visit to Mount Abu with a leadership team from Unilever. Our briefing was “see what you can learn from the Brahma Kumaris that you can bring back to the office”. Ever since he has been fascinated by the wisdom of the Brahma Kumaris and has tried to bring that wisdom to the companies that He has been leading for the last 20 years. He has come to see that only a holistic approach to leadership will create the right happy environment to work in and will deliver therefore extraordinary results. He has learned that “happy cows produce more milk” and obviously that is also true for any human being. Leadership that addresses the physical, intellectual, social and spiritual needs of people. He is particularly interested to explore what the impact is of a lack of spiritual nurturing and the lack of spiritual wisdom on the behaviour of individuals, and on communities and societies at large.
Music opens the experience, deepens the space of silence, and gently guides the return
Ayako Ichimaru
Japan
Ayako Ichimaru is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work bridges music, consciousness, and connection beyond sound.Classically trained at Toho Gakuen and the Indiana University School of Music where she received a full scholarship, she is known for her technical excellence, sensitivity, and expressive depth.
As a soloist, she has performed across Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific, captivating diverse audiences—including global leaders—with her artistry and presence.
She further expands her vision through Sound of Light, a signature project and album that explores the transformative power of music and vibration. Through immersive performances, Ayako invites audiences into a space beyond music, guided by her belief in music as a universal language that uplifts, heals, and brings people together.
David Kilowsky
India
I am an Australian artist and musician who has dedicated the last 29 years of my life to spiritual development and service at the Brahma Kumaris Headquarters in Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India. Immersed in the teachings and lifestyle of the Brahma Kumaris, I have cultivated a profound love for meditation, which I express through music and visual art. My music is designed to aid in deepening meditation experiences, promoting inner peace and mindfulness for listeners worldwide. As a visual artist, I create large-scale airbrush canvases and digital designs that depict spiritual themes. My art is displayed in the Brahma Kumaris centers globally, offering visual representations of the meditative and spiritual states I aim to inspire through my music. My work is a fusion of art, music, and spirituality, and through it I hope to offer a pathway to connect with one’s higher self, fostering a sense of peace, awareness, and connection to the divine.
Kyoko Kimura
USA
Since becoming a Certified Healing Harpist in 2020 after retiring from teaching instrumental music, Kyoko has dedicated her life to creating peaceful and calming atmospheres through her music. She performs healing harp music at various assisted living and memory care facilities, providing emotional, physical and psychological comfort to those in need. Kyoko composes and improvises soothing melodies for the weekly Friday Guided Meditation and conducts monthly retreats at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center in San Francisco, where she resides.
Kyoko has been studying and practicing Raja Yoga Meditation with the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization since the year 2000. She teaches spiritual knowledge classes and Raja Yoga meditation courses. Kyoko’s vision is to deepen self-awareness through the spiritual studies in the presence of God and to continue sharing the wisdom with people around the
world.
Marcela Chavarria Araya
Costa Rica
