Carter Phipps at the Parliament of the World's Religions

the first day I was at the not at the parliament but there was a pre um gathering at monserat Abbey in Northern Spain up in the mountains and there about 400 450 of the people who were going to be the presenters and many of the organizers of the parliament and many spiritual leaders and from around the world were all at this assembly so I was there and uh representing Andrew Cohen the founder of the magazine and uh I remember the first day we were in these different configurations s you know Circles of 10 or 15 people and and in the middle of this this middle of the of the activities this this two women walk in one may middle-aged woman in in in white robes a white SAR Indian SAR and another a a diminutive elderly woman and in in dressed completely in white and she walks in and the the room just kind of whole room turned and looked at her and you just knew right away someone of significant import had walked in the room and she walked in and I think she sat down and I thought who is that you know who is that very interesting and uh and every time she spoke over those next couple days she would speak and you just feel the kind of the room would go silent and really listen to this person that this was Dy juny and she is one of the acting leaders in the Brahma Kumari movement and the Brahma Kamari movement is something I'd heard about but I didn't know that much about it but it turns out it's a it's an organization I think it's based in in England in London but it it's it's has hundreds of thousands of of members in in in in all over the world so it's a huge movement and they do all kinds of things from from uh you know Consulting for major businesses to they run a university they do all kind they have centers all over the world and it was founded by uh a teacher in India I think he's originally from Pakistan but in in India in in the 1930s something like that and Dy juny was one of the of the young women who he had picked to head his to run his his uh his organization after and uh she was a student of his and so as we were interviewing people at the parliament over the course of this six or seven days we were there we had a chance to sit down with her and and and there's a you know Andrew had a chance to really ask her about their own experience and their own teaching in their own life