BK Jayanti

Jayanti Kirpalani (born 1949), also known as Sister Jayanti, Rajyogini Sister Jayanti or BK Jayanti, is a British spiritual teacher of Indian origin and a senior leader of the Brahma Kumaris. She is the organisation's additional administrative head, the regional director for its activities in Europe and the Middle East, and its representative to the United Nations in Geneva, a role she has held since 1982. She has led the organisation's delegation to the UN Climate Change Conferences since 2009 and led morning meditation sessions at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos in 2018. Her family moved to London when she was eight. Since 1982 she has also represented the Brahma Kumaris at the United Nations in Geneva.

Public profile

Davos 2018 In January 2018, Sister Jayanti led morning meditation sessions at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The BBC, reporting from the meeting, identified her as "European director of Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University" and described a session attended by approximately forty delegates.

Climate advocacy Sister Jayanti has led the Brahma Kumaris delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences (UNFCCC Conferences of the Parties) since 2009, speaking on behalf of the organisation at successive sessions. Her advocacy at these forums emphasises a connection between climate action and inner change, arguing that materialistic consumption patterns are a driver of the environmental crisis.

Selected titles: Practical Meditation: Spiritual Yoga for the Mind (Sterling Publishing, 2009; ) Why Women Believe in God (with Liz Hodgkinson; Circle Books, 2012; ) Everyone Can Meditate Journey into Inner Space The Art of Thinking Spirituality in Daily Life Dreams and Reality God's Healing Power