BK Mohini

India

After her graduation, Sister Mohini worked alongside the founder of the Brahma Kumaris, Lekhraj Kirpalani (also known as Brahma Baba), helping to open Brahma Kumaris centres in India.^[10][6] The movement, founded in 1936–37 in Hyderabad in Sindh, had relocated its world headquarters to Mount Abu in Rajasthan in 1950 after the Partition.^[7]

Move to North America (1974–)

In 1974, Sister Mohini began serving the Brahma Kumaris abroad.^[10][5] She helped to establish the organisation's first presence in the Western Hemisphere, with centres in the Caribbean in 1976, before moving to New York in 1978 to set up a regional headquarters covering the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.^[10][6][5] She has since served as the President of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization of the USA and as the Brahma Kumaris' regional coordinator for the Americas and the Caribbean.^[8][5][1]

In 1999, the Brahma Kumaris opened the Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center, a 300-acre campus in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, as its principal residential retreat venue for the Americas, the centre was opened under Sister Mohini's regional leadership.^[11][6]

United Nations and interfaith work

Sister Mohini has served as the Brahma Kumaris' principal representative to the United Nations in New York since 1981.^[1][5][6] The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University holds General Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (granted in 1983 and upgraded to General Consultative Status in 1998) and is affiliated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications.^[7]

In 1993, Sister Mohini served, with BK Jagdish Chander, on the editorial committee of Visions of a Better World, a Brahma Kumaris' compiled volume issued by the Brahma Kumaris as a United Nations Peace Messenger publication, drawing on responses gathered through the Brahma Kumaris coordinated Global Cooperation for a Better World project (1988 - 1993).^[12][13]

The Brahma Kumaris are listed by the Long Island Council of Churches as one of the eleven member faith communities of the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum, an interfaith body convened in 1993 by the Council and Auburn Theological Seminary that has presented hundreds of "Building Bridges" programmes in schools, workplaces and houses of worship across Long Island, where Sister Mohini is based.^[14][8]

Call of the Time dialogues

Sister Mohini serves as one of the spiritual resources of the Brahma Kumaris' Call of the Time dialogues, a series of small-group retreats originated in 1998 by Dadi Janki that bring together leaders from different sectors and countries for discussion grounded in periods of silent reflection. The series has been co-facilitated since its turning point in 1999 by Peter Senge, senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; two of its journals Experiments in Silence: Points of Entry and A Mind that is Qualified to Serve were produced with the support of the Fetzer Institute.^[15][8] The North American iteration of the Call of the Time series is hosted at the Peace Village Learning & Retreat Center in upstate New York, with Sister Mohini as one of the principal Brahma Kumaris facilitators.^[16]

Additional Chief Administrator (2021 - 2025)

In June 2021, following the death of Brahma Kumari Dadi Ishu, Sister Mohini was appointed as the organisation's Additional Chief Administrator, alongside the then Chief Administrator Dadi Ratan Mohini.^[5] She served in that role for nearly four years.^[1]

Chief Administrator (2025 - present)

Dadi Ratan Mohini, the fifth Chief Administrator, died on 8 April 2025 at the age of 100; her death drew condolences from President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, among other Indian constitutional functionaries.^{[4][19][20][21]}

On 13 April 2025, Sister Mohini, then 84, was appointed as Dadi Ratan Mohini's successor and the organisation's sixth Chief Administrator; Rajyogini BK Jayanti and BK Munni Didi (Laxmi Aggarwal) was appointed Additional Chief Administrator.^[1][2] The Tribune had described the Brahma Kumaris at the time of Dadi Ratan Mohini's 2021 elevation as "the largest organisation run by women", with about 8,000 service centres in 140 countries.^[3]