Sister Jayanti – 26th December, 2021 - GCH, London To give is to receive

29 December 2021

Happy Boxing Day.  It is the day for giving gifts (boxes) and I was thinking of the subject of giving and generosity.  Brahma Baba, always big hearted and generous and concerned to give whatever was the need of the individual and this was Baba’s sanskar even before gyan.  When Brahma Baba did his devotion there would be very specific things he would say in his offering in the way of this is for the family, this is for the world, others and also this is for myself.  This sanskar made it easy for Shiv Baba to enter and take over his life and do everything that happened afterwards.

So many people arrived at his doorstep in Karachi unexpectedly and so instead of having to look after just his nuclear family, suddenly he was looking after so many.  400 people at that time; and it shows the generosity of heart and the spirit that Baba had.  Part of following in Baba’s footsteps is very much generosity.

Also Dada Janki’s spirit of service, her generosity, started when she was 8 years old – going to the sick and reading to them from the Sheikh scripture, The Jewel of Happiness, and speaking to them of things from her own memory of many things from the Seikh scriptures.  Dadi would give them water that she had prayed over, and they got better.  Later on she would go into the villages and teach people about vegetarian diet and so that spirit of service came from a generous heart. 

Her father a jeweller, Dadi would not take anything for herself. She always believed in simplicity so she would give it to the girls in her class who either could not afford it or who really wanted it.

When asked how she had learned about having a big heart she said it was the gift that Baba gave her last kalpa and it continued with her from the beginning to the end of the Cycle.  So she never took the credit that it was her speciality but a gift from Baba.

How does one develop a generous heart? Dadi said three things.  1. A clean heart 2. A big heart and 3. an open heart

Clean heart – Baba has today spoken about clearing out any trace of anger.  We have dealt with the first big one, lust, but the little brother, the second one, is anger and sometimes someone may say that they have to use a bit of authority and be a bit bossy and Baba would not say yes to this.  So cleaning out the heart from anything that is negative and Baba is not just talking about clearing the negativity but also that which is wasteful.

Baba has explained the whole detail of what happens when there is waste and so the need is to come back to that state where there is absolute cleanliness in the heart.  Clearing the negativity and working on clearing the waste out.

Charity, puny, is seeing the need of the other and giving according to that need.  Not putting my needs first. So a clean heart and then a big heart. It applies not only to food, to money but also very much applies to time and to the consciousness of seeing what is needed. 

Then further, an open heart.  Not being exclusive but inclusive.  It doesn’t matter who that individual is but, for Baba, the world were his children, but for us also they are my family, brothers and sisters and so to be able to have that openness and being able to share.  So Baba’s lesson of generosity and how that brings abundance and it is a reality.   Dadi and Baba had very little and what came back was the fruit of that giving. 

We often speak about the importance of gratitude - to be able to appreciate what I have received. And on the other side of that is the benefit of giving and how that allows many more treasures to come to you - love, blessings, good wishes when the soul is able to give.

Give what you don’t have and it will come to you in the way of spiritual powers.  If I lack tolerance power and am asked to talk about it, it makes you reflect on it deeply and it brings realisations and new insights about what you need to do.  So if I am sharing about tolerance it is actually teaching me.  So I think I am giving it but I am not giving it, I am actually receiving.    So in the giving is the receiving.  Baba uses this method for us to progress.  He tells us that whatever you need to learn, teach it and you are teaching yourself and you will be able to progress through that.

When Global Co-operation house was being built each month there was enough to pay the contractor.  Baba has said that there will never be excess for such a project but there will always be enough.  It is for Baba and so Baba provides.

Have a big, open, generous heart that is inclusive.  Baba is the provider, but I have to follow shrimat.

In Baba’s murli today He speaks of two things for dealing with waste. Baba is saying whatever I have that is powerful, keep that  and use it, in terms of gyan, of my thoughts and so set a timetable for your mind just as you set a timetable for the day.

A simple way to do that is to think of the different relationships with Baba through the day and if I am thinking of Mother and Father early morning and Teacher during Murli and Baba my Friend or Baba the Satguru during the day, that becomes an easy method to make sure that my thoughts are on track in the right way throughout the day.

Fix the different stages you want to experience for your mind and if you keep the mind occupied with that, whatever you are doing on the external level you do that, but there will be times when you don’t have to focus on what you are doing and so use these times so that the mind doesn’t take the liberty to wander off.  Then fix a time during that period so that you are able to then work with it.    So first set your timetable and secondly follow in the father’s footsteps, which means total obedience.

Baba gives the example of the bride.  In India the bridegroom walks in front when they go round the sacred fire at the time when they make their marriage vows and there is a scarf linking the groom and the bride together and she has to follow around this fire - this sacrificial fire, and this is the promise to follow in the footsteps and in this case, the footsteps of the Father.  Total obedience.

To come to the stage of total obedience to God is a big step for many in the world.  One reason is that they have not experienced God.  And if God is thought of as a personality, a being, it is very difficult as then there is an active relationship of someone who is higher.   Then what is needed is obedience. In today’s world it is not a word that is valued.  To come to the stage of obedience to God – that is a big step for many because in many homes now they don’t even use the word “obedience” in respect of expecting the children to be obedient. 

If God is recognised as the highest,  then the next necessary step that is demanded  is to be obedient to God is something that is challenging  for many souls and Baba is saying that the benefit of obedience is that you then win the heart of the one that you are obedient to  and even in the world here if someone asks you to do something  and you do it you win their heart, their love, their respect, their good wishes  - and so definitely in terms of my obedience to God, the very special gift that Baba has for us if we are obedient is that gift is that Baba wills all His powers to us and so there is the power that comes from that.                                                   

Om shanti

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Transcribed Classes of Mohini Didi: December 15 to December 21 - Constant Happiness

28 December 2021

Dear Divine Family,

Please find attached Mohnini Didi's transcribed classes of  December 15th - December 21th - Constant Happiness.

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Constant Happiness- December 15th

Constant Happiness- December 16th

Constant Happiness- December 17th

Constant Happiness- December 18th

Constant Happiness- December 19th

Constant Happiness- December 20th

Constant Happiness- December 21th

 

 

 

 

Sister Jayanti – 25th December 2021 – GCH, London Now is the time of gifts from God and sharing the vibrations of peace and love

26 December 2021

Om Shanti. Merry Christmas. The song you would have recognised from the reframe:  a song about how wonderful it is to hear Baba say ‘sweet children.’  The words are sweet and more than that Baba makes us sweet.  One time I remember Baba said ‘ We need to become as sweet as kismas, raisins’.

 

Today everyone, of course, is honouring the birth of Jesus.  Each one of the main branches of the tree have supported humanity for a few thousand years.  In the roots is the deity religion supporting the whole tree,,,but the branches have supported multi million of souls through the ages.  When Jesus was born it was a message of peace and more than that a message of love. History and the Bible tells us that the law had take precedence…not just in terms of righteousness, but the word of the law, which when happens causes people to get stuck in the letter of the law.  But the message of Jesus Christ was of God’s love.  I have been asked how come Baba remembers Christ more than the other prophets, who get an honorary mention from time to time?  And in particular there is a connection between Christ and Krishna.  I think it is because Christ introduced a loving relationship with God.  With Islam it was back to the Incorporeal.  The role of reminding the world of God’s love was such a basic and important one.  Baba loves Christ, and Baba loves everyone but we can see the degree and quality of love. 

 

Every festival across the world, whichever it may be, is a time when families come together.  Sometimes it has been said that the smallest unit of society is family.  The UN have also acknowledged this, but somehow it has faded into the background.  (Sister Jayanti welcomed Maureen back, who has attended UN conferences of this nature).  Today we have a past recorded message from Dadi Janki, and a message from Sudesh Didi, who is still in hospital, and will be back home in a few days.  It is very much a time for family…last year it was a handful, due to lockdown.  The spirit of giving: whether Diwali, Christmas or many other festivals inspire the spirit of giving.  It is not just the giving of gifts, but people going out of their way in one way or another.  The other day we saw a church providing food, here in Willesden, and a long queue of souls waiting.  Many are inspired to give, inspired to help. 

 

What can we give? Something others are not necessarily able to give.  The awareness of peace and the awareness of love.  Baba has been talking a lot about now as the only time in the Kalpa we receive attainments from Him. He has been asking the question whether we are we still trying to fill the self, or do we have plenty of attainment we can give.  Not with conditions…..but in a genuine way with contentment and the awareness of the gifts God is giving us and then we are able to share these freely.  This means there is a lot of cleaning the soul has to do.  Maybe we haven’t been able to identify the blockages yet….even today what is creating peacelessness within me: we have all been with Baba various lengths of time and really now just to see to what extent I have been able to fill myself with peace so that the vibration that everyone picks up from me is peace.

 

I remember when the Dadis entered a room it was the vibration of love, togetherness and peace.  Today we would say these are the 8 jewels who are the world emperors and yet we are all Baba’s children and Baba is uplifting, empowering and reminding us in the Murlis each day.  Baba says if not one alone, then the family together can exude that power so that others can experience peace and love.

 

Sudesh Didi shared how the doctors said that they were sorry she wasn’t going home at Christmas but she reassured them that all of them are her family.  Continue to appreciate the drama and take benefit from whatever is the situation.  Check the self: what is it that keeps interfering so that I am not able to experience the peace, which is my birthright.  Baba reminds us that our birthright is to take all of His treasures.  This is not a question of labour, but a reminder, and He reminds us that we belong to the deity religion and the treasures.  Baba as the parent asks us what did we do with all the treasures through the cycle…the parent has a right to ask what did we do with He gave.  At this point of the drama when everyone cries out to God for attainment Baba is asking us. Baba is asking me….what is blocking and to find solutions that He gives.  So that truly love is experienced as my birthright and I am not asking for a drop, because I am experiencing the Ocean.  We are becoming master oceans and to what extent do I remember Baba and my original and natural state of being.  Where is it that the trigger points emerge the kaliyug sanskars?  Baba is saying their time is finished and now only emerge the sanskars that Baba wishes us to have.  To be able to have so much so that I don’t discriminate. 

 

Do I treat each one the same or differently? This is a point for checking: Is there a difference in the way I treat this one to the way I treat that one?  It maybe that with a few there is a sense of belonging but with others I don’t feel that.   Yet with soul consciousness there is belonging with all.  How come I am not practising this?  It means then with the few it is some sort of attachment.  If it is the same love and regard then it is spiritual love.  Then the subject of karma and sanskars come in.  In the points of becoming karmateet this month we have been practising the state of being up above and detached.  If I am not detached and there is discrimination then I have a very long way to becoming karmateet.

 

Today is a holiday and time for reflection and in this time see if I can come truly come to the stage where there is that contentment that Baba has given me everything and then automatically in that awareness of being God’s child simply give.

 

There are lots of lessons for Christmas.                                                                                                                           

OM SHANTI 

 

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Bhog Messages from Madhuban Thursday, December 23, 2021

23 December 2021

 

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Sister Jayanti – 19th December 2021 – GCH The fortune of this divine birth

21 December 2021

Om shanti. Good morning. Baba has today taken up the subject of fortune and sometimes Baba speaks about the lines of fortune and Baba is not teaching us palmistry but Baba is teaching us the many different aspects of fortune in a very significant way. And, there were two things in particular that I hadn’t understood in the way that Baba has explained in this murli. The avyakt murlis are very detailed and the connections that Baba makes sometimes when we are just reading the murli we don’t always appreciate it and when you read it again, it then begins to become clear.

So Baba has spoken about firstly the fortune of our divine birth. I am aware that becoming a Brahmin is amazing fortune because not everyone has that fortune. It’s out of multi-multi-multi-millions, just a handful, but the way Baba has explained it is that the fortune of this divine birth of yours is actually your dharma and karma. The dharma you belong to, the family, the path of righteousness, the religion, the original state of being. All these things come across in dharma. And according to your dharma, your karma. And, in bhakti it’s been totally misinterpreted and they just think about it as physical birth and whatever conditions you are born into that become a restriction rather than any understanding of what it’s about. I remember being in a conference where they’d put me in a group of Hindus. They didn’t know where else to put me. It must have been an interfaith thing but I was with these sadhus and swamis, and it was very interesting that out of a group of about six of us, all of them brothers, no sisters except myself, there was one swami who agreed with what I was saying and all the other swamis were quite stuck in that idea that Brahmin is your destiny, the caste system basically. So what the other swami and myself were saying was, and it was good to have had agreement as otherwise I think they would have attacked me. But their idea was that once you’re born you stay there and that’s your destiny from the beginning to the end. And, of course, you know all the problems that sort of thinking has caused in Bharat. What we were saying was that, whatever your birth has been it’s the quality of your karma that determines your fortune and your destiny, which makes total sense to me.

Baba is talking about your dharma and karma being the same, so if I’m calling myself a Brahmin, and I’m thinking about the lokik, caste-born Brahmins, from the beginning to the end they always think that they are the most elevated of all. But if your karma isn’t showing that that is the elevated dharma then you’re not a Brahmin. Then whatever your situation of birth may have been, whether it’s foreign lands or Bharat or anywhere, but if you’re following the high principles of dharma of your spiritual birth and your karma is showing that that’s what you’re doing then it is your highest birth, your divine birth, your spiritual birth. So Baba has taken up the idea of your divine birth as being a Brahmin and according to that your karma and then, of course, when you see the lines of fortune on anyone’s hands, everyone absolutely unique, and people can identify you through your fingerprints and the prints of your hand. So totally, totally unique, even twins, but their fingerprints will be different. But Baba is saying that where the line of fortune is clear, it’s an indication that through your time since coming to Baba you haven’t forgotten what is your dharma and karma. And, where sometimes you see that it breaks (talking about the physical hand now) or sometimes you see that there’s a part that’s clear and then a bit that’s fuzzy, it’s not very clear. So again Baba is correlating that with our Brahmin dharma and karma. To what extent am I aware of being a Brahmin and is my behaviour according to what Baba’s teaching me as the highest and the elevated state of life?

Secondly, I hadn’t associated in such a simple clear way and again today’s murli made me realise the clarity with which Baba gives us gyan, and so when Baba says easy Raj Yoga, sometimes we feel, well, not so easy. But there are reasons for that and Baba has taken that up in another context. But yet if I really focus on Baba’s knowledge and follow it through in my life it’s very straightforward, very easy, very simple. Then, of course, we have the nature of making things complicated and so we make gyan very complicated also, but in fact it’s very straightforward and simple. So dharma and karma defining your spiritual birth.

Secondly, the sustenance we have from Baba, and again so much can come under that umbrella of sustenance. A child growing up, and a child needs so much sustenance in so many different ways and Baba is describing the sustenance you receive in particular through Brah Ma, the mother. And Baba has asked the question, ‘what is the purpose of a mother’s sustenance?’, and it’s to give the child strength and power so that the child can grow up in the right way and do whatever the child needs to do. And, so Baba is saying that from the moment that you start taking sustenance from Bapdada, but in particular through Brahma Baba, the mother, from that moment you are receiving spiritual power. And, to what extent are you taking that power and also then using it in your life? Your sustenance doesn’t just depend on the mother giving you power but it also depends on the way you are using it in your life. So think of the line of fortune of the sustenance we have had and absolutely, yes, Shiv Baba is the Supreme Teacher, the Supreme Mother also, the Supreme Father, but how does the murli come to us and when I remember Shiv Baba, yes I have to remember that point of light but in terms of my daily activity just keeping that incorporeal awareness is not so easy. But thinking about Brahma Baba and all the things you know about Brahma Baba and you think about difficult situations coming in front of you. Now, how difficult is difficult for us and how difficult were the difficulties for Brahma Baba? In terms of being a detached observer and seeing what were the things that Brahma Baba had to deal with. Sometimes we have to deal with one or two or three difficult individuals but you don’t have to deal (at least I haven’t seen it so often, maybe once or twice in some cases) but for Baba, the whole community turning against Baba and having to deal with that and nobody to show him what he needed to do. So how did Baba deal with all of this? Am I able to follow Baba and take that same power from Baba? Yes, he got it from One but the application of that power was the demonstration of his life. So am I able to take power from Shiv Baba but have that conscious reminder of Brahma, the mother, showing me what I need to do in life in practical situations? So the definition of sustenance, the power, the nourishment you get from Baba, the mother.

Then, thirdly, Baba has spoken about the Teacher but rather than go into the detail of the teachings Baba has just said one thing. ‘To what extent do you remember the two aims that you have, the aim of becoming the angel and the aim of becoming a deity?’ Baba is asking us to check on what has been happening so far because if I keep that aim then, yes, of course, many things change very naturally, the transformation process happens in a very smooth way. But it’s when I forget the aim of the study is to be the angel, the aim of the study is to become a deity, of course, then we see the big discrepancy in behaviour and the aim Baba has given us when we start looking at it in that way. So the summary of the whole purpose of Baba teaching us so much, and we’ve heard it in sakar murlis so often: ‘Keep your badge with you.’ ‘Keep the image of Lakshmi and Narayan in front of you.’ Sometimes sakar Baba has spoken about angels but it’s more that when Brahma Baba himself became the angel that afterwards we keep hearing detailed things about the angelic stage. Brahma Baba didn’t need to hear about it. He just practised it anyway. He understood through the signals coming through the sakar murlis through him and he did it. But we’ve had all the detailed explanation and yet still the game of forgetting and remembering. So, to what extent am I able to remember that this is actually my goal and if I keep that awareness with myself how fast would be the process of transformation?

The fourth thing that Baba said and that is service. In a way Baba has taken up the four subjects and in particular with service again Baba’s asked us who is your companion and how the quality of service is going to be if you’re in the awareness that the incorporeal One is your constant, eternal Companion. Anybody else who is your companion in service here, today it’s one and tomorrow it’ll be another. And, so am I remembering the physical companions because service isn’t done in isolation but is always done within a team, with others. So, the question, who is my companion in service? And, Baba’s very clear explanation, the blessing that you all received in the last murli from sakar Baba. It’s that blessing of these three words, the incorporeal, the viceless and the egoless stage. So, those three things and it’s a blessing and it’s very specifically through which you can be successful in service. Again we’ve talked so often about these three words. The question is, did I take it as a blessing for myself? You all know these three words as they’ve come up in murlis so often. But is it a blessing for me? Can I remember it as a blessing? And if I can remember, Baba reminding me that being incorporeal, a) it’s a blessing but also it’s that stage of the soul then serving another soul that’s then going to hit the target. If I don’t practise that incorporeal stage and that stage of deep soul consciousness the arrow doesn’t hit the target and so that person is going to also have to labour to understand things and labour to practise things. But if I’m in the incorporeal stage, soul connecting to soul, the soul connecting to God, then it’s going to be a part that’s going to be easy for them and give them easy experiences along their journey and it’s the same with ‘viceless’. If I haven’t come to that stage then whatever it is I’m still influenced by in terms of the vices I won’t have the power, I won’t have the capacity to help them and so they too struggle.

And the third aspect, humility. In Hindi, nirmar and nirman. It’s only one letter that’s a little bit different in sound. It’s nirman and nirmar (there are many different words for humility). When I’m saying it I’m not sure I’m saying it properly so that you can hear the difference but it’s just that little sound that’s different. But, nirman means renewal, transformation. So in that stage of being humble, yes, the process of renewal and transformation and success in service will happen. So, just a few key words and Baba has defined that whole process of fortune. I marvel at how the Supreme Soul, the Supreme Teacher is able to explain things so simply, so clearly and yet the fog in our brains and intellects means it takes us time to understand everything that Baba’s saying. I’ve definitely heard this murli before but I wouldn’t have been able to have told you in the way Baba has explained it to us today. When sakar Baba became avyakt, Baba told us, ‘how much did you understand and practise from all the sakar murlis that you read?’ Nobody had anything to say in reply. Baba said, ‘this is why you need time for revision of the sakar murlis’, and then some years ago when they started to revise the avyakt murlis I was very grateful that there was time to be able to revise them. Not just adhoc, intermittently but in a very specific way in which everything is taken up subject by subject, turn by turn.

So, today’s murl, very clear. Baba has talked about many other things but also Maya and how because we allow ourselves to be influenced by any form of negativity, that’s what makes everything difficult. Then you have to labour hard, then it takes you time. You keep trying, then you move back a step, then you try and move forward a step. The time and energy lost in that battle in going back and forth is what costs the soul. The beauty of Raja Yoga, we forget about the beauty because we’re involved in something which is down here, not something that is up there. So the reminder just take such power from Baba and such clarity from Baba that you recognize what it is that’s influencing you. My own old sanskars or the influencing of others but stay in that stage of being up above. So a wonderful reminder of all the four subjects from Baba in a very specific way.

Om Shanti

 

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Sister Jayanti - 5th September 2021- Revision Avyakt Murli of 5.03.1988

20 December 2021

Baba is the Creator of the new world, the Creator of fortune, and Baba smiles as he sees his children who are also like the Father, the creators of the new world and the creators of fortune not just for themselves but also for everyone else. Baba was speaking so beautifully and reminding us that we are the picture of the fortune of the future new world. We are the ones who are the creators of that world, but today our elevated thoughts are actually revealing the elevated sanskaras of the new world, not just the images of the new world but also the support and foundation for the new world. And so a very lovely question for all of you to ponder over is: Am I part of that foundation and what does that mean? How strong is the foundation, and what does the foundation depend on? I leave that question with you.

 

Baba was also talking about how Baba’s children are the ones who fulfil the desires of all because you are the ones who have taken all attainments and all benefits from the one.You are able to give the fortune for the cycle to all other souls, whether they want mukti or jeevan mukti. You are the ones who are able to grant them that fortune, and you fulfill their desires to such an extent that for half the cycle, definitely, nobody has any desire, being ignorant of the word ‘desire’. Even later, they remember that stage in bhakti, that there are those beings who were totally ignorant of the word ‘desire’. How do we manage to not have any desires? Baba says: You are like the Father, the Bestower, the One who gives, and so the ones who create fortune and share fortune with others. So Baba loves this word, ‘fortune’, and I love it too. It’s a very powerful, beautiful word, but of course fortune happens when there is something that has happened to make it happen, and so Baba then describes all the different experiences of Sangamyug today that paint the picture of the future. And as souls see you today, they’re able to understand what that new world will be like. They ask you: What will be in that new world? And they are able then to see it through you. They come to you with tears, but your smile and your joy is such that their tears are forgotten, whether of the mind or the eyes and they begin to smile. And Baba remembered that lovely song that many of the Dadis also used to love: ‘You are the one who taught me how to smile’. I know that Dadi Janki used to remember this song a great deal and it is a very lovely song. I'm not the one to sing it to you but at some point maybe Aruna can find that bhakti song and let us hear it, it’s a very lovely song. Baba also described how those who come as beggars with nothing can experience all attainments and carry away that experience of attainment. Those who come very peaceless to you are able to experience being the embodiment of peace from you and they carry a heart filled with contentment. They come with distress, and they leave with great happiness. This is a whole description of our stage in Sangamyug and the foundation of service today, but it is also the foundation for what is to happen in the future.

 

Baba then talked about the state of the world in the future, and how that world is based on absolute fulfilment and completion. It will be sixteen celestial degrees complete, and that comes about because you have experienced your perfect stage now in Sangamyug. It’s a world which is one kingdom of total harmony and each day you follow one direction, one thought and all other directions are merged in that one direction, and so there’s total unity and the one kingdom comes about. You are the ones who are able to go beyond the illnesses of the body by experiencing freedom from all attachments to the body, and everything else connected with the body and so this gives you the perfect health for the future. And because you’re practising that bodiless stage today, you’ll have that state of long life and good health in the future. So, every single aspect was covered by Baba in this, that you are the ones who experience all fulfillment now and so that world is also the one in which everybody experiences all fulfillment. The family there will be a small family but that’s because here you’ve made spiritual effort with consistency and been constant in your love for One, belonging to One with that spiritual endeavour with mother and father and brothers and sisters and that’s it, no complicated further developments. In the golden age, there is one small family, mother and father, the world emperor, the world empress and everyone is my family. Yes, there'll be a difference in status but there won't be a difference in the relationship of love. Everybody will experience that same love for all, and so there will be no worries about status, just pure love connecting everyone together in that way. So, how close am I to creating that perfect picture? Baba’s given us all the skills, talents and cooperation and says: If you want you can do it, you can create that perfect picture. And you're able to do it now because God provides you with all the different tools. That reminded me of the game of monopoly; you’re given money and you can buy whatever you want. Or lego where you're given all the bricks and the methods where you can create a palace or whatever it is you choose. Baba’s not restricting us and saying: I'll give this one, two, I'll give this one four, it’s an open bazaar, self-service, come and help yourself and take as much as you want and you can create the sort of world that you want for yourself. God’s imposing no restrictions at all, but rather for every one act of cooperation for the father, Baba is giving us a million times return. Now that is an amazing bargain. I give one single act of cooperation to Baba today and Baba’s guaranteeing me his cooperation. Baba’s giving us all his cooperation and is telling us: Take as much as you want, do as much as you can, it’s up to you. But then there is a little crevice in place and you can’t complain saying: Somebody didn’t do this or why did they do this? No, it’s totally up to me, the responsibility is absolutely fair and square, on my shoulders and whatever it is I choose to do. It’s fascinating how Baba reminds us of all the gifts that he’s giving us and that all of that continues in so many ways and then Baba reminds us what it is we need to be doing. And so do it! Carry on, but don’t complain, it’s nobody else’s fault, nobody is stopping you, nobody can prevent you, you can do as much as you choose. And so, Baba’s very proud of his artist children. Baba’s saying that you, the amazing artist, are creating such a beautiful picture, that yes, you create that beautiful world and you show through your image today, what that future world will hold. So a very, very lovely murli in which Baba’s really elevating us and reminding us of our responsibility.

 

Baba asks us the question: Who’s sitting at the roots of the tree? It’s the yogis and so those images were of those ones who came at that time, right at the start of the yagya. Even today, if I want to sit at the roots of the tree and do that tapasya, the tree is nourished and I’m getting power from the seed but I’m sitting with the tree in the roots and so the whole tree is being nourished through our tapasya. Baba said there’s always space, there’s enough space for all. A time will come when the board will go up that all spaces are taken, everything is full. But at the moment, even some good ones sometimes drop out and there’s space, so don’t worry there’s space for everyone, there’s space for all of us, and so Baba’s offering us these amazing opportunities and wonderful chances. I also loved what Baba spoke about to the double foreigners especially because in Bharit you surrender and live in a centre and there are students who take care of the running of the centre. But abroad it’s been a very different story. It’s been the courage and the persistence and the tolerance capacity of his children abroad that expanded service so amazingly, just in 14 years. At that time, Baba was mentioning and I was thinking that, I was counting it from the time that Dadi Janki arrived in 74 and so it’s a murli of 88. So in 14 years service spread out throughout the whole world. Baba appreciates how the double foreigners are the ones who’ve done double service, by working hard at their lokik jobs and earning the money to be able to run their centres. They’ve made their own spiritual effort and they’ve also created service in such a beautiful way, and so have double fortune through double effort and double work.

 

Baba also reminded us that you need to be knowledgeable, you need to be able to know yourself, you need to know God, you need to know karma philosophy but you also need to be knowledgeable about maya. I think that was a very powerful lesson and reminder because maya is extremely clever and the forms that maya adopts to attack us or tries to attack us, are highly subtle and very creative and individual. They say everybody has an Achilles heel that if pushed or hurt, then the person stumbles and falls. Maya knows my Achilles heel, what it is that’s going to really bug me, and cause me a problem. Maya knows me very well but, how well do I know maya and how well do I know myself? I was reflecting on this and thinking that to know Baba is easy, Baba’s an open book, Baba reveals himself exactly as He is and who He is and we are all able to know Him. All the information is there, in every murli and so there are no secrets hidden away from us, everybody has access. All that information is shared but how well do I know myself? We always talk about that ‘iceberg factor’, 1/10 is visible and 9/10 is invisible, but it’s me, it’s inside of me and so are my beliefs, my illusions, everything I carry. I need to be able to see very clearly what it is that causes upheaval. Even if it's not upheaval, what is it that causes me irritation? Baba spoke about tiredness, and when there’s tiredness that’s when you get to see your own sanskaras. Baba’s very valid point is: if the mind is enthusiastic and happy, then it can deal with the physical tiredness and it’s not an issue, you’ll be able to overcome it very easily. But if the mind gets tired, the body will get tired very easily and not just tired, it’s probably going to give up and say it can’t manage anymore. So just keep the mind very happy and healthy and also be very knowledgeable about what is hidden inside of you. And it shouldn’t be hidden from ‘me’ because if it stays hidden from ‘me’ then that’s going to be where maya attacks and it’s going to be a problem. So to be knowledgeable about God and karma, that’s easy, but to be knowledgeable about my own sanskaras and the illusions Maya creates and trips me up on, that’s where I can either have victory or I lose out on victory. 

 

So those were some of the major things that Baba covered. I was speaking to groups but it was really the parts about the double foreigners that was very powerful and very meaningful for all of us I think. Those are the things that stay with me; Baba giving us old skills to become artists of great renown to be like the Father and to create the new world so that our features today show the world the future that Baba is creating.

 

Q: Dadi Gulzar was saying that Baba used to say to us that we should be able to do everything and we shouldn’t say: I don’t know how to do this. She said we shouldn't say ‘not’ or ‘we don’t know’ or ‘can’t do’. They did all-round service and that means they had all-round sanskaras. Every soul has sanskaras, so why is it that we aren’t able to emerge those for service? When it comes to service people say: 'No I don’t know how to do that’ when actually we are getting more power from Baba to be able to do it. Let’s focus on sanskaras for a little bit this evening and really dissect that.

 

A: I remember Mama saying that every soul carries all sanskaras within itself. Think about your 84 births and especially the last 63 births. You’ve done everything, you’ve been everywhere, so all those sanskaras can emerge, but what happens is that we forget our total cycle and this is why Baba often tells us to just be the spinners of the discus of self-realisation. Know that I carry all the records of all the parts that I have played within me. Someone would say to Mama ‘But I don’t know how to do this’. Mama would say to them: Did you have any gyan? You did not have any gyan. So now you have gyan, and so that's something new. But Baba emerged it in you and you experienced the beauty and the truth of this. And so other sanskaras are also submerged within you. Take that opportunity of saying ‘yes’ and you will see those sanskaras emerge and flourish. It’s a fact! Yesterday many were saying that it was being in Global House that gave them an opportunity to emerge sanskaras and learn so much. And I would say the same, that I knew nothing about myself or the world or anything, and Baba just gave me one opportunity after another and I was able to learn and grow and develop amazing fortune, and that’s available to everyone. Just learn to say ‘Ha Ji’ instead of ‘Na’.

 

Q: How is a sanskara created? Is it created in thought or is it created in action? 

 

A: If you think about a baby, a baby comes with certain sanskaras and it’s not consciously thinking but the sanskaras are there and so those sanskaras begin to emerge. The happy baby, the crying baby, the angry baby, the nurses will tell you that within a day or two, the sanskaras begin to emerge and they are able to recognise babies not just by the name on the wrist but also through their sanskaras. I think the sanskaras are there and then different situations trigger my thoughts and my actions and the sanskaras are created. This doesn’t happen with babies but it does happen with adults, especially in the path of gyan and yoga. An example is the sanskar of maybe the recent past is just there and the thought emerges but the buddhi kicks in and I make a conscious decision: Should I allow this thought to come through or not? If I don’t allow it to come through into action, then that sanskara begins to merge. The more I do this, not just once, twice, three times; I just pay attention and I don’t allow it to emerge, then that sanskara is gradually going to merge back within the soul and not emerge for another 5,000 years. But what happens is we lose track, we lose attention, so it’s actually an action that underlines the sanskara. If it's just emerging though, and I deal with it and I finish it, it’s not going to be expressed and that’s not true just of the negative sanskaras but even the positive sanskaras. I have a sanskara of compassion and the thought emerges: I would really like to go and help XYZ. If I don’t put it into action, then that sanskara loses power and it gets merged more deeply. But if the compassion thought comes and I put it into action, that sanskara of compassion becomes stronger and motivates me more and more. So, just the thought by itself doesn’t create the sanskara but, in fact, the sanskara creates the thought and then the action underlines that sanskara and makes it stronger and firmer.

 

Q: Is the soul separate from the mind and intellect and sanskaras?

 

A: No, I don't think it’s separate. The soul reveals itself through the thoughts, the feelings, the consciousness, the beliefs and the actions, and so it’s not that here is the part which is the soul, and here’s everything else.

 

Q: Do souls stay pure all the time? Is it the sanskaras that go from sato to rajo to tamo?

 

A: It’s not just sanskaras that fall from grace, it’s the soul totally that falls from grace. This is why we talk about pap atma; the sinful soul is not just the sanskaras of sin but at the current time in kaliyug we are seeing this play out in action where sanskaras manifest but it’s the soul that is impure. The buddhi becomes patar buddhi which is a ‘stone intellect’ and so that idea that the soul is ever pure is very much a sannyasi idea connected with the idea that we are all parts or fragments of God, and so we can never become impure. Baba is saying whatever actions you perform, the imprint of that is on the soul, where else can it go? It’s not the body, the body is going to be washed away, whatever. But it’s the soul that carries the purity or impurity. And because the soul is just a point of light, there is no separate space for it to say; this bit is pure, but this bit is impure. The soul itself becomes pure and impure and in this murli, I didn’t mention it earlier, but Baba is putting the whole responsibility on us: you rise, the world rises, you fall, the world falls with you. Everyone’s either liberated, or moves to the satopradhan stage. So it is the soul itself that goes through the different phases, sato, rajo, tamo.

 

Q: Can you explain the role of the buddhi? Baba says in the murli to apply your intellect. If we strengthen our intellect are we able to reform our sanskaras?

 

A: The first step that happens is that the soul recognises Baba, and past birth fortune, and that I’ve searched for God with love, I’ve not been distracted by gurus and other things. I may have had gurus, but it was always God and truth I was searching for. That brings me to Sangamyug, Baba finds me and touches the buddhi and gives me the gift of a divine intellect and so I’m able to recognise God. Experiencing the recognition of God changes things dramatically. My beliefs change, my conscience awakens. So when we talk about the awakening of the soul, it’s the conscience that awakens first and foremost, then I begin to see things differently. What I first thought was ordinary and normal, now I say: I don’t want to go there, it’s not useful, I’m not going to get involved with that. The major decisions we make about becoming a Brahmin in that first instance when Baba finds me, is the recognition of God but also the lifting of the veil from the intellect so that the intellect is now open, the third eye is open. When the intellect is lifted up, yes then I have the job of making sure I keep it clean. Because if criticism comes in, if bad actions continue to persist, then the intellect gets to be polluted. But if I follow shrimat and keep the intellect clean, then the intellect has the power to discern what’s going on in the mind. The mind’s going to be mischief, the mind doesn’t have discernment capacity at all, it can go here and there, in all sorts of places. And my feelings and emotions, also the same. Today my feelings are ones for great love and attachment to somebody, tomorrow they can flip and be the exact opposite. The emotions also yo-yo, one day here, the next day there. Even within an hour emotions can flip. And so it’s the buddhi that’s the stable factor, and the buddhi is connected with God, with God’s knowledge and is developing the clarity and the capacity to hold my mind in check, so that the mind isn’t going here and there and everywhere, but I’m keeping the mind moving, on track.

 

The whole purpose of revising and churning the murli, is that the mind is holding that wisdom, but now it’s guiding the mind to move in the right direction. Baba’s feeding me every single day so that I have new avenues to explore so the mind doesn’t get bored. There’s also a cleansing going on with the churning of gyan. So Baba’s showing me how to clean every bit of the soul. First the buddhi and keep it clean, then the mind, keep it clean with gyan, wash everything else but also then the power to follow through with good thoughts, putting elevated thoughts into action and reforming sanskaras. Baba’s showing me that, together with all of this, I need yoga and I need silence power to be able to burn away things that are of the past and my karma through the fire of yoga. The buddhi leads the way, and then, everything else follows. In the Gita there is the beautiful example of Krishna, who takes over Arjuna’s chariot. You can have somebody standing in the chariot with you, but if you still insist on holding the reins, then you're still the master, you’ll do things according to your own intellect. Arjuna, in his wisdom, recognises God and hands over the reins of the buddhi to God so that now God is in charge. The moment that Shiv Baba entered that chariot of Brahma Baba, everything that Baba did was according to shrimat, absolutely and accurately according to Shiv Baba’s directions with no thought of his own coming in. I can be like Arjuna, number one, first division as Baba said. The buddhi is the all-important factor.

 

Q: When we meditate does our yoga depend on the quality of our intellect? 

 

A: It does, but also on what we have been doing through the day. It’s connected very much with that, if the buddhi has been in charge, keeping my mind on track. Then my thoughts will also move to God, to experience all relationships with God.

 

Q: On the subject of giving gyan, giving courses to somebody: if somebody’s in their alokik home. why don’t you cover both, living pure and not living pure? Is it okay that they give the course because they’re thinking the rationale time, you know, is coming to a close, if they’re remote, let them give knowledge to whoever’s around them?

 

A: Up until now, we would say that if somebody isn’t following the principles, they don’t usually have the power to be able to convey that to another. The course and theory of seven days is one thing, but hopefully if this is somebody interested in the course and they want to become a Brahmin, then they need to have total clarity on the principles. Only then can we say that this is their spiritual rebirth and that they’re a Brahmin. Yes, there are people who are interested in teaching, even though they’re not following principles and so then we say, “okay but at least start things like positive thinking or anger management, stress-free living”. Some of these peripheral things we do take up in many many centres and the pure Raj yoga course used to be for teachers. It didn’t matter if they were living in the centre or living at home, but the factor was; are they following the principles? And if they are following the principles, and living at home isn’t an issue, they can definitely give the course. 

 

Q: And again connected with the ‘contact souls’ I mean if they’re in difficulty, financially, and some of them are now because they don’t have jobs and because of Covid, they can’t go out to work, what is your take on giving them money? Can Brahmins give Brahmins or contact souls money?

 

A: Leave aside the subject of contact souls for now. Firstly, if it is a Brahmin, who doesn’t have enough to eat, the first duty of Brahmins would be definitely to support them by feeding them. But there may be other factors like not having money for rent and things like this. We wouldn’t be giving them money from the centre, but there would be people within the Brahmin family who could sponsor people in that condition for maybe a few months, maybe six months, whatever it may be, until their circumstances change and they are able to get a job. So that would be possible. When people have given money to Baba, that becomes very sacred money, and in legal terms, if our accounts are being seen by the government, which actually happens in most countries where we are registered, you cannot use that money for any other purpose than the very specific objectives that have been stated in your constitution. So to give that money for somebody else’s rent for their family, it’s not possible, it’s just legally not allowed. In such cases, one usually knows who has a certain amount of capacity to help out, and so maybe they can even give them a job. Very often, we’ve had to facilitate this sort of thing. If a Brahmin who has their own company in a different situation and the person can learn the skills that are required for that, it’s actually better if they can get a job with the Brahmins but if that doesn’t work, then sponsorship through another Brahmin can be offered.

 

Contact souls: I’m very reluctant to say that yes, always, if people are in need of food and you say to them, okay, come for one meal a day in Baba’s home, they could be helped in that way. But, how well do I know a contact soul? I really don’t. Can I even recommend that a Brahmin offers them a job? It depends on how well I know them. Then because I’m taking the guarantee for them, that yes, this is an honest person, this is the person who’s sincere, you know, it’s all those factors. And to help them out once, a one-off thing, that’s different to saying to a Brahmin, please provide them with money for accommodation for however long. And also you don’t know if that money is going to go for accommodation or whether it’s going to go for feeding other habits so, contact souls are a very different story. But Brahmins can lend a hand in different ways. 

 

Q: As we’ve seen, even giving work to Brahmins can be tricky.

 

A: Yes, yes, all sorts of karmic situations come up, but I’m just thinking about a Brahmin who I’ve known for a long time and I know that it isn’t through a fault of their own that they’re not working. If I can facilitate that, maybe I can try.

 

Q: If someone doesn’t do what they’re requested to do around the centre, then is it still my responsibility? What do I do even though they didn’t do what was asked?

 

A: I offer somebody an opportunity to do service and they say they can’t. Well, I accept that there’ll be somebody else who can. Nothing stops in terms of service, service continues whether this Brahmin takes up the fortune or it’s somebody else. But if they say they will do it and they don’t do it, then very sweetly, respectfully, find out what happened. And sometimes there may be a very good reason, but if it’s clear that there isn’t a very good reason then next time I would ask them: You’re saying yes, but can I be sure that it will happen? If they’ve been able to give a reasonable response, you know why they didn’t do it, then give them another opportunity. And of course, you can try once, twice but the third time you baulk at offering them an opportunity again. If they come to you saying: Yes, I’m sorry, I should’ve…but I didn’t, but I would like another opportunity, keep the door open for that also. So different situations require different responses.

 

Q: Post-Covid, there are instances of evil spirits disturbing us in different ways, and this is increasing and not letting us meditate. How can we get rid of evil spirits? 

 

A: It’s not wise to spend too much time on this particular subject because when you talk about such things it’s like an invitation to all these spirits to come, so just yoga is the answer. If there’s a disturbance in meditation, let me sit with the murli, let me read the murli and then, spend a few moments reflecting. And if that process can help me come close to Baba again, let me continue that and keep increasing my time of reflection with Baba. And when I do feel that my mind is wandering again, let me again pick up the murli and go deeper into it. And so, where I’m not totally in charge of my mind for whatever reason, due to illness, spirits, whatever, the other line of contact with Baba is through the murli. The murli is our saving lifeline and so, go to the murli, and even as you’re reading, reflect on every word that you read, every sentence that you read so that you’re able to feel Baba connecting with you through the murli. 

 

Q: Would you agree to play Baba’s song to change the atmosphere for Baba’s murli, and keep it running?

 

A: Yes, it’s a good idea! What happens is if you just keep the songs playing then your mind gets used to it, and then you stop listening to the song or feeling the vibration. It’s okay for a short while, but it has its limits.

 

Q: Every Thursday, bhog is offered to Shiv Baba. When did this procedure start? 

 

A: In the days of Karachi, it was happening specifically when Baba would come. The trans messenger, Piu, would be speaking and Baba would’ve had a wonderful array prepared for him because in bhakti he had so much love for God, and did so much for the gurus and because he knew that God was coming, he did a lot. And then when that scene stopped in the drama, that scene of offering bhog, preparing bhog especially, that scene also stopped. In the days of Abu, through the beggary time and because of the practical and physical reasons why the beggary period came about, all the savings that Baba had saved for the sustenance of the yagya, and hiring a huge ship to bring 350 people across. The big train, and the travel up to the mountain, all of this drained the yagya.  Bhakti remembers this as Tirupati’s pot becoming empty, so it was that period and Baba was reflecting on ‘why’ and then he said: We haven’t been offering bhog to the Provider. In those days in Mount Abu the system of bhog started once more and it was synchronistic because that was also the time that the first monies from outside started coming in. Baba would say that before it was Brahma Baba’s wealth and a couple of others who had totally surrendered giving everything, and so it was clean. Now money was coming from outside, you didn’t know the story or the history. Baba would say they’ve given to Baba, and now you don’t have to think about clean or unclean as God is feeding you. Whatever has come has been offered to God. Now it’s Shiv Baba’s bandhara and Brahma bhogen - it was the food that Brahma Baba had fed you. In the first instance for 14 years and then later as service started, then that was also the time that not just money was coming directly to the yagya, but it was also the time of service starting in Delhi, Bombay and other places. Baba would say: It’s okay, it’s not your student who’s feeding you, make sure the student also understands that they’re giving to God. And so it’s a very sacred system and I know that people today sometimes feel that ‘oh it’s bhakti, it’s a ritual’, but it's only a ritual if you don’t understand the meaning behind it. It’s not a ritual, it's a real act of love and devotion and gratitude. I’m expressing my thanks to Baba for having provided everything for me and Baba’s giving me everything in return. Not just now, but throughout the cycle.

 

Q: Since you mentioned Draupadi, there was a question about Arjun. Although it was Eclabia who gave his thumb to Dronacharya, why is it then that Arjun has been remembered more?

 

A: I don’t think I have an answer for you because what was the name of the person who gave his thumb?

 

Q: Eclabia

 

A: Okay, well, I wouldn’t even remember that! I’ve heard it now but it’ll go away again! But I do know that the one who was outside, was the one who learned archery even faster and with more specific accuracy than Arjuna himself. I’m sure somebody can explain, but at this moment, I haven’t had enough time to think about it. Baba tells us in the murli, that Beo (Baba uses the word Beo), is a native person who was living outside and was even able to go further than Arjuna. I think it’s now that I’m remembering what Baba says in the murli rather than the bhakti story. Baba picks up on it as a fact that you can never say, ‘I am the best’ as there might be somebody out there who’s better than you and so never ever have that thought that ‘I am the only one. I am the best’. Above us we have many incognito children and somebody out there is definitely better than you.

 

Q: When Baba says that he can make service happen through any soul and yet Baba is akarta, so then who does the karma? And if Baba’s doing it, doesn’t it go into Baba’s account? 

 

A: Generally, everything is being done by God. I would say Brahma Baba, the angel, and these souls have akarta, the one who does everything but receives no fruit, no return for it. And so, what fruit does God need? And Brahma Baba who attained karmateet stage and has been serving tirelessly ever since for 50+ years, Brahma Baba, the one who became equal to the Father, the same akarta in his role. The one who does akarma, no return of the action performed because it’s simply to give to others. Literally altruistic karma. God’s karma is altruistic, Brahma Baba’s karma has been also. I know Baba works through individuals who are just very humble and simple and they become instruments to bring amazing souls to Baba.That one is such a simple one and they’ll say: Well, Baba did it. And truly Baba worked through them to make it happen but it was altruistic karma. Totally altruistic. 

 

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Sudesh Didi – 12th December 2021 Sunday Morning Class - GCH, London (over Zoom) The Stage of a Co-charioteer (Sarathi)

20 December 2021

Om shanti. Om shanti. Good morning.  

 

Today Baba is welcoming us. Very beautiful song. In the courtyard of Madhuban, Baba is welcoming us with His open heart and His open arms, “Welcome. my children. Welcome.” Every day, Baba decorates us with the jewels of knowledge. Every day, Baba empowers us, giving us our self-respect and our self-sovereignty. In Sakar Murlis, Baba emphasises how to explain the pictures, in exhibitions, to the souls who come to claim their inheritance or to come to recognise themselves. In The Sakar Murlis explains how Brahma Baba practised the teachings, how we could implement those teachings that Shiv Baba was teaching while sitting on the same chariot because Shiv Baba became Co-Charioteer with a Brahma Baba. Shiv Baba does not have His own chariot, His own body. Baba is using the word chariot, and the soul is the charioteer. So, when we look at the picture of Trimurti, it's a perfect picture of the aim and objective of becoming karmateet, perfect, free from all bondages of the mind, of the intellect, old sanskaras, the different personalities that have been developed or the different influences we have been filled with throughout the cycle. From Copper Age onwards, humans get caught up in the bondage of the mind, the bondage of the body, the bondage of relationships, the bondage of society and the bondage of past karma. How did Baba become totally free from all these bondages and how can we practise?

 

The Avyakti Murlis give very clear explanations of the steps in which Brahma Baba became avyakt, of how he attained his perfect form. This is explained through Trimurti, the vision of God, how Baba wants to establish a perfect world of divinity, a world of purity, a world of fullness and richness, showing the aim and objective through the balance in the middle of the picture.

 

Brahma means purity and wisdom, that is, knowledge. Shankar means silence, renunciation, deep meditation, yogyukt (accurate in yoga) stage. So, Confluence Age is a very auspicious age when we become Brahmins, Brahma’s children. This is an opportunity to follow Brahma Baba. Remember Shiv Baba, but follow Brahma Baba, because Shiv Baba does not need to make effort to become free from bondage, to become perfect, karmateet. He does not come in the cycle of birth and death. And so, following the footsteps means, how Brahma Baba did his practice from Brahmin becoming an angel, or an avyakt being so close to BapDada, so equal to Him, so combined. We know that Shiva is incorporeal, God is incorporeal and Brahma Baba was a human being. But when he has become avyakt, he is not a human being. He is avyakt, bodiless, the angelic state of a perfect being with all godly powers, through the practice of soul consciousness, with the teachings of Shiva. Baba always said, “When I teach, Brahma Baba listens to me first and certainly a question arises: When Shiv Baba speaks to Brahma Baba, the Murli is not spoken privately to Brahma Baba.

 

When the Murli is being spoken through Brahma Baba, at that time, the same sound was coming from Brahma’s mouth. We were also listening to the same Murli. How Brahma Baba listens first. It is not only just to hear, when we hear it might go out from the other ear, but to listen, pay attention to what Baba is saying and then to put into practice, Brahma Baba was number one. And he became an example of becoming number one. Number one Adi Dev, the first deity who begins to create divinity. Shiv Baba is the Creator of the new world, but to create a divinity in human body living in this physical world, the spiritual knowledge Shiv Baba gave, Brahma Baba put into practice. 

 

What are the steps of Brahma Baba? Baba explained very clearly today the practice of becoming yogyukt (accurate in yoga) and yuktiyukt (accurate way of doing). Yogyukt means connected. Not only just connected with Baba, but relationship with Baba. Yoga means relationship and that relationship is so, so strong, so deep that the relationship becomes saturated in that quality in such a way that it becomes combined. It is so close to each other while being separate individual souls. After Brahma Baba became perfect, we start saying BapDada is coming; we never say Bap and Dada, we say Avyakti BapDada is coming. So, Brahma and Shiva became one, so united. So, close, like United Nations in Hindi, it is called Sanyukt Rashtra. When we say Sanyukt Rashtra, it means Combined Nations. Combined means the qualities are so close to each other. So, it is not only just associated, not only just related, but becoming one. In this way, this joint or attached form, of Shiv Baba becomes so attached to Brahma Baba, and Brahma Baba becomes attached to Shiva Baba, not as an assistant only, but as an instrument. We never felt the Incorporeal form when Brahma Baba was there. We also didn't just see Brahma Baba. We always say Baba, then Baba made us aware that it is BapDada, so that our mind is focused on the Incorporeal. So, Brahma Baba was yogyukt, he remained saturated in yoga. And the state of a yogi means a constant communication. This is why Baba explained the other day, the four stages of a yogi, the one who has a sweet heart-to-heart conversation with Shiv Baba. And this is Brahma Baba; whatever conversation he had with Shiv Baba, he then shares with us because he was absorbing that feeling, that love, that power, purity, spiritual authority of the Almighty. 

 

Baba says, when you become completely soul conscious and God conscious, this is called yog, combined, associated the two energies becoming one. So, yogyukt automatically becomes mukt, which means free, the power of freedom comes. So, Brahma Baba was so lost in that love, whatever he's spoken about with Shiv Baba, whatever he churns, then what he was enjoying, manan (churning), magaan (to become merged), just enjoying and lost in it. Then he shares with us. This is why Sakar Murli is actually the experience of Brahma Baba and the wisdom, the knowledge of the beginning middle and the end of this world; the knowledge of what we are, where we have come from, whose knowledge it is that has been explained. These ingredients are in Sakar Murli. Then the ingredients which Brahma Baba cooked, through his practical life, is so sweet. It is so loving that we are eating the cake in the form of Avyakt Murli. Sweet Baba, sweet conversation, such juicy points as he continued to drink, they become so saturated. This is yogyukt.   

 

Yogyukt stage means soul conscious and God conscious. Yogyukt the stage means, the embodiment of Godly power, bodiless, incorporeal stage. Bodiless-ness means that the physical organs are not influencing, not pulling, and the soul is playing a natural part of soul consciousness. Brahma Baba, naturally became conqueror of body consciousness and became all-virtuous, completely viceless and egoless. Through Brahma Baba’s practical life, the steps became very clear. What is egoless, what is ego, what is body consciousness, and what is just awareness of the body. Brahma Baba never said ‘I’. An egocentric person would put himself first: I am this I am this. But Brahma Baba, Karankaravanhar (One who does Himself and also through others) is making it happen.   

 

Ego includes, the ego of position, ego of wealth, ego of name. Brahma Baba even surrendered his n

ame. The name Dada Lekhraj never appeared. He did not want the glory of name and fame; even his name was surrendered. The name Brahma Baba was given, with the aim to change from Brahmin to deity, from Brahmin to Angel. Brahma Baba said, “I am also Brahmin, because I am also mouth-born progeny of Shiva Baba.” He is the practical embodiment of purity, power and wisdom. And so, naturally, there was no ego of I have surrendered anything, or I am sustaining anyone. Karankaravanhar is making it happen. And then, a body conscious person competes with others. Brahma Baba always had a lot appreciation for his children, “You are better than me.” A body conscious person cannot tolerate the praise of another person. While hearing the praise of another person, they would say, “But I am also the same, I am also able to do this.”  A body conscious person brings up the weaknesses of others. They use competition, comparison to prove they are better. Brahma Baba says, “Children you are better than me, because you conquer me as well. In the golden age, you will become the second Narayan and so, I will become only the Queen’s mother, the Queen’s father, and you will rule so, you will be my master at that time as well. And I am making you master now.

 

Baba always encourages us in order for us to remove our body awareness. Bodily awareness means, “I cannot do this. It is so difficult.” It means the consciousness of I am young, I am old, that is, age conscious. It means the consciousness of what the society would say, what other people would say. So, they don't have that confidence, though externally they appear to be humble. Baba says if you are not conscious of your true self, then you are only measuring the energy of the body energy of the matter, but not of the soul. Soul consciousness is being bodiless as well as virtuous. 

 

Putting the knowledge into practice means, with yoga, knowledge is changed into virtues: to be peaceful, to be loveful, to be powerful. So, yogyukt  means, saturated or connected with Godly powers.

 

Yuktiyukt  means the right method, right awareness, right to consciousness, expressing the thoughts, words and interaction with the right method of seeing the self or soul and seeing the other person as a soul. And that means being the master of this body, sarathi. So, Brahma Baba used yukti, and adopted the accurate and right method of being sarathi of this body. Generally, sarathi means co-charioteer, because in the Gita, it was mentioned that Arjuna was sitting on the chariot, and then God became the Co-charioteer. Being together, Arjuna stayed behind and put Lord Shri Krishna in front. This is the part of bhakti (devotion). In fact, Brahma Baba, who first became the charioteer, was also the co-charioteer. Being master of this body and being joint with him was Godly authority, Godly powers, Godly virtues, Godly wisdom and it means, putting knowledge into practice through mind, words, actions, directions, relations, relationships, and doing the right thing at the right time. In this way, being totally detached, then being combined with this energy, yet detached from the body. Sarathi… he made God his companion. Brahma became hidden behind Shiv Baba. Shiv Baba became in front; He is always kept in front. So Shiv Baba was the Sarathi of Brahma Baba, but Brahma became Sarathi by staying in Shiv Baba’s company, and using those qualities of a combined business, a joint Company of Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba, creating the new world. So, this is a joint business of Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba. 

 

On the path of bhakti, God is the Creator. But how did He create? He created through Brahma. He created this new world and became an example of becoming the embodiment of all Godly qualities and powers. And then letting Shiv Baba do everything as the Charioteer.  Baba is my Sarathi,  Baba is my Driver. We are driven by His directions called Shrimat. So Brahma Brahma Baba practised this, and sakshi (detached observer) means when Baba became Sathi, the Companion combined as Co-charioteer, automatically Brahma became a detached observer. And the knowledge of the drama that Shiv Baba gave, watching it everything as a detached observer. 

 

Here, Sarathi means attached, connected, saturated with that power. Whatever you have, whatever you see around you, see the world scene as a detached observer, sakshi. So be a detached observer, but an active actor. When we develop this consciousness, then you become yogyukt and yuktiyukt. You will have a right method, yukti is not a trick, it is not about manipulating the situation. Yukti is from being yogyukt, then yuktiyukt, the right method, that is, using knowledge in the right consciousness and using virtues in practical life. So, thoughts, words and actions, Baba says, automatically become the embodiment of these qualities. This means there is no possessiveness, there is no selfish motive, there is not “These things belong to me.” 

 

Detached means selflessness No attraction, no temptation, not controlling, the state of satisfaction within. Yet constantly make effort to achieve the perfect state. Brahma Baba constantly checked himself. Every time he ate, he would observe himself to see if there is remembrance of Baba. When the children were holding the hand of Brahma Baba, they would immediately get the vibrations, and he would ask, “Child, whose hand are you holding?” I would answer, “I am holding Baba’s hand.” Sometimes when we went for a walk, with great enthusiasm, we held Baba’s hand. Baba did not want us to be attached to him. So he would explained, “You are holding the hand of Shiv Baba. Are you remembering Shiv Baba?” And he was completely detached and yet closely observing with the quality of selflessness. With the consciousness that Shiv Baba is doing everything, Brahma Baba never accepted any praise. Karankaranvanhar is making it happen. When we become a total detached observer, then this quality of God, of being benevolent, so Satyam Shivam Sundaram (God’s praise of being Truthful, Benevolent and Beautiful), when truth is adopted, and when one becomes selfless and totally dedicated, surrendered, then nothing is needed. His was a very simple life. Brahma Baba did not have a big room. When new room was made. Baba says, “No, Baba doesn't want to live in it. Shiv Baba comes in an old body; He lives in an old house; I will also live in the old house.”

 

Brahma Baba gave the practical proof of renunciation, selflessness and benevolence. And this is called sakshi. Then, the soul is able to move forward automatically by following the footsteps of Brahma Baba to come in the first Kingdom. It means following Baba’s shrimat. So, in soul consciousness, with soul conscious energy and God conscious energy, this combined form automatically makes us the master of this body. Sarathi, I am a charioteer.

 

Sarathi is Maharathi. Rathi means I have this body. I am a driver of this body. This is called rathi, driver. But what is the soul really driving? It is driving my body, my mind, my intellect and my sanskaras. So, I become sarathi or Maharathi, only when I am in the soul conscious and God conscious combined energy, then not only can I guide my sense organs, I will have ruling power and controlling power naturally, without force. You don't control your hand with force, you do it naturally. When something is natural, there will be right moves automatically. You think, and your foot moves automatically. You think of doing something, your hand moves naturally. With the right awareness, with the right knowledge, it cannot go wrong, because it becomes so natural. I eat every day, I have learned to eat with my mouth. So I won’t put in food in other organs of the body. Naturally, when it is food, it will go in your mouth. I see something not with ears, but with eyes.  When someone says, “Look there,” your vision automatically will go there. Just like the way we naturally use our sense organ. A driver is aware, but he's not thinking about it. In the same way, you become the master, using the body less and less, using the consciousness of the body less and less, using the old sanskaras less and less, and begin to use your original sanskaras, your eternal sanskaras of soul consciousness, the divine sanskaras of divinity and purity.

 

Shrimat means divine intellect. With the mantra of Manmanabhav, be Mine with your mind, make your mind like My mind. the intellect becomes divine by following Shrimat. Mat means wisdom, the elevated wisdom of God. As Baba as the Supreme Teacher, is teaching the souls, we become the master of the body and yet detach from the body.

 

The bondage of old sanskaras can only be removed with the yoga power. To be free from old sanskaras means performing actions with the new consciousness, with the new awareness. The divine sanskaras Baba is giving me; I am putting into action without any ego, without the consciousness of I am better than the others, without any inferiority or superiority consciousness, but great intoxication and faith. Victory is my birthright. So, God becomes the Commander and you automatically become Shiv Shakti Pandav Army. In this way, we begin to move forward and you become atirathi and atikarmateet. There is karmic account and you are in this body, but you are ateet from the pull of the body, from the influence of the body and people, from the surrounding attraction, temptations and situations, and so, you become totally detached. Ateet means past. This higher energy of perfection becomes our actions. And that's why it's called perfection, free from inner defects and at the same time, performing elevated actions, not being influenced by the effect or defects or the influence of others, free from outer effect of matter, of situations, of problems. And so, karmateet stage or angelic stage is achieved by having this practice of being sarathi and sakshi, as master of the body and not the servant of the body.  This is the point which Baba draws our attention to today. The car is not controlling the body; the car is not controlling the driver, the driver is controlling and driving the car. And so, this way, we are the charioteers as souls, but Baba says not even control. The secret is, it should be so natural, shweta yogi,   shweta means natural. When our nature becomes natural, we are sarathi.

 

Baba is our Sarathi, our Companion, and we are under His protection, so that Maya cannot attack us, because we are in the company of the Almighty Authority. Since we are following Brahma Baba, we are already in protection. Follow Brahma Baba, remember Shiv Baba, then we will reach the destination by performing the same actions in soul consciousness with Baba. The aim and objective of the present Brahmin life is to become an angel, karmateet, free from past karmic account and bring the original perfection in action. By becoming Baba’s companion, united with Baba, combined with a Baba, that is called yogyukt, connected and directed. The directions are right only when the connection is right. So, we are first yogyukt, then we are yuktiyukt. When we are sarathi then we are sakshi as well, with the power of knowledge and virtues in life.

 

Om shanti. Om shanti. It is very obvious that I am meeting you today through Zoom. It is the time of the boom of Zoom, meeting each other through Zoom indirectly and meeting and yet becoming detached. We cannot touch each other. But we can see we can speak to each other, but we cannot control each other from a different state. In the same way, this is one state of a detached observer. So, I'm meeting today through Zoom, taking blessings and good wishes. The whole boat is full. I say the ship is full with blessings. Godly relationship is so unique; divine relationship is so unique; alokik relationship is so beautiful. So many emails, so many phone calls, so many text messages have been received. It is carrying me in this boat of protection. Certainly, it's a blessing. So, I'm going today, with the blessings of all of you, to take this chariot for repair. Baba is the surgeon and all these divine beings, the angels are giving the power, and the power of all of you. Today is the admission and tomorrow will be the procedure.

 

Om shanti. Om shanti. Om shanti.

 

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Transcribed Classes of Mohini Didi: December 8 to December 14 - Constant Happiness

19 December 2021

Dear Divine Family,

Please find attached Mohnini Didi's transcribed classes of  December 8th - December 14th - Constant Happiness.

Thank you

Avyakti Parivar

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Constant Happiness- December 8th

Constant Happiness- December 9th

Constant Happiness- December 10th

Constant Happiness- December 11th

Constant Happiness- December 12th

Constant Happiness- December 13th

Constant Happiness- December 14th

 

 

Bhog Messages from Madhuban Thursday, December 16, 2021

16 December 2021

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bhog message -- sr. shashi hindi
16-12-2021

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bhog message -- sr. shashi hindi
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bhog message -- sr. rukmani hindi
15-12-2021

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bhog message -- sr. rukmani english
15-12-2021

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Sister ‌Jayanti‌ ‌–‌ Sunday 3rd Oct 2021 ‌–‌ Avyakt Murli Revision 31.03.1988‌‌

14 December 2021

Om Shanti to everyone and it is lovely to see so many of you joined this particular session. This time it was the last murli of the season and Baba made it very clear that things would be different afterwards, but let’s go through the murli and we will get to that also.

 

Baba was seeing the love with which everybody had come from around the world. It was a large group, several hundred that had come to Madhuban in the month of March, the end of March and Baba was seeing the love with which they had come, and the Flame was speaking to all the moths who were there. Even those who weren’t physically present but were far away. Baba was saying that everybody has sacrificed themselves to a certain extent but it's numberwise; the moths surrender to the Flame and the Flame surrenders to the moth. But there are two types of moths. One, those who have love, and second those who have love from the heart. It is fascinating for me to see how royal Baba’s language is always. Baba’s not even saying you are number one, you are number two, but Baba’s saying everybody has love and of course that’s beautiful. But there are some who have love from the heart, and so Baba then explained it further that those who have love from the heart are then the ones who actually want to become like the Flame, and they sacrifice everything to the become Bapsaman, like the Father. And within that the ones who have love from the heart are the ones who absorb everything that Baba is saying within their hearts and because it's in their hearts then it also comes through into their thoughts, words and actions. And there are those who have love, but yes it’s love, and yes they have taken what Baba is saying but then they have the question. Some of it is going into their heart and some of it is going to their heads, and so they have questions such as: will I be able to do it, maybe I won't? Oh well, maybe time will take care of it and it will happen according to time and so they're not actually making that commitment. And those who have love from the heart are able to understand what are the deep feelings in Baba’s heart for us. The hopes that Baba has in us and in their heart, they want to be able to fulfill those hopes that Baba has for all of us.

 

So a very, very interesting first passage describing all of these things which require a lot of deep introspection to see which category am I in. And yes, I can move from just simply love to the one who has love from the heart, nurturing that love and allowing that flame of love to grow brighter means that yes, I can get to that point where it is love from the heart. And yes, in order to become a Brahmin there's a certain amount of sacrifice that's needed. Sacrifice of sleep, your favourite foods maybe, your timetable, different things. But the sacrifice that Baba’s looking at that can really allow us to become like the Father is the sacrifice of the consciousness of I. Whether that I is one of arrogance or whether it’s the one of weakness. Both types of I interfere in being able to become like the Father, and so Baba reminds us that it’s this sacrifice of I that can actually make us become like the Father. Then Baba reminded us that for 6 months from October through to the end of March, Baba has given us so much. Baba gave us blessings, Baba gave us insights, Baba gave us love, Baba gave us power and now Baba wants to see the results. To what extent are we able to fulfil Baba’s hopes for us and in what way are we going to be able to do this?

 

It's very easy to have pure elevated thoughts but to what extent is that being translated into our words and our actions. In terms of our thoughts, it's easy to have loving good wishes and pure feelings for all but then when it comes to words and actions, which are the mirror of what's going on in my mind, is that actually being revealed in the way that it should?  Baba pointed out that in yoga everybody pays attention and yes, that atmosphere of silence, there’s that attention on the quality of my thinking. I'm having a heart to heart conversation with Baba, and in that conversation it's a sweet conversation, but when I come into action and I'm part of a gathering, little gathering or a big gathering then sometimes where there's a difference of opinion, difference of ideas. There’s a possibility of conflict, and then our words are not as sweet as they could be, or should be. And then this even impacts my conversation with Baba, and I say to Baba, Baba why is this happening, it shouldn’t be like this. And okay, at least that’s a sweet exchange with Baba, but then when it actually comes into words with others, my words don't always indicate that translation of pure thoughts, good wishes and pure feelings into the way I deal with others around me. Yes, the power of yoga is brilliant, that's very important because that will then allow me to become an easy yogi, a natural yogi, and even a good easy karma yogi, but the translation of this is very important, into my words and my actions. Baba gave us a very clear example; when you meet others what you're saying are the words of Baba’s knowledge and so people will say this is good this is nice, it's very good but where the arrow doesn’t actually hit the target of the heart, what’s the reason for this?

 

Your words are very nice and they will also say this is good, this is very nice, but the arrow doesn’t carry that magic ingredient of power. So it doesn't strike the target and the reason is that when Baba was looking at our charts, Baba could see that we lacked power in our words, because there were a lot of wasteful words being spoken. Baba said should Baba make you laugh? We said yes, we are open to that. So Baba said, Baba has a savings box for every single soul in the subtle region, and in fact not just one savings box but three savings boxes for each and every child. Can you imagine the line up? The subtle region is subtle, so no problem for Baba. Within that there’s a box where there’s the accumulation of our pure thoughts, good thoughts, good wishes, pure feelings and then there's a second box in which our words that have power of good wishes and pure thoughts for others. If our words are being translated in that way, there’s a box for that too, and then there’s a third box, when our actions reveal all of these qualities also. Baba said: just as when Brahma Baba would speak it would be always with sweetness and would be filled with giving of respect, and I was asked the question whether it's self-respect or giving respect? And both things are absolutely interconnected. If I have respect and I'm speaking with respect, what is the quality of my words for you? It will be filled with respect, but equally if I'm speaking respectfully to you it's because I have within myself that inner dignity of self-respect. This is why my words are expressed in this way. So both are absolutely interdependent. Baba said this is why Brahma Baba was able to win the hearts of young and old, everyone. It reminded me of how when we have seniors it's easy to speak to them with respect, but what about my equals, and most of all what about my juniors, those who are younger than me? Younger in age, younger on the part of experience of yoga, whatever, but those who are younger than me, to what extent am I able to speak to them in the same way with sweetness, with respect. And so this is the way Baba speaks and so this is what I must do if I want to become like the Father.

 

Baba again remembered little children and how with little children you give them a money box. When you pick it up it feels quite heavy, but it’s got a lot of copper in it, pennies. So instead of something really substantial it's pennies, and it's fine, it's heavy but it’s filled with just pennies. So, when Baba looked at our saving boxes Baba saw that it was heavy, but it was not so valuable, not so filled with treasures. The reason is that our words were not meaningful, fruitful, our words were wasteful. Baba said wasteful words, ordinary words, same thing, not that much difference. So, it’s words without truth behind them, words without reality, words which don't really have any purpose. Baba gave all those different ideas and said: if your thoughts are pure and powerful then let your words also reflect the same. Speak less, speak sweetly, and speak with respect. These three messages that Baba gave us. Is this what I am doing, how many words do I use? There’s bound to be a lot of exchange in terms of activity, we’re doing so many things together, but can I use four words instead of 24 words to get my business done? If it’s clear in my mind and I know what I want to say, and there isn't the fluff of waste going on in my mind then I'll get to the point, less words, sweetly, respectfully. And so the combination of all of this means you can get a message across in four words rather than 24. What happens to the other 20, they weren’t really necessary? They were all ordinary, or they were wasteful. So, Baba picked up a lot on this whole idea of how I am using words, and what is the type of karma that I am doing. Baba also commented on the fact that when we get together we make great plans, very good plans, and yes, all those plans have been excellent for world benefit and this is still the time that we were preparing for Global Cooperation for a Better World. Within all of that, Baba is seeing that there has been good success, but Baba wants to see success on three levels, and this time Baba brought in a very different context: If what you are doing is really successful then you can see, am I content? And this would be service of the self. The service that I am engaged in, whatever it is I do should be bringing me contentment within myself. Secondly it should be bringing me contentment in terms of the family, others should be content with me, and me with them. And so that service of the gathering. Thirdly, service of the world out there. And then if the words are powerful and filled with that truth then those words will also be very successful in terms of not just giving a message to people, Baba wanted it to be a bit more than that.

 

Baba said so far you have been thinking of giving a message to the world, but now let it be something further. Baba gave a very practical outline of what we should be doing over the next 6 months. In those days we had a little form in which we were asking people to write their vision of a better world; how they see themselves in a better world, how they see others in the better world, relationships in the better world, this was the form that Baba kept mentioning yesterday. Baba said don't just serve them to the extent that they fill in a form, create a connection with them, sustain them so that it’s not just a connection, it's a relationship. Then truly they are able to come closer to God. What sometimes happens is that we think: ok they filled in a form, that’s it finished, done. No, that's only the starting point of service. I haven’t served them sufficiently to be able to bring them closer to God, in connection and relationship with God directly. Baba also mentioned how when you do this type of service then there will be little groups formed, and you don’t have to have massive programs. Let it be small programs in which those souls who have come closer would be able to support you, and come closer to you through those programs. I was remembering a few souls that I know of personally who came closer through Global Cooperation and became Brahmins, and they have been very key figures in terms of service in different places in the world. Baba had outlined what we should do, and these souls actually did come very close to Baba, and are still very much with Baba doing service. Baba also mentioned how so far you organize things; you give the lectures, but we are moving into a different phase when those who have benefited from their relationship with Baba, they will speak on your behalf. They will organise the programs and because they can give the lectures now. You’ve prepared them to such an extent that they can speak Baba’s knowledge, and people are more likely to listen to them, than they would have listened to you. All they want from you is drishti and a few words of blessings.

 

When you have created that stage in which you've been accumulating power and purity in your thoughts, words and actions then you’ll see all of this happen. I'm sure that we’re now at that point where we are beginning to see this in many places across the world, but more and more of that, and you don’t need a silver chair like Shankaracharya, he is given a silver chair wherever he goes, but no they will give you the chair of being worship worthy. Just imagine the very elevated position that Baba’s talking about; all of that was very much to do with the plans for service, and in Bharat and outside, everyone has been doing very good service and you continue to do that, so Baba was lavishing praise on everyone. Baba also gave us a very clear mirror of what we need to do. Then Baba was saying that, Baba wants to see all of you engaged in service of this quality; the results on these three levels, contentment for the self, and others, the gathering and the world out there. Baba was saying you won’t be coming to Madhuban this season, no need, just do the service you need to do out there and Baba will be watching the results. The next time that Baba comes, Baba wants to see a gathering of angels, that you speak like angels, that you behave with each other like angels, that you walk like angels. It should be a unique powerfully spiritual gathering. Whoever was listening at that time in the gathering, they said, why is Baba saying that you will not be coming to Madhuban next season? So, all of that was going on and Baba said, Baba turned night into day and Baba continued to serve you, sharing all blessings with you. Madhuban niwassis were there too, so Baba told them; there are some of you that haven’t had that chance of personal meetings, but Baba will make sure that happens also. So Baba having served you to this extent, now Baba is wanting you to be able to give the proof of what you’ve taken and then Baba also mentioned that Madhuban has to be the first place that is actually able to reveal this saving scheme. Baba had commented on how the government kept having saving schemes and so this was God's saving scheme. And so Madhuban niwassis are where everyone’s vision falls and hopefully, they’ll be the ones who will be the example, and others will be able to see and follow, but of course anyone can be an example. If you become an example for others, you receive extra blessings for that. So take the initiative and be like Arjuna, the number one, and so Baba encourages us for that also. Baba went into a whole series of congratulations and thank you’s. Thank you to the sevadhari’s who had served tirelessly, thank you to the Madhuban niwassis who have also been serving, thank you to all the instruments who were the instruments to sustain and support. Baba was looking at all the Dadi’s because they were the main ones who were teaching at that point. Other teachers came on the scene a bit later, but at that point all the classes used to be conducted specifically by the Dadi’s, and the personal meetings with the Dadi’s. So Baba was thanking all of them, thanking everyone who had come to Madhuban and had taken blessings, and Baba thanked the chariot also. And then Baba said, but anyway all of you have received blessings and the feet of those who are blessed will always continue to experience blessings with every step that they take. Every step that they take is filled with blessings. Those who have blessings merged in their heart, will be the ones who have a heart that is happy, light and filled with enthusiasm, and they won’t find any obstacle in their path. They’ll be able to surmount anything, nothing is going to be able to stop them.

 

Another very beautiful blessing that Baba gave, so lots and lots of blessings, and then of course Baba took leave from the gathering. The Dadi’s were there on the stage, and then we saw a very interesting scenes of Dadiji asking Baba; Baba what do you mean, do you mean you’re not coming? And Baba shook his head, and Dadi’s face was shocked, and she said; but please Baba, please Baba; and Baba was adamant. Within the passage earlier there had been one sentence that really struck me: what is accepted by drama has to be accepted by us. This is the scene that is fixed in the drama, that Baba isn't going to come the next season. So, what it is acceptable to drama has to be acceptable to all of us also. I think it’s a mantra that we should underline because sometimes we try to shake drama and think we are right. Hey hold on, who is right, is it drama or me? It’s me that’s fluctuating, not drama. Drama is set on it’s course and it’s moving absolutely in the right direction; straight, straight, straight. And next morning Dadi was a bit sad and I have never seen her sad before, or after that and she was a bit glum, saying “we tried to persuade Baba to come, but I didn’t sleep all night and kept thinking how can Baba not come?” Then she had another thought and looked around at all of us, and she pointed her finger at all of us and she said “will all of you come even if Baba doesn’t come?” All raised our hands, very, very absolutely sure that we would come to Madhuban, and she said “why will you come, Baba’s not coming?”  and somebody said; Dadi we will come for you, somebody else said Dadi we will come because Madhuban is special. Many, many different types of answers. As Dadi continued to hear many of these responses her face was lighting up more and more, she was radiant, and she was smiling, and then she continued with the murli. She picked up the murli, but she then stopped and said to all of us “Baba’s not coming”. So, it was a very interesting scene to observe and then when Dadi Gulzar went to Bombay, we thought it was just a normal health check, which it was, but it turned out she had cancer. She then had treatment. Within a year she was fine, and she carried on for another 35 years being God’s chariot. So, on the one side her tolerance, capacity, perseverance, faith and courage, from the other side Baba’s special help for her for her sacrifice and surrendering her chariot to Baba for all the hours that Baba needed. In those days many, many hours, twelve hours, sixteen hours and later on, everything changed. No more personal meetings, then country meetings, and then we moved to Shantivan and a whole different phase started of just drishti and that’s it. We’ve been seeing the transition from sakar Baba to avyakt Baba; personal meetings, and then further until today.

 

Now it just depends on each one and their own personal power to be able to connect with Baba up above and take as much as they wish from Baba, but also to experience that subtle stage and nobody can interfere with that and say “you're taking too long.” No. You can stay as long as you wish in that subtle dimension. And in that subtle experience, do all the things necessary here also. So, a very powerful murli telling us what we needed to do for that coming year.

 

Q – We sacrifice to become a Brahmin but then we also have to sacrifice our vices. Do you want to just explain about that, go into the depth of that.?

 

A – In terms of becoming a Brahmin there’s always sacrifice involved because you decide to follow purity, you decide to have early morning amrit vela, you decide to change your diet to a sattvic diet, so those are the basic requisites to be even a Brahmin, but then Baba’s asking us to take a big step beyond that. Am I ready to sacrifice the ego of I or the weaknesses of I? If I am able to do this, and truly just simply be soul conscious, and have the connection of my heart with Baba’s heart so that my sacrifice is out of love. It’s out of the love of my heart, that now I am doing what Baba’s asked me to do because I'm understanding with my heart what Baba wants of me. So, to get to that stage Baba’s saying is then going to determine your stage number wise, so to what extent have I been able to sacrifice the consciousness of I? If you think about the troubles we get in Brahmin life, it’s the I and my and both things are connected. As soon as there is the I, then it’s also my that comes in. My idea, my opinion, my plan, all of these things come in, so am I ready to sacrifice all of that? And know that it’s God’s plan that is working? It’s God’s plan that is going to be manifest. So, I don’t have to hang on to my idea or my thought, my opinion. Yes, if there’s something which is against Shrimat then that’s clear, I mustn’t do that, but apart from that, your idea, my idea, that’s okay whichever it is, because finally it’s God’s idea, God’s plan that will actually be manifest.

 

Q – Baba talked about saving the thoughts and the words, what is the method of saving action.?

 

A – If I am paying attention to the quality of my thoughts and words, my actions will be filled with that goodness in which there is nothing but benevolence, good wishes and good feelings. For example, I’m cooking, and on one level it’s a fairly simple task, but why am I cooking, who am I cooking for, what is the purpose of all of this? If I have that going on in my mind, I am cooking for Baba, I am cooking to offer to Baba, so Baba’s food can be shared with the family, it's also saving my karma.  The other way, I am thinking about three or four individuals, I’m cooking for them, I am concerned about their wellbeing, which is fine, but it's not the same as cooking for God, and I could be at home and my responsibility is to make sure that my family is well fed. The change of consciousness, the change of my thinking is when I say, I'm actually cooking for Baba, I am offering to Baba, so that Baba’s food can help these souls come closer to Baba. They often talk about the way to a person's heart is through the tummy. If truly my food is filled with good taste, and also very specifically if it's been cooked in that awareness of Baba’s love, then I am filling it with God’s love, not just my love or my attachment. It’s very different. My love for Baba - so that it’s cleansing their intellect also and it’s not just this physical heart but it’s the heart that’s in the soul. So, I am taking that soul to God.

 

Q – How is it saving action?

 

A – One would be lokik, it's not punya karma. It’s just my duty, my responsibility. So it’s time lost, but I can change that into very elevated pure karma, so that it's karma saved in my account of good deeds.

 

Q – When is there a difference between saving and accumulating?

 

A – Accumulation and saving are the same thing. I’ve got a bank account and I am accumulating; I am saving.

 

Q – If you go shopping, you save 10 pounds and then you deposit that in the bank, so then that's accumulating. You could have spent it, you could have used that energy, you could have spent it, but now it becomes available to store.

 

A – If I had not used those 10 pounds, I wouldn't spend it on cosmetics, perfume and chocolates, things like that, then I would have accumulated. I have saved it. So, accumulation and saving, you can use the same word, but if I have used it for something which is necessary, to feed my family, I have used it for something that is nourishing, which is important, then that karma that I am doing, that good karma is put into my savings account. It’s not physical money that I am putting, but it is good karma, it’s used for benefit.

 

Q - Mama’s murli in which Mama was talking about the subtle region in the Copper Age. Can you explain?

 

A – When I read it, I had to read it, and stop and reflect on it, and read it again, then I understood what Mama was saying. What Mama was saying there is that in the Golden Age, Silver Age, there is no such thing as the subtle region. No need as  souls will come straight down and be here to play their parts. From the Copper Age, bhagats start to have visions. Those visions are definitely something to do with the subtle region, but then the comment came next sentence, about the role of Brahma, Vishnu, Shankar, and God’s work only happens when God comes down. Then first it’s the creation of the deities and then God comes here on earth. So, my understanding is that the subtle region takes on a very different active role, only in the confluence age, which is what Baba has explained to us and I won’t go into that, I think that’s pretty clear. Establishment starts with a vision that Brahma Baba had, and the understanding that he is Vishnu and so on and so on. So, Mama’s only saying that the visions of the Copper Age also belong to that subtle dimension, there not something physical, there something subtle. That’s what Baba has been saying, and Mama’s expression was a little different, but that’s basically what she’s saying. Then further in Sangamyug the subtle region takes on a very powerful active role.

 

Q - What is the experience of a spiritual mother’s love?

 

A -   My mother was always concerned that I should come closer to Baba, and so she would want us to sit in the evening for a few minutes of meditation and a little bit of murli. Our understanding of Hindi was, anyway, very scratchy. Our understanding of spirituality, I speak for myself,  was practically zero, and so it wasn’t making a lot of sense. Then as a spiritual mother she was very aware that to put pressure and force wasn't going to work, and so she then let us just be free, and she wouldn't insist we sit with her for yoga and murli, or anything like that. Of course it was there in her heart, and so when she put it to Mama, that she’s not meditating and so on, Mama said leave her alone. And to her credit she did, and she didn’t try to push me in any direction. I see that spiritual love is where you offer something and you want your child to take benefit, but then at a certain point you have the wisdom to step away and say, well now it's the child's destiny. That’s one example of spiritual love. Another one; she would cook with a lot of love and of course she was offering to Baba, and what she would say to us is that there’s plenty, but make sure you don't leave anything on your plate. So, from knee high we were told this, “Whatever you put on your plate you have to finish it, you can't leave it”. And so, I am saying that that sort of love and discipline was something that she was constantly juggling with, and managing pretty well. We learnt never to leave anything on our plate, which I think in today’s world where I hear such horrible statistics of food being wasted, it’s very sad, a huge part of the world where they don’t have enough, and yet others where it gets wasted. I was thinking that it was a very good discipline that she instilled in us from a very young age.

 

Q – Any guidance regarding what to keep our eyes on in service these days? Seeing the last few decades of service, and also Corona times now. Also, Baba talked about it today, to find different methods for service.

 

A -  I really feel that our stage is the most valuable thing that we bring to service, because then it's our stage that creates the vibration that others pick up. There are so many people who are motivational speakers, who are life coaches, and some of the things they say are the things that we would also say, not everything, but a lot. So what is it that’s allowing people to feel that there’s a difference between this, and whatever else is out there? I think it’s when we have that stage, and we speak Baba’s gyan from our hearts with that experience, then that personal authority of experience comes in. I think that's the most important thing to keep in mind. The other thing is to try and be very inclusive, so that it's a message that's able to reach everyone, absolutely everyone. It's not exclusive in the terms of you're just trying to find Brahmins or souls of the Golden Age. Those souls are going to emerge and show themselves and want to know more, and understand all the detail, definitely. But I think we should have that awareness of reaching out and keeping everything in a very inclusive way.

 

Q - In the Golden Age will it be the same calendar as now, the same 24 hours as now? We're not looking at the clock, right? There’s no clock.

 

A – Exactly. It will definitely be the same 24 hours, but calendars and dates, and deadlines, I have no idea. Definitely it will be a 24-hour cycle and the deities will rise with the dawn and go to sleep with sunset, so it will be a very natural rhythm. You won’t need alarm clocks to wake you up, you will wake up with the singing of the birds, and you will go to sleep as you see the sun setting. You will know that it’s time to put your head down and rest for a few hours.

 

Q – If a BK owns a business and wants to sell it before the global economy collapses would that be negative karma, to sell a business to a person who does not have gyan, and so is unaware of the impending collapse?

 

A – I personally don’t think so, because the person who's looking to buy a business is going to be wanting to buy either this or that or the other, and so I'm striking an honest deal: I have a business that I want to finish for whatever reason and it's solid, it’s good. I’m not cheating them, I'm not tricking them, and I can't make them understand that there’s going to be a collapse. They can see how things are in terms of the state of the world. But also, I don't know if it’s 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, and so maybe they will have a good run for their money. They will be able to get whatever it is that they need.

 

Q – How do you get over feeling guilty? When you have heaviness after making some effort - Baba has said that is like punishment. So how to get over that heaviness, or guilty feeling?

 

A – We have taken up the subject of guilt before, but just very briefly now: if I have made a mistake, can I be honest with Baba and tell Baba and take Baba’s help to change? And now, the whole situation of talking to Baba, and telling Baba is very different than it was before. Even now to actually have the honesty to admit it to myself, and know that this is what I did, and put that in front of Baba. If it involves other people, then I also need to acknowledge it to them and seek their forgiveness. If it's not possible to connect with them, time has gone by, they’re not around, then let me be honest with Baba and myself. Also let me be very determined in my thought that I want to change this and it’s not just a fleeting thought, but it’s absolutely a thought that I am going to put into practice. I will not repeat such a mistake again, and I take the necessary power from Baba to be able to do that. So, the settling of that feeling is when I feel I have transformed, and yes, for sure that mistake isn't going to be repeated. I have to have that commitment and then be able to free myself from that guilt through my transformation. The heavy feeling that comes is partly because there are waste thoughts or ordinary thoughts, instead of using my mind in the way Baba has been telling me. Partly yes, if there’s been a mistake that I've made and so that also brings that heaviness, and so the mistake, and it’s that process of transformation. So the heaviness is because of waste thoughts. Can I identify what is the trigger from my waste thoughts? It's not many things, it's one or two, maybe three, usually not more than that. If I can start looking at those triggers and change my perspective about that  individual who is causing those waste thoughts or about the situation that keeps coming up and it leads me to waste thoughts, I’ll then be able to stop having those waste thoughts and I’ll become lighter.

 

Q – Regarding accepting the drama, how do you see emotional grief? For BK’s is grief a weakness? Or a valid process of letting go?

 

A – Brahma Baba didn’t experience grief in the way we know it.  But I know that I had to go through a period of grief myself when Dadi Janki passed away. I also knew that I had to make a shift. I can't remember whether it was days, I think it was actually days, but drama kept me very, very occupied. It was a blessing because then I was able to do all the interviews I was having at that time, which were interviews about Dadi. I was in Madhuban, and so I found that as I was reliving those stories, I was reminding myself of how much benefit I’d taken from that soul, and so it helped me take a leap further. Now that’s one particular situation, but I know that for others also what has helped them tremendously is when they have understood. There was a particular situation that was quite tragic, and I was dealing with the couple, parents who had lost a 19 year old son in a car accident in which he was a pedestrian but the car just hit him and the driver ran. Later the police did catch him, but they were filled with a huge amount of grief, and really couldn't see their way out of it. And as we spoke, I reminded them that their thoughts are reaching the one that they loved, and that soul was still alive, it hadn’t gone, the body was gone but the soul was there. And if they were to now think about expressing their love differently, in that the child, the soul, the new foetus in the mother's womb was catching their vibrations, and their grief was creating a disturbance. But if every time they remembered their child, they would remember God, and send that soul God's love and light. It would bring comfort to that soul and it would help the soul on its’ journey. So when they started to understand this, they began to calm down. The mother was especially distraught, but hearing this she calmed down and the father also was nodding his head in agreement. So, I think that we have to understand what grief is doing, not just to me and my health, but also to the immediate family around me that are still with me. But also, what is it doing to the one who has departed? It's creating upheaval and distress for that soul, and so we have to learn to deal with it.

 

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Transcript now available: Sister Jayanti: 5th September 2021 Revision of Avyakt Murli of 5th March 1988

11 December 2021

Baba is the Creator of the new world, the Creator of fortune, and Baba smiles as he sees his children who are also like the Father, the creators of the new world and the creators of fortune not just for themselves but also for everyone else. Baba was speaking so beautifully and reminding us that we are the picture of the fortune of the future new world. We are the ones who are the creators of that world, but today our elevated thoughts are actually revealing the elevated sanskaras of the new world, not just the images of the new world but also the support and foundation for the new world. And so a very lovely question for all of you to ponder over is: Am I part of that foundation and what does that mean? How strong is the foundation, and what does the foundation depend on? I leave that question with you.

 

Baba was also talking about how Baba’s children are the ones who fulfil the desires of all because you are the ones who have taken all attainments and all benefits from the one.You are able to give the fortune for the cycle to all other souls, whether they want mukti or jeevan mukti. You are the ones who are able to grant them that fortune, and you fulfill their desires to such an extent that for half the cycle, definitely, nobody has any desire, being ignorant of the word ‘desire’. Even later, they remember that stage in bhakti, that there are those beings who were totally ignorant of the word ‘desire’. How do we manage to not have any desires? Baba says: You are like the Father, the Bestower, the One who gives, and so the ones who create fortune and share fortune with others. So Baba loves this word, ‘fortune’, and I love it too. It’s a very powerful, beautiful word, but of course fortune happens when there is something that has happened to make it happen, and so Baba then describes all the different experiences of Sangamyug today that paint the picture of the future. And as souls see you today, they’re able to understand what that new world will be like. They ask you: What will be in that new world? And they are able then to see it through you. They come to you with tears, but your smile and your joy is such that their tears are forgotten, whether of the mind or the eyes and they begin to smile. And Baba remembered that lovely song that many of the Dadis also used to love: ‘You are the one who taught me how to smile’. I know that Dadi Janki used to remember this song a great deal and it is a very lovely song. I'm not the one to sing it to you but at some point maybe Aruna can find that bhakti song and let us hear it, it’s a very lovely song. Baba also described how those who come as beggars with nothing can experience all attainments and carry away that experience of attainment. Those who come very peaceless to you are able to experience being the embodiment of peace from you and they carry a heart filled with contentment. They come with distress, and they leave with great happiness. This is a whole description of our stage in Sangamyug and the foundation of service today, but it is also the foundation for what is to happen in the future.

 

Baba then talked about the state of the world in the future, and how that world is based on absolute fulfilment and completion. It will be sixteen celestial degrees complete, and that comes about because you have experienced your perfect stage now in Sangamyug. It’s a world which is one kingdom of total harmony and each day you follow one direction, one thought and all other directions are merged in that one direction, and so there’s total unity and the one kingdom comes about. You are the ones who are able to go beyond the illnesses of the body by experiencing freedom from all attachments to the body, and everything else connected with the body and so this gives you the perfect health for the future. And because you’re practising that bodiless stage today, you’ll have that state of long life and good health in the future. So, every single aspect was covered by Baba in this, that you are the ones who experience all fulfillment now and so that world is also the one in which everybody experiences all fulfillment. The family there will be a small family but that’s because here you’ve made spiritual effort with consistency and been constant in your love for One, belonging to One with that spiritual endeavour with mother and father and brothers and sisters and that’s it, no complicated further developments. In the golden age, there is one small family, mother and father, the world emperor, the world empress and everyone is my family. Yes, there'll be a difference in status but there won't be a difference in the relationship of love. Everybody will experience that same love for all, and so there will be no worries about status, just pure love connecting everyone together in that way. So, how close am I to creating that perfect picture? Baba’s given us all the skills, talents and cooperation and says: If you want you can do it, you can create that perfect picture. And you're able to do it now because God provides you with all the different tools. That reminded me of the game of monopoly; you’re given money and you can buy whatever you want. Or lego where you're given all the bricks and the methods where you can create a palace or whatever it is you choose. Baba’s not restricting us and saying: I'll give this one, two, I'll give this one four, it’s an open bazaar, self-service, come and help yourself and take as much as you want and you can create the sort of world that you want for yourself. God’s imposing no restrictions at all, but rather for every one act of cooperation for the father, Baba is giving us a million times return. Now that is an amazing bargain. I give one single act of cooperation to Baba today and Baba’s guaranteeing me his cooperation. Baba’s giving us all his cooperation and is telling us: Take as much as you want, do as much as you can, it’s up to you. But then there is a little crevice in place and you can’t complain saying: Somebody didn’t do this or why did they do this? No, it’s totally up to me, the responsibility is absolutely fair and square, on my shoulders and whatever it is I choose to do. It’s fascinating how Baba reminds us of all the gifts that he’s giving us and that all of that continues in so many ways and then Baba reminds us what it is we need to be doing. And so do it! Carry on, but don’t complain, it’s nobody else’s fault, nobody is stopping you, nobody can prevent you, you can do as much as you choose. And so, Baba’s very proud of his artist children. Baba’s saying that you, the amazing artist, are creating such a beautiful picture, that yes, you create that beautiful world and you show through your image today, what that future world will hold. So a very, very lovely murli in which Baba’s really elevating us and reminding us of our responsibility.

 

Baba asks us the question: Who’s sitting at the roots of the tree? It’s the yogis and so those images were of those ones who came at that time, right at the start of the yagya. Even today, if I want to sit at the roots of the tree and do that tapasya, the tree is nourished and I’m getting power from the seed but I’m sitting with the tree in the roots and so the whole tree is being nourished through our tapasya. Baba said there’s always space, there’s enough space for all. A time will come when the board will go up that all spaces are taken, everything is full. But at the moment, even some good ones sometimes drop out and there’s space, so don’t worry there’s space for everyone, there’s space for all of us, and so Baba’s offering us these amazing opportunities and wonderful chances. I also loved what Baba spoke about to the double foreigners especially because in Bharit you surrender and live in a centre and there are students who take care of the running of the centre. But abroad it’s been a very different story. It’s been the courage and the persistence and the tolerance capacity of his children abroad that expanded service so amazingly, just in 14 years. At that time, Baba was mentioning and I was thinking that, I was counting it from the time that Dadi Janki arrived in 74 and so it’s a murli of 88. So in 14 years service spread out throughout the whole world. Baba appreciates how the double foreigners are the ones who’ve done double service, by working hard at their lokik jobs and earning the money to be able to run their centres. They’ve made their own spiritual effort and they’ve also created service in such a beautiful way, and so have double fortune through double effort and double work.

 

Baba also reminded us that you need to be knowledgeable, you need to be able to know yourself, you need to know God, you need to know karma philosophy but you also need to be knowledgeable about maya. I think that was a very powerful lesson and reminder because maya is extremely clever and the forms that maya adopts to attack us or tries to attack us, are highly subtle and very creative and individual. They say everybody has an Achilles heel that if pushed or hurt, then the person stumbles and falls. Maya knows my Achilles heel, what it is that’s going to really bug me, and cause me a problem. Maya knows me very well but, how well do I know maya and how well do I know myself? I was reflecting on this and thinking that to know Baba is easy, Baba’s an open book, Baba reveals himself exactly as He is and who He is and we are all able to know Him. All the information is there, in every murli and so there are no secrets hidden away from us, everybody has access. All that information is shared but how well do I know myself? We always talk about that ‘iceberg factor’, 1/10 is visible and 9/10 is invisible, but it’s me, it’s inside of me and so are my beliefs, my illusions, everything I carry. I need to be able to see very clearly what it is that causes upheaval. Even if it's not upheaval, what is it that causes me irritation? Baba spoke about tiredness, and when there’s tiredness that’s when you get to see your own sanskaras. Baba’s very valid point is: if the mind is enthusiastic and happy, then it can deal with the physical tiredness and it’s not an issue, you’ll be able to overcome it very easily. But if the mind gets tired, the body will get tired very easily and not just tired, it’s probably going to give up and say it can’t manage anymore. So just keep the mind very happy and healthy and also be very knowledgeable about what is hidden inside of you. And it shouldn’t be hidden from ‘me’ because if it stays hidden from ‘me’ then that’s going to be where maya attacks and it’s going to be a problem. So to be knowledgeable about God and karma, that’s easy, but to be knowledgeable about my own sanskaras and the illusions Maya creates and trips me up on, that’s where I can either have victory or I lose out on victory.

 

So those were some of the major things that Baba covered. I was speaking to groups but it was really the parts about the double foreigners that was very powerful and very meaningful for all of us I think. Those are the things that stay with me; Baba giving us old skills to become artists of great renown to be like the Father and to create the new world so that our features today show the world the future that Baba is creating.

 

Q: Dadi Gulzar was saying that Baba used to say to us that we should be able to do everything and we shouldn’t say: I don’t know how to do this. She said we shouldn't say ‘not’ or ‘we don’t know’ or ‘can’t do’. They did all-round service and that means they had all-round sanskaras. Every soul has sanskaras, so why is it that we aren’t able to emerge those for service? When it comes to service people say: 'No I don’t know how to do that’ when actually we are getting more power from Baba to be able to do it. Let’s focus on sanskaras for a little bit this evening and really dissect that.

 

A: I remember Mama saying that every soul carries all sanskaras within itself. Think about your 84 births and especially the last 63 births. You’ve done everything, you’ve been everywhere, so all those sanskaras can emerge, but what happens is that we forget our total cycle and this is why Baba often tells us to just be the spinners of the discus of self-realisation. Know that I carry all the records of all the parts that I have played within me. Someone would say to Mama ‘But I don’t know how to do this’. Mama would say to them: Did you have any gyan? You did not have any gyan. So now you have gyan, and so that's something new. But Baba emerged it in you and you experienced the beauty and the truth of this. And so other sanskaras are also submerged within you. Take that opportunity of saying ‘yes’ and you will see those sanskaras emerge and flourish. It’s a fact! Yesterday many were saying that it was being in Global House that gave them an opportunity to emerge sanskaras and learn so much. And I would say the same, that I knew nothing about myself or the world or anything, and Baba just gave me one opportunity after another and I was able to learn and grow and develop amazing fortune, and that’s available to everyone. Just learn to say ‘Ha Ji’ instead of ‘Na’.

 

Q: How is a sanskara created? Is it created in thought or is it created in action?

 

A: If you think about a baby, a baby comes with certain sanskaras and it’s not consciously thinking but the sanskaras are there and so those sanskaras begin to emerge. The happy baby, the crying baby, the angry baby, the nurses will tell you that within a day or two, the sanskaras begin to emerge and they are able to recognise babies not just by the name on the wrist but also through their sanskaras. I think the sanskaras are there and then different situations trigger my thoughts and my actions and the sanskaras are created. This doesn’t happen with babies but it does happen with adults, especially in the path of gyan and yoga. An example is the sanskar of maybe the recent past is just there and the thought emerges but the buddhi kicks in and I make a conscious decision: Should I allow this thought to come through or not? If I don’t allow it to come through into action, then that sanskara begins to merge. The more I do this, not just once, twice, three times; I just pay attention and I don’t allow it to emerge, then that sanskara is gradually going to merge back within the soul and not emerge for another 5,000 years. But what happens is we lose track, we lose attention, so it’s actually an action that underlines the sanskara. If it's just emerging though, and I deal with it and I finish it, it’s not going to be expressed and that’s not true just of the negative sanskaras but even the positive sanskaras. I have a sanskara of compassion and the thought emerges: I would really like to go and help XYZ. If I don’t put it into action, then that sanskara loses power and it gets merged more deeply. But if the compassion thought comes and I put it into action, that sanskara of compassion becomes stronger and motivates me more and more. So, just the thought by itself doesn’t create the sanskara but, in fact, the sanskara creates the thought and then the action underlines that sanskara and makes it stronger and firmer.

 

Q: Is the soul separate from the mind and intellect and sanskaras?

 

A: No, I don't think it’s separate. The soul reveals itself through the thoughts, the feelings, the consciousness, the beliefs and the actions, and so it’s not that here is the part which is the soul, and here’s everything else.

 

Q: Do souls stay pure all the time? Is it the sanskaras that go from sato to rajo to tamo?

 

A: It’s not just sanskaras that fall from grace, it’s the soul totally that falls from grace. This is why we talk about pap atma; the sinful soul is not just the sanskaras of sin but at the current time in kaliyug we are seeing this play out in action where sanskaras manifest but it’s the soul that is impure. The buddhi becomes patar buddhi which is a ‘stone intellect’ and so that idea that the soul is ever pure is very much a sannyasi idea connected with the idea that we are all parts or fragments of God, and so we can never become impure. Baba is saying whatever actions you perform, the imprint of that is on the soul, where else can it go? It’s not the body, the body is going to be washed away, whatever. But it’s the soul that carries the purity or impurity. And because the soul is just a point of light, there is no separate space for it to say; this bit is pure, but this bit is impure. The soul itself becomes pure and impure and in this murli, I didn’t mention it earlier, but Baba is putting the whole responsibility on us: you rise, the world rises, you fall, the world falls with you. Everyone’s either liberated, or moves to the satopradhan stage. So it is the soul itself that goes through the different phases, sato, rajo, tamo.

 

Q: Can you explain the role of the buddhi? Baba says in the murli to apply your intellect. If we strengthen our intellect are we able to reform our sanskaras?

 

A: The first step that happens is that the soul recognises Baba, and past birth fortune, and that I’ve searched for God with love, I’ve not been distracted by gurus and other things. I may have had gurus, but it was always God and truth I was searching for. That brings me to Sangamyug, Baba finds me and touches the buddhi and gives me the gift of a divine intellect and so I’m able to recognise God. Experiencing the recognition of God changes things dramatically. My beliefs change, my conscience awakens. So when we talk about the awakening of the soul, it’s the conscience that awakens first and foremost, then I begin to see things differently. What I first thought was ordinary and normal, now I say: I don’t want to go there, it’s not useful, I’m not going to get involved with that. The major decisions we make about becoming a Brahmin in that first instance when Baba finds me, is the recognition of God but also the lifting of the veil from the intellect so that the intellect is now open, the third eye is open. When the intellect is lifted up, yes then I have the job of making sure I keep it clean. Because if criticism comes in, if bad actions continue to persist, then the intellect gets to be polluted. But if I follow shrimat and keep the intellect clean, then the intellect has the power to discern what’s going on in the mind. The mind’s going to be mischief, the mind doesn’t have discernment capacity at all, it can go here and there, in all sorts of places. And my feelings and emotions, also the same. Today my feelings are ones for great love and attachment to somebody, tomorrow they can flip and be the exact opposite. The emotions also yo-yo, one day here, the next day there. Even within an hour emotions can flip. And so it’s the buddhi that’s the stable factor, and the buddhi is connected with God, with God’s knowledge and is developing the clarity and the capacity to hold my mind in check, so that the mind isn’t going here and there and everywhere, but I’m keeping the mind moving, on track.

 

The whole purpose of revising and churning the murli, is that the mind is holding that wisdom, but now it’s guiding the mind to move in the right direction. Baba’s feeding me every single day so that I have new avenues to explore so the mind doesn’t get bored. There’s also a cleansing going on with the churning of gyan. So Baba’s showing me how to clean every bit of the soul. First the buddhi and keep it clean, then the mind, keep it clean with gyan, wash everything else but also then the power to follow through with good thoughts, putting elevated thoughts into action and reforming sanskaras. Baba’s showing me that, together with all of this, I need yoga and I need silence power to be able to burn away things that are of the past and my karma through the fire of yoga. The buddhi leads the way, and then, everything else follows. In the Gita there is the beautiful example of Krishna, who takes over Arjuna’s chariot. You can have somebody standing in the chariot with you, but if you still insist on holding the reins, then you're still the master, you’ll do things according to your own intellect. Arjuna, in his wisdom, recognises God and hands over the reins of the buddhi to God so that now God is in charge. The moment that Shiv Baba entered that chariot of Brahma Baba, everything that Baba did was according to shrimat, absolutely and accurately according to Shiv Baba’s directions with no thought of his own coming in. I can be like Arjuna, number one, first division as Baba said. The buddhi is the all-important factor.

 

Q: When we meditate does our yoga depend on the quality of our intellect?

 

A: It does, but also on what we have been doing through the day. It’s connected very much with that, if the buddhi has been in charge, keeping my mind on track. Then my thoughts will also move to God, to experience all relationships with God.

 

Q: On the subject of giving gyan, giving courses to somebody: if somebody’s in their alokik home. why don’t you cover both, living pure and not living pure? Is it okay that they give the course because they’re thinking the rationale time, you know, is coming to a close, if they’re remote, let them give knowledge to whoever’s around them?

 

A: Up until now, we would say that if somebody isn’t following the principles, they don’t usually have the power to be able to convey that to another. The course and theory of seven days is one thing, but hopefully if this is somebody interested in the course and they want to become a Brahmin, then they need to have total clarity on the principles. Only then can we say that this is their spiritual rebirth and that they’re a Brahmin. Yes, there are people who are interested in teaching, even though they’re not following principles and so then we say, “okay but at least start things like positive thinking or anger management, stress-free living”. Some of these peripheral things we do take up in many many centres and the pure Raj yoga course used to be for teachers. It didn’t matter if they were living in the centre or living at home, but the factor was; are they following the principles? And if they are following the principles, and living at home isn’t an issue, they can definitely give the course.

 

Q: And again connected with the ‘contact souls’ I mean if they’re in difficulty, financially, and some of them are now because they don’t have jobs and because of Covid, they can’t go out to work, what is your take on giving them money? Can Brahmins give Brahmins or contact souls money?

 

A: Leave aside the subject of contact souls for now. Firstly, if it is a Brahmin, who doesn’t have enough to eat, the first duty of Brahmins would be definitely to support them by feeding them. But there may be other factors like not having money for rent and things like this. We wouldn’t be giving them money from the centre, but there would be people within the Brahmin family who could sponsor people in that condition for maybe a few months, maybe six months, whatever it may be, until their circumstances change and they are able to get a job. So that would be possible. When people have given money to Baba, that becomes very sacred money, and in legal terms, if our accounts are being seen by the government, which actually happens in most countries where we are registered, you cannot use that money for any other purpose than the very specific objectives that have been stated in your constitution. So to give that money for somebody else’s rent for their family, it’s not possible, it’s just legally not allowed. In such cases, one usually knows who has a certain amount of capacity to help out, and so maybe they can even give them a job. Very often, we’ve had to facilitate this sort of thing. If a Brahmin who has their own company in a different situation and the person can learn the skills that are required for that, it’s actually better if they can get a job with the Brahmins but if that doesn’t work, then sponsorship through another Brahmin can be offered.

 

Contact souls: I’m very reluctant to say that yes, always, if people are in need of food and you say to them, okay, come for one meal a day in Baba’s home, they could be helped in that way. But, how well do I know a contact soul? I really don’t. Can I even recommend that a Brahmin offers them a job? It depends on how well I know them. Then because I’m taking the guarantee for them, that yes, this is an honest person, this is the person who’s sincere, you know, it’s all those factors. And to help them out once, a one-off thing, that’s different to saying to a Brahmin, please provide them with money for accommodation for however long. And also you don’t know if that money is going to go for accommodation or whether it’s going to go for feeding other habits so, contact souls are a very different story. But Brahmins can lend a hand in different ways.

 

Q: As we’ve seen, even giving work to Brahmins can be tricky.

 

A: Yes, yes, all sorts of karmic situations come up, but I’m just thinking about a Brahmin who I’ve known for a long time and I know that it isn’t through a fault of their own that they’re not working. If I can facilitate that, maybe I can try.

 

Q: If someone doesn’t do what they’re requested to do around the centre, then is it still my responsibility? What do I do even though they didn’t do what was asked?

 

A: I offer somebody an opportunity to do service and they say they can’t. Well, I accept that there’ll be somebody else who can. Nothing stops in terms of service, service continues whether this Brahmin takes up the fortune or it’s somebody else. But if they say they will do it and they don’t do it, then very sweetly, respectfully, find out what happened. And sometimes there may be a very good reason, but if it’s clear that there isn’t a very good reason then next time I would ask them: You’re saying yes, but can I be sure that it will happen? If they’ve been able to give a reasonable response, you know why they didn’t do it, then give them another opportunity. And of course, you can try once, twice but the third time you baulk at offering them an opportunity again. If they come to you saying: Yes, I’m sorry, I should’ve…but I didn’t, but I would like another opportunity, keep the door open for that also. So different situations require different responses.

 

Q: Post-Covid, there are instances of evil spirits disturbing us in different ways, and this is increasing and not letting us meditate. How can we get rid of evil spirits?

 

A: It’s not wise to spend too much time on this particular subject because when you talk about such things it’s like an invitation to all these spirits to come, so just yoga is the answer. If there’s a disturbance in meditation, let me sit with the murli, let me read the murli and then, spend a few moments reflecting. And if that process can help me come close to Baba again, let me continue that and keep increasing my time of reflection with Baba. And when I do feel that my mind is wandering again, let me again pick up the murli and go deeper into it. And so, where I’m not totally in charge of my mind for whatever reason, due to illness, spirits, whatever, the other line of contact with Baba is through the murli. The murli is our saving lifeline and so, go to the murli, and even as you’re reading, reflect on every word that you read, every sentence that you read so that you’re able to feel Baba connecting with you through the murli.

 

Q: Would you agree to play Baba’s song to change the atmosphere for Baba’s murli, and keep it running?

 

A: Yes, it’s a good idea! What happens is if you just keep the songs playing then your mind gets used to it, and then you stop listening to the song or feeling the vibration. It’s okay for a short while, but it has its limits.

 

Q: Every Thursday, bhog is offered to Shiv Baba. When did this procedure start?

 

A: In the days of Karachi, it was happening specifically when Baba would come. The trans messenger, Piu, would be speaking and Baba would’ve had a wonderful array prepared for him because in bhakti he had so much love for God, and did so much for the gurus and because he knew that God was coming, he did a lot. And then when that scene stopped in the drama, that scene of offering bhog, preparing bhog especially, that scene also stopped. In the days of Abu, through the beggary time and because of the practical and physical reasons why the beggary period came about, all the savings that Baba had saved for the sustenance of the yagya, and hiring a huge ship to bring 350 people across. The big train, and the travel up to the mountain, all of this drained the yagya. Bhakti remembers this as Tirupati’s pot becoming empty, so it was that period and Baba was reflecting on ‘why’ and then he said: We haven’t been offering bhog to the Provider. In those days in Mount Abu the system of bhog started once more and it was synchronistic because that was also the time that the first monies from outside started coming in. Baba would say that before it was Brahma Baba’s wealth and a couple of others who had totally surrendered giving everything, and so it was clean. Now money was coming from outside, you didn’t know the story or the history. Baba would say they’ve given to Baba, and now you don’t have to think about clean or unclean as God is feeding you. Whatever has come has been offered to God. Now it’s Shiv Baba’s bandhara and Brahma bhogen - it was the food that Brahma Baba had fed you. In the first instance for 14 years and then later as service started, then that was also the time that not just money was coming directly to the yagya, but it was also the time of service starting in Delhi, Bombay and other places. Baba would say: It’s okay, it’s not your student who’s feeding you, make sure the student also understands that they’re giving to God. And so it’s a very sacred system and I know that people today sometimes feel that ‘oh it’s bhakti, it’s a ritual’, but it's only a ritual if you don’t understand the meaning behind it. It’s not a ritual, it's a real act of love and devotion and gratitude. I’m expressing my thanks to Baba for having provided everything for me and Baba’s giving me everything in return. Not just now, but throughout the cycle.

 

Q: Since you mentioned Draupadi, there was a question about Arjun. Although it was Eclabia who gave his thumb to Dronacharya, why is it then that Arjun has been remembered more?

 

A: I don’t think I have an answer for you because what was the name of the person who gave his thumb?

 

Q: Eclabia

 

A: Okay, well, I wouldn’t even remember that! I’ve heard it now but it’ll go away again! But I do know that the one who was outside, was the one who learned archery even faster and with more specific accuracy than Arjuna himself. I’m sure somebody can explain, but at this moment, I haven’t had enough time to think about it. Baba tells us in the murli, that Beo (Baba uses the word Beo), is a native person who was living outside and was even able to go further than Arjuna. I think it’s now that I’m remembering what Baba says in the murli rather than the bhakti story. Baba picks up on it as a fact that you can never say, ‘I am the best’ as there might be somebody out there who’s better than you and so never ever have that thought that ‘I am the only one. I am the best’. Above us we have many incognito children and somebody out there is definitely better than you.

 

Q: When Baba says that he can make service happen through any soul and yet Baba is akarta, so then who does the karma? And if Baba’s doing it, doesn’t it go into Baba’s account?

 

A: Generally, everything is being done by God. I would say Brahma Baba, the angel, and these souls have akarta, the one who does everything but receives no fruit, no return for it. And so, what fruit does God need? And Brahma Baba who attained karmateet stage and has been serving tirelessly ever since for 50+ years, Brahma Baba, the one who became equal to the Father, the same akarta in his role. The one who does akarma, no return of the action performed because it’s simply to give to others. Literally altruistic karma. God’s karma is altruistic, Brahma Baba’s karma has been also. I know Baba works through individuals who are just very humble and simple and they become instruments to bring amazing souls to Baba. That one is such a simple one and they’ll say: Well, Baba did it. And truly Baba worked through them to make it happen but it was altruistic karma. Totally altruistic.