Madhuban Newsletter & Mama's Specialities - June 2021:  Pure inspirations to make the mind powerful with spiritual exercise.

1 June 2021

(Letter of remembrance 14-5-2021)

 

Beloved Avyakt BapDada, Mother and Father’s deeply loving instrument teachers, brothers and sisters of this land and abroad, who are the decoration of the Brahmin clan, those who always make themselves powerful by doing spiritual exercise, those who remain stable in their form of peace beyond sound while being in an atmosphere of upheaval, please accept Godly love-filled sweet remembrance from Madhuban.

 

In order to easily overcome the current situation, we need to make our mind powerful by giving it blessings of happiness and the medicine of spiritual exercise. Receiving news from everywhere, there is a lot of upheaval everywhere. At such a time, all of us Raj yogi brothers and sisters, while living in this world of sound, have to practice going beyond sound. Be master knowledge-full and seeing the fixed destiny of the drama, we have to have faith in the intellect and have a carefree stage. Baba says: Children, now, according to the time, you children have to do the service of giving sakaash through your mind and an attitude of pure wishes for everyone.

 

According to the subtle signals of beloved BapDada, directions were sent to everyone from Madhuban to have eight hours of yoga tapasya at your own places. All of you must definitely be doing tapasya according to those directions. In Madhuban too, yoga bhatthis are taking place everywhere in small groups. This is also a golden chance that all of us have received to become complete and perfect, the same as the Father and to serve all souls and also matter. At this time in Bharat, many states are in complete lockdown and everyone is free from going out or doing any other business etc. At such a time, let all of Baba’s children ignite such a powerful fire of yoga in which all our sanskars are purified and all the negativity in the atmosphere finishes. Let every soul experience peace and support.

 

At present, all the sakar and avyakt murlis and all the blessings we are hearing – let each one churn these deeply and practice putting all of that into our practical lives. In these precious moments of the confluence age, each one of us has to accumulate the power of silence. Observing the vow of complete purity, giving sakaash to the whole world and matter too with our good wishes, let us quickly accomplish the task of the establishment.

 

Tell me, all instrument brothers and sisters, all of you are practicing special powerful yoga and increasing the power of your mind, creating an obstacle-free stage and doing the service to make the atmosphere free from obstacles, are you not? Look, this scene of the drama suddenly came in front of us that in two months, 2 of our senior Dadis became residents of the subtle region. For our sweet Dadi Gulzar and Ishu Dadi to leave this unlimited family and join the advance party is also a special signal for us. This is why hearing the Call of the Time, let each one have an attitude of unlimited disinterest and accomplish the great task of world transformation through self-transformation. Achcha.

 

Lots of love and remembrance to all.

In Godly service.

B.K. Ratanmohini

 

 

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Sister Jayanti – 23rd May – GCH You are the Ocean of Love

24 May 2021

Today’s murli is on the theme of love.  Baba has explained in a lot of detail what the power of love is able to do for us.  It is able to uplift us, to give us power, it is able to heal us, it is able to transform us and give us the experience of the joy of Brahmin life and so many, many specialities of what happens when there is spiritual love also.

 

A very interesting comment from Baba was that when it is not spiritual love, when it is just the love of the physical dimension, then your heart gets broken into pieces, but spiritual love brings the heart together and makes it whole again.

 

The result of this love is that you experience receiving power from Baba because when you are lost in that love you are connected very closely, directly with God. When you have that power, you are a natural yogi and life becomes very easy also.  Yet so often the experience that even for Brahmins in Sangamyug we know that this is a time of fortune, when Baba has come to give us everything   and yet we are still not able to experience that supersensuous joy all the time.   Maybe from time to time but not all the time and Baba is explaining that we are receiving power as a result of that loving connection with God but there is leakage somewhere.  Think about a battery that leaks and so is the battery going to be able to do the job you want it to do whether it is the sound  for amplification, anything, so check the leakage because  and if there is a leakage then I am receiving power but because of lack of power there is discontent.

 

Baba starts with just giving us love and takes us on a journey and finally explains that when there is a leakage and discontent comes from that, then the discontent is going to make you constantly complain.  The soul isn’t realising that there is something to sort out within the self and of course the complaints point the finger out there…. because of this one, this thing, that thing. And Baba is saying:  check yourself and see where the leakages are.  Baba has mentioned that the major cause of leakage is that instead of love for One there is love for humans and for things and the intellect gets caught up with these other things and if my intellect is tuned here how is it going to tune to Baba and because my intellect is tuned here to human beings there are going to be expectations and very rarely can human beings fulfil expectations and this has been the whole story of the Copper Age and the Iron Ages - expectations  that have not been met and we have been disappointed.  But also things.  If there are objects and things available that I am using and they provide some ease and comfort fine, but Baba is saying that this is the fruit of your coming to God, everything becomes available.

 

This is a murli from the 80s and Baba is saying 17 or 18 years ago you didn’t have those facilities and you do now and they will increase because it is the fruit of your love for God, your connection with God, your surrender to God, but whilst you are enjoying the fruit don’t forget the Seed.  So the sadhan,   the facilities, sadhna, the spiritual endeavour or effort - so if I get caught up in all the facilities then the Seed is forgotten and of course Baba is saying that the facilities are here so we are using the facilities but is my intellect being pulled by those facilities and if the intellect is being pulled by the facilities then the connection with the One above goes and so there is a lack of power, leakage and then the discontent.  So Baba is saying if you check all of this today and put it right there is the possibility of transformation and filling the self with the power you need.

 

Baba has also talked about the other side of the connection with humans. One is where I love the person because of their qualities and what they are able to do for me.  But the other side, the negative side, and that occupies as much space in my intellect because I am seeing the virtues and the defects and Baba has specifically mentioned jealousy and hatred and if my intellect is filled with even a trace of that Baba says that you then become subservient to that person.  You are then under them.  They have power over you.  Am I going to allow that to happen?

 

Then instead of the special space that I have here that is given to God and the experience of God’s love, how much time and energy is it costing me to be thinking of that other person and this is the main cause of leakage and if I experience that stage of contentment then I am going to be able to have the power to deal with the obstacles that come my way.  If I don’t deal with that then life as a Brahmin becomes tasteless and a feeling of tiredness and boredom are experienced.

 

There is no other time of being able to fill the self and becoming complete than at the Confluence Age.   The rest of the time it is a slow drain. Not because of you doing anything wrong but existence, living life.   The soul from Copper Age onwards is coming down and now is the time to fill.

 

What can we do to be able to increase our experience of love for God so that we can protect and save ourselves from distractions and other things, and one thought comes to mind very strongly and that is gratitude.  So the experience of gratitude and the appreciation of how much Baba has given me already.  So at this moment the most fortunate ones on the planet are the ones who know God. The ones who have a relationship with God and experience God’s blessings and protection and so can I deeply nurture that sense of gratitude and that feeling that Baba is the one who gives me everything and is taking care of me and so when I nurture that sense of gratitude within myself then the feeling of love for Baba is also going to be dominant.  And where I forget this the intellect goes in many directions and to be able to keep it stable and accurately connected requires attention. If you are not always willing to give it that attention the lazy intellect comes in and says that this is important , that is important and the most important thing gets forgotten.

 

When we come to Baba there is usually great intoxication and experience of love and then somehow instead of just focusing on Baba we get distracted by human beings and so either way we see the good and not so good. Baba is calling it seeing others instead of being able to see the self and when attention is out there - no soul consciousness and no connection with Baba and so no experience of God’s love or God’s power and so that is when in that middle period many go through ups and downs.

 

But now it is no more the middle period and even if souls have come to Baba recently they are on fast track and I see that many souls are moving very fast towards their destination with Baba’s help but for all of us it is not now the middle period any longer.  It really is the final period and so I don’t know how long the final period lasts.  I didn’t know for myself that the middle period would be as long as it was and now I am very aware that things can happen very suddenly and so I think that the one thing to keep oneself safe is really appreciation and God’s love.  Just to be able to be constantly aware that.                                                            

 

I shared an exercise with the class a few years ago, and it’s a good time to remind everyone of this today:  Every night write 10 points of appreciation and gratitude.  What is it that I feel grateful for that has happened today?  And the next morning 10 points of gratitude, and nothing has happened yet. You are just at the start of the day but yet still think about what there is in your life that you are grateful for.  Beginning the day in this way and ending the day in this way.  

 

Before you begin the exercise one other exercise connected with this is to write a 100 points of gratitude.  What am I grateful for right from early days of childhood?  It actually doesn’t take very long to write 100 points.  It sounds like a lot but your pen will just flow.  You will keep thinking.  Maybe not all in one go, maybe 50 in one go and again, but again later things will come into your mind and you will start writing again and so those 100 points will be absolutely vital because it will make you appreciate how special you are, the special role you have, the special gifts throughout your life from God that you have had even before you came to gyan and especially now what it is that Baba has given you.  I am told that it actually changes the mechanism of your brain by doing this.

 

Someone wrote to me at Christmas time last year and said the best gift he had taken was to be able to do this for himself; writing the points of gratitude and he was going through a phase of difficult illness and he said that it was doing this exercise every night and every morning that made him positive about the situation he was facing with his health and it was very, very useful and he said that now, automatically he thinks  about what it is he is appreciating about any situation he finds himself in.

 

So this is one person’s practical experience but I know that I did it for 9 months and from time to time I remember and go through that exercise again and I think that really the mechanism of the brain begins to change and that is one of the lovely things that Baba has always told us that nothing is fixed in the sense that if I want to change myself, take Baba’s help and you can change.  Sanskars can change, your intellect can change, and your way of thinking can change.  And great to know that scientists are confirming this and saying that the mechanisms of the brain and the patterns of the behaviour of souls - the mind patterns, all of that can change.  It is not fixed.  

 

It can change so let me experiment with Baba.   If I am grateful for how much Baba has changed me from where I began to where I have come today then that appreciation of my own transformation also increases my love for Baba hugely and so let me be able to not just thank Baba for what He has given me but thank Baba for the magic He has done for me personally and when I am appreciating that that also opens the door for more to happen and then the destination doesn’t seem very far away.  You can see how Baba helped you change and so whatever little that still remains and maybe you don’t think it is so little, maybe it is a lot that remains, that is also Ok, but Baba will help you change that also and so I think that gratitude is a very, very important quality to cultivate in order to be able to increase my own love for Baba and to feel contentment in my life again.   Very often I see that through many, many murlis, avyakt murlis especially, Baba has spoken about contentment being the very foundation quality.

 

In that state of contentment then other things can grow, other virtues can grow and without contentment a lot of negativity arises and so yes I am not at my destination yet.  When I get to my destination I will be totally satisfied - everything achieved but it will come when I have reached that goal but at this moment to cultivate contentment, to be able to see the benefit in whatever it is that is happening.  

 

When Baba speaks about drama Baba says: sweet drama.  Drama is sweet. Do I find drama sweet all the time or is it that I am finding drama a struggle.   So, appreciation of every moment of Sangamyug.

 

Appreciation of drama is vital.  It requires a lot of flexibility because drama doesn’t always go the way you want.  It rarely does.  You are expecting drama to go here and instead drama goes there and then you have to readjust.  The GPS tells you:  “Recalibration, recalculation” You have gone off track and it doesn’t tell you went wrong it tells you to recalibrate, refocus and so come back.  We can think it should go this way but maybe it is my intellect that is thinking that it should go like this and not like that and drama is accurate.

 

Drama is actually very, very precise and it going the way it needs to go.  Drama doesn’t get distracted by human desires, wants and needs.  Drama would do what it needs to do and so coming to that stage where I appreciate not just God and what God has given me but I appreciate drama and understanding what is below the surface of the situation in drama.  It doesn’t happen quickly but at least even before Let me be able to just say sweet drama and give myself the space where I can start exploring it.  If I am reacting to drama then my mind is in a state of upheaval.  I am not giving myself the time and space to see what are the lessons to learn from this scene of drama and so when I begin to be quiet then I see the benefit and then genuinely I will say sweet drama, and until then I will say that Baba says that drama is accurate, and so I am trying to convince myself, but to be able to say sweet drama with my heart means that my experience of God’s love will stay constant.

 

Working around drama, trying to sort it out, trying to change it and all my time and energy is going in that. Let me accept the drama and be able to continue to experience God’s love.

 

Drama is a great distraction.  Drama itself and the situations that come are a huge distraction. I say ‘sweet drama’, calm myself down, put a full stop to it and then explore it and ask myself what are the underlying secrets of this scene of drama.  What is this scene of drama making me understand and what is it making me appreciate and so I begin to look at it in that way and again the beauty of drama shines but also the beauty of God and seeing the beauty of God and the creation of God it is going to help me.

 

The beauty of God and the creation of God will help me stay in that experience of love and another thing that keeps my love for God alive is to keep my mind engaged in churning knowledge.   To be able to keep the mind engaged in knowledge.

 

There was a murli a little while ago in which Baba spoke about three steps where we have the habit of speaking - perhaps we hear gyan and it is very easy to talk about it, varnan  - but there is the next stage,  the stage of manthan, where I am churning gyan, revising gyan and thinking about it deeply and it is getting fixed into my heart and my head.  Baba has spoken a lot about   the difference between head and heart today and so allowing the love in the heart to come through the appreciation of the knowledge that Baba has given me and so that becomes a very powerful way to keep alive my love for God and beyond that Baba said when you have experienced the depth of Baba’s knowledge it gives you the power to face obstacles.

 

But the power to be able to finish obstacles comes when you experience the stage of being lost in love.  So churning is excellent, very beneficial but beyond the churning the stage of actually being lost in love (magan) and so varnan, manthan and magan, and so that stage in which I am lost in love is when I don’t see obstacles. And because I am not seeing obstacles, because I am experiencing God’s love, something is happening but I am not seeing it.  I am just in that experience of God’s love and in that experience of God’s love the obstacle doesn’t exist and so it is finished.  But also in that stage Baba said not only you have that capacity of finishing obstacles but you also have the possibility of helping others finish their obstacles.

 

Of course we then remember the Dadis.  You meet with them and what had seemed a huge obstacle,    in front of the Dadis it was so absolutely reduced that it was not an obstacle for you anymore. Many of those of you sitting here had personal meetings with Dadi.  This is what Dadi did.  Why did people want to see Dadi? They heard the classes but they wanted to meet Dadi personally because they knew that Dadi’s drishti had that capacity - where you yourself realised that the obstacle was more of your own making than a reality and that obstacles diminished and it was then easy for you to deal with it.

 

Sometimes the words that Dadi would use would be very simple and sometime she would help you understand why this has become an obstacle for you.  We experienced the reality of  Dadi helping us to dissolve obstacles so that then we could also move on.

 

The power of love, my love for Baba, my love for gyan, my love for drama but also my love for the family.  Even if I know that everyone is numberwise yet still they are my family and so can I open my heart to that extent and really have this sense of belonging and oneness that comes from a heart that is open?                                        

 

Yesterday there was a conversation that I had with people creating programmes for the Experience of Oneness. The point that was coming across was that when there is spirituality there is that oneness. When there is spirituality, then in that spiritual awareness there is that sense of oneness and whether people belong to this branch or that branch or that branch doesn’t matter but there is that oneness of belonging to the whole human race, one family.   I know that Baba has created the same Brahmin family as was created in the last kalpa.  Baba has talked about that today of how it is  not possible to say that I am going to stop service because the same souls that were found in the last kalpa  are still waiting to be found, we haven’t finished the task and so we have to continue service until all the  souls have been found and so continue with service with that awareness that  souls who belong to this family are going to come  but whoever is going to come, and it is their destiny, they will come  and whatever happens in the future but today, within the family that experience of truly  not just belonging  to God but belonging to each other and then we are creating a pattern for the next cycle.  Together means together throughout eternity.  Through the whole cycle with Baba, with Brahma Baba, with the family, the Dadis, but my connection through the cycle.  Let me recreate that experience of oneness today and if I do that then taking God’s love, sharing God’s love but also keeping that love in my heart, alive for all time.

 

Om shanti    

(Sudeshdidi will be having bypass surgery on 2 June.  She is resting for one week and then she will have surgery so lots of love to our dear Didi)

 

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Sister Jayanti – 10th May – by Zoom Murli Revision (9th May)

24 May 2021

Om shanti to everyone. And again, just incredible to think that Baba has given us such deep insights into what it means to have faith. And what it means to have victory as a result of that faith. And like Baba said, if we were being asked do you have firm faith? Everybody would say, yes of course we have faith. But then do I reveal the signs of victory? Can I show that truly I have that faith through my face, my behaviour, through my actions? Can that intoxication be visible and be transmitted to others so that they also are able to have faith?

 

In fact, we don't usually get a list 1, 2, 3, 4 but this time we got a list of 8. But also, within that, we had many other additions and elaborations from Baba. And so yes, the intoxication and in Hindi these two words go very closely together - nisha and nasha. And sometimes we talk about the difference between happiness and nasha. And happiness is of course what you know but, nasha that intoxication. And so, I think it means happiness that together with that has the added dimension of experience of faith.

 

I've experimented with faith and seen the results of faith, and I've then got that intoxication which is a higher state than happiness. So, I hope as you were hearing the murli and in the many hours since that you've heard that murli you're experiencing that intoxication also.

 

I won't take you through 1, 2, 3, 4. But some of the points that Baba has highlighted have been very powerful and special. And so, that stage in which Baba spoke about having the faith and that guarantee that yes Baba is making me an emperor. And it comes as a result of faith in the Father. So, I know that this is the inheritance that my Father wants to give me. It also comes as the blessing from the Satguru. Without blessings how can you be a sovereign? How can you be an emperor? And thirdly, it also comes through the awareness of my fortune from the bestower of fortune. And, as a combination of inheritance and blessings and fortune, I stay in that stage on my throne of being the emperor which means that, I have the power to be able to maintain my own inner state of being without allowing the external circumstances to overpower me.

 

The two words that Baba was using are ‘sthiti’ - your own stage, and ‘paristhiti’. ‘Par’ - outside and so the situation, the circumstances outside. And so, what is more powerful? Are circumstances more powerful? Or is my own inner stage with the blessings, with the fortune and the inheritance? Am I able to keep that stage in that very powerful consciousness? Baba's given me all the tools now I just have to use them. And that's then of course the number wise story. But Baba's giving every one of us the inheritance in saying, come and take as much as you choose.

 

And so, for example the Covid story. Yes, I know that it's been a challenge, it's been difficult. But for some, not so much a challenge or difficulty, more an opportunity! An opportunity to really take advantage of the extra time that I have. But also, the opportunity to actually see, is the fear of the world impacting me? Or am I able to be above that fear and through my own stage enable other souls to overcome their fears also?

 

So, this is one little example of your own stage actually impacting others, rather than allowing the circumstances and the situations to impact me. And so, Baba spoke about the power of yoga, the power of gyan, and how gyan and yoga have given me the gifts of all the powers. And I have all rights. And so, I can claim all those rights from Baba and move up and above all the circumstances that are going on with the conviction of my faith. And the conviction that this faith is going to bring victory - absolutely. That was one very powerful passage that Baba was underlining for us. And the other thing that Baba underlined was a whole aspect of surrender. And today Baba was talking about two things that are the same; renunciation and surrender.

 

And so, to what extent have I surrendered every trace - ansh and vansh - progeny. Every trace of the vices that pull me into body consciousness. It could be the other way around also, body consciousness allowing those things to happen. But Baba was specifically talking about how any little trace of the vices is going to create further progeny. Give you an example, a little tiny bit of irritation today and it's a progeny of anger. But today it's irritation. Tomorrow that irritation can grow and it can become absolute anger.

And so let me check all the signs of the progeny connected with body consciousness. And so, in that state of checking whether I'm able to be soul conscious, recognise all traces of impurity, recognise the progeny of impurity on all levels and be able to surrender that. To be able to renounce that. In a way, renunciation of impurity is a little bit easier in a sense because I don't want impurity. So, if you're giving up something you don't like anyway so what's the big deal. It's not a big deal at all. If you're giving up something you like now that is something to consider. But in this case, giving up impurities and everything connected with body consciousness - well that's a liberation. And so, to surrender all of that to Baba is actually to be able to find freedom.

And then the second thing that Baba spoke of in terms of surrender - my connection with bodily beings. And that doesn't mean cutting away from them. That doesn't mean running away from them. That doesn't mean abandoning them. No, but to stay while I still have karmic responsibilities, and to be able to fulfil those responsibilities but to be able to be detached. And so again, Baba is saying the progeny. And so, a little bit of dependency. A little bit of attachment and it can grow very fast, grow very quickly.

 

And so, that state of surrender in which all my inner connections are with Baba. Baba is giving me all that I need. And I don't need to go looking for it from any other direction at all. And so, that faith that Baba is the storehouse and is the one with whom I can have all connections, all relationships, and Baba will take care of me on every level.

 

And so, again here's a state of sickness. And am I thinking about my lokik's who can help me at that moment? Maybe I am. Well, maybe that's a signal. Maybe I need to think more about how to take that inner strength, that inner power from Baba in which I'm totally convinced - yes, I need to take the medication. I need to take the support of the system, of the hospitals and doctors and all of that. But internally, I know Baba is the one whose taking care of me.

 

And so that state where, I'm not dependent on anyone in terms of people out there, any type of relationship that I may have had in lokik terms. I'm not dependent on them. It's Baba who is the one who is going to take care of me and give me absolutely everything that I need.

 

And then the third, am I dependent on the things that are connected with the external, with the body? And so, objects, devices, facilities? And yes, today I have all the devices that can help me. Maybe tomorrow I won't have them. Maybe nobody will have them. When nobody has them it's a bit easier. But when I see other people have them and I say oh, but I don't have that, then that's a little bit of a dependency that's creeping in - I would like. When I see nobody's got it, it makes it easier. But in fact, no matter, why should I be dependent on an object or anything external? Baba's given me absolutely everything and everything. And so, that state of surrender where I've been able to let go internally, mentally of all the things that I'm surrounded with and I have today. Or maybe I have the desire to have those if I don't have them today.

 

And so that desire is going to create that bondage in which I haven't truly surrendered to Baba. And so, Baba explaining surrender and renunciation are actually the same thing. Again, that makes it very clear. And so, what is it that I'm actually asking for? What is it that I'm seeking? And if my desires are here, I haven't reached the state of going beyond desire, becoming free from desire. Then my intellect is going to be here rather than there. So, Baba making me aware of what it is to surrender.

 

And last week, and again today, Baba mentioned that it's not a question of where you live physically with your body, but rather it's a question of where is your heart and soul? And in that awareness, yes, it is with Baba and Baba's giving me absolutely everything.

 

And then, another aspect that Baba was also clarifying in a lot of detail and I'll share the Hindi words again - nimit - to be the instrument. And namra - to have humility. And nirmaan - renewal or creativity. And so that stage where Baba always connects up these three words together. So that first stage, I as an instrument, that faith that it is Baba who’s in charge, it is Baba who is Karankaravanhar. And when things are happening, I know I couldn't have made it happen, it's Baba the almighty who made it all happen. And every country, every centre, every city has its own amazing story of magic and miracles of how Baba made everything happen. And really, if you want to talk about magic and miracles, I think we should have a session on it another time. But each one of us has experienced the magic on the self and the magic out there in terms of service.

 

So, that stage where truly I have the humility to know, that it's not I, it really isn't! And it's not words. None of us, none of us could have been able to do anything. But it's Baba that's made it all happen. So that stage of being free from ego of I.

 

And in that stage, you know in English we have this expression, thinking out of the box. And so, that stage where the box is my ego. And I've been able to step out of that box of ego, which means I'm absolutely open to hear the ideas of others. To accept the ideas of others. And for me to start thinking in a different way. Ego is absolutely a box which limits me. Because in that box of ego I am right. I know I'm right. It has to be like this. How can it be anything else but this? And so, it's a very tiny box in which to live.

 

But that state where I've come out of that box, the world is wide open, there are so many opportunities, so many choices, so many directions. And I just have to stay connected with one and Baba will guide me as to what is the right way to be going. And all others around me will also be sharing. And I'll be open and available and the creativity will flourish and we'll be able to do something very beautiful for Baba.

 

Ego becomes not just a box for me but it hinders everybody around me also. But, jump out of that box, rise up above, and everything is wide open. And so many amazing beautiful things have happened in Baba's Yagya and continue to happen. And whatever further Baba wants to make happen will definitely happen.

 

And so that stage of humility. And where it is I think that I should be given status. I should be given recognition. I should be given position. Baba no. Baba always put Mama    in front. She's the kumari. She's the pure one. She's cleverer than me. The young one. She's the one who can actually help you all. Baba always, always diverting attention away from himself towards Jagadamba. And then also to the children. You children are cleverer than me. I don't know what's going on. I'm sitting here in Abu in the mountains. But all of you know what's going on.

 

And so, you can all do so much service. You're all much, much better than I. And I loved it when Baba said, the language of the one who has humility is definitely filled with sweetness but that's the basic thing. But beyond sweetness, there's an inner state of contentment with which one is speaking.

 

And so, there isn't that sharpness or criticism or sarcasm that sometimes appears when somebody is speaking about themselves or service. No none of that. Sweetness and contentment but also generosity. Knowing that if I allow somebody to move ahead, drama isn't going to let me stay behind. Drama's going to bring me to the front also. And, of course I have Baba's love. I have Baba's respect. The heart is content and filled with that and is full. And so, if today nobody recognises me, nobody acknowledges me - no problem. Totally content.

 

And so that language of contentment and the language of generosity is a language of humility.  A very lovely expression that Baba uses. Sometimes, especially with the Hindi I feel that Baba's a poet. Baba's talking in poetic language and is carrying us with the waves of that love to a different dimension completely.

 

And so, explanation about humility and generosity and generosity wants others to move ahead. Generosity wants others to be able to come to their state of perfection. So whatever support and help I can give to make them go forward, of course is going to give me blessings from Baba, blessings from them and my own fortune grows.

 

And then Baba spent also quite a long time talking about the storms. A beautiful murli but within the beauty of the murli, there's always the caution, the warning. The storms of maya! And Baba mentioning how there can be a variety of storms; the storms from the wind, the storms from the water. And you don't know from which direction storms are going to come to you.

 

Baba's given us the third eye. But sometimes we don't anticipate what storms are going to come. But if we are prepared anyway, then whether they come from this direction or whether they come from that direction - it’s okay. The tree that I have planted with faith has roots that are deep and it's a strong old tree. Maybe it's a new tree. Maybe some of you are very new with Baba. But even the new trees can be very strong, deep, deep roots.

 

And so, that stage where, when the storms come, again a very interesting description. They lift you and then you come crashing down. And so that intoxication sometimes very high but then the crash! It was a very interesting expression in Hindi, I'll share it in Hindi – girti kala.  And it was translated in the murli as sleeping on your tummy. And, I don't know what sense the language translators made of this and, whether the translation in Arabic and French and Spanish and whatever language made sense of this. But it meant that stage of one minute you're high and the next minute you're low. So, intoxication continuously is different, steady and stable. However, when the storms come that's when you realise to what extent your intoxication is truly stable and steady. Or is it going through upheaval? And one moment it's high. The next moment it's low.

 

And it's a very interesting statement from Baba, maya knows how to catch you, how to deceive you. And so, maya illusion that which doesn't exist. And so, the way maya catches you is, it seems as if there's going to be some attainment. And for a very short while there's temporary benefit. It seems to be great. It's a high you're on. But in fact, and very quickly then the low comes. And the soul gets hit and falls.

 

And, the tree falling is a big disaster. But maybe it doesn't fall. Baba says most times the big trees don't absolutely fall. But the roots become weak because they have been shaken. The foundation of faith has shaken to the extent that, now whether it's faith in the self, faith in Father, or drama, or the family, something within all of this has changed. And so, the faith that I used to have in which no questions, just easiness. The first part of the murli had been describing very much how, when there's love and there's faith then you're just floating along. It doesn't feel as if anything is laborious. It feels as if it's no effort. The love and the faith are carrying you to your destination.

 

And so, that stage where storms have now weakened me. Things have happened. And, instead of having total faith and saying, it's ok Baba will carry me through this. I know that victory is certain. No other question in my mind. No other doubts in my mind. But a full stop to all the wastage so that others around me maybe experiencing the storm, but I'm able to go through it and that is victory. But unless I actually face the storm and stand the test, I won't get the certificate. And so, Baba very practical. So, don't expect that the storms are not going to come. And don't say to Baba, Baba don't send the storms to me. No, the storms have come as a test. And my stage has to be so stable with a smile, being able to go through it all, untouched by the storms because of my faith and experiencing victory as I go through the storm, then that foundation of faith is definitely going to support me but also support others around me.

 

And so, my faith has to be such that it's able to support others also. And this is what the Dadi's did. It wasn't just their faith. It was the faith that they had that supported all of us and, I would say every one of us has benefitted from the power of their faith. And of course, go back in history, they benefitted from Baba's faith. And the strength through which Baba faced all the challenges of the early years of establishment. You know those stories, they're there in Adi Dev. You've heard them personally from the Dadis.

 

So, Baba's faith supported the Dadis. The Dadi's faith has supported us. And now, even since the last time we met only now one Dadi left. And so, our faith, those who would say yes, we love Baba, we have faith. Now our faith has to be so strong that it's able to support all others also. And so, very, very powerful points on faith that Baba mentioned. And so, to be able to see to what extent I do have that faith in which victory is guaranteed. I have no question about that. And I'm not going to shake from that. And my faith in others and the family is also going to be stable. And I'm not going to allow that to shake in any way.

 

I want to spend a little bit of time now on other two parts of the murli in which Baba's again speaking to the double foreigners. And Baba's again talking about how every moment can be worthwhile. Every moment can be one in which we're creating fortune. Every moment is one in which we're able to really know that yes, I'm earning my income for half a cycle and more.

 

And so, yes, I'm using my mind for Baba. I'm using my body for Baba. And when I'm using my wealth to do work, lokik work, then at that moment my faith that it's not just for lokik work but it's also for alokik service. My money is going to be used for Baba. But also think about the impact of your life on all those around you at work. It's your life that they will see. It's your life that they will know is a different type of life to theirs, is a life in which you have happiness and stability. You have a state of peace that they don't have. So, it's an amazing opportunity for service. And this is why Baba said, you do all of that with such great love and joy. And you don't feel any burden. And you don't feel any heaviness about it.

 

So, one of the beautiful things about all of this, the continuation with Baba's double foreign children, Baba talking about how when there's faith in victory nothing seems laborious. Everything is easy. No labour involved in it at all. I won't say effort. There is effort. But it's no labour. It's not a struggle. And so, let me see if in this final period of Sangamyug I'm able to experience that stage in which everything is easy. And, I've got faith. Of course, I have faith. I'm not going to challenge that. Everybody has faith. But like Baba said, when there's faith what is the language you use? What are the words that you use? And so, just keep checking and see - is my face reflecting my faith? Are my words reflecting my faith? And am I stable so that yes, I do claim that certificate of passing with honour? And then I'm not just pleasing my own mind. But others are also going to be pleased with me. Baba is going to be pleased with me. And so, the question am I just satisfying myself? Or do I have that contentment from others around me. That yes, all is well, things are on track. We're moving in the right direction. And that will then be my certificate.

 

So, no labour. Experience the joy of Sangamyug and the special opportunity of Sangamyug of just experiencing victory now, and so victory for the future is guaranteed also. To be completely carefree – nischay, nischint, nasha… again all the words coming together. When there's faith you are carefree. And Baba has given you everything. And the almighty authority is with you. What is it that you lack? And so, if I feel a lack of something, if I feel that there's something missing, let me go back to my foundation of faith and see to what extent do I have faith in all of this. And so, Baba, the double foreigners of course then, Baba's talking about making everything very light and easy.

 

But, Dadi coming back from her tour of Bombay and Baba giving her this very special blessing, that you are like Jagadamba now. What Jagadamba did was to hear the gyan, the murli and then make it very simple so that others could understand it. And put it into practice. And so, Dadi again Baba's saying that, what you're hearing, you're digesting. And you're making it then very simple for others to understand and apply. And I know this has been my experience. That classes from Dadi brought everything that Baba was saying in the murli, down to practical life in a very, very beautiful way. A very simple way but very beautiful.

 

And so, it clarified the murli. But it also clarified what it is we needed to do in practical life. And so, I hadn't remembered that, Baba had given this blessing that you are the instrument like Jagadamba to do this now for others. And even if you're not here personally. Even if you're just reading it, you still have the ability to catch what Baba's saying. And, it's a fact, 25K people hearing the murli and multi thousands and hundreds of thousands reading the murli, and how much did each one take from those murlis? Well, we're lucky, we still have the time and the possibility to actually practice all of this, think about it and find out more and see from our own experimentation how does all work for me? Where does it all fit? So, I know that last week and again this week I've been reminded that there's lots of questions. And I should allow plenty of time for questions. So, I raced through the murli a little bit to be able to give enough time for questions now.

 

So, I'm happy to hear comments and questions. Om shanti.

 

Q. It's easy to understand faith in Baba and to a certain extent it's easy to understand faith in the self, but what is faith in the family mean?

 

A. Faith in the family means that these are the souls with whom I will share the whole cycle of experiences with. Because the souls of the deity religion yes, when we come into the Copper Age, we start moving off into bhakti. And towards the Iron Age we then maybe even move into different branches of the tree. But there's been some connection or another with Bharat. There's been some connection or another with each other. And so, it's that same family. And so yes, the awareness of the whole cycle. These are the souls with whom I've had connection the whole cycle. But especially, these are the souls with whom I will be in Satyug. If I want just silence and peace then fine, I can just connect with Baba and love and faith for God and be in Paramdham with God for a long time. But these are the souls that I'm going to enjoy the world of Satyug with.

 

So, this is the moment now when, I'm able to see what are the little things that create a bit of friction? And, like sandpaper is able to absolutely take away the rough edges. And so, if there is a little bit of reaction with each other that's what happening where rubbing each other to be able to smooth each other. So that then we begin to emerge the beauty of the relationships of Satyug now. So, from bandhan - bondage, we move into samman - the sweetness of relationships in which there's only an exchange of respect and joy. So, faith in the family means all of this.

 

Q. So if I'm having friction with somebody at that moment, I say to myself ‘this is my family right in a practical way’?

 

A. In a practical way I ask myself the question what am I learning from this? This is happening and it has to be beneficial and yes, it is my family, but what am I learning here? Do I have to learn about letting go of control? Do I have to learn about getting rid of bossiness? Do I have to learn about flexibility, adaptation? What am I having to learn? And to be able to take that lesson with humility and grace and dignity.

 

Q. Because they're family?

 

A. Because, this is my sanskar. It's not just them. Whatever their sanskars are they're responsible. But, it's my sanskars that are showing up at this moment. If I didn't have ego, I wouldn't be feeling the pain. And so, they're a mirror for me. I mean, if you just keep repeating they're my family, they're my family that's fine. But more than that is the question ‘what am I learning’?

 

Q. No but my point is you would say that with anyone. Even if a lokik person, you'd say okay what am I learning? But why specifically when it's family?

 

A. In a lokik family you're together from the moment you're born to the end of your life. And so, this family I'm with them through the whole cycle. And so, yes, it's my family. I don't have anywhere else I can run. This is my family.

 

Q. Okay, next question was about honest heart. Somebody was asking Baba says that, when one has an honest heart, they follow shrimat. And if there's not an honest heart then you can't have yoga. So, they want to know what does it really mean to have an honest heart? And also, maybe take up this aspect of we can't just keep confessing and you know keep sinning, I mean that's honesty isn't it. But not the type Baba wants.

 

A. If I think about conscience, then I see how in this context heart and conscience are very much together. And so, an honest heart translated as a clear conscience. And you begin to see that, if my conscience isn't clear, I'm not able to connect to Baba. Whatever it is I've done is going to come in the way and is going to be the storm, the cloud that's going to prevent me from experiencing that relationship with Baba, in which I'm experiencing Baba's love and power and sweetness. And so yes, I have to make sure that whatever it is that I've done, I reconcile it with what Baba's told me. And, I realise and in that state of realisation I'm ready for change. And then in that realisation and change, I'm also asking Baba for forgiveness. But, if I keep repeating that mistake then my own heart will tell me, my own conscience will tell me, well, there's something not quite right here. That I haven't learned from the mistakes I've made.

 

Mama used to say, a real effort maker should be able to understand just with gyan and yoga. But next level of effort maker, okay you've made a mistake and you learn from that mistake. But if you're making the same mistake and generally, we tend to make the same mistakes again and again. So, if that's what happens then, what sort of level is there? And so definitely, my own conscience gets very heavy. My heart gets heavy. I lose hope in myself. And it's difficult to connect with Baba. And so, it's difficult to move on.

 

And so, the remedy okay, whatever has happened up until now, do I deeply realise and take help from Baba to be able to change? And as I see myself changing and I feel Baba's love reaching me, and carrying me forward, so I'm going through that process of transformation and my relationship with Baba has been restored. And so, honesty with Baba means; yes, to be able to acknowledge my mistake, to be able to realise and reform and change. And yes then, if I'm truly honest with Baba then I won't make any mistakes. I won't slip away from shrimat because I'm accountable. Baba is responsible for me that I'm accountable for myself also. And so, I think it was yesterday, the day before, Baba was talking about keeping an honest chart. And so, to be able to see which one of my physical senses has deceived me? What mistake have I made?

 

And so, when I'm honest then truly I'm following shrimat.

 

Q. It's in the context of when Baba said, recognise you know it's not only enough to recognise that you're a soul, but what type of a soul are you? And so, the question is, how can I recognise my sanskars? And they gave the example of how Dadi Janki is so different to Dadi Gulzar. And, again it goes back to is it their sanskars make their part? Or is it their part makes their sanskars?  And how does one recognise their sanskars?

 

A. There are two types of sanskars that we're talking about. One is the original sanskars in which like Baba was saying, ask yourself what type of soul am I? Am I a sovereign soul? Do I have those sanskars of mastery? And Baba's offering me those sanskars of mastery. And so let me be able to develop those sanskars. And step by step, today I can say yes, I'm able to master my eyes. Tomorrow I'm able to say yes, I'm able to master my tongue. Whether it's in terms of speaking or whether it’s in terms of eating. And so, to be able to allow Baba's words to become a blessing for me and to make that happen. But I'm not just an ordinary soul. There are billions and billions of souls. But I'm not even just a Brahmin soul. I am a Brahmin soul. But, within Brahmin souls also, I want to be one that is close to Baba. And so, coming to that stage where, yes, I can feel victory with me at every step. And so, I am a victorious soul. I am a soul who Baba has given blessings and I'm an emperor soul. So, these are not words to say to anybody else because they won't interpret them as intoxication of spirituality. They'll interpret them as craziness. But this is what I know because I know the effort and the results of the effort that I'm making at this moment.

 

And so, when you're talking about sanskars that Baba has given us now at Sangamyug to experiment with, take those, apply those. And then, the purification of the soul is what's going on. And so, Baba's not saying here's Dadi Gulzar who’s a very, very quiet, silent person. And, she is an emperor. And here is Dadi Janki who’s constantly sharing and giving and is a very different type of personality. But again, the quality of purity. The quality of love for God. The quality of surrender to God is the same.

 

And so, you see the way in which the beads of the rosary are very similar especially, the 8 jewels - very, very similar. But yet their personality is very different. So, the original sanskars of purity, the original sanskars of mastery you see them. But you also see their own specialties. There was a program we had in Oxford, in which we had the amazing fortune of having Dadi Janki with us of course. But Dadi Gulzar was going to be coming. And then we suddenly heard that Dadi Kumarka was on her way to New York and so she would be coming too and the dates would be the same. And so, our program for Oxford was already planned. It was for a 1,000 people and a marquis for public on a Saturday evening and then a couple of thousand the next morning for Brahmin family.

 

And we were wondering, 3 Dadi's and we want people to take benefit from all three. And so, we decided to have an interview in which all three Dadi's could share their specialities. Dadi Kumarka love. Dadi Gulzar the silence. And Dadi Janki the wisdom. And, it was a very beautiful program. And you can see we just took up one aspect that is very, very different. And it's not that Dadi Gulzar doesn't have wisdom. Of course she does. And it's not that Dadi Janki didn't have love. Of course. But the highlight, the immediate impact of their personality of Dadi Gulzar the power of silence. Dadi Prakashmani the power of love. And Dadi Janki, the amazing wisdom. And so, you can see the 8 jewels, different qualities but yet the same. The same in their purity, their love, their truth - all of this.

 

Q. Amazing when we get to that level Jayanti behn, we'll understand it better! Okay I think this question does need to be addressed. It's come up in a few different ways Jayanti behn. And you did cover it today. But still maybe just to bring peace to those - where it says, that Baba said, the first rung of the ladder is where you surrender but the destination is like to fully surrender. So, they're asking do we have to be in a centre to be seen as fully surrendered?

 

A. In fact, Baba's point was the first step of the ladder was to offer yourself for service and then the final step was total surrender. And just the example of Ramesh bhai, Baba in front of me sakar Baba, he asked Baba the question, this was in the days when 1967, when Baba in the sakar murlis is saying, come and ask me, what is my future and Baba will be able to tell you.

 

So it's in a little gathering, and Ramesh bhai asked Baba, Baba can you tell me my future? And Baba said, you're in the 108 but you can go even further and closer in the rosary of 108. And so, from '67 to whenever passed away just a few years ago, there's a lot more effort he made and a lot more challenges he faced and overcame. But he was of course living in the family. His mother, his sister, his wife, all of them all together. And so, proof that you can be a jewel of victory even if you're living in the household and family. So rather than theory here's a practical example for whom I heard sakar Baba give a certificate.

 

And so then this question, my first offer for service and of course as soon as we come to Baba, so many of us say, we want to do service? Can we do service? And so we get involved in some way or another. And, the more you get involved, the more challenges you face because you see the reality of the sanskars of the family. So it's not a question of, living at home or living in a centre. The subject is, how much responsibility am I willing to take in service? Or am I going to say, I'm only going to do tapasya. I'm going to sit at home. And in fact, it's probably easier sitting at home and doing tapasya than sitting in a centre and doing tapasya. That's the reality. In a centre, you don't have that space in which you say, the world is outside, and the world can do what it wants and I'm just going to do tapasya.

 

But, that's not what Baba's teaching us. Baba's teaching us involvement and responsibility to whatever extent I'm willing to accept responsibility in service, little ways and little challenges, big ways and big challenges. And it's the service field in which am I seeing it as a game? Or am I seeing it as an investment of my personality? Am I seeing it as an opportunity to shine? And that's why I'm doing service.

 

There's a very interesting question that's come up in another situation, in which a small group relatively speaking a small group, but somehow there isn't that synchronicity. And so their question was how do we go beyond this? And, I suggested okay, let there be a pause in service for the moment and just focus on your own inner transformation. And then beyond that, after a few months come back together and see whether sanskars are able to harmonise together to be able to carry the responsibility of service. And so, home or centre is not the question. The question is responsibility and being able to harmonise. And so, that total surrender that Baba spoke about, the first I offer myself for service, that I go through the rungs of the ladder. And then that stage where, truly there is no more trace of the vices or attachments or dependencies or desires and wants. And I've surrendered to Baba and I'm a clean, clear instrument for Baba to do whatever service is needed.

 

Q. Is it the saying to believe in Baba and have faith in Baba?

 

A. I think faith is deeper than just belief. Because, when I'm young I believe everything I'm told. And, if I'm told there is no such thing as God I'll believe it. Or if I'm told there is a God I'll believe it. And then, there comes a point where I start questioning that belief. And certainly, when we come to Baba, Baba's not just asking me to believe. Baba's saying, use your intellect, you see this expression that Baba was using, faith and love brings victory. Now, the question of intellect is coming in - nischay budhi faith in the intellect. And so, Baba's saying, check it out? Ask yourself, right, wrong, up, down, left, right, check it out from all directions, many directions as you want and experiment with it. And then come to your own understanding and your own experience. And that is faith in the intellect. It's not superstition. It's not blind faith. It's not belief. It's a deep understanding in which you accept that this is the truth.

 

Q. Can you give a practical example about maya taking us high, feeling intoxicated and then crushing us down?

 

A. A very simple example, I get along well with somebody and so I say, well, we're just service companions and that's all. And then, it's true we're just service companions. There's nothing else. But according to drama, what maya has done is to infiltrate that. And so now it's not just service companions, there's a dependency on that particular individual as my service companion.

 

And then, drama comes in. They get sick. I go away somewhere. Something else happens. And instead of being comfortable with Baba knowing that wherever I am, wherever the other individual is it's fine. Its benefit for both of us, benefit for all. And instead of getting on with it and now creating other companions for service, I'm still missing. And so I become aware of my dependency and my attachment. And that's where if I'm not very careful I can fall. And, then it's my attachments that's giving me pain and sorrow. But drama has intervened to at least show me that this is what it is. So benefit in everything. I understand now rather than later better that I can understand today when I can change it and do something about it. If I didn't have this situation come up now it came up later I wouldn't have been able to make effort to deal with it. And in my final moments, instead of remembering God I'm remembering them. And so that's a very little example, but you can see how it can come up.

 

Q. Do we know of the Dadi's and Dada's the souls left the body that they will be the 8 jewels?

 

A. Baba has never given us a list. And certainly there's been more than 8 who've left their bodies and we would say they're in the advance party. Now, you can pick and choose to your heart's content and say, these are the 8. And so I'm going to leave it to you.

 

Q. We get tested then we get a certificate as a blessing from Baba and the family. With this experience how should I keep this to maintain my stage during upheavals in situations? How do I basically hold up my certificate in the next crisis?

 

A. When the next pandemic comes and surely there will be another one. We've been told about that by scientists that the world is ready for more pandemics. So if in this pandemic I didn't do very well, what are the lessons I learned? And next time around or maybe it's not a pandemic, maybe it's an earthquake whatever, whatever, whatever. There are so many things that can happen at any moment to any of us at any time. If I've prepared myself now having learned what are the weak points where my faith is shaking a little bit, I can learn from that and come to the point where, I don't need to hold up a piece of paper. But what I do need to do is to be able to shine. The soul shines, the face shines and to be able to support others. Instead of either just taking care of number one and not bothering about anyone. But, yes of course, I'm taking care of myself. But I also have a responsibility to the family. And so am I able to take care and support of them and help them through it all? So that'll be the certificate when others will say, yes, I was given a lot of support and help.

 

Q. If we have faith in the drama, whatever's happening, according to the drama is right, according to the drama. So if I said someone is wrong then that's not true. They are playing the role which is their role in the drama. So according to the drama that which is wrong is actually right… If that is the case that someone who is wrong is actually right is puzzling. In that case no one is responsible for their actions. And the theory of karma does not apply since bad behaviour is not atoned for, and they don't face the consequences of their actions. How can that which is wrong be right?

 

A. At this moment, here's the person whose getting angry in front of me and if at that moment, I get upset they shouldn't get angry this is not right, what is it doing to me? And so Baba's teaching me a method for me to say, okay, they're testing me my tolerance and my stability. And so, they're playing their part in the drama. And so for me to maintain stability I'm using Baba's gyan in a particular way to maintain that calmness. Now for them, they're not in a state of calmness. They've lost their cool. They are angry. The situation changes and they're in tears. Because they realise that they got angry and they lost their own treasure of peace and calm. And they're now very upset with themselves. Drama, karma is going to teach them the lesson that they need to learn. But for me to maintain my stability, it's important to see that this is the role that they're playing in the drama at this moment. And this role that they're playing shouldn't be shaking me from the role that I need to play which is that of maintaining my calmness.

 

Q. So maybe we can end with this question which is, what are the tips for coming out of the box? And also maybe you can tie that in with - it's easy to communicate with a friend, but not so easy with Baba? How to develop that close relationship with Baba?

 

A.It's two very different questions so anyway, the first one. Two things, when I remember it's Baba whose in charge rather than me, then my mind is coming out of that ego box. But also when I have respect for others around me and I know that, their ideas also have value and I see them with that respect and value, then again, I'm ready to accept other ideas and I've stepped out of that limited narrow thinking of the box. That's one thing.

 

The second thing, I'm being very body conscience if I think that I can talk to my friend but I can't talk to Baba. Because I'm totally locked into my physical identity as a human and seeing them as a human. And yes of course this is what we've done for a long, long time and so it's natural and easy. Baba's teaching me a different approach. Baba's teaching me that I'm not just human. But I'm a soul. And not only am I a soul, I'm a child of God. So can I come back to that inner consciousness of being a soul, of being a child of God, and just simply as a child of God talk to my father, talk to my mother, talk to my friend? Let me start a very simple communication in that consciousness of just being a child. Don't be an adult. Don't be a grown up. Don't be anything else. But just become that child of God and use baby language.

 

Sakar Baba teaches us in the murli baby language. Baba you are so great. You are so beautiful. You are so wonderful. I never imagined that you could make me the master of the world. And so, not just repeating the words that you've heard in the murli, but genuinely with that feeling from your heart. And, don't rush it. Just take your time to build up that relationship with Baba through soul consciousness and active communication. Don't just sit there thinking, I'm a soul, I'm a peaceful being, I'm a pure soul. Have a conversation with Baba! And learn to keep your thoughts getting slower and slower, so that there's space for God to speak to you and for you to listen to God.

 

Om shanti.

 

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SisterJayanti – 16th May - GCH Just keep on giving happiness

21 May 2021

Today Baba is reminding us about becoming devtas, deities.  The word devta is very beautiful; the one who gives. So what is it that I can give to everyone?  Baba is saying: fill your treasure store of happiness to such an extent that you are able to donate happiness to everyone you meet, whether you know them or not.  Just simply keep giving happiness whether it is through thoughts, vibrations, good words, encouragement, positivity or your actions of kindness - just keep giving happiness.

 

Connected very much with that is Baba talking about the stage of the angel and how angels are always remembered as the ones who give blessings. And so how can I be the devta, how can I be the angel?  Baba is saying just see Brahma Baba and follow Brahma Baba.

 

If Baba talks about the incorporeal following the Father and becoming incorporeal, that is a challenge because we are so used to being in the physical form but Baba is telling us that only when we detach from everything and become incorporeal, then we can become equal to the Father and fly home with the Father but also the other father, Brahma Baba and if you see Brahma Baba, he is human, he was engaged in the world, he was occupied with all the things that all of you were occupied with and yet he became the angel and Brahma Baba shares all his experiences and his challenges and everything that he was going though in the sakar murlis and so as you read the sakar murlis you hear how Baba himself dealt with everything and was able to overcome all the different challenges.

 

Normally Baba says don’t compare, don’t compete.  If you do there will be conflict for you and for others but in this case Baba is saying copy Brahma Baba.  Compare yourself with Brahma Baba and because Baba is telling us everything in the murli very clearly anyway, we then know what Baba’s thoughts are, we know how Baba spoke and of course we have seen the Dadis.   They followed Baba in everything but through the murlis also, one can get to know Brahma Baba very, very well.   And Baba is saying: what are the qualities of Brahma Baba?  What are the things that he was thinking, saying and doing?  He was concerned to give to everyone and the way to be able to do this is to make sure that the heart is very clean and it is filled with nothing but good wishes and a lot of love and if there are love and good wishes in my heart for everyone then it is possible for me to maintain my happiness and to give that to others.

 

It is very lovely to see how Baba plays with the Hindi language and in today’s murli there are two words that are very different in meaning but are very similar in their sound and the two words are dua and dhuna and normally you would think what has blessings and good wishes got to do with smoke and Baba is comparing it to the situation of when there is a fire that is burning and there is smoke but also when there is a half lit fire that is not burning properly, it creates more smoke, and so Baba’s point is that if there are still the vices that are burning inside and they are the little ones and not the big ones - we call them small but they are dangerous -  jealousy, competition, making excuses, laziness and carelessness. These little vices create a lot of smoke and because of the smoke you are uncomfortable; your eyes start to burn and you also cause trouble for others.  It creates damage.

 

You are becoming an angel, so what should there be in your heart?  Let it just be nothing but good wishes, love and blessings for all and this is what you will then receive in return. When there are other things there, then it will create smoke - waste thoughts create smoke.  A fire that is not properly burning creates a lot of smoke.  If when you were little you tried lighting a fire in girl guides or boy scouts you will remember when the wood is a little damp you are not able to light the fire properly and there is a lot of smoke.

 

If you are allowing waste thoughts to come because you see or hear something which makes your mind race, then at some point you are going to speak about it and from something little that you saw, a tiny seed, now that seed has grown and become a tree and now you are talking about it so the tree is getting bigger and whoever you are talking to about it they are going to tell one more person and a whole rosary is created. It becomes a big tree of waste that is impacting the atmosphere.   So compare yourself to Brahma Baba.  That is allowed.  Don’t compare yourself to anyone else but see how Baba looked at something and Baba tells you that in the murli how Baba deal with things.

 

Past is past, whatever someone has said or done, can I put a full stop to it and move on and keep nothing but good wishes in my heart.

 

Separately to today’s murli, I would like to mention that many years ago in the 70s there was a murli that I have never come across again, but I was in Madhuban when it was being read and in that murli Baba has said that as time goes on these ideas will spread further and further and it will be very easy for you to give other people Baba’s knowledge.  They will accept it very easily. Gradually we have been seeing that over the years.  First Hatha Yoga came onto the scene in the West and the word yoga became known even if it was just Hatha Yoga that people were interested in.  Then a vegetarian diet came on the scene.

 

Societal change has made it easy for people to understand what Baba is saying and it makes me feel very excited to know how much of Baba’s gyan is out there at the moment.  It has been moving in that direction but a few days ago I had the opportunity to join a conference online and it was on the subject of mind shift and there are about four different people who are friends of the Brahma Kumaris - very closely connected, who all wrote to me saying link up with this.  They were speaking at this conference so they had been thinking about these things for a long time.  Peter Senge and others were speaking and it was fascinating because at Mind Shift they are talking about bringing about societal change through personal change.  Peter Senge’s talk was called Systemic Change is Personal and when Baba used the expression: when I change the world changes, how long ago was that.  Way back in the 70s probably and maybe sakar Baba used it but I don’t remember that particular expression but certainly Bapdada from the very early days used it.

 

A question that was asked on Thursday or Friday was:  have the Braham Kumaris changed their philosophy with time.   Especially people who had heard about the Brahma Kumaris, didn’t know us but had heard about us from the early days of Sindh.  Their parents or grandparents where connected and then when they heard about things happening in London and the rainbow gathering there, they would say to Dadi and me that you must have changed the teachings for them to be acceptable to everyone.  Dadi and I would looked at each other and laughed. We are still studying the same things. The only difference is that instead of sitting on the floor people now sit on chairs but the teachings have not changed.

 

Baba said change yourself and the world will change and it has always been a challenge for people to understand this statement and now there is a whole conference on how external events have been created by human beings  and the way human beings think and behave.

 

Climate change - another subtheme of the conference was sustainability and climate change and again when we started talking about changing minds in order to be able to tackle climate change this was 2009.   Change your consciousness and then you have an impact on the climate also and I saw the shift of that happen about 5 years ago at a climate change conference that was taking place in Bonn, Germany and UNESCO had as its statement:  Changing minds, not climate.  Sounds like something we have been saying.

 

I heard about four talks and one talk was on spirituality, meditation and mindfulness and amongst other ideas that you would be familiar with was the topic of how the biggest damage of stress is through stress of the self, health and relationships and one individual took up just that subject and the other three, all of them friends of the BKs, they took up the connection of external change and mindset change - and it was gyan.  Baba says change your thinking change your awareness, change your attitude change your vision, change your actions and the culture will change, the world will change.  The Hindi words all rhyme together: smurti, drishti, kruti, san skruti.                                  

 

And that has been Baba’s statement since the beginning of avyakt days; using that particular configuration, and this is what I was hearing now in this conference and basically they were saying when you see for example racism, theoretically you will say it is bad but how come it is not shifting.  How is it that it is not changing and one question to ask the self is am I a beneficiary of a system that I know is wrong.  People will say it is wrong.

 

Lokik people, in gyan -  we will say it is wrong, and yet it persists and so if I am a beneficiary of the system I am  not going to make any effort to shift it and obviously there are benefits of the system.   And then another question to ask:  what are the assumptions and beliefs that I still hold on to that are making this happen in my own life?  And another question:  what do I need to change in myself to bring about a change in the situation out there?

 

So the external event and then the iceberg.  One tenth above and nine tenths below the surface.  We are seeing the event, we are seeing climate change and it is uncomfortable and everyone agrees that something should be done about it but what is it below the surface?   It is my mindset and my attitude.   Am I ready to change those?   The heating in the house, the transport that I use.   Whatever it is, am I willing to bring about a change in my lifestyle.

 

The changes we have made in terms of BK life are great but is there is something more I can do?

 

You all know that Glasgow is hosting the next climate change conference and the group here has been working with the environment initiative making changes including changes in the house.   The cleaning products we use are more eco-friendly.  A lot of work has gone into that.

 

Om shanti

 

 

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Sister Jayanti – 9th May – GCH Humility, renewal and creativity

18 May 2021

Another angel, Ishu Dadi, has flown away.  Last week we thought Ishu Dadi was getting better and then we heard that Dadi was on a ventilator and we sent lots of good vibrations.

With covid in India things are moving very quickly.  We heard in the afternoon that Dadi had gone, and in India it was at night, and by 7am the next day, the final rites were happening. Earlier we saw the video clip that had been taken of bhog being offered and there was a very interesting bhog message in which Baba said she had wanted to leave the body for a while and was pleased to be called by Baba to the subtle region.

She left on Thursday.  Dadi Janki left on a Thursday night, Friday morning and Dadi Gulzar also left on a Thursday.   It seems that these three Dadis chose Thursday as their time of departure.  Drama is suddenly moving in a different direction to what we had expected - that has been very evident

I asked myself the question:  Why was I more moved by Ishu Dadi’s departure than by Dadi Gulzar’s departure and two things came to mind.  Dadi Gulzar as Baba’s chariot gave us so much and again today you will hear this amazing murli describing the detail of the signs of faith and what happens as a result of faith.  Such a powerful murli – and we say this every single time about every murli -and there is no question about how much I personally have taken through Dadi Gulzar and the closeness of Dadi Gulzar  to Dadi Janki gave us the opportunity of being close as well.  Yet, for the last three years because she had been in Mumbai and although I had gone to see her it was clear that she was already in the subtle region.  She wasn’t here any more and that was for the last 3 years and so when it was time for her to fly there had been an anticipation that her departure was the next step.  Nelu used to say that when one of these two Dadis goes the other one would follow very quickly.  It is something she would comment on.

So when Dadi Janki left it was anticipated that Dadi Gulzar would fly soon but with Ishu Dadi it was suddenly.    I felt as though the last connection with sakar Brahma Baba was gone because from 1957 when we came to London  Brahma Baba would write a letter at least once a month, sometimes more than that, and we would receive these letters in thick red pencil written on a small  pad of paper,  maybe 4 /5 lines and big letters.  It was difficult to read and written Sindhi language anyway is dashes and dots and so to read Baba’s writing was an art that most of the Dadis had and  is difficult to do.

For many years Ishu Dadi did Brahma Baba’s correspondence and she would write in between the lines in blue ink and her writing was like pearls.  So the connection between Ishu Dadi and Brahma Baba was a very clear one and she would understand what Baba wanted to say and understand how he would see each one and even when Brahma Baba became avyakt she continued with that awareness, treating people in the same way as Brahma Baba would have treated them.

Ishu Dadi became Didi Manmohini’s secretary and then Dadiji’s secretary and she was also the Treasurer. On all levels, whether it was the secrets of human souls or the finances of the yagyga, she was the one who knew everything.

For the last few years she would just go to the accounts office. By the time Dadi left it was a huge department.    She would go and spend a little time there and in the last few years when she went on her walk she would still visit the accounts office and give everyone drishti. - so there was still that ongoing connection. When she was no longer able to walk she still visited that department.

So when she left I really felt that that last connection with Brahma Baba in the physical dimension had gone.  You begin to see how Sangamyuga is moving very fast to its conclusion.

We have one Dadi left, Dadi Ratanmohini.  When the Youth Group started formally about 25 years ago, Dadi Ratanmohini was Chairperson of that wing and so she was called the Youth Dadi and she is the one who is still here and a few who were younger than her, Ishu Dadi, Latchu  Dadi are no longer here.  I am appreciative that there is one pillar of the original yagya who is still around.

Today I am reading Baba’s murli on the subject of faith.  The images of the Dadis come very clearly in front and Baba has given 8 different visible signs of faith leading to victory and what they are and you will hear them all.

Baba has gone into the depth of a few things and one is the whole subject of surrender.  Baba is telling us that when we offer ourselves for service that is the first step on the ladder and when we have removed all traces of ego and even the progeny of ego, the vices connected to body consciousness, when none of that remains. And the second, when we have been able to surrender all the attachments to bodily beings and bodily relatives.

And the third, when there are no desires for anything on the external level,  things that we think are needed for the body - but when there is the total surrender of the desires for any of these things: the pull of the vices, objects, human beings or things, then that is the destination; and that is total surrender.

So the first step on the ladder is to offer yourself for service but the final surrender is when you have surrendered all of these three things and in that state there will not be any of these things emerging in your dreams or in your conscious mind either.

Every single word that Baba is speaking is filled with so much significance.  There is a lot within just two pages of the murli.

One step on the ladder and then the final step on the ladder - where the ladder is taking you to is that step when everything has been surrendered completely, and Baba is equating two words together:  The state of total renunciation and the state of total surrender.   These two words are the same thing whether you call it total renunciation or total surrender.  Of course we use the word renunciation in simple ways;  you renounce   your sleep, the things that you used to like doing, but that state of being a total renunciate - total surrender.  I found that one particular thing very fascinating.

And Baba has taken up the subject of ego in many different ways.  Baba used the words humility, renewal and creativity. When you renew something you are being creative about it.  So Baba has used nimit, namrata and nirmaan.

Someone asked me the question:  What is the connection between humility and creativity and in fact the two words that go together literally are renewal and it has been translated as creativity, which is also correct but it made me think about how in ego there is a very set awareness that we have.  It is limited. ‘I know’.  ‘I am right’.  ‘It has to be like this’.  And in order for creativity to happen there needs to be much more openness.  Where there is the ego of ‘this is how it should be’, I’m not going to think any further.   I am not going to be open for any further ideas that are needed. 

In humility, when I have got rid of ego through the deep practice of soul consciousness, then in that state of being free from ego then the soul is open and will pick up ideas from others, from Baba; Baba will touch the intellect and you can think out of the box.  You need to be egoless to think outside of the box, otherwise you are really boxed in.

So creativity happens when there is humility and humility happens when it is not just soul consciousness but Baba used another expression.   Baba said don’t just think I am just a soul but remind yourself of what type of soul you are.  That you are God’s child and the intoxication of that, because through the whole murli Baba speaks about nasha and nishchay, the intoxication that comes from having deep faith and that intoxication of being a child of God and in that awareness of who you truly are on the eternal level, you don’t fall into the trap of role and position.

When there is ego, and you are locked into role and position, then there is a huge amount of expectation and when people are not fulfilling the expectation that you have then of course there is disappointment and sorrow. So in that stage of the eternal consciousness of who I truly am there isn’t the ego of limited role and position on any level at all.  This stage in which then there is no sorrow or pain that can come and of course we would see the Dadis and they demonstrated each one of the things that you will hear about.

Baba has given a very interesting comment to Dadi Janki at the end.  She had been in Mumbai and had come back in time for the murli and she is telling Baba that she really enjoyed the murli and Baba said that Baba also enjoys speaking the murli when there are children who understand what Baba is saying and gave Dadi a very lovely blessing that just as Jagadamba used to hear Baba’s murli and understand it so deeply that she was able to explain it very clearly to others, that Dadi Janki has that same role.

Dadi, hears Baba’s murli and distils it and then is able to explain it in such a way that others can understand.  Baba then said to Dadi that she doesn’t have to be here in order to understand it.  Even when she reads it she understands deeply and then shares.

Never did Dadi say that she was a Dadi and so how should you treat me. Rather Dadi would say to us don’t treat me like a Dadi.  No.  I am your friend. So many times she would say: If you see me as a Dadi you will be scared of me and think should I say this or not.  Think of me as your friend not a Dadi and avyakt Baba always underlined to the Teachers from abroad: don’t put yourself in the role of being a Teacher.  Be a friend to everyone and if you are a friend to each one then souls will be able to understand more easily and accept things more easily.

Baba spoke of ego and how storms come when there is ego.  Baba is saying a big tree can fall down and if the tree does fall down , if doubts come in and questions about roles, identity and position, any of these things, then the worms have got down to the bottom and the foundation has been weakened

Every line tells us something to reflect on, practise and experience.

Om shanti

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Sister Jayanti -2nd May - GCH, London - Be lost in love, and share the vibrations of God’s presence

16 May 2021

Om Shanti. Good morning.

The first part of today’s Murli is about Christmas as it is the Murli of 23.12.1987 and I imagine there was a large group of people from abroad there. It is about being happy, enthusiastic; flying and making others fly. Yet I know that now is a time of bereavement for many many families, especially in India at the moment.  We see what is happening and yet today’s Murli is telling us to remain enthusiastic and happy.  I was asking myself the question on how to match this up.  A statement that comes again from Baba today, is the expression, ‘Nyara and Pyara’:  Detachment filled with deep love.  Baba is talking to us firstly for ourselves. I have to experience detachment and when I am detached I can experience God’s love.  Also Baba is teaching me how do to stay detached from those around me and including I love dearly around me.  Staying detached doesn’t mean I am cutting off, ignoring or rejecting…but I am able to see the bigger picture.  When Brahmins pass on,  we need to hold the understanding that they have gone on for a higher task, a higher role.  Detachment means knowing when souls are here they are playing an important role, but when they go they also play an important role in  God’s task and establishment and we give them permission to go, sharing not just our love but God’s love to support them onwards.

Seeing the bigger picture, Baba is teaching me to sing praise of Him and to take benefit from scenes of the Drama and continue as an instrument in a powerful way.  If I forget my purpose here in Sangamyug how can I help Baba?  Baba has used the expression ‘Baba the One who makes you as sweet as Kismis (raisins)’ is a play on the word Christmas.  Baba has come to give us eternal gifts, that last longer than half a cycle.   When we sing songs of praise of God, or speak songs of praise of God, that service also makes the heart dance.  Now, it is a time of bereavement yet also a time to remind others of God.  A time when people are realising that all the external things they have accumulated don’t matter.  It is life that is precious and it is God that can help them.  This is part of the current scene of the Drama that more and more people are turning to God to take His help.  As the lucky few, we are God’s instruments and ones who actually know who God is.  People don’t know who the soul is, and there is lots of confusion out there and strange ideas being shared on the internet.  This is all due to not knowing the soul.  We practise soul consciousness and can help others to do this and we are able to connect them with God.  This is such an important role we are playing now through this time.  Baba has prepared us for these difficult times that are now with us.  When we hear news of Bharat and across the world, we know that these are the times in which we have to play active roles as Baba’s instruments.  Who can help people?  How much can you or I do?  But what we can do is connect souls to God, in a simple way that is not complicated.  In a way they can experiment with, experience and work on.

Baba is reminding us that it is the time to just stay happy and internally dance with joy, in the experience that you have found Baba and Baba has found you.  Otherwise how can we help anyone around us!  Part of the story of transition is that there is sorrow, but with Baba’s love, power and gyan we turn it around and it becomes different and we continue as Baba’s instruments.

The first part of the Murli is all about being the shining lights: having enthusiasm, as the shining lights of the Kalpa tree. Christmas being a memorial.  The second part of the Murli is very intense. The 3 Hindi words that Baba uses puts across the idea very clearly: ‘Vanan’: To hear and speak Baba’s knowledge; ‘Manan’ The revision of Baba’s knowledge in our minds; ‘Magan’ Being lost in Baba’s love.  He describes this last, yet it is also the first stage.    First it can be very easy to understand gyan.  On the external level people wonder at the 5,000 year cycle and yet Baba’s children hold the memory recording inside themselves.   When we hear gyan maybe there are questions but as we carry on hearing more and experiencing what Baba is saying then we realise that questioning is just intellectual discussion and debate.  The experience Baba is giving us of the soul as eternal and going through an eternal cycle becomes very real.  And it is a fact that God is now here to help me through this transition from Kaliyug to Satyug.

We are spiritual warriors, part of a spiritual revolution.  There are some who are now saying that human beings are coming to the point of their own finish, extinction.   The planet will continue but not humans.   Baba is saying ‘not true’, it is eternal, we do continue, and Brahmins understand how this will happen, although others don’t.  There is a lot of knowledge we have that we can share as instruments at the right time.  Yet I would still hesitate to tell people it is time to go Home.  Soon we will be able to tell people.  Now I will tell them what God can do for them at this moment.

The habit of listening and speaking is deep within us.  We have done more bhakti than most others, for 2,500 years. Also a lot of singing. Baba has said we have had this habit since the Copper Age began.  We have often had the habit of speaking gyan too quickly!   I know this from my own experience.  But Baba says OK, at least you are sharing God’s knowledge and happiness comes back to you.  This will bring the return of great joy immediately.  This protects us from Maya, as we are experiencing God’s company at that moment.  Service on an external level comes and goes.  Go deeper than this and churn Baba’s knowledge experiencing insights and realisations. This also protects us from Maya.  The first step of the Murli is to listen, then to revise and explore ‘manan’. After that I will be able to go into the depths, to churn ‘mantan’ and make the links with what Baba is saying. As we do this the intellect is occupied in a very elevated way and will protect us from waste and Maya in all its manifold forms.  The deeper I go into Baba’s knowledge the more protection I will feel, as my capacity to discern in what form Maya is coming is heightened.

One aspect of Brahmin Life is we come to Baba and become His child and then after a while we can go into valleys, when we are not engaging the intellect  so intensely with reflecting on His knowledge.  Then carelessness can come in  ‘I am Baba’s child anyway’ and Maya comes in very royal forms I don’t recognise.  Baba spoke of this yesterday in the blessing.  One of the biggest royal forms is ego.  It is my deepest sanskar of the Copper Age.  When we are not so alert and not practising soul consciousness profoundly or connecting with Baba throughout the day.  Lokik desires finish early on.  But desire for recognition and the sanskar of ego comes in this form of wanting honour, name and fame within the Brahmin family.  We don’t always recognise this as the intellect is not aware to pick it up.  So being occupied with Baba’s knowledge is a blessing.  The stage of ‘manan’ will definitely lead us to victory.  Let me reflect on Baba’s knowledge so that I can move forward in this way.  The highest stage that Baba is speaking about is being ‘lost in love’.  I was checking the Murli to see the difference between this and the stage of revision in which Baba also says we  experience peace, love and wisdom…all that we want, just by reflecting….but what is the higher stage ‘being lost in love’.  There are two aspects: Essentially we gain the power to destroy obstacles that come to us.  The highest form of authority is experience.  When we are lost in love we are able to go beyond obstacles and they finish quickly.  Through our own exerperience we are able to then help others destroy the obstacles that are facing them too. In this Murli it becomes clear that this stage is only attained when we are immersed in God’s love, not just a ‘sometimes’ connection. The Dadi’s demonstrated this state of ‘lost in love’; not just when they were speaking but when alone, or dealing with situations. If you remember last Sunday’s avyakt Murli on karmateet, Baba is saying that in this stage of being immersed in God’s love, the obstacles are finished and don’t touch you, you are in the stage close to the Father, Bapsaman, and also the karmateet stage.  Being immersed in love is the stage we can become karmateet.  Am I waiting for traffic control or particular moments of meditation to be with Baba, or am I ‘with’ Him and carrying on with karma.  This will then be the vibration that others pick up. The Dadi’s didn’t say much, and before they said anything, when they entered a room everyone felt a higher vibration and consciousness uplifting them.  Baba didn’t come to transform 108.  Each one of us can have this opportunity to be ‘lost in love’ and share the vibrations of God’s presence.

Baba today spoke directly to the double foreigners.  I was reflecting on how much time and attention Baba gave to the double foreigners. It was incredible.  Dadi Gulzar travelled to foreign countries up until 2012, personally giving us time and drishti, whether in a gathering or a small group.  People would say it was like drishti from Baba.  Dadi Janki would sit in yoga through the night, for Rakhi, for many years running, here in London!  Dadi would say let people have an experience of Baba’s presence and she was consciously invoking Baba and we could feel His presence.

It is easy to have a foot in two boats. One foot here and one there.  Why because I am not quite sure and I am still to make up my mind.  But there comes a time that we have to choose, as I cannot split and they are going in different directions.   Baba is saying:  Make sure both feet are in the same boat.  If not you will always have doubts and uncertainty and be pulled:  whether from science or bhakti.  Different things pull different individuals.  What you need to do is reflect and decide and be in one boat and this will carry you to your destination.  Baba has also reminded us we have incarnated from above. Baba says now we are shud Brahmins….no longer shudras.  This birth is a new birth, an incarnation, an avtar.  Remember we have incarnated here only for God’s task.  The avtar never forgets why it has incarnated and doesn’t get caught up and remains up above.

We will offer bhog now.
Om Shanti.

 

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Sister Jayanti – by Zoom Murli Revision of 25th April Avyakt Murli (Original date 18th December, 1987) - The Deep Definition of the Karmateet Stage

13 May 2021

Om shanti! It's interesting that sakar Baba attained his karmateet stage. Mama and also Dada Vishwakishore - all three of them attained their karmateet stage by practicing all the things that Shiv Baba spoke through sakar Brahma.  Having practiced those things they attained that stage and their role in the whole cycle is fixed - especially for Satyug,  its fixed. But we've needed BapDada to come through Dadi Gulzar and explain to us step by step the detail and the background of all of this. So that we can experiment with those same ideas and concepts and also attain our karmateet stage.

 

So that was the first thing I thought about when I was reflecting on the murli. And the second thing that, when I looked at the murli again, I realised that normally Baba begins with a lot of love, a lot of praise. And then launches into the detail of the murli. But this time it was as if Baba had so much depth of ideas and experiments to share that, right from the very first line, Baba got into the subject. And within the first two lines Baba had clarified quite a good amount. In the sense that from the beginning, Baba talked about the children who are practicing the bodiless stage, and Baba is seeing to what extent each one is practicing that. 

 

And then Baba mentioned that, if you want to be complete and perfect, then, you have to have these two aims in front of you to become bodiless and to be able to become karmateet. And just think about it? When the soul is in Paramdham at that moment it is bodiless, absolutely no physical form at all. Like God incorporeal. The soul incorporeal, free from the body. 

 

And secondly, when it's Paramdham, it's in that stage of being karmateet, completely pure, all accounts completely settled. And so, there are no pulls, absolutely none. And so, the soul is able to maintain that experience of total silence, no vibration even. Just full and complete, the seed. And what Baba is teaching us in this murli, is how to be able to go back home with him. Which Baba then of course explains very clearly, unless you are equal to the Father in the concept of these two stages, bodiless and secondly karmateet, you will not be able to go with the Father. And so, Baba sets all that out right within the first part of the murli. 

 

And then, there's a sequence that Baba seems to be following. First, a detachment from the body and bodily organs. Then next, the detachment from bodily beings, and the expectations of that. And then next, the settling of past karmic accounts whether it's through illness. Or whether it's through people and sanskars. And then, Baba talking about the depth of preparation we need to have, so that the soul is completely fearless, is able to manage its own thoughts and the thoughts that create the strings of bondage, and the thoughts that enable us to cut those strings of bondage. The thoughts that work like scissors that can cut all bondages. 

 

And that state, in which there's absolutely no fear that an understanding of everything that's going on in that - it's benevolent. So, it's actually a preparation, step by step, by step, by step to that final stage. Totally liberated. Totally free! 

 

And so, the first part the Baba's talking about, being in the body and yet experiencing the freedom from any type of bondage. And, in that first case, Baba's talking about how, yes while I'm in the body I'm going to be some type of action or another. That's the purpose of still being on this stage of karma - the field of action. But what sort of consciousness do I need to have? If I'm to reach the karmateet stage then, I need to have that stage of being the master of this physical body. So that, on no level am I dependent on the body, which Baba's equating with being in bondage. And it's true, that if I’m dependent on anything, whether it's caffeine in the morning or for lokik people, stronger, addictive habits than caffeine. But, dependency of any type is not going to allow me to experience that stage of mastery. And so, whatever it is I'm dependent on. Maybe I'm dependent on beautiful things wherever I go. I want to see beautiful nature. I want to see beautiful flowers. I want to see a beautiful place. I want to make Baba's house a beautiful place. All of which is fine. 

 

But as soon as it becomes a dependency then, it's my desire which is a very limited desire. And in that limitation of intention, and so you come to see how, intention behind the action is actually the force that then brings about the results. And so, my desire on that limited level for seeing things that are beautiful. We all like to see beauty. But if I'm dependent on that. If that's my desire, my motive, then I'm going to experience that backlash of bondage. Because that initial desire that led me to that karma, I already created that bondage I want. 

 

Okay, so then in that state I'm absolutely dependent and I'm in a state of bondage. And so limited desires, I'm manifesting those limited desires through what I see, what I hear. I prefer silence. I don't want any noise at all. But who is going to be able to predict whether I can always have that condition? Maybe I can. Maybe I can't. 

 

I remember moving from St Gabriel's Road, Baba Bhawan to Pound Lane. And the noise factor was like 100% multiplied because St Gabriel's Road was extremely quiet. And especially I was at the backside of St Gabriel's Road where all the gardens are. No noise at all. And here, the traffic and it's nonstop. It goes on and on and on. And, I realised I had become dependent on that silent environment. And of course, if you've ever stayed in Pandav Bhawan. And you've stayed where any of the rooms that are just behind that road that's by the front main entrance in Om Shanti Bhawan. Whoa, if you want silence, Pandav Bhawan is not the place to be. So, I have to learn to be independent on all of these things. And not be dependent on anything external at all. My eyes, my ears, my taste, I like something, something, something, whatever it may be. But that desire, that liking is a dependency and it's creating the bondage of karma. It's not allowing me to come to that state of detachment and karmateet. And so, the practice, as I perform karma, am I doing karma with a higher motive? A higher consciousness? That this karma is going to bring souls closer to God. It's going to be me closer to God. Or am I dependent and being drawn by something else? And of course, that's always going to be limited and perishable. 

 

And so, Baba created that first scenario of where, just that intention of desire is going to create the karmic accounts, the bondages that I actually want to be free from. And so, the practice I need to have - am I soul conscious? Am I just in that inner state of awareness of who I truly am? Or am I dependent on anything external at all? And the dependency of course is through my sense organs, my physical organs. 

 

Then Baba went on to the factor of bodily relations and how in the world today, instead of someone, relationship and the word relationship is filled with a lot sweetness. But, how can it be lovely? And how can it be beautiful and unique if it becomes a dependency? 

 

And so, that state in which I'm entering into a relationship through the body and here in the body and I'm connecting with them in this way. But yet, whether it's lokik or whether it's alokik. If there is any dependency on something that I want from them, instead of someone relationship, it immediately becomes a bondage. A state of bondage. 

 

And so, Baba is reminding me of the things that most of us are experienced in being through. But as soon as there's a desire for some attainment from that individual. Any expectation of that individual within the lokik or the alokik situation, then that expectation is going to be very harmful. Because, it may bring me initially a little bit of a sense of attainment. But, very quickly it'll turn to sorrow and disappointment. Because, when I have expectations of human beings who can satisfy them? No one! Have you ever been able to satisfy the demands of another and fulfil their expectations? You may achieve a certain level but their expectation then goes higher, and higher, and higher, and higher. 

 

And so, when Baba is saying that they may even have everything. All the external things are already attained, everything is in place. But my mind is unstable because my mind is projecting; I want. I want. I want. And there's always something more that I'm going to expect. Or the other way, more that they expect from me. 

 

But definitely in my own case, if I have that expectation the levels keep rising, rising, rising. A very interesting point that Baba made that the intellect isn't going to experience happiness. In the first instance, with the bondage of action through the body and the physical organs, Baba said that the intellect begins to wander around. It's not able to attain stability. 

 

And so, of course my eyes are seeing something. My ears are hearing something. And so, I'm being pulled and distracted by all of these things and so, the intellect is unstable. And here in this case with relationships, there's always going to be sorrow and some type of unhappiness. But also, Baba mentioned distress. I'm not being fulfilled. Baba's offering everything and I have everything available but I'm not content. 

 

Very interesting because in many, many Murlis, Baba has spoken about contentment being the foundation to be able to experience all treasures and all virtues. If I don't have contentment, I can't experience the other virtues. And so, but why discontent? Because of my expectation of human beings and my discontent at that moment because the expectations can never be matched. 

 

But here again Baba is making me aware that, what happens when I'm expecting something, I haven't understood the significance of relationship and bondage. I haven't understood the secret of karma that, if I want something from a human, I'm never going to be content. And they'll be distressed with myself, discontent with myself, discontent with others, and I'll probably create an atmosphere of discontent and distress wherever it is I am. 

 

But all of the starting point is because raz naraaz, I'm distressed because I haven't understood this secret of karma that, I must not have any expectations of human beings. If I want the relationship to be detached and loving and even a lokik relationship to change into a spiritual one, and a spiritual relationship to stay spiritual. Bottom line - no expectations otherwise, there's going to be a problem. 

 

Then Baba went on to the third aspect that, bondage is also the bondage of past karma. And that karmateet stage is where I settled the things of past karma. And Baba was speaking of two different situations together. One, where the past karma is coming in the form of illness. And, if there's something I've done which is stupid like overeating, I'm going to get pain in my stomach. There's going to be a problem with something. And, well that's present karma and my lack of understanding. 

 

Or, if I've again, gone out when it's too hot and I can't stand the heat. I don't have that tolerance capacity and resilience. But of course, I'm going to get a headache and come back feeling really sick. So, one level of illness is where through my ignorance or lack of attention, I do things which are not right. Think about Covid and silly things that people do and they catch the virus so anything. But that's present lack of understanding. 

 

But where something happens that isn't connected with that and it's some past karma that's coming to be settled now. Baba said, it can either be a crucifix or it can be a little thorn. And it depends on me how I handle the situation. Now here's an illness that's come. Now it's come, can I change the karma bhog, the suffering of karma into karma yoga. 

 

Am I able to keep smiling even though the body is going through whatever it is that it's going through? And we've seen many examples, not just the Dadi's. But certainly, I personally have witnessed people here in London, who've gone through illnesses and yes, the soul has even flown away because of those illnesses. I'm thinking of Sr Leslie. I'm thinking of Br Naisha. But yet, they stayed in that state of yoga and higher consciousness and allowed the body to settle its karma. And they were able to fly away with everyone's love and good wishes with them and a state of cheerfulness and yoga. They left with a smile. 

 

And so, whatever it is that their karma was, they settled it, but Baba made a very interesting comment. Some have a little bit of pain but they think about it a lot. And they talk about it a lot. And so, it becomes very big and very difficult to deal with. Or, someone has a great deal of pain and yet they don't think about it. They don't talk about it. And it's as if it becomes very small through their attitude. 

 

And so, Baba said, whether something is big or whether something is small, depends on your stage of consciousness. It's not that this is big how am I going to deal with it? But no, my stage of consciousness can reduce, reduce, reduce so that with God's help I am able to deal with it.

 

But the second thing was even more interesting because of something from the past. Here's this individual and it seems I have some karmic account to settle with them. I'm not doing anything wrong. There's nothing that I've said, nothing that I've done. But yet, there's this friction and sometimes a friction can be big. Maybe it's just very little. But sometimes it can grow bigger and bigger. But again, it depends on how I’m handling it. I'm feeling pain from that incident or situation, it's an ongoing situation. Because I have my sanskars, they have their sanskars. And so, it's ongoing. But the more I think about it, and the more I speak about it to others, that karmic account isn't getting settled, it's increasing. And the less I think about it, the less I speak about it, that karmic account is being settled with the power of yoga. And, it's no problem. A moment comes when it's like the account is being settled and I'm able to be totally loving, and detached. 

 

I remember Dadi sharing the story of how in the early days, when she had surrendered, Baba put her with somebody who was a bit of a tyrant and most people weren't able to manage with that particular individual. And yet Dadi was given this task and it was with this individual. Mama told her that she knew others had found  it difficult to be with her. But Baba says you have that tolerance capacity to be able to manage. And she did. And she did it with a smile to the point where, she won the other ones' faith and trust, and was able to manage to be with her for years and no trouble at all. 

 

So, my sanskars and the sanskars of another, if I allow friction to come, the karmic bondage increases. The pain increases. But if I'm able to stay detached and not let it affect me, maintain that karmateet stage in which I'm not influenced by that. Then, I'm going to be able to settle it and stay smiling. 

 

And then Baba spoke about the circumstances that come our way. And how sometimes even though it may be a situation that's not so bad, it's actually quite good. But, if my thoughts about it are negative then even the good situation can get spoiled. And, it won't be very beneficial. But the other way too. Sometimes things are fine. Things are okay. And I know you're okay and I sail through all of it. That's great. But sometimes, things come and on one level it seems to be very difficult. They're seems to be not so good at all. But, do I have the capacity to able to see below the surface, and see something that's good within it? And if I can see some benefit in it and treat it in that way, I won't get distressed. I won't get confused. I won't get scared. But where I look at something and I get scared, then even the possibilities of what could be good are not good. But, if I can maintain my own inner level of awareness and not have waste thoughts, then I can deal with it and see the benevolence in that, and say, well, it was a paper that came to test me but it brought benefit and I was able to move on further. 

 

And the two opposite situations where, through my waste thoughts I'm no good, these things always happen to me, what happened, why did it happen? And why is it that I'm always the one that gets tested? Maybe I'm not so worthy. All of these thoughts are adding to the account and the bondages increasingly continually. 

 

And so waste thoughts are the strings that then make up the karmic bondage. And, the good thoughts, the powerful thoughts that can cut the bondage like a pair of scissors, everything is good. I am good. Baba is good. And drama is good. And so, when I'm stable with that faith in that awareness of benevolence and goodness, then of course, everything is going to be very good. 

 

And so, in Sangamyug we have both possibilities creating more bondages through our waste thoughts. But also, we have the scissors with which to cut through all the bondages and become free. Baba reminded us what is the occupation of you Brahmins? Surely, your occupation is to be able to give benefit. To be able to transform the world. Now I'm calling myself a world transformer, or the child of the world transformer. And I'm calling myself the one who’s able to give benefit to all. Or I'm the child of the One who is the Benefactor. And then, I'm not able to deal with the situation that I'm facing? So, Baba is reminding me you are the world transformer, the world benefactor. So, to stay in that consciousness, to keep in that highest level of consciousness, I'm going to be able to be up above and sort everything out down below with the stage of awareness of being karmateet.

 

So, Baba told us that this is only the start. That these are the factors to experiment with for now. And that Baba will go into it in more detail later on. And Baba says, I'll take it up later. Definitely. Baba doesn't forget. Baba does take it up later and so more detail on that. But I also just want to mention that I found very interesting. Because first Baba spoke to the parties about whether they're able to stay powerful as a child of the One who is powerful. Baba said, there's a fluctuation between weakness and strength. And if there's weakness and strength then, sometimes defeat, sometimes victory, then a soul can't be in the rosary of victory. So that was pretty clear. 

 

But the second one that, the second group that Baba spoke to, the zero and hero.   Why I wanted to mentioned this is because a few years ago, maybe now about 4 years ago, the British Museum hosted a festival of India, or actually it was a festival of India all over the UK, but the British Museum also picked up on it. But what the British Museum did, was to find, they only found 1%, I think. Because if you actually start looking at the secrets that the Rishis and Munis understood about astrology, astronomy, about surgery, about all those things, mathematics, it was quite incredible! But they showed a few of the instruments that, in ancient times were used by the surgeons - the Rishis in India. 

 

And then, there was a little plaque. And that little plaque was fascinating for me. Because, it stated that within mathematics the concept of zero is absolutely critical. The Roman Empire didn't know about zero. But, in India in ancient times, they knew about zero. But the comment that fascinated me was, it's only a mind that's able to deal with infinity and understands the infinite that can actually come up with the understanding of zero.

 

And when I read that I thought that's amazing; God, infinite, infinitesimal, the cycle, eternal. And so, the soul of course again infinite and eternal. And so, this concept of zero. God - zero. But, Baba's zero but also in mathematics, every calculation now is only possible because of zero. And so, here's Baba talking about zero and hero. 

 

And so, when I'm in the awareness of who I am, the zero, and I'm playing my part with the one who is eternally zero, I zero take on a limited form to play my part on the world stage. But if I'm connected with the one whose eternally zero, then yes, my role can be truly a role which is a role of a hero. So, I just wanted to mention that. 

 

The last thing in today's murli, Baba spoke about the kumaris which was powerful. Baba also mentioned a few things that hold the kumaris back. But yesterday Baba spoke about the kumars and how the kumars have no bondages and no burden and can achieve as much as they choose as much as they want. And, I thought to myself out of all the kumars I know, even if people try to put on restrictions, yet kumars are able to overcome those restrictions, pretty quickly, they don't have to live and tolerate bondage the whole of their lives. Whereas, mothers, kumaris, if there's bondages, it's not so easy to deal with them. But here's Baba talking to kumars so I hope that the kumars who are listening take inspiration from this murli and hold it to their hearts. Because Baba's really reminding you that, you can play the highest role now in Sangamyug. You can reach the highest stage of consciousness and that's going to allow you to show wonders through your thinking, your speaking and your doing. Because the being is the highest. And so, everything else is wonderful and marvellous also.

 

So, yesterday's murli especially the major section on karmateet and yes, it's a powerful murli to experiment with and to think about more and more deeply. So, if there are questions, we can take those up now.

 

Q. Baba says that, that when you reach your karmateet stage you will no longer remain in the body. And then on the other hand Baba says, be detached and upram beyond, as you perform action. So, are there different types of karmateet stage?

 

A; Baba's saying that now is a time to practice that stage. And if you have that aim of becoming complete and perfect, then you must now experience that stage of detachment and stage of mastery over the senses, and all the other things that Baba's described. And not get caught up in the bondage of all of these things. The dependency means that I'm stuck and my karmic accounts are increasing. But the practice of that stage of being karmateet is going to help me settle all the bondages along the way to the point where then I can be completely free. So, the practice of that consciousness is what we do today to achieve that karmateet stage finally where everything is settled.

 

Q. And so that means that then when we leave the body it's a very smooth departure? Right? What's the feeling like at the end?

 

A. Well, I was there last kalpa and so I'm trying to emerge it from my consciousness. But, it's like we saw just recently within the space of one year the two Dadis leaving. Dadi Janki she was absolutely fine Thursday evening, giving drishti to everyone. And then at night, flew away just as lock down was beginning. And Dadi Gulzar, she did her tapasya of silence of silence, mostly silence of 3 years, and then she decided to fly on the day of Shiv Ratri. She chose the day on which to go. Just as Dadi Janki had chosen the day on which to go.

 

So that you can see their departures were very smooth and their transition very natural. So yes, no struggle with leaving the body. But the soul already has settled all its accounts and is ready to fly. 

 

Q. So Jayanti bhen are you saying that we can choose when to leave the body?

 

A. Absolutely but I think you need to have settled quite a bit. Because if you choose to leave now and there's all those strings still attached. ‘A’ it’s going to be difficult to go and ‘B’, you don't know what you're going to land up with. And so, I think it's something that happens together simultaneously. I've settled all my karma and the thought comes - I want to leave. And, it's how it will happen in Satyug also. So, everything that's going to happen in Satyug has to be rehearsed here. Can I be detached from my body to the point where, when the final moment comes within a moment, I'm able to be with Baba and fly? So that in Satyug, it's a smooth and easy transition. And there, nobody is attached to you. And so, they don't cry, you don't cry, but you're happy to go, they're happy to let you go. So, it's a preparation.

 

Q. Okay. And then next Sr Jayanti, this question of naraaz and raz? So sometimes even when you do understand the secrets you still get upset. So again, what aspect have we not understood? We've understood something or something. But is it not enough or is it not in depth? 

 

A. Think about soul consciousness and how on the one side I understand I have to be soul conscious. And on the other side, to what extent am I practicing that? And, this murli makes it very clear, that most of us have a long way to go in terms of the practice. Same thing, I've understood the theory that if I'm upset, naraaz (upset), it's because there's something that I'm missing out on. I haven't understood it clearly. So, I know it's my fault. It's not the fault of another. I come that far. 

 

But what I haven't deeply understood is that, it was my expectations that have led me to this situation of being upset. And so, when I'm ready to accept that totally it's me and my expectations that were wrong. Then at that moment I can be free. Otherwise, I'm constantly blaming, complaining. And even if I'm not I say well I suppose it's something I did. But I'm not going into it deeply enough to understand what those expectations were that lead to this. 

 

Q. Yes, and then a similar question Sr Jayanti with regard to when Baba said, I didn't want to do this but it just happened. So again, we know I didn't want to say that, or I didn't want to do that. And so, what is work the intellect has overpowered or the mind has overpowered the intellect?

 

A: Baba used that expression in the context of the control of the physical senses. And so, the first stage I haven't practiced soul consciousness. If I'm practicing soul consciousness, I can see that I can choose. Do I blurt it out or do I restrain my tongue and I hold it and I'm patient and introverted? So, with a  lack of practice of soul consciousness I lose control. Then I say it and then afterwards I regret it. And so, the English expression is count to 10. Well count to 5 at least and be soul consciousness and just reflect. And you'll know what is right and what is not right. 

 

Otherwise, in the heat of the moment, it's said, and of course, the arrow has already left the bow, and so it's going to hit the target, whether you want it to or not. It's too late. And so, before you shoot the arrow, pause, a bead in your mouth, count 10 and then you'll have a different perspective because of your soul consciousness. And you'll have that mastery and control.

 

Q: Right. Okay. So, there's another question here. What do you suggest to settle karmic accounts with a BK who rejects and cuts communication with you?

 

A.From my side, if I can keep communication going in a simple way, sending greetings for Raksha Bandan, that's the next big festival that I can think about. Sending greetings for Diwali, or for Christmas or for whatever it may be. So just to keep that contact and send little messages in which they can see that from your side, you're keeping the door open. Then, who knows how long it's going to take. Sooner or later there will be a response. Maybe the soul has to go through some deeper, the other soul has to go through some soul searching and a deeper realisation to be able to understand what it is they need to do and so on. And so, from your side don't close the door of communication that, oh it doesn't matter. It's okay I won't bother. But no, from your side keep that door open.

 

Q: Somebody had asked what's the practical difference between soul consciousness and the bodiless stage?

 

A. In fact, the word that Baba's using videhi, without a body, and so we are translating that as bodiless. And the word videhi is usually used in terms of God, that he's the one who never has a body, who is bodiless. And so, the stage of soul consciousness is where I am in the body. But I'm very aware of I the soul looking through these eyes, understanding what's going with a deeper significance, seeing the soul not the body, hearing in that awareness of what is that's useful, and so sorting out the stones from the jewels and picking up only the jewels that I use. And so soul consciousness is very much now here at this moment in action. And then the videhi that Baba's talking about, this is why I was describing that stage of being Paramdham, God incorporeal, the soul incorporeal. 

 

And ashariri, I usually take that to mean, in the sense that the body is here, and I'm detached from the body and I'm able to be the observer. And be detached observer, and in that stage, I know what it is I need to do in terms of the role I'm playing on the stage. But bodiless is where no awareness of the body that's that stage of Paramdham.

 

Q. How can one know that they have cleared their karmic account?

 

A. The soul is light and easy and happy and free and is a wonderful instrument for God's service. And so, no influences, no bondages, nothing able to pull them down. 

 

Q: Is Dadi Gulzar in the subtle world?

 

A. If Baba wanted to specify, Baba would find a way to tell us. However, my understanding is that there's only one soul who is completely equal to God and that is the soul of Father Brahma. And when in the 13-day period after Baba had left and become avyakt, when the bhog messages were coming and sometimes Baba would come himself, so Bapdada would come through Dadi Gulzar. At that 13-day period, all those bhog messages, all the experiences with BapDada very, very important and I know that they are available. 

 

But at some point, within that Dadi Gulzar she'd seen the scene in which the circle of drama is slowly, slowly moving. And souls are coming and joining the others on the world stage. And so, the population here is growing, growing, growing. And then, in sangamyug in that point, one soul leaves the cycle and joins Baba. And that soul is a soul of Brahma Baba who is free from the cycle, of life and birth with a short period. 

 

And so, the one who is the only son, Baba sometimes talks about Brahma Baba as being the only son and all the rest are grandchildren. And so, I think that Baba is able to use the advance party souls like Mama, like the Dadis including Dadi Gulzar in the subtle region, to do subtle service in many different ways. But, the Dadis also have taken rebirth somewhere to be part of the advance party to prepare for the transfer of kaliyug to satyug. That's the role of the advance party. So, I don't think there's anyone else who becomes a permanent resident of the subtle region except Brahma Baba. But as I say, if Baba wanted to give a final statement he would have.

 

Q: How would he give that final statement - through which medium?

 

A I don't know. That's the honest truth. And so, it's for us to then understand from what He has already said, and so we know what He has said, and so I'm basing my answer on that.

 

Q. Does karmateet mean that there's no Dharmaraj experience?

 

A I think that for the eight jewels who become karmateet to the fullest extent and attain that state of 16 celestial degrees complete, there is no Dharamraj because they're actually part of the tribunal. Together with God the 8 jewels are the tribunal. And for everyone else, karmateet is according to their own capacity and their own power. And so, whoever has taken birth, left the body and taken another birth in recent times, I would say that for all of them, the story of number wise is there. And so, a little bit of Dharamraj, a lot more of Dharamraj, it's number wise.

 

Q: Is it possible to be karmateet by yoga and remembrance alone, or should we be doing something else?

 

Baba has spoken a lot about being engaged in karma which means that it's not yoga alone that's going to make me karmateet. It means doing a lot of good karma. And so, am I using my thoughts, my words, my actions, not just my mind but my body, my physical time? Am I using all of that for good karma - pure karma? Because, I'm not just settling the things of the past. I'm also accumulating a huge amount of good karma which is then the capital that I have through the rest of the cycle. Not just even Golden Age and Silver Ag but, the capital that I'm earning today is there for me - the investment. And that then is what gives me Satyug and treta  of course. But also, it gives me the possibility of the very pure loving bhakti that I've performed, and the good principles with which I live in Iron Age too.

 

Q. If the Dadis reached  the karmateet stage why do they need to reincarnate?

 

A: Baba had explained that when Mama left the body. We heard the news that Mama is now in another  body and Baba had said that, there needs to be a mechanism for transfer from kaliyug to satyug and these advance party souls are the ones who will be the instruments to allow that to happen. Think about how the deities will take birth? It's through the power of yoga.  So, where's Baba going to find souls who have the power of yoga? It's going to be the advance party souls. And so, their birth is not because of karmic bondage or karmic accounts. Their birth is for the sake of service to establish that connection of the Golden Age kingdom. 

 

Q. Can you tell us just your last thoughts and feelings about Brahma Baba in his final karmateet stage?

 

When I got to really understand who Baba is I think Baba was already karmateet. So, I really recognised Brahma Baba, and Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba and all of that in April 1968. And then when I came to Madhuban in June 1968, Baba was already an angel. Baba was here in the physical world but truly was the angel.

 

Baba could see my thoughts and Baba would speak about them. Baba would answer my questions before I voiced them. And Baba could see my future. Baba was talking about that. And then Baba gave me very clear guidance and instructions about what I needed to do. How to write to my father so that that karma would also be settled. And then, when I came back in October Baba told me you have to keep a connection with Dadi Janki. For me that was a new thing I was hearing because I thought that you know, now I've surrendered and yes Dadi Janki has nurtured me up to this extent but now I'm going to a new centre and Baba will tell me who I need to keep contact with. But Baba said, no, you keep contact with your parents and also make sure you keep contact with Dadi Janki so that she understands your chart. So, Baba was explaining to me what I needed to do beyond Baba becoming avyakt. And also then, I met Baba again in December and by then there was a difference. Baba wasn't interested in hearing service news or little things. Baba knew it. Baba understood. And Baba was just wanting to give the children a lot of love but also Baba's Murlis were very, very powerful. And of course, you all know that, that was the period December, November, December when there was a protest going on by a small group and they were talking about. And it comes in the sakar Murlis and Baba's saying that, these people say they don't need Brahma. That’s fine. But how could they hear Baba's murli if it’s not Brahma Baba? So, things like this Baba's talking about this, but Baba is completely detached. Now, here are people who this man has nurtured and given so much to, and now they're saying we don't need you. We have a direct connection with God. Now everybody just look at themselves and ask how would you feel? But Baba was karmateet. So, Baba was able to sit there, let Shiv Baba explain the reality and the ins and outs of that situation. And Baba was totally immune. No waste thoughts about the situation whatsoever. And so, you can see all the things that Baba's talked about in yesterday's murli in that stage. Baba absolutely light. Baba's completing his task, all the knowledge that he had to give, he's already given. 18 chapters of the Gita have been given. Baba's in his karmateet stage. 

 

Of course, today I articulated in that way, at that moment, I just thought that well, I've just had a rebirth and so I'm seeing Baba with a new consciousness (which was true). And I wouldn't have said at that time, Baba's karmateet, though Baba's in his angelic state. But I look back and say, yes that time, Baba was definitely already karmateet from June onwards maybe earlier. But I saw him from June.

 

 

So, there is a need to be in action and yet be beyond. This is why there are so many people are saying, stop everything, just do yoga, just silence, just silence. Yes, I understand the need for silence. But it’s not enough. And you won't know how much your sanskars have changed if you're just with a little group around you that is practicing silence. But when I'm on the stage, and I'm interacting with others, then I'll know are my sanskars now flexible, are my sanskars now malleable, am I so pure that the external things don't impact me? I won't know unless I'm on the field of action. 

 

Q. So we're rehearsing now for the Golden Age?

 

A. Yes, otherwise, you're rehearsing for being a long time in Paramdham.

 

Om Shanti

 

 

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Sister Jayanti –3rd May am – GCH, London One purpose, Onevision and One destination and everyone’s energies together

4 May 2021

Good morning. Om Shanti,

 

The messages from Madhuban and the Murlis are all about having extra yoga.  In Bharat there is a very tragic situation.  In Abu there is total lockdown again, as it was last year.  Apparently at the moment to go up the mountain special documents are required.    I was there last March, and went up the mountain after Dadi Janki flew.  It was interesting going up the mountain as there was total silence….no small shops open; no monkeys, no cows: no sign of creatures as no one to feed them, and they would have gone back into the jungle. 

 

The story of Bharat and Dadi Ratanmohini’s letter are saying it is time for more yoga, and Drama is giving us this opportunity to be introverted.  I was remembering the whole subject of introversion is the foundation step of Yoga.  The first step.  ‘Antamuki’.  To turn my attention inwards.  It is strange how we use these words and don’t always experiment with them.  On one level introversion is not cutting off from anything, but staying in the awareness of who I truly am and doing what I need to do.  The stage of the self sovereign.  When I am not introverted I lose touch with myself and am distracted outside - whether in a community, or in a family.  Even living alone nowadays there are so many methods of distraction.  When I see someone sitting alone, I don’t see them sitting quietly, they will have their phone out. This is everywhere at ordinary places, waiting in the hospital, at the train station etc.   Everyone has their eyes focused on these devices, which shows that we don’t know what to do with our own thoughts.  I haven’t learnt to be a friend with the self and have the inner conversation, to understand the self more and more.  Neither will I have yoga, nor am I able to transform the self. 

 

The first step is this state of introversion and practising the stage of seeing the master inside, that knows and decides what to say; when I need to say it; and what my purpose and intention in communication is.  There is mastery of the physical organs on the outside.  Then understanding why the mind goes off somewhere else and what is pulling it and what is triggering my memory of other things.  First the external faculties and then the internal faculties.  Introversion is the stage of soul consciousness in which I regain control and mastery and can manage what is going on within and understand why certain thoughts and feelings are arising.  If I am not introverted, extraversion means energy is being drained outwards, and also I am reactive. I don’t stop to pause, why did I say this.  Then I see the impact on others and wonder why others misinterpret what I say.  Then we carry on reacting and the burden continues to grow and grow.  Baba’s point is to just begin with soul consciousness and introversion and it will help us to come back to the inner dignity of who we really are.

 

The next word is ‘Ekantpriya’ – means the one who loves solitude.  What am I doing in that solitude?  We need to be able to go into the depths of One and be able to understand in solitude not just myself but also to understand who God is.  Baba again helps us to truly see who is God.  In Bhakti there have been many images and ideas, and Baba’s Sakar Murlis clarify all of this so gradually we move away from those ideas and come back to the essence of what Baba explains about Himself.  His form and name and also what our expectations of God are.  Sometimes we have very unreal expectations.  I remember last year when Covid was raging across the world and it hadn’t yet reached India.  We had a teachers meeting in Madhuban, at the end of February and the only country that was impacted at that point, outside of China, was Italy, where they had had to stop classes.  At that time I heard many Brahmins saying….’oh we will be fine. We have a pure lifestyle, it will be ok’.  These are unrealistic expectations! 

 

Baba tells us He doesn’t come here to protect us from coughs and colds, aches and pains etc.  He says: I have come for a specific purpose to purify you and that is what I will do.  I am not here to protect you from your karmic situations.  It is not just a question of past karma.  Dadi would explain often to the question:  How do I know if this is something from past karma, or from some present karma.  Dadi’s answer was specific.  When she had come to Baba she had had the thought that she wished to serve in a  department that was in close contact with Brahma Baba, and direct communication with him.  After two or three years Baba asked her to be the nurse and she had to report to him morning and evening and take personal instructions from him on what to give those who were sick and how to administer. Baba would sometimes say ‘Shiv Baba is giving this message’.  It would be very simple remedies such as "drink water and have yoga and fill the water with yoga power".  Specific directions of what to give and how much to give and what time to give.  Baba would explain to her the karmic situations that led to someone being unwell.  Dadi would then deal with it appropriately.  She would explain to us that if it is the karma from the past then there is pain but the soul doesn’t feel any suffering and often the soul is able to continue to do what it needs to do.  Yet if it is negligence, carelessness or not following some aspect of srimat then the soul experiences suffering at that moment.  This is a clear distinction. 

 

Do we understand what God is doing and has come to do or do I have unrealistic expectations of what I think God should be doing for me?  When sometimes we expect God to intervene and He doesn’t, our faith can break.  So go into the depths of One in solitude and go into that depth of relationship with Baba in a way He wants us to at this time, and not make Him work overtime!

 

Concentration is the third step.  How much knowledge Sakar and Avyakt Baba and all the Dadi’s have left us with!  Everything that they needed to say we have and now they are working on a different level.  In the April Madhuban newsletter, we received 31 different points on concentration and so let me experiment with all of these and build up my concentration.  Baba says that the thoughts in the final moments will lead to our destination.   I need to be able to connect with Baba with one thought.  Can I connect with Him instantly.  If I cannot why not and let me sort out the distractions.  Can I connect when there is chaos and noise and unpleasant situations.  These things will come and I need to be able to connect with Him to feel His presence and to pick up His signals.  What does He want me to do?  I need to connect.  With the capacity to concentrate, I hold that level of connection, that state of awareness for a period of time where I am building the level of concentration.

 

The stage is of introversion and going into the depths of One in solitude and we need time for this. Introversion doesn’t require time, but going into the depths of One to create that inner state of emptiness where there is a space in which I am not being pulled, requires  solitude. The stage of concentration is also vital so I don’t feel different things pulling me.  Can I use today to focus on concentration and connection with One.  Experiment with all the different treasures, one at a time, that Baba says He wants to give me.  Then I can fill myself and feel full and content and will experience closeness with Baba. When there are gaps not yet filled then my relationships with Baba are not complete and something is missing and of course there is then discontent.  This happens when the soul is not focusing on that full relationship with Him.  As a result of the state of concentration and taking all I need from Baba and beyond  – not just for myself but also to be instrumental to allow those vibrations to reach out simply through presence  – there is then  a stage of unity. With ‘Ekta’ –with this state of unity – we can demonstrate that there is One in charge and it is this One’s instructions we are following in our lives.

 

Baba works on the external physical level too.   The beauty is that we are not just together understanding the same ideas and practising these, it is also the way we apply these on the physical external level.  Baba has created systems to do this.  Baba’s instructions have been so clear spiritually as well as physically. The Sakar Murlis speak to us on a human level, whether we are tempted by different foods, or distracted by differing sanskars etc.. First we come together spiritually and then it cascades down further and applies on the external physical level also.  Whether it is Russia or the Middle East or here...the way the centres function is the way Baba taught us in Madhuban.  Baba gave Dadi a task of creating a model of Madhuban.  Here in London the Madhuban system and timetable was put in place. We saw the systems being replicated outside of Bharat and we were then able to translate this wherever else Baba sent us.   In 1974 Dadi arrived in the evening from Bharat and sat with a small group…with Rameshbhai, Ushaben, Mohiniben and Dr Nirmala.  Dadi asked ‘What time is morning class?’  What time do you usually have morning class?   In Madhuban it is 6.30, so let's have it at 6.30am and invite those who are in contact, to come.  Tell them Dadi is here for two weeks and they are invited to morning class.   So Dadi’s intention from the beginning was to follow the Madhuban timetable.  Whether it is offering bhog or class, or Wednesday’s when we clean the centres etc.  These are systems of unity ‘ekta’ on an external practical level.  If human beings are together in harmony then those vibrations reach out.  We are coming together as a global family in harmony, not just in Madhuban but here and wherever we are.  We need to give people this experience and not when they visit from time to time, but when they get deeply involved with the sanskars of the family, even with a variety of sanskars they see there is oneness.  This doesn’t happen on an external level but through the process of introversion, relationship with One and concentration.  Then the stage of one purpose, one vision and one destination and everyone’s energies together.

 

We now send out lots and lots of loving good wishes to the very special soul,  IshuDadi.

 

Om Shanti.

 

 

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Madhuban Newsletter - May 2021

4 May 2021

Madhuban Newsletter – Om shanti – May 2021

Now spread the wave of good wishes and pure feelings everywhere
and experiment with the power of silence.

 

Beloved Avyakt Image, Mother and Father, BapDada’s deeply loving instrument teachers, brothers and sisters who are the decoration of the Brahmin clan, ones who with the practice of concentration always go to the bottom of the ocean and find jewels of experiences, please accept sweet love-filled remembrance.

 

At present, while hearing news of this land and the world, all of Baba’s children must definitely be doing the service of giving sakaash of your good wishes and pure feelings. According to the present time, sweet Baba is signaling: Children, accumulate the power of silence. Sit in the laboratory of practice and experiment on your own sanskars, on the illnesses and on the fearful and unhappy wandering souls. Then, with the power of silence, even the strong bondages of karma will be experienced to be like lines on water. Understanding the subtle signals of our sweet Baba, all of you must be having deep yoga tapasya at your own places. Since these unique scenes of the drama have stopped all external service and are signaling us to create our powerful stage, all of Baba’s children now have to sit in the cave of introversion, accumulate the power of the mind and practise serving with your mind. Instead of getting caught up in the upheaval of “Why? What? and How?”, put a full stop to your thoughts in a second, stabilise yourself in a constant and stable concentrated stage, and with your thoughts full of good wishes and pure feelings, continue to do the service of giving sakaash with your mind. Day by day, the situations are becoming more and more fearful. This is why Baba says: Children, now make your service centres and households into places of Shanti kund (a sacred area of the sacrificial fire) and for this, strengthen the fortress of yoga. A fortress of yoga is automatically created where pure souls reside. You yourself remain safe in that fortress and the vibrations there will give the souls of the world an experience of peace. Now, according to the time, let all of Baba’s children step away from the things of extroversion with an unlimited attitude of disinterest, and make your places a tapasya-kund (an area of having deep tapasya), so that every problem is transformed into a solution. Tell me, all of you are paying attention to having such tapasya, are you not?

 

At this time, Baba has made all the places of Madhuban into Shanti-kund. There isn’t any type of upheaval, all services have stopped. While fulfilling the daily timetable of the yagya, separate groups go to Mansarovar to have special tapasya. Baba says: Children, it is only with this tapasya that the task of self- transformation and world transformation will take place.

 

Now, our Trimurti Dadis have become residents of the subtle region and become beloved BapDada’s right hands to accomplish His great task. Definitely the task of the establishment that still remains will be accomplished very quickly and this world of sorrow and peacelessness will be transformed and our new golden world will come soon.

 

I am sure all of you must be healthy. According to the guidelines of your own states (countries), protecting yourself and everyone from the Corona pandemic, continue to move forward. Achcha.

 

Lots and lots of love and remembrance to all.

In Godly service, BK Ratanmohini

 

 

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