Sister Jayanti – 27th June 2021 – GCH, London A powerful intellect is able to bring the mind to God and not allow it to wander here and there.

30 June 2021

Good morning. Om Shanti.   Today reading Baba’s Murli,  three times Baba used the word ‘buddhi’.  In the last few days I have received a couple of questions on the ‘buddhi’.  ‘Buddhi’ we translate as ‘intellect’ and its not quite the accurate translation, but I don’t know a better one.  The question was: ‘when we are thinking about purification do we begin with the mind, intellect or sanskars?’  Another question was ‘If we want to make elevated effort and create an elevated stage, where do we begin?’  

I am seeing how in today’s Murli, Baba is talking about ‘gunugrananbuddhi’, the intellect that sees virtues and is able to absorb virtues.  Baba then spoke about ‘vishal buddhi’.  If I have a gift, it has come from God.  When Baba was speaking to a group who were asking : ‘How do we make decisions in terms of life in the world?’ His answer was that we first have to become soul conscious and  look at things from a spiritual perspective and then we will know how to make a decision about things here in the world.  So keep the ‘buddhi’ in spiritual awareness.  The understanding and experience I have is that everything begins with the ‘buddhi’.  My journey with Raja Yoga begins, when I first have understanding and belief.   Baba uses the word ‘have the faith’ that you are a soul.  He doesn’t just tell us to be ‘soul conscious’. Then the intellect’s perception changes from the identity of the physical form to the identity of the soul.  This is the intellect having faith and then experimenting and coming to the understanding that yes this is the right way to live; the real and true way to live.

Baba talks about giving us the ‘gift of the divine intellect’.  Definitely if we look at the Kalpa, the Cycle, we see the quality of our interaction with others, in particular our love for God, and our search for God and Truth.  At the end of the Iron Age many of us didn’t know we were searching for God, but we recognised the motivation that we were searching for Truth.  An accumulation of that search, faith and love brought us to the point when we came to Baba, He says that He recognises us, and we were able to know Baba.  Baba says ‘He gives us the gift of the divine intellect’.  Many hear knowledge but how many follow it. It is really a handful. If Baba wanted to just be popular he would have gone along with the trend. Brahma Baba had charisma and a large network of friends and community. But he wasn’t interested in popularity; he was interested in truth.  His search, love and devotion brought him to the point, Kalpa after Kalpa,  to become the instrument.

When Shiv Baba gives us the gift of the divine intellect, with the knowledge of soul we begin to understand.  I used to think the knowledge of the soul was easy to understand and share.  My assumption was that as it was easy for me it would be for others too.  My first strong experience that this was not true was when I met a church person of standing.  He asked what are we teaching and I began with the knowledge of soul.  He was totally dismissive and said that ‘This is what you may believe’.  It is not what we understand...I then realised that where there is the culture of burial it is not possible for the soul and body to be considered as separate, as there is the belief on judgement day you are raised from the dead. 

Another time, I was speaking to a Muslim woman from the Middle East, who followed Raja Yoga for several years.  There is a difference in religious awareness according to what part of the world, whether Muslim, Hindu and Christian.   However she told me:  You cannot tell a Muslim that soul and body are separate.  Again at an international conference we had a little gathering:  a Rabbi, from New York; an Iman from California and a Bishop also from the USA and they were very open.  It was a dialogue between the four of us.  They all said that there is no explanation of soul.  The Rabbi and the Iman agreed and the Bishop was listening.  They said:  Human beings are told, that we cannot understand soul.  Therefore we are not going to give a definition nor do not teach anything about soul.

So even to understand that ‘I am a soul’ only happens if there is the recording within the soul and also when Baba gives us the Divine Intellect.  The first step is then when the buddhi opens up and we realise we are a soul.  The big change that happens when I know I am a soul when the buddhi is then able to take control of the mind.  The mind doesn’t have understanding of its own, as it goes here and there and everywhere, but the buddhi realises it knows it needs to take charge of the things that are going on in the mind.

Brahma Baba, as Dada Lekraj, from his diaries of 1932, spent a lot of time in introspection,and would write in his diary about ‘holding a court’ with all his ministers….and he was talking to his mind to be quiet, still and obedient.  For us the understanding that now I have to take charge of my mind.  One particular thing that Mama would say is that the divine intellect is a very tiny little baby and we have to take care of it and allow it to develop.  While a baby is still in the stage of infancy it needs to be protected, in particular the head, as it is fragile.  Mama would ask how would we look after a new born, being so fragile? In the same way the divine intellect, the buddhi, is extremely fragile and we have to protect it.  We need to make sure no other influences come.  This is why Baba is so strong on Srimat, God’s instructions:  manmat, the directions of the mind and parmat, the directions of others  influence the intellect in a powerful way.  Before gyan we didn’t know but after gyan we start to understand and follow srimat.  Following srimat is the way to make the intellect strong.  By listening to the gyan everyday in the Murli, this is the way the intellect is nourished and becomes mature.  In the Gita, the first thing that Arjuna did, was hand over the reins of the chariot to God.   If I am handing over to God, then there is the ability to follow srimat in all the different ways He explains.  Today Baba is talking about the ability to see virtue and absorb virtue.  Baba is saying ‘be like Dadaji Rishi’…see specialities in all human beings and also the animal kingdom…..Baba gives so much to experiment with in the Murli so I can then experience it.  Then we can keep the intellect safe from many other influences, in particular keeping the intellect free from the habits of the mind.    The way my mind is functioning is connected with my sanskars.  Baba talks about the number one quality souls at Sangamyug:  Seeing and absorbing qualities in and from everyone.  The second number, see virtue and yet don’t have the power to absorb the goodness as still stuck in the aspects of their life.  The third number, only seeing weaknesses, and criticise.  There is the buddhi that absorbs virtue and the buddhi that sees weaknesses.

This month is Mama’s month and next month we will be hearing about Didi Manmohini.  We used to be deeply connected with Baba and Madhuban through the Dadi’s and Dada’s and yet now without them around physically it is very important to keep a sense of who our ancestors are and connect with our roots and Madhuban.  People ask me if I am planning to go to Madhuban I say yes, definitely.  Madhuban is home, I will go there.  If you are thinking about it, hold the thought and you will feel very much connected with Pandavbhavan and Baba’s room there, the place where Baba himself meditated as it still today carries that power and vibration.  Didi’s month is July.  Didi would say that a clever intellect is like a knife.  If someone knows how to use a knife, then they use it for benefit, for good.  If they don’t know how to use a knife they will damage themselves or others.  The point then that with a clever intellect we cut through all the fluff and see what is going to lead us into bondage, and what is going to lead us closer to God, and move forward with that and not let other things get in the way.  A clever intellect can also be very critical if it is not being used in the right way and this is also damaging for the self.  If there is a critical nature it destroys the happiness that the intellect could take from God and the experience of joy.  What happens when I have a critical intellect is I will become unhappy and the cause is my habit of seeing weaknesses and defects.  It is not just what the eyes are seeing, but what the mind is churning and then it comes into words. The soul gets caught up in a web.  There is a cycle of seeing negativity and being caught up in it.  When there is a deep realisation in the buddhi.  If I am asking myself the question:  What can I do to make elevated effort to experience the fruit of Sangamyug that Baba is talking about….happiness. Can I change my habit and attitude of seeing weakness and start seeing specialities and virtue?  Baba mentioned one in particular is present in each Brahmin soul…that they recognised God and belonged to God.  So in terms of the specialities, when Baba is speaking about the Vishal Buddhi, the broad, wide intellect,  Baba is saying that having done something, and planted the seed, don’t then have the arrogance that ‘I’ did this and forget that that speciality is a gift from God.  When I forget this, and think that it is I that did this…..the bird of ‘ego’ will eat up the fruit and so you don’t experience the results.  Then I don’t experience the sweetness of the fruit of the effort that I have made and I wonder why I am not happy.

The third place that Baba mentions buddhi is with decision making.  With this don’t think about the externals…become soul conscious and in the awareness of spirituality let the buddhi make a decision and it will be the right one.  Baba is talking about that it is the thoughts of the past that pull the buddhi not just into old awareness but also into old sanskars.  Here Baba describes the buddhi as being the master and having the power to know that if allow past scenes to come the decision will not be the correct one.  But in soul consciousness, connected with God, I am on a higher plane and not going to be pulled anywhere else.

If I have the desire to make elevated effort where am I to begin.  The starting point is the buddhi and the purification process begins with the buddhi.  If this understands something and is powerful then the buddhi is going to make sure old sanskars are not going to pull me back.  I will see the habits I accumulated in this last birth and those of many births, but I will not let these interfere.  Baba was saying in the blessing yesterday, that we sometimes use our past sanskars as an excuse to be lazy and not do the work that I need to do today.  I will say that is how I am….do I want to live with these until the end. Or am I ready to acknowledge and to change them with Baba.  The buddhi has to be clever enough to speak to the self, to realise that if I keep my own awareness pure and clean and elevated, those sanskars will lose their grip on me.  When we make mistakes, ok, Baba will forgive and provide power to change.  If I am repeating mistakes continually, Baba is going to understand what more am I going to do to help you.  So learning from mistakes is effort. 

Sanskars take a lot of yoga power to change.  Intense Tapasya and the ‘fire of yoga’ are required.  Baba says last can go fast and you can make intense effort within a short space of time.  Also there is now a lot of clarity in the teachings and thousands of examples of those who have achieved this.  We need to do more tapasya and take advantage of the Confluence Age.  It won’t be possible later on.

There is the example of the gift.  You have been given a gift and your effort is to take care of it: keep it clean and make sure it doesn’t break, as it is fragile.  The attention is to keep the intellect clear and clean and then it will do the work of allowing me to link in yoga with God.  It will then be the powerful intellect that is able to take care of where the mind is going.  Buddhi yog is our main subject: the way the buddhi is dealing with things.  Then it is ‘manmanabhav’.  The buddhi powerful, connected with God is able to bring the mind to God and not allow it to wonder here and there.

It was fun for me to explore this whole idea of all these questions coming up and how Baba has been talking about the buddhi in so many ways today.                                                OM SHANTI

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Sudesh Didi – 20th June 2021 – GCH, London Following the Footstep of the Father

30 June 2021

Om shanti. Om shanti. Om happy.

Why am I happy? Because today is my Father’s Day. Happy Father’s Day!  How happy are we? See how healthy we are, how wealthy we are, how lucky we are.  Who do I belong to? We are not only just saying “Happy Father’s Day”, but when we remember Father’s Day, we remember and are aware of four fathers.

First is the physical father who became instrument for the physical body, in order for us to attain this lucky life. No matter how much of a divine soul we are, to express the experience, it is only possible through the chariot. It does not matter whether this was the creation of true Ravan consciousness or true Ram consciousness, through love consciousness or body consciousness, that does not matter. What we know is this is the physical chariot, which is a lucky gift from matter, that is, from nature. But the physical parents became the instruments. Originally, this is the gift from Mother Nature. But the instruments are the physical parents. So Happy Father’s Day.

As this physical birth is here, and we are in the physical body, we are able to express and experience, learn and achieve. So the second is the achievement of being the children of the alokik father. The physical father gives us what is limited. The worldly way of giving things bring both happiness as well as sorrow, success as well as failure. But the alokik father gives us an alokik birth. Through Brahma, the father of humanity, we have learned what it means to be purushotham. Human beings are human beings. But our aim is to become an elevated human being, to experience the intoxication of being the topknot. This is more than physically tying a knot with the hair. When you remember you are the topknot, you feel the goosepimples. Do you feel that intoxication? This is only a tie, but that intoxication that we are the children of the father of humanity, the father of all four religions: Adam, Adi Dev, Brahma and Mahavir. This one who is actually the instrument, is also the foundation of the human world tree.

Third, it is the Father’s Day of the founders of religions. Religions have played the parts of bringing whatever was needed at each period of time: Abraham brought discipline; Buddha brought silence and non-violence; Jesus brought love; Shankaracharya brought renunciation; Guru Nanak brought the remembrance of only One. If you think of any religion, whether it is the religion of the Jewish, or of the Christian, all religious founders became instruments of one thing or another, to put on this path at some point, to follow one or another quality.

But the Supreme Father, God the Father, the Seed of the Human World Tree is parlokik Father. He is the One who takes us beyond this physical world of sorrow, who praises us, uplifts us, blesses us, empowers us, purifies us. And not only the Father, but the Supreme Father, the Supreme Teacher, the Supreme Satguru, best Friend, faithful Beloved, the Lover. He is so selfless. When you think of this, and also think of your own self, remember your own self and the four Fathers, you remember what you were last kalpa. You were the ancestor of the whole world. Having four Fathers means those who have been the foundation are Brahmins. The ancient deity religion was established through Brahmins. But the greatness of when we think of these four Fathers, what it is, that is in practical, for a long time, giving the life, making life divine, giving us unique birth.

When we say “Follow the Father.” , or when we listen to the song “I have a determined thought. I have promised myself that I will become like you. I must become like you. I will become like you.” what does it mean to become like the Father and follow the father. What does it mean when we say following the footsteps of the father?

We remember the Murli about a few weeks ago in which Baba spoke about small mistakes, where Baba defined what was the footstep we have to follow. It was Baba’s shrimat. To follow shrimat means we are able to follow everything. Shimat is highest directions to help us move forward, to enable us to have the courage to move forward, and to uplift ourselves. The first step from this land of gravity is to become detached from this body, that is, to be bodiless. We follow Father Brahma to be here in the corporeal, to be in the body. But we are divine beings in the bodies. Brahma Baba is the embodiment of shrimat: Whatever Shiv Baba said, Brahma Baba did it practically. Following the footstep of Baba is seeing an example in front, and seeing Brahma Baba’s unique personality. Baba did not have any example in front of him, nor was there anyone to be his inspiration in a physical way. For us, we have Brahma Baba, Mamma, Dadis, Dadas, our seniors and many many more elevated souls we see who inspire us, who encourage us. They make us aware that if they can take this step, we can also take it. But for Brahma Baba, as he was the first one, this is why he is called Adi Dev, first deity; Adi Nath, the first prince, the first lord, the first world sovereign. He is first. But Brahma wants to make us first class, to be like the Father. Baba’s shrimat is given to us through the Murli every day, but practical demonstration in life is through Brahma.

Today’s Murli is the Murli on the 18th January. It is the day of experiencing love, expressing love, becoming love.  Baba is speaking about us singing praise and remembering Him, You had the intoxication, when we compare ourselves to what our lives were before, and what life is now. The physical body is the same, cirumstances are the same, and our relationships are also the same. What has been shifted and become new? It is the character of what Baba gave, the royal sustenance He gave, the unique knowledge Baba gave. Every day, He is giving us two fruits to eat. The other day Baba said if you are sick physically , then do not worry, but just take care of the body. It would have been someone being taken to Baba to show Baba the great sorrow of “My body is so ill.” and to show Baba how many tablets they took.  They also complained having to take 20-30 tablets. Baba wanted to free the soul from connecting to medicine, but instead, to understand that medication is meditation. It is not the actual physical fruit, but it is the fruit of our different actions. It is the result of our carelessness of not taking care of the body and the soul, of not paying attention to them. This body and soul are sister and brother. Body is five months older, and the soul is five months younger than the body. The body was formed, and the soul entered later on. Sister and brother have to look after each other. Baba says that the body is female and the soul is male.So it’s a girl and boy, twins are born, with the difference of five months! it is the duty of the brother to look after the sister. And it is the love of the sister to look after the brother.  In this aspect, do not become overly conscious of the physical body. Baba says, take the pills of many colours, like you are having fruit salad. It is the fruit of settling different karmic accounts. Therefore, there is no need to worry.

Today Baba says, “Every day, I give you two fruits.”  And these two fruits are power and happiness. The power of the Almighty, because you are the children of the Almighty. And happiness is what we receive from Him. Brahma Baba always has intoxication, knowing Shiv Baba has related to me what I am to become. This faith and intoxication. To follow the footstep of Brahma Baba, we are not remembering the physical form. Whenever we remember any physical body, or bodies of others, we become age-conscious, sickness-conscious, beauty-conscious, skin-colour-conscious. It is body consciousness which does not bring us joy, but keep us very much in the body. Brahma Baba always practised “I am a soul. You are a soul,” and bodilessness. So remember following the footstep of Brahma Baba, not to be aware of the form of the physical body, but of the character, the personality, the qualities that Brahma Baba had. And that is what our inheritance is, which Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba, BapDada together give us. This awareness is the fruit of relationship. This is the result of the seed of knowledge that Baba has planted in us . And when this seed becomes yoga, that is, practical relationship, its fruit is happiness. Smriti means the awareness is the power within the self.

Baba has given us knowledge, power, sustenance, wisdom. This is why we want to give a return. Although we do not have anything, Baba says there is one thing we have. And that is the pure love in our heart. Baba gives selfless love. And we are remembering Baba's specialities, his great love. What else can we give? The physical things are anyway a blessing, we say Baba You have given us everything. And if I have given you everything, you are giving me back. Now I say “Surrender your body and your mind which have already become very tamopradhan. But I will make you satopradhan. Give me your heart and I fill it with happiness. When this love is there, Baba says, there is the meeting of the true rivers and the Ocean, Brahmapurtra, of love, to become like him.  A river passes through many situations, be it a forest, a hill, a mountain , he will make himself obstacle-free. Brahma Baba had to face many obstacles. He had to tolerate and accept ignorant people defaming him. blaming him, getting angry at him. But he understood that the Father is giving him teaching. The Supreme Father is giving Supreme knowledge for perfection. The souls who are innocent and ignorant do not recognise the teaching. They always point out Brahmaputra. Brahma Baba accepted it that it was not him, but Shiv Baba was doing it. He surrendered whatever was given by human beings. Surrender also means to offer your weaknesses, your suffering, your ignorance. That is also an offer. Brahma Baba offers, not only his body and wealth. But the main offering is have courage to surrender the mind, to give the mind to Him. For us, we surrender our mind today, and tomorrow, we again follow the dictates of our own mind.

Be manmanabhav. Brahma Baba surrendered his mind, intellect and sanskaras. This is what is called “Following the footstep of Brahma.”, so that no matter what upheavals there are: no matter what challenges there are, my mind becomes unshakeable, undisturbed, and  remains detached from everything. Manmanabhav, in following the footstep of Brahma, the first step is the courage to surrender the self. Which belongs to me, it does not belong to me, it is not mine. The moment we think of mine, it makes you dirty , it makes you more possessive, it creates fear. Surrender and let Him take care . He becomes responsible for us. As Baba’s chariot, Brahma Baba showed us surrendering means becoming the trustee of our body, and also the trustee of the bodily relationships. It is not that it is any kind of physical donation, it is offering with the mind , yet letting go completely. Brahma Baba has so much soul consciousness that he could not recognise , not even a tiny thought or any vibration of his lokik wife, and his physical children, who is the daughter, the daughter-in-law, there was no trace of the consciousness of bodily relations. Not only just the self, but others also couldn’t recognise him as  his mind became totally detached from the body and bodily beings. And the mind is Manmanabhav. The mind is connected with Baba, but that mind is filled with good wishes, with pure feeling. If we want to follow Brahma Baba’s mind, which he had surrendered, that would mean no worries and no fear. The intellect with full faith, following the footstep, and the second surrender of Brahma Baba is body wealth. But surrendering the mind, intellect and sanskaras means no question , no doubt; it means going beyond why, what, where and how. Brahma Baba never thought about what would happen. He had surrendered everything, so there was no thought like “Shiv Baba, what will happen to my children?”. Many children became Baba’s children. During the beggary part, the sustenance was simple yet royal. There was a day when there was not even flour to make chapattis.  But Brahma Baba did not worry, because he had the faith that these were God’s children. Brahma Baba was able to be detached from both alokik children as well as lokik children, yet he was very powerful, his love was uplifting, his word was full of enthusiasm, giving us a vision of an elevated stage. His thoughts, drishti, vibrations, everything was a blessing. Therefore, if we follow the footstep of Brahma Baba, if we follow the first step, we become first class. Baba has made it very clear in today’s murli on how to become that. Happy Father’s Day.

Om shanti.

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Sister Jayanti - Sunday 27th June 2021 – Revision of the Avyakt Murli of 26.01.1988

28 June 2021

As usual, every murli gives us an insight into where we're at, and what more needs to happen. This murli, as is usual, Baba began with the praise of the children. There have been a few murlis recently where Baba didn’t begin with the praise for the children and just launched straight into the subject matter. In this particular one, again the Eternal Father Shiv Baba and the original first father Brahma Baba, both were looking at the children in their eternal form and also in their original Brahmin form. Both of them, Baba was saying were very, very lovely and very elevated; Baba always says he makes the children higher than himself and in this case Baba was talking about the double form being higher. On the one hand, it's the worship of the saligrams and the deity form, but also it's the worship, the recognition of your double form that is higher than Me. I was thinking that it is also the form of Satyuga, and not just worship worthy, but also being the masters of the world.

Baba says he never takes that experience, he gives it to us as a gift, he is never there to enjoy that because he knows the limitations of that also. So first it was really uplifting the children, making them realise how valuable they are, how elevated they are. All of this. So often nowadays Baba explains why it is that souls become numberwise and in this murli it was very clear; number one, number two, number three. What is it that brings about this difference? The number one souls are those who have an intellect that’s able to see virtue, absorb virtue, fill themselves with that, and so they move on. The intellect that’s able to take virtues and absorb it and develop that within the self. The second category see the virtues, appreciate the virtues but don’t have the courage to think we ourselves can become this . There’s an appreciation but there isn’t the power or the courage to be able to actually imbibe it in their own lives. The third category are not even able to see virtues; the intellect has been so influenced by the negativity of Kaliyug that they’re not seeing any virtue, and if you don’t see virtue what are you going to fill in yourself? You're just seeing weaknesses and defects and this is what you're churning, this is what you're thinking about and so that becomes who I am also. One that's filled with a lot of negativity; that's the third stage. Yet Baba said all my children have some speciality or another. Why? The speciality of God's children is that they have recognised God and it is an incredible thing. It's just a handful out of multi-millions who come to this stage. Out of the whole world some have totally rejected the name of God and those who do take the name of God sometimes have human images or other images. Those who still say that “there is a God '' but they don't have a personal relationship with God, because they think that God is all around everywhere in everything. Only a very few lucky handful are able to know God as he truly is and develop a relationship with him to whatever extent numberwise according to effort. Even the last bead of the rosary of 16,108 has said yes, this is Baba. This is the one who has come to lead me from darkness to the light and that recognition is by only a very select number and this is why they are special. They recognise God, they make God belong to them and that makes them even greater than the sages and saints and many other people in the world.

Then Baba was talking about using your specialities. One is that you have them but the question is am I using them? To use my specialities means to come into action, which means the speciality is like a seed. Only when the seed is planted in the soil, when you're grounded, when you come to earth, and use it in service for others, then that seed is able to grow into a tree. That tree is able to be sustained by you, but also then it comes to the point where it is able to give fruits, i.e. others also become like you, and you offer those souls to Baba, the fruit. Then there are some souls who don’t use their specialties at all. Then there are others that do use their specialties; but even though the seed is planted, the tree comes up, even the fruits come up, but what happens with the fruit tree is that the birds come and the sparrows eat up the fruit. In this case the sparrow that comes and eats the fruit of my effort is me, because I now begin to have the thought of “I, my speciality.” I was able to achieve this, nobody else could have done this, it was because of me that this service could take place, and so the fruit has been polluted. It has been spoiled because I've taken the credit. I forgot that my speciality was a gift from God. I think most of us who are here, when we came to Baba we were pretty young and I know that I didn’t have any specialties and Baba gifted me with specialties, especially being able to speak to all of you. I could speak to two people, I couldn’t speak to three people and that was a very dramatic change that happened when I decided to surrender. Within a few weeks Baba sent me on service and then Baba sent a letter - Sakar Baba was still around - Baba sent the letter saying “child, you have to go here and there, and serve such a soul and a long story. Basically I was shocked; how is Baba sending me to this very important service? Because the governor at that time in UP couldn't speak Hindi, he could only speak English, and his own native language from the south. Baba said no, it needs an English speaker, and not a brother but a sister, and so I had to obey. I couldn’t say no to Baba. Anyway, it was a brilliant experience of preparation and how to prepare externally and internally and so on. But the change was dramatic, it just happened and so what Baba said at the end of the murli actually “In Brahmin life there is less labour or less effort and greater reward”, that is really is my experience. This much effort on my part and the reward is huge, and so making sure that I recognize that any of my specialties are a gift from God. I don't possess them myself. I didn't, I couldn't, I wouldn’t have been able to do this service. And the others who do take on service, yet there’s the I that comes in; Baba said, yes they will be given credit for the service they do. So, at that moment people will say “this one is serviceable, this one is very valuable, this one is a Maharathi,  is doing such brilliant service”, but what you have to do is to do it from your heart. Not just say in words, yes this one is doing great service and so there will be verbal acknowledgement, but there won’t be praise from the heart. There’s a big difference between giving praise according to etiquette, or manners, or code of conduct, and between where genuinely from the heart The Brahmin family is able to give you respect because they see you and your surrender, and all your qualities and so on. Baba says there will always be 5% who don't acknowledge anything, that's ok, Baba gives permission for that, but 95% should be able to acknowledge and give that love and respect from the heart.

Baba used a very interesting word that even in today's world they use that expression (Puja) worship worthy when they are speaking to seniors or when they're writing letters.  I remember that Murli Dada, whenever he wrote a letter to Dadi Janki, he would always begin Puja Dadiji, so it was something very prevalent in those days. It was really in his heart; recognising Dadi as being worship worthy. In Sangamyug worship worthy isn't the external aspects of bhakti, yet Baba interpreted each and every one of those things in a very lovely way so that we begin to understand where bhakti stems from. At the end of bhakti ceremonies - it might be a short ceremony or a long one - what they call the aarti, they light a little lamp and hold it in front of the deities. They use that to sing their song, their psalm, and people all join in. It’s a song in which everyone is singing at the end of the program, whichever program it might be. Literally everyone, big ones, little ones, everyone knows the song of the aarti; it's part of culture. Baba said that this is actually the return of the love and regard you have given and they give you in return in bhakti. The aarti is the love, the gratitude, it's an expression of immense devotion. Sometimes people sing Kirtan - some of you know about this - they sing hymns through the night, many many hours and Baba said it’s because they are singing your praise today, that you have done such service. You have won their hearts and they're singing praise and then they put a tilak on the idol, and the tilak is the tilak of awareness. Put that tilak on yourself; remembrance, awareness. They also light the flame, some incense and they put that in front of the idols also.This is the memorial of you having had nothing but the light of good wishes for all these souls. The whole interpretation of bhakti there was very, very lovely. The garland; you don't need to have garlands now, but you have sacrificed your life and become the garland around God's neck and so seeing you others are inspired to do the same, and they're ready to surrender and these are the garlands around your neck.You have allowed them to come closer to Baba, brought them closer to Baba so that they have surrendered, and so the memorial of the garlands also. So huge, huge praise for the souls who are worship worthy and are revealing those qualities at this moment, at this time. Praise of the Brahmins until the very last birth there is so much praise of the Brahmins, especially the real Brahmins. In lokik life brahmins are always considered to be the highest, they are given the highest form of hospitality and everything, any important significant ceremony has to be performed by brahmins and so always those people who are in charge of all those ceremonies conduct them with that sanctity. That’s how it should be even at the end of kaliyug. I have seen that some brahmins that I met in my childhood were very aware of the presence of God and being able to transmit that energy of that which is sacred, but of course I do not know now what happens but it's very different today. But for Brahmins who are true Brahmins, even now little labour and greater results. Why? Because labour anyway is not labour when whatever you do is with love, and so that's also part of what's happening now.

Baba used a very interesting expression; Baba said that you don't need to create chaos, what you need to do is to create wonders. If you occupy yourself in creating wonders and I don't think that's interpreted as magnificent, big programs all the time. For a year and a half now we’ve had no big programs, no programs as such externally, but just a huge amount of Brahmin sustenance. We have had public events on Zoom and they have all gone well and probably you’ve had more audience than you have ever had before. It’s much easier to sit at home and watch rather than to get out into the rain and cold and all the things that people have to do, get the bus, the metro, the car and the traffic jam. Everywhere, and also because they need it, there’s been lots of wonders shown through Zoom and online platforms. Baba’s saying that if you don't engage yourself in doing something beautiful for Baba, what you're going to be doing is having a lot of waste thoughts, a storm of waste thoughts, and if those waste thoughts are creating havoc inside of you, just imagine what it's going to do to people out there. It’s going to come out in words also, and create chaos there. Sometimes people say “ I just want to sit and meditate, I just want to be on my own”, but my experience is that they don't use that time in a very worthwhile way. Because you’re not used to using time in a worthwhile way, they think, just by being free everything will be magical; and they will be able to focus and concentrate and have deep powerful experiences, but instead the mind is still racing and running around. Whether I have extra time or I don't, what I can do is make sure my mind is creating beautiful thoughts, thoughts of wonder, thoughts of appreciation, thoughts of just love for God and elevated thoughts are going to keep me elevated also. So what am I doing, am I creating wonders with my mind today, so that then can be the experience that others also have? Again, a reminder of who we are and what we can do, and how to be able to do it now and transform.

I loved the point Baba made about the kumaris; don't go for the experience to taste what it's like to be in kaliyug again, and then say OK, I don't want it. You’re lucky because you haven't tasted the sorrow of kaliyug and so stay away from it, just recognise how valuable you are as God’s child, doubly fortunate as a kumari because you're free, and you can do so much for God. Baba again reminded the kumaris of their fortune and what it is they can do, that freedom, that space to be able to do whatever it is that’s possible for Baba. So these are some of the things that stay in my mind from Baba's murli yesterday. Most importantly I think about this aspect of what I am doing in my mind, and am I able to have those elevated thoughts and good wishes for all, all the time? What is my vision like? Where does my vision go? Does my vision go to virtue, or does my vision go anywhere else? What is the quality of my intellect, is my intellect able to take virtue? Do I recognize it when I see it, or am I still in that mode of being critical and complaining? So I'm just not able to see the goodness that does exist and if I'm not able to see my own goodness it starts there, when I don’t see my own goodness, and the gifts that God has given me, I am not going to be able to see the goodness of others also. So introspection again is the big lesson. Look inside, see what's going on and create that space in which I'm able to see the specialties that God has given me, and also the original virtues of the deity role. The eternal qualities of the soul at that stage where I am connected with God, and I am a reflection of who God is, so those qualities are mine also. Can I do that and experiment and experience it? If I can then I'll see virtues in others too. That really is a very big lesson; to be able to create unity and harmony. If I'm not seeing goodness in others, how can there be unity? For me to be able to see goodness, I can learn to give respect and be able to harmonize, so all of that will happen in a very natural way.

Q: Years ago we had asked one guru who was sitting in tapasya for a long time, like they do for hours, what do you do, and he said that they just think about the brahm element. You were saying if we just want to sit and have yoga then we are just focusing on the soul world whereas we have to come into action and dharna, right?

A: Having a direct relationship with God and a relationship with Brahma Baba  means that there’s the inspiration to do something because this is what is going to determine my future. If I'm just going to be focusing on the brahm element - or even in incorporeal God - I don't know which part of the tree I belong to, and certainly I don't have a role in satyug, if that’s what my yoga’s about. My connection with God as Father, Teacher, Satguru and His Shrimat; to be able to take love and share love and do what is needed for the world, this is what is going to bring me into satyug. Then I'm following in the footsteps of Brahma Baba. If there is no connection with Brahma Baba, Brahmin family, or no connection in service, although I am sitting in silence, probably my future is one a long time in the land of mukti.

Q: Could you give us an example of how this specialty given by God then gets eaten up by the sparrows and I come into “I and my.”

A: None of us had gyan until we came to Baba, that’s a fact, but most of us now do a lot of service through explaining things to other souls, whether it’s one to one, or one with many, or brahmins, or public, whatever it may be. As I do this, and as people appreciate it, I have to keep reminding them that it's not my churning and my thinking, it’s come from above. But people love focusing on a human rather than the Incorporeal, so they say to me that was brilliant, that was so good, that’s really nice. And I think, yes it was nice, it was good, it was helpful  for so many, yes Baba I am doing good service aren’t I?  And I begin to acknowledge that it’s me. I begin to think that it's me. That's maya. Baba says it's like there is an image that’s been broken or polluted in any way, that image can't be worshipped. So I cannot achieve that worship worthy status if I have accepted the praise of I, and I think that it's me that's doing it.

Q: Can we stay with that a bit? Remember Baba said: Give from your heart, or having to give, when we give regard.

A: You see somebody who is doing a lot of service, and if not necessarily vocally, but maybe they’re brilliant in their program planning. Maybe they're great in their artistic contribution. Different things; service is so many different things, and people will say, yes they are good. But there will always be a but that comes in, and maybe the but is coming in because there's a lot of ego there. Where there's ego you can't win the love from people's hearts. The problem is that I've got into the consciousness of I and this is me, and only I can do this. Nobody else could do this, only I can do this, and if I’ve got into that consciousness it's very difficult for me to acknowledge that I have ego. It's difficult, and then at that point there comes a time when the soul comes crashing down in some form or another, and so when people are giving respect and love from their hearts it's because they see the surrender of someone. They see the love and faith that the other one has for Baba and how they are doing what they are doing for Baba. They’re not doing it because of ego or to win praise, or anything like that, their motivation is pure love for God and to bring other souls closer to God. So if I'm giving praise and respect to somebody in that way - like we did with the Dadi’s - Dadi’s did on one hand little, they didn’t go running around. I know Dadi Janki kept flying around, but what she did was actually serve and that’s reminding me of a very important point that Baba made in this murli. That in bhakti people's thirst for even a few moments is to be in front of the idol. I’ve seen that in both the Shiva temples but also the temples of the deities. In the Shiva temples huge crowds wait, and then they move you on, they don't let you stand there for long because there’s such a big crowd behind you. Images of the deities also, same thing, you can only stand there for a few moments and people know that but they will stand in line for a couple of hours to get just a glimpse. With the Dadi’s, we know you just had to bring someone in front of the Dadi’s, and their drishti - even before they said anything - their drishti would melt the soul. Their drishti would make people feel very content, very happy. As if what they had come for has already now been achieved. All these bhakti memorials they’re coming from the real-life situations in Sangamyug that we have witnessed or most of us have witnessed. So when there is somebody like that you give regard from your heart. They’re not saying you have to give me respect but you automatically give it and then for another one who is extremely serviceable, but there will always be, yes they're good, but ...we’ve seen it happen in so many different cases.

Q: Baba had said that your specialty is prasad and so you should spread this prasad to everyone, this toli. Also this question about victorious every cycle. Baba says that you have played the part of being victorious many times and are playing that part now too. What are the signs that we have been victorious, what are we supposed to look out for?

A: Am I able to have victory in the little things that come my way? Have I taken so much from Baba, as my right, because Baba speaks about how Brahmins have a right for all the powers from Baba. Maybe I know that before gyan I was pretty short tempered with people, I was pretty impatient and now since coming to Baba I see that that’s changed.  I’ve had victory over that sanskara of impatience. Now I've learnt to develop patience, that's victory. That's lovely. Maybe I was lazy? I could never get up early, I needed those extra hours in bed in the mornings and now I am able to wake up at 4 o’clock, or I had to wake up at 3.30am but I am there ready for amrit vela at that time, so what brought about this change? It's that power from Baba that’s making me victorious. Following other aspects - the shrimat - Baba said give regard to everyone. You don't have to ask the question, do they deserve it or do they not, but I want to develop that state of being in which there is automatically respect for everyone because this is a quality of the deity soul. To be able to see others with respect irrespective of whether they deserve it or not, can I do that also? Just know yourself very deeply, what you were before, and how Baba has made you change, and you will say Thank You Baba. You will know there’s been victory in these things so far and that there are more things to be done. But that’s okay I’ll get there, I’ll get there in the end, and not even in the end, but sometime in the future. Let me start working on it now so that I start experiencing the sweetness of victory at each step as I go along. That memory of how Baba sees me, Baba sees me as a victorious soul. Can I keep smiling under difficult circumstances? Can I stay cheerful even when what's coming at me isn’t something that’s very nice? Can I keep that cool, that dignity, that victory? Each step along the day I keep checking, am I able to have victory over my own old sanskaras and old habits? It’s nothing to do with victory over another. Sometimes Baba explained that if there’s an argument and you give way, and you say never mind your way is fine, it looks as if it’s defeat, but it’s actually victory because you have gone beyond your ego at that moment. You haven’t tried to prove; I am right and it has to be my way or no way, but you’ve been able to tolerate, and adjust and accommodate and give way. So just keep seeing am I able to keep my stage light and easy and happy, connected with Baba no matter what goes on around me? That is victory.

Q: Sometimes they say: okay it’s your victory but really it’s their ego, it’s not full accommodation is it?

A: I know then what it is I am doing from my heart, right? I know whether I’ve just sort of given way because whatever I want to prove. It has to be genuine; yes I do accept that whatever you wish to do I will support you. Maybe that is the sign; that I give my support to whoever it is that seems to be winning, that I am able to give my support to that. If it's wrong, then Babas is not going to let it happen and I mustn’t support that, but if it's just a difference of opinion, of ideas, maybe it could be this, or maybe it could be this, well let me support you and it's okay. It's not a defeat.

Q: On one hand Baba says a Brahmin life means less effort and more achievement, but sometimes for certain stages we create a lot of effort. How to attain that achievement with less effort?

A:  Think about shrimat, and whether my starting point for everything is, what does Baba say in this example. I loved the point Baba made in this murli again where asking the question - in any lokik situation, what is it that is going to enable you to make the right decision? Baba’s answer was; come back to spirituality, come back to soul consciousness, and in that stage you know the right decision to make. In any situation where I'm finding it difficult, why am I finding it difficult, what aspect of shrimat is it that I haven't fully understood?  I'm not willing to accept in my life what’s making this seem difficult. If I keep going back to shrimat and spirituality, then I'll find the answer.

Q:  Do I create a karmic account by appreciating a Brahmin soul and elevating that soul’s ego?

A: If there is something to appreciate and I say that, then I have done what is right. How that soul interprets it and whether they recognize that yes, it is something to appreciate, but  it’s actually a gift from Baba, that’s their business. I haven't created the ego in them I have just simply appreciated and it's important to be able to appreciate because that's a state of mind in which there is gratitude. There’s appreciation; a state of goodness which brings me closer to Baba. Hopefully my appreciation of them is also going to remind them that it's actually a gift from Baba and this is why it’s being appreciated. That’s the vibration that they're going to get from me, that I’m appreciating. Maybe I can even put it into words and say this is an amazing gift that you have from Baba that you’re able to do this, this, and this. If I suspect that there is going to be a misuse of that in terms of ego, I can put it differently and I can say to them, it’s a great gift that Baba has blessed you with and that will remind them again of Baba.

Q: In these times people need monetary help - this person is saying for marriages but in terms of COVID and the help that people need,  should we be helping financially, or should we be saying well go and do some meditation?

A: I think that it depends on the country in which you are living, because for example in most European countries and the cities in Britain you don't need to starve, there will always be something available for food at least so that’s going to be available. If I can help and support by supplying food where I know it's going to be well used, that’s fine. I know that at one point during COVID we asked students; would you like to support a food bank where we knew they were doing good work, and so very quickly a huge amount came. Specifically to be able to donate to that foodbank.So donating food is always always sattvic food and I don't mean just cooked food but I mean food that is useful for people whether its rice or flour or grains or dahls. Llots of things that can be sattvic. If I’m able to support another who's in real need by giving them food, that is the best way. Giving money is always a little bit questionable because you don't know how it's going to be used and like you said somebody’s asking about marriages, well I don’t think that’s a good idea anyway, but also you really don’t know how it’s going to be used. In some countries people really don’t have enough to eat eat and it's strange that in a place like London there were long long queues and there was a little video that  circulated across the world; long, long queues outside a food bank in Wembley and  you can see people are well dressed, they’re middle class, not sort of beggarly, but they didn’t have food and so they were lining up for hours to be able to get food.  So I think that’s the criteria for me, rather than to give money, be able to give food.

Q: How to make people love you from the heart, and at the same time you have to safeguard the principles?

A: I can’t make somebody love me from the heart, I really can’t. What I can do, is yes I have to follow the principles because this is what’s going to safeguard my life and also in future those vibrations of God's protection. If it’s my immediate family, it's also going to save them and help them definitely. What I can do is take God's love and be an instrument to share that love. Love can be expressed with care with attention in so many different ways; kindness, compassion. All that comes with the umbrella of love, respect also, so I have to protect my own principles first and foremost and people will say, but that's causing me sorrow, you're not eating my food even though i've cooked with onions and garlic, why can’t you eat my food? You have to tell them it’s going to make me sick, and it will, if not the physical body. I know that as a child, my parents would take me to somebody's home, even the smell of the onions would literally physically make me ill. At that point I wasn’t saying I’m not going to have this or that because of my principles. It is a fact that if you are on a pure diet, things that are not pure, not clean, will physically make you ill. You can’t digest it. They will say you’re giving sorrow but not only is it my principal, but this is the style of life I now have.

Q: There’s two questions that are similar. One is about destruction; where Baba says there will be destruction, but Baba will entertain you. Then there’s a similar question; where there will be a lot of sorrow and suffering at the end but you Brahmin children will have a life of pleasure. So how can we balance these two paradigms of thought? What does Baba mean by that?

A: I will give you the example of what Dadi did during an earthquake in Pune. There was an earthquake and people were homeless, people were hungry, and so Dadi herself would cook and she would supply that food to people who came, and in certain cases I know that people cook and take to people in distress because they do not even know where to go. So at that moment my awareness is that I know it’s the end, it's time to go home. What I have to do is to remind others of God and so by serving them food, giving them drishti I’m going to be able to bring them a bit closer to God. There’s the memory of angels who came down the mountains at the time when people were in great distress and suffering. They brought with themselves peace and love and God’s message. So the soul knows. Baba told us all this is going to happen. I mustn't get emotional about it and get upset. Baba told me already. So having prepared ourselves in that way, when we actually see what’s going on, we are not going to be laughing about it, but we are going to be able to give souls that experience of love and God’s presence and peace. It will bring comfort to them, as well as whatever physical things that we can manage. When Baba says; I will entertain you, it's true that at that moment some people will be experiencing visions of God, they’ll be experiencing visions of the home, they’ll be seeing Brahma Baba maybe, different things. Some will have experiences of Satyug coming. As in the beginning, so at the end. At that time they couldn't go out anywhere, there was a war going on outside and the ones who were yogis were experiencing amazing visions of Satyug. So at the end, when Baba will entertain us, it's not singing and dancing, it's the visions of the home, of God, of paradise and that will entertain us. We won’t be feeling the sorrow of the things that are going on around me. When Rajni bhen was in Kobi, when the earthquake struck there, it was early morning and people in that building all came out. All of them had heard gyan to a certain extent, and she was the one who was there, and at 6 o'clock in the morning Brahmins were ready. So she was ready, the others weren’t, but there she was giving them comfort because she wasn't feeling any sorrow at that moment. For others the pain of their property, their loss, there was huge, many tears, but for Rajni bhen, just Baba. So I am talking about real life examples, not just theory. So when we are seeing all this gone all around us, what is going to be my stage of consciousness? Am I going to try and help somebody physically? How much can I do at that moment? Where I can, let me do that, but even if I can't, I can still comfort them with God’s love. Sometimes we take Baba’s words very literally and we mustn’t do that. That happens with Sakar murlis a lot that where people have taken things literally from the murlis, then it’s caused them problems. Understand what is the bhavana, what is the motive with which Baba is speaking, what is the message that Baba’s putting across.

Q: I think you can apply that to this other question that I was asked when somebody said in 1983 on this day Baba said Australia is mayajeet, so are they mayajeet? It's the same answer isn’t it, it’s the bhavana of Baba encouraging.

A:  Yes, and also if you just see how many souls in Australia are pukka brahmins, yes definitely mayajeet.

Q: Last week we had that question about murli and the option of hearing it in different centres, so there were a few questions in the middle of the week. What are the advantages of staying with your local centre and choosing that as your permanent base? You don't actually need to move because of your job or travel etc. So maybe we can hear the other side, the advantages of staying in one place.

A: I can understand, and Baba telling us what He did last week, but the advantage of having a community to which I belong and where the teacher knows me personally. If I have a situation and I want to get a spiritual perspective on it I can ask the teacher who will be able to give me an answer according to the conditions, according to the history, according to what she knows about me already. But also the community; if there's even a small centre where there’s six Brahmins, it’s a community that's very, very supportive and if it’s a centre that has more Brahmins, that’s even more useful because there will be someone within the Brahmin family who I connect with. I am able to take support from, and help, and so the advantage is continuity. People are able to know me and to understand what the conditions are around me, and so give me help and support at a time of need. Long-term friendship with Brahmins is also important. We were talking earlier about either being in Paramdham on my own with Shivbaba in silence, in that state of inertia, or whether I'm talking about being part of the Brahmin family and being with them through the cycle from Satyug onward. Playing with them in Satyuga, singing and dancing with them in Satyuga, but if I haven’t built up those relationship with the Brahmin clan now how’s it going to happen? So flitting from one place to another place, there's no continuity, there's no possibility of building up a relationship.

Q: As a result of your other answer somebody’s saying regarding money, what if I am in charge of my parents’ sustenance, and they're living in another country and they are not Brahmins. So should I be giving them money?

A: Yes. They have given me sustenance and education, and brought me up to the point where I can now manage myself, my own life. Also it's my duty to support parents when there’s a need, and if there isn't a need then I know that they have property, they have enough to be able to look after themselves, or they're in a country where the government is looking after them. Then I can gently say to them I would rather give my money to charity, is that ok with you, but if parents are in need it's my duty to support them.

Q: How to balance the four subjects in today's scenario?

A:  For most of us, even if we live in a centre, the whole day is extremely busy with a lot of action and then it's up to you whether we are karma yogis or just karma, karma, karma. But the morning hours are the hours for my own time with Baba in solitude. Even if I am sitting in a gathering, my connection with Baba is my own personal one, and so between 4am and 8am is my time for gyan for yoga for spiritual progress. Then through the day I use the methods that Baba has given, traffic control, even if it's just a few minutes, it's extremely valuable to pull me up again to a higher consciousness, rather than go down into an ordinary consciousness. In a few murli’s recently, Baba’s been saying that work consciousness, ordinary consciousness is not the consciousness of a yogi, so that’s up to me as I engage in work, whether it’s in the centre, or whether in an office, or whether I am working from home. Wherever it is, what consciousness am I managing to keep through the day? And the end of the day, again time for myself, time to be with Baba, time to be able to have a little bit of time for study, and I know if I am living in the family, family time also. But still there’s a quiet space, time for myself. So this is what should be the case at the present time and if I'm finding that I'm working from 9 o’clock in the morning to 9 at night I have to see why am I doing this? Do I really need to do this? How long am I going to be able to carry on doing this? Just explore what options I have. I know in some cases if I leave a job it's going to be impossible, next to impossible to find another job, so I need that money for my family for myself and whatever, so then I have to be a little bit clever. Even though I am working from nine to nine there are spaces in between that work in which I can have personal time, maybe 15 minutes break, maybe 10 minutes break so that I am keeping my consciousness elevated . Baba’s been emphasizing the whole thing of not letting your consciousness become ordinary and mundane. Can I do that; can I make that effort to stay up above?

Q:  Since it is Mama’s week, any nice story of Mama you would like to end with?

A: A lovely real-life story that I heard recently. Somebody was asked to take care of Mama when she was visiting their city and she was very happy to do that. She saw how busy Mama was and Mama had just gone into her room in the evening and somebody arrived knocking on the door. Can I see Mama? The whole day had gone and they hadn’t seen this person, and the assistant thought that she was doing Mama a favor. So she said to them, no, come back tomorrow. She knew them, so come back tomorrow for class and then you can see Mama after that, and the person went away. She thought she had really done something very good so she went to Mama's room very pleased with herself, that I have saved Mama some time and energy. She told Mama what had just happened. Mama said; did you ask that person was it urgent, why didn’t he come through the whole day, what kept him, maybe it was something urgent and now is he going to be able to sleep through the night and remember Baba through the night because we have told him no, we are not going to be able to listen to him now, were only going to see him tomorrow? No, you should find out what it was. By then the person had gone, but Mama’s point was that you should have actually found out a little bit more, before taking it on your head to send him away, and you could always have come back and checked with me. And so Mama’s wisdom, teaching another one to take a little bit of time and find out what's going on with another, and so to not just say no ever, but find out a bit more and then you will get a better idea. Then you could ask whoever it is you are taking care of and then that will become clear. So, Mama’s big heart and thinking that you shouldn’t have sent him away, and the second that she was willing to take time to teach the other individual how to deal with the situation like that in the future also. So Mama’s wisdom is renowned through the ages as the goddess of wisdom. This is one little example of Mama’s wisdom.

All the Dadis learnt from Mama.

Om Shanti

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21st June 2021 – Revision of Avyakt Murli of 20th January 1988 Do everything yourself and others will see and follow…

22 June 2021

Yesterday in England we were celebrating Father's Day. And it was very, very appropriate that yesterday's murli was all about our beautiful alokik Father, Brahma Baba. We didn't know that the days would match up in that way. But it just so happened. Because we'd already heard a murli about Brahma Baba last week. And so just a few days later (it's still the month of January) the group that's there in Madhuban was probably still feeling quite emotional about Baba. And so, Baba was starting off from that point. You've received so much love, so many unlimited eternal treasures and such powerful sustenance.

 

Shiv Baba understands that we're going to remember Brahma Baba. But Baba also said very beautiful things about that. When you remember a human being there's always going to be sorrow in some form or another because you're remembering that physical form. But when you remember the alokik Father you're not just remembering that form. You're actually remembering his divine activities. In bhakti they describe them as the activities of Krishna, but actually they're the activities of Brahma Baba in a very beautiful and divine way. And when you remember those divine activities what comes up in your heart is this gratitude for what you've received. What are you going to give to Baba in return? All the things that you have you've actually received from Baba. What is there that you can give back? Baba explained that the return of love is experiencing being merged in love and that is possible when you're equal to the Father. It's like putting water into milk, it's not going to merge but it's going to take a while to settle. If you're adding milk to milk (a bad example for a vegan diet) it's going to be merged in such a way that you won't be able to see the difference. And so, to be merged in love is possible only when I'm equal to the Father.

 

And that was a very interesting clarification for me, because so often people say, well, I can experience Baba's love sometimes. Or I can experience Baba's love when I actually sit down and focus and come to that stage. But that stage of being lost in love and being merged in that love, involves a whole journey to get there and the journey is to become Bapsaman. And again, Baba's question: what do you have that I didn't give you? Everything you have I have given you. And so, in every sentence there's a very, very deep reminder about what's going on in Sangam Yuga that sometimes we forget and don't always appreciate. And because it's one sentence after three pages, again perhaps we don't always notice it. That was a very beautiful sentence that again struck me deeply. There is nothing I have that is of value that hasn't come to me from Baba. What return can I give to make my effort enough to become equal to the Father? Then I will be merged in love. Baba also pointed out that when you're remembering him you're remembering all his specialities. And as you remember those specialities, you yourself begin to develop those specialities and that makes you powerful. This remembrance is one of love but it's also one that's filling you with a great deal of power to be able to move forward in your own spiritual journey.

 

Baba was also seeing the pearls in some children's eyes (or tears - Baba doesn't use the word tears). Baba uses the word ‘pearls’ because this was an expression of love. It wasn't an expression of sorrow. Nor was it an expression of separation. These two words are interesting. Yoga means union and viyog means separation. There is no sense of loss or anything but just simply pure love. Baba said: that's okay. Because it is this love that allows you to be totally detached from the world and then you're also able to be loved by Baba. It's this love that prepares you for detachment from the old world. It's absolutely true in my experience. Baba giving that love was a magnet that drew me to God and allowed me to let go of the old world very quickly. Amongst Baba's many, many specialities, Baba mentioned one in particular, which was Baba's great zeal and enthusiasm to uplift every child, whether a young or old person. Baba would become equal to them. And Baba would make them have that sense of belonging. For example, he could be like a child playing with a child, whether it was playing cards sometimes just for fun for a few minutes or playing badminton. With old folk Baba would sit down with them and have a leisurely chat about the old days and how the world has changed, giving them that sense of belonging and closeness with the aim to uplift them. If there was a soul who had lost hope, Baba was able to inspire and uplift them and allow them to fly again. If somebody was feeling a bit weak, Baba spoke to them with powerful words. Words that were filled with sweetness but also words that were uplifting. So that again they would have hope and enthusiasm for themselves and be able to make effort. Words that were empowering for them, even if it was somebody who was the last bead of the rosary and Baba knew that. Baba's total aim was nothing but powerful, pure, good wishes to allow that soul to progress also. It would have been easy for Baba to say well, okay, never mind, I'm not going to bother. But Baba never had that attitude. His attitude was always of the one who wants to bring benefit. And so he is going to help others progress and move forward in some way or another.

 

The classic method of teaching that Baba adopted was do it yourself and let others see and then they will follow. Baba engaged himself in all the karma yoga that was going on at that time. Whether it was laundry or whether it was in the kitchen. Whatever it was, Baba did it with such an elevated consciousness and a sparkling face that others would see that and they would know this is the way to do it and they would realise the importance of karma yoga. Here is one little personal story I want to share. We usually used to go to Madhuban in the month of July or August when it was monsoon time. In 1966, it was monsoon season, cool and foggy and a lot of rain. There were about 30 people who were Madhuban residents at that time. Today there are 1500 Madhuban niwassis, a very different era. Only about eight of us had come from outside. So it was a very little group in the History Hall. At the end of the evening class, or night class, Baba says, Bholi Dadi (Baba called her Bholi Dadi), do you have the cereal with which to be able to make something called lapsi? It's a sweet grain, cracked wheat I think, I'm not quite sure but lapsi is like porridge or sweet porridge. Do you have that grain and can we make that tomorrow for toli for everybody, so everybody has some hot lapsi after class for their toli? And it's going to be nourishing and warming for them. And she smiled, because she didn't want to say no to Baba. And Baba understood from the vibration that she actually didn't have it in stock. And so, Baba said do you not have it in stock? And she said, no Baba. And then she said, Baba, it hasn't been cleaned and it hasn't been milled.  Baba looked at her and said, okay what you do is you get a couple of sacks and put them on the terrace (where the travel officer used to be on an open verandah and where we used to cut the vegetables and a lot of activity happened. Gradually the verandah was enclosed and then the rooms were built and so on.) She nodded her head and Baba said, bring out lots of trays for cleaning the grain. Meanwhile Baba chatted for a few minutes and got the signal that everything was there on the verandah. Baba finished and smiled, came to the door, and instead of moving straight to his room, turned to the right and went onto the verandah. And the magnetism of Baba was such that, if Baba had gone to his door, everybody would have followed him to the door and then said good night. And as it was, he went somewhere else so everybody followed him there.

 

Baba took up quite a big tray filled with grain and started to clean it. And of course, somebody standing next to Baba said, oh Baba please let me have it. They didn't want Baba to carry on doing it. They wanted to do it. And in that way, about 20 trays were passed around and within about 20 minutes the whole sack of grain had been cleaned. And Baba called Bholi Dadi and said, early tomorrow morning it can be milled. They had an ox that would go round and it was stone ground at home. Down by where we now have the garden was still the garden. But there was a space behind there where the ox used to stay and the stone ground grinding mill was there. And sure enough, next morning, we had hot lapsi for breakfast and for toli.

 

This is an example of doing it yourself and others will see you and follow. It's a memory that's stuck in my heart, not just my mind, all these years. Baba is just doing something and inspiring everybody to do it. It’s a very good example of what happens at many of our centres. Do it and there'll be lots of willing hands and cooperation. Tell somebody you do this and maybe they'll do it out of love for Baba, maybe they won't. But if you do it, there'll be dozens of volunteers, willing hands to cooperate and come and do it with you. And of course, Baba's then talking about what was that very first step of courage that Baba took that gave him a multimillion fortune? It was the whole subject of surrender. Surrender of the body, yes, totally. Arjuna handing over the reins of the chariot to God. Okay, you're in charge. You drive this chariot wherever it is you want, requiring the total surrender of the body. Baba didn't ask, Shiv Baba didn't ask for permission to take that chariot. But for Arjuna, Brahma Baba was ready to hand over those reigns instantly. Shiv Baba gave the instruction Manmanabhav and Baba started practicing it. Stabilising the mind in God's remembrance. And then the wealth. Baba didn't think I'm retired. How am I going to live in the future? What's going to happen to my family? All of those thoughts could have been very, very possible. And yet, it was impossible for Brahma Baba to have these thoughts. Again, it was a very nice little turnaround. Usually we say, God's power is such that the impossible becomes possible. How many times have we seen it and how many times have we said it? Another was turning it around the other way. That all the things that would have been possible for other human beings became impossible for Brahma Baba. No thought, no worry, no concern for himself for anyone else. Not family. Nothing. Shiv Baba has said the touching came. The instruction came. And no question, no challenge, no doubt, no hesitation and Brahma Baba did it. Now, that is surrender. You know what it’s like to part with money that's been hard earned, it wasn't inherited wealth. It was Baba's honest hard work and skills that had got him whatever it was he had.

 

No thoughts, no questions, just surrender. But having been able to do that the result was it made him totally light, totally carefree without a concern - the carefree emperor. And so, the factor of surrender means you're able to give up all worries. If I still have worries or concerns, this is an indication that full surrender hasn't quite happened or, there isn't absolute faith - this is what needs to happen. Baba didn’t leave his relationships, mind, body, and wealth. He didn't neglect them. But he changed the lokik relationships into the alokik. And so the family that was still around surrendered completely. (One daughter had been married and she was away. Another daughter wasn't so keen so she did something else.) And then of course whatever was in their destiny happened and that carried on afterwards. But Baba transformed the lokik relationship into alokik, so he made them also come to Baba. And so that surrender of relationship was of benefit for all.

 

The other sentence that I found fascinating was the surrender of the consciousness of 'I' and the ego of the intellect. Here is God and God is directing me. God is inspiring me and I'm not even fully understanding what all this is about because I haven't properly understood knowledge. I've understood there's a cycle of some sort. And I've understood that this is Shiva who is speaking but maybe not so clearly. Not quite that clarity of information at that time. But having faith and also shrimat. Whatever were the instructions that were coming through? No question, no doubt, is this right? Is this wrong? No. Everything is very, very clear to Baba. This is the next step. This is what I need to do. Such amazing yoga instantly with God. But of course we know that from 1932 we had those diaries by Latchu Dadi who kept them safe and I hope they're still safe in Madhuban under Shashi behn's care. But in those diaries, there were many, many nights, and nights, and nights in which Baba would be writing. We would call it a journal today. And Baba was talking to his mind, Baba was talking to the inner ministers and whether they were being obedient or not obedient. When the visions happened, he went away for a few months to reflect, then surrendered totally. That wasn't the only preparation. The preparation had been through his love of bhakti and all those years of bhakti, total bhakti devotion and the importance given to that. Other things were secondary. But that was the important thing. And then from 1932, the diaries that describe Baba struggling with the things that are going on inside. And coming to terms with the vagaries of the mind, the things that were happening and learning to be calm, to be stable, to be steady. So, all of that was an amazing preparation for Brahma Baba to be able to come to that stage where very quickly faith in the intellect, the loss of ego, no question of 'I', the surrender of the intellect to God recognising that this is now the beginning of a new chapter, the story of creation of a better world. Because he had that vision of that world. And then he'd heard the words you are to be the instrument for this.

 

The other factor that Baba mentioned, we have so many examples in front of us. All the Dadi's, all the Didi's, all the Dada's and of course Baba and Mama. But for Brahma Baba there was nobody. He was the pioneer. And when you're the pioneer you're not quite sure whether to go here or to go there. And yet his intellect was so clean and clear that he was able to catch Baba's signals. And accordingly, was able to navigate the path for himself but also show the path to others so that others could see him and follow.

 

It's a daunting task because when the whole community that has revered you, that has respected you and has held you up as an amazing example of a devoted husband, a very creative jeweller, a brilliant businessman, this is how everybody saw him. He was a model. He was a role model for many in society. He had a very high level of expertise and respect and prestige. And then, all of that disappeared literally overnight. And you know you've not done anything wrong. But there's all these insults being hurled at you. You're a hypnotist, you're an adulterer, you're a magician, you're all these things that they were saying because they were seeing this amazing change in especially the women but some of the brothers also. And people couldn't understand what had happened. And he remained stable and true to God. Who was he going to consult? It just had to rely on the clarity of his own inner wireless connection with God. And, on the basis of that, making decisions that were going to be of benefit to him but also the whole community.

 

And the quality of that faith when they moved from Karachi to Abu. It was absolutely the right time. Earlier, when they had been partitioned or leading up to partition or soon after partition when things were a little bit calmer, many relatives of the Dadis who were already in India, were saying to them, it's not safe for you to be there. You must come. And they wrote back and told them, we're very safe. We're being taken care of very well.

 

A few years later, Baba had the touching and sent off the advance party which included Didi Manmohini, Dada Anand Kishore and I don't remember who else. These two were in that advance party that went to India to have a look around. One of the gurus who had been Brahma Baba's very loyal friend also went to India. Others had turned against Baba because the community had turned against him. But his friend had been blind since he was four years old and he had written the vedas from past birth memory. Just imagine. This person, Ganesh Shriwanan, went to meet Baba in Ahmedabad. They'd gone to Pune, Bombay, which is where many of the community were, but couldn't find anything. Baba’s instruction was: find a place which is far from the eyes of the world where the whole family can stay together under one roof. And there was nowhere they could stay in Mumbai or Pune, so they came to Ahmedabad, and Ganesh Shriwanan said to them, have you been to Abu? And they hadn't heard of Abu. And so he sent a couple of his followers with them to take them. He told them, there are the summer palaces of the Kings, there will be a place that's big enough for all of you. And that's how they came to Abu. And it's 1950 and it's cold. It's up on the mountain. They've been at sea level, high altitude. It's after the war, a shortage of food for everyone, not just for BK's but for everyone. Many challenges. Many people falling ill, all sorts of things happening.

 

All the money that had been saved was surrendered by about three individuals, Baba and a couple of others. All that had been used for the journey to India and the family that had promised them that they would finance it stepped away. And Baba is not one to ask. So that didn't happen. And so you heard the story from the Dadis and now Baba mentioned it, 350 and nothing there in the pot to cook and eat and feed the children. And Baba totally carefree, okay 9 o'clock come back and ask me later. At 11 o'clock yes something has come in the post and at that time the flour is purchased, the dahl is purchased and the cooking happens and everything's fine. Baba, at that moment saying, he's responsible and I'm only the instrument. And so he has to sort it out. And of course he did sort it out. But it would have again been so easy for Baba to have so many waste thoughts about the family who didn't give them money. Why is this happening? All of these things. But Baba was carefree. And so, Baba is giving us a very powerful signal about what it is to be surrendered. A sign of real surrender is no worry, no fear, just being able to translate everything that's happening as being benevolent and beneficial. And if I see it that way with that faith, yes surely that is what is going to evolve. And that is what is going to happen. I know that again today, the request is to have enough time for all the questions. I took especially from this murli the return of love is to become equal but that's also the preparation for the return journey home. If I'm like the Father, then I'll be able to go home with the Father rather than be trailing behind at some point. And also that the sign of surrender is no worry, just always, always have the awareness of benefit, and that everything is benevolent and beneficial.

 

Q: Thank you Jayanti bhen. Maybe if we could just stay at that last point, one of the questions is how long did the beggary part actually last?

 

A: I know that a very senior person had said it lasted for a very, very short time. And, so I think what that individual meant was that period in Abu in which they had very little food and you've heard the stories of Baba saying, go and have breakfast of the berries off the trees of the mountains. That sort of idea. Or Baba sending them into trance or very elevated consciousness so they wouldn't even feel hunger. That period I think would have lasted for about 6-8 months. So that's a short space of time that this person is talking about. This would have been in the early 50s. But I know from that time on, when they started to go out on service, even during that period and then in 1957 when I met with Dadi Janki, and as a child you don't sort of think about what they have, or not have, but I look back now. And one room which was the classroom, the bedroom, the sitting room, everything room and kitchen, a tiny little kitchen which I remember. And then just outside there was the bathroom. A very, very basic, absolutely basic, bathroom and the stories of Delhi which date around 1954. What did they eat? Chapati and salt. Those were the two things they had made in the kitchen. Nothing else. That very simple period lasted till the end of the 50s in which things were very basic and simple but not starvation and then in the 60s there was a turnaround, many students coming, many centres starting. The first thought for everyone was to send them to Madhuban, to Baba. And so the first sack full of flour arrived at the Delhi centre. And they don't even open it. They just put Baba's address on it - Madhuban and off it goes. The sack goes to Madhuban. And the person who sent that had asked to see their kitchen. And he saw that there was basically nothing there. So he sent the sack. And a few days later he's again saying, can I look at your kitchen please? Again there's nothing there. And so he said, what happened? Our Father and Mother are in Madhuban. And so we sent it there. So it was really a very, very simple life. There was total renunciation during that period.

 

Q: And there's also the story of Manohar Dadi and she was given a tin of ghee and she held onto it like gold and she took it herself to Madhuban. And, there wasn't even any money for the train ticket. And she convinced them that this was for the Yagya. They thought Yagya for the ghee!

 

Okay, so Jayanti bhen maybe we can just stay with Brahma Baba because there are a couple of questions about how could Brahma Baba right in the beginning just have a few visions and then have faith. I mean not the beggary part now. We're talking about the bright early days. Brahma Baba in a way just survived on a few visions and just embarked on the journey.

 

A: Like I explained, there'd been a lot of homework done preparing Baba for those visions: that discipline of mind, concentration power, - focus, attention given to thoughts, words and actions. All of that was a preparation for when Shiv Baba touched the intellect then the memory of the last kalpa opened up. When he had the vision of Vishnu, he heard the words – ‘Ahom Vishnu Tatavam’ you are this, you are he. He took it to heart and believed it. We hear the murli and we hear Baba telling us every day, you are those same deities. And when we're hearing the murli, we feel very happy about it. We are those deities and we feel in that divine state of intoxication and when the murli finishes, the yoga finishes, we come outside the classroom. And there's so many things to think about. So many things to talk about, and the intoxication has already gone even before you've left the centre. When you leave the centre, you can get caught up in a traffic jam or whatever. So we don't keep that intoxication alive which is why Baba's recent Murlis of the last few weeks have been telling us to keep churning this, keep thinking about it, keep reflecting on it. And when you do that, then it begins to sit in your heart not just in your head which is again something Baba's been talking about. When knowledge has penetrated into experience and feelings then you hang on to that. Your heart is then going to dictate your next steps. If it's only in the head there will be many other things that will take over.

 

Q: So it was his heart?

 

A: It was his memory from the last kalpa. It opened up and he didn't allow that memory to fade. He held onto that awareness and that memory - I am Vishnu. In those early days, there wasn't even a clear understanding of who was Shiva, who is Brahma, who is Vishnu, but having had that vision of Vishnu and having resonated with it, then there was that total conviction.

 

Q: There's another question here, that with the shift in BapDada role does this mean that now Bapdada is more Dharmaraj than the Father?

 

A: I don't think that the role of Dharamraj has started yet. Not in that intense way. One thing you do see in Sangam Yuga is that whatever it is you do, the return of that karma is very quick through the copper age. The part of the iron age is that, if you do karma such as good deeds, the giving to charity and so on and so on you get the return in your next birth. In Sangam Yuga it's like every thought instantly brings a return. A beautiful powerful thought and it uplifts you. You feel happy. With a negative thought you lose your happiness. So, the return of karma in our thinking, in our speaking, in our doing is very fast. The return of karma is happening all the time. But that role of Dharamraj in which I'm seeing all the things that are yet to be settled, being settled in front of God, I don't think that's started. I think that we still have time for realisation. This is why we're hearing the sakar Murlis, they're pretty strong, have remembrance, remembrance, and if you don't have remembrance there's going to be sorrow. Well, we're seeing that here and now. If I'm not having remembrance, I'm not connecting to One and my mind is scattered and is full of human images, the sorrow is today, that's not something waiting to come. I think we're still in the phase where there's no more margin for effort, where it's late but not too late. There's still the margin to be able to have transformation and settle things with Baba's love, with yoga and do the things that Baba wants me to do.

 

Q: Thank you, Jayanti bhen. So let us stay with this remembrance. Sometimes Baba says remembering the cycle is remembrance. Sometimes Baba says remembering our original form is remembrance. So can you please tell us what is considered as remembrance or remembering the Father? Is it all of these things?

 

A: It is. Baba has said so. So it must be. Think about what I'm doing when Baba says, think about the five forms and that is remembrance. I'm going through the cycle. When Baba says, remember the cycle, what I'm doing is moving my consciousness away from all the lower states, away from an ordinary state to a higher state. I'm thinking about the soul. I'm thinking about the qualities of the soul. I'm thinking about the images that Baba has shown me - the seed, the tree, the cycle, the trimurti. And I'm not racing through it. It's not a competition where I have to finish a list. At different times, and different days in the murli, whatever Baba has said to me that day I can remember. Let me experiment with that. Let me practice that and I'll be moving closer to that stage of yoga in which there's only that connection with One. All of these ideas of truth, of spiritual teachings, are bringing me to what I would describe as meditation. The first stage is initiation where my mind is still moving here and there. Then I'm focusing my mind, thoughts are becoming slower, now I'm in meditation and in meditation I'm reflecting on all of the things that Baba has spoken to me about. My mind is moving in an upward direction in which I can then connect with the bestower of this truth and wisdom and I'm able to remember Baba in that state of yoga where I'm thinking, and feeling different relationships, and those experiences are beginning. And I move into another state of realisation in which now it's very few thoughts. And a lot of space between the thoughts. And it’s more the experience rather than the thinking. And so in realisation I am more and more coming to that seed stage, in which there's only that experience and everything is completely quiet and still.

 

So there are different stages of yoga. Within the stage of meditation, there are many, many different avenues to explore. And this is why I don't have to make my meditation dull. I don't have to make my meditation boring. It's not one word to chant or think about. It's not one phrase or one idea. But today let me spin the discus. Another day let me think about the tree, let me think about the cycle, let me think about the ladder. All the things that Baba's talked about. And this is why Baba says, when you're hearing the murli or thinking about the murli, experiment with the things that Baba has spoken of that day. It'll then be fresh for you. And that freshness would add to the intoxication. Baba said this today and yes this was my experience today. Every murli is more than just words. When it becomes an experience, that's when the murli comes alive. And I'm then taking direct sustenance from Baba and then I'll never say I'm bored. I'll never say oh well, you know I've heard all these Murlis many times. There's always a further dimension to that experience.

 

Q: I think you've said this so many times over the last few weeks that we have to experience it. You've also answered another question, Jayanti bhen, where somebody was asking how do we catch Baba's signals? I think that's exactly how, when we're in that space, very close with our thoughts then we catch Baba’s signals.

 

A: The preparation for that is my adherence to shrimat and my faith. Because to whatever extent I'm following shrimat, my mind is clear. My intellect is clean and there's no influence at work. Then in that state where I'm clean and clear then I can catch Baba's signals. Otherwise, if there's influences coming to me from here and there, they'll interfere. And so I won't understand the message that Baba's giving me because all of these other things are in the way and I'll be confused. But if I've done the job of following shrimat, then keeping my mind, my heart and my feelings very clean and clear. When my intellect is absolutely linked with One and none other then I can catch those signals.

 

Q: Thank you, Jayanti bhen. Maybe if we can move into a few general knowledge questions. Today about four people spoke to me about the question in the murli, or rather the comment Baba made, that you can hear the murli anywhere from any centre wherever your heart desires. Somebody said well that was applicable then, it's not applicable now.

 

A: I think we try to adjust things according to our convenience. And that's not what Baba's saying. Baba's not saying pick and choose. It's not an a la carte menu as you say. I like this point and so this is useful for me today and this is not for me this is for somebody else. Or this is not relevant today. The murli is a whole package. And I have to understand it and accept it and follow it through, the whole murli. Not just bits of the murli. And so especially with zoom now, I know people who are listening to the murli from Australia. They're listening to the murli from Madhuban. You know, they go around the clock. And then they're listening to something from London. And then they're listening to something from here, and there, and everywhere. And some even stay up to midnight and listen to the avyakt murli at night. So it's great. You know there's no restriction on gyan. There are no bondages. There's no imposition. There are no barriers, no boundaries. And this is the reality today. I don't know who's listening to what. And if somebody wants to tell me, great, but they don't have to. And they don't have to have my permission to link up. It's all open. It's free, you know. There are no restrictions. And so in fact, those words apply absolutely to today. In those days there was a choice of not this centre or that centre. And each one was maybe just a few miles from the other. But today, you can go across the world and pick the murli that you choose. And it's the same murli and, yes, the instrument is the instrument. Why should I get hooked on the instrument? And so really it's a fact and it's applicable absolutely at this moment. I can't control it. And Baba's reminding me of that. You have no control over this.

 

Q: Just to clarify, if the students want to listen they should just inform their instrument? Or how does it work? Should they just say this is what we want to do so the instrument knows they're not missing the murli?

 

A: It's courtesy to let the instrument know where I've taken Baba's knowledge and know that today I'm travelling. I'm going here and there and wherever I'm going. So they don't have to think about why this student is absent or if I am going somewhere else to hear the murli again. Fine, the doors are open. Let me be happy that they're taking benefit somewhere and not missing the murli. So I just see it as part of a courtesy and relationship building.  You know in the lokik world today people have forgotten what manners are. A lot of people don't even think about manners and what Baba's teaching us is divine manners. And like Dadi used to say to us, if I'm leaving the house I tell somebody where I'm going, for how long I'm going and who I'm going with so that they don't have to worry about me. And if anything happens, then they'll checkup and find out and they'll be able to help me. Dadi in her 70s and 80s would tell us: I'm going for a walk; I'll be back in half an hour. She dated it back to Mama's days. Mama said to her: Janak, I'm going out for a walk with so and so and, Dadi said to Mama, but Mama it's your home please come and go. And Mama said, it's divine manners to let you know. Using even normal courtesy at normal homes she would tell people: I'm going out, I'll be back at such and such a time. Why should you want to hide where you're going? If I'm going to another country, let me tell the instrument how long, and when I will be back. If I'm going to another class for murli no problem. Then we just let the instrument know. But of course, what happens is that if the instrument says no you don't have permission to go so that's when the secrecy begins. That's when the camouflage and deceit begin. But if I'm open about it and say why not. Then they're more likely to come to me and tell me rather than do it behind my back.

 

Q: Thank you, Jayanti bhen. This question has come up for two weeks now. This sister wants to know, regarding the Yagya at the end of the murli, do you know any history behind it and has it changed over the years? And when Baba says, maat pita Bapdada who is he referring to as maat pita and Bapdada?

 

A: Bapdada, that's pretty clear. And maat pita, Baba is referring to the incorporeal One who has spoken the murli with Bapdada together, you know that. Certainly from 1965 this has been what Baba has been while we've been reading the murlis. And so that's been the expression that Baba used at that time. And sometimes Baba would actually say, Mama mithi Mama yaad pyar - love and remembrances from sweet Mama also. And so at times Baba did say that but not all the time, just sometimes. The term Bapdada came to be used in the 60s. Baba had gone for an operation in Bombay and at that time, it was still very, very simple. The first thought was we'll take Baba to Bombay for surgery. And then the next question was how are we going to pay the bill? And somebody very new in Delhi heard about Baba going to be operated on and he came across to Bombay and handed over a wad of money. Nowadays it's all cheques and bank transfers. In those days it was cash. And he said, if my father was ill what would I do? And this is my father. So they didn't have money in the bank but somebody, a new student, heard about it and had that love and supported Baba. So even at that time in the early 60s you can see things were very basic and simple. Why I'm remembering that is because Dadi would be outside in the corridor when the nurses or doctors needed to see Baba inside. And so, there would be people saying to her, who is this? Is this your guru? And she'd say, no this is my spiritual father because that was in her consciousness. And when she would come back, they would ask her many other questions too. And Baba liked having Dadi around because then she was able to interact with people and give them gyan in this way, very, very succinct gyan that they could understand and relate to. And then she'd come back inside when it was time and say to Baba, Baba they asked us this and this was my answer, what should I have said? Baba said it was correct to say he was my spiritual father. But in fact, you should say to them, my Bapdada is here. And they'll ask you what you mean? Because normally you just say, you're Dada or you're Baba. You don't say Bapdada then that'll give you a chance to explain more to them. So I know that that term started in the 60s and not earlier. But whether it existed prior to that is unknown. I know that Dadi told us once, Baba would say to them good morning, good night so that was there from early on. And I think it would have started in the 60s. Because by then, most of the Dadis had left Abu to go away to establish centres. And so they were really missing Madhuban and missing Baba. So Baba would say to them. That's okay, you're getting a love letter every single day. And I remember in the days of sakar Baba, when the package of murlis would arrive. My mother would be so excited when she heard that plop because it was a big thick package. So there'd be a plop and you'd know that it wasn't just a letter, it was the murlis. So she'd immediately open it. And she'd immediately scan through it because Baba sometimes talked about this party being there or something is happening there.

 

She'd get a flavour of what was going on in Abu at that time. So Baba's love and remembrance was a very real feeling for them. Again Dadi said how this would have been around 1964. She complained to Baba saying that, Baba, Ahmedabad is great. But I'm missing the yaad pyar that Baba fills in the tapes. But also when Baba says, mithe mithe bachhe, the people writing the murlis don't always put mithe mithe bachhe. Because you know they're trying to fill it all in within three pages or whatever it is. But when I hear the tape then I can hear Baba say, mithe mithe bachhe. With a very new centre in Ahmedabad, and with Pune well established, there was a tape recorder there so she said, that's what I'm missing. And so Baba said, okay, Baba will sort it out. And before she arrived in Ahmedabad, the tape recorder had been ordered by Baba, had been delivered and when she arrived there, the tape recorder was waiting for her. So you can see that, those words from sakar Baba mithe mithe bachhe, they touched her heart, and not just her, but everybody. And also yaad pyar it wasn't just an expression. But it was really Baba remembering them with a lot of love.

 

Q: Just one question if you could answer in just a couple of lines. A very practical question - somebody was asking how much we should be spending on fruits and flowers every week for Baba. And is it okay if we don't get one of them, so maybe just in a few lines, your feelings about that.

 

A: Even if I'm living in a very basic way at a centre, let me bring a couple of flowers, two or three flowers for Baba for Thursday. Let me bring a few fruits for Baba for Thursday and probably your bhavna, seeing your bhavna and your love, then some of the students will say well can I do something for Baba? Shall I bring some flowers? Shall I bring some fruits? And that thought would have been planted just by your bhavna, not by telling others this is what you should do. But they will then see and learn and they will bring flowers and fruits. There are so many bhogs being offered for departed souls, for anniversaries, for birthdays, for all sorts of reasons. And instead of just a few flowers on top of the bhog tray we're surrounded by a garden of flowers, about four different vases of flowers. Not that we've gone out and bought them but people bring them, because they are offering them to Baba in honour of whoever, whatever, and so on and so on. So when you do something with bhavna yourself, others see that and feel it. And you share whatever it is that's being shared in the bhog that's been offered to Baba. They will value that, appreciate it and your giving is going to create abundance. You know the other day we were talking about generosity and abundance, actually not here but in another context. But if I'm generous to Baba and generous with students, there's abundance. So don't wait for abundance to become generous, let there be generosity first then the abundance comes.

 

Q: Thank you so much. So I think we'll stop there Jayanti bhen. Again, those whose questions were not answered, maybe next week you can write them again and we'll give it another try. But thank you everyone. And we'll have meditation now. Thank you, Sr Jayanti.

 

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Avyakt Parivar: Transcripts of Mohini Didi's Classes on the theme Love and Loveleen from July 1st - 8th

13 June 2021

Dear Divine Family, Greetings!

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Sister Jayanti – 13th June – GCH Love, Power and Happiness

13 June 2021

This is a murli from 18 January, 1988.  We have been hearing the other murlis from that time when Baba was coming every two days so there was a huge amount of sustenance that we have all had from Bapdada.   49 years of murlis from Avyakt Bapdada, so it is incredible how much we have received and now that we have studied these murlis I am very aware of how profound they are.  I don’t think so much registered when I first heard them but the revision period has been very beneficial.

 

So today, 18 January, and Baba is talking about the day of love, the day of remembrance, but also Baba wants us to have power and Baba is saying that there was a conversation between Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba and Brahma Baba in particular in the role of the mother, the senior mother Brahma and how the mother really wants only the best for the children and this mother wants you to become equal.   Equal both in terms of love and also power.  So the whole murli is about that.  Very lovely, powerful murli but first I want to take up a little about the blessing.

 

Because Baba has used three words that many of you are familiar with but some of you may not be and theses words are yogyukt, yuktiyut and raazyukt.  Yogyut is to be accurately linked in yoga and so one stage, and the second stage, yuktiyukt being able to understand what to do at the moment of need because sometimes the opportunity comes to do something good and we let it slip by because we are not fully aware or sometimes we do things and whatever you have done is fine, but it wasn’t at the right moment.  You should have waited a little while and so yuktiyukt is when you know  what to do, when to do it, and  how to do it, and of course if you are connected in yoga that will help you come to that stage of accurate awareness of what needs to happen at any given moment. And the third raazyukt.  You understand the deeper meaning, the secret in any situation that is going on and of course if you are raazyukt you understand the underling meaning, the sense of what something is about and then your response is going to be a very different one to the other which is just going to be a reaction and so these three words are each filled with a huge amount of significance.

 

So making sure that I am accurately linked in yoga and doing things as I need to do at the right moment in the right way.   Then my understanding of everything is very different to just reacting.  

 

So each of these three words are very useful in our lives now because on the surface everything seems very uncertain and we don’t know what the future holds.  It is ok although external things are de-stabilising and I think a lot of things are very unstable at the moment but yet understanding what is going on in terms of the secrets of drama, being able to take help from Baba and yoga power are giving me the strength that will enable me to deal with things in the right way because I understand.

 

A murli a couple of weeks ago had spoken about leakage of power and I am connecting it with this murli because what Baba is saying is that the first step is love and everyone would say we have a lot of love for Baba and this is why we are here and Baba is acknowledging that but Baba is saying that the reason why you get confused and afraid is because you are not powerful enough.  So fear and confusion are the leakage for my power.  I have love, I have yoga and yet there is something creating a loss of power which means I am not able to deal with things in the way I should or could and so what is it that is causing this leakage of power.  Baba hasn’t gone into that today but today Baba said it was confusion.

 

When your mind is confused a lot of fear comes in.  When I understand the secret of something I am not confused and able to maintain my own dignity and remain powerful.  Baba sometimes tells us that it is Maya or illusion or misunderstandings that come, and this creates fear and reaction and sometimes it is the sanskars of the other that is causing this and sometimes it is my own sanskars that are creating this and so whatever it is,  I need to understand what is going on.

 

If I am yogyukt I am going to be yuktiyukt and raazyukt .  I understand whether it is Maya, me, circumstances or the other one but at that moment I don’t allow confusion to come.   I don’t allow myself to have fear and so my responses are very different and of course what happens is that if I am not understanding what is going on and I let that confusion to come then I allow myself to react, maybe to get hurt - so either it is going to be that I am reacting, in which case I am going to create a karmic account with the other or if I am hurt then this phrase comes to my mind about why there is anger so often:  Hurt people, hurt people and so if I am hurt I am going to create hurt for others too. So when Baba says don’t take sorrow it is a very, very important slogan.

 

Don’t give sorrow - and that is in my own capacity.  I can be very careful about what I think, say and do but when someone is giving me sorrow, Baba’s instruction is don’t take it   Let it stay with them.  It their business, their karma, their sanskars.  Can I think about it in this way; it is their stuff not mine and if I don’t take it or, even  if there is something I need to take because I have made a mistake,  but why should I get angry because they are angry with me. So can I just keep myself very calm so that I then I take the lesson but not the hurt.  If I can do that then  I won’t lose power, but also, I will not create any further karma and I will maintain my own dignity.

 

So todays murli is again very powerful giving us food for thought, reflection and practice.      

 

The more we rehearse the things that really touch us from Baba’s murli that rehearsal is the preparation so that I can stay constantly linked and not get shaken by things for the end.  Today it is a lot of things to do with human beings, tomorrow it will be circumstances and I need to just make sure that I am preparing myself for what we know is to come.  We know that there will be a huge amount of upheaval and so my fear is something I need to sort out today.  My confusion is something I need to ask myself about. Why is it happening in this way inside of me?  Why it is inside the other person is another story.  I focus on what is  inside of me otherwise I am accumulating more and more karma and at the same time losing power so there is a very big area to explore within yourself from today’s murli.

 

It seems that there is a pattern in Madhuban very regularly, firstly on 18 January and now it also happens on Dadi Prakishmani’s day, 25 August.  And maybe it will happen on Dadi Janki’s day and this time, 18 January,  it is very clearly the people who have given spaces for Baba for service whether it is an apartment, house whatever it may be, but Baba is talking to that particular group and Baba is not just talking to that group but to all of us  because then Baba is taking up the subject of service and Baba has explained it so beautifully.  Service and of course the result of it:  if I am doing service with a clean and honest heart then the immediate result that I experience now is both happiness and also power.

 

If there is a little bit of a mixture in that: why am I doing the service that I am doing, and I can notice that I don’t have that experience of happiness and power reaching me but every opportunity for service is the opportunity to experience the immediate fruit and also there is an accumulation for the future and Baba’s point is that any type of service is going to bring you both results.  Immediate fruit but also fruit for the future and it doesn’t matter what type of service and if we only do vocal service and not physical service, then you are going to miss out a hugely.

 

Thoughts, words and actions - each one can bring you 100 marks and if sometimes it happens that I think service is only vocal service, then if I am not engaged in that part of service that is needed at that moment, for example service in actions, then I miss out on the 100 marks of that.

 

Baba is giving equal importance to all types of service because all the types of service are being done with love for Baba and not for humans.

 

If my consciousness is right and my stage is of doing it with love for Baba, then I get the return and happiness and power.  So doing hours and hours of emails, Dadi would say to me, it is not just paperwork, not just computer work, it is actually service of souls because if people don’t get a reply they can have a lot of waste thoughts and so remember  it is service of souls and if they get a reply then it is going to bring them closer to Baba and so whether it is washing pots or cleaning Baba’s house, if you clean Baba’s house and you see it sparkle people are going to enjoy coming to Baba’s house.  So whatever it is, it is in the subject of service.

 

How can we serve the elements?  We have had many discussions about this and Baba has connected attitude with atmosphere and atmosphere with the environment and nature.  Baba is saying that no one can ever say I don’t have service to do.  I haven’t been given service. Service is not given it is something you are inspired to do.  The whole of nature is in upheaval at the moment and so there is a lot of service waiting to be done for nature and for the environment and the way to do it is your attitude, vritti. Vatavaran, your attitude, creates the atmosphere and whatever the atmosphere is  going to impact the environment, nature.  Many lessons from today’s murli but I especially enjoyed Baba connecting this.  When we are thinking about the atmosphere, we think about what is going on at home, in the workplace or Baba’s house and I know that my attitude is creating the atmosphere, but I didn’t connect this atmosphere in a very direct way with the elements out there.  Every time you have yoga here you are creating the atmosphere, but you are also serving nature.    

 

Om shanti

 

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Sister Jayanti – 30th May – GCH Have I adopted a divine way of thinking?

2 June 2021

I will share one sentence of the lyrics of the song that we just heard and it is very much connected with today’s murli and that is: “when I reflect on Your knowledge, oh God, I become so happy and I am able to fly”. And so there are many things about the value of reflecting on Baba’s knowledge. Several times in the last four murlis Baba has been touching on the subject of “manan” - reflection and revision of Baba’s murli points.

Dadi always used to put a lot of emphasis on churning. The first stage is just reflecting and then deeply thinking about it and then churning it to actually get the butter. She did this because way back in the fifties, when Baba had visited her in Amritsar around 1955, Baba had asked her the question: “Janak, do you churn the murli?” -  Baba always called her “Janak”! Dadi didn’t want to say, “no”, and she couldn’t say “yes”, so she just smiled at Baba. And so Baba understood and Baba said: your head is a big vessel and so keep knowledge in it all the time and churn.

It became a blessing for Dadi, because Dadi’s churning has been the basis for the family in London and the UK. And even though we didn’t have the facilities of instant transmission or anything, somebody or another would make notes and type them up, and send them out - and so all the centres, as they were beginning across the world, were sustained by Dadi’s classes. And so, of course, many people would then say to Dadi when they met her either here in London or in Madhuban, that it was her classes that made them understand Baba’s murli: if they were just reading Baba’s murli on their own, they wouldn’t be able to understand it, but the explanations that she gave and the depths to which she took us through the churning was something that was extremely valuable and it helped us come close to Baba.

So, four murlis in which Baba had mentioned again and again the word, ‘manan’- reflecting and then going into the depths. And Baba connected it with another Hindi word ‘magan’. The avyakt murlis have lots of Hindi rhyming words; ‘magan’ means to be lost in love. And so through the churning, the appreciation of God’s teachings and through that, then being able to experience God’s love and being lost in that love. Baba is taking it up in different ways at different times.

But especially today, Baba is saying: I want to teach you how to be able to reflect and churn. Baba has given a very simple example; when Baba says ‘swadarshanchakradhari’, it is a long Hindi word and it is not a word that somebody out there, who speaks Hindi, would know. It is very much a spiritual language - and of course it comes up within the scriptures, but people don’t have any connection with that word or any sense of what it means.  But Swa-darshan-chakradhari means: ‘swa’ the self, ‘darshan’, to see, ‘chakra’, the cycle; to see the self through the whole cycle. Now, what would that mean to anybody out there! Baba has explained how the soul has gone through the cycle and Baba has explained the whole cycle. But Baba is saying that, when somebody doesn’t have the practice of churning, then they will go through the cycle, repeating: golden age, silver age, copper age, iron age…you can do that in 30 seconds! Or you can actually go into the depths of it, not just for a few minutes but really to be able to understand, what is all this about and how does it apply to me?

So Baba is saying: ask yourself four questions. And if you apply these four questions to every single aspect of Baba’s knowledge, then you will be able to imbibe it in your life, and you will also be able to use the power that it gives to deal with whatever obstacles that come in front of you. You will find that the power of the knowledge is able to help you to go above.  And you won’t get stuck with an obstacle anywhere.

So, the first question to ask yourself when you hear any of the points of Baba’s knowledge, especially from the sakar murli, because the sakar murlis carry the body of the knowledge. The 18 chapters of the Gita are in the sakar murli. When Shiv Baba first came on the 21st of January 1969, Shiv Baba said that the 18 chapters of the Gita have been explained, but now it is time for you to revise and apply all of these.

Of course Brahma Baba had applied everything and so he became avyakt and then through the years we’ve seen all the Dadis fly away and it’s because they were applying all of this to get to their own final complete stage. And now all of us still remain and we will be able to become avyakt as we apply all of this.

o   The first question is to go into the depths of all of this knowledge and see: what is the significance of this? Just see, where is it taking me and what does it actually mean?
o   Second is, at what time do I apply it?
o   Third is, what method should I use to apply it?

Let me give you a simple example; there was a sister who came to Baba and she was fairly new and she was very intoxicated. She went to visit her [lokik] sister, who lived in another city, and one of her sister’s friends was visiting and she was in a wheelchair.  And they got to talking about spirituality and so on. This BK sister who was very new in gyan, said to the woman in the wheelchair that: this is karma it will be settled; it is fine - it is ok. And the woman was absolutely shocked, because this BK sister had used the word "karma" in that context. Of course, coming from a Christian background the woman was saying that, the suffering comes to those who are loved by God - and I can understand that completely. So in that particular context, it wasn’t useful for this new BK to tell them that "it is all karma"! And so we can see why Baba is saying: at what time you should be applying a particular aspect of gyan and what is the consciousness with which you apply it.

I had been in India with Baba, but when Baba became avyakt, my parents wanted me to come back to London. When I came back from India, I was about 19 or 20 years old and my brother was 17 and he was just about to apply for his medical training and I said to him: “don’t bother, the destruction is coming”. At that time, in 1969, there was a buzz that destruction was going to happen around 1976! And so I had that in my head!  But it is a good job that my brother didn’t listen to me - but it is also a very good job, that he never ever reminded me that “I told you so” or anything like that. At that time I had been in gyan for just about 14 months!

So churning gyan and seeing the significance of every point and at what time to speak it, how to speak it and how do I use it in my own life. If I am asking myself all these questions, then that’s churning. Baba is saying that a lot of you say: “how do I churn”? And so today’s murli is very explicit in taking us through everything step by step by step.

I have been given a topic on, “the immunity of the soul” for a group in Delhi, and it was interesting for me to see the connection of what Baba is saying in today’s murli for that topic. Lots of people are thinking about immunity of the body - and of course pandemic times are still going on and so that is important and valuable. But the ‘immunity of the soul’… When I was reading Baba’s murli, it made me realise that absolutely everything depends on what I am thinking. We know that anyway! One thought will create my words, my actions, my character and my destiny. So the whole of my future depends on the way I am thinking.

Baba’s point in the murli was that Baba has been telling us not to have waste thoughts and not to have ordinary thoughts.

Baba is saying that it is the carelessness of the intellect where we are not able to realise that we are not prepared for what drama may bring. Although I don’t know personally what drama may bring to me, there is enough that Baba has said about the future and, in particular, through the coming times.  Baba has talked a lot about satyug and what happens there, but more than that, Baba has told us in a lot of detail what is going to happen in the next little while.

When the pandemic started, at that time, there were a lot of messages flying around and it was what people had picked up from the sakar murlis and the avyakt murlis. I think it was one of the sakar murlis that had said that there’ll be illnesses coming to which there is no name, and there will be illnesses coming for which they have no medicines. And we were seeing that happening at that time [at the start of the pandemic]. Gradually there has been understanding and development of remedies, but at that time when the pandemic was just beginning to catch hold, people were picking up this from the sakar murlis. There is a lot in the sakar murlis about all these times that we are now experiencing.But Baba kept telling us in the sakar murlis that: you need to prepare now, for whatever is to come in the future.With the avyakt murlis Baba gave us more in depth insight into the preparation.

I have begun to understand what preparation Baba had made that he was able to become avyakt in 33 years! And I personally have taken almost double the time and I am way off that target!

So Baba is saying: don’t allow your thoughts to be wasteful thoughts. If you keep your mind engaged with Baba’s knowledge, then the churning is going to ensure that you don’t have any waste thoughts.

For example, drama: if I have really deeply understood the significance of drama, then when something happens, I will be prepared. And if I am prepared then I will be able to deal with that scene.

But where I haven’t churned or gone into the depth of drama then I won’t be prepared.

Baba has given another example: knowledge has been remembered as a weapon. You can be a powerful warrior, you can have all your weapons ready, but if you haven’t practiced using your weapons then either the weapon has become blunt or you will not use it in the right way, because you haven’t practiced. And so it requires practice.

If I say to myself: “oh whatever drama brings, I understand drama; it’s okay; I will be able to deal with that”, but if I haven't gone into the depths of it and if I haven’t practiced using drama at every step along the way, in whatever little things or big things that are happening, then when something big happens, I am not able to deal with it. That is the reality. And so churning and the preparation are important for me to be able to deal with whatever it is that may come my way. For that, my weapon has to be sharp not blunt, and I have to have the practice of using that particular weapon.

Baba gives examples of things that are very practical. And so, the “weapons of knowledge” and this is why they show the Shaktis and many of the other images in bhakti with all sorts of weapons in their hands! It is not a weapon to fight with anyone, but I need to be able to use the weapons to be able to deal with things for myself and to change the things that I need to change within myself.

So the whole murli is about the process of churning and the result of churning and taking care of all the waste thoughts, but also the ordinary thoughts.Baba’s point here is that, when I am engaged in action and I am just thinking about what it is that I am doing, then that is ordinary thinking. Can I think in a different way?

Whatever Dadi used to see, Dadi would pick up something from it, and she would use it as a subject for the class the next day. We would be with her and we would have seen the same things, but we didn’t necessarily pick it up in that way. And then when we would hear Dadi’s interpretation of it, we would see that everything that she was seeing was connected with gyan.She didn’t let a moment go by in which she didn’t take it on a higher level.Baba gave us amazing examples of all the Dadis who were able to do this, but especially in the subject of churning, it was Dadi Janki.

And so what am I doing? Where are my thoughts going? Am I able to make my thoughts translate what I’m doing on the physical level to a spiritual level?Dadi would be doing that with everything! When Dadi was waiting for the lift, she would look at our faces and say: what are you thinking of?  She could see from our faces that we were thinking, “Why is lift taking so long?” “Who is holding it?” But Dadi’s face would be smiling and she would say: “I am thinking about what Baba said this morning”. It was a very practical instruction: turn everything around. If you have got a few moments - normally you would say: “I don’t have time” - but in those few moments rather than anything else, reflect on what Baba has said. And so constantly keep our thoughts very elevated and pure. Baba’s point was that, it is not that you have to have half an hour spare or even 15 minutes spare, but it is something that you get into the habit of processing everything that is going on ‘here’ and taking it to a higher level.Today’s murli has very  detailed explanations of what it is we can do.

Then [in today’s murli], Baba was talking to Dadi Janki who was taking leave from BapDada before going abroad. It is the murli of 10th of January 1988 and in those days after having spent October, November, and December season in Madhuban, Dadi would come back to London for 18 January. Then after some years that stopped because they asked her to stay in Madhuban for the 18th of January. But in those days Dadi was coming back to London. And so Baba spoke very beautifully about how a field has to be ready and when the field is ready then there is always going to be success. And the preparation of the field is through love and good wishes and the unity of the family - that is what is going to bring success. So Baba was preparing her for that….

I also want to touch upon the blessing of the murli…Baba often speaks in terms of 3- 3- 3!  Dadi Janki would often say: I want to tell you about three points today; 1, 2, 3.  And it made it very easy to remember the whole class; if you remember 3 words, then you have understood everything. And so in today’s murli, Baba is saying that the whole of Baba’s knowledge is around 3 words.

The 3 Hindi words are “torna” meaning ‘to break’, “morna” meaning ‘to mould’, “jorna”, meaning ‘to connect’, ‘to link’.

What is Baba asking me to break away from? Not my family, not my work, but the old world and in particular all negativity. Baba is asking me to break away from all the negativity. That is what gyan is all about.

And then morna; can I adjust?  Can I mould myself so that, in the process of breaking away, I am learning to adjust and mould myself to a new way of thinking, a new way of being and behaving?  The more I do this, the faster I am going to come to the original state of my own divine sanskars; the deity sanskars. At all times, can I mould my way of thinking, so that the divine way of thinking comes in? So the quality of my interaction is now the divine way of thinking.

And the third one is the jorna; can I connect everything with Baba. Is Baba the focus of my life? And if today I have been able to do these three things I will be moving very fast.

There was a lot spoken about “the speed of time” and so which is faster: your effort or time? Baba’s comment is that, time is your creation and so are you going to let time be faster than you? Or are you going to be ahead of time so that you are able to move forward and move in the right direction so that whatever happens, you know what the drama is going to bring and you are prepared. So you have built up your own inner immunity before the situation actually occurs.

To see the event and then say: what am I going to do now?  Then I am not going to be able to manage. But I know what events lie ahead. We know about the natural disasters, we know about the civil wars, we know about the final blast. Maybe when we were thinking about the natural disasters - I certainly didn’t link the natural environment and the breakdown of the environment with illnesses. I don’t think I connected those absolutely in that way, but of course with the pandemic; it has been in the press. You don’t have to sit and reflect on it, you see it, you know it and so the event is happening and to what extent was I ready before the event, Baba had told me. So the part of the natural disasters…

One of the things that everybody is talking about is that this is the beginning of the pandemics - they are going to get stronger and there are more ahead. So today, have I been able to make my body strong and immune, doing all the things that I need to do? Especially doing the spiritual things that I need to do? Liberating myself from fear, that is connected with immunity. Filling myself with hope and enthusiasm, that is connected with physical immunity, but it is also the immunity of the soul.

Those are the few things we have learnt about the immunity for the soul. Become fearless, fill yourself with hope and fill yourself with enthusiasm and the most important fill yourself with God’s love.These are the things that will make the soul immune to whatever else it is that is going on. And if I have developed that immunity, then my mind is going to be able to be stable; I am going to be able to have that state of mind in which I am not disturbed.

Ask yourself the question: “what is it that keeps disturbing me?” Probably, it is people’s behaviour. Sometimes it is situations, but more likely, it is people’s behaviour.And so what is it about people’s behaviour that is disturbing me?And what aspect of Baba’s knowledge can I use, so that I personally don’t lose my cool? Because my treasure of peace is more important than whatever is going on, because that is my personal property.

And so to what extent am I able to make myself immune so that I am not disturbed by anything that is around me? Little things today, big things tomorrow - my practice is going to build up my immunity.

Can I make my intellect immune? The thing that is coming up most strongly in all the murlis has been that the intellect is absolutely influenced by people and situations, and unless you keep your intellect connected with God…. if my intellect is connected with God, then it’s safe. Baba’s canopy of protection: the most important part of the canopy is that my intellect should be safe, so that my divine intellect - which came to me as a gift from God, isn’t impacted by whatever is going on.

If today I am learning to develop divine sanskars, I need to have that immunity where there is nothing that triggers my old sanskars of this birth in kaliyug. Now, I am emerging the divine sanskars and so I don’t want anything to impact those sanskars. So, when I am able to protect my mind, my intellect, and my sanskars and then I will be immune to whatever is going on out there in the world.

That is one thing.But also I will be immune to the ups and downs of whatever is happening within the Brahmin family - because very often, it is this that impact us more than whatever is out there.So I need to make myself immune to both things, so that truly I am able to come to that state where I personally have victory over all negativity inside or outside

It is a powerful murli from Baba again today….

Om Shanti

 

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BapDada's Avyakt Signals brought by Sr Vedanti - 27 May

1 June 2021

Dear Divine Family,

 

Greetings of love from Madhuban. We are sharing with you BapDada's Avyakt Signals brought by Sister Vedanti on 27 May for your continued study.

 

In Baba’s sweet yaad,

BK Nirmala on behalf of the Regional Coordinators

 

BapDada's Avyakt Signals brought by Sr Vedanti - 27 May 2021 

 

Today on the day of Satguru, I went to say good morning to BapDada in the subtle regions, requesting a message for the Brahmin family of the foreign lands. 

 

BapDada smiled and said, “Child, being a detached observer, BapDada is seeing the effort of all the Brahmin children and is happy. At this time, BapDada wants the children to transform in four ways: thinking, speaking, doing and listening. 

 

• In thinking, BapDada wants the children to think less and do more. 
• In speaking, He wants the children to speak less and experiment more with silence. 
• In acting, He wants the children to keep an aim to be powerful in performing all actions in order to attain success. 
• And in listening, BapDada wants the children to listen less to the news of the world, and when listening to classes and talks, to have the intention of becoming the embodiment of what they are hearing. 

 

BapDada said, ‘tell the children to become introverted and create the stage of being an avyakt image, an alokik image, an image of attraction, a cheerful image. Then think, speak, perform actions and listen from this stage, and you will be able to give fast help in Baba’s task.’ 

 

The forces of destruction are moving very fast. Now you souls who are instruments for establishment become introverted and increase the speed of subtle service. Victory is yours in the end. Have this intoxication from now and you will experience BapDada’s help. Saying this and giving sweet drishti, BapDada gave me leave from the subtle regions.”

 

This was the avyakt signal from the subtle regions for all of us.

 

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