Sister Jayanti – 29th August, 2021 – GCH, London Clean out the heart, create space for Baba and create new patterns using the deity

30 August 2021

Good morning. Om Shanti.  

 

Today is the first day of celebration of Krishna’s birth so happy Janmasthami to everyone.  It is today and tomorrow.  So 2 days of celebration for Sri Krishna.  It is 18 days of celebration for the Shakti’s…It is not just Mama but the whole army and so the Shaktis are honoured for 9 days next to Sri Rama’s birth and 9 days before Desera and then Diwali.  So bhakti has many interesting traditions.  I think 2 days for Sri Krishna is due to him taking birth in the darkness and then the day when ‘he catches the butter’, tomorrow.

 

Today I am taking up a question that concerns everyone.  We all hear before we offer bhog that we honour and celebrate someone’s lives and  their departure.  When we talk about this,  we say we send our good wishes and pure feelings for them.  This is true as we remember Baba and put the soul in front of Baba even for 30 seconds, which is quite actually quite long, then it is Baba’s light that is reaching them, not just ours.  Then we carry out with our remembrance and those vibrations reach across the world.  The question is How do we get to the point when there is genuinely good feelings for all.  Not just 5 or 10 souls but everyone and what is the mechanism whereby souls feel those good wishes.

 

What are good wishes for all?  It means really cleaning out the soul and sorting out my feelings for each individual I have a connection with.  It is easy to have good wishes for those we don’t know, we don’t know the ins and outs of their personality or have karma with them.  But when there are people I know and maybe there are some karmic accounts involved, which I have created.  Sometimes we think it may be from the past which can be true.  The way to settle this is not by remembering them, but simple by having powerful yoga – as this is the fire that can burn past karmic accounts, whether it is gross or subtle sin, or whatever it may be.  In yoga we are becoming free from whatever is the connection with them.  After that when we do meet with the karmic account settled the feeling is just normal.  But sometimes we have had such karma with individuals and this continues, as their sanskars are the same, as probably mine are, and there is a repetitive clash.  I need to change myself first and foremost by being in soul consciousness and keeping a vision of soul consciousness.  When I am in contact with them face to face, I have to very strongly keep Baba between me and them.  Baba creates that shield around me so nothing negative reaches me but also it gives them the vibrations of Baba which is helpful for them.  This means I am not adding anything further to my karma from the past and if they say whatever they want to say, it doesn’t hurt me anymore.  If I allow a soul to hurt me, I am definitely going to be giving it back to them in some form, at some time.  Maybe I have learnt sufficiently that I don’t allow it to hurt, then the karma is finishing.  They do what they need to do and I am no longer bothered by that.  Then their criticism or negativity doesn’t impact me.  Once they have said something and I have taken it to heart, and I have gone through the process of realisation and understanding where I was at fault, then today it won’t hurt anymore. Baba is the Shield, and  I have done my inner work.  If the hurt is continuing and I am adding to what is already there; then hurt people, hurt people.  This is the reality. I’ve been hurt and so I am going to hurt someone else.  Maybe I don’t have the courage to face that individual, but there will be someone or other I will be blasting out to, and hurting them.  So first step:  Let me understand if there is any truth behind their criticism, there maybe.  Once I have understood that and practised whatever it is I need to do through my realisation, then keeping Baba in front, no more hurt will be accumulated.  This is very important. 

 

Why I am talking about individuals in terms of good wishes, due to something I realised in the mid 1990’s.  There was someone who was visiting here, and moving fast as a Brahmin and doing much good service.  He spoke to Dadi about the subject of forgiveness and he told her that there were three people he had needed to forgive and had managed to deal with two but not the third.   Dadi told him that he had come along way with the two but if you let the third one stay in your heart and carry that bitterness within you as you haven’t forgiven them.  You are carrying poison within you.  This is like a trap you are caught up in and cannot release yourself from it and bad feelings keep emerging when you think of them as the hurt is still impacting you.  If you were to be offered a glass of water which is 99% clean but has just one drop of poison in it…would you drink it?  It is the same thing, that although you are saying it is just one individual I haven’t been able to forgive, it is still in your consciousness and impacting not just your relationship with them but everyone you are connected with, as the bitterness comes through in whatever it is you say and do.  Except maybe those you are very attached to, although even within these relationships it can show up in the sharpness that comes through.  It is vital to let go and forgive, so you can be free. It is not their freedom, but your freedom that is at stake. 

 

On one level, it is protection for the self, so I don’t take more hurt.  I have dealt with their criticism in what they are saying to me and it was helpful but now I need to protect myself and I have learnt to be a detached observer of the self.  When they come in front of me, I am not just an observer of them but I am an observer of the self, so that I am able to stay calm.  Which is a big step forward.  If there are those I have learnt to forgive, I put them in God’s hands, and I then am not going to get involved in thinking about their karma, and add to mine by doing that.   They have done it and carry the burden of that.  But why do we add to our burden?  I put them in front of God, so that then I know that God is responsible and they are accountable to God, and not to me.  This is effective and when I have done this there is the feeling of liberation.  It is not my job or responsibility anymore.  When I have done both these steps then I can start further whatever it is I need to do to clean out and my feelings need to change.  This will only happen when I churn gyan.  I am listening to Baba’s Murli every day, but I listen and it goes in and out and I am not able to clean all the stuff in this little container, that looks little, as a dot, but it contains infinite things.  That is why we can look back and see whatever impacted us in childhood in a big way.  I used to think that the formative years are 0-7 but someone told me that the brain reaches its peak by 6 years of age, so patterns are created in a conscious way from about age 3, and in an unconscious way from in the womb.  This makes sense as the karma with the mother has started already.  In Barat, Mothers to be are told to go to Satsang or listen to something good every day and eat well, as this will have an impact on the unborn child.  Grandmothers used to pass on this ancient wisdom how to prepare and look after children.  Science now proves it!  This goes back to the Copper Age.  In Golden Age  I am sure no one has to tell Laxshmi how to look after her son, or the mother of Krishna was needing advice.  But here we can see.

 

Whatever now are those patterns of behaviour now I don’t want to use these.  There is another set of patterns that we definitely carry.  We are brahmins and have had spiritual rebirth, which means we are preparing to become the deities.  This means the deity sanskars are very much within the soul – we may have to go digging but they are there.  So just as say with anger, I allow it to come and the pattern gets deeper and deeper then with age it doesn’t just go away, it becomes more intense.  But the opposite is a reality.  If I can tap into my original, deity sanskars and also another sanskar that Baba instils in us now at Sangamyug….the sankar of benevolence.  Baba is benevolent, Drama is benevolent, ‘kalyankari’.   This is a big lesson to learn, yet it is a reality.  How can it be anything less than benevolent for God’s children.  We make Drama our mother, our friend so we are able to have benevolence.  In the Golden Age the deities don’t need benevolence…they are but they don’t have to do anything with that benevolence.  Everyone is fine and has more than enough.  Even within the golden, natural hierarchy that happens there, everyone is content and happy.  We don’t need benevolence in our interaction.  It is there naturally within love and respect.

 

In Sangamyug I want to do is to take in Baba’s virtues and emerge my virtues of the Golden Age.  If someone is not having regard, what am I doing?  Can I have regard for them even without reciprocation…It is ok. Why because I want to develop that sanskar of regard and respect, under all circumstances and situations.  It is benefit for the self and others.  Selfishness comes in if I am taking something at the expense of another.  But if I am improving my inner being then there is benefit for everyone, so if there is such a thing as altruistic selfishness this is it.  It is focusing on what I need to do and as I develop love and regard for everyone.  Or at least there needs to be respect.  Maybe by the end of the Kalpa we will also love them!  This is the background to the work I need to do…cleaning out all the feelings so there is love and respect for all and then there will naturally be good wishes and pure feelings for all.

 

We take it in a very simple way, having yoga and sending out Baba’s light and might to souls.  This works.  But to have the capacity and power to send out pure feelings and good wishes for all, requires a lot of cleaning up I need to do within the self so these then can definitely work.  When people tell me they are doing this and it doesn’t work two things are happening.  There are expectations that when someone else changes it will be more comfortable for me. This is not altruistic.  I have to go beyond expectations, and know that it is in Baba’s hands.  He is the one who can touch intellects and make them change, not me.  I have to do some cleaning and so my good wishes are effective.  To clean out not only the poison but the ‘flecks’ that still remain.  Then pure feelings and good wishes start to work in a magical way.  Whether near or far, remembering someone in Baba’s remembrance can be highly effective.  It definitely multiplies the energy with Baba’s remembrance and will definitely reach them.   

 

There have been many examples of this making a difference…When there are no expectations in sending good wishes, just God’s light and love and my pure feelings and good wishes, then whatever is to be, will be.  As this pure feeling reaches them, the soul will feel a bit different as the soul is probably feeling hurt, so when God’s light and love reaches the soul, the soul calms down and is able to absorb God’s love.  How long this will take we have no idea as we don’t know what the accumulation is within the soul.  We just need to keep a clean heart so that there is then just space for God.

 

In bhakti, before the invocation of Lakshmi, there is a huge house clean.  After the monsoon rains, which leave a mess, in Madhuban they would have a good clean out and white wash every building.  The idea was that if there is a clean place and light then Lakshmi will come.  If it is unclean she will not come there.  This is correct.  Lakshmi can only come in Satyug where everything is Satopradhan!.  Now we understand if we want Baba to be in my heart, and Baba keep my in His heart I need to clean out the space for him.  I am cleaning my heart out so there are no situations or human beings, then in that space Baba can come.  Baba asked us at one point where does Baba live?  And He responded that He is in the hearts of His beloved children. In that state with His help the good wishes and pure feelings reach the soul.  At what point they change, how can we predict?  Just keep the good wishes going.  When we send light to the world, hold the planet in front of you, and keep Baba with you and He is then responsible to give light to the world.

 

We are offering bhog to Sri Krishna today.

Om Shanti

 

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Transcribed Classes of Mohini Didi: August 8 to 14 - Personality of Purity

21 August 2021

Dear Divine Family,

Please find attached transcribed classes of Personality of Purity from August 8th to August 14th.

Thank you

Avyakti Parivar

Personality of Purity - Aug 8th

Personality of Purity - Aug 9th

Personality of Purity - Aug 10th

Personality of Purity - Aug 11th

Personality of Purity - Aug 12th

Personality of Purity - Aug 13th

Personality of Purity - Aug 14th

 

 

Sister Jayanti – 15th August 2021 – GCH The Four Main Pillars of Raja Yoga

16 August 2021

Om shanti. Good morning. You heard the term Bharat come in the lyrics of the song. It’s in praise of Bharat and it describes the Bharat of Satyug and how Bharat is the highest pilgrimage place of all. So many things about Bharat. But one of the reasons why I think they chose to play this song today is that it is Independence Day of Bharat (India). So, all those who are from Bharat, congratulations for today.

 

But Baba’s interpretation is a little different. Baba says how from the 1940s till today, if we see the condition of Bharat it certainly hasn’t been on the rise. In some ways yes, but in many ways no. So the whole world is in Ravan’s jail. The kingdom of Ravan exists across the world. There is a very lovely message that has come for third Sunday world meditation hour today. They usually send us one little sentence that describes the theme we should take up for meditation hour. Today it’s a very, very powerful title. Sit in the consciousness of being the master bestowers of mukti.

God is the one who gives mukti, liberation, but Baba has actually given us this title many times. “You are the ones who show the way to mukti and jeevanmukti and so you are the bestowers of mukti”. So the message for tonight was (and you will all be having yoga in your own places) to be the bestowers of mukti, liberation for all, so that they experience liberation from the body, the old world, old habits and old sanskars.

The murli today is, as usual, very powerful. It is not just about finishing old sanskars and habits, but burning old sanskars and habits, and how, if something is burnt, if a seed is roasted, it won’t bear life anymore. It won’t reproduce, it won’t multiply. So, sanskars, whilst they are still lurking in different corners of the soul, situations come up, and things may have been okay for a year, or two years, or even a few years, and suddenly a situation comes and it flares up again. So, we ask Baba the question, why? And Baba says, you didn’t burn that sanskar, you didn’t finish it completely.

So the murli is a murli for Holi, the festival, when one day they have the burning of holika and the next day then they have the colouring and so most of us have been in Bharat during March. It always falls during March. February is usually Shiv Ratri and a couple of weeks later it’s Holi and so we have usually been in Madhuban for this and Baba’s whole murli is not about colouring. So often Baba’s Holi murlis are about colouring but this one’s about the burning of sanskars. So how do we give liberation to others. First we have to experience that ourselves. To what extent have I been able to liberate myself from all the old things.

I was given a very interesting topic last week, very much connected with the state of liberation. I’ll share with you the Hindi theme and then take it up in English as the Hindi words go together. Dharna ka bal - the power you get from dharna and the fruit that you attain through the dharna Baba teaches us in Sangamyug. Literally, just go through each one of the different aspects of dharna and you’ll be able to see how Baba is giving us power through that dharna and as a result of that dharna we are experiencing liberation but also the sweet fruit that comes from whichever dharna it is.

When we begin the journey of Raja Yoga we talk about four main pillars. They used to show the picture of a yogi seated on a seat that had four pillars. Firstly, celibacy, purity. Secondly, pure food and drink, diet. Thirdly, pure company, satsang, but today that is interpreted in many different ways. What is the company that I have of the things I’m seeing on my screen, the TV screen or the things I’m seeing on my computer? So I’m doing my work or there’s extra things I’m seeing. And then the fourth one, the divine virtues. These are the basic ones and then if you look at our whole timetable of our Brahmin life right from Amrit Vela through to the night, everything has been created by Baba so that we are able to take maximum benefit of Sangamyug and experience the power and the fruit here and now.

Sometimes Baba says that when it’s 21 births of liberation, jeevanmukti, the first birth is now. So to what extent have I been able to come to that stage in which things may be happening all around but I’m able to stay up above, experiencing that state of liberation that Baba wants to offer me today?

 

First pillar: purity, celibacy

So, just looking at the four big pillars, the first one of purity, celibacy, I was thinking that the power that this gives us is the power of freedom, to be able to be myself, who I am, without any dependency on anyone else. Without purity there can never be that state of freedom, that state in which the soul is able to experience the sweetness of freedom. I was also thinking that whoever were the people who created the political situation, they always talk about independence, they never talk about freedom, so it’s not freedom day by any means but independence of a particular type but certainly not freedom. And, what Baba is giving us is real freedom. Firstly, just the freedom of being yourself and no dependency but also the sweetness that freedom brings. To be able to really do what I need to do to fulfil my highest potential.

 

In terms of relationships at the end of Kaliyug, you can see how much bondage there exists. Sometimes we would say it’s love but actually it’s the bondage of attachment that’s there so strongly. But also in position and control, so certainly no space for freedom on any level. Baba gives the soul the power to be able to make its own choices. Baba teaches us karma philosophy. The interpretation of karma in the past has always been: well, this is what you’ve done and this is now the result that you’re experiencing. Well, true, but it’s only half true because usually then there isn’t that clear understanding of what my choices are here and now at this moment to be able to create the future I’d like to have. People talk about the karma in terms of the past and, yes, absolutely true, everything I am experiencing today is from my own past karma. Yet today, and of course where there isn’t gyan there isn’t that power of choice, that understanding, but Baba explaining what karma is and how it works, the choices that we have and what we can do, and now karma becomes the key to be able to experience and create the future, to have the freedom to create the future I would like to have. So, on one level you would say it’s one dharna but that one dharna has so much built within it that it really has huge repercussions in a beautiful way.

 

So that first dharna, and why it’s the first and the most important because, without purity, you can’t have yoga (Baba was talking about it yesterday). True. Where there’s the pull of the senses and body consciousness then how is yoga possible where yoga is the opposite, detachment from the body, from the senses, being able to fly up above. So, this is the thing that’s created the most controversy, and we can see why, and we can see why Baba emphasizes it so much.

 

A thought that sometimes comes to me is that if Baba wanted to be popular….. Does Baba want to be popular? I don’t think so. If Baba wanted to be popular and just gather lots and lots of people together in the early days, it wasn’t the right way to be doing it. But Baba is interested in truth not popularity, and Baba’s come to offer real freedom, so really Baba, Shiv Baba totally focused on what His task is but Brahma Baba, also impacted so much by Shiv Baba’s company, the two souls side by side. Even if two people sit close they catch each other’s vibrations. So, that’s the bodies being close. But, souls sitting side by side, so, of course, it’s going to be totally influenced by Shiv Baba and so Shiv Baba, only one task, only one vision, purification of Baba’s children and the world. And so Brahma Baba also totally influenced by that and not being bothered, not being concerned or upset, by any upheaval or whatever else it is that’s going on. And, so in terms of our state of purity, relationships is one thing, but that real, real state where I’m not influenced by whatever else is going on and I can stay up above. Now, if I keep Shiv Baba close to me … possible? … yes, with yoga it’s possible.

 

Brahma Baba’s role was not just the physical closeness or the inner closeness (to Shiv Baba) but Brahma Baba very consciously remembering Shiv Baba and so we can do that definitely. So keeping Baba close to us to the point where Baba is able to influence us and none of the other things have any influence on us. That really is a very powerful blessing we are able to receive from Baba. But that state of total freedom where I know where I want to go and I keep my vision focused there and whatever are the karmic situations, well Baba has come to help me clear all of that. That is the purpose of why I am here.

 

So, a question, “to what extent am I settling my karma and why am I still adding to my karma ?Am I being influenced by the karmic situation to the extent that I am actually creating more karma on the way and if that’s the case when am I going to have the opportunity to settle?”

 

It's very interesting for me to see how the UN Climate Change Report that was published on Monday, it’s not just a big, big wake-up call for governments and people out there but I think it’s also a big wake-up call for Brahmins. Because we read about it in the murlis, that all this is going to happen, this is how the transformation will happen, there’ll be upheaval, there’ll be all this. But it’s not that it is going to happen, it is happen right now. So, if I’m still creating karma when am I going to have the opportunity to settle karma? It’s really now or never. You’ve heard this slogan many time. You’ve heard “the wolf is coming, the wolf is coming” and it never came but I don’t think anyone is going to say the wolf is coming any more. I think the wolf is right there staring us in the eyes. So, really a very important milestone that the planet has gone through to come to this point where we are on red alert. So that one dharna giving us the possibility of freedom, freedom from all levels of influence, and the possibility of attaining that state of mukti and jeevanmukti now.

 

Second pillar: pure food

You’ve heard the story of Dada Vishwa Kishore. Before there were centres even in South India, for example, as there were only centres in North and central India (South India was still green), Baba would send Dada Vishwa Kishore, who was his right hand, on all sorts of missions to do this, to do that, to do the other, things for the yagya. Whatever big service there was in the functioning of the yagya and the care of 350 people, whatever their needs were, all that was sorted out by this one individual. That was the extent to which he was Baba’s right hand.

 

He would carry a little kit bag, Dadi called it a kit bag. And, in it he carried a little stove, a little pot, and all the things he needed to be able to cook something and offer it to Baba. Indian stations always have waiting rooms, sometimes nice and sometimes not so nice. He would find a nice waiting room, that was clean (nice in the sense of clean), and he would get whatever vegetables he needed and he would always carry a little rice and a little bit of this and that, and he would cook right there at the station and he would offer bhog and he would then have it. Now, it’s not just sattvic food and drink but also the concern of cooking it in the highest consciousness, offering it to Baba and having that himself.

 

I know that now we have many new children who have taken birth since Covid, most taking gyan on Zoom and now some of you I am seeing here personally. And, I’m not sure if you’ve heard it’s important to offer bhog at home, hopefully the whole home is free from impure food, but to actually cook in Baba’s remembrance and offer it to Baba every day so that the food that you are having is prasad, is the holy offering that’s come to you from Baba. We offer bhog every day, of course, but also, to be able to share with the whole family on Thursday and Sunday. That whole system has physically kept us safe from any impurities.

 

Imagine travelling in many places and not being impacted by food and drink. That’s only possible because we cook our own food. But also, karmic accounts. Whoever is feeding you, you have a karmic account with them. Not here, as it’s food that’s been offered to Baba and so what you are having is Baba’s food. It’s from Baba. I don’t have any karma with you and you don’t have any karma with me. But generally where there isn’t that whole awareness of cooking and offering and so on, it’s huge, huge karma.

 

Just one example of how huge that karma is. In the early days, there were people considered saintly and holy. I won’t mention names. They weren’t able to see the value of what Baba was doing and they weren’t able to support Baba in what was very clearly a task of liberation, a huge liberation at that time. Baba’s comment was that, and it comes in the Gita also, “the gurus of the day weren’t able to recognize God’s work as they were being fed by the kauravas”, that is, people who were body conscious, people concerned with external things, prestige and all the things that happen in the world out there. So, their food was coming from the kauravas so they were impacted by them also. Now that is the extent to which food has an influence, not just on the level of consciousness, but also on the level of karma. So the dharna that we have in terms of offering bhog to Baba is finishing that karma. Whoever brings the food it’s for Baba, it’s offered to Baba, and then it’s shared, so no personal karma.

 

At home, yes it’s a family staying together and, of course, family is intimate and so lots of karma there and some of you sometimes come and talk about it. “I must have huge karma with this individual”, and it’s true. How many births’ karma? Don’t know. But where it’s very deep, very intense it’s maybe not just the karma of this one birth but the soul brought karma with itself and how many past births’ karma is it that I have in this family situation? Who knows? But the point is that if the food in the home is cooked in Baba’s remembrance, offered to Baba, we are not just settling karma of the past but are offering the souls the opportunity of coming closer to Baba through good food.

 

I have a few stories of how good food can change the intellects of souls. And one particular story is of someone very close to me, my father. There was a period when we were, I think, still in Tennyson Road at that time, not even Baba Bhawan. My mother had gone away for a few months to Madhuban, Bharat. She wanted to spend time in Bharat. During that time, Dadi would send whatever was cooked… sometimes she would just have the thought and send Baba’s food to him, not a regular thing, but it must have been the impact of that food that gradually changed his mind and he came to Baba totally, from being somebody who had respect but was not interested to hear any gyan. Bhakti was important to him. How did the change happen? I couldn’t believe it myself. It certainly wasn’t through my giving gyan. He wasn’t ready to listen to me. He was of course seeing my mother’s lifestyle – and was very cooperative, and he suddenly phoned me and said I want to go to India and I said “Fine”. He was always going to India for travel or business. And he says “No, but I want to go to Madhuban this time. I was totally shocked. And of course that one visit to Madhuban, it wasn’t even Avyakt Baba’s time, it was out of season, and that one visit changed him. But it was the food, I’m convinced.

 

So, pure food actually changes consciousness. Why I’m going into all this detail is to just to underline although it may take 15 minutes extra, and maybe by the time you come home you’re hungry, your children are hungry but that 15 minutes span is very important, to cook for Baba. Not that you are cooking for what this one likes and what does this one like. What would you call that? Attachment, yes I think so. Baba would say cook very good food so that they appreciate it and don’t want any other food, they only want food that’s cooked at home and offered to Baba, because you’ve made it very interesting and tasty. So Baba doesn’t say don’t cook tasty food. Cook what they like. But you’re cooking it for Baba, you’re not just cooking for them.

 

So, I’m just seeing more and more the power we get from every single aspect of dharna and the sweet results, the fruits we experience from being accurate with every single aspect of dharna.

 

I remember going to a new country and the invitation had come via a family so it was myself and another sister staying with that family. Normally when gurus and people who teach go to these places (it was a Hindu family) they would be cooking for them and they would be cooking for whoever else comes to meet them. So, it would be a big thing, a lot of work every time and they were used to doing that. This family was totally shocked when we said we will cook for ourselves but we are very happy to cook for you too. They were really shocked. But when they understood karma and all of this, they actually became Brahmins within a week literally, that quickly, and I’m sure that was the impact of the food.

 

Third pillar: satsang, company

Satsang, how am I doing with that? What is the company I keep? Everything I read, everything I hear is again influence. So, can I make sure to protect this little space where the buddhi lives and not allow anything to shift that, songs, music? What are the memories that they’re evoking? Happy memories, sad memories, memories of human beings, memories of Madhuban? So let me be very conscious in terms of my choices of what I expose myself to.

 

In the sakar murli, Baba uses the expression “cinema”. Listen to the word again “mother of sin” (Baba’s interpretation of that). But now you don’t have to go to the cinema to see all sorts of stuff, you can sit comfortably at home and who knows whether you’re doing your work or watching a film. But definitely, whether it’s the pull of fashion or the pull of other types of body consciousness, whatever it is, it’s a huge, huge influence. So satsang.

 

When Baba says to follow the system of traffic control, follow the system of churning, keep your chart, keep your diary, do your journal, whatever it is, but just be aware of what I am feeding my intellect. To what extent I am taking care of it. The sweetness, the sweetness that comes from being close to Baba. I am following the system and it brings me closer and closer to Baba.

 

Fourth pillar: divine virtues

Of course, if I don’t follow the system of checking and changing and imbibing divine virtues it’s going to be an obstacle for me to come close to Baba. The way I say things, what I say, how I say it, to whom I say things. If it’s not filled with divinity, with spirituality, if its just on the level of my sanskars, and my reactivity, whatever impact it has on the other, but what is the impact on me? And, definitely, distance, distance, distance. And, so, when Baba says it’s easy, and when Baba says it’s difficult, yes it’s difficult. It just means being so alert, so aware, no hard work, but the constant attention, the consistency of that. And, it’s not even a question of one day lost and a lot is lost, but it’s a question of one hour. Something happens and it’s a trigger for old stuff. Well a lot is lost.

 

I have just taken up the four main things but, homework, Sunday. Churn and see how from Amrit Vela through the whole day till the night, what is the dharna Baba has given us srimat for? And, what is the power you get and the results you experience? Test it with your own results. Its not theory but your own results will tell you what is the benefit.

 

We are going to offer bhog now and thank Him for the freedom He has given us, the mukti and jeevanmukti here and now, and we fly to Baba.

 

Om shanti.

 

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Sudesh Didi. GCH, London 08.08.2021 Sunday Morning Class

16 August 2021

Om shanti. Om shanti.  Good morning.

Heart-to-heart conversation with Baba. What are we doing when we sit in meditation? Is it Baba speaking to us or are we speaking to Baba? What is happening? How do I know that what I am saying to Baba is reaching Baba? What is the method to receive Baba’s response when He is speaking to me?

Words are easy to catch and understand. For example, the lyrics of the song that was played were: Baba, with great love, says, “Children, I am creating the garden of flowers. You are My flowers and you are the beauty of My garden.” Those who understand the language might be able to bring the same thought in the mind. Yet, even knowing the language, not everyone who is listening will think that it is Baba speaking to me through the song. What is the language of God? Which is the language that Baba speaks? Yes, the Murli is spoken in Hindi, but what is Baba’s language? Hindi, English, Spanish, French or German? Baba speaks with the  vibrations of the language of love; the language of love which catches what is needed. But the vibrations reach only when my receiver is on. If my receiver is switched off or if there is interference in my receiver, then no matter how much Baba is giving blessings, speaking through the Murli in very clear words, we will not be able to catch the blessings. So, what is important is a clear line of the intellect. The mind has to be focused. The intellect has to be connected with Baba. Then, the mind will also be focused on Baba.

Baba’s language is beyond sound; He lives in the World of Silence. When I, the soul, am listening to Baba’s words, it is not the body that is listening; it is the soul that is listening. If I am soul conscious, I will be able to catch Baba’s signal. Sometimes it feels that Baba is speaking very clearly and you are able to feel that Baba is speaking to you. This vibration becomes sound. Baba lives in the World beyond sound, but when the soul stays in the soul conscious stage, the soul is able to understand the language of the Supreme Soul. It is just like a mute person can understand the language of another mute person; a blind person can read Braille language as another blind. So, our education here is also to learn the language in order to understand. We learn the language of signal.

Didi Manmohiniji used to go on picnics with us, and she would have many nice jokes or questions and answers to entertain us. One time at a picnic, she asked us, “If a mute person needs scissors, how would he ask? What would he do?” He would signal like this (scissors hand gesture). Another person who can speak, even with speech, would also do a hand gesture of the scissors. Why? He can speak but he signals in order to communicate with the mute person in the same language. So this what we do here in this physical world. In order for me to communicate in the Soul World, to catch Baba’s signal, and to get that touching, what is needed?

The body is not in the Soul World. I am sitting in this body here in the corporeal world. As I think, believe and consider the self as a soul, I have the method to catch the signal of the soul. Catching power is in the intellect. First, the soul has to have a clear line of the intellect. The mind needs to be pure. A clear intellect with a clear and clean mind creates stillness for a clear reflection of Baba’s signal. It is like the example of still water creating a perfect reflection of the moon, the sun, and any other sceneries such as tall buildings; to the extent the water is still and clear, accordingly is the quality of the reflection. In the same way, our mind needs to be clean, still with  focused connection, without disturbance in between, in order to receive Baba’s response. There should be no clouds covering the rays of the sun. Baba’s sakaash is always there. But we are not able to experience it constantly because our mind is not always clear; it can be filled with so many waste thoughts, unnecessary thoughts and weak thoughts.

In order to make my mind clean, I have to work with thoughts. I have to clean the negative thoughts and to keep my mind churning with pure thoughts. My focus should be on the righteous and powerful thoughts. Some might experience that there is a lot of rubbish in the mind, and during meditation, many waste thoughts and weak thoughts come up. So the intellect focuses on how much the mind is full of rubbish.  Let’s say there is a big garbage drum filled with rubbish. But if you know that at the bottom of this drum, there is a diamond, your focus will be “I need to get to the diamond.”  So even the rubbish is there, what are you seeing with your intellect? Are you seeing the rubbish or are you seeing the diamond? Right. So the focus has to be on my pure and powerful thoughts, based on  love and relationship. I focus on what is pure and powerful, and with my different relationships with Baba, my communication is being empowered by love and by pure feelings. There is determination to focus on the diamond and not be influenced or affected by the rubbish. As you reach for the diamond, you will not say, “Oh, my hands are getting dirty.” Your hands might need to get dirty but you are not influenced by that. In the same way, many many past situations, sorrowful experiences, painful experiences, failure, disappointment have filled the soul. As we are doing meditation, we are emptying the mind.

There are two methods to receive the power from Baba to help remove the rubbish of the soul and experience cleanliness and purity. First is to shower under Baba’s power, by invoking Baba’s energy, with the determined thought that Baba is the Purifier, the Remover of sorrow and the Sun of knowledge. With this thought, you naturally begin to invoke the positive powerful energy of Baba. Do not focus on the waste thoughts that come. For example, when we put the container under the tap with very fast flow of water, whilst cleaning, the rubbish stuck inside and even around it also begins to come up. Have you noticed this? Many Baba’s children get disheartened and begin to doubt the self: “My relationship with Baba is not good. I cannot meditate. As soon as I sit in meditation, the things of the past which I had already forgotten, these thoughts are coming in my mind. So now it is what it is. This meditation is not right.” What do they begin to say? “My yoga is not good.” And they stop practising. If you stop in the middle and become disheartened, will the mind become cleaner or will it be more disturbed more? Regardless of these thoughts coming up, continue with your effort.

Baba always uses the example of homoeopathic medicine in the Murlis. When you start making your mind clean with Baba’s directions, and you notice that the old thoughts are still coming or perhaps it is becoming more and more forceful, do not stop the medicine. Do not stop following the directions and methods Baba gives. Continue to focus on Him, speak to Baba, and the old things of the past which is there within the soul will be cleansed. What happens after the bucket is washed under the flow of tap water? The bucket will be filled with fresh water. Therefore, do not doubt the power of thoughts; have faith in the self. With determined thought and with honesty, remind the self: I am pure and peaceful. I am Baba’s worthy child. I am that divine being of the Golden Age. When there is determination, the right focus will come automatically. Our focus will not be on waste, and there is no need to fight and battle with it. Focus on what Baba says, have faith that I am an elevated soul, I am a pure and powerful soul. Believe in yourself because this is what you are. This is what Baba reminds us again and again.

It is not only in my thought that I am a pure and peaceful soul, with determination, I have to practise with a constant flow of the positive energy, so that it will start working more and more on both my thoughts and my words. These pure and powerful positive thoughts will be expressed through my vision for myself as well as for others, because Baba is not saying that, only you are a pure and peaceful soul; whoever you are speaking to, they are also pure and a peaceful souls. To make a thought into a reality, you have to put it into action. So, to put in action this thought that I am a pure pure and peaceful soul, I have to see others also pure and peaceful souls. This is why Baba teaches us to have good wishes for others, pure feelings for others. It is not that we feel fed up with someone, and then say, “Although they have this personality, I will still have very pure and powerful thoughts for them.” Can it work in that way? It is not being honest to say I have a pure and peaceful thoughts, yet I don't like that person. I cannot cope with this person and I have pure and peaceful thoughts. When there is mixture, if rubbish is coming out while trying to build a flow of good wishes for others, the thought will not be effective. Thoughts without determination are very weak. This is why there is no power in the words when you say I have forgiven the person, and yet continue to take sorrow. Then instead of having conversation with Baba, whilst in meditation, I will be conversing with that person. So, this is why when my mind is engaged in my own weaknesses, my own situations, my own problems, there is interference and I cannot, then, connect with Baba. When clouds are created, even though the sun is shining, I cannot catch the rays. So, in order to give good wishes to others, I have to have good wishes for myself as well for others in reality.

Okay, if I truly cannot do it, then with an honest heart and determination, say to Baba, “Whatever mistakes I have made, whatever sorrow I have taken from others, I give to you.” The power of honesty is actually cleaning power. So, be determined to be free from this negativity. Baba is pleased with an honest heart. With honesty, I need to check, accept and understand my mistakes; I have been churning the mistakes of others, and now I am getting the effect of that. With an honest heart, with the love for purification, the love for liberation, with determination to be free, then there will be success, and the rubbish will be removed. This cleanliness, this clean and pure heart, enables the thoughts in the divine intellect, refined intellect, to direcly reach Baba fast. The mind is becoming free from the traps of others. As the mind  is filled with determination, filled with love, filled with realisation, this mountain that was on my chest, will be removed. With the love for purification and with Godly powers, to let go, to forgive with honesty, is benefit for my own self. To want to forgive is not ego, because in true fact, you do not forgive others, you are forgiving your own self. With this honest and clean heart, God is pleased.

The heart of the body is this heart. The heart of the soul is feelings; it is the feelings of the pure mind. When you invoke the clean and pure feelings that Baba is giving, of self-respect and benevolent consciousness, then these thoughts are without any bondage, because they become unlimited. Pure power, because of subtle energy, moves fast. When we are in connection with Baba, when we have pure thoughts and good wishes for others, they will reach them as well. It is said that thoughts have wings. With determination in this effort in meditation, you will begin to experience happiness. This power which is slowly developing makes the soul feel this mountain has been lifted. A heavy heart causes problems and pain.

In the Murli today, Baba gives the certificate to the speciality of the foreigners. This speciality is that with honesty, we tell our mistakes to Baba. Then it feels just like the mountain has become as light as a cotton wool. If it is just a cotton wool, you can blow it away. You cannot blow a mountain away; to blast it will take a lot of energy.

Surrendering myself means surrendering my sorrow and my weaknesses, with the determination and the desire to be free. A happy heart moves faster, an honest heart wins blessings, and a pure heart creates new environment. The result is that the mind and intellect become still, silent and subtle. With the power of silence, you are able to have clearer realisation. The combination of both your own powers and Baba’s powers will enable honest checking and changing, the determination to transform and enable you to receive Baba’s blessings. There is natural freedom from the influence of others. Three things are working together: the intellect that is free; the determination and honesty of my own self and the relationships with Baba.  

The second step is that, as you are not churning the rubbish, the intellect which has received Baba’s knowledge will automatically start churning elevated points of knowledge. As you contemplate the point of knowledge, there is more clarity and our realisation deepens. With deep realisation and close relationship, this knowledge becomes virtue. Our virtues and powers expressed through our face becomes the index of the mind. What is the proof of our determined thought? It is that our words and actions are the same. Others feel our good wishes, and experience the speciality of the pure feelings we have for them. Divine virtues decorate a clean face. Take a shower and wash our face, and we will feel fresh. If we have not taken shower, even if we change into fresh clothes, there is not the feeling of cleanliness. A clean mind, a clear intellect and silent power help the mind to move fast. The mind automatically becomes fixed with Baba. Then this mantra and the stage of Manmanabhav brings the result of transformation in the self and the purification of the heart.

Om shanti.

 

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Avyakti Parivar: Transcripts of Mohini Didi's Classes on the theme Personality of Purity from August 1st - 7th

12 August 2021

Dear Divine Family,

Please find attached transcribed classes of Personality of Purity from August 1 to August 7.

Thank you

Avyakti Parivar

Personality of Purity - Aug 1st

Personality of Purity - Aug 2nd

Personality of Purity - Aug 3rd

Personality of Purity - Aug 4th

Personality of Purity - Aug 5th

Personality of Purity - Aug 6th

Personality of Purity - Aug 7th

 

 

Sister Jayanti – 8th August 2021 – European Teachers’ Retreat: Cleanliness – The Powerful Foundation for Everything We Do

10 August 2021

Cleanliness – the powerful foundation for everything we do

Om shanti – So many beautiful things that Baba spoke about but in particular the love that Baba shared and the power that love has is carrying us forward came across in the murli very strongly today together with the importance of  cleanliness. 

Cleanliness is a powerful foundation for everything that we do.  I can experience Baba’s love but if my intellect is limited I am attracting rubbish to myself then, although I love Baba I don’t have the power, I don’t have the capacity to be able to deal with situations that come up.  People are looking for relationships that are filled with kindness and compassion and to have the ability to help others move forward.  Cleanliness is a very big part of our whole journey in terms of moving forward, creating fortune and enabling others to create their fortune also. 

Baba told us to begin with our thoughts.  Make sure that your thoughts are clean, elevated, pure and powerful.  The purpose of the murli is to inspire me each day to make sure that my thoughts are of that calibre.  Am I able to keep the quality of my thoughts elevated, clean and pure?  Baba knows and has taught us that sanskars and thoughts are absolutely connected and Baba is putting a brake on that – stop – whatever are my old sanskars, my old nature, hold it – use the food that Baba is giving every day and on the basis of that food I check and the change.  I am starting there but it is also very connected with the bhuddi – the intellect – and so the check and change is with the bhuddi but the bhuddi is also a blessing from Baba, a divine intellect that Baba has blessed us with and in that divine intellect is also the capacity to churn knowledge and the churning of knowledge  will clean the intellect.   And so Baba is helping us with both things. 

The gift of the divine intellect comes to us as soon as we come to Baba.  It doesn’t matter whether I am educated or not educated, clever or not clever that is the past that doesn’t matter.  I have taken a new birth and Baba has blessed each one of His children with a divine intellect and my job is to keep this intellect clean.  I have to fill it with God’s knowledge.

Baba uses this amazing expression that if you want to keep the lioness’s milk, it has to be kept in a golden vessel.  I have to keep my intellect clean.    

If I see faults there is criticism.  Can I see specialities? Even if a soul is struggling with all sorts of sanskars there is a speciality that they have.  Let my intellect recognise that speciality.   Baba met individuals for personal meetings until the end of 1988 and He would spot their specialties and speak about them and sometimes we didn’t know about a particular speciality of that person and so it was an amazing lesson for those listening.

Look at the bigger picture and see the things that may be below the surface.  Can I apply that lesson to each person I am in contact with.  How does Baba see that child? Dadi saw each soul as Baba saw that soul.  He met souls with love and respect and Dadi did the same and wants us to do the same. 

We have stories and we have to just remember Baba and ask ourselves, what Baba said in the murli.  I remember that and keep my intellect free from criticism, judgement and comments.

 In meetings can I make a positive contribution instead of killing someone else’s idea or pouring cold water over it?  The language of today has influenced us so much, the thinking, the vibration have influenced us and alI my old sanskars are there.

Negativity comes when I have not done enough tapasya.   The easiest thing is negativity and especially in terms of criticising others and their ideas and service.  How can I keep my intellect divine?  I have to make sure that I don’t allow the negativity from outside to influence me or the negativity of my old sanskars to jump up and influence me.  That stage where I need to be able to check what is going on, what is impacting my bhuddi.  Then to keep it clean with churning Baba’s gyan is the way but the check and change is equally important otherwise the old things are coming in and gyan isn’t staying.  How often have people said to you or you have felt for yourself that you know that Baba’s murlis have treasures but somehow the intellect isn’t able to grasp those treasures.  I listen to the murli , I read the murli but somehow it flies away.  I am not able to hold it.  The intellect is filled with all sorts of stuff.  This is why I can’t hold it.  So I have to remove all the stuff by letting go, letting go and remembering the divine intellect and keep it filled with truth, with God’s wisdom and Baba’s murli and in that state I am enabling myself to keep a clean and clear intellect.

What are the influences around me?  This person, that person.  Maybe it is reading newspapers, magazines, watching videos or watching things on TV or on the computer.  Whatever it is, check what the influences are and recognise whether the influences are negative, where they are going and am I accumulating.  I can say that I am not influenced by these things but I can’t stop it. -  I am absorbing them. 

I need to consciously understand that all of these are negative influences that I don’t want them in my life.  I can get an update of the news in three minutes, news bulletins in five minutes.  News programmes where they analyse and have interviews – just have a summary in three minutes.   Negative things are happening and they are going to escalate more and more. My job is to keep my bhuddi clean and clear of all those influences. 

My attachments are an influence on me.  When I speak, whose words am I speaking? Those I am attached to.  They say the same things, they use the same vocabulary.  Watch it and catch it next time when you use the same language and ideas, especially of those you are attached to.

So a daily job.  Am I cleaning my intellect twice or four times a day?  Just as I clean my teeth every day two or four times.   And then my clean intellect will enable the stocking of the elevated sanskars and encourage the pure powerful thoughts that are going to connect me with Baba.  My negative thoughts will keep me stuck.so I have to let go of them.   Go inside.  Be soul conscious and then in that soul conscious state I can be connected with Baba and feel Baba’s presence and think about pure, elevated things.

In lokik life people don’t give themselves time to look at themselves.   They wouldn’t know how to check their thoughts and they would not even know what pure elevated thoughts are.  They would not have any point of reference.  We have left that stage behind.  There is recognition of the opening of the intellect and the heart but now let me make sure that my thoughts are elevated.  As I am walking up and down the stairs - there are many steps we climb every day.  As you take those steps are you distracted by all the external scenes – take care not to trip and fall but see if your thoughts  can be upgraded so that they are not wasteful or ordinary, not negative but  powerful.  Baba wants our thoughts to be powerful and so let me clean my mind so that I am able to have good wishes for all so that I am able to see everyone’s specialities and not just have good wishes for people far away that I do not know but people who I interact with all the time or even sometimes.  Let me have that attention on my thinking then yes, the mirror of my thoughts is the quality of my words. 

Also, another act of cleansing is my memory track.  What have I still got in my memory?   Now is the time to clean out all I have in my memory.  Sometimes I need to turn it around.  Flip it around.    Later I realise it was a very valuable lesson and am I holding that lesson clear but I am holding the memory.  One thing is not to revise it again and again.   

Two people go through the same experience and one says it was very difficult and brought me closer to God and I experienced God’s love and light and that made me so joyful.   And it gave me the power to deal with the difficult situation we had to go through and it was not difficult because, through all of it I experienced God’s love.   And the other person says how difficult it was.  I never want to go through it again and it was so challenging and somehow I came out of it.

The difficulties were being spoken about a lot and that was what was in the memory and is being imprinted more and more. 

Let me emerge good positive memories so that I can face everything with love.  Negative memories are heavy and Baba wants me to fly and if I don’t fly at this time when else am I going to be able to experience that and if I don’t fly now I am not going to reach my destination.

Lots of good karma now and yoga power to deal with everything. Very important.   Take care and have a beautiful sangamyug.  Let all the blessings be with you for the whole of sangumyug.  Baba sees your efforts and sees your thoughts and Baba loves you.  Remember that Baba’s murli is for me.  When Baba says He loves you He is speaking to me and so take Baba’s murli very personally.

Om Shanti

Message:  Our love and good wishes for Nirwairbhai who has been taken to hospital.  The soul who has served all of us so much over all these years and has handled challenging situations with a smile.

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Sister Jayanti - 6th June 2021 – Avyakt Murli revision

10 August 2021

Q: Jayanti behn, I would like to share regarding Baba's murli on obedience; as you know, Islam actually means ‘submission’, and Islam has the word ‘salam’ which is peace. Then I went to look in the Bible, and there's so many references to obedience; one of the references I liked is true hearing. And I think that's what Baba wants from us. So welcome, Sr Jayanti, thank you.

A: Om shanti and thank you.. And om shanti to all those who've joined us from many different parts of the world. It's a very, very strong murli. And yet, Baba is the truth and the ocean of love. As the ocean of love Baba wants to uplift us and bring us to our own highest possible state to fulfil our own highest potential. Baba doesn't hesitate from telling us exactly what it is we need to do at this moment.

Sometimes we feel that Baba's murli is very strong, which it is, but it is the truth, and so you can't dilute the truth. Baba is speaking to his children, and so those children who've recognised Baba and understood that Baba is the purifier, and that the purpose of God's coming is to be able to transform. People today are thinking about how to bring about systemic change. But of course what Baba has made us understand is that, when we change then the world can change, and then the systems of the world can also be put right. In this murli of 1988 January, just a few days before the 18th of January - in fact all these murlis that we've been listening to recently, all have been quite strong. Baba's preparing us for what he would like to see on the 18th January. This time Baba didn't give us a lot of praise and all the beautiful expressions that raise our level of self esteem; Baba begins to tell us - but what about this, this, and this, and this. You have to sort it out. Baba went straight into the topic of obedience and disobedience. All the spiritual teachings that are there within the texts of all the different religious traditions, all carry similar ideas. The only difference perhaps is that now we know exactly who is the divine, and how to connect with the divine, and draw the power that we need to be obedient. Otherwise, we understand all these things are important and very valuable, but we don't have enough power to be able to implement and execute all those instructions.

So today Baba is saying that He gives directions to everyone at the same time, and each one then has a choice of what they choose to do. It's not that Baba gives private instructions and secrets to a few. All the information is available to everyone. Baba spoke about two types of children. The third type Baba did not want to talk about that today, so Baba didn't go there. The first two types of children: firstly, a minority number, but they're very powerful ones, the ones who are absolutely and completely obedient to the Father. What Baba meant was their thoughts, words and actions are really following each one of Baba's directions. Further on Baba clarified; not even just following directions, but following in the footsteps of the Father because the Father has shown us the way to be able to fulfil God's instructions. Following in the footsteps of Brahma means that we're able to see how easily we are following those instructions. Are my thoughts, words, and actions at all times constantly obedient? And then Baba described how there are some who are obedient from time to time. Not always, not consistently. But from time to time. And so, at times, there is obedience but then at other times the obedience is remembered after seeing the result of action. And Baba was explaining that, sometimes you're engaged in action and you think everything is fine. But in fact, it hasn't been according to God's shrimat. And so, the result of those things, the words, the actions are not quite satisfactory. And so you had a high expectation that there would be beautiful results from something you said and did. But the results weren't like that. And then you realise that there was something missing. That there wasn't the adherence to Baba's instructions. There wasn't total obedience. After the action, seeing the result, I'm reminded that there are specific instructions that Baba has given, so that my mind follows those instructions. My words and my actions also. Sometimes I remember before the action and then everything is good, but sometimes I forget. Remembering after seeing the results, by then the results are fixed in the drama and they're not very satisfactory, and that's something that I have to deal with. That's the outcome if I don't remember Baba's instructions and I'm not being obedient all the time. Being obedient means that it's not just a question of my action, but who is in my remembrance? Am I doing it according to the method that Baba has taught me? Baba explained that very clearly. If the seed of action isn't as it should be then of course, the results are not as we would like them to be.

For those who are obedient; it’s constant adherence to shrimat, obedience because Baba is remembered and is with them at all times. The results are ones that bring happiness and power. Baba also spoke about later about the will power that the soul is filled with, as it performs actions based on truth and obedience to God. It reminded me how we used to see the spiritual capacity of the Dadi's actually growing in front of our eyes. Very fortunate that I saw the Dadi's from a very young age, and then after my surrender in the 60's, again I was with them, very closely observing them. At all times I saw them as being almost perfect to my eyes. It seemed that way but as time went on I could see their inner power growing, their capacity growing and the results being more and more beautiful. So, Baba spoke about all those things of souls who are obedient souls. Baba also mentioned very, very clearly that when there are souls who are obedient, then thought, word and action is all fruitful, is all worthwhile because the seed of action is filled with power. That powerful seed is going to bring very good fruits.

Baba then described how with the others sometimes the fruit is visible, and it's very clear that it's worthwhile. Sometimes the fruit is not according to their expectation. The main aspect with which to be able to see for myself - it's not a judgement by anyone else - but to be able to see for myself is to look at the results. Baba spoke about contentment in three different ways. Having performed the action am I content with myself? Or is there that sense that well, I could have done better. I should have done better. I didn't give it enough time. I didn't give it enough attention. Whatever, whatever. But certainly, I'm not content with myself. But if I'm obedient, I'll say yes Baba, I did it according to your instructions to the best of my ability. And secondly, the results are good. The results are actually more than one would have expected, and then thirdly, everybody around them is working with them, because nothing happens in isolation, it's always in relationship with others. So, everyone around them also feels content, and this is because the soul whose obedient is receiving special blessings from the Father, blessings from the heart. I'm using the word blessings because I know that sometimes the word boon is used but one is ashirwad. And the word ashirwad usually is something in which it's the mother, the Father, or the guru who gives their blessings from their heart. And then duwain. And that also again is, I'm sure there are experts here who could differentiate and tell me the difference between exactly those two words.

Generally I also feel that when it's good wishes from the heart, when there's that love from the heart and that support from the heart that describes this word duwain. The obedient one is receiving both these blessings that have come from the Father, the Satguru, but also from the heart, those good wishes, and that love and support. Every action is filled with that very special power, and the soul is given a lift through all of this. For the one who's sometimes obedient and sometimes maybe not, then there isn't that special help being experienced. In that case, where there is obedience then you feel everything is natural. Everything is easy. No burden. No weight. In the other case, yes, there is a feeling of effort being put in, a feeling of labour sometimes. There isn't that contentment being experienced, then there is that discomfort also. So, very, very clear markers and I don't need to spend a long time investigating what's going on. I should be able to see from the things that Baba said where there's natural and easy and constant obedience. What are the results of that? If I'm not experiencing those, then I also know what is the cause of that. Where the soul is discontent; maybe with the self, maybe with the results of that action - I've put in a lot of work, but I'm not seeing an equivalent return. Maybe the team around me is not very happy; they think I've pushed them too hard or I wasn't showing them how to do things in the right way. All sorts of reasons why there's discontent. Baba took up this whole very interesting phase of describing why discontent comes, and Baba said, some people think that how is it possible to satisfy everyone? And of course when I'm reading these murlis, the images of the Dadis come to mind - Dadi Prakashmani, Didi Manmohini, Dadi Janki. Mama, I knew but not intimately, but these other Dadis I've known very intimately. Dadiji in her role as leader was for decades. That's quite a track record, and in terms of Dadiji, we saw her become lighter, and lighter as her responsibilities continued to increase. Her face was sparkling constantly with that love, that joy she was experiencing on the inner level all the time.

I remember Dadi Prakashmani once asking Baba - there was a lot of chit chat in the days of Om Shanti Bhawan - and she said, Baba, I'm trying so hard that everybody should be content, and yet there are some people who are always discontent. So Baba said to her; Baba understands. If 95% are content and it's only 5% discontent, then Baba's pleased with the result. So Baba made her very light. But it's in this murli, 14 January 1988, a very, very important murli describing the reasons for discontent. Baba's saying sometimes when souls are discontent there are three different factors that are connected with all of this. One factor is that they haven't understood their own role within what the results are happening, and so there's a misunderstanding there. Baba didn't elaborate on it but just explained it further; when the results aren't as we would like them to be, the tendency for everyone is to point the blame outwards. Baba's saying hold on, look at yourself, see what are the causes that lead to this particular result? Secondly, Baba also said that often there's very high expectations of the seniors, and they're actually not realistic at all. So when their unrealistic expectations are not matched up, then again, there's a feeling of discontent. It was their wrong expectations. Thirdly Baba said; their own sanskars and nature from the past got in the way, or there's some previous karmic account that got into the way, and that's another reason why the results aren't as they should be.

Instead of looking at the self and understanding all of these different things, there's the tendency to blame, which will probably be thrown at the seniors. Baba's saying; these seniors, these very obedient elevated souls who are constantly following Baba with their thoughts and words and actions, it's not their fault. They're not to be blamed. I know so often Dadi Janki had to carry the can for things that we were not doing correctly. And we'd say well, Dadi this, Dadi this. But no, not true, it's something that we have to look at. Baba said; if 95% of souls are content and only 5% souls are discontent, that's a good result. It's probably one of the other factors that is creating their discontent, but they're not aware of it. Another very, very interesting thing that Baba was saying; if after I've done something, that scene keeps repeating in my mind, and I keep asking myself the question, was it right that I said this? Or was it not right? Was I right in my thinking or maybe not right? Was the action really okay or it wasn't? So Baba says, in your language you would say that this is your conscience biting you. If that's coming up again and again for me, it's creating this unrest, this disturbance, then again it's an indication that thinking, speaking, doing, weren't according to the line of obedience and shrimat. In that case, again, time to explore and understand and sort things out. For a soul who is steady and consistent and obedient, the action is done, it's finished and there is silence. The soul is able to go into a state of silence; of love and joy, not a silence which is empty and bereft of happiness, a silence which is filled with a great deal of love and joy. Again a very, very clear idea of how to be able to see for myself which category I fall into. Am I jumping from one to the other sometimes, or really steady in my commitment to obedience and shrimat.

Then Baba describes the stage of the soul who is obedient, light and happy, cheerful and radiating joy continually. That's where Baba also said that, whatever it is they've done they feel their own will power growing within. Their spiritual capacity is increasing all the time. Another description that Baba gave, that sometimes souls feel a little sad, a little unhappy, they're not content with their state of remembrance, they're not very happy with their relationships with others, they're not content with the service they're doing. So, again, what's going on there? Because sangamyug is the opportunity, the time to create abundance and fortune, and to constantly accumulate, and these souls are saying, well sometimes we feel empty, sometimes we don't feel so full, sometimes we feel that there's something missing. The song is a familiar one isn't it? We hear these words from different souls at different times. Baba explained; okay, maybe at this moment of time everything is fine. Everything is okay. But what about past times? Look back on past times and see where it is that things haven't been so accurate, because on the one hand you came to Baba to settle karmic accounts, but on the other side sometimes there's been accumulation of karma. The soul, instead of being able to settle karma is then engaged with karma in a way that is of a karma yogi and an engagement with karma, a relationship with karma, but no bondage with karma. Where it's been my old sanskars and nature, that's led to karma which has increased my karmic account, my karmic bondage. Today, I think everything is fine, yet on the other side in the past where there's an accumulation of little mistakes that I ignored, or I've been careless.

Today I was asked which comes first, carelessness or laziness? Is it that I'm lazy and so I become careless, or is it carelessness that comes first and then laziness? I think we become a little bit careless. It's okay if there's a little bit of a delay. It's okay if I procrastinate, so we excuse ourselves in all our little careless things. Then it becomes inherent within the soul; that I'm lazy and then I say, it's okay, it doesn't matter. Of course by then, it's become a sanskar. In this case, Baba is saying all of that has been accumulated. So one is the accumulation of past karmic accounts, and the other is the accumulation of all the little mistakes I've made since I've come to Baba in this spiritual life of mine. The sum total of those I haven't dealt with, and so the burden of the past is pulling. That's when I say, I feel empty, I don't feel full, I don't feel content. When I recognise this, what I need to do is remember that the only way to settle the karma of both my spiritual birth as well as the karma of my past accounts, the only way is powerful, powerful yoga. Yoga which is really like a lighthouse, a mighthouse. Yoga which is the fire of yoga. Yoga which is helping me burn the things of the past, so that it is all settled and erased. When I pay attention to having that quality of yoga then the things of the past can be settled, and the things of this birth can also be settled. Otherwise, the sanskars of the past pull me, and they disturb my happiness today. The accumulation of karma of this spiritual life can also then drag me down and I don't experience that stage of being double light.

Very, very clear answers from Baba about what's going on. And then the sound from the hearts of such children; I want to be alone, I don't want to be involved in service, I don't want to have connection with the family, I want to have that space for myself. All of these things come up. Baba then began to outline some of the little, little mistakes that we think are okay. Never mind, I can just carry on. One is my lack of attention to powerful amrit vela. Amrit vela yes, but also Baba was very clear - powerful amrit vela. That which is fulfilling the needs of the soul. A few other examples in which Baba's talking about the little mistakes. Baba's calling them little but they also can be quite a block. They're not like a big mistake of impurity or things like this - compared to that it's the little things. In this case Baba was saying; how on the one side, Baba's told you to be a karma yogi - that's an instruction from Baba, a direction. Was I obedient in that? Or did I get engrossed in karma and forget about yoga? So that was one of the little mistakes. Another one of the little mistakes Baba said, instead of having the awareness of being nimit, an instrument, what happens is that the I, the ego, comes in so again a mistake. Or where Baba's spoken about doing things with humility, and instead of being humble I slip off track and I go wandering off with other thoughts. Or bossiness, control or any of the other things that can come in. Baba's saying; so just look at your track record, to what extent have you followed Baba's directions absolutely in the way that you should? If you haven't, then you're not experiencing the results that you could. You want to have the results of joy, love and happiness in your life, but it's clear that you're not experiencing this. It's the accumulation of all these mistakes that is coming to take its toll now. So, what do I need to do? I need to keep Baba in front of me and to keep Baba as my role model. Then I see the footsteps that Baba has taken to reach that highest destination, so not then comparing myself with others, but with Baba, copying Baba. As I step in those footsteps, then yes, I know that the quality of my thoughts, my words, my actions is really truly obedient to God. If I experience that obedience, I'll also feel the lift of the blessings that Baba's giving me, and at that point, nothing is difficult, everything becomes very easy. How come Baba’s saying it's easy and it doesn't feel easy for me? Baba's given us a very clear picture of all of that: what it is we need to do, and how it is we need to do it. Baba said I've just given you four examples of various things that you haven't been attentive to. From the early morning through to the night what should my attitude be? What should my vision be? That will then determine my speaking and my doing, and the quality of my thinking creates the pattern of my attitude. So what's going on? Let me take a very deep look inside. These murlis are the instructions; the tools with which to be able to go inwards and see exactly what's going on, and to be able to sort it out and put it right. Then Baba is talking to groups and mentioning how if someone is on a pilgrimage, then they're very aware of the deity they're worshipping, and that they're going on pilgrimage to be able to have the vision of that deity. So they won't remember anything else. They'll just remember that particular deity. So, you are on a pilgrimage, who are you remembering? And are you still connected with all the ties of the things going on here? Or are you breaking those ties of attachment?

I found it fascinating that Baba especially spoke about grandmothers because here in London we have quite a lot of sisters who, when they came to Baba, were in families who were coming early on in the 80's and 90's. Those women are now grandmothers, and they had children, they raised them, brought them to Baba's home. Some have stayed and some have gone off to see what the world is like, and I'm sure they'll be back. Those same women were quite disciplined with their children. And now they're grandparents - it's actually fathers too - grandfathers have the same type of attachment to their grandchildren, however Baba was talking about the grandmothers especially. In that, Baba was saying what is the quality of your love for God, or is it that the attachment to the grandchildren is so strong that that takes precedence? With children there's a responsibility of putting them on track and doing whatever is needed for their education to support them and help them. But the role of grandparents is to spoil the grandchildren, that's it, nothing else. They don't have any other responsibility or such, and even if the grandmother is cooking, she's cooking out of love, not because of duty. She doesn't have to cook for them, but whatever she'll cook it will be just an expression of love. So that bond, a very, very strong bond. Baba's saying just check yourself and see where you are at, so that you're able to move away from the bondages of attachment which cause you pain and sorrow. Now, just connect with one. On the other side Baba was speaking to the youth, the young people, the young kumars. Everybody always recognises that the youth have passion, the youth have inspiration, the youth have energy, the youth have skills and a lot can be done. But when the energy of young people is being channelled into a negative direction there's trouble everywhere. So Baba is reminding the kumars; your energy has to be the energy of non-violence, the energy of peace, so that you're able to carry things in the right way, and that will be the wonder. People will see your peaceful stance, your responses of peace and they will come close to Baba through that. The government will be able to recognise who you are, and what it is you're doing. So, today's murli is extremely powerful but also very, very cautionary. What is it that I need to do in this last period of time, in this short time that now remains? Are there any comments or questions?

Q: People like Rumi didn't know God, but had so much love for God. So how is it possible for somebody that doesn't know God yet be so deeply in love with God?

A: It's something that happens in many other traditions; the Christian mystics, the Hindu mystics, they've experienced this total commitment, loyalty and passion for God, but they don't exactly know the form of God, or where he is or what he does. Although it’s really something that's deep within their hearts, they see the state of the world, and see that all these things are really not of the quality they should be, and so they go on that inner journey. In that inner journey they're able to feel God's presence and God's love, but of course there's no information being shared.

If you think about Brahma Baba and the Dadi's in the early days, again, there was a great sense of the presence of God. But they actually, the Dadi's didn't even know this is Brahma Baba and this is Shiv Baba. And so, there was a feeling, there was a beautiful experience they were having. And it's only gradually that then the actual details were being shared and they understood exactly who God was. From the copper age onwards, there have been people who've been not really interested in what the world has to offer, and all they want is to be close to God and have that experience of God's love. So these souls have a very special role also, just as the divine fathers, the founders of religions have a special role, and this sangamyug experience, the memory of that, they carry something within themselves that gives them the power to be able to establish their particular branch. In the same way these mystics and philosophers who have had a deep love for God, have been able to inspire many, many generations with that love. I'm sure that in the confluence age there are people within their own traditions who have taken some understanding of Baba's knowledge and they accept it to be the truth. But maybe the story of the cycle isn't something they're comfortable with - different aspects, but they've definitely taken some knowledge and so that sanskar of love is deep within those souls. At the right time, at the right period, when they emerge, they express that love and give inspiration to so many others.

Q: From what you've said Jayanti behn, then love is not enough? I mean, they have so much love but then they can't understand or they can't transform?

A: They weren't in the process of transformation themselves, and also other souls who obviously didn't transform the world kept coming down, and down and down to the point where everything became so impure that God actually had to come and intervene directly in human affairs. I know from my own experience; aged 8, I met Brahma Baba and Mama, and at that point, many of the Dadis were there, but I only have a vague memory of the others. But Baba and Mama. I remember Dadi Janki very well because she was the one who was in Pune which was my home town. So again, I remember the love that she shared. Through my teenage years, I've had that love and I knew it was a very special love, but I didn't have any gyan. Neither at that time, between the ages of say 10 to 18, I didn't even think I was ready for gyan, or needed gyan as such, and it was only then in 1968 that something opened. I thought, well, let me find out what these BK's were actually saying. And Dadi's words were the magic touch that opened the door. So yes, I know when there's only love, it's a lovely feeling, but there isn't any incentive to change, there isn't any understanding of what it is I need to change. It's only when I understood Baba's knowledge that I understood what I needed to do. My experience tells me that love isn't enough without knowledge, but once you have knowledge the power of that love is going to carry you forward. Baba spoke about how just being lost in love, none of the obstacles that surely will come to each one will stop you. You'll be able to move forward.

Q: What is the embodiment of the fire of love? Is that the answer in what you've just said? The love and the knowledge combined?

A: That's right, yes. Love on it's own doesn't transform, but at least it didn't for me, it didn't make me understand that I had to change my life. I had to connect with God. There was love, that was okay, it was a part of my life, but it didn't have the power to transform. Then there is the pure love in which I know who God is, I know I the soul am that deity soul. I know that it's with God's remembrance that the soul will become satopradhan, and all the alloy will be removed. That fire of love is a very different love to just saying yes, I love Baba, or I love gyan.

Q: Could Sr Jayanti talk about her experience of contentment, or success and contentment? A real life experience?

A: When there's a big project, you know that it has to be in cooperation with many others, and you also know that if it's Baba who is guiding things, then you know that there'll always be success through that. There were two huge projects that, Aruna, you were part of them also. One of them was the 'Million Minutes of Peace Appeal'. And we all decided that it was the International Year of Peace and we really should do something, and we knew that it really had to be together.

That was the time, 1986, when the RC offices were actually formed, as there was a need because everybody had to learn to work together, and Dadi Janki was sharing her yoga power with the whole story. The story started in January when we first heard about the International Year, and then came to a conclusion (sort of) in October. It was highly successful because it was Baba's project, it was Baba who had touched it and made it happen, and then I looked back and realised that it was a big challenge. It wasn't so easy for me, and that's because I didn't know myself very well. It was a big learning curve in which I got to know myself more and more through that whole period. Right through until the last program in which there was this fantastic closing event at Grace Cathedral in New York, which was fabulous for the public. Canon Cassin came to Baba through that program, so it created a very powerful heir quality soul. It was an amazing event to have participated in, and be part of producing etc. I know that because I was still understanding my own sanskars; I didn't feel content. The results were amazing, and I don't think we could have achieved more than we did, and that I attribute absolutely to Baba and the yoga power of the Dadi's. Dadi Janki was there everyday and she was having yoga for the success of the project. Baba had said to her, every morning at 0400 have yoga to support and sustain all of Baba's instruments across the world. So we'd go to her with a question, and she'd say okay I'll tell you tomorrow, and the next day she would have an answer of how to deal with things. So it was quite amazing how successful it was. It became the largest non-governmental NGO program for the public that was without charging any money for any engagement, and it brought the Brahma Kumaris seven peace messenger awards. It was beyond our expectations. That was Baba really, really, truly. Then, in terms of contentment with others, it was our first time working together as a whole, as a combined world in a sense. London and New York had been collaborating in many different ways right from the very beginning, and this was a worldwide effort, so it was a process of learning. It was a lot about a state of contentment and it was a learning. I think we all learned a huge amount from all of that. Then in '88 we started and that was again Baba's very direct input in terms of the title, in terms of the process, and even in making it happen. So again that was another huge project, and this time I found myself much more stable, much more peaceful, more detached. Again you could see God at work in amazing different ways in which we didn't expect. Dadiji came to London, and she also went to Spain to meet with the Queen of Spain, because the Queen of Spain had heard about the project and contributed. Whether it was leper colonies in the Philippines, or whether it was kings and queens across the world, it was fantastic, and I could say that I was more content. The results were again absolutely incredible. God didn't charge. In terms of our relationships, again we learned a lot, and again, there was more contentment and stability through all of that. I’m seeing that everything you do in Brahmin life - well probably in lokik life also - but everything you do in Brahmin life is a preparation, you learn and you go further. You learn and you go further. I know that with the Dadi's it's been that state where with constant obedience, constant success and so on. For me it hasn't been constant steady success in terms of my own stage, but learning, learning, and learning. So here I am today, still alive, still smiling, still going on.

Q: You're doing great Jayanti behn. When we follow shrimat, there is the subject of understanding that point within that context, that means that we are all using the dictates of our mind to understand the murli. Is that true?

A: Can it be anything else? Because the quality of my understanding is absolutely dependent on my own perspective. If my intellect is being a little bit polluted with thoughts about this one, that one, and the other one, and a little bit of a critical nature, then, I'm going to understand the murli accordingly. Numberwise, yes definitely, the whole story of numberwise.

Q: So how to deal with that?

A: To keep my intellect free from my own dictates, and the influences of others manmat, parmat. The way to do it is to really understand what is Baba saying to me, first and foremost. Secondly, what is it that Baba's explaining in terms of the whole cycle? Here I am in sangamyug and Baba's talking a lot about bhakti, Baba's talking a lot about purity and impurity. Now, first is what was Baba's message to me today? Second is how does all this fit within the bigger picture, the cosmic picture? And definitely never to have the thought that, so and so should have heard this point. Did they hear this point? Let me check? Did they understand this point? That's not for me to say, or to judge. Baba's working with them, they're working with Baba in their own capacity on whatever level it is, and so, my responsibility is to see what Baba wants to tell me, and to understand that, but also to put it into the bigger picture.

Q: Thank you. There's a question here about the conscience biting; the conscience bites and we don't quite know where the error was so what to do in that moment. You want to check and change but you don't quite know where the error was, and the conscience is biting. How to minimise the damage?

A: Okay. Baba was explaining very clearly that it might not be something of the immediate present, that the immediate present is okay, but there is something from the past that wasn't accurate. If I'm being honest with myself then I'll go back into the past and I'll be able to track what it was. Maybe it's not just a question of one incident. It's a question of my sanskar, and my nature, and probably that persists to a certain extent even today. If I can identify that, that's the checking, and then with that honesty Baba will give me the power to be able to change it. If I'm just, you know, my conscience is troubling me but I'm not clear enough to understand what aspect of my sanskar needs to be adjusted, I'm not going to be able to change it. So I really have to look at myself with honesty very deeply.

Q: Baba said, there would be queues from Bombay to Abu and obviously we have social distancing and it doesn't see that happening. So when will it happen? That's the question.

A: I've heard Baba talk about queues from Abu Road to Mt Abu and we've seen that happen every time avyakt Baba would come. Coming down the mountain, going back up the mountain, the queues would begin at 2300 at night and would continue till 0100, 0130 sometimes, people still waiting for their buses and their rides. I've not heard from Bombay to Abu but also you can see how at this moment the message that's reaching out is in terms of multi thousands. We can't actually calculate how many thousands watch. There was an Indian channel that opened recently and I had an interview on that. And I've forgotten the figures but there were thousands of people that had watched it. I don't know about recent times, but within a week, not just at that time of watching, but later they told us it was several thousand. So Baba's message reaches out. It's impossible to calculate how many people are getting Baba's message at this point of time. We were trying to do a report of service just in the UK, (never mind the world), just in the UK. And it's impossible to calculate figures. You know you could calculate there were 100 people at this program. We gave out 100 pieces of toli or 500 pieces of toli. Now we're not even having to make the toli and give it out. But, it's thousands who are benefitting. So I think that that time when Baba's message is reaching out to many, many, many in different ways that we're not even aware of is happening.

Q: I just checked 200,000 but I think more than that. 200,000 have seen that interview.

A: Yeah. Anyway, as you were saying, it's difficult to calculate exactly. We know that a huge amount is happening in terms of all these things that are going on, and not just by the Brahmin family. I think it was last week that I mentioned this program at a conference that I participated in; ideas that were being shared especially by four people who were very connected with the Brahma Kumaris. They were talking about the things that we would talk about. So like when Baba talks about mike souls. I was actually seeing in front of myself these mic souls sharing a message from Baba in a way that they have now interpreted and understood and putting it across to people in the language that people are used to. It was making sense to people and essentially the message was: you have to change your feelings, your emotions, your beliefs, your understanding and then you'll be able to change the world outside. Even the title of a particular session was about the most systemic changes happening through the most personal changes. And so we've always talked about this, and people always ask us this question; how can you change the system. Now it's mics like these souls who are telling people; yes, the system can only change when you change. And so the message is getting out there it really is whether through white saris or non-white saris but also especially through mic souls.

Q: Thank you Jayanti behn. Again, lots of love and appreciation from everyone.

A: Thank you.

 

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Sudesh Didi 01.08.2021 Sunday Morning Class

8 August 2021

Om shanti. Beautiful song with beautiful meaning in every word.

The Bestower of blessings is constantly showering upon us. The blessings of the Satguru. What is the power of Baba’s blessings? How do we use the blessings? Blessings make everything easy, but how do we receive blessings? People always say “God bless you.” Is it God giving blessings? Through the different relationships with God, accordingly, we receive His blessings. Blessings come from parents also. So our Parent gives us blessings. With pure wishes and great bhavna, Baba’s unlimited blessings bring benevolence. Blessings make you benevolent; blessings make difficult tasks easy; blessings make you a donor and a charitable soul. Let’s distinguish the types of blessings we receive. How do we discriminate if these blessings are of charity?

Blessings make you a charitable soul (punya atma). What is the difference between donation and charity?

Donation is always the gross level: In everyday life, for example, people give money or clothes as donations. There are many organisations that provide people with physical support or solutions to physical difficulties. Charity fulfils the needs of the soul. Donation meets the needs of the physical body, eg. physical sickness or physical situations. Charity means that the soul becomes charitable. Charity implies selflessness, that is, benefit for the self and benefit for others. Charity is given with pure consciousness. There are no expectations from the support given. This support and cooperation are of subtle qualities. When we give with the stage of the original qualities of the soul, there will not be the consciousness that I am giving you, and not even in our thoughts will I desire or expect a return. It is said, ‘Do good and forget it.’ In charity, it is not a question of forgetting, because while giving, there is no consciousness of ‘I am giving’.

When I have the consciousness that I am giving, it remains in the subconscious that I have given. And the seed of “I have given” gradually grows into the tree of expectations, whether is it is of appreciation or of respect. The moment there is the awareness of giving, this consciousness of donor will make you into a beggar. Due to expectation, you become a beggar for name, fame, respect or any other kinds of subtle desires. For example, in a charitable trust, you give a donation. What is the expectation through this donation? I should get the income tax return.  Giving donation automatically accompanies with expectations. But when you are a trustee, you do not have the expectations that I am serving and that I should get a reward. You are not even supposed to use the facilities that the charitable trust offers. It is the same with the subtle aspects of charity.

Baba says that in the Golden Age, you are charitable souls, punya atma. From the Copper age, you start to become sinful souls. In the Golden Age, no one is poor; no one needs donation or charity. Deities are charitable souls. Why? With complete purity, interactions are with pure consciousness. Pure love is shared or expressed in soul consciousness. There is natural respect, natural love, natural bliss and natural interaction of pure consciousness, without any contrasting thoughts of being high or low, elevated or not elevated, rich or poor. Although Baba says that in the Golden Age, some souls are wealthy and some are poor, they are not poor in the aspect of wealth; no one in the Golden Age is poor in wealth. Wealth here means all material comfort that nature is offering. Natural resources is the source of wealth. Here, someone sells a nice beautiful house, a big house built with high quality building materials, to a wealthy person. There, in Golden Age, everyone is wealthy in a sense that the gold and diamond mines are full, and to own them does not require money. Will people buy gold and diamonds there? All building materials and natural resources are equally available for everyone.

It is the speciality of this time, that you can earn unlimited wealth. It is the richness you have inside, the wealth of wisdom you have accumulated, accordingly, you add value by using it. And this is why knowledge is wealth. At this time, Baba, the Ocean of knowledge, the Sun of knowledge, is giving equally to everyone. But how much we take, how much knowledge we have inculcated, the spiritual wealth we accumulate, is numberwise. It is , therefore, the inculcation of knowledge that makes us numberwise.  The natural resources are given equally to everyone, but what has been my nature made at this time, how much I have become a donor and a charitable soul at this time, accordingly, I receive my reward in the Golden Age.

In Golden Age, no one is poor; there will not be the consciousness of the king and the subjects. This consciousness begins from the Copper Age. The strength of the souls gradually decreases. By Copper Age, our quality, then, makes us believe that there is rich and poor. For example, the material of these curtains is of good quality. Even after 10-20 years, the curtains are still strong. If the curtains are made of cotton material, and after you wash it 10, 20, 30 times, it remains curtains, No problem. Similarly, subjects are subjects, but they are also equally doing the tasks that they have to do. Therefore, the purpose is served, all their needs are fulfilled; their inner feeling is satisfaction. At that time, everyone is contented and divine. Internally, the strength of each soul is good. The potential within the soul, is accumulated at this time, and depending on how much they have shared with others, extra energy is accumulated. This means it depends on how much I have actually become a donor to my own self, how much I have mercy on my own self. 

What is behind donation? You give donation only when you have mercy on the person. How much mercy do I have for myself? How much do I help myself at this time? God helps those who help themselves. This law of accumulation applies and continues to help us later on in the future also. Souls fill themselves within their capacity at this time, then they consume it gradually as they go around the cycle. By the time they come in Copper Age and Iron Age, they become empty. How much royalty they have in themselves; how much spirituality they have filled in themselves; how much reality and how many royal sanskars as they have filled in themselves determine the cycle. In Golden Age, their royal stage, pure stage is a new stage. Even a plastic which is very new, has good shine, it does not appear as old. Even an ordinary piece of plastic shines, and we call it new. Similarly, in the Golden Age, all souls are happy, all are content, all are virtuous, but the capacity decreases as the time moves. So now at the Confluence Age, to the extent I give and become a charitable soul, accordingly, I am helping myself by using these qualities for myself and sharing them with others.

Observe responsibility: how much of the responsibility which I have taken is of good quality? While fulfilling responsibility, am I doing it feeling burdened, with tension and worry? Am I fulfilling responsibility with tension or with soul conscious attention? In today’s Murli, Baba says you are becoming healthy and you are becoming wealthy. In the lokik world, people give these blessings “May you be a healthy soul.”, “May you be a wealthy soul.” , “May you live a long life.”  And at the Confluence Age, what does it mean when we receive the blessing, “May you have a long life?”  Brahmin life is new life. In this new birth, how much am I sustaining myself through the sustenance from Baba. How much am I enjoying knowledge, that is, the healthy food for the soul? Knowledge is food for me. If I am eating, chewing and digesting this food, the soul is happy. Knowledge is also wealth. How much I am investing knowledge, accordingly, I become wealthy.

For health, it is like medicine. My health depends on how regularly and systematically I take my medicine. Virtues are my medicine. My sensitivity is my sickness: jealousy is a sickness; hatred is a sickness; competition is a sickness; rejection is also a sickness because it is a weakness of the soul. And so spiritual energy means that the soul is becoming powerful, this is how I bless myself.

It is a subtle aspect to have mercy on yourself, along with having blessing on the self. However, we also need to make sure we do not become egocentric. How does a blessing become a curse? When I perform actions with selfish motives, when I am doing for show. If I give a donation, my name should be mentioned. For example, in the hospital, as people donate benches in the garden, they also request for their name to be carved on them. At many temples, as donations are made on every step, instead of the name of God, the name of the person is written on the steps. As a result of the subtle desire of “My name should be there”,  the people who go to God's temples to have a vision of God, are remembering “Oh, this person gave this donation, and that person gave that donation.” So gradually, I myself am separated. Sin means separation. When we are separated, suffering starts. Sin is not anything else but suffering. The more I am separated from myself, from my original qualities, from my godly qualities, the more I become further and further away and become weak. Then this weakness is inviting other weaknesses, defects and impurity. As we perform actions with that consciousness, we create suffering for ourselves as a result. God does not give suffering, God does not punish, but we create suffering multiple times for ourselves. In one Murli, Baba says that if after donating vices, you take them back and use them again, the sin multiplies.

In the law of charity, when you give charity with soul consciousness, when you give the incognito donation with selflessness without any expectations, that incognito donation is like a seed. When you plant a seed in the land, the seed grows. This seed gives you unlimited benefit, because the seed becomes fruit and the fruit multiplies. In the same way, if I use the weakness which I have donated, and still think it is my old sanskara and my old nature, I will repent. After being a knowledgeable soul, when I make a mistake, it pinches more, it gives more suffering. Again and again it makes you feel guilty. Then you begin to feel that you have lost your respect and your happiness. After becoming a Brahmin, when we make a mistake, as a knowledgeable soul, the most subtle punishment is that you lose your self-respect and your happiness. And that is the biggest punishment of all. Since I am still attached to my weakness, since I have not conquered that weakness, I have planted the weakness as the seed, and that also becomes a fruit which also multiplies automatically based on the law of karma. By performing an elevated action and then detached from it, I create my fortune. I get multiple benefit from that, because it is not only my present is pleasant, my future is also fruitful. But the whole secret is to do good and remain detached. This means to remain egoless. To remain detached means to receive a reward, yet to not accept it; to appreciate it and give preference to those who have supported you. Then we are creating our future and our fortune. This is called charity. There is benefit for the soul while we are giving to others selflessly, knowing the secret is detachment. When a fruit, such as a mango, is unripe, it is very difficult to cut, and the flesh cannot be easily separated from the mango seed. Even if you use the sharp knife, the seed will not become separated. But with the power of the sun, as the mango remains connected with the tree, it naturally ripens. You only need to brush the flesh lightly, the seed will become separated from it. Plant this seed anywhere and it will become a tree again. The secret is that the seed is detached from the action of the soul. After achieving everything, you give it to others and remain detached. Do not have the consciousness that it is mine and it becomes both charity for yourself and for others. We receive the fruit at this time, which continues in the future.

To bring these qualities within myself, awareness is very important. Ask the self: Whatever task I am doing, am I using the qualities which Baba has given me or am I separated from these qualities, and connect with the qualities of Ravan, body consciousness? Ravan is not anybody else. Ravan is my own negative personalities. My own weakness is Maya. My own doubt is Maya, whether it is doubt in myself, doubt in others, doubt in each other or doubt in time. Clarity is light. So, we need to stay connected to our original qualities, then accordingly, I am a donor and a charitable soul.  I need to have the vidhi, the method to make it perfect and fruitful. And this is why Baba is Daata (Donor) and also Vidhata (Creator). Daata gives the method of doing the work as a detached, honest, trustee with selfless and benevolent consciousness. The more detached and benevolent I am, the more benefit there is for the self and others. So, this is why now is the important time to receive Baba’s blessings, because blessing makes you blissful.

Today’s Murli is a very, very, very powerful Murli that shows us this contrast, vidhi, the method, whereby every speciality is used whilst being selfless, soul conscious and virtuous. In the stage of being egoless, it becomes a blessing with the same good quality as a diamond. The moment ‘I and mine’ attachment is created, the diamond is flawed and it loses its original value. So practise: while doing any activity, staying in this consciousness of being healthy, wealthy and happy. Reflect: what does it mean to be blissful? What does it mean to be healthy? What does it mean to be wealthy? What does it mean to be best blessed with children whom I sustain? It is a very, very interesting murli. So please take note and, maybe another time, we can go into more detail. Now bhog is going to be offered.

Om shanti.

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Bhog Messages for Ishu Dadi from May

7 August 2021

Dear Centre Coordinators,

Please find attached the bhog message for Ishu Dadi from May 2021 in both English and Hindi.

 

In Baba's yaad,

Rajubhai

Murli Department, Madhuban

 

Bhog message in English.

 

Bhog message in Hindi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Avyakti Parivar: Transcripts of Mohini Didi's Classes on the theme Love and Loveleen from July 23rd - 31st

4 August 2021

Dear Divine Family,

 

Please find attached transcribed classes for Love and Loveleen from July 23 to July 31.

 

Thank you,

Avyakti Parivar

 

Love and Loveleen - July 23

 

Love and Loveleen - July 24

 

Love and Loveleen - July 25

 

Love and Loveleen - July 26

 

Love and Loveleen - July 27

 

Love and Loveleen - July 28

 

Love and Loveleen - July 29

 

Love and Loveleen - July 30

 

Love and Loveleen - July 31

 

 

 

 

Sister Jayanti – 25th July 2021 – Revision of Avyakt Murli of 20/02/88

1 August 2021

 

Om shanti, Jayanti behn, welcome. Welcome to everyone. So, I would like to start with a quote from Rumi, Sr Jayanti, which is very appropriate, and Rumi is saying your legs will get heavy and tired, then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting. So, this is our story:  we go from tired, tired, walking, walking to flying, and so we look forward to shedding light on how to overcome tiredness.

 

Om shanti. Thank you. And yes, Baba's murli was actually at a very, very appropriate time for those of us who were sitting in front of Baba, but also appropriate for everyone who is hearing it today. What had happened was that we completed in 1986 the Million Minutes of Peace Appeal, and that brought us seven national and international awards from the UN for international Peace Messenger awards, which was quite amazing. Then we thought that we had done with international projects, and then what happened was the Under-Secretary-General came to Madhuban, and he had been responsible for the peace unit which had organised the Million Minutes. Well, the peace of year and ours was one of those projects, and he came to Madhuban and he spoke to the Dadis and wanted to have a follow up project, a Peace Messenger project. We were too exhausted to say yes…New York, London, Australia, everyone, and because he'd gone to the Dadis, the Dadis loved the idea and the Dadis wanted us to take it on, and we were still very reluctant, and so the idea went to Baba. Baba directly intervened and ensured that Global Cooperation for a Better World happened, and then the 1987 murlis – many of them referred to this – and so this one in 1988 we'd been working very hard and we had been staying up till midnight many times and, of course, the Dadis spoke together – Dadi Janki, Dadi Gulzar – and the news reached Baba; Baba had been watching anyway, but also the Dadis told Baba.

 

This was the murli that was being spoken when that group was sitting in front of Baba on February 20^th, 1988 and, of course, that whole scene emerged in our minds and our hearts, and Baba's love and compassion, and Baba's just genuine appreciation of all that was happening and being done, but it's exactly the same now. If you're engaged in a project and there's that same intensity of effort that's going on, and you're thinking, well how much longer can I carry on? Well, this murli is the one for you, and I'm sure that applies to many, many, many who are online at this moment.

 

Baba, of course, began in a very open and big way, and Baba talking about the souls who were in Bharat, the souls who were outside Bharat, and what happened to that moment, of course, Baba reminding us of our eternal home, our original home, Bharat, and how all of us – whichever country we are in now, whatever religion we belonged to in our last birth – Baba reminding us that you are those eternal deity souls who lived in Bharat for at least 21 births, and probably many, many more births after that also.

 

So, there's a link of the heart with Bharat in which, when we land in Bharat, the fragrance, the smells, of Bharat reach us and catch us and we're happy to be home. Although it's hot and dusty, and it's old and worn out, yet our love for Bharat is very special, because we know that it is our original home. Baba is reminding us of that, and then a very powerful reminder: if Baba were to say to you, now stay in Bharat, what would you say? You would say, wonderful…this is the chance I've been waiting for! That would be the response of many, many, but would you also say, but what about service…there's so much service to be done out there; I need to be back there for service, and Baba's saying, but your promise is to be obedient, and Baba needs you in Bharat, Baba will tell you to stay in Bharat. If Baba needs you outside Bharat, Baba will send you outside Bharat, and so be ready...be ever ready…here – fine, there – fine…and to know that whatever it is Baba wants for you, is going to be the best for you, the best for service and the best for the world.

 

Then again, a very powerful reminder from Baba, but who actually is responsible for service? Is it you or is it God? It's God's work and God can make it all happen, but God is offering you the opportunity to create your fortune because the law of karma is that, if you do something, you will receive the reward of that, and if you're not given that opportunity to do something, then there cannot be the return, there cannot be the result. And so, this very much Baba underlining for us again that, God could touch everybody's intellects and take them all home, but we are the ones who have to create the golden age, then we can be part of the golden age and come there.

 

So, lovely, lovely reminders but Baba's reminding us what is service? Service is simply re-enacting something that happened already. It's fixed, it's going to happen again. All you are doing is writing on that same line once again…that's what service is...it's no burden. Baba said, I wouldn't use the word burden but you guys use the word burden, and so I'm mentioning the word burden again, but in fact, it is no burden. If anyone carries the burden, it's the one who is the inspiration behind it all, so He carries the load...He carries the burden...you don't have to carry anything at all.

 

So, what are we doing? God is pulling the strings and we're dancing; we're the puppets – kathaputalee – a lovely word in Hindi. We're puppets dancing to God's tune...dancing in the way that God wants us to…and so, see service as a game. See service as everything done already and now just simply drawing the same line.

 

Baba commented that the last murli had been about Maya and the games of Maya, and this time it was about the games of service, and so service is a game. And I was just thinking how when there's a tennis match, when they go out there and they're slamming the ball and it's hot, and they're sweating, and they're working so hard, but their heart and soul is in it because there's that zeal and enthusiasm, because it's a game, and they want to win the game, and really, if it's love in your heart to do something, it'll never ever be a burden. If someone were to tell a tennis player: stop playing, give up your game, have a comfortable chair and relax with a cool drink, why do you want to sweat it out on the field, on the tennis court? He'd say but I enjoy it, I love it.  So, same thing.

 

Service is for enjoyment. Service is for pleasure. Service is for fortune. Service brings us power. Service is nourishment - but let me see it that way, and not see it as a burden.

 

If somebody has a 9 to 5 job and they have to give their intellect to it or they have to physically work hard for it, it's a burden...it's a toil…but, if somebody is using their intellect for Baba, if somebody is using their body and energy for Baba's work, they're never going to say you're tired…you're loving it and it’s your fortune. So, first and foremost see it as a game.

 

Secondly, play the game with enjoyment, with pleasure; don't do it out of compulsion. Don't do it because somebody's telling you to do it, but do it with your heart, with love, and not that I want to do this or I don't want to do this, no. Whatever is in front of me, let me do it, and let me do it with that love and that zeal and that enthusiasm, and I will never experience tiredness.

 

Then, Baba was talking about how we give our intellects to service, for planning, for putting those plans into practical form. But are we maintaining the balance of remembrance and service, because that is what is going to bring us blessings, and not just blessings, but also in a very practical way, Baba was explaining how if you don't go to bed at the right time and, as I said, you were having very late nights in those days, so Baba said, instead of going to bed at 12, well how about an hour earlier? Go to bed at 11pm, and that extra hour of rest is going to make you fresh for amrit vela, and at amrit vela you're able to take all the power that God wants to give you, and that power will help you through the whole day the next day. If you're pushing your body and, even though you may wake up for amrit vela, you're not going to be very fresh for it, you're going to be very sleepy, and so the body's going to take what it needs.

So, next day that tiredness of the intellect is going to make you toil, and so that tiredness means that any work that you could do within half an hour, you're taking an hour to do it, and if the intellect is fresh, then two hours’ work can be done very fast or you can do two hours’ work in one hour. That's also everybody's practical experience; you know that that is true, and so not to be lazy, not to oversleep, but definitely to understand what the body needs and give the body whatever it is that is needed. So that then, next day, you're going to be able to have amrit vela and take that freshness from Baba and do everything with that freshness.

 

So, a fresh intellect means that your workload is cut by half. A heavy head and probably you'll make mistakes but also, it's going to take a lot deal longer. Even within meetings, if you're conducting a meeting, or if you're part of a meeting, making plans, again, freshness in your intellect and you'll get through the agenda quickly. Your intellect heavy and the whole meeting's going to drag on for double the amount of time and it's not going to be as successful, but if you have the blessings of the balance of remembrance and also service, then everything's going to be very, very successful and beautiful.

 

Baba also gave us a little yukti: every couple of hours, or even every hour, just make that link, have that link, and also then experience that power that comes to you. In 1977, I remember that Dadi Prakashmani had, because Baba had been saying stop from time to time and have yoga, and so it was in 1977, that Dadi Prakashmani initiated the traffic control system in Madhuban, and when she came abroad to London, she said, well, have traffic control here, and I said to her, I thought that was for Madhuban. She said, no it's for everyone everywhere, and so we started traffic control, and that was every two hours, but if you go to Madhuban now, and in the last several years, you'll notice that there's every hour on the hour, just a very short piece of music playing, and that's traffic control. So, it became every hour just some years ago, but Baba had mentioned, stop every hour or every two hours, and let your intellect become fresh. And Baba said something very, very lovely.  He said, Baba wants to massage you, but there's a condition. How can Baba massage you when you're tired? Come to the Father's land, come to the alokik world, the subtle region, and Baba will be able to massage you there. You stay down here and say I'm tired but I don't have time to go up. Baba's going to say, well what can I do but come up above and Baba will massage you in an alokik way but in a way that makes you feel very, very refreshed. So, lovely message from Baba there, but also, Baba said, if you're pushing yourself with tiredness what happens then? Probably there will be irritability and I know that many, many of us have experienced that, too, and so, even to manage our sanskars to develop patience, and not get irritable, maybe that's the journey we're on, so that we're not allowing negativity to come into our behaviour, and of course, I have to go even a further step, and have such yoga that it’s not even a question of managing my sanskars, but I’ve actually been able to change my sanskars so that that’s finished. But certainly, at the place where we're at, where most of us are at now, then that irritability comes, and the other one knows that I'm tired…I know I'm tired. Well, what am I going to do about it? Well, Baba suggesting take time just for silence for a moment. Come to Baba and just have that rest up above and let the intellect and mind become totally fresh, and the body will also feel that freshness through that yoga.

 

Then, Baba talking about how when Baba became avyakt, the speed of service increased and, somehow, we have this grand plan in our minds that after this project is over, right, then I'm going to focus on yoga. Does that ever, ever happen? Well, by the time one project is over or maybe not even over, already there's another project that comes up, and Baba said that's what sangamyug is about. The speed of effort is continually going to increase and speed up further and further, and so, we've already seen how service speeded up after Baba became avyakt. Service speeded up after Dadi Prakashmani became avyakt, and now that all the Dadis, except one, are avyakt, we're seeing service move forward at a very, very fast speed.

 

So, Baba made an interesting comment. Baba could say I'm going to give you a year of rest but drama isn't going to let you. That was very interesting for me. Even if God says He is going to give me a year of rest, drama does not allow it in sangamyug, because, there will be more service, and more service, and more service happening, but the trick to learn is to keep this balance and to use yoga, the power of remembrance, to be able to do everything I need to do and double in half the time…double work in half the time. Can I do that? Well, Baba's promising me that if I keep taking that opportunity to go up above and spend that time with Him, then that energy is going to help me deal with everything here and do it in a much, much faster and more efficient way, which I've experienced, and I believe that, yes, this is how it works.

 

Usually, we think it's sleep that's going to make my intellect fresh, but Baba's saying, yes, give your body the amount of sleep that it requires, but it's not sleep that's going to make it fresh; it's going to be your yoga that makes it fresh, and so a different slant on everything. So, Baba's saying that service is going to continue, it's going to speed up, and you have to be absolutely on the ball so that you're able to continue to do whatever is needed, but yet still continue to take the blessings of that balance.

 

So, Baba's murli was a very loving one. Baba's murli was also very, very insightful. Baba saying, that Baba keeps track of everything that's going on. The instruments and the devices you have of capturing records of everything are very, very out of date. Baba. We think that they are the latest bee’s knees modern systems, but Baba's saying that prakarti (or prakritri) is nature, matter – the elements – are tamopradhan, and so, all the equipment you have, all the devices you have are tamopradhan. You know they fall out of repair, they go bust, they don't work as they should work, and Baba's equipment is absolutely up to date because it's not using the energy of electricity here...it's using the energy of light...it's the world of light and there's no matter as there is here, and so everything is light anyway.

 

So, the energy of light is recording everything that needs to be recorded, and in particular, our record of remembrance – to what extent am I in God's remembrance – because, ultimately, this is what determines my future, and so, God's machines never wear out, God's machines never break down, God's devices are always up to date, God's devices are perfect, and they work highly, highly efficiently. God doesn't even need to look at them and check them but the data was collected automatically…for each and every single child.

 

So, Baba reminding us that whatever data we collect here is very inefficient and it was interesting for us at that time, because we were just thinking about how do we collect the data, because Baba's message had come via Dadi Gulzar, but you have to create a bank. Just prior to that, banks had earned a very, very bad reputation because of scandals surrounding banks, and the money that banks were making at people's expense; people who had saved their money in the bank; well, the bank is using it for their own purposes meanwhile, so, there was a lot of mistrust of banks around. Yet still Baba said, no, have some method of collection…and we didn’t know what, and then Baba said a method of collecting good wishes, and so we began to think about it…how can we collect good wishes for all? So, this idea came up about a vision for a better world, seeing yourself in that better world, seeing relationships in that better world and being able to have good wishes for all.

 

So, I won't go into the complications of the project itself but, imagine, we existed in about 80 countries at that point, but the project reached 128 countries. With a Million Minutes, we existed in 66 countries at that time and the project went into 80 countries. So, projects reached beyond our centres to countries where there were no centres, and then in some cases, centres grew up as a result of the projects.

 

So, Baba knew absolutely everything: Baba had a plan...Baba had a design…but Baba was only giving us little tips about what it is we needed to do. But I read that murli now and I realise that, yes, it was very important and valuable for all of us at that time, but the love that Baba's filled within that Murli and his appreciation for the double foreign children especially…Baba said I've come to have a heart to heart conversation, this time especially for the double foreign children.

 

So, all of us outside of Bharat – and I know there are people in Bharat listening also – but Baba loves the people of Bharat a huge amount; there’s no question about that, but Baba especially sharing His love and his vision focused on the plans of the children abroad, the things that we're doing, the programs that we're having. Baba mentioned all of that…Baba's looking at your plans…Baba's looking at your programs. Baba's looking…but most of all at your chart of remembrance, because Baba knows that programs will come and go, but that the power of yoga that we accumulate is what is going to stay with us, and that stage that I need to have to be able to manage the speed of service at this moment.  What is my stage? That is the most important thing of all at this moment, and so let me create that stage and let me work with that stage now.

 

So, summary of a very, very lovely murli and probably a murli that you can keep as a reference because anytime you feel tired – Baba said tired in the body, tired in the brain, tired in your stage – well, this is the murli! And Baba's point that why is it that we don't have powerful yoga? It's because we don't keep up the link through the day, and so again, that signal for traffic control. And so, if I keep up that link through the day, because it's much easier to connect again if, by chance, the link has been...it's never totally forgotten…somewhere it's there in the back of your mind. Baba said that it's not totally forgotten but it isn't that clear awareness, that's for sure. So, at least every hour the reminder, and if you're not in a centre, if you're not in a situation in which you can have music suddenly playing, or your computer gives you a signal, well, just the simple method of having water; create a system in which you have water regularly and so, every hour on the hour, have a glass of water; create that system and that will be your traffic control. It will be the signal that, yes, this is the time I can give to Baba. Recreate that link so that then when it's time for proper yoga, the link is already there and you're able to have a powerful stage in which Baba's really able to inject you, but Baba's also talking about Vitamin A, B, and C all coming to you just simply through yoga. When somebody is physically weak, the doctor will tell him, okay take this medicine every two hours, and it will give you that energy, it will build you up, it will boost you. So, how to boost the soul again, and again, not just every hour, but try to keep that link and definitely at the end of the day, powerful yoga in which you can really feel Baba filling you with all his love and light.

 

Om shanti.

 

Thank you Jayanti behn!  Beautiful as always. I think Jayanti behn if we could maybe just spend 10 minutes or so on the murli and then we can go to Didi if that's okay?

 

Sure.

 

And, actually, when you were talking about the tennis, oh, I don't know if you know Roger Federer, but he was like number one for many, many years, and he won 20 grand slams and he's got a fortune of like $500M dollars. When he plays tennis, he just enjoys it so much and everybody enjoys seeing him, and so, this is reminding me of what you're saying that, when we really just do what we love to do, then it's a joy for us and it's a joy for others to see as well.

 

Jayanti behn, could we maybe just take a moment to focus on this aspect, because it is something I think we all struggle with and that is the balance of yoga and service, and yes, I know Baba tells us and this is a lovely murli, but I think there's something to do with personal responsibility. Like I think for me I have to really tell myself that I have to fit in the yoga; it's not just something that Baba's telling me to do, but it's something I have to do. So, do you want to just elaborate on that a little bit about personal responsibility in terms of the balance, and not just as a, you know, discipline or routine?

 

Absolutely true if it's just something that, well, Baba's told me I have to do this, then it's still that “have to” that comes in. But when I experience that I want to spend time with Baba and I want to experience Baba's love, then there's a very, very different attitude. And, yes, I can feel Baba's love around me, karankaravanhar is making me move and all of that, but the time to actually experience Baba's love is when I'm sitting down and having yoga. Without that, there isn't that experience of Baba's love.

 

And so, really why Baba uses this expression of lover and beloved so often in the murli; a son might not necessarily want to run and meet his Father – yes, if it's after a long time, definitely – but if it's every day, you know the child is quite casual…yes, my father's at home…I'll go home and I'll meet my father. But, if it's a lover wanting to meet the beloved, then you're counting the minutes to the moment that you can meet the beloved. So, in this case, the pull of love, the magnetism of love, and if I feel that I want to experience Baba's love, it's very different to the feeling of I have to X Y Z.

 

So, let me experience what it feels like to feel Baba's love, and to feel the passion of that love and that joy in which love is the connection that my beloved, that meeting that I've been waiting for. I want to experience it. So, if I can turn it around in that way and think of Baba as the Beloved. If you think about all of the mystics, whether it's Christian mystics, whether it's Muslim mystics, or Jewish mystics and, of course, all the Hindu mystics. All the mystics have spoken about the experience of God's love as God the Beloved.

 

So, there was something that they were feeling at that moment, even without properly knowing God, but it was that experience of love that was touching them and awakening something within them, and I'm sure they were the souls who have taken gyan in sangamyug but they belong to that particular branch of the tree. So now this is my opportunity to experience God's love, which I won't have through the rest of the kalpa, and so, let me be aware of what yoga really is. Yoga isn't a discipline...yoga is that experience of union of love...the fire of love that Baba often speaks about.

 

Yes, beautiful, Jayanti behn. I think one has to go into you know how it's really benefitting me and then I think we are pulled to that. Okay so, here's another question, Jayanti behn. What about in service when you keep giving somebody service to do but they keep saying no. Then should you stop giving them service? And if they do keep saying no, what is happening in their mind?

 

It's worth having a conversation to find out what it is that's making them say no. Is it that they're afraid? Is it that they're internally insecure? What is it that they're afraid of? People laughing at them? People reacting to them? People scolding them? What is the factor of fear that's coming in, and try to help them resolve that. Very often it's just insecurity. If I do this, I don't know whether I can do it properly. I don't know whether it's going to be accurate. I don't know whether they're going to jump at me because I didn't do it as I should do. It's all of these thoughts that can come in, or maybe there's another factor. Maybe I don't quite know their situation at home. Maybe there's a child that needs their attention more than generally. Maybe there's a parent that they're looking after. What is it? So, a conversation with somebody is always very, very important, and that will then give me a clearer picture, and then, there could be service they can do at home - writing blessings for example. We use hundreds and hundreds of blessings all the time, and to go through some murli books – the avyakt murlis, maybe – and write some blessings. Maybe they are more creative than just writing something. Maybe they can do little beautiful cards; there are people who do that. So, let me find out what their situation is and then I'll understand how to deal with it.

 

Thank you. Jayanti behn!  Today, Baba said in the murli, that it's better to experience the sickness in the body or the illnesss, and finish the karma, than to experience the punishment of dharamraj. Can you tell us a bit more about that? 

 

When Mama was going through severe pain and yet nothing showed on her face at all, it would be something that Mama would say. Mama would say that it's better that I settle my karma here rather than at the end. So, Mama faced all of that, not with pleasure, but certainly with equanimity and dignity, and so that's how she became karmateet.

 

So, if I have that understanding, that if there is pain, then okay I didn't invite it to come but it's come, and so, let me not blame and complain about it, because so often we think, oh you know, this has come. Why me? I wish I hadn't gone to this place. I wouldn't have got sick if I hadn't gone here. All sorts of things like that can come to the mind. But Baba's saying, it's come, okay, now be calm and deal with it and understand the deeper significance that it's a settlement, and, the more that I can settle things now, the better it is rather than wait till the final moments.

 

Thanks, Jayanti behn. And, somebody's asking about the slogan from the avyakt murli; you can clarify that? Become one who has mercy for everyone, and the ego of I and any doubts will finish.

 

If truly I have mercy for others, then ahum, Baba uses this word, ahum; the ego that comes in, the I that comes in, well, both things don't go together, it's either compassion or it's the ego, and so, let me develop that side of compassion. It's there within me, there is that love, there is that mercy, but let me be able to emerge it and express it and the ego will continue to be reduced, but also, sometimes we translate the hem as doubts, but you can also translate the hem as my imagination. It's my imagination, it's not really that something is happening. The hem is what's stuck in my head. There's some doubt that's there and so it's springing from doubt, but now you're saying something and I'm interpreting it completely in the wrong way, because of the doubt, and the imagination…my imagination working overtime. Well, can I change that attitude and just develop more and more compassion? Because, just like God has compassion, in the same way, if I want to follow in Baba's footsteps, let me be able to have the same, and so, doubting what people are saying, making my imagination work overtime, is such a waste of my energy. It's really not useful at all. If there's something I'm not liking, let me have compassion, so that then I can help another deal with it, but certainly not have that imagination and doubts in my head. So definitely that's something that doesn't work. It's going to hold me back. My ego is going to trip me up and the doubts I have in others, the false imagination that's at work here, again, it's going to be a bondage for me…it's going to be a hurdle for me. So, I need to see how to navigate my way through all the traps of Maya and the illusions of Maya so that I can reach my destination.

 

So, Baba's murlis and whether it's a slogan or the blessing, or the murli, the body of the murli, Baba's making us very, very aware of all the different forms of Maya that can come in. You know, how often have you imagined that somebody doesn't like you, but it's because you have doubts in them, and so, your imagination is now saying that they don't like you, and you sit down, and you actually have a heart to heart with them, and you realise that it was my imagination and, because I doubted that individual, I let the imagination take over. But it actually was okay, it wasn't such a problem, and just talking it through, we were able to deal with it. I think we forget that we need to communicate. You know, I can't read what's going on in your mind, and Baba doesn't want me to read what's going on in your mind. It's protection for you and for me, but we can talk together. Instead of even sending text messages of a few sentences or one sentence, can I lift the phone and have a conversation on the phone? Or, better still, in some cases, Covid is now whatever it is, but there's a release from lockdown. So, we can sit and have a cup of tea, a cup of coffee together and talk things through…so let me do that.

 

Yes, I think what I heard you say Jayanti behn, is replace mercy with humility. Right? So, one last general knowledge and then I'd like to move on to Didi. And very briefly if you can answer this, Jayanti behn:  When souls willingly leave their body like the monks, sanyasis…they willingly leave their body…is that an act of suicide?

 

I think that when it's the context of the sanyasi and they feel that they've reached the end of their endeavour of this birth, then they leave their body willingly, and it's not such an easy thing to do. You can't just say, I'm going to leave and do it without violence. I mean violence is then, of course, suicide, but you're not talking about that, you're talking about where there's a thought and they're able to leave, but just imagine how much tapasya they must have done, to be able to actually have the thought and then quietly, gently, peacefully fly away. It's a huge amount of effort that's been a preparation, so that then they're able to get to that point where they feel that they've done as much as is possible in this birth, and now they want to move on. So, it's actually a very, very elevated stage and it's not suicide. It's a recognition that you can leave this body and take on another one and continue your journey in a different way, on a different level and, of course, some of them have thought that by leaving the body they're going to merge into the element of light and that doesn't happen, but the effort that they have put in to be able to come to that state of spiritual power – so that they can leave at will – is quite amazing.

 

Yes, thank you, Jayanti behn. So, we move on to Didi Manmohini now. And Didi was very special…is very special, and Jayanti behn, I had met her when I was 7, 8 years old, when Manju behn took us as a family, and my auntie, my uncle, everyone went. And she's the one who gave me my silver ring, and then she was giving us presents, and I was being picky and choosy, like all the spoiled kids are, so I took something and I didn't want it, I wanted to change it. But, anyway, as always, they were always sweet, Didi was very sweet. And Baba said to Didi once (because Baba would take Didi around the campus holding her finger), that now you are holding Baba's hand, or Baba's finger, and in satyug you will be holding Krishna's finger, or Krishna will be holding your finger. You're holding Baba's finger now and in satyug.

 

So, what was this special dharna that made Didi, Didi, and why is it that Baba respected her so much?

 

Didi was the very, very first one to recognise Shiv Baba, Brahma Baba. She wasn't just the first Gopi; she was the first individual, and Gopi – of course, that was her lokik name – but she was truly that Gopi who was absolutely intoxicated and lost in love, and we never ever saw Didi lose her zeal and enthusiasm at any moment at all, and she went through many illnesses also, but, Didi's love and faith were absolutely incomparable and so, a very, very special soul. In lokik terms, she was the head of her family in the sense that they all –she wasn't so old at that time – but they all respected her clarity, her wisdom, her insight. Somehow, she always had that even before coming to Baba, and so, there was a lot of respect for her in her lokik family also, and her lokik family was…today, you would call them multimillionaires – and that family still is in that bracket…all the members of that family are in that category. In those days, then to suddenly renounce everything completely and just come to Baba, that was quite something. Of course, then her mother was inspired to come; her younger sister was inspired to come, and then her father's brother's children; again, Brig Shanta Dadi – she was inspired to come – and her mother was inspired to come, and her sister was inspired to come. So, six members of one very prominent family all surrendered. Can you imagine what would happen if something similar happened even today? Even today? So, at that time, it was wild fire that spread all over Sindh, and Didi absolutely committed to Baba, totally, totally surrendered to Baba. She left behind everything without a single thought, and so the quality of her surrender was amazing, the quality of her love and loyalty and commitment was amazing. So Didi was a very, very special soul.

 

Jayanti behn, her slogan, Baba's ghar jana hai, which is now we have to go home, but I think there's a story behind that.

 

That happened right at the very end. Didi left in 1983, and in 1982, she came on tour in the West. In 1981, she was on tour in the East but in 1982 she came to the West and she came to New York first, and as soon as she landed in New York, she came to meet the class. Now she's had a 20 to 21 hour journey – she hadn't stopped anywhere – so it was literally a very, very long journey in those days, and she came to the centre, and she said, yes, she will meet everybody. It was evening time, and the whole class was there, and Didi began to speak and she began to use this phrase: “It's time to go home, it's time to go home,” and for that whole year, she was repeating this phrase: It's time to go home; it's time to go home. And, we just began to associate this phrase of Didi with Didi…that this is Didi's mantra now and we didn't realise – I didn't realise at that time – that Didi was actually getting a premonition, and Didi was preparing herself for her final period. Of course, then when it was the opening of Om Shanti Bhawan in 1983, in February, Didi was around to see that, so that was beautiful, and, then around June-July, Didi phoned me – I was back in London at that time – and Didi said to me, I'm in Bombay, and I thought, wonderful, and I was very happy that Didi had called. We just had landline phones at that time and I was in Baba Bhawan, and so she called and said, I'm in Bombay and guess who is with me? Dadi Janki's with me and we're both here for treatment, but let's see what happens. I have to return to Madhuban in a week's time; Dadi Janki might take a bit longer – let's see.

 

She was very jovial, very light, very easy, and then, when they started to check, she'd had a little bit of a problem with headaches and things, and they thought it might be a cataract or something, but it wasn't, it was far more serious, it was a tumour, and then, as it happened, Didi flew away and, of course, the story there, was that Didi was in a coma for about 20 days and everybody wondered why, how, what's going to happen? Is she going to come out of this? Dadi Janki would phone me and say, when I look at Didi's face – she was in ICU, they weren't allowed to go in – she said, when we look at her face…her face is so peaceful…her face is so radiant. One thing I can say, she's not suffering. If there's any type of suffering, it would be visible on her face, but she's not in any type of suffering at all.

 

So, everybody was quite hopeful that she'd come out of the coma, but then she flew away, and when bhog was offered later –it was Dadi Gulzar who had offered the bhog, and brought back the message – then, the explanation was given by Baba, which was a very lovely explanation, that, in October 1968, when Baba had sent me with Didi to go on tour, that was the last time she saw Baba.

 

I came back in December to meet Baba, but Baba kept sending her on tour further and further away from Delhi, from Delhi to Agra, from Agra to further afield in UP and all sorts of places, and then finally, to the Kumbh Mela. She'd gone to Kolkata but moved on further to wherever the Kumbh Mela was being held, and she was with Dadi, Pur Dadi, Dadi Nirmal Shanta, and that three-month period from October to January, Didi didn't come back. And Didi then came back only literally minutes before the body was put on to the hearse on the 21st of January. So, they'd been trying to reach Didi from Saturday, couldn't get through...everywhere they phoned, she had just moved, just moved. And then finally on the 21^st, the Tuesday, Didi and Pur Dadi came.

 

So that was something that was there deep in her heart that I missed being with Baba for the last three months of sakar Baba. And so, Baba said that Baba wanted to remove that sorrow and gave her that opportunity of being in the subtle region with BapDada before taking rebirth. You know that most times when the soul leaves, it very quickly enters a mother's womb into the foetus, and that's a time when the mother feels the quickening, that there's life there, but Didi was kept in the subtle region to enjoy that time with avyakt BapDada, especially because of having missed that three-month time. Her deep, deep love for Baba was just tremendous and Baba gave her that opportunity. So, when she was saying it's time to go home, she was talking about herself, she wasn't talking generally about all of us, but at that time, of course, you don't know why someone is saying something, but she was really preparing herself. She wouldn't have been able to put it into words. But there was something within her that was prompting her to say this.

 

So lovely, Jayanti behn. I get goose pimples every time I hear stories of the yagya. So Didi had many qualities, Jayanti behn, they say she was all-rounder. As soon as the murli was over she would go to the kitchen and start helping also in the kitchen. And, Didi also had the balance of being a child and a master, so she would give her opinion as a master but then become a child if not everyone agreed.

 

Jayanti behn any last story that you want to share from your heart about Didi?

 

Didi's amazing intellect, the wisdom and the clarity of her intellect. What would happen was that in the late 1970s when the first people from abroad were arriving in Madhuban, at that time, Didi generally didn't give classes anyway, she would share her experience and sometimes take a short class – but not like an hour's class like many of the other Dadis – she would say that's their role. But she said to me one day: I'd like to meet all these people who are now coming to Madhuban...they're Baba's children and I don't know them so well...I'd like to get to know them. I said, Didi, tell me how? And she said, arrange for groups of four to come to me every evening at 4.30. Most times India's yes to time means that people aren't ready till 5 o’clock or later, but Didi would be there ready at 4.30 waiting for them, and of course, it was small groups…if there was a group of 10, that was a big group.

 

So, over the space of about two weeks, to take four at a time was working out fine, and four people would go in and Didi would conduct meditation for about half an hour. Just imagine, Didi would conduct meditation for about half an hour with four people, giving each one drishti. Then Didi would say a few words to each one, and she'd ask me to introduce who they were also, and then she'd say a few words. Afterwards she would tell me something about each one that could help me help them progress, and about one individual she said that, well this person when she was speaking to me, she was saying that, Didi I'm a bit confused: Am I supposed to remember paramdham in yoga? Am I supposed to remember satyug in yoga? Am I supposed to remember Shiv Baba? Am I supposed to remember Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba? And she went on like this.

 

Just remember they were very, very new at that time and we didn't have a thousand classes to draw on...everything was completely fresh and different. And Didi had explained to her, everything is important, but don't let yourself get confused, just focus on one thing at a time. Didi told me that the way you can help her, let's just make sure that she doesn't get confused because she's jumbling up everything very quickly. Whenever she does that, tell her to sit down calmly and help her understand step by step what it is that needs to happen.

 

Then there was another person and that person was saying that Didi had asked about yoga, and usually her questions were about yoga, and, Didi had said where is your yoga more powerful, is it here or is it at home? And this person said, I may go to have yoga everywhere, and Didi smiled and said fine, yes, it's good to have yoga everywhere, but when you're in a place like Madhuban, we should also be able to experience the extra vibrations that Baba wants you to take away from here, so that you fill yourself with that and you take that away.

 

Then afterwards, she told me that, this person really needs to watch their ego and gently help them understand. If Didi had said that to them, they would feel very offended, but again, very gently you can help them understand that they need to have more soul consciousness, and a little bit of humility, so that then they're able to move forward.

 

So, now within the space of a three-minute, four-minute conversation with an individual, how much did Didi know them? She didn't know them very well, but this is why she wanted to meet them, because she felt that, as the mother of the yagya, I need to know Baba's children, and so, she went out of her way to organise that.

 

With her piercing intellect, she would read a person very fast…just one question they asked or one answer they give…and Didi would be able to tell a lot about that individual. So, an amazing insight into everyone, and Didi's yoga – absolutely focused and concentrated – and her drishti could lift you and make you fly.

 

So, Jayanti behn shall we just explain also they used to say Didi is law and Dadi is love. Do you want to explain why they said that?

 

Dadiji always the embodiment of love, and Didi's love more like the love of a father in a way. The love of the mother just accommodating and accepting and unconditional, but Didi's concern was that every soul should reach their highest potential and come to Baba. So, if there was something that was not quite right – that Didi would notice it was out of line – Didi would call them and, of course, in those days where it was Hindi speakers, Didi would tell them very openly, very straight, with a lot of love – never harshness, but a lot of love – that this is what you need to pay attention to. Of course, this is why when there was translation involved, she would tell me, and then expect me to convey it to them in a way that was acceptable, but Didi's concern was always that each child of Baba should really become the highest, which means we have to follow the Maryadas, we have to follow the system, we have to follow shrimat. So, this is why they would say that Didi is the law and Dadi is the love, but it was Didi's absolute adherence to the law, and her ability to make others understand the value of the law, that created the foundation of Madhuban without Baba and Mama. Because, just imagine – Mama left, Baba left, and the whole organisation could have fallen apart, but Didi was the foundation, the powerhouse, and of course Dadiji also the love. It was like avyakt Baba saying that Dadi is the mike, but Didi is the might. Now, what can the mike do if there isn't that energy, that might? But Baba categorically said the might and the mike. And so, that powerhouse that kept the integrity of Madhuban, and made Madhuban continue with the systems that Mama and Baba had established – it was Didi's power that made that happen – and then, of course, Dadiji continued with all of that, but definitely Didi…the law and the might.

 

So, I know we have to finish, Jayanti behn, but I think an important point, like you have explained to me, when there is a senior's anniversary, they need to offer bhog to the closest Thursday or, in our case, Friday in the Middle East. So, now Didi's day falls on Wednesday. So, is it okay to offer bhog on Thursday for Didi?

 

What we're doing in London is, we are going to offer the morning bhog with special bhog for Didi, but on Wednesday, anyway, lunch is cooked which is fresh, and so we're going to make sure that we have a specific something that is extra that is cooked for Didi, and we'll sit in Baba's room – whoever is in the house at that time – and offer that bhog to Didi on Wednesday itself.

 

So, the Thursday bhog will be for everyone, and then to honour the day itself, we'll also offer on Wednesday at lunchtime, so that then there is a recognition and that specialness.

 

Thank you so much Jayanti behn.

 

And also, on Wednesday, we're going to be sharing stories about Didi but also then sharing toli with everyone.

 

Great, Jayanti behn, thank you so much…lovely as always, and everybody's appreciative. We will end now with some meditation, and we'll play that song actually that is Didi's song, "It's time to go home".

 

Thank you. 

Om shanti.

 

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