18 June 1969 · English

"One who has died alive will not touch the old sanskars of a shudra."

1. Do you go to school? What is the first lesson of this school? To die a living death. To die a living death means to be dead to your body, your friends and relations and the old world while alive. Have you made this first lesson firm? (We have not died alive to our sanskars.) When someone dies, his past sanskars also finish. So here too, why should you remember your past sanskars? Since it is another birth, you should have finished all the things of the past. This is the first lesson in dying a living death. You must make this firm. Your past old sanskars should appear to be as though they were the sanskars of someone else, not your own. Previously, they were those of a shudra, now they are those of a Brahmin and so you must not have old sanskars of shudras. Why do you make someone else’s sanskars your own? What would you call someone who makes other people’s things belong to him? A thief. So why do you steal this? Why should Brahmins take a shudra’s things? If someone’s clothes just touch an untouchable person, he goes and takes a bath. Therefore, what should you do if the sanskars of a shudra are adopted by a Brahmin? You have to make effort for that. Just as you never touch dirty things, in the same way, keep yourself safe from your old sanskars. You must not touch them. Only when you pay so much attention will you be able to draw the attention of others to this.

2. What is the main virtue for success in service ? Humility. The more humble you are, the more success there will be. One becomes humble when there is the consciousness of being an instrument. You must do service while considering yourself to be an instrument. When you have the virtue of humility everyone will bow down to you. Everyone bows down to those who first bow themselves. You must carry out all tasks whilst considering yourself to be an instrument. Just as the Father just takes the support of the body just for name’s sake, in the same way, you must consider that you have taken your body as an instrument. One is to consider that body to be an instrument, and the other is to consider yourself to be an instrument for service . Only then will there be humility. Then watch success come in front of you. Just as BapDada comes into a body temporarily , in the same way, consider the body to be a support as an instrument. Does BapDada have attachment to the body? When you consider it to be a support, you will not be dependent. At present you are dependent on the body, whereas then, you will control the body.

3. It is remembered that a world is created through vision. What kind of world is created and when is it created? Why is there the praise of just the world and the vision? Why isn’t there the praise of the mouth? What do you change first of all at the confluence age? What is the first lesson that you are taught? To see each other with the vision of brotherhood. To have the vision of brotherhood means to first change the vision, and then everything changes. This is why there is the praise that the world is created through vision. When you see the soul, this world appears to be old. The main effort is in changing the vision. When this vision is changed, the stage and the circumstances also change. When the vision changes, your virtues and

karma also change. This vision of soul consciousness should become natural .

4. Those who become a king of themselves at the confluence age can also become a king of subjects. Those who are not their own king here cannot become a king of subjects. The seed of all the sanskars is sown at the confluence age. Without the seed of this time, the tree of the future cannot be created. If you do not sow the seed here, where would the fruit come from? What will happen when you become your own king here? You will consider yourself to have all rights. In order to be one who has all rights, you need to have the virtue of a generous heart. The more generous-hearted you are, the more you will have all rights. Achcha.

5. The main duty of Brahmins is to study and teach others. If you remain busy in this, your intellect will not be drawn to other things. So keep yourself busy in studying and teaching others. BapDada has told you that, nowadays, you can do service with the attitude of your mind and your avyakt vision. There is no bondage in doing service through your attitude and vision. You should do the service in which you have freedom.