24 January 1970 · English

"The main business of Brahmins is to surrender the self and to inspire others to surrender."

To whom have you handed over the boat of your life? (Shiv Baba). Are you following shrimat completely? To follow shrimat means to put spirituality into every action. Do you consider yourselves to have a full right to the inheritance from Shiv Baba? Those who claim a right to the inheritance have a right over everyone; they are not dependent on anything. If they are dependent on their body or bodily relations, or on anything belonging to the body, then, by being those who are dependent in such a way, they cannot be the ones who have a right. Those who have a right are not dependent. By constantly considering yourself to be one who has a right, you will be saved from becoming dependent on any form of Maya. Always check how many spiritual actions you have performed and how many worldly actions you have performed. Spiritual actions will give others the inspiration to become spiritual. All of you children of the highest-on-high Father have kept the aim of claiming the highest-on-high royal status. Or, will you be content with whatever you receive? Since you are the children of the highest-on-high Father, you have to keep a high aim. Only when you remain in the imperishable stage of soul consciousness will you attain such imperishable happiness. The soul is imperishable, is it not?

Having come to Madhuban, have you claimed the blessings of Madhuban? Blessings are received easily without effort. In the avyakt stage, you attain avyakt bliss, avyakt love and avyakt power in an easy way. You have to try to keep this blessing with you eternally. By constantly staying in remembrance of the Bestower of Blessings, you will keep these blessings with you eternally. If you forget the Bestower of Blessings, the blessings will finish. This is why you must never become separated from the Bestower of Blessings. If the Bestower of Blessings is with you, the blessings are also with you. He (Shiv Baba) is the most loved out of the whole world, and so His remembrance should also be automatic. Since He is the most loved of all, why do you forget to remember Him? You must surely be remembering something else. Nothing happens without a reason. There is also a reason for forgetting. Because of your forgetting, the One you love the most becomes distant. The reason for forgetting is your own weakness. Because you do not follow shrimat fully, there is weakness, and because of weakness there is forgetfulness. In forgetfulness you forget the most loved One of all. This is why, before performing any actions, always have the awareness of shrimat and then perform actions and those actions will be elevated. Through performing elevated actions, your life automatically becomes elevated. Therefore, you must check yourself before carrying out any task. If you check yourself after you have performed the action, the wrong action you performed has already become a sinful action. Therefore, first check and then perform that action.

Do you know the method of giving the Godly study to others in any easy way? Can you give anyone the introduction to the Father in one second ? The more you give the introduction to the Father to others, to that extent you will create your future reward. You give here and receive there. So, that means that you only receive. Whatever you continue to give, you should consider yourself to be receiving that much. You have to have the experience of the attainment of the instant fruit of this knowledge as well as the future reward. You can understand the future on the basis of the attainment of the present. The present experiences make your future very clear. While moving along, what form do you consider yourself to have? Do you have the feeling that you are a Shakti, a world mother? Those who are the form of a world mother have the feeling of benefit for the world. By having the form of a Shiv Shakti, there will not be any weaknesses remaining. "I am a world mother and a Shiv Shakti" - when you keep both these forms in your awareness, you will become a conqueror of Maya. And, by having a feeling for world benefit, you will become an instrument to bring benefit to many souls. Have you conquered attachment to your relations and your body? To what extent have you attained the last stage of becoming a conqueror of attachment? The more you become a conqueror of attachment, the more an embodiment of remembrance you will become. So, the method to have remembrance constantly is to become a conqueror of attachment. Is it easy or difficult to become a conqueror of attachment? When you surrender yourself, everything will be easy. If you do not surrender everything, but keep it to yourself, you will find it difficult. The main method to make it easy is to surrender. The Father should be able to do whatever He wants through you. “Just as an entire factory is run by machines - it is the task of the machines to run the factory - in the same way, we are instruments. The One who wants to use us can use us in whatever way He wants. We just have to continue to move along according to that”. By thinking about yourselves in this way, you will not feel any difficulty. This stage has to be made stronger day by day. You must pay attention to this main thing. However much you children surrender yourselves to the Father, the Father also surrenders Himself to you to the same extent. That is, the treasures of the Father automatically belong to such children. Why should it be difficult to give others the virtues that you have? To surrender and to inspire others to surrender is the business of Brahmins. Who else, apart from Brahmins, would know about the business of Brahmins? Just as the Father is not pleased with just a little, in the same way, children should not be pleased with just a little.

What is the sign of faith? Victory: the more faith you have in the intellect, the more victorious you will become in all aspects. Those who have faith in the intellect are never defeated. If there is defeat, you should understand that there is a lack of faith. Consider yourself to be one of the victorious jewels. Obstacles will come: the way to finish them is constantly to think that they are papers . Each paper enables you to recognise your stage. If any obstacle comes, consider it to be a paper and pass it. Don't see the situation but consider it to be a paper . There are different questions in a paper : sometimes about the mind, sometimes concerning public opinion, sometimes relationships and sometimes a question of fellow countrymen will come. However, don't be afraid of those but go into the depth of them. Create such an atmosphere that anyone can be pulled even against their will. The more you remain busy in creating an avyakt atmosphere, the more everything will happen automatically. While walking along, if you smell a fragrance, you have the desire to go and see what it is. In the same way, this avyakt fragrance will pull souls against their will.

If you have an aim, you have to imbibe the characteristics to achieve that aim. How far would you go if your effort is slack? If you use the word ‘trying’, you will get left behind whilst ‘trying’. You must keep the aim that you must do it. To say, "I will try", is a weakness. In order to finish this weakness, finish the word ‘trying’. There is victory in having faith. By having doubts power is reduced. If you have faith in the intellect, you will also receive co-operation from everyone. When any task is to be carried out, you must always think, "No one can do it without me", and only then will there be success. So, from today, finish the word ‘trying’. "I am a Shiv Shakti". Shiv Shaktis are able to perform all tasks. Shaktis are shown riding a lion. If any type of Maya in the form of a lion comes, you mustn’t be afraid. A Shiv Shakti can never be defeated. There is no time left now anyway. If you change yourself before time, you will receive a hundred thousandfold return of one. Since you have to change anyway, you should change yourself in this way. Do you remember that you claimed the inheritance in the previous cycle as well? If you consider yourself to be old, when the memory of the previous cycle returns, effort is easy. This is because there is the faith of having claimed the inheritance in the previous cycle, and that even now you will definitely claim it. The memory of the previous cycle brings you power. If you consider yourself to be new, there will be thoughts of weakness – “Will I be able to attain this or not?” By having the awareness "I am from the previous cycle" you will receive power. You must always make yourself courageous. You must never lose courage. When you have courage you receive help. "We are the children of the Almighty Authority Father". To remember the Father is in itself courage. Is it easy or difficult to remember the Father? It becomes easy when you make it easy: this is my task, this is my duty. “What should I do?" - when you have this thought, it becomes difficult. Never allow weak thoughts to remain in you. If weak thoughts arise in the mind, finish them there and then let your thoughts be powerful. If you still keep ‘trying’, when will you experience the avyakt attraction? As long as you are ‘trying’, you cannot develop the avyakt attraction in yourself. That language is of weakness. The children of the Almighty Authority Father cannot say this. Their thoughts, words and everything else are those of faith. You have to create such a stage. Always check : Is the foundation of your thoughts powerful? The speciality of someone who makes intense effort is that his thoughts, words and deeds, all three are equal. If your thoughts are elevated but your deeds weak, you cannot be called an intense effort-maker. All three should be equal. Always think that the form Maya shows now and again is in fact to bid farewell for all time. Instead of bidding farewell, you invite her. “I am always with Shiv Baba. I will never be separated from Him.” So then, what can anyone do? If someone remains busy , other people would not disturb that person. They would understand that no one should come to disturb them and so they put a notice there. You should also put up a notice and Maya will then go away. She will not have any place to come in. If there is an empty chair, someone would come and sit on it.

It is very easy for the mothers simply to remember the Father. That is all. By remembering the Father, knowledge will emerge automatically. Those who remember the Father receive His help in every task. The power of remembrance is such that if you keep in your awareness whatever you experience here, wherever you go, it will become imperishable. Repeatedly keep the awareness in your intellect: I am a resident of the supreme abode and have come here simply to carry out a task and then I have to return. The more you keep your intellect busy in these matters, the less it will wander around. You have to give knowledge to someone tactfully. By giving them the knowledge directly, they will become confused. First of all, pull them with God’s love. Bodily beings want wealth whereas the Father wants the mind. So, your mind should only be connected to where it should be; it should not be used anywhere else. If you stay in a yogyukt and avyakt stage and then just speak a few words, that is like giving a lecture. You can give the essence of an hour’s lecture in a couple of words.

Do you consider yourself to be moving forward day by day? Do not think that you have time and that you will make effort at some time? However, let the completion take place before time and attain the experience of this stage. If you experience this stage at the time, then, together with the time, the stage will also change. When the time has gone, the experience of the avyakt stage will finish and there will be another part . This is why you must experience the avyakt stage before that. Kumaris are fast in running. So, run fast in this Godly race too. Only those who come first will come close to the first number. The sakar form went first . You have to keep an elevated aim. If your aim is of completion, then you have to make complete effort because only then will you attain the stage of perfection. Full effort means to make yourself full in all matters. It is not a big thing. Is it difficult to have remembrance after knowing something? To know means to have knowledge . If you do not have the light and might of knowledge , of what use is that knowledge ? That is not called knowing. Here, knowing and doing is the same, whereas elsewhere they are different from each other. Having knowledge of something enables you to create that form. What form will Godly knowledge make? That of a Godly stage. Why would those who take Godly knowledge not have the Godly form? Theory is something else from knowing, that is, from imbibing in the intellect. With dharna, you are automatically able to perform those actions. To imbibe means to merge that thing in your intellect. When it becomes merged in your intellect, the physical organs will also then do that according to the directions given by the intellect. “We are the children of the knowledge-full Father and we have the light and might of Godly knowledge ” - you have to move along with this awareness. Simply to listen to knowledge is one thing: you don’t have to just listen to it, but you have to merge it in yourself. To eat food is one thing and to digest it is something else. You cannot receive strength by just eating it. Where do you get the power to digest the food? It is only by digesting the food that you have eaten that you experience strength. Since you are the children of the Almighty Father, is it possible that you cannot do anything? Otherwise, you put the Father’s name to shame! Always keep the aim of performing such actions that you will show yourself to be an example. Do not wait for anything, for you have to become an example . The father became an example , did he not?

Do you feel that you have come to your home? When someone who was lost comes home, it is as though he receives rest. So, here, you have the experience of rest. By finding the right place, your stage is one of rest. Always consider yourself to be in a state of rest. You may go somewhere to carry out a task, but take the experience of this stage with you. If you keep this with you, then no matter how much work you carry out, your stage will be that of rest. In a stage of rest, you experience happiness and peace. When you have power in yourself, the atmosphere does not affect you, but you are able to influence the atmosphere. Is the atmosphere powerful or is the Father almighty? Since you are children of the Almighty Authority Father, why is the atmosphere more powerful than you? It is by forgetting your power that you are influenced by the atmosphere. When doctors go in front of patients who have any type of illness, they are not affected. In the same way, you have to do service by having awareness of yourself. Keep the power in yourself that you have to create the atmosphere, not that the atmosphere influences you. While being a couple, do you stay in the awareness of being a soul alone? The soul is alone, is it not? If the soul is going to come into a relationship with someone, who does it have a relationship with? Who are all the relationships with? With the One. So, if you are going to become two, it has to be the Father and the child. There is no relationship with a third person. You have to forge all relationships with the One. From one, the other is Shiv Baba. This stage is said to be an elevated stage. Even when you see a third person, it is as though you do not see. If you are going to see anyone, it has to be the One. You have to speak to the One. By having such a stage you will become a conqueror of Maya. Those who become conquerors of Maya become conquerors of the world. Only once in the whole cycle do you receive this pure love. Always remember that you receive such love. “I have attained that which no one else can attain.” Stay in this intoxication and faith. When will you perform wonders in Delhi? The sound from Delhi spreads everywhere. For the name to be glorified in Delhi means it is glorified in Bharat.

Those from Delhi have to take up such a responsibility. There is little time left and a lot of service to do. Only when you serve at this speed will you be able to make the message reach everyone. To give someone the opportunity to become wealthy is also a great donation, and the fruit you receive from a great donation is just as great. If you constantly keep the Father with you, Maya will see that you have the Almighty Authority Father with you, and will therefore run away from a distance. It is when she sees you are alone that she has courage. When someone goes hunting, he lights a fire so that no animal would attack him. In the same way, if the fire of remembrance is lit, Maya cannot come. The fire of this love should not be extinguished. By keeping this Company, you will automatically receive power. Then there will be victory and nothing but victory.

BapDada loves the old mothers a lot because you have become tired from a lot of suffering. So the Father has love for those children who are tired. You children also have to have just as much love. If you pass in the pilgrimage of remembrance whilst sitting at home, you can move forward. The more successful you are in the pilgrimage of remembrance, the more the feelings of your mind will also become pure. Do all of you remain co-operative in service ? The more you give others the message, the more you yourself will also receive the message for completion. This is because, by explaining to others, you automatically pay attention to making yourself complete even against your conscious wish. To do this service is also a sweet bondage of making yourself complete. The more you tie yourself in this bondage, the more you will continue to be liberated from all relationships. What is the method to become free from all bondages? To tie yourself in one bondage. This sweet bondage is of this time. It doesn't exist at any other time. All of you are souls who are tied in this Godly bondage. Only by performing elevated actions can you attain an elevated status and become an elevated being. With the one elevated activity, you create your present and also your future. Therefore, you should perform actions through which both become elevated. Those from Ahmedabad have to do the most service because Ahmedabad is the seed of all the centres in Gujarat. A seed has greater power. Challenge very powerfully those who are sleeping in a deep sleep so that they awaken. Kumaris can perform a lot of wonders. A kumari has to show the same amount of success in service as the amount of power she has. Kumaris can go ahead in effort and service faster than everyone. Are the Shaktis ahead in service or are the Pandavas? Your memorial is that you are the Pandavas of the previous cycle. You have become Pandavas so many times, and whatever has happened countless times is remembered very firmly. If you have this awareness, you will never forget. Have this intoxication and faith: We were the same ones in the previous cycle, and we are the same ones now. We are the ones who have a right. To what? To the highest-on-high Father. When you constantly remember this, your stage will always remain constant and stable. Only by staying in remembrance of One will your stage be constant.

Do you continue to experience the service taking place through the avyakt form? Do you also experience always having the company of the avyakt form in service ? Baba promised that he would be with the loving souls at every second . Do you have the experience of such constant company? He has just changed his form, but he is still carrying out that same task. He is visible as a canopy over the loving children. You feel that all the tasks are being carried out under the canopy of protection. It is as though it has become a habit to go up and down the ladder of coming into the avyakt from the vyakt and the vyakt from the avyakt. One moment he is there and the next moment he is here. Those who have made their stage like that and have developed that practice feel themselves to be avyakt whilst in the corporeal body. Their awareness and vision change. Are all of you sitting here ever-ready, free from any karmic accounts of the body? In the beginning, you were shown games of birds in the subtle region. The birds were made to fly. In the same way a soul is also a bird. It can fly whenever it wants. That can only happen when you practise it. When you yourself become a flying bird, you can then make others fly in a second . At present, it takes time. You have been shown the experience of the subtle region in a subtle way. For how long do you stay in the Company in the subtle region, in a subtle way? For instance, whomsoever you love at this time, even if that person is abroad somewhere, your mind would be directed towards that person a lot. You would also consider yourself to be a resident of the country where that person is. In the same way, you now have to become residents of the subtle region. Do you make the subtle region emerge in the physical world or do you consider yourself to be in his company in the subtle region? What is your experience? Do you make the Father, the Resident of the subtle region, emerge here or do you also consider yourself to be a resident of the subtle region and stay with Him? BapDada feels that, whilst living in the physical world, you should become a resident of the subtle region, and, when you call Him here, you can take subtle service from the atmosphere of the subtle region. Whilst stable in the avyakt stage, you can take help. You can receive subtle help whilst in the physical form. Now consider yourselves to be angels a lot more. By staying in the world of angels, you will experience a lot of lightness, as though you have brought the subtle region down into the physical world. When no difference remains between the physical and the subtle, then no difference from the perfect stage will remain either. It will be as though that physical world will become subtle, and you will come close to perfection. For instance, although BapDada comes into the physical, He still maintains the avyakt atmosphere of the subtle region and the avyakt form. He comes to give you children that same experience. In the same way, all of you have to give others the experience of your avyakt form. Only when your avyakt stage becomes complete will you go to your kingdom with the father. In one eye, you have your perfect avyakt stage and in the other eye, you have your royal status. These will be as clearly visible as seeing something in the corporeal form: your form of childhood and also your complete form; that’s all. You will become that and then become this. You have this awareness, do you not? It is as though your future form is seen to be complete. The closer you are to the angelic life , the more clearly you will be able to see your royal status in front of you; both will be in front of you. Nowadays, there are some people who have total awareness of their past . Similarly, let the future be in your awareness to the same extent: This is what I am going to become. Those sanskars of the future will continue to emerge . They won't be merged , they will remain emerged . Achcha.