26 October 1971 · English

"The basis of action is attitude."

Today, it is the start of the bhatthi of the Pandavas Army who live in households. Do you consider yourselves to be Pandavas? Do you constantly have your Pandava form in your awareness? Or, do you sometimes consider yourselves to be Pandavas and sometimes to be householders? By constantly considering yourselves to be Pandavas, that is, guides (pundas), could you have any awareness other than that of the pilgrimage and the destination? If you have any other awareness, the reason for that is that you forget your Pandava form. By changing your awareness, that is, your attitude (your thought pattern), even your actions are transformed. The basis of action is your attitude. Only through your attitude does your household become pure or impure. This is why, if the Pandava Army connects its thoughts constantly with the one Father, then, with this attitude, you can bring about progress in yourselves. Progress is based on your attitude. What do you have to do to your attitude (thought pattern)? If your attitude is elevated, your household will also be elevated. So, what should you keep in your attitude through which there can be easy progress? In your attitude, constantly remember that you belong to the one Father and none other. You have all relationships with the one Father and receive all attainments from the one Father. By constantly having this in your attitude, you will constantly have the vision of the soul, that is, you will have the vision of brotherhood. Only when you forget the attainments from having all relationships with the one Father does your attitude become mischievous. When you do not have any relationship with anyone except the one Father, why should your attitude become mischievous? By having an elevated attitude, your attitude cannot become mischievous. Make your attitude elevated and your household will automatically become elevated. Therefore, make your household this and it will become a means of progress and, through progress, you will easily be able to receive liberation and salvation. Then, that household will not become an excuse for you to come down. So in order to progress, those who are living in a household have to make their attitude good, and then the complaint of the attitude becoming mischievous will finish. In your awareness and attitude, you must constantly have the land of nirvana (nirvana dham) and the stage of silence (nirvana stage), and you must be humble (nirmaan) in your activity.

So, by having the awareness of these three: humility, renewal and silence (being beyond), your activity, your task and your stage, all three, will become powerful, that is, there will be power in your awareness. Where there is power, you cannot forget any of the three. So, in order to finish forgetfulness, have a powerful awareness. This is very easy, is it not? If you have humility in your activity, your task of world renewal will continue automatically . Humility means being egoless. When there is humility, the arrogance of the body automatically finishes. When those who remain in the stage of humility come into sound whilst in the stage of silence, their words will be accurate and powerful . The more powerful something is, although it is less in quantity , it has a lot of quality . In the same way, when you come into sound having stabilised yourself in the stage of being beyond, the words you speak will be few but they will be more powerful. At present, you have to go into a lot of detail, but, as you continue to make your stage powerful, each word of yours will be filled with the significance of a thousand words and, through this, your wasteful words will automatically finish. Just as the entire essence of knowledge is merged in the small badge, the entire ocean is merged in this little image in its essence, in the same way, even one word that emerges from you will be filled with the total significance of knowledge. So, you have to fill your words with such power. When your attitude and words become powerful , your actions will also be constantly accurate and powerful.

You have come here to charge your batteries , and so in order to charge your batteries , constantly consider yourselves to be in charge of world renewal. If you constantly consider yourselves to be in charge of the tasks of this world, your batteries will constantly remain charged . When you forget that you yourself are in charge of this, your battery becomes discharged . Therefore, constantly consider yourselves to be in charge of this task, and then constantly check the chart of the charge of your batteries . Then there will never be a discharge in the thoughts, actions or stage of the soul. Then, this complaint will finish. You have this complaint , do you not? This is the biggest complaint of everyone. The reason for this is that you do not consider yourselves to be in charge of such elevated actions. "Whatever actions I perform, others who see me will do the same." This is fixed anyway, but do you understand to what greater depth you have to imbibe this slogan ? What deep slogan is necessary for the bhatthi of the Pandavas? You were told about the slogan , "Whatever actions I perform, others who see me will do the same". In the same way, "Whatever is the attitude of myself the soul, the instrument, the atmosphere will be according to that"; whatever is my attitude, so will be the atmosphere. So it is the attitude that transforms the atmosphere. Attitude is more subtle than action. Now, you must not pay attention to just your actions, but you must consider yourself to be in charge of creating the atmosphere through your attitude. Who will make the atmosphere satopradhan? All of you are instruments for this, are you not? If you constantly had this slogan in your awareness, would your attitude then become mischievous? A child will only become mischievous when he is free . So the attitude also becomes mischievous when you lack the awareness of such a great task. If a very mischievous child is kept busy and yet does not let go of his mischievous behaviour, what method would be used? There is still the complaint that even though you try to keep your attitude busy in remembrance and knowledge, it still becomes mischievous. So, what should you then do? Just as you try to restrain a mischievous child with some type of bondage, whether it is a physical bondage or you tie him with your love on the basis of tempting him with some attainment through words, in the same way, you will have to tie your intellect and your thoughts with one or other bondage. What is that bondage? Check where your intellect goes. After checking where the intellect goes, transform those worldly things into spiritual things. Then, after comparing the worldly things with the spiritual imperishable things, keep the spiritual imperishable things in your awareness. When the attitude of a bodily being is mischievous, then in whatever relationship there is mischief, experience that particular relationship with the eternal Father in a practical way. For example, if your attitude is mischievous in relationships of the household, then attain the alokik experience of this relationship from the Father who fulfils all relationships. When whatever was lacking is fulfilled, you will become free from mischief. Do you understand? If you have all relationships and all attainments from the one Father, would your intellect be mischievous towards any others? So the biggest bondage of having all relationships with One is that you have to restrain your mischievous attitude with the bondage of all relationships with the one Father. Then all types of mischief will easily finish. You will then not be able to see any other relationship or any other attainment, and so where could your attitude be drawn to?

Tie yourself as is remembered in the example of Sita being ordered to stay within the line drawn for her. In the same way, whilst taking every step or creating any thought, consider yourself to be within the line drawn by the Father. If you go outside the line, even in your thoughts, then wasteful thoughts will attack you. Constantly stay within the line that has been drawn for you and you will remain constantly safe and no type of sanskar of Ravan will attack you. You will not waste your time again and again, in finishing those little things. Neither will there be any attack nor will your time be wasted again and again. This is why you must now constantly remember your order. You have come to this bhatthi in order to become such obedient children, have you not? Therefore, return with this practice so that you do not have even one thought which is not within the order. The tilak of being such obedient children should constantly be applied to your awareness. Apply this tilak and then we shall see who claims the first number . Who will claim the first prize in adopting this tilak? Achcha.