29 August 1971 · English

"The most subtle bondage is arrogance of the intellect."

Have you become yogyukt and free from bondages? To the extent that you become yogyukt, accordingly you become free from all bondages. So the sign of being yogyukt is to be free from bondages. You know all your bondages, do you not? Which types of bondage create obstructions to your becoming yogyukt? Just as you used to make a list of all the different types of sorrow, in the same way, make a list of the different types of bondage. Keep that list in front of you and check which bondages you have become free from and which bondages still remain. From this you will be able to recognise your completely yogyukt stage, that is, your complete stage ; how close you have come to your perfect stage . Bring the list of bondages in front of you. How many types of bondage are there? If you make a list of these, it will be like a web. A web is created of such subtle threads. So, now judge how many bondages still remain and what those bondages are that remain. Are they huge bondages, or are they only little bondages? Which bondages require greater effort to settle? What is the most severe bondage of all? (Body consciousness.) That is the foundation of all bondages, but which bondage is the most severe in a visible way? People's opinions are a very small matter; that is just the first step . However, the greatest bondage, the final bondage, is that of mixing your knowledgeable intellect with shrimat, that is, to consider yourself to be sensible and to consider shrimat to be the wonder of your own intellect and then to use it for a task. This can be called arrogance of knowledge or arrogance of the intellect. This is the most subtle and greatest bondage. If you have crossed over this bondage, then understand that you have taken the highest jump . Whether someone gives you a signal about your weakness with sweet words, or someone says something bad about your sanskars or nature or service , then, whilst keeping both these things in front of yourself, check if there is the slightest difference in your attitude or in your vision or on your face. There should not be the slightest difference. There should not be the slightest difference in your zeal and enthusiasm. This is known as having overcome this bondage. Even if you did not say anything in words, if you had waste thoughts about what you heard, that is known as the greatest bondage of all.

It is remembered that you have to maintain equanimity in praise and defamation, victory and defeat. That is, although you have the knowledge in your intellect of which is victory and which is defeat, of which is praise and which is defamation, your constant stage should not fluctuate. This is known as equanimity. Not to fluctuate even whilst having knowledge is to be victorious. So, if you have overcome this severe bondage, you have become a perfect angel. What is the main effort for this? How can you maintain this stage so that you can even overcome this bondage? How can you overcome having arrogance of knowledge? What is the effort for this? All the things that all of you spoke of have to be kept in your attention . However, as well as that, in order to overcome this severe bondage, constantly remember that you are the children of the Benefactor Father. Whatever you see or hear, even though the form may be that of loss, you must always extract something beneficial from it. The reason your stage fluctuates is because of three things; loss, defeat or defamation. So, although it may take that form, even in that form of loss, if you have the power to be able to transform that form of loss into a form of benefit and the power to be able to accept defamation as a form of progress, and the power to be able to imbibe courage and enthusiasm and become a thousand-fold victorious from having been defeated, if you have all this, then neither your character nor your features will ever be affected. So what is the significance? To transform a situation or problem and become transparent , that is, to have mercy for those who defame you. Just as someone can become your friend because of having the same type of sanskars, in the same way, even if someone defames you, you have to be able to see those who defame you with that same vision of love and co-operation. Internally, there should not be any difference in your love and co-operation for both: those whose sanskars are the same as yours and also those who defame you. This is known as having merciful vision for those who defame you and being a world benefactor. If such a stage is created now, you can understand that you are close to perfection. It should not be that you will make those whose sanskars are the same as yours your companions and move away from others. Even if some have strong, severe sanskars, you must transform them on the basis of your stage of having positive thoughts and bring them close. When someone puts a hopeless case right, his name is glorified. To put something right which is already right or to act very well with those who are already all right is not a big thing. The big thing is to transform even such souls with your elevated consciousness and attitude. Look how many severe sicknesses the tiny pills of homeopathy medicine are able to finish! So, can those who are master almighty authorities, with their vision and attitude, not finish the sickness of the severe sanskars of someone? If you are not able to transform or finish someone's sanskars, then understand that the power of the creation is working more powerfully than yourself, the master creator. For example, the tiny pills are able to finish the illness: that medicine does not say, "How can I finish this illness?" So, does that mean that your creation has power but that you, the master creator, do not?

Always have the aim that you have to be transformed and that you have to transform . Do not say: I will be transformed if this one is transformed . No. I have to transform myself and I have to transform everything. Those who have such courage can become world emperors. So, if you wish to become world emperors, then from this moment you must have the rule of love over all the souls of the divine family who are going to come into the future world, that is, the small family that is going to claim a right to the kingdom of the world. You must not give orders . You must not become world emperors from this moment. At present, you have to become world servers. To give love is to accumulate it for the future. You must also see how much love you have accumulated in your future account. To give knowledge is easy, but in order to become a world emperor, you must not just become a donor of knowledge. For this, you have to give love, that is, you must give co-operation. Where there is love, there will definitely be co-operation. Those who take this high jump will easily become elevated in all aspects. Achcha.

Have those who are in this bhatthi transformed themselves? To the extent that you have transformed , to that extent the face of each one will be visible like a “ translight” . A “ translight” is very clear even from a distance. So, have you become clear and elevated in every respect? (We will become that.) When will you become that? In five years time? How long have you made a promise for? Have you filled yourselves with such power that, no matter what problems come in front of you, even when things that were not to happen take place, that you still remain unshakeable, immovable and constant? Have you filled yourself with such power? In that case, do not say that you were not aware that such things could even happen; that you failed because something new happened. Do not say this. When you return having had a bhatthi, as you bring about newness in yourself, Maya will also bring new things in front of you to test you. Therefore, because you are returning from here having become master knowledge-full and master trikaldarshi, you can recognise an attack of Maya from a distance and finish it. Have you become master almighty authorities to this extent? Have you finished the language of “What? and “Why? What can I do? How can I do it”? This should finish. This is not just a paper of three months. You now have to make a promise till the end. This is something guaranteed . Whatever effort you all made according to your capacity was very good. Now become the best of all. Just as you have this intoxication, in the same way, you must constantly maintain this intoxication whilst living in your household. What is the stamp of this group ? No one should be able to change you, but you should be able to change others. No circumstance or type of atmosphere should change you but you must definitely change the circumstances, the atmosphere, the attitude and sanskars. You must apply this firm stamp. Apply the imperishable trademark of the bhatthi before you go. Do not forget your trademark . If you keep the awareness of the dharna you have had in this bhatthi with yourself, success will constantly be with you. Achcha.