15 March 1972 · English

"Renunciation and fortune."

Do you consider yourselves to be images of renunciation and tapasya? What is the greatest renunciation that takes a lot of effort? (Body consciousness.) Why does someone have arrogance about knowledge or arrogance of his intellect? Why are you not able to renounce your old sanskars? The main reason for this is body consciousness. To let go of body consciousness is the greatest renunciation. So, check yourself at every second . When it is renunciation of something physical, once you have renounced it, you can step away from it, but in the renouncing of body consciousness, you have to continue to take the support of the body at every second and also be detached whilst being in the body. Therefore, because the soul has a deep connection with the body by being with the body at every second , body consciousness has also become very deep. It now takes effort to finish it. Ask yourself whether you have had renunciation of every type, because, the more you renounce something, the more fortune you accordingly receive: at the present time and also in the future. Do not think that you only have renunciation at the confluence age and claim the fortune in the future. It is not like that. To the extent that someone renounces something, he definitely receives fortune to the extent that he has renounced it at the moment he renounces it. What visible fortune do you receive at the confluence age as a result of your renunciation? Do you know this? What fortune do you receive at this time? You will receive the status of liberation in life in the golden age, but what do you receive now? You receive the fortune of your renunciation. At the confluence age, the greatest fortune of your renunciation is that the Fortune-Maker Himself belongs to you. This is the greatest fortune of all, is it not? Only at the confluence age do you receive this: God Himself belongs to you. If you do not have any renunciation, then neither does the Father belong to you. If you have body consciousness, are you remembering the Father? Only when you have renounced body consciousness can you experience a close relationship with the Father. By renouncing body consciousness, by being soul conscious, what is the first attainment? That you constantly stay in the awareness of the Father, that is, in every second of renunciation, you experience all relationships and all powers from the Father at every second . So, is this not the greatest fortune of all? You will not receive this in the future. Therefore, it is said that this easy knowledge and easy Raja Yoga is not just for giving you fruit in the future, but also at the present time. The future is already tied to the present, but nowhere else can you claim the most elevated fortune of all throughout the entire cycle. It is only at this time that, through renunciation and tapasya, you are able to experience all relationships with the Father at every second , that is, you can make the Father belong to you in all relationships. You did not call out for this. Your call was for something else, but what do you attain instead? You are attaining that which you did not even have in your thoughts or dreams. If you receive something that you had never even thought or dreamt of, that is called fortune. Whatever you receive by making effort is not called fortune. If whatever was impossible becomes possible and you attain it automatically, and if you develop hope for something in which there was no hope, that is called fortune. Have you not received this fortune? You called out for something else: Make me belong to You in one way or another! You had no desire to become so elevated, yet what did you receive in return? You yourself became something, but you also made the Father your everything. So, is this not fortune? You receive the elevated fortune of the confluence age through this renunciation. Always think that if you do not renounce body consciousness, that is, if you do not become soul conscious, you will not then be able to create your fortune, that is, you will be deprived of the elevated fortune of the confluence age. If, for instance, you renounce body consciousness for some time during the whole day, but you remain down below at other times, that is, you have not renounced body consciousness, then you deprive yourself of the elevated fortune of the confluence age to that extent. Since the Father, the Fortune-Maker, is telling you the method to create your fortune at every second , what should you do? You should attain total success through this method. What is the result of not adopting this method? Neither do you progress in your stage nor do you attain the success of all attainments. So, what should you do? You should constantly adopt the methods you have been given by the Bestower through which there will be progress and success. So, check to what extent you have renounced waste thoughts. You should constantly have an attitude of brotherhood. To what extent have you adopted this attitude? And, while being in a body, to what extent have you renounced the attitude of being a bodily being?

What do those from Mysore think? Today, Baba has especially come to meet them, because they have made so much effort to come from so far with so much love. So the Father has also had to come from the faraway land. So you experience this happiness, do you not? Today, the Father has also come from the faraway land especially to meet those who have come from far away. So, to renounce something for the one you love is not a big thing. Because of having love for the vices, you renounced the consciousness of your own self as well as your own body. A mother even renounces her body because of her love for her children. Since you can let go of your crown, your throne and your original form because of your love for a human relation, can you not renounce body consciousness now that you have love for the Father? Is it difficult? Think about this: In temporary relationships, you had so much power that it brought you down from up above; you came down from up above because of this, did you not? Now that you say "Father", and you have all relationships with the Father, is it a big thing to renounce this wrong consciousness of the body because of your love for the Father? It is a small thing, is it not? So then, why are you not able to do it? You should be able to do it in one second . If a child is ill for one month, the mother who has a temporary relationship, a bodily relationship, is able to renounce everything for one month on the basis of that relationship. Because of having the awareness of the bodily relationship, she does not take long to renounce her happiness, nor does she consider it to be difficult. So, what should you do here? Here, you have a permanent relationship and you have all relationships with One; you have a relationship of total attainment. Therefore, you should not delay by even one second when it comes to renouncing anything. However, how many years has it taken you to renounce the consciousness of the body? (84 years in 2020.) It should have taken one second and yet you are taking so many years. (We have had the practice of this for half the cycle.) What about the other half cycle in which you were beyond body consciousness and the vices? Did you forget that practice of half a cycle in one second ? Did you take time in that? (We still came down by two degrees in the silver age.) Even so, you still remained beyond the vices, did you not? You were viceless in the golden and silver ages. Even though you lost two degrees, you were still said to have been viceless in the silver age, were you not? You were beyond the attraction of the vices, were you not? If these have become your sanskars for half a cycle, why are you not able to bring those sanskars into your consciousness just as quickly? What is the original form of the soul? What are the original sanskars and virtues of you, the soul? They are the same as those of the Father, are they not? Whatever the virtues of the Father - the Ocean of Knowledge, the Ocean of Happiness, the Ocean of Peace - He is the Ocean, but at least you are embodiments. So, whatever are the original virtues of the soul, you are embodiments of peace. You transformed yourselves due to the colour of the company, but the original virtue of the form of the soul is the same as that of the Father, is it not? Why does that not come into your consciousness as quickly? Talk to yourself in this way. Do you understand? By talking to yourself in this way, that is, by having a spiritual heart-to-heart conversation, you will be able to stabilise yourself in spirituality. Do not think that because you have had these old sanskars from the copper age, this happened. Do not think this. Instead think: What do I, the soul, have as my original and eternal sanskars? When the soul first came down at the beginning of the world, what sanskars did I have? I had divine sanskars, did I not? So think about what the original sanskars and virtues of the soul were. Do not think about the middle period. Think about the original and eternal sanskars of the soul. What will happen then? The sanskars of the middle period that emerge now and again will become mediocre. Mediocre means slack. It is said: This one's activities are of a mediocre level. So the sanskars of the middle period will become mediocre and the original and eternal sanskars will be practically visible. Do you understand? Always think about the original and the eternal.

Whatever thoughts you create, your awareness will be according to those, and, as your awareness, so will be your power in every action. Therefore, constantly have an elevated awareness. So, what will you do now? Through every second of renunciation, continue to attain at every second , because this is the confluence age when you can create your fortune. Whatever fortune you create at this time has to be experienced throughout the cycle, whether it is elevated or low. It is only at the confluence age that you can create your fortune. You can create as much as you want, because you have the company of the Father who is the Fortune-Maker. Later on, this Father will not be with you nor will there be this attainment. The One who enables you to attain something is with you now, and the attainment has to be made at this time. “If not now, then never!” Keep this slogan in your awareness. You have the slogans written down, do you not? Do you consider the slogans to be for your own self? If you constantly have the awareness of “If not now, then never!” what will you do? You will constantly think that you should do whatever you want to do now. So, constantly keep this slogan in your awareness. You have to check yourself in order to have constant renunciation and be constantly fortunate, but what do you have to check mainly through which there is automatically a change ? There is a slogan for what you need to check – what is that slogan ? You have been told that many times. “Greater glorification through less expense”. How are you going to bring about greater glorification through less expense?

Those people try to bring about greater glorification through less expense of physical wealth. However, do you know how many types of treasure you have at the confluence age? Of course there are the treasures of time, thoughts and breath and there is also the treasure of the imperishable jewels of knowledge and the fifth is also related to the treasure of physical wealth. So, check : Have you brought about greater glorification with less of the treasure of thoughts? Do not spend too much! Do not waste your treasure of thoughts and your thoughts will then be powerful and elevated. By having elevated thoughts, your attainment will also be elevated. In the same way, the treasure of the time of the confluence age – what will happen if you don’t spend wastefully at the time of the confluence age? You will be able to use every second to earn an income for many births. Therefore, do not waste this time. In the same way, for breath, let there be the awareness of the Father at every breath. If there isn’t remembrance of the Father in even a single breath, then understand that that breath has gone to waste. So, do not waste your breath. In the same way, for the treasure of knowledge, if you don’t know how to look after this treasure, if you received it and you finished it, then it has gone to waste because you didn’t churn it. If you don’t have the happiness that you receive after churning it, and don’t practise stabilising in that happiness, then it has gone to waste. When you eat something but are unable to digest it, then it goes to waste, does it not? In the same way, if you do not use the treasure of knowledge for yourself or for donating to other souls, then it goes to waste, does it not? In the same way, for physical wealth, if it is not used in a Godly task, in a task for the benefit of every soul and for your own progress, but used instead for another physical task, then it has been used wastefully. If you use it for a Godly task, then the physical wealth multiplies one hundred thousandfold whereas if you waste onefold, then it is not one that is wasted, but one hundred thousandfold that is wasted. In the same way, check every treasure of the confluence age to see if any of the treasures are going to waste. Have you become one who brings greater glorification through less expense or are you still wasting the treasures because of being careless? Those who are careless waste them and those who are sensible, knowledge-full and sensible will not waste even a single small thing. It is for such ones that it is said: Greater glorification through less expense. Are you like that? Sakar Baba demonstrated this by bringing about greater glorification through less expense. So, do you not have to follow the Father ? Any physical wealth – if you don’t have any physical wealth, then for those who are residing in the yagya, anything that belongs to the yagya is like physical wealth. If you are wasting anything of the yagya, then it cannot be said to be “greater glorification through less expense”. Those who are living in a household can make their status high with their physical wealth. In the same way, if a resident of the yagya uses the physical things of the yagya with the awareness of “greater glorification through less expense”, for the self and for others, then, according to this calculation, their future becomes very elevated. It isn’t that physical wealth is a means for only householders, but it is for the residents of the yagya, service of the yagya because using everything of the yagya economically becomes a means of earning even more than through physical wealth. Therefore, when even a single thing of the yagya is used accurately and looked after and saved from being wasted there is power for the attainment of the future. By saving something from being wasted you have the attainment of receiving something in the future and so each one has to check the self. How much glorification have I brought about through less expense? Save yourself from wastage and become powerful. Where there is wastage, there isn’t the slightest power whereas where there is power it is not possible for anything to go to waste. If the treasures are going to waste you cannot receive power. For instance, when there is a leakage , no matter how much you try, you cannot fill yourself with power because of that leakage . When there is a wasteful leakage , then, no matter how much effort you make or how hard you try, you cannot become powerful. Therefore, check any leakage . You need to be very clever to catch any leakage . Sometimes, you can’t find where the leakage is. Those who are very clever and knowledge-full are able to catch the leakage . If they are not knowledge-full they continue to search for the leakage . So, now, become knowledge-full and check yourself and, from being one who wastes you will become powerful. Do you understand?

What will those from Mysore remember? The mothers just stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance, do they not? Because they cannot understand the language. Even so, you are fortunate. Do you consider yourselves to be the special souls out of the entire world? Achcha, do you think that you have been here many times before? Or, do you think that this is the first time you have come here? You do not have any bondages, so do you consider yourselves to be fortunate or unfortunate? You are free from bondage and so you can create an elevated future for yourself. You are doubly fortunate: firstly, you have found the Father, and secondly, you are free from bondage in order to create your future. You experience even greater happiness, do you not? You do not think: I don't know what this is, do you? You don't experience any sorrow, do you? You experience happiness, do you not? It is good that you are free from bondage. So do you consider yourself to be fortunate? Or, do you also sometimes experience sorrow? If anyone else is with you, there will be conflict. If Shiv Baba is with you, there won't be any conflict, will there? If, whilst living in the household, you stay in the relationship of the soul, you can create your double fortune. Whilst living in the household, do you remain detached from the relationships of the body? So those who are living in the household are creating such a fortune. Achcha.