20 September 1975 · English

"While having power, why there isn't success and contentment in life."

Just as the Father is the Ocean of all virtues, do you consider yourselves to be master oceans in the same way? An ocean is infinite, unshakeable and still. Two powers are specially visible when you look at an ocean: the power to accommodate, and to the extent that you see the power to accommodate, accordingly, you will also see the power to face. It faces the waves and also accommodates any person or any object into itself. So, since you are master oceans, check within yourselves to see to what extent you have these two powers. To what percentage do you have these powers? Are you able to use both the powers according to a time of need? Do you experience success through having these powers?

Many children experience all the powers in themselves and also understand that they have these particular powers in themselves. However, even while having these powers, in some cases they are not able to experience success. Even while considering themselves to be embodiments of knowledge, bliss, love, peace and happiness, they are not constantly content with themselves. Even while being effort-makers, they are only sometimes able to experience the practical fruit: the reward or the attainment. They follow all the disciplines, but, in spite of that, they do not experience themselves to be constantly cheerful. They make a lot of effort, but they experience less fruit. Even in spite of making Maya their servant (dasi), they sometimes experience unhappiness (udasi). What is the reason for that? They have all the powers as well as the knowledge and they are even following all the disciplines; so what are they lacking that they become confused with themselves?

The aspect that is missing is that they do not know how to use at the right time and in the right way the powers and the points of knowledge that they have attained. They have love for the Father, they have love for knowledge and also have love for a life that is full of all divine virtues. However, together with that love (preet), they do not know the method (reet), or, if they know the method, they don't know how to have love. Therefore, even something invaluable becomes the basis of ordinary attainment. In a physical way, no matter how great a weapon may be or how valuable a possession you have with you may be, if you don't know how to use it, you are not able to receive the attainment from it that you should. In the same way, knowledgeable children are not able to receive the attainment from knowledge and the powers that they should. BapDada feels mercy for such souls.

Because of not knowing the method, you are not able to receive the attainment that you should. So, how can you adopt the method? For this, you need the power to discern. Because you do not have the power to discern, you use the power to face at a time when you should be using the power to accommodate. When you need to use the power to pack up, you use the power of expansion. This is why, the thought may be of success, but you are unable to receive the success according to your thought in your attainment or in becoming the form. What is the main basis of attaining a special power? What do you need to sharpen your power of discernment? If an instrument is not able to give a clear reading of something, what is the reason for that? In order to increase your power of discernment, you need to have the elevated stage of being incorporeal, egoless, viceless and free from sinful thoughts. If any one aspect out of the four is lacking, then, due to not having that elevated dharna, there isn't that clarity. Only that which is elevated is clear. It is this confusion that doesn't allow the intellect to become clean. Cleanliness is greatness. Therefore, increase your power of discernment. Only then will you be able to experience yourself to be a master ocean of all virtues, the same as the Father.

Just as an ocean is full of many things, in the same way, experience your form to be full of all powers, because it is only at the confluence age that you receive the blessing of becoming complete. Apart from at the confluence age, you will never be able to experience the complete form. The memorial is of your divine life being full of all virtues. There is also the praise of being 16 celestial degrees full. However, what is the form of something that is complete? Only in this Godly life is the knowledge of virtue and skill experienced. Therefore, it is only in this Godly life that you are able to experience the bliss of being full.

In order to learn the method, whatever you continue to receive from the Father, whether it is knowledge or powers, continue to use them according to the time. Do not merge them into yourself thinking that they are very good matters or very good things. That is, do not lock them away in the safe of your intellect. Do not just continue to accumulate a bank balance . Or, do not just keep a bundle of money hidden away like elderly people do. Do not simply experience the bliss of listening to them and possessing them, but continue to use them for yourself and for all other souls, because, according to a Godly principle, the more that the attainment of the present time is used , the more it will increase. Just as it is said about donations, "Wealth never finishes by giving it", that is, to give it means to increase it, in the same way, by experiencing the Godly attainments in this way, there will not be a little attainment, but, you will instead experience yourself to be an embodiment of all attainments. By using these again and again, you will be able to make your form into that which is needed according to the time, and you will be able to use whatever power is needed at that particular time in the right way. You will be saved from being deceived at any time of need. To be saved from being deceived means to be saved from sorrow. So, what will you become? Constantly cheerful, that is, constantly happy and you will have the fortune of happiness. So, now have mercy for yourselves and, by using all the attainments and by knowing the method, together with having love, become those who are constantly master oceans of knowledge. Become oceans of powers and oceans of all attainments. Achcha.

To those who are conquerors of Maya and so conquerors of the world and full of all experiences, to those who make others experienced through their own experiences, to those who are BapDada's children and His masters, to such souls who are masters of the Father and masters of the world, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.