20 October 1975 · English

"Experiencing all types of happiness of the confluence age by observing precautions."

Do you consider yourselves to be master almighty authorities ? To what extent have you put into your practical form the authority of all powers, of all knowledge , of ruling the self and of ruling the world that you have received from the Father? Does this spiritual intoxication constantly stay in your intellects? Do you check how much the authority you have to rule over the self remains with you in a practical way throughout the day? To what extent do you have a powerful form with the authority of knowledge ? To what extent do you experience in a practical way the authority of all powers you have received to become a conqueror of Maya and a conqueror of matter? Do you experience the authority to be able to see in a successful way a particular power working in the way that you want it to? The unlimited Father makes all the children almighty authorities , the same as Himself, and so, have you become equal to the Father? Do you know how to check to what extent you have become this?

While having a heart-to-heart conversation with BapDada, some children repeatedly say: We do check ourselves, but we are unable to change ourselves. We know, we accept and we think, but we are unable to do it. We do use the right method, but we are unable to attain success. What should we do for that? The reason for that is a small mistake which takes you into a maze. What is that? No matter how good some medicine may be, and you may be taking the correct dose , but if you even take something that you are forbidden to take, or you do not take something that you are supposed to, then, you are unable to liberate yourself from that illness. Similarly, here too, you take the medicine of knowledge, that is, you churn the knowledge in your intellects thinking, “This is correct” or, “This is incorrect” or, “I should do this” or, “I mustn’t do this; this is wrong and this is right ; this is victory and this is defeat.” You do have this understanding in your intellects, that is, you are taking the right dose according to the time, you do have a heart-to-heart conversation, you do attend classes , you do service and you take all the doses . However, the first precaution or the first code of conduct is to belong to the one Father and none other. You have to remain powerful in this awareness. You do not observe this main precaution constantly, but you deceive yourself instead and think: I belong to Shiv Baba anyway. Who else is mine? However, you should be such an embodiment of remembrance in a practical way that, apart from the one Father, no other person or object, relationship or connection, or any facility enters your awareness even in your thoughts. This is the strongest, that is, the main precaution. Because of being careless in observing this precaution, because of following the dictates of your own mind, because of the influence of the atmosphere or because of the influence of the company, you are unable to remain an embodiment of remembrance at all times. You are unable to pay as much attention as you should. You pay full attention for a temporary period , then full gradually diminishes until there is just attention remaining. Then, after that, attention changes into many types of tension . Under the influence of the situations and tests, attention changes into some form of tension . Because of this, as your awareness changes, so your power also changes. Instead of being an almighty authority , because of your being under the influence of Maya, the mantra that disciplines the mind does not work, that is, the right method is unable to grant you success. Then you cry out. “Even though I want to, why does it not happen?” So, you need to observe the main precaution of paying constant attention to this one thing.

Second precaution: The Father has given you the right to become your own master or of becoming a creator, but, instead of being the creator, you consider yourself to be the creation, that is, a body. When you forget your being a creator, Maya, that is, body consciousness then becomes a creator of you, the creator, that is, it then has a right. No one can have a right over the creator. No one can become a master of a master of the world. You become the creation in front of Maya and you thereby become dependent. The reason for this is that you do not constantly observe the precaution of being an embodiment of the awareness of having all rights and being master.

Third precaution: Through the Father, everyone has to remain a trustee . You are trustees of your bodies, you are trustees of your minds, that is, of your thoughts. You are also trustees of the worldly and spiritual households you have been given. However, instead of being trustees , you become householders. You make a model of the bad condition of a household. What model do you make? It is of being pulled in all directions. The other model of a householder is shown in the form of a donkey. Many types of burden have been shown. You create such models , do you not? When you become householders, there are many types of burden of the consciousness of “mine”. The most royal form of burden is: This is my responsibility. I will definitely have to fulfil that. If there isn’t any other type of household activity, then, under the influence of your own physical senses, there are many household activities of wasting your time in the sweetness of many other things. Today, you waste your time under the influence of the sweetness of your ears (listening to wasteful things). Tomorrow, you will waste your time under the influence of your tongue. Because of being trapped in such activities, you forget that you are a trustee . “Even this body is not mine. I am a trustee of even this body.” So, without the master, a trustee cannot use anything for the self. To become intoxicated in the sweetness of the physical senses would also be said to have become a householder and not a trustee . You, as a trustee of the highest on high Master, have the shrimat of staying in a constant and stable stage in the sweetness of the One. Through those physical senses, you have to experience the sweetness of only the One. So, why do you then taste the different forms of sweetness through the many physical senses? You become householders in the worldly and spiritual households, and this is why the Father gives you the direction to hand over to Him the many types of burden. You carry that burden on yourself unnecessarily and then, when you wish to fly, how can you fly? This is why you say that you know, you accept and you think about it, but that you are unable to do it. Because you miss out this precaution, even though you follow the methods, you are unable to gain success.

BapDada feels mercy for such children. You are master oceans and thirsty for one drop, that is, you are thirsty for a drop of the experience that you attain through yoga and knowledge. Therefore, now observe these precautions and you will constantly experience all attainments. You are the masters of the property of all attainments. You children are also the masters and yet you are deprived of attainments! Even the Father cannot bear to see this. So, now let go of the sanskars of 63 births of being householders. Be trustees of your bodies and your minds. “Everything is the Father’s responsibility and not mine.” Become light with this awareness, for only then will whatever you think happen, that is, you will take a high jump . So, this weeping and wailing will be transformed into a heart-to-heart conversation. By having this heart-to-heart conversation, you will be able to comfort souls. Otherwise, there will sometimes be your own complaints and sometimes there will be complaints about the situations and you will finish your time of the heart-to-heart conversation in this. So, now transform the complaints into spirituality because only then will you be able to experience the happiness of the confluence age. Do you understand?

To those who constantly maintain their spirituality, to those who follow shrimat at every step, to such obedient ones who follow all the orders, to those who put every order into practical form, to those gyani and yogi souls who are loved by the Father, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.

Teachers means servers. A server means one who is an embodiment of renunciation and tapasya. Teachers should check themselves in a subtle way: not in a gross form, but in a subtle way. That is, did I remain an embodiment of renunciation throughout the day? That is, instead of being an embodiment of renunciation, did I become someone who accepted some facility or some object? Those who are embodiments of renunciation would never accept anything. When you think about accepting something, your tapasya then finishes. Renunciation definitely makes you an embodiment of tapasya. Where renunciation and tapasya finish, service also finishes. No matter in how many ways one serves externally, if there is no renunciation and tapasya, there is no success in service.

Some teachers wonder why there isn’t success in service . Not to have expansion in service is a different matter, for to move along according to the discipline is success in service . That will happen when there is renunciation and tapasya. “I am a teacher , I am in charge, I am knowledgeable, I am yogi”: to accept this for the self is not said to be renunciation. Others may say this of you, but you should not have to say this for yourself. If you have to say it for yourself that would then be said to be self-pride. The definition of renunciation is not ordinary. Even souls who are going to become subjects have renunciation of the gross form, but those who become instruments have renunciation in a subtle way. Not to accept any position or any object from any person is renunciation. Otherwise, there is the saying: Those who accept success disregard God’s miracles. Here, too, if you accept any success that you achieved through knowledge and yoga in the form of regard and honour, that too is a form of reward as the result of using the right method. To accept anything of this means to accept success. Those who accept success finish their reward here and they do not then create anything for the future. So, teachers have to check themselves in a very subtle way. As a server, your renunciation and tapasya should be constant. Tapasya means to stay in love with the one Father. If your intellect is subservient to any fortune that you receive temporarily, you cannot be an embodiment of success in service. In order to become an embodiment of success, you need to have renunciation and tapasya. Renunciation does not mean that you renounce your relationships and come and sit here; no. Renunciation of praise, renunciation of respect and renunciation of nature, the servant: this is renunciation. Then, see how you will have to put in less effort and will achieve greater success. Why is there at present more work put in and less success? Because something is now lacking in both of these things, that is, in your renunciation and tapasya. Those who have both renunciation and tapasya are accurate teachers , that is, they are teachers who are doing some work. Otherwise, they would be said to be teachers in name only.

Teachers should not be weak in any subject . If a teacher is weak, then whomever the teacher becomes an instrument for, that person will also be weak and this is why teachers should be perfect in all subjects . It is not the duty of teachers to say, “What can I do? How can I do this?” or, “I don’t know how to do this.” These are not the words of a teacher . These are words of subjects. Do you consider yourselves to be embodiments of success in this way? Check : there is definitely some obstruction somewhere because this is why you are not embodiments of success. Where there is the attraction of renunciation and tapasya, service will also be attracted and follow. Do you understand? Become teachers who are such embodiments of success. Expansion in service is based on such teachers . Such teachers are said to be lucky . It is for them that there is the saying, “Even dust becomes gold”. Dust will become gold, that is, you will become an embodiment of success. Are you teachers such embodiments of success? Of course it would be numberwise. The teachers’ number is at the front. Achcha. If you haven’t become such embodiments of success, then become that now.

Main qualifications of those who fulfil the responsibility of love for the Father:

Have you made the Father your Companion for life? You have to fulfil your responsibility to your Companion. To fulfil your responsibility means to follow His directions at every step. To follow His directions at every step means to fulfil your responsibility to your Companion. Are you those who fulfil their responsibility in this way or those who simply have love for Him? Some are even now still trying to forge their love and this is why they say that they are unable to have yoga. Those who are able to have yoga for a short time, but their yoga then breaks – for them it would be said that they are those who are trying to forge their love. Those who fulfil the responsibility of love are lost in love; they have completely forgotten all awareness of their body and physical relations. Therefore, you also have to fulfil such a responsibility of love with the Father, and so how would you then remember your body or bodily relations?

Question: What practical sign would be visible in those who have attained powers from the Father?

Answer: Those who have the powers in their lives would not be attracted to or tempted by anything. They would be constantly engaged in service. Those who are engaged in service would never be attracted or tempted by anything. Those who remain in service are embodiments of renunciation and tapasya and this is why they are not attracted or tempted by anything, that is, they do not become body conscious . Thirdly, they only remember the Father who gives them the powers and the powers they have received. Only those who are such incarnations of power become conquerors of Maya. Achcha.