22 September 1975 · English

"To stabilise in your self-respect is the key to happiness and all treasures."

Today's gathering is of those who stabilise themselves in their self-respect, of those who look at all others with feelings of the original self (swa bhavna) and of those who have good wishes for each and every soul. Do you constantly and easily have these three stages: self-respect for your own self, feelings of the original self (swa bhavna) for others and constantly good wishes for others? You already know the difference between being able to stabilise yourself easily in this stage and doing it with effort. At present, this stage should be constantly easy and natural. Check yourself as to why you are not constantly and naturally able to have this stage. The main reason is that you do not remain stable in self-respect. If you inculcate the word 'respect' into your practical life, you can easily attain perfection. By stabilising in your self-respect, you will be able to have feelings of the original self (swa bhavna) and good wishes for everyone. To stabilise in your self-respect is the first lesson.

To stabilise in one's self-respect is the means to solve the puzzle of life. From the beginning up to now, you have been engaged in solving the puzzle of, “Who am I?” In the beginning, when the task of establishment began, what did you tell everyone? Who am I ? You had this so firmly in your awareness that everyone was aware that all of you had just the one lesson very firm and that was: What am I? That same lesson is still continuing today and this is why it is called a puzzle. Such a small puzzle has defeated the highest-on-high Brahmins. It has them puzzled , that is, they haven't been able to solve it fully. If, instead of self-respect, you have a vision of body consciousness or arrogance towards others, what would you call that? Have you solved this puzzle, or are you still in the process of solving it?

The entire knowledge is merged in the answer to the question, 'Who am I?' This one term is the key to all the treasures of happiness, the treasures of all powers, the treasures of the wealth of knowledge and the treasures of breath and time. You have received the key, have you not? The day that each of you Brahmins is born, you receive a birthday gift , do you not? So, constantly continue to use the birthday gift that you have received from the Father, and you will be able to become full of all treasures for all time. What is the sound of enthusiasm and happiness that constantly emerges from the heart of a soul who is full of all treasures? What is the sound that emerges, not from the mouth, but from the heart? It was also the sound that emerged from Brahma Baba’s heart in the beginning. What was that? It is “The wonder of myself!” (Wah re me!) Just as you sing songs of the wonder of others, in the same way, you sing about your own wonder. These are words of self-respect, not words of body consciousness.

You either don't know how to use the key of 'Who am I?' or you don't know how to look after it, and this is why you are not able to remember it at a time of need. Maya is still constantly hovering around you to steal this key from you, waiting for you to doze off in carelessness for even a second so that she can steal the key from you. Just as nowadays robbers make someone unconscious, in the same way, Maya also makes you unconscious by making you lose your awareness of self-respect. Therefore, constantly stay in the awareness of your self-respect. At amrit vela, revise this lesson of 'Who am I?' for your own self. Use this key from amrit vela. Repeatedly look at all the different treasures that Baba has spoken of and see what you have received, and, according to that time, use all these treasures in your life. Do not just create a bank balance , but also put then into use and your stage will then easily become according to your awareness.

In the scriptures that are memorials of the previous cycle, it is written for the Father: Who am I? It is written that He is the most elevated of all. As is the praise of the Father God: the Highest on High, so too, what praise does God, the Father, sing? The children are the highest on high. Constantly remember your elevated self-respect of being the children and the masters of the highest-on-high Father. The Father Himself turns the beads of the rosary of you elevated souls. Other souls sing praise of the Father, but the Father Himself sings praise of you elevated souls. Without the co-operation of you most elevated souls, even the Father cannot do anything. You are souls with such elevated self-respect. You are the elevated souls who will reveal the Father through all relationships and who also give the Father's introduction to others. You are the ones who play the highest-on-high parts with the highest-on-high Father every cycle. The greatest self-respect is that, at the confluence age, you souls tie the Father with the string of your love and relationships. You are the ones who make the Father become corporeal the same as yourselves. The Father makes you the same as He is in the incorporeal form, whereas you make the Incorporeal the same as you in the corporeal form, and you become the same as the Father in all His praise. This is why even the Father says: You are the masters . So, do you now understand who you are? "Whatever I am, however I am"; by knowing yourself according to that, you will constantly be able to maintain your self-respect and automatically go beyond body consciousness. Body consciousness cannot come where there is self-respect. So, always keep your birthday gift with you and look after it very well. Do not forget it due to carelessness. Through this, you will naturally, easily and constantly have feelings of the original self (swa bhavna) and good wishes for everyone. Do you understand? It is an easy puzzle, is it not? It is easy for those who are sensible and very deep for those who are careless. All of you are children who are sensible in an unlimited way, are you not? Not just those who are sensible, but those who are sensible in an unlimited way. Achcha.

To such souls who have broad and unlimited intellects in every aspect, to those who have such unlimited intellects that they enable all others to come out of all limitations, to those who are sensible in an unlimited way and have an attitude of unlimited disinterest, to the most elevated souls who constantly have an elevated stage and are always in the unlimited place, love, remembrance and namaste from the unlimited Father.