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22 Jan 1977
"The basis of world transformation is transformation of the self."
22 January 1977 · English
BapDada is seeing His flower garden now and has been seeing it constantly. He sees the flower garden from amrit vela. Today, as well, BapDada was looking at the flower garden to see what type of flower each one is: how fragrant, beautiful and colourful each one is, whether each one is a bud or, from a bud, has become a flower, what the speciality of each flower is and what it still needs. You may have become fragrant, but is that fragrance eternal and does it spread a long way? One type of flower is those whose fragrance reaches you only when you are in front of it, not from a distance. Here, too, you have become fragrant, but it is when you go in front of the Father or the souls who are instrumental for service that there is then that fragrance. However, when you are not doing service, when you are only performing ordinary actions or something for the livelihood of your body, there isn't that fragrance. Some flowers attract from a distance. They attract on the basis of their colour and beauty and not because of their fragrance. Baba saw very few such flowers that were perfect in colour, beauty and fragrance. Colour and beauty means to be sensible whereas to be fragrant means to be essence-full . The majority were sensible . There were very few who were essence-full . You have become servers on the basis of your sense , but there are very few who have become spiritual servers. What is the reason for this? Baba, while being incorporeal, comes into the corporeal and plays a part , but children forget the tool of this mantra which is that they are also incorporeal souls playing parts through the corporeal. They do not have the awareness of being both incorporeal and corporeal at the same time; they either become incorporeal or they stay in the corporeal. You should constantly remember this mantra: the incorporeal is playing a part in the corporeal. This physical world and those physical bodies are your stage . The stage and the actor are separate from one another. An actor would never consider himself to be the stage . The stage is the support and the actor is the image of support; he is the master. By considering your body to be a stage , you will automatically experience yourself to be an actor. So, what was the reason? You do not know how to make yourself detached.
Always move along while considering yourself to be a foreigner. Always think that you have come into the foreign land and entered an old body to play the part of bringing benefit to the world. Because you are weak in the first lesson, you have become sensible , but you lack essence . There is beauty and colour, but neither is the fragrance eternal nor does it spread everywhere. This is why BapDada still has to repeat the first lesson. In one second you will be able to bring about self-transformation easily. However, first ask yourself: How long does it take for me to transform myself? If any sanskar, nature, words or connection is not accurate, but is wasteful, then how long does it take you to transform the wasteful and make it elevated? Whether they are your subtle thoughts or your sanskars, is your machinery so fast that you are able to think about something and immediately do it, that you are able to change as soon as you check ?
At the present time, the machinery for self-transformation has to be of a fast speed . Only then will the machine for world transformation work fast. At the moment, there's a difference between the thinking and the doing of souls who are instruments for establishment, because the old sanskars of devotion continue to emerge from time to time. In devotion, too, they think and speak a lot: "I will do this, I will do that.” There's a lot of speaking, but not as much doing. They say that they will sacrifice themselves, but they do not do anything. They say “It is Yours” but internally they consider it to be theirs. In the same way, here, too, you think a lot, and when having a heart-to-heart conversation you make promises. "From today I will definitely change myself. Today, I am leaving this behind here. Today, I am having this thought." However, there's a difference in saying it and doing it. There's a difference in thinking about it and doing it. In the same way, souls who are instrumental for destruction also think a lot, but are not able to do anything. So, now, before becoming equal to the Father, become equal in this one aspect, that is, speed up the machinery of transforming the self. You were told of the mantra or instrument with which to finish this difference: I, the incorporeal, am playing a part in the corporeal form. Using this mantra, finish the difference between thinking and doing. There's a need for this. Do you now understand what you have to do?
World transformation will take place through self-transformation. Do not think about the date for world transformation, but fix the moment for your own transformation. Make yourself complete and the task of world transformation will be completed. You are the clocks for world transformation. Look at yourselves to see how much time remains before the unlimited night finishes. When the sun of completion rises, the night and its darkness will finish. Should you ask the Father or should the Father ask you? You are the images of support. Achcha.
To such souls who bring about transformation in a second, to those whose thinking and doing are equal, to those who constantly keep in their awareness the mantra, 'I, the incorporeal, am playing a part through the corporeal', to those who become complete and, as master suns of knowledge, dispel the darkness in the world, to those who are constantly detached and loving to the Father, to such special souls, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.
BapDada meeting Didi:
Do you know the date of destruction? When is destruction going to take place? Do you want destruction to take place quickly or are you beyond any desire of 'yes' and 'no'? Instead of thinking about destruction, if all Brahmins stabilize themselves in the one thought of completing establishment, transformation will then have already happened. Just as all of you have the one thought for the date of destruction, in the same way, if someone especially keeps the aim of becoming perfect and fixes the date for it to happen, he will definitely become complete by then. At the moment, you do not all collectively have the one determined thought for transformation. Some have this thought whereas others do not and, therefore, the atmosphere doesn't become powerful . Because it is still the minority who have this thought, it is not clearly revealed in the atmosphere. Therefore, now create such a programme for a special group to carry out this main task of demonstrating it through powerful determined thought. In the beginning, in order to increase enthusiasm for effort, you used to create groups who would race in their efforts. You used to give co-operation and enthusiasm to one another to enable each other to move forward. In the same way, a group of such intense effort-makers should be created to take up the responsibility and initiative of putting into practice whatever they say and definitely doing and demonstrating it. In the beginning, you made a pledge of purity to the Father, that you would die, tolerate everything, accept the beatings, leave your home, but that you would always fulfil the promise of purity. Such a gathering of lionesses became instruments for the task of establishment and gave the proof of that. They didn't think about anything else, didn't consider anything else, but simply fulfilled their promise in a practical way. So such a group is also needed now to make this promise: In order to fulfil our aim, whatever we have to tolerate, whatever we have to renounce, whether we have to listen to good or bad things from others or have to pass tests, we will do all of it and we will definitely achieve our aim. If such a group becomes a sample , others can then also follow them. Whatever happened in the beginning has to happen at the end. There should be a group of such souls coming onto the field who would overcome praise and defamation as well as respect and disrespect. They will have to listen to something or tolerate something in any situation. No matter how well they do something - those who do something good in fact have to listen to and tolerate a great deal. There should be such a group of those who have the power to tolerate. In the beginning, a group of those who made a pledge of purity came onto the field and establishment took place. In the same way, if this group comes onto the field, completion can take place. Can you see such a group ? Just as there is that parliament , so this is the parliament for completion. There should be the court of lawmakers to make the laws for the new world and the new life. We shall now see which group creates that. Even those from abroad should create such a group . You have to reveal yourselves as real Brahmins. Now, before leaving Madhuban, what have you become? Wherever you return to, people should think that an incarnation has incarnated. Since even the incarnation of one is able to bring about such a revolution, how big a revolution would there be if so many incarnations came down? You now have to perform every action while considering yourself to be an incarnation who brings about revolution in the world. Achcha.
What group would you call this group ? BapDada sees this group as a group of messengers . Each soul is going to give the Father’s message to many others. Do you consider yourself to be this? Now, Baba will see which types of flower are brought and which gardener brings them and how big a bouquet he has prepared. A gardener always presents a very beautiful bouquet to his master with a lot of love, and so the Father will also see what is presented to Him. The flowers should be those that have essence (fragrance). There should be the essence of spirituality. Do you consider yourself to be a gardener? If so many are ready, world benefit will then definitely take place. This is BapDada's desire.
Have all the Pandavas attained their elevated stage like that of the previous cycle and completely melted their body consciousness? It is shown that the Pandavas melted away on the mountains, that is, they died there. In the same way, have you completely finished the stage of body consciousness? Have you not yet died alive like the Pandavas? To die alive means to be dead to body consciousness. So, have you died alive? To die means to be dead. Or, is it that you are still dying? Is this possible? As soon as you die in one place, you go and live in another place. This is the case with everyone, is it not? Here, you have to die to body consciousness and live in soul consciousness. How much time do you need for this? It has already been at least six months, has it not? Pandavas are well known for attaining an elevated stage . This is why the physical form of the Pandavas is shown to be very tall. It isn't the body but the stage of the soul that should be elevated. So, you are those same Pandavas, are you not? The easy way to make intense effort is to have a determined thought. In order to be soul conscious, you have to have the determined thought that you are not a body but a soul. If there isn't determination in your thoughts, there cannot be success in anything. Only when you have a determined thought about anything can you attain success. Only those who have determined thoughts become conquerors of Maya. You are not those who will be defeated by Maya, are you? It is when you cannot recognize Maya that you are deceived by her. Those who can recognize her can never be deceived. You are lucky that you have claimed a right to the inheritance before attaining anything else. Now that you belong to the Ocean of Happiness, you should be experiencing so much happiness. What do you lack that you lose your happiness? Where there is attainment, there is happiness. Even those who have temporary attainment become happy, and so, those who have eternal attainment should remain constantly happy. If you stay happy only sometimes, then what is the difference? To be knowledgeable means to be constantly happy. Not to be knowledgeable means to be happy only sometimes. Therefore, have the determined thought of being constantly happy before you leave.
Speaking to the teachers:
Do all of you teachers consider yourselves to be instrument world teachers, the same as the Father, or are you limited teachers? What is the special slogan for effort for the teachers ? That you will do simultaneous service at every second through your thoughts, words and actions, that you will remain engaged in all three types of service in the same second . Only when you teachers constantly put this slogan into practical form will you be able to bring about world benefit. Only when all three types of service are carried out at the same time can the service of bringing benefit to such a huge world be accomplished. You do not have a separate time to serve through your thoughts and a separate time to serve through words. Only those who do all three types of service at the same time can become world benefactors. So check whether you are always doing all three types of service. You have three relationships with the Father - the Father, Teacher and Satguru - and He serves you through all three forms. Therefore, you instrument teachers also have to serve simultaneously in three ways. You will then become master trimurti. Do you understand? To the extent that you teachers become full of all powers, you will accordingly become instruments for other souls. Those who become instruments have a huge responsibility. Those who become instruments accumulate multimillion-fold in a second, and so they have that chance of an attainment. However, if those who are instruments perform such actions that they cause upheaval in others, they also accumulate a multimillion-fold loss. An attitude is created through thoughts and an atmosphere is created through an attitude. So there should be no such thoughts or attitude through which the atmosphere becomes impure. You should not speak any such words that would cause upheaval in others. Because everyone's attention is on you instrument teachers , you teachers have to pay double attention to yourselves. All of you are moving along while paying double attention to yourselves, are you not? First of all, consider everything and then do it. It should not be that you do something first and then think about it. Otherwise, time and energy would be wasted .
You teachers should have special happiness because you have the lift of being with the Father and remaining engaged in His service. You do not have to go into any other atmosphere. So you should take full benefit of this lift , should you not? Are you constantly happy? Who can remain constantly happy? Those who are not attracted anywhere else. If you are attracted anywhere - towards nature, other souls or the virtues of others - you cannot remain happy. Such souls, who are beyond all attractions and are only attracted to the one Father, can remain constantly happy. Achcha.
Blessing: May you have the tilak of the imperishable “suhaag” (fortune of being wed) and fortune and therefore have the tilak of the future kingdom.
At the confluence age you attain the tilak of the “suhaag” of being the deity of all deities and of the fortune of being a child of God. If the tilak of this suhaag and fortune is imperishable and Maya does not erase it, then those who have the tilak of suhaag and fortune here also receive the tilak of the kingdom in the future. There is then the festival of the tilak of the kingdom in every birth. Together with the day of the tilak of the king, this day is also celebrated for the royal family .
Slogan: Remain constantly merged in the love of One and this love will finish all effort.