28 January 1977 · English

"The dharma (religion) and karma (action) of Brahmins."

Do you consider yourselves to be Brahmins, the mouth-born creation of Brahma? Do you know what the dharma and karma of Brahmins is? Your religion, that is, the basic principle, is complete purity. Do you know the definition of complete purity? It means that there should not be even the slightest trace of impurity in your thoughts or dreams. Only those who have such elevated dharna are called true Brahmins. In this context, it has been said, “You may have to die, but do not lose your religion at any cost.” Do you consider yourselves to be those who have such courage and firm faith? No matter what the situation may be, if you have to renounce something for your religion, if you have to tolerate something, if you have to face something or have courage, would you do it willingly? Would you not move backwards? Would you be afraid?

True renunciation is when you do not consider renunciation to be renunciation but fortune. If even a thought or word is expressed with the feeling that you have sacrificed something, you do not receive any fortune from that. On the path of devotion, when an animal is being offered in sacrifice, if it makes a sound or cries out it is not accepted as “maha-prasad” (a holy offering); it is not considered to be a sacrifice. That is a memorial of the present time. If, together with renunciation, you have the thought that you renounced something and you desire name, regard and fame, then that is not renunciation. That would not be called fortune. Only those who have such dharna are called true Brahmins.

Generally, physical sacrificial fires are carried out by worldly brahmins (priests). However, this great sacrificial fire will to be completed only when the entire old world has been sacrificed into it. First of all, ask yourselves: Before making a sacrifice of the old world, have the Brahmins who have become instruments sacrificed into the great sacrificial fire their old thoughts and vices, which are said to be the world of thoughts, that is, this old world of waste thoughts, nature and sanskaras? If you have not yet sacrificed your limited world, or you have not put the materials that you still have left with yourselves into the sacrificial fire, then how would the unlimited old world be sacrificed? Every instrument Brahmin is responsible for the completion of the sacrificial fire. Therefore, you have to have: Charity begins at home. So, check in your own mind whether you have made the sacrifice. What is the final and complete sacrifice? Do you know it? In the spiritual teachings of the world they believe that the final and perfect stage of a soul is when a soul merges into the Supreme Soul. The form of this final sacrifice is the finishing of the consciousness of “I”. Here, too, only the words “Baba, Baba” should emerge from your lips and in your mind, indicating your merging into the Father. This is known as merging, that is, becoming the same. This is called the final sacrifice. There shouldn’t be the slightest consciousness of “I” of body consciousness in your thoughts or dreams. There should be the awareness of your eternal form of soul consciousness. The words “Baba, Baba” should be constant and unlimited, beyond any limits. In your original form of a Brahmin there should be the dharna of dharma and karma: this is known as being a true Brahmin.

Only such true Brahmins can be instruments for the completion of the sacrificial fire. You have become the creators of the sacrificial fire. Now become instruments for its completion, that is, you must make the final sacrifice. Then the unlimited old world will automatically be sacrificed. Do you understand what you now have to do? This is the easy way to become perfect. To make the complete sacrifice is known as making the final offering. So have you already sacrificed yourself in the fire, or do you still have to do that? Are you going to make the final offering at the last moment? Only when you make the holy offering yourself will you enable others to make the sacrifice. Do not think that you will do it at some point later on, but think that you have to do it now. Just as you are like chatrak birds in listening to Baba and you also make plans to meet Baba, thinking that your turn should be first, so take turns in sacrificing yourselves too. Take the first turn in actually doing this practically. Achcha.

To those who sacrifice themselves completely and who make the final offering, to those who become instruments for world transformation through self-transformation, to the true Brahmins, to the perfect Brahmins who are the same as the Father, to the most elevated Brahmins who stabilise themselves in their religion and karma, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.

BapDada speaking to Madhuban Residents

Are all of you constantly happy? Those who know the significance of all three aspects of time are happy. If someone is upset, it is because he has forgotten the significance of the drama . Those who are constantly aware of the significance of the drama and the three aspects of time are always happy. The reason for becoming upset is in not understanding the significance of these. Those who have the knowledge of all three aspects of time are called trikaldarshi (seers of the three aspects of time); they remain constantly happy and content.

To be a Madhuban resident means to be constantly happy and content. To become upset with others means to bring yourself down from the stage of being one who knows all secrets. When you leave your throne and come down, you then get upset. To be trikaldarshi means to be knowledge-full , which means to be on a high throne. When you leave that throne and come down, you are then upset. Your stage should be according to your place.

Madhuban is also called the land of heaven. You do believe that Madhuban is a model of heaven. So, can Maya enter heaven? There should be total ignorance of what Maya is. In heaven, there is no knowledge of Maya. Because you consider this land to be ordinary, Maya comes. Do not consider Madhuban, the land of blessings, to be an ordinary place. The awareness of Madhuban brings you power. The residents of Madhuban should be angels. The praise of Madhuban means the praise of the residents of Madhuban. It is not the praise of the walls of Madhuban. With which vision does the whole world see the residents of Madhuban? Even today, the whole world sees Madhuban, as a memorial, with such elevated vision. Even devotees sing praise of the residents of Madhuban. Even the Brahmin family sees it with elevated vision. If you also have such elevated vision, you have then already become angels.

Madhuban residents are also called the residents of the yagya (sacrificial fire). Therefore, those who are living in the yagya have to offer a sacrifice; only then will others follow . In the sacrificial fires which are the memorial, the sacrifice is only worthwhile when a mantra is chanted. Here, too, only when you constantly have the mantra “manmanabhav” in your awareness will the sacrifice be worthwhile. Residents of Madhuban are those who are constantly stable in the stage of the mantra. You are not those who simply chant the mantra, but those who are embodiments of the mantra. The Father has now given you the realisation course . So have you realised yourselves and changed ?

Are all of you all right? When someone says that he is fine, BapDada would say, “May you have a gulab (rose) in your mouth.” (May you always be like that!) Even by just saying it you will become all right. When you think of your weakness again and again, the weakness lingers on. When you see any weakness, continue to finish it. Together with checking , also change it. You have to show a wonder. In all the time of all the Company you received, did you perform a wonder? Have you performed any such task which would be called a wonder? Or, do you forget it after doing it? Constantly see yourself as an embodiment of virtues and keep yourself stable in an elevated stage . Do not come down. You have been told that children of a royal family do not even put their feet on the ground or in the dust. Here, body consciousness is the dust, so do not come down into it. Remain constantly beyond this dust. Even if you become body conscious in your thoughts, it means you have put your feet in the dust. To go further into words or actions means to eat dust. Children of a royal family never eat dust. Constantly have the awareness that you are children with an elevated stage who belong to the highest-on-high Father and then your vision will never be drawn downwards. You have to finish everything old, even in your dreams. The dreams of yogi and knowledgeable souls will be of the new world and the new life. When even your dreams have changed, there would be no question of this in your thoughts. The dreams of Madhuban residents are elevated. Even BapDada sees you with this vision. There is such praise of being a Madhuban resident that, even today, at the very end, those who are this in name only (in Vrindavan and Madhuban) are able to earn money through it. There is so much praise of even just the name, and so the name of the Madhuban residents is also so great. Since there is so much praise of the name, how much praise would there be of the form itself? Achcha. All of you are content anyway.