19 December 1985 · English

"Follow the Father."

Today, BapDada has come to celebrate a meeting, in order to give all the loving children the response of their love. Bodiless BapDada has to take the support of a body. Why? In order to make you children bodiless too. Just as the Father is bodiless and gives the experience of the bodiless form, of being bodiless while in a body, in the same way, all of you, whilst living your lives, remain stable in a bodiless, soul-conscious stage while in bodies and, by being karavanhar (one who inspires), make your bodies perform actions. The body is karanhar (one that does) and you, the soul, are karavanhar (one who inspires). This stage is called the bodiless stage. This is called following the Father . In order to follow the Father constantly, let your intellect remain stable in two stages. The stage of following the Father is the stage of constantly being without a body, the bodiless stage, the incorporeal stage. In order to follow Dada, who is Father Brahma, always be in the avyakt stage, the angelic stage, the subtle stage. To remain stable in both these stages is called following the Father . The stage below this is the awareness of the gross form and the awareness of people. Do not come down to that stage. Awareness of people and gross awareness is the basis of bringing you down. Therefore, stay constantly beyond everything and stable in these two stages. The third aspect is that, as soon as you took Brahmin birth, you received BapDada’s teachings, so do not go into the stage of coming down even in your thoughts or dreams. That is a stage that doesn’t belong to you. What would happen if someone were to go abroad without permission? BapDada has already drawn this line of obedience: do not step outside it. If you are disobedient, there is distress and there is repentance too. So, the easy way to maintain your pride constantly and to remain stable in the stage of an embodiment of all attainments is to follow the Father . This is easy to follow , is it not? In life, you have experienced following from childhood. In childhood, you are made to follow your father by holding his finger while walking, sitting and moving around. Then, when you become a householder, husband and wife are taught to follow one another. Then, as you progress further, you adopt a guru, you become followers of a guru. You become those who follow him. In worldly life, you have to follow in the beginning and also at the end. The alokik and parlokik fathers are also showing you an easy method. They free you from the expansion of, “What should I do? How should I do this? Should I do it like this or like that?” The answer to all questions is just one: follow the Father.

It was the Brahma soul who completed the full 84 births and became the instrument to teach you how to perform karma in the corporeal form.

· how to perform actions,

· how to become free from any bondage of actions,

· how to fulfill the responsibility of karma,

· how to remain stable in the bodiless stage whilst in a body,

· how to become free from the bondages of the body,

· how to constantly maintain the stage of being absorbed and lost in love in your mind,

· how to use every new penny in a worthwhile was - it was corporeal Brahma who became the instrument in physical life.

A soul who was tied in the bondage of karma became the example of becoming karmateet. So, it is easy to follow a practical life, is it not? This is the lesson of following the father . When you ask questions connected with bodies, relationships or wealth, the answer to all of those questions is the life of Father Brahma. Scientists today ask computers for answers to all their questions, because they believe a computer is more accurate than the human intellect. They believe something that has been created to be more accurate than the one who created it. However, for you who have silence , the life of Brahma is the accurate computer . Therefore, instead of asking “Why?” or “How?”, look at the living computer . The questions of “How?” and “What?” will change into “Like this”. Instead of having lots of questions, you will become content and satisfied. Someone who asks lots of questions has a fluctuating intellect. This is why the sign of a question mark is crooked. When you write the sign of a question mark, it is crooked, whereas the sign of being content and satisfied is a full stop. Is there anything crooked in a full stop? It is the same from all sides. If you look at a full stop from any angle, it will be the right way up and it will always be the same - whether you look at it the right way up or the wrong way round. In the stage of being content and satisfied, that is, in being constant and stable, you are one who follows the father . So, what is the essence? Follow Brahma in the corporeal form and follow Father Brahma in the subtle form. Whether you follow Father Brahma or Father Shiva, the same words are used: Follow the Father . There is the praise of Brahma: Salutations to Brahma, the Guru of the World, because it was Brahma in the corporeal form who became the instrument in the corporeal world for you to follow .

None of you call yourselves Shiv Kumars or Shiv Kumaris; you call yourselves Brahma Kumars and Brahma Kumaris. It is Brahma who becomes a sample of living an elevated life for the corporeal creation. Therefore, Father Shiva is called the Satguru and the one who teaches you something is called a guru. It is Brahma who becomes the instrument to teach the world. So, you have to follow him in every action. It is in this context that Brahma is called the Jagadguru (World Guru). This is why the world praises Brahma. The title, “Jagadpita” also belongs to Brahma. Vishnu and Shankar cannot be called Prajapati (Lord of Humanity). In terms of being a master, they call him Pati (Lord) but, in fact, he is the Pita (Father). To the extent that he is loved by the world, accordingly he also became detached from the world, and he is now teaching you through the subtle form the lesson of following him in the avyakt stage. Do you understand? No other soul has that much detachment. Baba will tell you this story of Brahma’s detachment at some other time.

Today, Baba also has to look after a body. It is given on loan , and so a good master uses the body and the place according to the capacity of its power. Nevertheless, BapDada has become the Instrument to make both the chariots work to play their powerful parts . This is also the basis of a special blessing in the drama. Many children ask the question : Why did this particular chariot become the instrument? Let alone others, this one (Gulzar Dadi) also has this question. Just as Brahma did not know of his own births, this one too forgot her blessing. This child received a blessing from corporeal Brahma at the time of the part of visions at the beginning. At the beginning with Father Brahma, in a tapaswi place of solitude, seeing the special part of visions of this soul and seeing the speciality of an easy nature and an innocent life, Brahma Baba gave her the blessing: Just as you have become Father Brahma’s companion and have been with him since the beginning of this part, so in the future as well, you will also fulfil the duty of being the father’s companion and in becoming equal to him. You will play a part equal to that of Father Brahma in service. So, that blessing has become a line of fortune and it became fixed for her to play the part of a chariot, just as it did for Father Brahma. However, BapDada is congratulating the child for playing this part and for being able to adjust to so much power for so long. This lift of the speciality of being able to adjust has become an extra gift . BapDada has to consider everything, including the body. The harmonium (instrument body) is old, and the one using it is powerful. However, because of the lesson of “Ha ji, Ha ji”, it is working well. Nevertheless, BapDada is making it work with the right method and in the right way. Of course He has promised to meet you, but this method will continue to change according to the time. Baba will tell you everything in the eighteenth year. Seventeen years have yet to be completed. Achcha.

To all the easy effort-making children who follow the Father , to the special content and satisfied souls, to the master creator children who constantly become karavanhar and make the body perform karma, to the children who give a response through their lives, love-filled remembrance and namaste.