23 December 1985 · English

"A conqueror of lust is one who is beyond all limited desires."

BapDada is seeing His small, elevated and happy world. On the one side, there is the very big tasteless world. On the other side is a small, happy world. In this happy world, there are the Brahmin souls who are full of happiness and peace because this life of purity and cleanliness is the basis of a happy and peaceful life. Where there is purity and cleanliness, there cannot be any name or trace of sorrow or peacelessness. This small, happy world is in the fortress of purity. If you step outside the fortress of purity even in your thoughts, you experience the influence of sorrow and peacelessness. If the foot of your intellect remains in this fortress, there cannot then be any wave of sorrow or peacelessness, not even in your dreams let alone in your thoughts. If there is the slightest experience of sorrow or peacelessness, there is definitely the influence of one type or another of impurity. Purity does not just mean becoming a conqueror of lust and thereby a conqueror of the world, because all limited desires are the creation of the vice of lust. To be a conqueror of lust means to be victorious over all desires, because each desire has a huge progeny. One is the desire for physical possessions. The second desire is to attain something limited from people. Thirdly, many types of limited desires arise in fulfilling relationships. Fourthly, limited desires also arise within the intention to do service. To finish all these four types of desire means to be victorious over sorrow and peacelessness for all time. Now ask yourself: Have I finished all these four types of desires? If any perishable thing attracts you, then that is definitely an attachment in the form of a desire. You change the words and say in a royal way: "I don't want it, but I like it." When an object or a person has a special attraction for you, when you like just that particular object or person, it means there is a desire. That is a desire. It is right when you say that you like everything and everyone, but it is wrong to say that you like just a particular thing or person. That is a royal form of desire.

If you like someone's service, someone's sustenance, virtues, effort, renunciation or nature, to take the fragrance of that goodness or to imbibe that goodness yourself is a different matter from thinking that you like that one in particular because of that one’s goodness. This is because that goodness then changes into a desire. It is a desire. You are then unable to face sorrow or peacelessness. One is to deprive yourself of becoming good because of that one’s goodness. The other is the feeling of enmity that also brings you down. One is the desire to be impressed. The other is a desire is due to jealousy or holding a grudge against someone. These also finish your happiness and peace. Your mind then is in constant upheaval. The signs of being impressed are attachment and subservience. Similarly, the sign of having feelings of jealousy or enmity are to try and to justify yourself and being stubborn. You are then unaware of how much time and energy are wasted in having both these types of feeling. Both cause a great loss. They distress you and also cause distress for others. At such a time, the chant from such souls is: I have to take and cause sorrow. No matter what happens, I have to do this. It is their desires that are speaking at that time. It is not the Brahmin soul speaking at that time. This is why the feet of their intellects step outside the world of happiness and peace. Therefore, become victorious over these royal desires. Go beyond these desires and have the stage of being ignorant of even the knowledge of desires.

When you have a thought, due to either type of feeling, that you will definitely demonstrate this by doing something, to whom would you demonstrate it? To the Father or the Brahmin family? To whom would you show it? In that case, just consider that as not just demonstrating, but demonstrating falling. Is that the wonder that you want to demonstrate? Is falling something you would be proud of showing others? The intoxication of limited attainment: I will demonstrate by doing this service, I will demonstrate by glorifying the name: check whether these words are royal. You speak the language of lions, but you become like sheep. Nowadays, people wear the face mask of a tiger, an elephant, Ravan or Rama. So, this too is Maya wearing the face of a tiger. "I will definitely demonstrate this. I will do this." However, Maya influences you and turns you into a sheep. To have any consciousness of "mine" means to be influenced by one type of limited desire or other. Speak yuktiyukt language and also have yuktiyukt feelings. This is not cleverness, but it is experiencing defeat every cycle and becoming part of the moon dynasty instead of the sun dynasty. You will then have to become part of the moon dynasty every cycle. So, is that defeat or cleverness? Do not show such cleverness. Do not become arrogant. Do not insult anyone. Both of those feelings distance you from having good wishes and pure feelings. So check: There isn't the slightest arrogance or feeling of insult, is there? Where there is arrogance or feelings of insult, that person can never be stable in the stage of self-respect. Self-respect makes you step away from all desires so that you would then constantly swing in the swings of happiness and peace in the world of happiness. This is called being a conqueror of all desires and a conqueror of the world. So BapDada was seeing the small happy world. Why do you go from the world of happiness of your own world into a foreign land with the foot of your intellect? A religion that is not yours, a land that is not yours, would always cause you sorrow. Your original religion and your original land give you happiness. So, you are the children of the Father who is the Ocean of Happiness. You are souls who have experienced the world of happiness. You are souls who have a right and so you must always remain happy and peaceful. Do you understand?

All the loving children from this land and abroad have arrived at their home, their Father's home, to claim their right. Seeing the children who have a right, BapDada is also pleased. Just as you have come here in happiness, similarly, the method of remaining constantly happy is to renounce both of those things, even in your thoughts, and to become fortunate for all time. You have come to claim your fortune but, along with claiming your fortune, you also have to leave behind any weakness of the mind that obstructs your flying stage. To renounce this means to claim something. Achcha.

To those who always live in the world of happiness and who are conquerors of all desires, to the elevated souls who constantly have good wishes and pure feelings for all souls, to the special souls who constantly remain stable on the seat of self-respect, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.

BapDada meeting teachers:

What jewels do all of you consider yourselves to be? (Jewels of contentment.) At the present time especially, it is contentment that is essential. Which goddess is worshipped the most? The Goddess of Contentment (Santoshi Maa). It is easy to please the Goddess of Contentment. The Goddess of Contentment very quickly becomes content. Why is the Goddess of Contentment worshipped? Because there is a lot of tension at the present time. There is a lot of distress and because of this, discontentment continues to increase. This is why everyone is looking for ways to remain content, but they are unable to do this. So, at such a time, all of you have to become jewels of contentment and give everyone the enlightenment of contentment. Make others content with your enlightenment of contentment. First of all remain content with yourself, then remain content with service and then remain content with your relationships, for only then will you be called a jewel of contentment. You need to have three certificates of contentment. One from yourself, one from service and the third from your companions. You have claimed all these three certificates , have you not? It is good that you have come away from the upheaval of the world and reached Achal ghar (the home of stability). This Father's place is Achal ghar. To arrive at Achal ghar is also a sign of great fortune. It was because you had renunciation that you arrived at Achal ghar. You have become fortunate, but you can extend the line of your fortune as much as you want. You have come in the list of those who are fortunate, because you now belong to God, and this is why you have become fortunate. You stepped away from everyone else and made the One belong to You, and this is why you have become fortunate. BapDada is pleased to see this courage in you children. No matter what you are, you are elevated in your renunciation and courage in service. No matter if you are young or new, BapDada is congratulating you for your renunciation and courage. BapDada looks at you with this regard . There is importance even in becoming an instrument. Whilst constantly continuing to move forward with this importance, you will become great souls in the world and become very well known. So, you know your own greatness, do you not? To the extent that you are great, so you are humble, just as the sign of a fruitful tree is that it bows down. Similarly, those who are humble are the ones who eat the instant, practical fruit. This is the speciality of the confluence age. Achcha.