31 December 1986 · English

"The way to make your past, present and future elevated."

Today, the g reat-great-grandfather (Brahma) and God, the Father (Shiva) are giving greetings of blessings from their hearts to their sweet and extremely lovely children. BapDada knows how elevated and great each and every long-lost and now-found child is. The greatness and purity of every child continue to reach the Father numberwise. Today, all of you have especially come to celebrate the New Year with zeal and enthusiasm. In order to celebrate, people of the world ignite unused lamps or candles. They celebrate by igniting them, whereas BapDada is celebrating the New Year with the countless lamps who are already ignited. He does not light those who have been extinguished or blow out those who are ignited. No one except the Father and you children can celebrate the New Year in this way in a gathering of hundreds and thousands of such ignited, spiritual lights. This is such a beautiful scene of the spiritual gathering of sparkling lamps. Each one's spiritual lamp is sparkling constantly and steadily. "One Baba" in each one's mind is enabling all you spiritual lamps to sparkle. You have the one world, you have the one thought and you have a constant and stable stage: this is what it means to celebrate. This is what it means to become that and make others that. At this time, it is the confluence of both farewell (vidaai) and greetings (badhaai). It is farewell to the old and greetings to the new. All of you come here at this confluence. Therefore, congratulations for bidding farewell to your old thoughts and sanskars and also congratulations for flying with new zeal and enthusiasm.

The present moment will become the past after a short time. The year that you are now passing through will become the past after midnight. The moment now (today) is called the present , and tomorrow is the future . The play of the past, present and future continues to take place. Use all these three words in this New Year in a new way. How? Let the past become the past by always passing with honours . Of course, it will be " past is past", but how are you going to pass through it? You say that the time passed by, that this scene passed by. However, did you pass through that whilst passing with honours ? You made the past become the past, but did you pass through the past in such an elevated way that, as soon as you remember the past, the words "Wah, wah!" emerge from your heart? Did you make the past become the past in such a way that others can learn a lesson from your story of the past? Let your past become the form of a memorial, let it become a devotional song (kirtan), that is, let it be worth singing praise of, just as devotees on the path of devotion continue to sing devotional songs of your actions. The songs of praise of your actions are even now creating the livelihoods of many souls. In this New Year, let every thought and every moment become the past in this way. Do you understand what you have to do?

Now, come into the present . Make the present so practical that everyone receives one present (gift) or other from you special souls at every present moment and thought. When do people experience the most happiness? When they receive a present from someone. No matter how peaceless, sorrowful or distressed they may be, when they are given a present with love, there is a wave of happiness at that moment. Not a superficial present but a present given from the heart. Everyone always considers a present to be a symbol of love. The value of anything given as a present is in the love with which it is given, not in the thing itself. Therefore, continue to make progress with the method of giving presents . Do you understand? Is this easy or difficult? Your treasure store is full, is it not? Or, is it that by giving presents , your treasure store would be reduced? You have accumulated some stock , have you not? Simply give presents of one second's drishti with love, co-operation with love, feelings of love, sweet words and elevated thoughts from your heart. These presents are enough. Nowadays, the devotees of you Brahmins souls, those who are in connection and relationship with you and distressed souls all need these presents , not any other presents . You have a stock of these, do you not? So, become bestowers as every present moment changes into the past and all types of souls will then continue to sing songs of your praise from their hearts. Achcha.

What will you do in the future ? Everyone asks you: Ultimately, what is the future ? Reveal the future through your features . Let your features create the future . What will the future be like? What will people’s eyes be like in the future ? What will smiles be like in the future ? What will relationships be like in the future? What will life be like in the future ? Let your features grant a vision of all of these things. Let your drishti clearly reveal the world of the future . Let the question "What will happen?" finish and change into “It will be like this.” Let the word “How?” change into “Like this.” In the future there are deities. The sanskars of a deity means the sanskars of a bestower. The sanskars of a bestower means the sanskars of one with a crown and seated on a throne. Let whoever sees you experience your crown and throne. Which crown? The crown of light that enables you to remain constantly light . Let the signs of spiritual intoxication and a carefree stage always be experienced from your actions and words. The sign of being seated on a throne is to be carefree and to have intoxication. The intoxication of having victory guaranteed and a carefree stage is the sign of a soul who is seated on the Father's heart throne. Let whoever comes experience you being seated on the heart-throne and your stage of wearing a crown. This is what it means to reveal the future through your features . Celebrate the New Year in this way, that is, become this and make others the same too. Do you understand what you have to do in the New Year? In three words become master trimurti, master trikaldarshi and trilokinath. Everyone is now wondering: What are we going to do now? Through your every step, whether it is through remembrance or service, continue to attain success in all three ways.

You have a lot of zeal and enthusiasm for the New Year, do you not? Double foreigners have double enthusiasm. How many facilities will you use to celebrate the New Year? Those people use perishable facilities and have temporary entertainment. One moment they will light a candle and the next moment they will blow it out. However, BapDada is eternally celebrating with you children who attain eternal success. What will all of you also do? Cut a cake , light candles, sing songs and clap. Do this a lot too. You may do this. However, BapDada always gives the eternal children imperishable congratulations and shows you a method to make you imperishable. Seeing you celebrate in the corporeal world with physical festivities, BapDada is also pleased, because it is only once in the whole cycle that you find such a beautiful family, where everyone in the whole family of a gathering of hundreds and thousands is wearing a crown and seated on a throne. Therefore, dance, sing and eat toli as much as you want. The Father is pleased just to see the children and to take the fragrance of it all. What songs are playing in each one's mind? Songs of happiness are playing. Always sing songs of "Wah, wah! Wah Baba! Wah my fortune! Wah, my sweet family! Wah, the beautiful time of the elevated confluence age.” Every action is "Wah, wah!" Continue to sing songs of “Wah, wah!” Today, BapDada was smiling because some children, instead of singing songs of “Wah, wah”, were singing other songs. They were songs of just two words. Do you know what they were? This year, do not sing songs of those two words. Those two words are "Why?" and " I ". Generally, whenever BapDada watches the TV of the children, instead of them saying, "Wah, wah", the children are saying, "Why? Why?" So, instead of "Why?" say, "Wah, wah" and, instead of " I" , say, "Baba, Baba". Do you understand?

Whoever you are, whatever you are like, BapDada loves you and this is why all of you come running to meet Baba with love. At amrit vela, all the children always sing the song, "Lovely Baba, sweet Baba", and in return , BapDada sings the song, "Lovely children, lovely children". Achcha. In fact, this year is the year to learn the lesson of becoming detached and loving. Nevertheless, the children's loving invocation of the Father brings Him from the nyari (detached, unique) world into the pyari (loving) world. There is no need to consider all of these things in the subtle form. Meeting in the subtle form, Baba gives all the unlimited children the feeling of an unlimited meeting at the one time. With a physical method, there are still limits. What do the children want after all? Murli and drishti. Even when Baba is speaking the murli, that too, is a meeting. Whether Baba speaks to individuals or to everyone together, Baba is going to say the same thing. Whatever Baba says to the gathering, He will say the same to individuals. Nevertheless, you double foreigners have been given the first chance . The children of Bharat are waiting for the 18th of January, whereas you have taken the first chance . Achcha. Children have come from 35 or 36 countries. This is also the 36 varieties of bhog. There is a memorial of the number 36. So, there are at least 36 varieties .

BapDada is pleased to see the zeal and enthusiasm that you children have for service. All of you used your body, mind, wealth and time for service with love and courage. Therefore, BapDada is giving you multimillionfold congratulations for that. Whether you are physically in front of Baba or whether you are present in a subtle form, BapDada is giving all the children congratulations for being absorbed in service with so much love. You became co-operative and made others co-operative. Therefore, double congratulations for being co-operative and making others co-operative. The garland of the children's news of service filled with zeal and enthusiasm and also their New Year cards filled with zeal and enthusiasm has been put around BapDada's neck. Whoever sent the cards , in return for those cards , BapDada gives both regard and love . Baba is pleased to hear all the news. Whether you served in an incognito way or in a visible way, there is always success in the service of revealing the Father. The result of serving with love - to become co-operative souls and to come close in the Father's task - is a sign of success. Those who are co-operative are co-operative today and tomorrow will become yogi. So, to those who have done the special service of making souls everywhere co-operative BapDada gives the blessing, “May you be an eternal embodiment of success”. Achcha.

When the number of your subjects – those who are co-operative and in a relationship with you – increase, then, according to that increases, the method also has to change, does it not? You are happy, are you not? Let it increase! Achcha.

To those who are constantly loving and co-operative and who make others co-operative, to those who always receive greetings, to those who make every second and every thought the most elevated of all and worthy of praise, to those who constantly become bestowers and give others love and co-operation, to such elevated, great, fortunate souls, BapDada's love and remembrance and good night and good morning at the confluence.