21 October 1987 · English

"The story of Deepraj (King of Deepaks) and Deeprania (Queens of deepak)"

Today, the Master of all the living, eternal lamps, the King of Lamps has come to meet His queens of lamps, because all of you are the queens of the confluence age, the ones who have love for the one King of Lamps. The speciality of a lamp is the love of the lamp. All of you elevated souls, the queens of lamps, are the ones who have love for the King of Lamps and the ones who are the true Sitas, constantly remaining in the company of one Rama, the Father. Therefore, together with the Master of Lamps, the King of Lamps, you lamps are also praised in the form of a rosary of lamps. However, they ignite one lamp, the King of Lamps. With one lamp, innumerable lamps begin to glimmer. So the memorial of all of you has been celebrated even until today.

So what is the experience in your heart on seeing the rosary of lights? Is there the happiness that this is the memorial of I, the lamp? Does that thought come, or are you simply happy on seeing the sparkle? What happens? Are you happy simply on seeing the sparkle or are you happy seeing it as your memorial? Do you see yourself in that? Do you - know that you also are a lamp in the rosary of lamps? Do you have that consciousness? Why is the rosary of lamps shown with lamps? This day is not called the Day of Lamps but is known as Deepmala - the rosary of lamps. Why is that? This is the memorial of the gathering of you special souls. The rosary is decorated when innumerable lamps come together in the form of a gathering. If just one or two lamps were ignited, it would not be called a rosary. So the rosary of lamps is a memorial of innumerable, eternal, ignited lamps. So you are celebrating your day. On the one hand you are giving light to the world in the form of living, glimmering lamps, and on the other hand you are also seeing your memorial. So you are pleased to see this, are you not? Why have these been shown in the form of lamps? Because you sparkling souls are visible as the lamps of love. This is why the memorial of the divine light of sparkling souls is shown as the physical light of a lamp. This is the memorial of the sparkling souls. On the one hand, it is a memorial of the incorporeal soul, and on the other hand it is a memorial of your future corporeal form, the deity form of Lakshmi. This rosary of lamps claims a deity status, this is why the memorial of both corporeal and incorporeal forms is together.

Deepmala is the memorial in a double form. The memorial of Lakshmi is in a double form. On the one hand, it is the goddess of wealth, that is, the memorial of the confluence age, the form of the bestower, the one who constantly gives wealth. The image that is shown is in the form of the eternal goddess of wealth of the confluence age. There will not be anyone who takes in satyug, so who would you give to? Therefore, this is the sign of the elevated activity of the confluence age. On the other hand, it is also celebrated as the day of the coronation. And so the coronation is the sign of the future, and the goddess of wealth is that of the confluence age, the Sign of the form of the bestower. So they have mixed up the two ages, because the confluence age is a very short age. However, it is just as great as it is small. You have great experiences, carry out a great task, have a great stage, and have great attainment, during this short age. Because you experience many attainments and because satyug comes very quickly after the confluence age, they have mixed up the images and the activities of the golden age with that of the confluence age. They have shown the images of the golden age together with the activity of the confluence age. In this way, Deepmala is the memorial of your double form, a double period. They have also mixed up the different ceremonies of the time of Deepmala. On the one hand, they finish the old accounts and create a new one, and on the other hand at the time of Deepmala they also wear new clothes accurately, according to the system. So to settle old accounts and to begin a new account is the memorial of the confluence age. You forget everything old and you have new birth, new relationships and new actions. You transform everything except the new clothes which is the new body, the sign of satyug. You don't receive a new body at the confluence, you live in your old costume. So they have mixed up the systems. Golden clothes, that is, the satopradhan body, will be adopted in the future. At the moment you have a body of patches. It is stitched together, is it not? What do they do when they perform .an operation? They stitch it together, do they not? When they perform major surgery they remove skin from one part and use it elsewhere on the body, so that is patching up is it riot? It is not the original skin. The sign of something old is that it is stitched together. What do they say? They say they have had stitches. So these are patched clothes, whereas those are golden clothes, new clothes. So there is a memorial of your adopting new clothes. Today's people cannot become deity souls and wear new clothes, that is, have a new golden body, one of gold. This is why they are happy wearing new clothes as a physical memorial. So they have mixed it up have they not? They celebrate happiness for one day, or at the most for three days, but for how long do you celebrate? You celebrate for eternity, do you not? You celebrate in such a way that the celebration of the confluence age will enable you to celebrate for innumerable births. The constantly glimmering lamps will remain ignited. Previously, people used to ignite lamps according to the accurate method, and attention was paid so that the lamp remained constantly ignited, it was not extinguished. Because they had to pour oil into it, they would practise the invocation accurately according to the method. What do they do now-a-days? Now they use electric light bulbs instead of deepaks, they do not celebrate Deepmala. So now it has become an entertainment has it not? The method of Invocation, of spiritual effort, has now ended. The love has finished and there is only selfishness. They have the selfish motive to increase their wealth. They don't do it with feeling but with a desire. Previously, there was feeling first, but that feeling has now changed its form into desire. The significance has ended and just the custom and system remains. This is why the accurate form of Lakshmi, the Bestower, does not come to anyone. If wealth comes, it is dirty wealth. It is not divine wealth, it is devilish wealth. But all of you invoke your deity status with an accurate method and you yourself become a deity. You have come to celebrate Deepmala have-you not?

Bombay has been given a chance. In any case, BapDada calls Bombay “Nar Desavar”. Deepawali is a memorial of the goddess of wealth. What does it mean, to celebrate? Will you simply light a candle cut a cake? Is this what it means to celebrate? Okay, you may even dance and sing. Is this what is known as celebrating? To constantly dance is the right of Brahmin life, to constantly ignite another light with the light. However, the celebration of the confluence age means to become like Baba. Only then will you be able to come close in the rosary. This is also the ceremonial entertainment of the confluence age. The celebration you have is ceremonial entertainment. By all means celebrate, celebrate a great deal. However, have ceremonial entertainment whilst celebrating a meeting with Baba. Don't just entertain yourself, but be manmanabhav and then celebrate, because you are spiritual, are you not? So with an alokik method the spiritual entertainment becomes an imperishable entertainment. All of you have adopted the method of the Deepmala of the confluence age, you have finished the old accounts and have adopted the method for new, that is, spiritual thoughts, actions and words at every moment. The old account does not remain even slightly, does it? Sometimes you say - when you become weak what do you say? You don't want it to happen but it is an old sanskara, old nature, or an old habit, and that gradually it will finish. You say this do you not? So where did the old account come from? Have you carefully kept it aside? You haven’t tied it in a bundle have you? If you have tied it in a bundle, you are a thief. Have you finished the old account? The old account is Ravan's account, whereas the new account is that of Brahma Baba and the Brahmins. If the old account remains even slightly, then it belongs to Ravan. And so if something belongs to him he will surely take it by right. This is why Maya and Ravan circle around. If you don't have anything of theirs, Maya and Ravan will not come to you.

What do people do if someone is in debt to them for something taken on loan? They will go around to that one again and again, they will not let go. No matter how much you try to avoid it the one who has a debt will definitely want it settled. If someone has not finished an old sanskara in the old account, that one is still in debt to Ravan, and this debt is called a sickness. It is said that there is no sickness as a debt. So this is an old debt to Ravan: old thoughts, sanskaras, nature, old activity, this debt makes the soul weak. And so, the weakness becomes a sickness, it becomes an illness. Therefore, finish this debt in a second with the determined thought that this is old, this is foreign. Finish it with a second's determined thought, burn it. They light fireworks, do they not? What do they burn in that? They also throw "bangers" in that. So today, with the match-stick of determined thought light the fireworks of spiritual "bangers", through which all this finishes. And so, they are losing while you are earning an income. They lose money when they have fireworks and you will be earning through having fireworks. So you know the game of earning, do you not? Do you know the game of the flying stage? Or do you know how to light fireworks? Those are fireworks, but you are becoming victorious in the game of the flying stage. Take double benefit. Burn it away and earn adopt this method.

There is success through an accurate method. So, this is one method, and the other is that at the time of Deep mala they clean every corner. They clean all four corners, not just two or three. They clean all four because cleanliness is greatness. So what should be cleaned in all four corners in order to invoke the deity status? They clean the physical four corners, but what are the four forms of cleanliness which you heard the other day? Cleanliness means purity. So cleanliness in all four corners means cleanliness, purity in all four varieties. You claim the deity status through this method. If there isn’t cleanliness even in one variety, then you will not claim the elevated deity status. That is, the desire you have of becoming the highest, will not be fulfilled. So the second method is cleanliness in all four varieties. Have you adopted this method? You heard that to celebrate means to become like Baba. You saw Brahma Baba. He settled his old accounts, did he not? You saw purity of all the four forms in his every action, did you not? So Brahma Baba became the proof. This is why he became the number one worthy child and claimed the number one status. You follow the Father do you not? Brahma decided within a second. A method is adopted at the time of Deepmala to finish the old account. You settled the account at the time of Deepmala didn't you? You surrendered everything didn't you? You sacrificed everything that was old, therefore you settled the account. What fireworks did you let off with the match-stick of determined thoughts? Did you play the game of the flying stage? This is why there is the memorial that has continued to this day. You celebrate Diwali as well don't you? To adopt these methods means to celebrate Diwali.

So did you celebrate it, or were you happy hearing and watching others celebrating it? To celebrate means to become. To celebrate does not mean to listen, it means to become, to h 'come like Brahma Baba. This is what it means to celebrate Deepawali. Look, on the one side there is burning, the burning of fireworks, and on the lit her Side there is igniting, the igniting of lamps. On the third side there is celebrating, eating sweets, wearing of new clothes, the celebration of all this, .md on the fourth side there is cleaning. So you must burn it have celebrations and also have cleanliness. And so everything is happening. There is also igniting. You have to carry out all this, that is, you have to bring it into action, so it is the celebration of Deepmala in all the four varieties. It should not be that you know how to burn, you know how to celebrate, but you don't know how to clean. It should not be like this. Become like Baba in all four aspects. So, do you understand the meaning of Deepawali? This is the story of the queens of lamps and the King of Lamps. So you have to become the eternal queens of the confluence age. You are the queens of the unlimited King. In satyug there will be the deity queens but you are now Godly queens. This is why they have shown queens. How many queens have they shown? They are just shown with a young child. Krishna is shown in 1(11' form of a child, yet he is shown with queens. So they have mixed it up, have they not? All of you are the queens of the One who creates kings of kings. All of you are Sitas as well as queens are you not? Or are you Rama? What are you? This is the magic. One minute you say that you are brothers. So when you become brothers you cannot call yourself a sister. Yet the next moment you say that all are Sitas, that no-one is Rama. So this is magic is it not? This brings great pleasure. Become brothers and sisters one minute, the next brothers, and the next become Sitas. Become souls one minute, and the next become angels. This spiritual magic is very entertaining. You enjoy this magic don't you? You are not afraid of magic are you? You, yourselves have become magicians.

Achcha, eternal congratulations for Deepmala and Deepawali. If you constantly keep dancing, if you constantly keep singing, these congratulations are eternal. They say "Happy Diwali" for one day. They don't just say "Deepawali", they say "Happy Deepawali". And BapDada says: Eternal, holy, happy, healthy Deepawali. You want everything do you not? You don't just want to be happy, you want wealth as well.

You want everything. So congratulations for a happy, healthy, wealthy and holy Deepawali. You are the lamps that are constantly ignited. Do you understand? Your mouth remains constantly sweetened, does it not? What is the best sweet of all with which your mouth constantly remains sweet? Just Baba. This is the sweet that brings happiness to the heart. You ate this sweet and became sweet. Those who constantly eat this sweet remain sweet constantly. It is an easy sweet, is it not? It is not difficult to make it. Everyone can make an item that is easy, everyone can do it. So this is an easy sweet. You ate the sweet, you celebrated the meeting, now what is left? The children from this land and abroad have reached Madhuban today in the subtle form of angels. The mind of everyone is here but the body is on service. So BapDada is not just seeing this gathering, but Baba is celebrating the meeting with the children from all four directions, the children with the form of an angel. Everyone is celebrating the meeting with a great deal of zeal and enthusiasm. There is only one remembrance merged in the hearts of everyone. This sweet is in everyone's mouth, it is an imperishable sweet. How big is the rosary of all the children? How large is the rosary of lamps? If a rosary of this gathering were created it would be a very small one, but the glimmering lamps of all four directions are in front of Baba in the form of a rosary. BapDada is smiling on seeing each lamp and is giving congratulations. Do you understand?

To the queens of lamps from all four directions, to the special glimmering souls of all directions who give imperishable light to the world, to the great souls of all four directions, those who are to become like Baba, that is, those who celebrate true Diwali, BapDada’s love and remembrances and many, many congratulations.

BapDada at the time of leaving: Baba lighting fifty-one candles with the senior brothers and sisters:

Eat, drink, and experience pleasure. You have come to experience pleasure. You have been born to experience pleasure. You were born with pleasure, was there any difficulty? You heard knowledge and you took birth. So you were born with pleasure, and you were born for pleasure, and you will also go with pleasure. You will return with Baba. This is why BapDada is happy when children have celebrations.

Because BapDada celebrates pleasure in the children's pleasure. Therefore, light candles and cut a cake, do whatever you want. Cut even a thousand cakes, nothing is wrong in that. Baba is not alone, the children are also with Baba, everyone will each cut one. Even the deities will not celebrate festivals as the Brahmins do, because you celebrate with Baba whereas there, souls celebrate with souls. So why not celebrate with pleasure? Don't celebrate in pleasure with confusion. Celebrate without confusion. The whole of this creation is for pleasure, but human beings have created confusion within the creation of pleasure. These elements are in order to experience pleasure, but the vibrations of human beings spoil the atmosphere and there is an influence of the atmosphere on the elements, and then the elements also do the task of creating confusion. The rain confused the programme, did it not? But you didn't get confused, you stayed in pleasure. You celebrated the pleasure of meeting Baba didn't you. The elements are being stubborn and you are stubborn in celebrating a meeting. You are celebrating and the elements are creating confusion. Let them create confusion, but are you going to be shaken? No. You are unshakeable. You didn't stop the season under any circumstances did you? You are celebrating the season. There is no water, but there is love. There is the water of love. This is why the elements are seeing that these children of God are no less. Achcha - what needs to be done now? Sing, dance, do whatever you want.