8 August 1988 · English

"Avyakt BapDada"

The gathering today is of knowledgeable souls. Such knowledgeable souls and yogi souls are extremely loved by BapDada and also by the world. Such knowledgeable and yogi souls have been continually praised and worshipped in bhakti. These souls are worthy of worship and praise at the present time as well. Worthy of worship means that they are elevated souls, and praiseworthy means that the virtues of such souls are being praised or spoken of by everyone even now. The praise and worship of the future are dependent on the present. Through the power of the intellect, each one is now able to have a vision of who becomes worthy of worship and praise and to what extent they will become this in the future, that is, in bhakti. Each one of you should check yourself to see: Do all souls, that is, those who come into contact with me, which means the souls of my Brahmin family as well as the ignorant souls who come into contact with me, see me to be elevated, that is, worthy of worship? Elders are also said to be worthy of worship; so do all souls see you with that vision, that is, do they consider you to be worthy of worship? If a few souls experience your worship-worthiness, then the present influences the whole of the future. So too, do the souls who become companions, or do those souls who come into relationship with me experience my special qualities? If the souls have experienced the qualities, then they will be definitely, even now, singing the praise of the qualities of such a soul in their own mind and in words. Qualities will definitely be seen, they cannot be hidden. So have you become such knowledgeable and yogi souls who are worthy of worship and praise in this way? Is praise being sung by a few souls or by all souls, and is it of all your qualities or of only a few qualities? Which is heavier, the balance-pan of praise sung of your qualities or the balance-pan of your ordinary activity? According to the time, you must now check your account in each of the subjects. What amount have you accumulated, or to what extent have you brought each subject to completion through your thoughts, words and actions? Have you become complete with all virtues? Or have you become full of some qualities? Have you become powerful or all-powerful? Have you become a benefactor or a world benefactor? You should check now, and having checked, you will still have some time left to make yourself complete. But after that little time, the time for becoming complete will also be over; and then what will you do? You will become those who observe the souls who have become complete, but you will not be able to become one of those who take the seat. So should you become an image who grants visions or one of those who receive visions? To become such an image who grants visions, check in yourself three things in essence:

1. Have you become one who has claimed all rights?

2. Have you become one who uplifts others?

3. Do you receive everyone's respect, that is, have you become worthy of giving and receiving everyone's respect? To give respect is to take it.

The world benefactors will be visible in front of the world on the basis of these three things. You know the detailed explanation of this very well. To claim all rights means to have sovereignty over all the senses. Together with this, the body has different powers, such as the arms and legs, etc; these are the powers of the body. So too, the powers of the soul are the mind, intellect and the sanskaras; so do you have all rights over these subtle powers? Has your creation gained authority over matter? No element of matter attracts you towards itself, does it? If people are able to go beyond the pull of matter or the world through science, it does not seem suitable for a master almighty to experience difficulty in going beyond the pull of matter, that is, difficulty in going beyond a corporeal attitude to attain the spiritual stage or the stage of being an almighty authority. So too, do you have a right over the powers received from the Father in the inheritance, a sample of which has also been illustrated in pictures? That is, do you have a right over the inherited property, such that you can make yourself successful whenever you wish through any one of the powers? Just as you are able to use your physical inheritance whenever you wish in your work because you have a right over it, so too are you able to apply whichever power you require of this Godly inheritance in your work whenever you wish? One who holds an authority over this inheritance is said to have all rights. To be one who uplifts others, means to be a constant benefactor towards every single soul by having pure thoughts and elevated wishes for them. Whilst seeing all souls, you should have the experience that all these souls are willing to sacrifice themselves to become Baba's ever-loving and co-operative children. Why would they sacrifice themselves in this way to become instruments? Because the father sacrifices himself to everyone. In front of everyone, he packed up all his powers and surrendered them for service. And having become a great donor by giving his time and his comforts, because of his desire of achievement for all, he became a bestower. In the same way, follow the father. Only a soul who sacrifices all desire for attainment, including name, honour and splendour for himself, can become one who uplifts others. The great donors who break the desire to take, can become those who uplift others. In the same way, the ones who are respected are those who have an attitude of respect towards everyone. To become respected, one needs to consider oneself a server for all. The definition of a server is deep and subtle. One should not just do service to the extent that one only does physical service, or service through speech, or service through closeness, or service through salvation, or service through the different types of facilities. But elevated service is to do service through every quality one has, and it is to make others full of qualities and to colour others through one's company. Even whilst seeing defects, do not see them. Through the power of your own qualities, finish the defects of numerous other souls, that is, make the powerless, powerful. You should not avoid souls who are seen to be powerless, nor should you tire of them. But, through your service and by your giving respect to others by being stable in your own stage of elevated self-respect, even someone who is a hopeless case can become respected by all. You must make your own fortune through your own renunciation and through giving respect to numerous other souls. No matter whether it is a greater or a lesser maharathi, or whether it is even one of the infantry, you must see everyone, including those who do not respect you, with the vision of respect. The one who gives respect will show the destination even to those who kick them and will sing the praise even of those who insult them. Such a soul would be called one who is respected by all. So in this year there should be two types of special service: one is to make yourself complete. For this, in this year, you will need to have means of upliftment; have yoga bhatthis and bhatthis for dharna in special places everywhere. Have a group-wise programme of such bhatthis at every place in all four directions. Make everyone independent and give them an experience of the bhatthi. Just as you held a programme of yoga bhatthis last year, so in the same way, have a bhatthi for making yourself complete in the subjects of dharna and yoga. All of you must get together and make such a programme. The second type of service is special service. For this, you will have to arrange a fast programme of giving the message at the different places in the locality of every single centre. If any place in the locality is missed in being given the message, then there will be no margin left to give them the message later, and the burden of those souls who have missed out on receiving the message will fall on the souls who are the instruments in that area. This is why you must become the ones who tour everywhere. Become the great donors, that is, give the great donation and move forward. Every single elevated instrumental soul must not just visit two or four places, but you must become instruments who tour all the places in the locality. Make others instruments like yourself at each and every place and continue to move forward; do not just sit in one place. So this is the special service of touring around that you must do in this year. Give the message, make others instruments like yourself and give the message to the world and to the people in and around your locality. Now do the task of creating hands. According to the time, as time accelerates, the visible fruit of the result of such service is that ready-made instrument souls can emerge with ease; you simply need the aim, the courage and the discrimination. There is the praise from the previous kalpa of the pandavs releasing the arrows and water emerging, that is, they made effort and the fruit emerged. It is now that time of visible fruit, it is the season for it. This is the blessing of this period, so make use of the opportunity. Renounce your facilities or time for yourself or your wealth; only then will you be able to attain the fortune of visible fruit. You will not achieve success by making use of the time for your own rest or for serving yourself, that is, making use of surrendered wealth for yourself. At the start of service, everything was applied in service by reducing even one's own intake of roti and you souls became the visible fruit of that service. In the same way, in the intervening period, the Father or the drama provided you with the experience of easy facilities for your own use. However, now at the end, even whilst matter is your servant and all facilities are made available to you, you must not use them for yourself, but should apply them in service. Because now as you move further on, numerous souls will surrender greater facilities and wealth than ever before in front of you, but you must never accept these for yourself. To accept them for yourself means to prevent yourself from claiming an elevated status. This is why you must become such images of renunciation to enable the visible fruit of service to emerge. Understand? You must now present the Father with a gift of a bouquet of heirs who have become instruments and of souls who have become co-operative in service. Only then can you be said to be the world benefactors who have the right to the kingdom of the world. You will receive a prize for this. The result of the previous period had not arrived for Baba to give you a prize; so take a double prize in this period. Achcha, to such souls who win, who become number one, who give the visible fruit, who reveal the Father, who hoist the flag of the Shakti and Pandav Army, who become instruments to inspire cries of victory in the world, and who are victorious souls, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.