20 February 1988 · English

"The way to finish tiredness of the mind and the body is to have powerful remembrance."

Today, the Father, the Resident of the faraway land, has come to meet His children who are residents of the eternal land, residents of the original land as well as those who are living abroad for the sake of service. BapDada knows that you are My long-lost and now-found specially beloved children, and that you are residents of the eternal land, the supreme abode. At the beginning of the world, when there was your original land, the land of Bharat, when it was your golden-aged sovereignty, your own kingdom, which everyone calls Bharat, you were also the residents of that same Bharat. You ruled in this land of Bharat with Father Brahma. For many births, you lived lives filled with happiness and peace in your own kingdom. This is why, because you were residents of the original land, you have love in your hearts for the land of Bharat. No matter how poor and dusty Bharat has become now at the end (of the cycle), your land is after all your own land. So, what is the land that belongs to all of you souls and what is the land that you belonged to when you were in deity bodies? It was Bharat, was it not? Do you remember how many births you have lived in this land of Bharat? All of you had attained your inheritance for 21 births from the Father and you therefore definitely have this guarantee for 21 births. Later, too, all of you souls took many other births in the land of Bharat because the souls who are close to Father Brahma, souls who are to become equal to him, will play their parts of being the ones who are worthy of worship and worshippers with Father Brahma. It is you Brahmin souls who become the first devotees of the copper age. At the beginning of heaven, you were residents of this land and you have been residents of the land of Bharat many times. This is why you have deep love for Madhuban, the alokik world of Brahmins. This Madhuban is the small world of Brahmins. So, you like this world very much, do you not? You don’t feel like going back from here, do you? If an order were to be given for you to become a resident of Madhuban right now, you would be happy, would you not? Or, would you think: Who will do service? That you should go back for service? If BapDada were to tell you to sit down here, would you still remember your service then? Who is the One who inspires you to do service? To follow the Father’s directions and shrimat in the way that they are given is to be a truly obedient child. BapDada knows whether to make you sit in Madhuban or to send you on service. Brahmin children have to remain ever ready in every situation. Remain ever ready for the direction you receive right now. Do not let the dictates of your own mind - even the slightest thought – be mixed in this. This is known as being an elevated soul who follows shrimat.

You know that BapDada is responsible for service, do you not? Or, are you responsible? You are free from this responsibility, are you not? Or, do you have a little burden? “I have to do such a big programme . I have to do this.” You don’t consider all of that to be a burden, do you? Karavanhar is making you do it. Only the one Father is Karavanhar and He has been touching people’s intellects and carrying out the task of world service and He will continue to do it. He simply makes the children the instruments because those who do something will receive the fruit of it. It is the children who will receive something; the Father doesn’t want to attain anything. It is souls who are to receive the reward and also experience the fruit of service. This is why He makes you children instruments. You saw the task of doing service in the corporeal form and, you are now also seeing how the Father, Karavanhar, is working through avyakt Brahma and getting the service done. The speed of avyakt service is very intense. The One who inspires is inspiring you and you are dancing like puppets. This service is also like a play. The One who inspires is inspiring you and you, as instruments, are creating a multi-million fold reward with each step. So, who has the burden? The One who is inspiring it to happen or the one who is doing it? The Father knows that even that is not really a burden. You refer to it as a burden and so the Father also uses the word “burden”. For the Father, everything is already accomplished. Everything is just like drawing a line. Does it feel like a big thing to draw a line? So BapDada enables service to take place in this way. Service is also just as easy as drawing a line. You are simply repeating everything for the sake of it; you are simply playing a game.

Just as the obstacles of Maya are a game, so too, service is also not effort, but a game. By thinking in this way, you will constantly experience refreshment in service. Why do people play games? Not to get tired; they play games to feel refreshed . No matter how big the task is, you will experience it to be like a game and feel refreshed . No matter how tiring a game may be, by considering it to be a game, there won’t be any tiredness because you are playing that game with your heart in it. No matter how hard you have to work in a game, you feel that it is enjoyment because you are doing it with your heart. Some mundane tasks feel like a burden and you feel that you have to do them for the livelihood of your body. You do that considering it to be your duty . This is why it takes effort. Whether something is physical or intellectual work, when you consider it to be a duty , you experience tiredness because you are not doing it with happiness in your heart. Whatever task you carry out with enthusiasm in your mind and with happiness, you won’t feel tired doing that; you won’t feel it to be a burden. Sometimes, some children take on more tasks than is required for their service and they therefore sometimes feel tired. BapDada sees that some children maintain their enthusiasm and continue to do service tirelessly. Nevertheless, you maintained courage and are moving forward. BapDada is pleased to see this, but, nevertheless, you must definitely keep your intellect light.

BapDada continues to watch all the children’s plans and programmes while sitting in the subtle region. Each child’s record of remembrance and service is with BapDada at every moment. Just as in your world you have many facilities for keeping records , so the Father has even more refined facilities than the scientific ones to keep your records and these continue to work automatically. Whatever task the instruments of science carry out, they only function with light . The subtle region is of light . The facilities that function with light are still facilities of matter, but the facilities of the subtle region are not of matter. Matter changes from sato to rajo to tamo. At this time, the elements of matter are tamoguni, and this is why those facilities work one day but don’t work the next day. However, the facilities of the subtle region are beyond matter and this is why they do not change. Whenever you want and however you want, the subtle facilities constantly continue to carry out their task. This is why it is not a big thing for BapDada to see the records of all the children. It becomes difficult for all of you to look after the facilities. So BapDada is looking at the records of both remembrance and service because a balance of the two brings you extra blessings .

You make time for service, but you sometimes use more time for service than for your general discipline. To use your time in doing service is a very good thing and you also receive power from doing service and because of being busy in doing service, you are also protected from many small things. BapDada is pleased to see the children’s service and He surrenders Himself to your courage. However, if there is any service that causes the slightest block in your remembrance and progress, then the time for that should be reduced. For instance, when you stay awake till midnight or 1.00 am, your amrit vela will not then be fresh . You sit according to a discipline but if your amrit vela is not powerful, a difference is created in your remembrance and service throughout the day. It takes time to make plans for service and to put those plans into a practical form. So, then, instead of going to sleep at midnight, cut that down and go to sleep at 11.00 pm. The one hour you cut down that gave rest to your body will enable you to have good amrit vela, and your intellect will also remain fresh . Otherwise, your conscience will bite you - that you are doing service, but that your chart of remembrance is not what it should be. When you repeatedly think that something is not as it should be, that it is not happening in that way, then, because of that thought, your intellect doesn’t stay fresh . However, when your intellect is fresh , you can then do two to three hours of work in one hour with a fresh intellect. You experience something taking longer time because of a tired intellect, do you not? However, the fresher your intellect remains – physically as well as spiritually – with double freshness – one hour’s work can be done in half an hour. Therefore, always pay attention to your daily timetable so that you have a fresh intellect. Let there not be the habit of sleeping too much, but however much time you feel is necessary for your body, definitely pay attention to giving it that much rest. If sometimes, when there is a chance to do a particular type of service, you have late nights two or four times in a month or two months, that is a different matter, but if your body is always tired, that then creates a difference in your remembrance. You make a programme for service, that you have to have four hours of it, and you make that time. In the same way, think that you definitely have to make time for remembrance too. Consider this to be essential and make your programme in this way. Don’t be lazy, but definitely give your body rest . Continue to move along with this method because, day by day, the time is coming when service will move at a fast speed. You might think: OK, let this one year’s project be completed and we will then take a rest and put everything right, that we will increase remembrance at that time. However, the projects for service are newer by the day and getting bigger day by day. Therefore, always keep a balance . Let your amrit vela be fresh , and do that same work at the right time and you will then receive extra blessings from the Father. Then, because your intellect is fresh , you will be able to do the work very quickly and successfully. Do you understand?

BapDada is seeing that you children have a lot of enthusiasm and this is why you don’t even think about your bodies. You are moving forward with zeal and enthusiasm. BapDada likes it when you move forward. Nevertheless a balance is definitely needed. You may continue to do it and continue to move along, but when you sometimes have a lot of work to do, then, because your intellect is already tired, you are unable to do as much as you want. Secondly, because you have a lot of work to do, when there is the slightest upheaval caused by anyone, due to any reason, then, because of tiredness, there is also irritation and this reduces your happiness. Generally, you are fine internally, you are receiving the power of service, you are experiencing happiness, but yet your body is still old, is it not? Therefore, do not get into too much . Keep a balance . Your tiredness should not affect your chart of remembrance, no matter how busy you are doing service. No matter how busy you are, the special way to finish tiredness is definitely to make time for one minute of powerful remembrance every hour or every two hours. For instance, when someone is physically weak, then, in order to energise him physically, doctors give him medicine to boost his energy every two hours. You have to make time to take that medicine, do you not? So, every now and then, make time to have powerful remembrance for one or two minutes , because all the vitamins , A, B , C , are included in that.

You were told why you are unable to have powerful remembrance constantly, were you not? Since you belong to the Father and the Father belongs to you, you have all relationships with Him, you have love for Him in your heart, you are knowledge-full , you have experienced attainment from Him, yet what is the reason for there not being powerful remembrance constantly? You do not keep a link in your remembrance. The link breaks and it takes times to reconnect it. It takes effort so that, instead of being powerful, the remembrance becomes weak. There cannot be forgetfulness. You do have remembrance, but for there to be constantly powerful remembrance at all times automatically, this link must not break. Let the link of remembrance be forged with your intellect at every moment. This is the method for that. Consider this to be essential too. Just as you consider that work to be essential, you don’t want to get up from your seat until a plan is accomplished, and so you give it your time and energy, in the same way, this too is essential. Do not give this a low priority, thinking that you will first finish your work and then have remembrance; no. First of all, add time for remembrance to your programme . Just as you fix a service plan for two hours – whether it is a meeting or doing something practically – then, as well as those two hours, you also have to add this in between. Then, the plan that you would normally make in one hour, you will be able to do in half an hour. Just try it and see. For your eyes to open automatically with freshness at 2.00 am is a different matter. However, when you have to stay awake because of a task, your body is affected . Therefore, always pay attention to keeping a balance .

When BapDada sees the children so busy He feels that their heads should be massaged. However, if you make time, BapDada will massage your heads in the subtle region. That too will be alokik. It will not be a physical massage. You will be completely refreshed . Even one second of powerful remembrance makes your body and mind fresh . Come to the Father’s world; whatever thought you have will be accomplished. Whether it is physical tiredness, tiredness of your brain or of your stage, the Father has come to remove your tiredness.

Today, BapDada is having a personal heart-to-heart conversation with the double foreigners. You have done very good service and will continue to do it. According to the drama , it is fixed for service to increase. No matter how much you think that it has now become too much, the destiny of the drama is also fixed. Therefore, you have to make plans for service and all of you have to become instruments and make it happen. No one can change this destiny. The Father may want to give you a rest from doing service for a year, but He cannot change this. Would you be able to sit without doing service? Just as remembrance is the nourishment of Brahmin life, similarly, service is also nourishment for this life. Can anyone live without nourishment? However, a balance is essential. Do not do so much that there is pressure on your intellect and do not do so little that you become careless. Let there neither be any pressure nor any carelessness: this is called a balance .

Double foreigners have very good enthusiasm for doing service and this is why you are progressing well. The foreign lands have progressed well in service in 14 years. You are moving forward while doing double work – lokik and alokik. You use your time for the double work and also use your intellect and physical energy. This is also a wonder of the intellect. To move forward in doing service while doing your lokik work is an act of courage. BapDada always helps such courageous children in every task. The more courage you have, you accordingly receive multi-million-fold help from the Father. However, you are progressing well while playing both your parts . BapDada is pleased to see this in the children. You are free from Maya, are you not? When you are yogyukt, you are automatically free from Maya. If you are not yogyukt, you are not free from Maya. Maya, too, loves Brahmin souls. Those who are strong enjoy themselves with others who are strong. Maya is powerful. You, too, are powerful and so Maya enjoys playing with those who are powerful. You now know Maya very well and how she sometimes comes in new forms. Knowledge-full means to know the Father, the creation and also Maya. If you know the Creator and the creation but you don’t know Maya, you cannot be knowledge-full .

At any time, in any situation, even if your body is weak or there is a greater burden in your task, never get tired in your mind. Tiredness of the body can be finished with happiness of the mind. However, tiredness of the mind will even increase tiredness of the body. Never let your mind get tired. When you get tired, then come to the Father’s world in a second . If you are used to your mind getting tired, then you won’t be able to experience the zeal and enthusiasm of Brahmin life that you should. You are moving along, but you won’t experience the One who is moving everyone, making you move. It will be as though you are moving along with a lot of hard work, and when you experience something to be hard work, there will be tiredness. So, always think: “Karavanhar is making me act, the One who is making everyone move is making me move.”

Continue to do service according to both your time and energy. Service can never wait - if not today, then tomorrow, it will happen. If you are serving as much as you can with your heart and with love in your heart, BapDada would never complain that you did this much but you didn’t do that much. You will receive a “Well done!” When you serve according to the time and your energy with a true heart, then the Lord is pleased with an honest heart, and whatever task of yours still remains, BapDada will somehow enable that to be done. Whatever service has to be done at a particular time, it will definitely be done, it will not be left out. BapDada will touch one soul or other and make that soul co-operative with His children. Yogi children receive all types of co-operation at the appropriate time, but who will receive co-operation? The truly serviceable ones with true hearts. So, are all of you children serviceable? The Lord is pleased with us: you experience this, do you not? Achcha.

To those who constantly have a right to blessings from the Father by keeping a balance of remembrance and service, to those who constantly remain double light like the Father, to those who constantly keep the link of powerful remembrance forged, to those who constantly keep their bodies and souls refreshed , to those who perform every action in the right way, to those who always attain elevated success, to such elevated and close children, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.

BapDada was given news about the Global Co-operation Project meeting.

BapDada is pleased when you all get together to make plans and put them into a practical form and will continue to do so. What else does BapDada want? This is why BapDada likes this. If anything is difficult, BapDada will make it easy. To use your intellect is also a blessing. Simply move along while keeping a balance . When you keep a balance , your intellect will very quickly be able to make a decision, and you will be able to resolve in less than an hour what you now spend four hours discussing . All will have the same thought. However, this is also good, it is a game, you create something, you break something; there is pleasure in this too. You may make plans and then refine them. You do keep busy . Simply do not feel anything to be a burden, just play games. There is little time and so do as much as you can. This service will continue all the time. Just as the bhandara (kitchen) never closes, this too is a bhandara. It will continue eternally. If something is taking a long time, then it will probably be even better for this is why it is taking a long time. However, you are working hard, you are not lazy and this is why BapDada does not complain. Achcha.