18 December 1991 · English

"Tapasya is to experiment1 with honesty in every action."

Today, BapDada is seeing the special signs of tapasya in all the tapaswi kumars and tapaswi kumaris from everywhere. You have been told before about the specialities of tapaswi souls. Today, BapDada is mentioning another speciality. Tapaswi souls means constantly honest souls. Honesty is the speciality of a tapaswi. An honest soul means a soul who is honest in following shrimat in every action. Honest means faithful and honest; honest in following shrimat, that is, faithful. Honest souls automatically take every step according to the signals of shrimat. Their every step automatically follows the signals of shrimat, just as many things automatically function through signals with the power of science. You do not have to make them function, but with the power of science, whether through electricity or vibrations, as soon as you switch them on they begin to function. However, because the power of science is perishable, they only function for a temporary period. Through the power of silence from the eternal Father, you constantly continue to move forward easily and automatically in this Brahmin life. As soon as you received your Brahmin birth, BapDada filled your divine intellect with shrimat. An honest soul means one who naturally and easily continues to follow the signals of shrimat. So, the first sign of being honest is to follow shrimat accurately at every step, at every second. All of you move, but there are many types of difference in your way of moving. Some move easily at a fast speed. Why? Those souls constantly and clearly have shrimat in their intellect and therefore they are powerful. This is the number one honesty. Number one souls do not have to think, “Is this shrimat or not? Is this right or wrong?” because it is clear to them. Other souls have to think many times because it is not so clear to them. This is why from a fast speed they slow down to a mediocre speed. As well as that, some think too much and some get tired. All of you are moving, but those who think and those who get tired claim the second number. Why do you get tired? While moving along, you mix the dictates of your own mind and the dictates of others with shrimat. This is why you wander away from the straight and clear path onto a crooked path. As a result, you have to turn back, because the path to the destination is a direct, clear path; it is an easy path. You make crooked that which is straight. So, just think about it! How far would those who follow the crooked path be able to go? At what speed would they move? What would the result be? They would get tired and turn back disheartened. Therefore, they become the second number. They lost many seconds, they lost a lot of breath, they lost all the powers and this is why they became the second number. Do not become happy that you are moving along anyway, but check both your way of moving and your speed. So, do you understand what honesty is? Another sign of an honest soul is that they will never waste any of the treasures. It is not just a question of physical wealth or treasures, but you have also received many other treasures. Honest souls will not waste the treasures of the confluence age for even a second, because each second of the confluence age is greater than a year, just as 8 annas of physical money of a poor person is equal to 800. Why? Because the love of an honest heart with which the 8 annas are filled is greater than 800. In the same way, each second of the confluence age is so valuable because you can accumulate multimillions in each second. To lose a second means to lose the time in which you earn an income worth multimillions. Similarly, they will not waste the treasure of thoughts, the treasure of the wealth of knowledge, the treasure of all the powers and all the virtues. If you do not use all the powers, all the virtues and the knowledge in a task, if you do not use them for others and for service then that, too, is called a waste. If the Bestower gives, but those who are to receive do not imbibe it, that would be called wasteful, would it not? Those who are honest do not just keep aside the wealth they attain. The sign of an honest soul is that he increases the treasures. The way to increase something is to use it for a task. If you do not use the wealth of knowledge for other souls and for your own progress according to the time, then those treasures will never increase. An honest manager or director is one who shows profit and a progress in any task. So, in the same way, are you those who make a profit by using the treasures of thoughts, powers and virtues for a task, or are you those who waste them? The sign of an honest soul is one who does not waste anything, but one who makes a profit. Your body, mind and physical wealth are treasures given to you by the Father. All of you have surrendered all that you had: physical things, your body, mind and wealth. You had the thought: Everything is Yours. It is not that you only surrender half of it, that you put a little of your wealth aside and give the rest of it to the Father, that you keep a little for pocket­money, that you have put some aside for a time of need. To put something aside for a time of need is to be sensible. To the extent that there is the consciousness of 'mine', accordingly, there is a lot of twisting around in many things because you have to hide that. Those on the path of devotion also understand that this is the twist created through the consciousness of 'mine'. Therefore, when you have said, “Everything is Yours” it is not simply the body, but also the mind, wealth and objects; not just wealth but objects are also wealth. Where do objects come from? They come through wealth, do they not? Therefore, to waste any object, any physical wealth, to have wasteful thoughts in the mind, to perform wasteful actions through the body, and to waste time through the body are also counted as a waste. One who is honest does not use his body in a wasteful way, for anything wasteful. He does not even use his thoughts for anything wasteful. Wherever you live, whether in a household, in a centre, or in Madhuban, everyone's mind, body and wealth belong to the Father. Or, do those who live in a household think that they are not surrendered, and so everything is theirs? No, everything has been given to you in trust by the Father to look after. Honesty means never to misuse anything given to you in trust. To waste something means to misuse that which is given to you in trust. So the sign of an honest soul is that that soul will not misuse anything given in trust. You will not waste even a small object. Many times, because of the carelessness of your intellect or because of carelessness in performing actions through the body, even small objects are wasted. Then you think, “I didn't do it on purpose, it just happened.” Just to let it happen means carelessness. Whether it is the carelessness of the intellect, or of labour through the body, both types of carelessness create a waste. So, do not waste anything. From one, let there be a tenfold increase, not that there should be a waste. BapDada always refers to this with the one slogan: "Less expenditure, greater glorification". This means to increase and the other means to lose. An honest soul means one who constantly uses the mind, body and wealth in a worthwhile way. This is the sign of an honest soul. A tapaswi means one who experiments with all these specialities of honesty in every action. It should not be that you say, “Everything is merged and I know everything.” No; the meaning of tapasya and yoga is to use it for experimentation. If you do not use these specialities in your experimentation, then neither are you those who experiment (prayogi) nor are you yogis. BapDada has given you all of these treasures for you to experiment with. The more you become those who experiment, the more progress will be seen in those who experiment. If there isn't progress, you are not those who experiment. Many souls feel internally that they are neither moving forwards nor backwards. They are as they have always been. Many also say that they were very good in the beginning, and that they had a lot of intoxication, but that the intoxication has now decreased. Is that progress or is that something else? Is that the stage of flying or the stage of standing still? Or, is it any other stage? Be ones who experiment. The meaning of honesty is that the soul progresses through experimenting. Have you become those who experiment in such a way, or do you keep everything merged inside? Is it good if the treasures stay inside and that they are not used? Are you honest in that way?

The Father and the family will automatically have love in the heart for and trust someone who is honest. Because of their trust, they give a full right to that one. A soul who is honest automatically experiences the love of the Father and the family. Such a soul experiences trust from seniors, juniors and those who are equal. To what extent have you become worthy of such love and trust? Check this too. Do not carry on thinking, “Because of this, they don't trust me.” So, how can I be worthy to be trusted?”, but make yourself worthy. Souls often say, “I am good, but they don't trust me.” Because of this, they speak in a long­winded way. They give many reasons, and many reasons are also created. However, there should be honesty in the heart and honesty in the head. Otherwise, you fluctuate in your head a great deal. So there has to be honesty in the heart and honesty in the head. When there are all types of honesty, then, even if there is a lack of trust, if not today, then tomorrow there will be trust. There is the saying: "The boat of truth may rock, but it will never sink." So the boat of trust is truth and honesty. Although it will rock, to be worthy of trust means that the boat will never sink. Therefore, with the courage of truth, you can become worthy of trust. You heard previously that truth cannot be proved, that truth is self­evident. Do not prove anything, but become an embodiment of success. So, according to the speed of time, let your steps of tapasya move forward quickly and easily. Do you understand what has to be done in the Year of Tapasya? There is still some time left. Adopt all these methods for yourself, and become an embodiment of success. Achcha.

To all the honest souls, to the souls who constantly move forward by using all treasures for a task, to the souls who constantly use their mind, body and wealth for a task in an accurate way, to the souls who constantly make themselves worthy of trust and love, to the elevated souls who change waste into best, to the souls who are sitting faraway in this land and abroad, and yet are still sitting close and personally in front of Baba, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.