Essence of Murli August 19, 2014:

Essence of Murli August 19, 2014:

Essence:   Sweet children, the greatest Father does not give you important people a lot of effort to make. He says: Just remember two words: Alpha and beta.

Question: What is the spiritual Father's main task through which He experiences pleasure?

Answer:     The spiritual Father's main task is to purify the impure. The Father experiences great pleasure in purifying you. The Father comes to grant salvation to you children. He makes you all satopradhan because you now have to return home. Simply make this one lesson firm: I am a soul not a body. It is through this lesson that you can have remembrance of the Father and become pure.

 

Essence for dharna:

1.      In order to pass with full marks, make your intellect satopradhan and divine. (paaras) Change from one with a gross intellect into one with a subtle intellect (moti buddhi se maheen buddhi) and understand the unique (vichitr) secrets of the drama.

2.      Now perform divine and alokik actions like the Father does. Become doubly non-violent and have your sins absolved with the power of yoga.

Blessing: May you be a powerful soul who experiences safety and gives others the same experience by surrounding them with pure thoughts.

A powerful soul is one who finishes all waste in less than a second with the power of determination. Recognize the power of pure thoughts. One pure and powerful thought can perform many wonders. Simply have a determined thought and this determination will bring success. Surround everyone with pure thoughts and tie them with this in such a way that if any of them are even a little weak, their being surrounded in this way will become a canopy of protection, (chhatrchhaaya) a means of safety and a fortress for them.

Baba says, thoughts have power; pure thoughts are positive energies, radiating pure and positive power. This power creates a safety net, makes a protective canopy and builds a tall wall that encircles weak souls, and wards off negativities. Never think that you do not get opportunities to do service. This service can be done from anywhere. So, have the determination to vanquish waste thoughts in less than a second and send pure wishes and good feelings to all. This is the real "Power of Now".

 

Slogan: Those who receive sustenance (paalna), study (padhaai) and the shrimat for an elevated life directly from God have the most elevated fortune.

By receiving three divine sustenances from BapDada at the same time in the confluence age, we, the blessed souls, have the fortune of happiness and finish the words “labour” and “difficult”...in the relationship of the Father, we are sustained with the awareness of the inheritance... in the relationship of the Teacher, we are sustained with teachings...in the relationship of the Satguru, we are sustained with the experience of blessings and continue to experience an easy and elevated life...

 

Om shanti.

The spiritual Father sits and explains to you spiritual children. The Father experiences pleasure in purifying you children. Therefore, He says: Remember the Purifier Father. Only the one Father is the Bestower of Salvation for All; no one else can be this. It is at this time that you understand that you definitely now have to return home. In order to inspire you to make more effort, the Father says that it is essential to have the pilgrimage of remembrance. It is only by having remembrance that you become pure; then comes study.

Firstly, remember Alpha, the Father, and then the kingdom. You are given directions for this. You know how you take 84 births and change from satopradhan to tamopradhan; you come down the ladder. You now have to become satopradhan again. The golden age is the pure world. There, not a single person is impure. These things do not exist in the golden age. The main aspect is to become pure. Now become pure, for only then will you go to the new world and become worthy of claiming a kingdom. Everyone has to become pure. There, no one is impure.

Those who make effort to become satopradhan are the ones who will become the masters of the pure world. This is the one main aspect. You have to become satopradhan by having remembrance of the Father. The Father does not make you make a lot of effort. He simply says: Consider yourself to be a soul. He says again and again: Make the one lesson firm: that you are not a body but a soul; that's all.

Important people do not read a lot; they are briefed in essence. Important people are not given any difficulty. You know how many births you have taken to change from satopradhan to tamopradhan. It would not be said to be 63 births; it takes 84 births. You have the faith that you were satopradhan, that you were residents of heaven, that is, the masters of the land of happiness. It was the land of happiness which was also called the original eternal deity religion. They too were human beings but they had divine virtues.

At this time, human beings have devilish traits. It is written in the scriptures that the kingdom of deities was established after a war took place between the devils and the deities. The Father explains that you were previously devils. The Father came and made you into Brahmins. He shows you the way to change from a Brahmin into a deity. However, there was no question of a war between devils and deities. It has been said of the deities that their religion was the highest religion of non-violence. Deities never fight. There cannot be any question of violence. How could there be a war in the divine kingdom of the golden age? Would the deities of the golden age come here to fight with the devils, or would the devils go there to fight with the deities? Neither is possible.

This is the old world; that is the new world. Therefore, how could a war take place? Whatever people listen to on the path of devotion, they continue to say: True, true! Their intellects do not function at all. Their intellects are absolutely like stone. In the iron age, people have stone intellects whereas in the golden age they have divine intellects. That kingdom is of the Lord of Divinity. There is no kingdom here. The kings of the copper age were also impure. They had crowns embedded with jewels; they did not have a crown of light, that is, they were not pure.

There, everyone was pure. This does not mean that they had a halo of light above them; no. The halo of light in the pictures is shown to indicate their purity. You too are becoming pure at this time. Where is your light? You know that you become pure by having yoga with the Father. There, there is no trace of vice. The vicious kingdom of Ravan will have been destroyed. Ravan is shown here to prove that it is still the kingdom of Ravan. They burn an effigy of Ravan every year, but he does not burn. You are now gaining victory over him and then this Ravan will not exist.

You are non-violent. Your victory is through the power of yoga. All your sins of birth after birth are to be absolved through the pilgrimage of remembrance. When do your innumerable births start? When do your sinful actions start? It is you, who belong to the original eternal deity religion, who come first. It decreases by two degrees when those who belong to the sun dynasty become part of the moon dynasty. Then, your degrees gradually decrease. The main thing now is to remember the Father and become satopradhan. Those who became satopradhan in the previous cycle will become that again; they will continue to come.

Everyone is numberwise. Then, according to the drama, when they come, they will come, numberwise, in the same way. They will come and take birth. This drama is made in a unique way. You also require sense to understand this. Just as you have descended, so you also have to ascend. You will pass numberwise and you will then come down here numberwise. Your aim and objective is to become satopradhan. Not everyone will pass fully. After 100 marks, they continue to decrease. This is why you have to make a great deal of effort. It is in this effort that you fail.

It is easy to do service. The way you explain at the museum indicates how much you study. If a head teacher sees that someone is not explaining accurately, he would go and explain; he would go and help him. One or two guards are also given the duty to see whether everyone is explaining accurately or not, or whether they get confused if anyone asks them anything. You understand that service at the exhibitions is better than the service at a centre and that service at the museum is better than at the exhibition. There is a good display at the museum, and those who see it will go and tell others about it. This will continue till the end.

The words "Godfatherly World University" are good. There is no mention of human beings in this. Who inaugurates this? The Father said that when you invite eminent people to come for an inauguration,(udghaatan) many others would also come when they hear the names of eminent people. Many will come because of one. This is why the Father wrote to Delhi telling them to print the opinions of important people, so that, when people read them, they will say that all of those important people come to you and give very good opinions. It is good to have those printed. There is no question of magic etc. in this. This is why the Father continues to write that you have to create a book of all the opinions. You should also distribute them here.

It is said that the body is false and Maya is also false. (joothi maya, joothi kaya) Everything is included in this. There are many who say that this is the kingdom of Ravan, the kingdom of the devil.(Ravan raajya, raakshas raajya) Whoever the kingdom belongs to should be the first one to be concerned. They say: Purify us impure ones! Therefore, everything is included in this state of impurity. Everyone calls out: Oh Purifier! Therefore, they must surely be impure!

You have created an accurate picture in which it shows whether the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, is the Purifier or whether it is the rivers and lakes. There is a pool at Amritsar where all the water becomes dirty, but those people consider it to be a lake of nectar. The maharajas have it cleaned considering it to be a lake of nectar. This is why the name Amritsar has been given. Even the water of the Ganges is considered to be nectar! That water becomes so dirty; don't even ask! Baba has bathed in those rivers etc. That water is very dirty. People pick up mud from it and rub it on themselves. Baba has experienced this.

 Baba has adopted an old experienced body. There is no one who is as experienced as this one. He has also had the experience of meeting great kings and viceroys etc. He also used to sell millet and barley. In his childhood, he would become very happy earning four to six annas. Just look where he has now reached! Look what this village urchin has become!

The Father also says: I enter an ordinary body. This one did not know of his own births. The Father sits here and explains how he finally became a village urchin after taking 84 births. The divine activities are not of Krishna or Kans (the devil). To smash a pitcher of butter etc. - all of those things that are said about Krishna are false.

Just look how simply the Father explains: Sweetest children, as you sit and stand, as you move, simply remember Me alone. I am the Highest on High, the Father of all souls. You know that all of you are brothers and that that One is the Father. All of us brothers remember the one Father. People say, "Oh God! Oh Ishwar! but they don't know anything. The Father has now given His introduction. According to the drama plan, this is called the age of the Gita because the Father comes at this time and gives you the knowledge through which you become elevated. A soul adopts a body and speaks.

The Father also has to perform His divine, alokik task and so He takes the support of a body. For half the cycle, human beings become unhappy and so they call out to Him. The Father only comes once in a cycle. You play your parts again and again. The deity religion is original and eternal but the foundation of it no longer exists. Only their images remain. Therefore, the Father says that you too have to become Lakshmi and Narayan. Your aim and objective is in front of you. This is the original eternal deity religion. There is no such religion as the Hindu religion. The name Hindu is taken from Hindusthan.

Just as sannyasis refer to the place of residence, the brahm element, as God, in the same way, this land, where they reside, has been referred to as their religion. The Hindu religion is not the original and eternal religion. Hindus go in front of the idols of the deities and bow down to them. They sing praise of those who were once deities. Those same deities have become Hindus. Their religion and actions have become corrupt.(dharm bhrasht, karm bhrasht) All other religions stay in existence but the deity religion has disappeared. Those who were worthy of worship later become worshippers and worship those deities.

So much has to be explained to them. So much is also explained about Krishna. He is the first prince of the golden age, and so the 84 births also begin with him. The Father says: I enter this one at the end of his final birth of many births. Therefore, He would surely tell you about his account. This Lakshmi and Narayan became number one. Therefore, the one who was first then becomes last. There was not only one Krishna; there were also others who were part of the Vishnu dynasty.

You know these things very well. You must not forget these things. Museums now continue to be opened and many more will be opened. Many will come. People go to the temples and bow their heads. You also see that when devotees come to you and see the picture of Lakshmi and Narayan, they place money in front of it. You say: Here, it is a question of understanding, not of placing money in front of them. If you were to go to the Shiva Temple now, would you leave money there? You would go with the aim of explaining, because you know the biographies of all of them.

 There are many temples; the main one is the Shiva Temple. Why do they keep other idols there? If they place money in front of each one of them, then that becomes an income for the priest. So, should that be called a temple to Shiva or a temple to Shiva's family? Shiv Baba has created this family. The true family is you Brahmins. The saligrams represent Shiv Baba's family.

Afterwards, we become a family of brothers and sisters. At first, you are brothers and then, when the Father comes, you become brothers and sisters. Then, when you go to the golden age, the family becomes even bigger. Marriages also take place there, and so the family expands even more. When we reside in our home, that is, in the abode of peace, we are just brothers and there is the one Father. Here, you are children of the Father of Humanity, brothers and sisters. There is no other relationship.

Then, in the kingdom of Ravan, there is a great deal of expansion. The Father continues to explain all the secrets, yet He still says: Sweetest children, remember the Father and your sins of innumerable births will be removed. Your sins will not be cut away by studying. Remembrance of the Father is the main thing. Achcha.

To the sweetest, beloved, long-lost and now-found children, love, remembrance and good morning from the Mother, the Father, BapDada. The spiritual Father says namaste to the spiritual children.

The spiritual children says namaste to the spiritual Father.

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 19, 2014: Let Go and Let Love

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 19, 2014: Let Go and Let Love

Let Go and Let Love

Just as the bird has to let go of the branch in order to fly,
in the same way we also need to let go to experience and express love. The branches we hold on to are our attachments (people and objects). When we mentally hold on to something or someone, we open ourselves to feel fear, pain, anger and possessiveness

Love is about letting go and letting others be. It's about appreciating and accepting without dependency and expectation.

 

Uniqueness

There is usually a tendency to want to be recognized by others and we
try hard to make our actions such that others are pleased with whatever
we do. Sometimes we do succeed, but at other times when we do not get
any positive response from the others, we then tend to become
disheartened. We need to recognize our own uniqueness and remember it
consciously in everything that we do. We need to recognize the fact
that there is no human being without any specialty. We too have a
specialty, which makes us special. Using this unique quality of ours
will bring specialty in our actions too.

Experiencing Freedom In Relationships

How much are you influenced by what others think of you and how they see you? The degree to which you act on the basis of what you think others want and expect of you, allows them to have power over your inner and outer world.

Important aspects are how you think others see you, how you want them to see you and how you see yourself. The person who is not conditioned by how others see them, and doesn't even think about how they would like to be seen, but who rather is comfortable with themselves, has a presence that generates comfort. Others feel fine around that person.

Let us learn to free ourselves from the conditionings that generate the thinking of how we want others to see us. Let us feel the freedom to let ourselves be how we want to be.

Try it and you will see that the results are amazing. That way, as you go along, you will take off the masks that you wear due to the fears of what others will say and think.

Soul Sustenance

 

Inculcating Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation –

The Power To Pack Up (cont.)


As I progress on my spiritual journey, even thoughts that waste the precious resources of the mind come to be seen as a barrier. Turning a scene over in my mind repeatedly is an example of waste, that will rob me of the mental concentration and emotional stability I need to keep moving forward. Sometimes we do get stuck, like a broken record, in such mental grooves, without realizing what we are doing.

The power of pack up means I recognize the damage caused by such waste, and put an end to it. As I renew the awareness of myself as a soul, in relationship with the Supreme Soul, the needle of my attention is lifted above the groove, letting me come fully into the present.

I also learn to be selective in what I choose to remember or forget from the past. This is not dishonest; in fact, it is being honest to my task. Human beings in any case have highly selective memories. We not only see and understand differently, according to our individual interests and agendas, but our attitudes and perception also determine the memories we choose to store.

Meditation enables me to exercise this option quite deliberately, picking up those scenes from the past that nourish me and help me move forward, and rejecting memories that pollute my mind and slow me down.
 

Message for the day

The one who gives constantly is a true bestower.

Projection: We usually find ourselves giving only to those who give to us. When someone gives us love or happiness, we too are inspired to give. So we find that unless we get from others, it becomes difficult to give.

Solution: We need to have the aim of not letting anyone go from us empty handed. That means we give them an experience of love or happiness or whatever they need at that time. When we have that aim, we will be able to give even when we don't get anything. And then, we find that only when we give do we get.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 18, 2014

Essence of Murli August 18, 2014:

Essence:   Sweet children, this Brahma is the court (darbaar) of the Satguru. The Satguru is present in the centre of this forehead. He is the One who grants you salvation.

Question: From what type of slavery has the Father come to free you children?

Answer:     At this time, all the children have become enslaved by nature and Maya. The Father now frees you from this slavery. Both Maya and nature now cause you distress. Sometimes, there are storms, sometimes famine. Later you will become such masters that the whole of nature will become your slave and there will be no attacks of Maya.

 

Essence for dharna:

1       Only listen to that which the Father tells you and judge what is right. Only remember that which is right. Do not listen to, speak about or look at unrighteous things.

2.      Study well and make yourself a king of kings. Consider yourself to be only temporarily in that old body and this old world.

 

Blessing: May you be a special soul who comes away from the world of forgetfulness,(vismriti)  remains an embodiment of remembrance (smriti swaroop) and plays a hero part.

This confluence age is the age of remembrance and the iron age is the age of forgetfulness. All of you have come away from the world of forgetfulness. Those who are embodiments of remembrance are special souls who play hero parts. At this time, you are double heroes: firstly, you have become as valuable as diamonds (hiro diamond) and secondly, you have hero parts. So, let this song of the heart constantly play: Wah my elevated fortune! Just as you remember the occupation of your body, similarly remember your imperishable occupation that you are an elevated soul and you will then be said to be a special soul.

Baba says, you are a valuable diamond. In this confluence age of remembrance, remain constantly stable in the zero stage, and play hero parts with the Zero Father... you are the special souls and the decorations of the world,  the  hero actors in the world drama, playing a special part.. become a zero, that is, an embodiment of remembrance,  and maintain the awareness of your hero part. The pun is on the word hero.

 

Slogan: Take the first step of courage and move forward and you will receive complete help from the Father.

By taking one step of courage, we get a thousand steps of help from the Father...Children who maintain courage, receive help from the Father.. By being with the Father, the Helper and receiving extra help, we fly and make others fly on the wings of keenness, zeal, zest, enthusiasm, courage and enterprise in any difficult task...

 

Om shanti.

You sweetest, spiritual children understand that Baba is the Supreme Father as well as the Supreme Teacher. He explains to you the secrets of the beginning, the middle and the end of the world. He is also the Supreme Guru. Therefore, this is the court of the Satguru. There are courts, courts of gurus. Those are courts of just gurus, not the Satguru. They call themselves Shri, Shri 108, but "Satguru" is not written as part of their title. They are simply called gurus whereas that One is the Satguru. First, He is the Father, then the Teacher and then the Satguru. It is the Satguru who grants salvation. There are no gurus in the golden and silver ages because everyone there is in salvation. When the one Satguru is found, name and trace of all other gurus finishes. The Supreme Guru is the Guru of all gurus. Just as you call Him the Husband of all husbands,(Pation ka Pati) so He has been given this title because He is highest of all. You are sitting here with the Supreme Father. For what reason? To claim your unlimited inheritance. This is an unlimited inheritance. He is the Father as well as your Teacher and this inheritance is for the new world, the land of immortality, the viceless world. The new world is called the viceless world whereas the old world is called the vicious world. The golden age is called the Temple of Shiva because it is established by Shiv Baba. The vicious world is established by Ravan. You are now sitting in the court of the Satguru. Only you children know this. The Father is the Ocean of Peace. It is only when the Father comes that He can give you your inheritance of peace and show you the path. How can peace be found in the jungles? This is why the example of the queen's necklace is given. Peace is the garland around the neck of you souls. Then, when the kingdom of Ravan begins, there is peacelessness. That is called the land of peace and happiness where there is no question of sorrow. It is the Satguru who is always praised. You would never have heard such praise of a guru. Only that one Father is the Ocean of Knowledge. Have you ever heard such praise of a guru? No, those gurus cannot be the Purifier of the whole world. Only the incorporeal One, the great unlimited Baba, can be called that. You are now at the confluence age. On the one side, there is the impure, old world and on the other side, there is the pure, new world. There are many gurus in the impure world. Previously, you didn't know about the confluence age. The Father has now explained that this is the most auspicious confluence age. After this, the golden age will come; the cycle continues to turn. You have to keep it in your intellects that you are all brothers. Therefore, you would surely receive your inheritance from the unlimited Father. No one knows about this. There are many people with important positions, but they don't know anything. The Father says: I grant salvation to all of you. You have now become sensible. Previously, you didn't know anything. You used to go in front of the deity idols and say: We are senseless, we have no virtues, have mercy for us! Now, would those deity idols have mercy for anyone? They don't know who is merciful. People even say: 0 God, the Father, have mercy for us! They definitely remember the Father when any sorrowful incident takes place. You no longer say this. The Father is the One without an image. He is sitting in front of you. That is why He says "Namaste" to you. All of you have an image (chitrdhaari) whereas I am without an image.(Vichitr) I never adopt an image. Tell Me the name of My image! You would say "Shiv Baba", that's all. I have taken this body on loan and it is the oldest of old shoes, I come and enter this one. This body is not praised. This is an old body. Is he praised because he is adopted? No. The Father says: This one used to be like that and he will become beautiful again through Me. The Father now says: Judge whether whatever I tell you is right and, if so, remember that which is right. Only listen to that One. Do not listen to anything unrighteous. That is called evil. Speak no evil! See no evil! Forget everything you see through those eyes. You now have to return to your home and you will then go back to your land of happiness. All the rest are as though they are dead. They are here temporarily. Neither will this old body remain nor will this old world exist. We are making effort to go to the new world. Then this world history and geography will repeat. You are claiming your fortune of that kingdom. You know that the Father comes every cycle to give you your fortune of the kingdom. You also say that you met Baba a cycle ago, that you claimed your inheritance from Him and changed from an ordinary human into Narayan. However, it is not possible for everyone to claim the same status; all are numberwise. This is a spiritual university and it is the spiritual Father who is teaching you. Some children also teach. The son of the principal of a school would also become busy in that service. His wife would also start to teach. If their daughter studies well she too can teach. However, she then goes to another home. It is not a general rule here for a daughter to have a job. To claim a status in the new world depends entirely on this study. People of the world do not know these things. It is written: God speaks: (Bhagwaanuvaach)" 0 children, I am making you into kings of kings.(rajaaon ke raja) I do not make you into models like those of the deities. You study and claim that status here. Those people make stone idols for worshipping. You souls study here and carry those sanskars with you. Then, you will go and take bodies in the new world. The world is never really destroyed, only the ages change: golden age, silver age, copper age, iron age. 16 degrees are reduced to 14 degrees. It is the same world that continues; from new, it becomes old. The Father is making you into kings of kings through this study. No one else has the power to teach in this way. He explains to you so clearly. Then, while you are studying, Maya makes you belong to her. Nevertheless, according to how much one studies, they will definitely go to heaven; their income will not disappear. This imperishable knowledge cannot be destroyed. They will come later; where else could they go? There is only the one shop. They will continue to come. When people go to a cremation ground, they have great distaste. They have such thoughts as: Will I have to leave this body in this way? Then, why should I commit sin? I will die just like this while continuing to sin. They have such thoughts. That is known as distaste while in a graveyard. Although they understand that they will have to take another body, they have no knowledge. Here, it is explained to you children that, at this time, you are especially preparing to die because you are only here temporarily. You have to shed your old bodies and go to the new world. The Father says: Children, the more you remember Me, the more your sins will be cut away. It is the easiest of all, and yet also the most difficult. When you children begin to make effort, you understand that there is a huge battle with Maya. The Father says: It is easy, but Maya extinguishes your lamp. There is a story about Gul Bakawali. Maya, the cat, extinguishes your lamp. Here, all are slaves of Maya. You then make Maya your slave. The whole of nature comes under your control. There will be no storms, no famine. You have to make nature your slave. There, there will be no attack from Maya. She now harasses you a great deal. There is a song: I am your slave. Then Maya says: You are my slave. The Father says: I have now come to free you from that slavery. You will become the masters and Maya will become your slave. Then, there will not be the slightest disturbance. This is also fixed in the drama. You say: Baba, Maya causes great distress. Why should she not cause you distress? This is called a battlefield. You try to make Maya your slave and Maya hits you hard. She harasses you a great deal; she defeats so many of you. She eats up some completely; she swallows them whole. Although you are becoming the masters of heaven, Maya continues to eat you. It is as though some of you are still in her stomach and just your tails are sticking out. That is also called a bog, a quicksand. So many children are in that bog. They are not able to have the slightest remembrance. There are the examples of the tortoise and the buzzing moth. You can buzz the knowledge to such insects and make them into something else, into complete angels of heaven (swarg ke parizaade) from what they are. Although sannyasis also give the example of the buzzing moth, they don't buzz knowledge and transform anyone. This transformation takes place at the confluence age. This is now the confluence age in which you become Brahmins from shudras. Therefore, you bring vicious human beings here. Among those insects too, some change into buzzing moths, some decay and some remain incomplete. Baba has seen many like that. Here, too, when some study very well they develop wings of knowledge whereas Maya catches hold of others half way and so they remain weak. These examples relate to the present time. It is a wonder how a buzzing moth brings an insect and makes it similar to itself. That is the only insect that can make others similar to itself. The other example given is that of the snake. In the golden age you shed one skin and take another; you instantly have a vision that you will now leave that body. The soul leaves and goes and sits in the palace of another womb. There is also the example of a soul in the palace of a womb who did not want to come out. However, the baby definitely has to come out. You children are now at the confluence age. You are becoming elevated through this knowledge. You have been performing devotion for birth after birth. Those who have done the most devotion will come and claim a status, numberwise, according to their efforts. The entire knowledge is now in your intellects. The knowledge of the scriptures is not really knowledge. That is the path of devotion; you cannot receive salvation through that. To receive salvation means to return home. No one returns home through that. The Father Himself says: No one attains Me through that. Along with the One who teaches you, you also need the One who can take you back with Him. The Father has so much concern. The Father only comes once every 5000 years to teach you. You repeatedly forget that you are a soul. Make it very firm that the Father of all souls has come to teach you. This is called spiritual knowledge. The Supreme Spirit gives us spirits knowledge. Sanskars also remain within the soul whereas the body is destroyed. Souls are imperishable. The forehead of Brahma is the court of the Satguru. This is the court of this soul. Then the Satguru also enters this one. This one is called the chariot as well as the court. You children are opening the gates of heaven on the basis of shrimat. The better you study, the higher the status you will claim in the golden age. Therefore, you should study. The children of a teacher would be very clever. However, it is said that those who have the Ganges flowing by their home do not have regard for it. Baba has seen how the rubbish of the whole city is dumped into the Ganges. So, then, would you call it the Purifier? Just look what the intellects of human beings have become! They decorate the deity idols. They worship them and then sink them. They also sink a Krishna idol and that too with great disrespect. In Bengal, they hold the idol down with their feet in order to sink it. There used to be a custom in Bengal that when someone was about to leave his body, he would quickly be taken to the Ganges. There, he would be placed in the water and told to say "Hari, Hari" (to chant the name of God), as they continued to pour the water of the Ganges down his throat. In that way they would force the life out of his body. It was a wonder! You children now have the full knowledge of ascending and descending (chadhhaai aur utraai) in your intellects, numberwise, according to the efforts you make. Achcha.

To the sweetest, beloved, long-lost and now-found children, love, remembrance and good morning from the Mother, the Father, BapDada. The spiritual Father says namaste to the spiritual children.

The spiritual children says namaste to the spiritual Father.

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 18, 2014: Paint a little Peace

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 18, 2014: Paint a little Peace

Paint a little Peace
Values are those things, both tangible and intangible, which we care about the most. Most of us demonstrate by our actions that our values are mostly tangible or material. But if we were to reflect for a moment we might find that what we truly value is very intangible. Love, peace and happiness are our deepest values whether we are aware of it or not. So let's experiment. If peace is something you value, then how will you live peacefully today. You experience what you live. So if you want peace in your life...give it and you'll live it. Or do you prefer a bit of anger and stress? We are all artists and it's only when we paint our own life with the innate values of our spirit, which are also our eternal virtues, that we are truly creative. Paint a little peace, love and wisdom into your life today. If you do, and you make it a regular inner activity, the giving is automatic and the living is...easy!

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Special

We do pay special attention to perform actions that are special, but
not always can we perform such elevated actions that we wish to. We
tend to get caught up in the daily mundane things. So in routine life,
there is not a real experience of the specialty that is there within.
The aim is not to perform only actions that are special, but we also
need to pay special attention to make all our actions special. This can
happen when we recognize our own specialty and allow that specialty to
be revealed even in the simplest action of ours.

Understanding The Mechanism Of The Virtue Of Peace (cont.)

To experience the eternal peace of the soul world, I do the simple exercise explained yesterday and then go a step further. Having created the thought about myself that I am a sparkling star-like energy at the centre of the forehead, just above the eyebrows, visualized it and as a result experienced it, now my objective is visualizing my star like form in the soul world. With this objective in mind, I now create a simple thought that I the star-like energy will make a short journey to the soul world and back. So I create simple thoughts and visualize alongside that I, the soul am leaving my physical body and flying outside. Then I, see my star like form, slowly fly past the ceiling of the room I am in and see myself suspended in the sky (night sky makes the visualization more easy). I see myself as a point of radiant light high above many many buildings and lights. This is similar to what one would see from an aeroplane window while landing or taking off. I then see my light form going higher, past the atmosphere and going past a sea of stars and a few planets and the moon. I then take this visualization further and see myself entering the soul world, a region of soft orange-red light (this is similar to how it looks like at dusk). This region is multidimensional and unlimited in size or expanse. I see my star-like form suspended in this region, radiating rays of peace in all directions. I also see other white/golden star-like souls just like me in the same region. I spend some time in this region, in this experience. In this region my thoughts stop completely and I am only visualizing.

This is the eternal peace experienced whilst visualizing the spiritual self in the soul world. The peace experienced in this exercise is greater than in the exercise mentioned yesterday. Thus the sanskara of peace created in the soul in this exercise is deeper. After a few minutes of this experience, I see myself descending in the physical body in exactly the same way as I flew to the soul world. This is just a visualization exercise or experience and the soul does not actually leave the body and go anywhere.The two practical exercises explained in yesterday's and today's message can be used to experience the two types of peace mentioned. At one time, you can choose to either experience both types or only the first one. You can start with a few minutes and increase the time gradually. Continuous practice will create stronger sanskaras of peace and take you closer to your original state of peace.

Soul Sustenance

Inculcating Powers Through Rajyoga Meditation -
The Power To Pack Up

On the path of meditation, I am a traveler, on a magnificent journey. I have to make some firm choices about I what will take with me on this journey. To pack up means to learn the lessons of the present, then to move on, letting the past be past. It means not carrying the baggage of the past into my present and future, but traveling lightly from one day to the next, keeping only what is most useful to me. That way, I'll enjoy the journey more, and move faster in the direction of my choice.

I'll also be lighter in my relationships. The power to pack up enables me to fill each exchange I have with others with freshness and newness, instead of allowing influences from past encounters with them to affect my present attitude and behaviour. When I carry emotional or intellectual baggage from the past into my present dealings with an individual, I don't give that person the opportunity to express himself freely: my attitude colours him with the paint of my previous experience. It is important to process the past, and learn from experience, but then finish it, so it does not block my view of how things are today.

Meditation helps me to acquire that discipline of finishing negative and wasteful thoughts i.e. inculcate the power to pack up. As the habit of self-observation develops, it doesn't take long to understand how negative thoughts and feelings literally negate my central aim, of re-emerging my true nature. Negativity drains the battery of the soul faster than anything else does.

(To be continued tomorrow …..)

Message for the day

To be responsible for each thought, word and action is to be free from questions.

Projection: When we are faced with challenges we usually put the blame on others or on situations. We justify our thoughts, words and actions. We, then, tell ourselves and others that we have been forced to think that way or say and do such a thing. Such thinking creates a series of questions in our mind about others and situations for which we can never find answers.

Solution: We need to recognize the fact that no one or nothing can force us to do something that we do not want to do. Each and everything we do is our own choice and we are responsible for it. When we take up the responsibility in this way, we will not only be free from waste questions and doubts but will also be able to mould our thoughts, words and actions in the right way.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence Avyakt Murli December 05, 1978

Synopsis: December 05, 1978

The original sanskars of your birth in which you have died alive are your first awareness and first promise.

Marjeeva janm ka neeji sanskar-pehli smriti aur pahla bol

 

First Awareness: The sanskar of this life in which you have died alive is, "Wah re mai". The original sanskar of your birth, the first awareness of your birth, and first words of this birth, are, "I am an elevated Brahmin soul". To become a Brahmin means to become an embodiment of power.

 

First Promise:  When you became a child of the Father, when you died alive, The Father made you promise and you accepted. The Father said: Let go of the vicious sanskars of a shudra, and so you removed the costume of vicious sanskars of the soul and put on the divine costume of Godly sanskars. You transformed all impure vision and attitude, the indications of a shudra, and you adopted the special signs of a pure attitude and vision, and thereby claimed a right to the most elevated of all relationships and prosperity. Elevated souls would never think of taking back something they have dropped or renounced, just as royal children never pick up anything that has been dropped or thrown away.

What else did you promise? That you will live with Baba, return home with Baba, eat and drink with Baba. You now have to go beyond attachment and have a state of surrender. When you have surrendered yourself, attachment becomes like a trace. When you consider yourself to be a trustee, you are free from bondage. If there is any consciousness of "mine", you become caged. So, you will now stay together and return home together.

 

Final Offering: Baba will take the final sacrifice of the determined thoughts of every child. When there is a sacrificial fire (yagya), the final offering (antim aahuti) is the prasad (holy offering). As well as giving others the Father's introduction, you will also enable them to experience the prasad of having a glimpse or an experience of the Father. On the basis of your power and especially with the attraction of your merciful thoughts, distribute to weak souls the prasad of attainment and experience. As well as this, create a special group of mahavirs whose minds have the determination to reveal themselves as practical embodiments of janijananhar (knowers of all secrets) and karanhar (one who does something himself). This offering will open the gates of returning home. Only when you have the determination to offer such a final offering will the transformation ceremony take place.

 

Effort:

1.   In order to gain victory over all obstacles, all types of adverse situations and calamities of impure nature in a second, you simply have to have faith in and intoxication of one thing. It is, "Wah re myself!" (The wonder of I!).

2.   You have become janijananhar (knowers of all secrets), but you now have to become karanhar (one who does something himself).

3.   With your own self-respect and elevated awareness, become an embodiment of power of the elevated life. You must not let go of your dharna.

4.   Become an elevated being; become an elevated actor and play the game of being elevated.

5.   Sow the seed of knowledge in this expansion and prepare the Father's garden of the flowers from the previous cycle.

6.   Let the Ganges of knowledge flow from every place.

7.   Remain constantly happy whilst remembering your fortune: "Wah my fortune!" Constantly sing this song in your mind?: "Wah Baba, wah drama and wah my part!"

 

Bondage:

Let there be no bondage of the body or bodily relations. Those who are in bondage remain bound down here, whereas those who are free from bondage can fly high above. Any bondage is a cage. You have to fulfil your responsibilities (farz adaai) in name, not with attachment. Only then will you be called free from bondage.

When you consider yourself to be a trustee, you are free from bondage. If there is any consciousness of "mine", you become caged. There should be no bondage in your mind. "What can I do?" "How can I do this?" "I want to do this, but am unable to do it". This too is bondage of your mind. If you are unable to do something when you want to, then you are weak. Therefore, become free from this bondage too. This is known as being free from bondage. Children means those who are free from bondage. If you still consider yourself to be in your past life, then that is bondage. If you have died alive, then you are free from bondage.

 

Blessing:     May you be constantly carefree with the happiness and intoxication of your imperishable and unlimited rights.

People in the world claim a right after making a lot of effort, whereas you have received a right without making any effort. To become a child means to claim a right. "Wah, I the elevated soul with all rights." Maintain the intoxication and happiness of this unlimited right and you will be constantly carefree. This imperishable right is guaranteed. Where something is guaranteed, you are able to remain carefree. Hand over all your responsibilities to the Father and you will become free from all worries.

Slogan:      Those who are generous hearted (udaarchit) and have big and unlimited hearts (vishaal dil) are the foundation of unity (ekta).