Essence of Murli August 21, 2014

Essence of Murli August 21, 2014:

Essence:   Sweet children, churn (simran) the things that the Father reminds (smriti) you of at the confluence age and you will remain constantly cheerful.

Question: What is the way to remain constantly light? What method should you adopt to remain happy?

Answer: In order to remain constantly light, place in front of the eternal Surgeon all the sins you have committed in this birth, and stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance for the sins you have been committing for birth after birth that are on your head. Your sins will only be cut away by your having remembrance and then there will be happiness. The soul will become satopradhan by having remembrance of the Father.

 

Essence for dharna:

1.      Understand the beginning, middle and end of the drama very well, keep it in your awareness and also remind others. Give the ointment of knowledge and remove the darkness of ignorance.

2.      In order to surrender yourself fully like Father Brahma, follow him completely. Everything, including your body, is to end. Therefore, die alive in advance so that you do not remember anything in the final moments.

 

Blessing: May you be an enlightened soul and sacrifice your main weakness out of love for the Father.

BapDada sees that even now, the majority of you have waste thoughts of all the five vices. Enlightened souls also sometimes have arrogance of their virtues and specialities. Each one of you definitely knows your main weakness or your main sanskar. Therefore, to sacrifice that weakness out of love for the Father is the proof of your love. Loving and knowledgeable souls surrender their waste thoughts out of love for the Father.

 

Baba says, let go of your arrogance of being a Brahmin. Even though ego is one of the five main vices, (lust, anger, attachment, greed and ego), Brahma Baba said, “Be incorporeal, vice less and egoless.” (nirakaari, nirvikaari, nirahankaari). Brahmins have to be doubly egoless, totally humble.(nirmaan) The different vices stem from body consciousness and waste thoughts stem from thinking about them. Out of love for the Father, because the Father is asking you to, cremate all vices, old sanskars, weaknesses, defects, mistakes and rubbish in volcanic yoga. This is your proof of love; as it is said, the proof is in the pudding.

Slogan:      Remain stable (stith) on the seat of self-respect (swamaan), give regard (sammaan)  to everyone and become a soul worthy of respect.

 

We, the souls, think less and do more...we are the merciful and compassionate karma yogis  who give regard and respect to others, remain seated on our seat of self respect while performing actions and experience yoga in karma...we sacrifice ourselves out of love for God, that is, have good wishes and pure feelings for everyone, sacrifice our time, our happiness and our desires for attainment of name fame or regard and follow the Father... by being  free from jealousy and  from royal desires in a subtle form, by being beyond name, regard and honour, by being  ignorant of all desires and by giving respect to everyone, we attain honour in the heart of BapDada, the Bestower...

Om shanti.

The spiritual Father explains to you sweetest spiritual children. You remember that you belonged to the original eternal deity religion, that you used to rule the kingdom and that you truly were the masters of the world. At that time, there was no other religion. We took birth in the golden age and went around the cycle of 84 births. We now remember the whole tree. We were deities and then we came into the kingdom of Ravan and no longer remained worthy of being called deities. This is why they have considered it to be another religion. No one else's religion changes.

For instance, the religion of Christ is Christianity and the religion of Buddha is Buddhism. It is in everyone's intellect that Buddha established his religion at such-and-such a time. Hindus don't know their own religion, when their religion began or who established it. They simply speak of hundreds of thousands of years. Only you children have the knowledge of the whole world cycle. This is called gyan and vigyan. Although they have called their building Vigyan Bhavan, the Father explains its real meaning to you children: Knowledge and yoga; the knowledge of the Creator and the beginning, middle and end of creation.

You now understand that even you did not know that you were atheists. This knowledge cannot exist in the golden age. The Teacher now teaches you this. You study this and receive your fortune of the kingdom because you need a new world to live in. Pure deities cannot set foot in this old world. The Father comes and establishes the new world for you and has the old world destroyed. Destruction definitely has to take place for us. We play these parts for cycle after cycle.

Baba asks: "Did you ever meet Me before?" and you reply: Baba, we meet You every cycle to take our fortune of the kingdom from You. We received our fortune of the kingdom of unlimited happiness in the previous cycle too. You now remember all of these things, so you should churn them. Baba calls this the discus of self-realisation.

Previously, we were satopradhan. You also remember that each soul has his own part to play. I am a tiny imperishable soul and the imperishable part of me, the soul, continues eternally. That which is predestined is taking place. (bani banaai ban rahi) Nothing new can be added or cut away. No one can attain eternal liberation. Some ask for liberation. Liberation is separate from eternal liberation. You have to keep this in your awareness.

If you have it in your awareness, you will also remind others of it. This is your business. Remind others of what the Father has made you aware of and you will be able to claim a high status. You have to make a lot of effort to claim a high status. The main effort is in yoga. This is the pilgrimage of remembrance which no one except the Father can teach you. You are now studying the study to change from human beings into deities.

You know that you will go to the new world once again. The very name of that is the land of immortality whereas this is the land of death. Here, there is sudden death while just sitting somewhere. There is no name or trace of death there because death, in fact, doesn't come to the soul. Death is not a sweet. According to the drama, when it is time, the soul departs. Whenever it is time for a soul to leave, he departs. No one can catch hold of death. A soul sheds a body and takes another. Death is nothing really, but they have sat and made up tall stories.

That is the land of immortality where the bodies are free from disease. In the golden age, the lifespans of the people of Bharat are long; they are yogis. It is now that you know the difference between yogis and bhogis (those who indulge in sensual pleasures). Your lifespans are now increasing. The more you stay in yoga, the more your sins will be burnt away; you will claim a high status and your lifespans will be long. Just as the king and queen complete their lifespans and then shed their bodies so it is the same for the subjects. However, there is a difference in the status.

 The Father now says to you: Children who spin the discus of self-realization, these ornaments belong to you. You live at home with your family and you live like a lotus. No one but you can live like that. You also remember how many sins you have committed in this birth. This is why Baba says: Place all of those in front of the eternal Surgeon and you will become light. However, you have to stay in yoga because of the sins of your many births you have on your head. It is only through yoga that your sins will be cut away and you will remain happy. You will become satopradhan by having remembrance of the Father. You know that you will become this through remembrance. So, who wouldn't stay in remembrance?

However, this is also a battlefield. You have to make effort to attain such a high status. You children have the awareness that you claim the highest-on-high inheritance from the unlimited Father. You claim it cycle after cycle. Many people will come to you. They will come and take the great mantra of manmanabhav from you. The meaning of manmanabhav is: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father. This is the great mantra to become a great soul. Those people are not mahatmas (great souls). In fact, Shri Krishna is called a mahatma because he is pure. Deities are always pure. Deities belong to the family path whereas sannyasis belong to the path of isolation.

Women cannot roam around. All of these bad things are happening now in the iron age. They even convert women into sannyasis and take them with them. Nevertheless, Bharat has been supported with their purity. Just as an old building is painted to make it look new again, so it is as though those sannyasis also paint it a little and save it a little.

However, the Father says: That is a separate religion; they remain pure. It is only in the land of Bharat that there are so many temples to the deities and so much devotion etc. That too is a play which you describe.(vritaant) All of that is needed for the path of devotion. The one Shiva has been given so many names and temples have continued to be built to Him according to those names.

There are so many temples. So much expense is incurred, but, nevertheless, they only receive happiness for half the cycle. They spend a lot of money; the idols get broken. There is no need for temples etc. there. You now remember that devotion lasts for half the cycle and that there is then no mention of devotion for half the cycle.

The Father reminds you of this variety tree. If the duration of just the iron age were 40,000 years, then the duration of Christianity etc. would also increase. The Father explains: There is this limit of the Christian religion. You know that it has been this long since Christ came and this long since such-and-such a religion was established, but when will they go? They don't know. They have lengthened the duration of the cycle.

You now know that preparations are being made for destruction. Theirs is science whereas yours is silence. The more you go into silence, the more they will continue to invent very good things for destruction. They continue to make even more refined things day by day. You have the happiness inside you that Baba has come to create the new world for you. So, we are not going to stay in the old world.

It is the wonder of Baba! Baba, it is the wonder of You creating heaven! You now remember everything. Those people don't know the Creator or the beginning, middle or end of creation. You know it. You are so enlightened. People are in extreme darkness. There is a difference. When the Satguru gives the ointment of knowledge, the darkness of ignorance is dispelled.(gyan anjan Satguru diya, agyan andher vinaash) Those on the path of devotion do not know knowledge. You now know about devotion and you also know about knowledge. You have remembered everything of when devotion begins and when it ends. You are also aware of when the Father gives you knowledge and when that will end. It is numberwise: some are aware of it a lot and others only a little. Those who are aware of it a lot will claim a high status. Only when you remember this will you be able to explain to others. You have wonderful awareness.

What was in your intellects previously? Your foreheads (tippad) became worn out with devotion, chanting, tapasya, pilgrimages and bowing down.(bhakti, jap, tap, tirth, maatha tekna) There is so much difference between the awareness of devotion and the awareness of knowledge. You now know about devotion because you have done it from the beginning. You know that you are the first ones to have worshipped Shiva and that you then worshipped the deities. No one else remembers this. You remember the beginning, middle and end of creation and devotion etc.

While performing devotion for half the cycle, you have only continued to come down. Mountains of sorrow are still to fall. Before they fall, you children have to make effort so that you have your sins absolved through the pilgrimage of remembrance. This is what you explain to everyone. Thousands will come to you. Make effort to show this path to your brothers and sisters. You now remember knowledge and devotion. This means that you now know the whole drama, numberwise, according to your efforts. The better someone knows it, the better he can explain it. It is you children who have to explain to others.

It is remembered: Son shows Father. The Father would explain to you children and then you children would explain to others. You explain to souls. This knowledge is completely separate from devotion. It is remembered: The one God comes and gives the fruit to all the devotees. All are the children of the one Father. The Father says: I take all the children to the land of peace and the land of happiness. It is now that you have this knowledge of cycle after cycle. You will not have this knowledge there. You become impure and so the Father makes so much effort on you to make you pure.

This is why it is remembered: I surrender Myself to You. I sacrifice Myself to You...(kurbaan jaaun, vaari jaaun)  To whom? To the Father. The Father then gives you the example of how this one surrendered himself. You have to follow this sample. They then become Lakshmi and Narayan. If you want to claim such a high status, you have to surrender yourselves like they did. Those who are wealthy can never surrender themselves. Here, you have to sacrifice everything. Wealthy ones will definitely remember their wealth.

It is remembered: Those who remember their wife at the end... What will you do with all that money? No one will take anything because everything is to be destroyed. What would I do with it if I took it from you? Everything, including that body, is to be destroyed. When you die, the world is dead for you. (aap muye, mar gayi duniya) None of that wealth etc. will remain. In the Garuda Purana, they have mentioned fearsome (rochak) stories to scare people.

The Father says: All of those scriptures belong to the path of devotion. The path of devotion continues for half the cycle when it is the kingdom of Ravan. Ask any of them when they started to burn Ravan and they will say: From time immemorial! Oh! but Ravan doesn't exist from time immemorial. Because they don't know, they say: From time immemorial! You children now remember when the kingdom of Ravan begins. You also understand the secrets of the Creator and creation.

The Father now says: Children, constantly remember Me alone and your sins can be cut away. Continue to caution one another in this way. When you go walking with one another, just talk about these things amongst yourselves. If your whole group were to go walking in this stage of remembrance, your silence would have a great impact. Even priests walk in total silence, in remembrance of Christ; they don't even look at anyone else. You can stay in remembrance a great deal here because you don't have any mundane business. The atmosphere is very good. Outside, the atmosphere is very dirty. This is why the ashrams of sannyasis are very far away.

Yours is unlimited renunciation. The old world is now about to go. This is the graveyard and it is to become the land of angels. There will be palaces studded with jewels and diamonds there. Lakshmi and Narayan were the masters of the land of angels. They are not that now. The Father says: I come every cycle at the confluence age. This whole cycle continues to repeat. You now remember everything at this time because the Father is reminding you. Previously, you didn't have any of this in your intellect. When you stay in the intoxication of this awareness, you will be able to explain to others with happiness. You have to look after your home and family while maintaining this awareness. Achcha.

To the sweetest spiritual children who always stay in the intoxication of this awareness, love, remembrance and good morning from the Mother, Father, BapDada. The spiritual Father says namaste to the spiritual children.

The spiritual children says namaste to the spiritual Father.

 

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 21, 2014: Generosity

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 21, 2014: Generosity

Generosity

My heart is full and open, flowing with pure good feelings and good wishes for everyone. I follow my spontaneous instinct to give and I am totally happy.

Acceptance

Love makes us free from expectations, which enables us to accept people
as they are. We are then able to understand others' uniqueness and
provide them with whatever is necessary for their positive growth. Let
me think of one person in whom I am not able to tolerate some quality.
I then need to tell myself that just as a mother accepts her child even
with weaknesses, I will accept this person as he is. When I change my
attitude towards that person I can be free in my mind and give them the
freedom to express their uniqueness.

God As The Ocean Of Knowledge

It is believed that God knows the details of every atom and every thought in the universe. It is because of God's ultimate, pervasive knowledge that He can be described as an ocean. Understanding this world does not necessarily mean to be aware of every detail of the movement of every single leaf or every single molecule. All that is required is to understand completely the conditions through which souls and matter pass.

One of the basic beliefs of Christians is that God created man in His own image. God, being the embodiment of knowledge, creates with knowledge. Being the wisest of all, He has the power to change the intellects of human souls. How? When we, the souls, having come in the process of birth and rebirth, become impure, God shares with us the knowledge of the soul and its births; the knowledge of Himself, the Creator; the knowledge of meditation i.e. the method of connecting with him and the beginning, the middle and the end of creation or the vast world drama, as a result of which we are able to appreciate this drama, and imbibe our true qualities of love, peace and bliss. As a result we are liberated from sorrow and a new world order is created. In order for him to perform His work as Creator it is not necessary for Him to listen to our every thought, our every secret. He is part of an eternal, predestined drama that He did not create but in which He finds Himself as the principal actor. Thus He is the only true philanthropist. Human actions, whether good or bad, are dictated by self-concern, whereas God has nothing to gain because He is complete in all respects. He is the perfect embodiment of spirituality. He alone has the right to give knowledge regardless of human arguments. His knowledge is purely spiritual.

Soul Sustenance

Experiencing Spiritual Growth Through Group Interactions (cont.)

As explained in yesterday's message, if you are living in isolation you don't become aware of the dimensions of your ego and, therefore, you cannot overcome it.

Also, the beauty of group interactions or being a part of a spiritual community or any other group, is that in groups, various powers like the power to:

* adapt and mould oneself with people of different personality traits and as different situations in the group demand;
* tolerate;
* face negative situations in interactions;
* forgive and forget;
* become a detached observer of situations and people's actions, not to get over involved, in order to maintain one's stability and calmness;
* co-operate;
* communicate;
* see and absorb only specialties of each one (inspite of obvious weaknesses being visible) and spreading the specialties (not weaknesses) to the others in the group, by way of praising and not criticizing them;
* listen, understand and empathize;
* discriminate and judge different situations and people;
* go into inner silence, whenever required, amidst the actions and interactions of group activity;
* show respect to each one and remain in self-respect;
* remain content or satisfied and make the others content; etc.

are absolutely necessary to experience success in the groups, either within the relationships with others or even with the self. There is a difference between experiencing success with the self while staying alone and within a group. By bringing the above powers into practice in a group, they increase further inside us. This does not happen in isolation, or if it does, then the extent is quite limited. So basically, being a part of a group, brings about greater spiritual growth and empowerment. Message for the day

To have true faith in oneself is to attain success.

Projection: Sometimes false courage is mistaken as faith. When we take up some task we might be deceived into a feeling of having a lot of courage which makes us over-confident. Then instead of putting in effort to give our best we tend to become careless. Such carelessness will not enable us to achieve easy success.

Solution: We need to check within ourselves and see if we have true faith in ourselves or not. Faith always comes with the recognition of our own specialities. We also need to pay special attention to work towards something that we can achieve. When we do this we will find ourselves succeeding naturally.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 20, 2014

Essence of Murli August 20, 2014: 

Essence:   Sweet children, remember the Father, the Remover of Sorrow and the Bestower of Happiness, (Dukh Harta Sukh Karta) and all your sorrow will be removed and your final thoughts will lead you to your destination. (ant mati so gati)

Question: Why has the Father given you the direction to stay in remembrance whilst walking and moving around?

Answer:     1. It is only through remembrance that your burden of sins of many births will be removed. 2. It is only through remembrance that the soul will become satopradhan. 3. If you have the practice of staying in remembrance from now, you will be able to stay in remembrance of the one Father in your final moments. It is remembered of the end: Those who remember their wife in their final moments... 4. By remembering the Father, the happiness of 21 births appears in front of you. There is no one in the whole world as sweet as the Father. This is why the Father's direction is: Children, whilst walking and moving around, remember Me alone. 

Essence for dharna:

1.      Do not look at anything evil with your eyes. Look at everything with the third eye of knowledge, the civil eye, that the Father has given you. Make full effort to become satopradhan.

2.      Whilst taking care of your home and family, remember the Father, the loveliest of all. Create such a stage that, at the end, you do not remember anything except the one Father.

Blessing: May you turn (transform) yourself as a return of love and become equal to the Father, complete and perfect.(sampann aur sampoorn)

The sign of loving someone is that you cannot bear to see any weaknesses in the one you love. You will consider the mistake of someone you love to be your own mistake. When the Father hears anything about the children, He considers it to apply to Him. The Father wishes to see the children complete and perfect, the same as He is. As a return of this love, turn yourself. Devotees are ready to cut off their head and offer it to that One. You don't have to cut off your physical head, but cut off the heads of Ravan.

Baba says, The Father is the Ocean of Love, with love beyond all realms. Because of having such unlimited love, He considers our weaknesses to be His own. In order to be at par with the Father, to be on an equal footing with the Father, he wants us to transform and become complete and perfect.(sampann aur sampoorn). By constantly being merged in the love for the One Father, and by considering the one Father to be our entire world, we easily remain in the experience of belonging to the one Father and none other...By drinking one drop of Manmanabhav from the Ocean of Love, we receive liberation-in-life in one second...all we have to do is to sacrifice our vices, and we go from the ocean of poison to the ocean of milk and become Madhyajibhav...

 

Slogan:      To do the service of creating a powerful atmosphere through your spiritual vibrations is most elevated service.

Whatever thoughts I have, whatever attitude I have, the same vibrations will spread into the atmosphere and into numerous souls... we are world servers... we transform the atmosphere with our pure and benevolent and spiritual attitude and make it powerful... we do service through our body-mind-wealth, thoughts-words-actions...with pure thinking, pure words, pure actions, pure thoughts, pure feelings and pure wishes for all, we spread pure vibrations in the atmosphere and the environment...

 

Om shanti.

In remembrance of whom are you sitting? This relationship with the One who liberates everyone from sorrow is the loveliest relationship of all. When the Father looks at you children, all your sins continue to be cut away. The soul is moving towards the satopradhan stage. There is limitless sorrow. It is remembered: He is the Remover of Sorrow and the Bestower of Happiness. The Father has now truly come to liberate you from all sorrow. In heaven, there is no name or trace of sorrow.(naam-nishaan) It is most essential to remember such a Father. A father has love for his children. You know which children the Father loves. It has been explained to you children: Consider yourselves to be souls, not bodies. Those who are very good jewels remember the Father whilst walking and moving around. Why does He say this? Because your urn of sin of many births is full. So, only through this pilgrimage of remembrance will you become charitable souls from sinful souls. You children also know that this is an old body. It is the soul that receives sorrow. When the body is hurt, the soul feels the pain. The soul says: I am diseased and unhappy. This is the world of sorrow. No matter where you go, there is nothing but sorrow. There cannot be sorrow in the land of happiness. When you mention sorrow, it means that you are in the land of sorrow. There isn't even the slightest sorrow in the land of happiness. There is little time left and you have to make full effort to remember the Father during this time. The more remembrance you continue to have, the more satopradhan you will continue to become. You have to make effort and create such a stage that, at the end, you don't remember anything except the one Father. There is a song: Those who remember their wife in the final moments... These are the final moments! It is the end of the old world, the land of sorrow. You are now making effort to go to the land of happiness. You have become Brahmins from shudras. You should remember this. Shudras have sorrow. We have moved away from sorrow and are now climbing to the peak. Therefore, we have to remember the one Father. He is the most beloved Father. What is sweeter than Him? The soul only remembers that Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul. He is the Father of all souls. There is nothing in this world sweeter than Him. There are so many children. In how much time would He remember them all? In a second. Achcha, how does the cycle of the whole world turn? The accurate meaning of this is in the intellects of you children. For instance, when people return from seeing a drama (play), and someone asks them whether they remember all the drama or not, as soon as they say, "Yes", the whole drama would enter their intellects from the beginning to the end. However, it would take time for them to speak about it. Baba is the unlimited Baba. By your remembering Him, the happiness of 21 births appears in front of you. You receive this inheritance from the Father. The Father's inheritance appears in front of you children in a second. As soon as a child is born, his father knows that an heir has taken birth. He would remember all his property. Each one of you is an individual child and you receive your individual inheritance. You have individual remembrance; each of you is an heir of the unlimited Father. In the golden age, there will just be one son. He is the heir of all the property. As soon as you children found the Father, you became the masters of the world in a second. It doesn't take long. The Father says: Consider yourselves to be souls. Do not consider yourself to be a female. A soul is a male. Baba says: I remember all the children. All souls are brothers. Those of other religions who come all say: Those of all religions are brothers. However, they do not understand this. You now understand that you are the most beloved children of Baba. You will definitely receive your full unlimited inheritance from the Father. How will you claim it? You children remember that in a second. We were satopradhan and then we became tamopradhan. We now have to become satopradhan once again. You know that you have to claim your inheritance of the happiness of heaven from Baba. The Father says: Consider yourselves to be souls. The body is perishable. It is the soul that sheds his body and departs. He goes and enters a womb in a new body. When the fetus (putla) is ready, the soul enters it. However, that is under the influence of Ravan. The soul enters the jail under the influence of vices. There, there is no Ravan. There is no question of sorrow. When you become old, you become aware that you will shed that body and enter another body. There is no question of fear there. Here, there is so much fear. There, you remain fearless. The Father takes you children into limitless happiness. There is limitless happiness in the golden age and limitless sorrow in the iron age. That is why this is called the land of sorrow. The Father doesn't cause you any difficulty. Although you may live at home with your family and look after your children, you simply have to remember the Father. Renounce all the gurus etc. I am greater than all the gurus. All of them are My creation. No one, apart from Me, can be called the Purifier. Would you call Brahma, Vishnu and Shankar Purifiers? No. Even deities cannot be called that. No one except Me can be called that. Would you children call the Ganges the Purifier? Those rivers of water flow constantly. The rivers Ganges and Brahmaputra etc. have always existed. People are always bathing in those. When there is rain, there are floods and that too is sorrow. There is limitless sorrow! Look how many people died in the floods. In the golden age, there is no question of sorrow. Even animals don't have sorrow there, nor do they have untimely death. This drama is created in this way. On the path of devotion, they sing: Baba, when You come I will belong to You alone. He does come. He comes between the end of the land of sorrow and the beginning of the land of happiness. However, no one knows this. No one knows what the duration of the world is. The Father tells you everything easily. Did you know previously that the duration of the world is 5000 years? Those people say that it is hundreds of thousands of years, but the Father has now explained to you that every age is 1250 years. In the swastika, they show the four equal parts accurately. There isn't the slightest difference between them. Reasoning also says that there has to be an accurate account. At Jagannath Puri, when they cook rice in a particular pot, (handa)it automatically divides into four equal parts. They have created a method of doing that. People there eat a lot of rice. Whether you call it Jagannath or Shrinath, it is the same thing. They show both of them as ugly. In the Shrinath Temple, they have urns of ghee and you receive very good nourishing food fried in ghee. They have shops outside to sell all of that. They offer such a great quantity of bhog there. All the pilgrims go and buy that from the shops. At Jagannath, they only have rice. One is Jagannath and the other is Shrinath. They show the land of happiness and the land of sorrow. Shrinath belonged to the land of happiness and the other to the land of sorrow. It is at this time that people have become ugly by climbing onto the pyre of lust. They simply offer rice as bhog to Jagannath. They show that one to be poor and the other one to be wealthy. Only the one Father is the Ocean of Knowledge. Devotion is called ignorance and you don't receive anything from that. There, the gurus have a lot of income. If someone is clever and others learn something from him, those others would say: This one is my guru and he taught me this. All of those are physical, those who take birth. Who is with you now? The Father without an image. He says: This is not My body. This is the body of your Dada who has taken the full 84 births. I enter Him at the end of the last of his many births in order to take you to the land of happiness. He is also called Gaumukh. People come from so far away to see a Gaumukh. There is a Gaumukh here too. The water definitely comes from the mountains. Water enters the well from the mountains every day. It never stops. The water continues to come. When streams come from anywhere, they call that the water of the Ganges. They go there to bathe, considering it to be water of the Ganges. However, no one can become pure from impure through that water. The Father says: I am the Purifier. 0 souls, constantly remember Me alone! Renounce your body and all your bodily relations, consider yourself to be a soul and remember Me and your sins of many births will be burnt away. The Father liberates you from the sins of many births. At this time, everyone in the world continues to commit sin. There is the suffering of karma. You have all committed sin in your previous births. There is the account of 63 births. Your degrees continue to decrease little by little, just as the degrees of the moon do. This is the unlimited day and night. Now the whole world, and Bharat in particular, has the omens of Rahu over it. There is the eclipse of Rahu. You children are now becoming beautiful from ugly. This is why even Krishna is called Shyam-Sundar. They have truly portrayed him as ugly. They have shown this symbol because he climbed onto the pyre of lust. However, people's intellects do not work at all! They sometimes show him as beautiful and sometimes ugly. You are now making effort to become beautiful. Only when you make effort to become satopradhan will you become that. There is no question of difficulty in this. You are listening to this knowledge now, and it will then disappear. Although people study and relate the Gita, they cannot relate this knowledge. That is a religious book for the path of devotion. There is a lot of paraphernalia for the path of devotion and there are many scriptures; some read things and others do something else. People go to the temple of Rama and they have even shown Rama as ugly. Just think about why they show them as ugly. There is also Kali of Calcutta. They call out to her, "Ma, Ma," and experience distress. She is a most feared one and they show a very fearsome form of her. They call her "Mother". You have this arrow and sword of knowledge, and so they have shown her with weapons. In fact, previously, they used to sacrifice people to Kali. The Government put a stop to that. Previously, in Sindh, they didn't have a temple to that goddess. When a bomb exploded, a brahmin priest said: Kali has said that there isn't a temple to her here, and that one should be built quickly, otherwise, another bomb would explode. They then collected a lot of money and a temple was built. Look, there are now so many temples! People wander to so many places. The Father explains to you in order to liberate you from all of those things. He does not defame anyone. The Father explains the drama to you and how this world cycle is created. Whatever you have seen will exist again. The things that do not exist now will be created. You have now understood that there used to be your kingdom. You have now lost that. Once again the Father now says: Children, if you want to change from an ordinary human into Narayan, then make effort! You have been listening to many religious stories on the path of devotion. You listened to the story of immortality, but did anyone become immortal? Did anyone receive the third eye of knowledge? The Father sits here and explains these things. Do not look at anything evil through those eyes. Look at everything with civil eyes, not with criminal eyes. Do not look at this old world; it is to be destroyed. The Father says: Sweetest children, I am going to leave after giving you the kingdom for 21 births. There isn't anyone else's kingdom there. There is no mention of sorrow there. You remain very happy and wealthy there. Here, people starve to death. There, you rule over the whole world. You need so little land. At first, it is a small garden and then it gradually grows and by the end of the iron age, it becomes so big, and because of the influence of the five vices, it becomes a forest of thorns. The Father says: Lust is the greatest enemy. You receive sorrow from its beginning through the middle to the end. You now understand knowledge and devotion. Destruction is just ahead of you. Therefore, now make effort quickly. Otherwise, your sins will not be burnt away. Your sins can only be cut away by having remembrance of the Father. Only the one Father is the Purifier. Those who made effort in the previous cycle will definitely do that again. Do not become slack! Do not remember anyone except the one Father! Everyone else causes you sorrow. Remember the One who gives you constant happiness. Do not be careless about this! If you don't remember Him, how would you become pure? 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 20, 2014: Interfere Lovefully

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 20, 2014: Interfere Lovefully

Interfere Lovefully

One of the deepest habits we learn is interfering in others' lives. Even if we are not actively interfering there is a good chance it's happening in our heads. Then, when people don't do what we want them to do, which is usually all the time, our ability to relax is non existent. If you want to interfere successfully in someone else's life, try this loveful approach. It begins with acceptance, continues with acknowledgement, is empowered by appreciation and ends in actualization. Only in this way can we help others be all that they can possibly be, and what else is life for, but to help others to be all that they can be. Only by making love practical in this way, can we heal our own habits of criticism, envy and blame. Accept, acknowledge and appreciate. It doesn't mean you have to agree, comply or condone. The paradox is that we ourselves will receive the same in the process, not only from ourselves, as we become what we give, but from others along the way. Why? It's the law!relax7

Easiness

When we start with something, which has never been done before, we
first have a doubt if we could do it. The task in itself is not very
difficult, but it is this thought that makes it seem much more
difficult than it actually is. This fear doesn't let us use all our
potentials in an easy way. If there is a task, which is considered by
everyone to be difficult, or if I have any fear associated with it, I
need to first take a conscious thought that it is actually easy. And as
I move along I will find the solutions and I will continue to progress.
This thought enables me to be easy and finish everything easily.

Providing Emotional Support To Your Loved Ones

What do we do when friends and loved ones come to us for, and expect emotional support from us? Spirituality teaches us the right technique of providing emotional support - the technique of detached involvement, which is the technique of not being overawed, of not being affected ourselves by the emotions of others. If a friend, colleague or any loved one is upset and we also get upset (because we love them - that's what we normally say), we cannot provide them the necessary support or the assistance to see why they are reacting emotionally and how they might change the nature of their emotions by themselves. True love for someone would mean that I am able to provide them that. While being concerned is fine, but by becoming upset, seeing them upset simply aggravates the situation and adds fuel to their fire.

By remaining detached, we can be more effective in our ability to care, listen and help them think clearly about the situation, they find themselves in. Only if we are stable, and that can happen only when we are detached, will we be able to provide them stability. We can encourage and empower them to change their negative reaction to a more positive response, and thereby generate a healthier energy. If we become over-involved in someone else's problems, there is a risk that our own judgment will be affected negatively. This is why making decisions and choices under the influence of your own and others' emotions is normally ineffective.

Soul Sustenance

Experiencing Spiritual Growth Through Group Interactions

Anyone who is inclined towards growing spiritually will sooner or later feel the need to taking up a particular spiritual path, which provides him/her with an assigned code of leading a spiritual life and helps him/her to incorporate it in his/her life. This also means becoming a part of a spiritual group or gathering or community and participating in spiritual study, practice like meditation or prayer and perform service along with the group. But, on the other hand, there are also many spiritually motivated people who are not very interested in groups and communities and keep a distance from them. They are of the opinion that it is easier to work it out alone by collecting information from other alternate sources by books, the internet, the television, videos, etc. and progress spiritually. But the relationship between spiritual growth and being a part of or participating in a group is clear.

For the isolated and solitary person, growth is limited, since the personality is not activated to the same extent as when it interacts with others. In relationships and in living together, the various forms of hidden ego and the different shades of the personality, positive as well as negative, are stimulated, creating the possibility of being more aware and conscious about them, bringing about greater growth and spiritual development. After all, one of the main objectives of spiritual development is achieving victory over the ego and becoming soul conscious, getting rid of the negative shades of the personality and further enhancing the positive traits and skills, so that they can be used for benefiting the self and others.

Tomorrow we shall explain the various powers that are required to experience success in groups, which as a result, get enhanced in group activities and interactions.

Message for the day

The method to overcome fear is to keep giving power to others.

Projection: In difficult situations, the first reaction is that of fear- of the consequences, of one's own power to face the situation. With this comes the expectation that others should understand and help.

Solution: We need to take a thought to continue to give others even in difficult situations. Then, we will be able to overcome our fear. Since our mind is busy giving others we will be free from any negative thoughts and thus we will be stable.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

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.