Daily Positive Thoughts: August 30, 2014: Acceptance

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 30, 2014: Acceptance

Acceptance

See through God's eyes and feel through God's heart and you will appreciate the value of every soul including yourself.

Lightness

When we are in a position where we are held responsible for something
or people expect us to be answerable for something, we tend to feel
heavy because of these responsibilities. With this feeling of burden,
we are not able to fulfill our responsibilities to the best of our
ability. Whatever responsibilities are given to us are according to our
capabilities. Also the more we are able to maintain our internal state
of lightness, it is easier for us to recognize and use our inner
resources well. When we remind ourselves of this we'll be able to be
light and give our best to fulfill all our responsibilities.

Choosing Peace Over Anger

Making the choice of peace is a simple choice, which lies in the hands of each one of us, at every moment right through the day, every day. A lot of people would choose a world, the world out there, made of peace but spend most of their time remaining peaceless in their own inner world, and then in their next door world, i.e. in their personal interactions. A lot of us would prefer a life of peace and we try to shape up such a life, only to be influenced by the old belief about how it's absolutely fine to get angry once in a while, without which it's difficult to get things done. We also get influenced by those people around us who continue to get angry for the shallowest of reasons. These people could be either at home, at the workplace, in the friend circle, the world at large or people who do not matter too much to us but whom we encounter every day - at the vegetable market, on the highway, or even in the movies for that matter! Unaware of the root causes of their anger, all these people around us will find a thousand ways to justify it, and will keep continuing with the habit in their lives. Their emotional un-clarity is so deep and addiction to the emotion of anger is so powerful that they will probably laugh at the idea that anger is a negative emotion and is form of weakness or suffering. They will, on the other hand, say that peace is timidity and a form of weakness or suffering. So, if you do choose peace over anger in your life then you are also choosing to be in a state of power and becoming free from suffering as a result. However, after having made that choice, to experience it in every moment of your life, it is necessary to rediscover where your peace is located inside you, it's true nature or essence, how to access it through meditation and finally how to use it or apply it in your daily life.

Soul Sustenance

The Significance Of Spiritual Energy

Humans live and express themselves by means of four energy forms:

Physical : You breathe, eat and drink, and through this process you exchange atoms and molecules with the external environment and the inner environment of your body. A part of this energy will be used for growth and another part for physical movement.

Mental :The energy and power of thought. This energy has a big influence over the origin of many illnesses, so much so that it has been estimated that as many as 85% of them are psychosomatic (directly or indirectly influenced by our state of the mind) in nature. Your thoughts are also the seeds of your feelings, your mood and your attitudes.

(To be continued tommorow …..) Message for the day

The one who serves with the balance of the head and the heart is the one who is successful.

Projection: We usually give directions to people when they go wrong. We also use a lot of logic when we give such directions, but it doesn't always have the desired effect. We then begin to consider the other person to be wrong.

Solution: What we need to do is to have a balance of both the head and the heart while giving our suggestions to others. That means we need to have a lot of love while giving our suggestions to them. Then whatever we say will have its effect on them.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 29, 2014

Essence of Murli   August 29, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, remain in a conscious state (chaitanya avasthaa) and remember the Father. To go into the stage of nothingness (sunn avasthaa) or to sleep is not yoga.

Question: Why are you not allowed to sit here with your eyes closed?

Answer: If you sit with your eyes closed, a thief can steal all the goods in your shop. Maya, the thief, will not allow your intellect to imbibe anything. If you sit in yoga with your eyes closed, you will fall asleep and you will not know anything. Therefore, sit with your eyes open. While doing your work, remember the Father with your intellect. There is no question of hatha yoga in this.

Essence for dharna: 

1.   While looking after your household, keep your intellect’s yoga with the Father. Do not make mistakes. You have to bring benefit to yourself and others by imbibing purity.

2.   There is an income in the pilgrimage of remembrance and in this study. Trance is just wandering around: there is no benefit in that. To whatever extent possible, remain alert. Remember the Father and have your sins absolved.

Blessing: May you have good wishes and pure feelings and make the Father’s sanskars your own original sanskars.

Even now, some children have various sanskars: of coming into feeling; of stepping away; of thinking about others and of listening to other things. You refer to having these sanskars by saying, “What can I do? This is my sanskar.” This word, “mine”, makes you slack in your efforts. It is Ravan’s property, not “mine”. However, the Father’s sanskars are the original sanskars of Brahmins. Those sanskars are of a world benefactor, of one who has pure and positive thoughts and of one who has good wishes and pure feelings for everyone.

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

If you have an attitude of detachment and love for all, circumstances cannot affect you. No matter what anyone says, harsh words will not touch your heart. No matter how unkind their behavior is, it will not put a dent in your demeanor. Look, but do not see; hear but do not listen. You being the elevated beings, you influence the atmosphere; the atmosphere does not influence you. Our purpose as Brahmins is to help and benefit others. Understand other’s weaknesses, and give them good wishes and pure feelings (shubh bhavna and shubh kamnaa); the one remedy for all ailments.

 

Slogan: Those who have power (samarthi) have a right to the treasure (adhikaari) of all powers (sarv shakti).

Points to churn from the slogan:

By keeping ourselves busy in churning the ocean of knowledge and in Godly service, by not wasting our time in useless things and worthless matters, or in listening to or relating wrong things of gossip, we, the souls, become powerful...

 

We keep our minds and intellects stable in a powerful stage...by keeping the Father and service constantly in our awareness, we stay close with the Father, sit personally in front of the Father, and become complete, perfect, powerful, and equal to the Father...

 

By fully using the art of keeping our minds busy, we become free from all waste...by giving good wishes, we put the wrong to right, convert stone to water, and transform wasteful to powerful...

 

By sitting on the seat of the trikaldarshi stage, by using the right  method according to the time, by adopting the method of saving and accumulating, we finish the account of waste... we have growth by using the right methods, attain success, become powerful and have a right to the treasure of all powers...

 

Om shanti.

The spiritual Father tells you spiritual children: This one is also a child. All bodily beings are His children. So, the spiritual Father says to souls: The main thing is the soul. Understand this very well. When you are sitting here in front, you should not detach yourself from your body and disappear. To detach yourself from the body and disappear is not the stage of the pilgrimage of remembrance. You have to sit here alert (sujaag). As you walk and move around or sit, consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father.

The Father does not tell you to become unconscious as you sit here. There are many who disappear while sitting here. You have to sit here and remain alert. You also have to become pure. You will not be able to imbibe knowledge without having purity. You will neither be able to bring benefit to anyone nor will you be able to tell this to others. Those who do not remain pure themselves but tell others to do so are like pundits. You must not consider yourself to be clever (miya mithhoo). Otherwise, your conscience will bite you. Don’t think that you can close your eyes and go into a state of nothingness. That is not the stage of remembrance. Here, you have to remain in a conscious state and remember the Father. To fall asleep is not remembrance.

Many points are explained to you children. It is shown in the scriptures that they go into the seventh world (stage of consciousness) and they are not aware of this world at all. You know about the world; this is a dirty world. No one knows the Father. If they were to know the Father, they would also know the cycle of the world. The Father tells you how this cycle turns and how human beings take rebirth. In the golden age, even though you become old, your face does not become wrinkled. Sannyasis do hatha yoga. They close their eyes and, while sitting in caves, they become old and wrinkled.

The Father tells you: While living at home with your family, you have to remain alert. To go into the stage of nothingness is not really a stage.You have to carry on with your business etc. and also look after your household. You must not go into the stage of nothingness. While doing your work, remember the Father with your intellect. When you do your work, you surely do it with your eyes open. Continue to attend to your business etc., but let your intellect’s yoga be with the Father. You must not become careless about this. If you closed your eyes while sitting in your shop, someone would steal your stock and you would not even know. That stage is not accurate. To become detached from one’s body is the practice of hatha yogis. It is those with occult power (ridhhi-sidhhi )who do that.

The Father sits here and explains to you very clearly; you must not close your eyes for this. The Father says: You must now forget all your friends and relatives that you have been remembering, but you must remember the one Father. Without the pilgrimage of remembrance, your sins cannot be cut away. When they take bhog to the subtle region, they get lost. What happens? For as long as they are there, their sins cannot be absolved. They can neither remember Shiv Baba nor can they hear Baba’s murli, and so there is a loss.

However, this is fixed in the drama and this is why they go there. They then come down and listen to the murli. This is why Baba says: Go and return quickly! Don’t stay there! Baba put a stop to all of those entertaining games. (khelpaal)To go around in this way is like wandering aimlessly. There is a great deal of wandering and wailing on the path of devotion, because it is the path of darkness. Meera used to go into trance, to Paradise. That was neither yoga nor study. Did she attain salvation through that? Did she become worthy of going to heaven? Were her sins of many births cut away? Absolutely not! The sins of many births can only be cut away by having remembrance of the Father. There is no benefit in having visions etc. That is simply devotion. It is neither remembrance nor knowledge. There is no one on the path of devotion who teaches these things and so they are not able to attain salvation, no matter how many visions they may have. In the beginning, children used to go into trance by themselves. Mama and Baba did not go into trance. In the beginning, Baba simply had a vision of establishment and destruction.

Nothing happened after that. I do not send anyone up there. Yes, I (Brahma) sit them down and say: “Baba, pull the thread of this one,” and if it is in the drama, her thread will be pulled. Otherwise, it won’t be.

Many receive visions. Many used to have visions in the beginning, and many will have visions at the end. It will be death for the prey and victory for the hunter. (mirua maut, malooka shikaar)There are countless human beings and they will all leave their bodies here. No one will take his body or anything else to the golden age or to the land of silence. There are countless human beings. All are to be destroyed. The one original, eternal, deity religion is now being established through Brahma. You daughters go to the villages and do so much service. You say to them: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father.

Sannyasis don’t know how to teach Raja Yoga. Who, apart from the Father, can teach Raja Yoga? The Father is now teaching you children Raja Yoga. Then you will receive your kingdom and you will remain in limitless happiness. There will be no need to have remembrance there. There will not be the slightest trace of sorrow. Your lifespan will be long and your body will be free from disease. Here, there is a great deal of sorrow. It is not that the Father has created this play to cause you sorrow. This is an original and eternal play of happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat etc. Sannyasis do not know these things and so how could they explain anything? They study the scriptures of the path of devotion. You are told: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father. Those sannyasis consider themselves to be the soul and they remember the brahm element. They consider the brahm element to be the Supreme Soul. They only have knowledge of the brahm element. In fact, the brahm element is the place of residence, where you souls reside, but they say that they will merge into the element. Their knowledge is totally upside-down.

Here, the unlimited Father is teaching you children. They say that God will come after forty thousand years. That is called the darkness of ignorance.

The Father says: I am the One who establishes the new world and who has the old world destroyed. I am carrying out the task of establishment; destruction is also standing ahead. Now, hurry up and become pure! Only then will you be able to go to the pure world. This is an old tamopradhan world; it is not the kingdom of Lakshmi and Narayan. Their kingdom existed in the new world; it no longer exists. They have continued to take rebirth. All sorts of things have been written in the scriptures. They have shown Krishna sitting in Arjuna’s horse chariot. It was not that Krishna was sitting inside Arjuna. Krishna was a bodily being.

There was no question of a war. They have divided the armies of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. However, those things do not happen here. Those are the limitless scriptures of the path of devotion. They do not exist in the golden age. There, it is your kingdom, your reward of knowledge. There, there is nothing but happiness. The Father establishes the new world, and so there would definitely be happiness in the new world. Would a father build an old home? A father would build a new home. That home is limited. This is the One who creates the new world which is called satopradhan. This world is now impure, tamopradhan.

You are now sitting in the foreign kingdom of Ravan. Shiv Baba is called Rama. They make donations in the name of Rama, chanting, “Rama, Rama”. Now, there is a vast difference between Rama and Shiv Baba. Shiv Baba now tells you children: Remember Me alone. You now have to return to the place you came from. Until you remember the Father and become pure, you will not be able to return home. There are very few among you who remember the Father accurately. It is not a question of saying anything through your lips. On the path of devotion, people say, “Rama, Rama”, with their lips. If someone doesn’t chant this, they call him an atheist. They sing very loudly. As the tree grows, so the paraphernalia of the path of devotion also grows. The Seed is very tiny. You do not have anything nor do you make any sound. You are simply told to consider yourselves to be souls and remember Me. You do not have to say anything with your lips. Children remember their physical fathers with their intellects. They do not sit and say: Baba, Baba. You now understand who the Father of souls is. All souls are brothers. Souls do not have any other name. However, the names of the bodies change. A soul is a soul and that One is the Supreme Soul. His name is Shiva. He does not have a body of His own. The Father says: If I had a body of My own, I would also have to take birth and rebirth. Who would then grant you salvation? People remember Me on the path of devotion. There are many images. You are now becoming residents of heaven from residents of hell.

You have taken birth in hell but you will die in order to go to heaven. You have come here in order to go to heaven. Before a bridge is constructed, they hold a foundation ceremony and then the bridge continues to be constructed. The Father has already performed the inauguration (foundation ceremony) of the establishment of heaven. Preparations are now taking place. Does it take time to build a building? Once the Government begins to build one, they are able to construct it within a month. Abroad you can buy ready-made homes. In heaven your intellects will be deep, subtle and satopradhan. Scientists have very clever intellects. They will build things very quickly. There, the walls will be studded with jewels. Nowadays, they make imitation jewellery very quickly that sparkles even more than the real thing. Nowadays, they also have machines to manufacture things very quickly. There, it does not take long to build a house.

It takes time to clean everything. It is not that the golden city of Dwaraka will rise from beneath the sea. Therefore, the Father says: Eat and drink, but simply remember the Father so that your sins can be absolved. There is no other method. You have been bathing in the Ganges for birth after birth, but no one has been able to attain  liberation or liberation-in-life. Here, the Father shows you the way to become pure. The Father says: I am the Purifier. You called out: O Purifier, Baba come! Come and make us pure. When a drama comes to an end, all the actors as well as the creator appear on the stage. They all stand on the stage. The same thing happens here too. When all souls have come down, you will then start returning. You are not ready yet.

You have not reached your karmateet stage and so how can destruction take place? The Father only comes in order to teach you for the new world. There, there is no death; you are conquering death. Who enables you to conquer death? The Death of all Deaths. He takes so many back with Him. You return in great happiness. The Father has now come to remove everyone’s sorrow. This is why people sing His praise: God, the Father, liberate us from sorrow! Take us to the land of peace and the land of happiness! However, human beings don’t know that the Father is now creating heaven. When you go to heaven, the tree will be very small, and then, later, expansion will take place. All the other religions now exist whereas that one religion does not exist. The name, form, kingdom etc. all change. To begin with, you had a double crown and you then became those with a single crown. When the Somnath Temple was built, there was so much wealth. That is the biggest temple and it was looted. The Father says: You are becoming multimillion times fortunate. Continue to remember the Father at every step and you will accumulate multimillions. You are able to earn so much income by remembering the Father. In that case, why do you forget to remember such a Father? The more you remember the Father and the more service you do, the higher the status you will claim. Many good children fall as they move along. If you dirty your face, all the income you have earned will be lost. You will lose a grand lottery. 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 29, 2014: Positive Thoughts

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 29, 2014: Positive Thoughts

 

Positive Thoughts

Positive thoughts are like good software that helps us to perform to the best of our abilities.

Bring Benefit

We usually take care not to speak negative words, but are not so
cautious about waste words. When we hear something interesting or unusual, we tend to repeat it to others. We repeat it to a lot of
people who have no concern with it. We also add up a lot of things and make it an interesting story for others. But, in reality, these words bring no benefit for others. Whatever words we speak, we need to check if they are bringing benefit to anyone. We need to speak only if there is likely to be any benefit. When we have attention not to speak anything negative, waste or even ordinary, others will experience sweetness through our words.

Quality Transformation (cont.)

'Quality transformers' can be compared to the oyster. When a tiny foreign particle invades (enters) the oyster's home, it secretes a liquid that combines with the particle to finally create a pearl. The pearl can live in the oyster's home for the rest of the oyster's natural life without causing any disturbance.

In the same way, rather than react negatively to people and events, we can include them and mould with them. Through acceptance, our consciousness jumps to another level of perception (understanding) and we realise that what we might have previously regarded as a problem can, if handled correctly, be a means to develop our strengths and remove our weaknesses. Whether a situation is a problem or a gift depends on our perception. The choice is ours.

Soul Sustenance

Being An Observer And An Actor – Maintaining The Balance

In relation to the other, we have the possibility of observing and intervening (interfering) when we wish to; that is, maintaining the balance between being an observer and acting; playing between forming part of the audience and being the actor. On being actors, sometimes we can lose ourselves in the acting of the other in his or her or their dramas; we get in so deep with what is happening to the other that we lose distance. We get mentally and emotionally involved in the other's stories. When our awareness gets lost in those stories, we stop being the creators of our own life and of our own story. This habit exhausts us; we lose energy; we lose our concentration and control over our thoughts and our emotions. We lose our inner peace and we begin to look for it again.

We can choose to observe the dance of ideas, images and acts of others, and not get involved in their complications. Only thus will we be at peace with ourselves and with the world. Remember that you create your own story. If you want to live in peace and exercise a positive influence on the people around you, don't try to control or to change the stories of others. In order to enjoy a painting you do not poke your nose onto it; you remain at a certain distance so you see it with greater clarity. The same thing occurs with the painting of life. By learning the art of being a detached observer and then intervening, of keeping a healthy distance, we manage to be connected with what is essential without losing ourselves in the waste and superfluous (excessive). That way, our intervention does not arise out of a reaction which has shades of frustration, anger and negative judgements. We are then the creators of spaces of trust and love in relationships.

Message for the day

The one who is truly fortunate is constantly enthusiastic.

Projection: When we find things going wrong with us, we immediately find ourselves losing all enthusiasm. We then do nothing to change our situation but just begin to curse our fate. With such an attitude we can do nothing to change our fortune.

Solution: When things go wrong, we have to recognise the fact that it is the present that is in our hands. We don't need to think of what happened in the past and curse our fate. Instead we need to fill ourselves with enthusiasm to make the best use of the present to make our future the best.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 28, 2014

Essence of Murli August 28, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, continue to imbibe knowledge and, by the end, you will be equal to the Father and will have digested (hazam) all the Father's strength.

Question: With the awareness (smriti) of which pairs of words can you become spinners of the discus of self-realization? (swdarshan chakrdhaari)

Answer: Rise and fall. (utthaan aur patan) Satopradhan and tamopradhan. The Temple of Shiva and the brothel. (Shivalay aur vaishyalay) If you have these pairs of words in your awareness, you will become spinners of the discus of self-realisation. You children now have understood knowledge accurately. On the path of devotion, there is no knowledge; they simply continue to tell you things to please your heart. The path of devotion is the path to please your heart. (dil-khush)

Essence for dharna:

1.      Keep all your attainments in front of you in this final birth and definitely become pure. Do not be defeated by the obstacles of Maya.

2.      Keep your aim and objective in front of you and make full effort. Just as Father Brahma made effort and changed from an ordinary man into Narayan, so follow him and become seated on the throne (gaddi  nasheen). Make effort to make the soul satopradhan.

Blessing: May you be a master of the self (swrajya adhikaari) and by keeping the mind and intellect free from waste, create Brahmin sanskars.

Any small wasteful situation, wasteful atmosphere or wasteful scene first of all influences the mind, and the intellect then co-operates with that. If the mind and intellect continue to work in this way, the sanskars are then created. You are then able to see the various sanskars which are not Brahmin sanskars. To be controlled by any wasteful sanskars, to battle with your own self, to lose your happiness repeatedly are the sanskars of a warrior. A Brahmin means one who is a master of the self, one who is free from wasteful sanskars, not controlled by them.

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

Thoughts are created from present circumstances, past memories, worries or plans about the future, and from deep sub-consciousness. Actions are the results of thoughts; repeated actions become habits; the same habits over a period of time become sanskaars. Baba says, be a master of your thoughts to be a master of yourself.

Slogan: A master almighty authority (sarv shakimaan) is one who easily (sahaj) overcomes all problems (sarv samasyaa) with a determined promise.

Points to churn from the slogan:

With the power of determination, we, the souls, the master almighty authorities, make the impossible possible... by having the soil of determined inculcation fertile, by paying full attention, we attain flavourful instant fruits from the seeds of our thoughts...with the power to decide, the power to discern and the power to transform, we easily overcome obstacles... by making the seed of thought powerful with the water of determined faith, we become embodiments of instant success...

 

Om shanti.

The Father sits here and explains to you sweetest spiritual children. The Father says to you children: You were so elevated! This is a play of the rise and fall. It is now in your intellects that you were so elevated (uttam) and pure. You have now become so low. You go in front of the deities and say: You are high and we are low. Previously, you didn't know that you are the ones who become the highest on high and then the lowest of the low. The Father now tells you: Sweetest children, you were so elevated and pure and you have now become so impure. Those who are pure are said to be high. That is called the viceless world. Your kingdom existed there and you are now establishing that again. The Father simply gives you a signal: You were the residents of the highest Temple of Shiva, the golden age. Then, after half the cycle of taking birth after birth, you fell into vice and became impure and vicious. You remained vicious for half the cycle and you now have to become viceless and satopradhan. You just have to remember two words. This is now the tamopradhan world. Lakshmi and Narayan are signs of the satopradhan world. It is a matter of 5000 years. Your kingdom was in the satopradhan Bharat. Bharat was the very highest and it is now the lowest.(kanisht)

It has taken you 84 births to become vicious from viceless. Although your degrees continue to decrease there too, it would still be said to be completely viceless. Shri Krishna would be said to be completely viceless. He was beautiful and has now become ugly. You are sitting here and so it should remain in your intellects that you were the masters of the world of Shivalaya. There were no other religions. There was just our kingdom and then it decreased by two degrees. The degrees gradually decreased and became two degrees lower in the silver age. You later became vicious and, while gradually falling, you became dirty.

This is called the vicious world. People continue to choke in the river of poison. (vishay vaitarni nadi) There, you used to live in the ocean of milk.(kshirsaagar) You have now understood the history and geography of the world and also the story of your 84 births. We were viceless when we were in their kingdom. There was the pure kingdom and that was called full heaven. Then, in the silver age, it became semi-heaven. You have this in your intellects. The Father Himself comes and explains to you the secrets of the beginning, middle and end of the world. Ravan came in the middle period. At the end, this vicious world is to be destroyed. Then, in order to go back to the beginning, you have to become pure. Consider yourself to be a soul and constantly remember Me alone. Do not consider yourself to be a body. You promised on the path of devotion: Baba, when You come I will belong to You alone. The soul speaks to the Father. Krishna is not the Father. Only incorporeal Shiv Baba is the Father of souls. You receive a limited inheritance from a limited father and Bharat receives the unlimited inheritance from the unlimited Father. This is why the golden age is called Shivalaya. Shiv Baba came and established the deity religion. This should always be remembered. It is a matter of happiness. We are now going back to Shivalaya once again. When someone dies, people say that that person has gone to heaven. However, no one really goes there. All of those things are lies of the path of devotion to make your hearts happy. You are the ones who will truly go to heaven. There are no diseases etc. there. You remain constantly cheerful there. The Father makes everything so simple that it is as though He is explaining to little children. No matter where you live outside, you can claim a status. Purity is the first and main thing in this. Let your food and drink be pure. Do people ever offer bhog of cigarettes or tobacco etc. to the deities? Do they ever offer bhog of eggs or tobacco in front of the Granth? They consider the Granth to be sacred, as though it is the body of Guru Gobind. They have so much regard for the Granth. Sikhs consider that to be as sacred as the body of their guru. However, Guru Nanak did not sit and write the Granth, Nanak simply incarnated. The number of Sikhs grew and they later wrote the Granth.

After the one, many then continued to come into the Sikh religion. Previously, the Granth used to be very small and was handwritten. Now they consider the Gita to be a form of Krishna. Just as there is the Granth of Guru Nanak, so the Gita of Krishna is remembered. They continue to say, “God Krishna speaks.” That is called ignorance. Only the one Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, has knowledge. Salvation is only received through the Gita. Only the Father has that knowledge. There is day through knowledge and night  through devotion. The Father now says: Souls have to be made pure, so effort has to be made for that. Such powerful storms of Maya come that knowledge completely flies away. Then you are not able to speak knowledge to others. Lust, the first vice, harasses you a great deal. It is that that takes time. Actually, it is a matter of liberation-in-life in just a second. As soon as a child is born, he becomes a master. You recognized that Shiv Baba had come and you claimed a right to an inheritance. The Gita was sung by Shiv Baba. He Himself said: Constantly remember Me alone. I enter this ordinary body. Krishna is not ordinary. When he takes birth, there is lightning all around. There is a lot of impact and this is why Shri Krishna is remembered even today. However, all the scriptures etc. belong to the path of devotion. In English, they are called philosophy. Only the spiritual Father can give spiritual knowledge. He Himself says: I am your spiritual Father. I am the Ocean of Knowledge. You children are studying with the Father.

You are also imbibing knowledge. Then, at the end, you will become like the Father. Everything depends on how much you imbibe. You will develop that strength by having remembrance of the Father.

Remembrance is called the power of sharpness.(jowhar) There is also a difference in swords. One sword can be bought for 100 rupees and another can be bought for three to four thousand rupees. Baba is experienced in this. A lot of regard is given to swords. So much regard is given to the sword of Guru Gobind. You children also need to have the strength of yoga. There also has to be power in the sword of knowledge.

Only when there is that power will people understand quickly. You continue to make effort according to the drama. The more you remember the Father, the more your sins will be cut away through that remembrance.

The Purifier Father is showing you methods. Then, He will come after a cycle and give you knowledge in the same way. He will make this one renounce everything and make him His chariot. You children experienced such a pull there that you all came running. There is that attraction of the Father. Now, you too have to become complete like that. You will become that, numberwise. Of course, a kingdom is being established! You have understood the world cycle from the beginning of the golden age to the end of the iron age. It is now the confluence age. The Father definitely has to come to make you pure. Pure means satopradhan. Alloy has gradually continued to be mixed into you. Now, how can that alloy be removed?

When the soul is real, the jewellery is also real, that is, the body is beautiful. When the soul becomes false, the body too becomes impure. Even this one used to bow down and pray before knowledge. (naman vandan)He used to keep a very big oil painting of Lakshmi and Narayan on a gaddi. He would remember that one with a lot of love. He didn't remember anyone else. If his thoughts wandered anywhere else outside, he would slap himself. Why is the mind wandering? Why am I not receiving a vision? He was on the path of devotion, but when he had a vision of Vishnu, he didn't become Narayan. Effort definitely has to be made. The aim and objective is standing just ahead. The one whose non-living images have been created used to exist in the living form. The Father has come to make you pure. He changes you from an ordinary man into Narayan.

You too used to be in their kingdom. You are now making effort once again to become like that, and so you have to follow them very well. Brahma is not called a deity. To call Vishnu a deity is OK. People don't know anything. They say: Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu... Now, whose guru is Vishnu? They continue to call everyone a guru. They say: Salutations to the Supreme Soul, Shiva. They call this one a guru and that one the Supreme Soul. The Father is the greatest of all. We are learning this from Him in order to teach it to others. Whatever the Satguru explains to you, you then explain that to others. You would not say that your guru is your father and teacher, no. Therefore, you should have all of this knowledge in your intellects.

We were in Shivalaya and we are now in the brothel. We now have to go to Shivalaya once again. Although they say that they merged into the brahm element or that the light merged into the light, souls are imperishable. Each one of you has your own part recorded in you. All of you are actors and you have to play your own parts. Those can never be erased. All the souls of the whole world have to play their parts.

It is as though shooting is taking place anew. However, this eternal shooting has already taken place. The history and geography of the world repeat. This is a wonderful star that is sparkling in the centre of the forehead. It is never erased. Previously, you did not have this knowledge. Wonder of the world! Your hearts become happy on hearing the word “heaven It isn't the golden age now. It is now the iron age.

Therefore, rebirth also takes place in the iron age. You all definitely have to go there, but impure souls cannot go there. You children are now becoming pure with the power of yoga. Only God, the Father, establishes the pure world. Then Ravan makes it into hell. This is visible. People burn an effigy of Ravan.

They say that that has continued eternally, but no one knows when it began. Because they speak of hundreds of thousands of years, it cannot be divided into half and half. They say that the duration of the iron age is 40,000 years. So people are in extreme darkness. It is very difficult for them to awaken from the sleep of ignorance; they just do not wake up. It is now the confluence age when the Father comes and shows you the way to become pure. When you become pure, the pure world will be established and this impure world will be destroyed. The world population is now so large. In the golden age the world population will be very small. You now definitely have to conquer Maya and become pure. The Father says: Maya is very powerful. It is in your becoming pure that she causes many obstacles. You maintain the courage to become pure and just look at the condition that Maya makes you become. She punches you and knocks you down.

So, everything you had earned is finished. You then have to make a lot of effort. Some fall and then don't even show their faces. So, they cannot claim such a high status. Full effort has to be made. You should not fail. This is why some even have a pure marriage.(gandharvi vivaah) Sanyasis say that it is impossible for a couple to get married and remain pure. The Father says: It is possible because there is a lot of attainment. If you become pure in this one final birth, you will receive a kingdom in heaven. Can you not remain pure in this one birth for such a huge attainment? Children say: Baba, we will definitely remain pure. Sikhs even wear a bracelet of purity. There is no need to tie a thread etc. here. This is a matter of the intellect. The Father says: Constantly remember Me alone! Daughters relate knowledge to many, but it doesn't sit in the intellects of those important people. The Father says: First of all, explain to them very clearly: All of these are the children of Prajapita Brahma. We are receiving an inheritance from Shiv Baba. We have to become pure from impure. The Father now says: Constantly remember Me alone. No one else can say this. First of all, you have to make this sit in their intellects: Bharat was viceless and it is now vicious, so how can it become viceless again? God speaks: Constantly remember Me alone! That is all! Even if you just say this much, that is great fortune. However, you won't be able to say even this much; you will forget. Baba explained that the Father has carried out the inauguration and that you instruments are doing the rest. The foundation has been laid, but now service stations are being inaugurated. This is something that applies to the Gita. It also says in the Gita: O child, conquer lust and you will become the conqueror of the world for 21 births.

Even if you don’t become this, at least explain it to others. There are many who uplift others but they then fall down themselves. Lust is the greatest enemy; it makes you fall right down into the gutter. Only the children who conquer lust will become the conquerors of the world. 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 28, 2014: Cheerfulness

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 28, 2014: Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness

 

The one who possesses cheerfulness becomes like a magnet of goodwill.

 

See Positivity

 

When something goes wrong, it is very natural for us to think of the
negative aspect. We experience negative feelings and as we continue to
think about it, we tend to feel more and more heavy in the mind. This
does not bring lightness either in our daily activities or in our
interactions with others. There is surely something positive in
everything that happens. We need to make conscious effort to see
positivity in everything that happens. This habit helps us be carefree
even when something unexpected or unwanted happens. Even if we cannot see the positive aspect at that moment, we need to maintain the faith that whatever has happened is for the best.

Quality Transformation

The easiest way to understand quality change is to consider the example of roses. These beautiful flowers, although nourished by smelly manure, do not take any of its odour (smell) or colour. They are truly like kings of gardens, in their pink, gold, red and white robes, filling the air with such a fragrance that people who come to the garden do not even notice the manure. The roots of the roses are able to transform (change) the manure to such an extent that the best is taken without any negative side effects. This is an example of quality change.

The human world is like a garden. We are like a variety of flowers surrounded by lots of manure, that is, negativity in all its forms, such as ego, fear, anger, attachment, mistrust, etc. People who are 'quality transformers' can accept all these negative things and use them for their personal growth without the negativity penetrating (entering) them; they do not get spoilt, or even touched by it. With understanding and the natural, loving detachment that comes from silence, they realise that the negative person, or situation, in front of them is the Universe's way of giving them an opportunity to create a tiny, silent miracle in their lives. Quality transformers become the spiritual roses in the Garden of Humanity: they display all their beauty and provide inspiration for all those who see them.

(To be continued tomorrow .... )

 

Soul Sustenance

 

Experiencing The Light, Power And Love Of The Spiritual Sun

Experience of the Supreme Soul (God) – the Spiritual Sun as an energy that heals and cleans the self with his light, power and love :

I relax. I calm my mind and breathing… I imagine a beautiful beam of white light coming out from the centre of my forehead... It leaves me and goes beyond this room towards space... I feel that I am a sparkling star floating... detached from my body and surroundings...My consciousness is transported in that beam of light towards a space without limits... beyond the sun, the moon and the stars... It is a dimension of infinite light, beyond time... where there is silence and absolute quietness… I see myself, a star like energy floating in that ocean of light... In that ocean there are many different kinds of waves... waves that are not of water, but rather waves of light... Some waves carry peace... others love... others happiness... I bathe in these waves... I allow myself to be carried by these waves... I feel how my mind is filling up with so much light and strength... On the screen of my mind, I can visualize where those luminous waves come from…

In front of me there appears a Being of Light that is silent and strong like the sun in a clear sky... It is a generous light... sweet... and loving... There is nothing to be afraid of... It sends me rays of light that melt my fears and weaken my resistances... It is like a magnet that takes me towards the depth of that ocean of Light... I feel that my nature is light... All the thoughts of the physical world disappear. Only this world is real... I feel a healing energy of love that penetrates my thoughts... It penetrates my feelings... I feel bathed by that love... revitalized by that love... Love... Power... Light... All these beautiful waves... intense... come to me from this Spiritual Sun, the Supreme Soul who resides in that infinite space of silence...

Message for the day

To keep the aim in front of us is to move forward with contentment.

Projection: Several times there are situations that are negative where we have to face things that are not really what we are expecting or wanting. At such times we tend to get disheartened and experience discontentment. Our state of mind becomes such that we can no longer experience peace.

Solution: The solution at such times is to keep our vision clear on our aim. When all our thoughts and energy are concentrated on our aim, we will be able to consider any negative scene that comes our way as only a side-scene. We can easily ignore all such situations and so our mind is at rest or peace.

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris