Daily Positive Thoughts: September 04, 2014: Depth of Humility

Daily Positive Thoughts: September 04, 2014: Depth of Humility

Depth of Humility

Humility means to understand the self and through that to understand others as well. Humility is the attitude where a person is not attached to his or her opinion and feelings. Humility is the most natural expression of truth. It helps in better understanding of truth. Humility is the basis for maintaining self-respect. Humility does not mean bowing down and being subservient to others. Humility allows you to see benefit in everything. Developing humility brings a lot of comfort and ease into your life.

Give your Best

We normally tend to expect the same kind of results constantly.
Although the effort put in is not so constant, we expect good results
always. Yet we do not find it happening all the time. When we do not
get the desired results, at that time we don't remember that it is
our lack of effort that actually brought us poor results. The only way
to experience constant good results is to put in effort constantly.
Whether the situations are bad, or even if we do not get any
encouragement from others, we need to go on giving our best. Only with
this will we be able to experience constant success. There would be the
satisfaction of giving the best even when the results take time to
come.

Practical Ways of Changing Old Habits or Beliefs

Motivation for Change
An important factor to start positive change in our lives is for there to be a passion, a powerful force that leads us, a final goal that keeps us motivated. It is important to set yourself goals, to be convinced and to have the confidence and faith that one can reach them, since in this way we will make a daily effort to achieve those goals. There needs to be a clearly defined sense of purpose to your existence, clarifying the values that must guide your life in order to achieve these goals and establish the steps you must take for inculcating these values. If, at a subconscious level, you allow a mistaken purpose to be created, or there is a lack of true purpose in your life, then you will not be motivated to know and change yourself. Many people think that the purpose of their life is to survive and they use the language of survival in this way: * Life is hard out there, * You must get whatever you can. They are not aware that they have chosen this purpose, but subconsciously it is what they believe they are here for, and this makes them think that they must accumulate, take, create barriers to protect themselves and compete with others.

(To be continued tomorrow .....)

 

Soul Sustenance

 

The Filtration Process In The Soul

The mind and its creation i.e. thoughts, in these times, in most people, are controlled by three main factors:

i. their habits or sanskaras
ii. their past experiences, and
iii. information which they are exposed to and which they imbibe.

The intellect is like a filter which has the function of discriminating, of judging the thoughts and deciding which ones to put into practice and which ones not to, basically filtering them.
Presently the filter of the intellect has become weakened, confused and unsure; it has become blocked by many incorrect beliefs, due to which this filtration does not take place properly – as a result many wrong thoughts get converted into actions. A lot of times during the day, thoughts become actions so fast, that the filter of the intellect does not even come into play i.e. thoughts become actions bypassing the filter.

The beliefs that we have today are related to our cultural, physical, social, religious, political identity associated with our age, gender, occupation, wealth, role etc. of our body. Beliefs connected to materialism, to having rather than being, are living based on the perception of the sense organs, and not on the intuition and the wisdom of the spirit. There are beliefs that block you, or brake you, others break you, they bring about fears in you and a limited perception of reality and of yourself. However much you try to generate positive thoughts, if you do not change these beliefs, their influence on the intellect will be so strong that it is almost impossible to maintain a positive state of mind. Even if you experience it, it will be short-lived and temporary.

Message for the day

True treasure is the treasure of contentment.

Projection: We, sometimes, find that we do not always have with us everything we want. When we are faced with this thought again and again, we naturally begin to have negative thoughts. We, then, are not able to appreciate and use what we have. Instead we are left wishing for something else.

Solution: Instead of thinking of what we don't have or need, we need to make effort to use whatever we already have with us. For this, we need to make a conscious effort to check what treasures we have, then, we will be able to use them in a worthwhile way. Then, we will be able to be content whatever the situation may be.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli September 03, 2014

Essence of Murli September 03, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, for the length of time you stay in remembrance of the Father, you earn an income (kamaai) accordingly. It is through this remembrance that you continue to come closer to the Father.

Question: About which aspect do the children who cannot stay in remembrance feel ashamed?

Answer: They feel too ashamed to keep a chart of remembrance. They wonder what Baba would say if they were to write the truth. However, if you children continue to write your charts honestly, there is benefit in this for you. There is a great deal of benefit (faayda) in writing a chart. Baba says: Children, do not feel too ashamed (lajja) to do this.

Essence for Dharna:

1.      In order to accumulate an income of multimillions for 21 births, use everything you have directly in a worthwhile way for Godly service. Become a trustee and do service in Shiv Baba’s name.

2.      Check where your intellect goes whilst you are sitting in remembrance. Keep a true chart of your remembrance. In order to become Narayan from an ordinary man, stay in remembrance of the Father and your inheritance.

Blessing: May you become free from attraction (aakarshanmukt) and free from all attachments (lagaav se mukt) by keeping in your awareness the special gift you have received from the Bestower.(Daata ki den)

Some children say that they don’t have any attachment to anyone, but that they like a particular virtue of that one very much or that that one has many specialties for service. However, for your thoughts to be repeatedly drawn to any person or possession (vyakti aur vaibhav) is an attraction. While seeing anyone’s specialty (visheshta), their virtues and their service, do not forget the Bestower. This is the special gift from the Bestower. This awareness will make you free from all attachments and attractions. You will not be impressed (prabhaavit) by anyone.

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

A gift is a reminder of the person who has bequeathed the gift. Each time you see it, you are reminded of that person, consciously or sub-consciously. Baba says; always keep in your awareness all the special gifts you have received from Me. Become so full of them, that there is no need to look for anything anywhere else. If you look within you and see what you already possess, you will be free from worldly attachments, inclinations, influences and pressures. (lagaav, jhukaav, prabhaav and dabaav)

 

Slogan: Become such a spiritual social worker that you show the destination to wandering (bhatakti) souls and enable them to meet God (Bhagwaan).

Points to churn from the slogan:

We, the souls, finish the defects in others with the power of our own virtues, make the weak ones powerful, give respect to hopeless cases, and look at the young or the old, the maharathis or infantry, with respect...we are spiritual social workers who give regard and respect to all... we transform the atmosphere with our pure and benevolent and spiritual attitude and make it powerful...we are the embodiments of experience who give many desperate souls that are calling out, and who are wandering around without any destination, a drop of happiness, peace and power and blessings and thereby making them satisfied...we quench the thirst of the souls who have been thirsty for many births, show everyone the right destination, and give them the experience of bliss, power and peace and enable them to meet God...

Om shanti.

The spiritual Father sits here and explains to you children. You children come here 15 minutes early and sit in remembrance of the Father. Now, you don’t have anything else to do here. You come and sit here in remembrance of the Father. On the path of devotion, you did not have the Father’s introduction.

Here, you have received the Father’s introduction. The Father says: Remember Me alone. I am the Father of all the children. By remembering the Father, you will automatically remember your inheritance. You are not babies. Even though you write that you are five months old or two months old, your physical organs are large.

The spiritual Father explains that you have to sit here in remembrance of the Father and the inheritance. You know that you are presently occupied in making effort to change from an ordinary man into Narayan, that you are making effort to go to heaven. Therefore, you children should note down for how long you remembered Baba while sitting here. When you write your chart, the Father will understand. It is not that the Father knows for how long each one of you stays in remembrance.

Only from your own chart can you understand whether you stayed in remembrance of the Father or whether your intellect was wandering in another direction. It is also in your intellect that Baba will now come and this too is remembrance. For how long did you remember Him? You should write this honestly in your chart. By writing a lie, you will accumulate one hundred-fold sin and there will be further loss. Therefore, you have to write the truth. The more you remember Him, the more your sins will be absolved, and you know that you will also continue to come closer to Baba. Ultimately, when your remembrance is over, you will go to Baba.

Then, some will quickly come down to play their parts in the new world and others will continue to sit up there. You will not have any thoughts there. That is the land of liberation where you are beyond sorrow and happiness. You are now making effort to go to the land of happiness. The more you stay in remembrance, the more your sins will be absolved. By keeping a chart of remembrance, you will be able to imbibe knowledge well.

There is only benefit in keeping a chart. Baba knows that it is because you do not stay in remembrance that you feel too ashamed to write your chart. “What would Baba say?” Perhaps He would tell everyone in the murli. The Father says: There is no question of being ashamed about this. Each one of you knows in your heart whether you have remembrance or not. The  benevolent Father explains: If you note down your chart, there will be benefit. Whilst you sat here waiting for Baba to come, what was your chart of remembrance? You should see the difference. Someone who is loved is remembered a great deal.

When a kumar and a kumari become engaged, the remembrance of each other stays in their hearts. Then, after getting married, that remembrance becomes firm. Even without seeing one another, they know they are engaged. You children now understand that Shiv Baba is your unlimited Father. Although you have not seen Him, you can understand Him with your intellects. OK, if that Father is beyond name and form, then why do you worship Him? Why do you remember Him?

Nothing that is beyond name or form or is infinite can exist. Surely, that which is visible is spoken about. You can see the sky, and so you cannot say that it is infinite. People on the path of devotion remember God and say: Oh God! Therefore, you cannot call Him infinite. By saying “Oh God” you instantly remember Him and so He surely exists. Souls can be understood, they cannot be seen.

There is only the one Father of all souls and you also have to know Him. You children know that the Father comes and teaches you. Previously, you did not know that He also teaches. They have put Krishna’s name in the Gita. Krishna is visible through these eyes. You cannot say of him that he is beyond name or form or that he is infinite. Krishna never says: Remember me alone. He is in front of you. He cannot be called Baba either. Mothers consider Krishna to be a baby and sit him (an idol of him) in their laps. On the day of Krishna’s birth, they rock him in a cradle.

Does he always remain small? He is also shown dancing and so he must surely have grown a little. Whether he grew older, what happened to him or where he went, no one knows. He would not have always had a small body. People do not think about these things at all. This system of worshipping carries on. None of them has any knowledge. They show Krishna taking birth in the land of the demon king, Kans. Now, there is no question of the land of the demon king, Kans. No one thinks about these things. Devotees say that Krishna is present everywhere (haazirahazoor) and then they bathe him and also feed him. Now he (idol of Krishna) does not eat anything.

They place all the food in front of the idol and then eat it themselves. That too is the path of devotion. They offer so much bhog at the Shrinath Temple, but he does not eat any of it. Those who offer it eat it! They do the same thing in the worship of the goddesses. They make idols of the goddesses, worship them and then sink them. They remove the jewellery from the idols and then sink them. Then, the many people that are there take away whatever they can get hold of.

It is the goddesses that are worshipped the most. They make idols of both Lakshmi and Durga. The senior mother is also here. She is called Brahmaputra (child of Brahma). You would understand that they are worshipping her form of this birth and her future form. This is such a wonderful drama!

These things cannot be mentioned in the scriptures. This is the practical activity. You children now have knowledge. You understand that most of the images that are created are of souls. When a sacrificial fire of Rudra is created, hundreds of thousands of saligrams are made. They never make hundreds of thousands of images of goddesses. However many worshippers there are, they would make that many idols of goddesses, whereas they make hundreds of thousands of saligrams at the same time.

 Neither do they have a fixed day for that, nor is there an auspicious time for it. However, they do have a fixed time for the worship of the goddesses. When a businessman has the thought of creating a sacrificial fire of Rudra and saligrams, he invites a brahmin priest. The one Father is called Rudra. Together with Rudra, they create many saligrams. Those businessmen tell them to create a certain number of saligrams, but they don’t have a fixed time or date (mukrar) for that. It is not that they worship Rudra on Shiv Jayanti.

No, generally, they fix Thursday as the auspicious day. On Deepmala, they place an idol of Lakshmi on a tray, worship it and then put it away. That is called Mahalakshmi, the dual-form. People do not know about these matters. Where could Lakshmi get money from? She needs a partner. This Lakshmi and Narayan are a couple and they have been given the name Mahalakshmi. When did the goddesses come into existence? When did Mahalakshmi exist? People do not know any of these things. The Father now sits here and explains to you. Even all of you are not able to imbibe these things to the same extent.

Baba explains so much and then asks: Do you remember Shiv Baba? Do you remember the inheritance? This is the main thing. They waste so much money on the path of devotion. Here, not a single penny of yours is wasted.

You do service in order to become solvent. People spend a lot of money on the path of devotion and they become insolvent. Everything turns to dust. There is such a vast difference.

Whatever you do at this time you give to Shiv Baba for Godly service. Shiv Baba does not eat anything. You eat it. You Brahmins are the trustees in between. You do not give anything to Brahma; you give to Shiv Baba. Some say: Baba, I have brought a dhoti and a shirt for you. Baba says: You will not accumulate anything by giving to this one.

You will only accumulate when you give to this one in remembrance of Shiv Baba. You also know that Brahmins are sustained from Shiv Baba’s treasure-store. There is no need to ask Baba what you should send. He will not take anything. You will not accumulate anything by remembering Brahma. Brahma himself has to take from Shiv Baba’s treasure-store, so then, he would only remember Shiv Baba. Why should he accept anything from you? It is wrong to give to a BK. Baba has explained that if you accept something from anyone and wear it, you will constantly remember that person.

If it is something small, it doesn’t matter, but if it is something very good, then that would remind you of that person even more. “So-and-so gave me this”. They do not accumulate anything, it becomes a loss. Shiv Baba says: Remember Me alone. I have no need of clothes etc. It is the children who need clothes etc. and they will obtain them from Shiv Baba’s treasure-store. I do not have a body of My own. This one has the right to take from Shiv Baba’s treasure-store. He also has the right to the kingdom. It is in the Father’s home that you children eat and drink. You also do service and earn an income. The more service you do, the more income you earn.

You eat and drink from Shiv Baba’s treasure-store. If you do not give to Him, you do not accumulate anything. You have to give to Shiv Baba alone. Baba, through You, we will become multimillion times fortunate for our future 21 births. Our money will be finished. Therefore, we give to the One who is powerful. The Father is powerful. He gives you everything for 21 births. People also give indirectly in the name of God. There isn’t as much power in giving something indirectly. You now receive a lot of power because He is personally in front of you.

It is now that the World Almighty Authority exists. When you donate something in the name of God, you receive something in return for a temporary period. Here, the Father explains to you that He is personally in front of you and that He is the One who gives everything.

This one also gave everything to Shiv Baba and received the kingdom of the whole world in return. You also know that it is visions of the avyakt form that you have through this corporeal one. Shiv Baba enters this one and speaks to you children. You should never have the thought that you want to take anything from human beings. Tell them: Send it to Shiv Baba’s treasure-store. You will not receive anything in return by giving to this one. You will incur an even greater loss. If someone is poor, he would perhaps give something worth three to four rupees. If he were to put it into Shiv Baba’s treasure-store instead, he would accumulate multimillions. You must not incur a loss for yourselves.

It is the goddesses that are generally worshipped, because you goddesses become the instruments to give knowledge. Although brothers also explain, it is generally the mothers who become teachers and show this path to others. This is why the goddesses are remembered more. The goddesses are worshipped a great deal. You children also understand that you were worthy of worship for half a cycle. At first, you were fully worthy of worship. Then, because you lost two degrees, you became semi-worthy of worship. The silver age is called the dynasty of Rama.

They speak of hundreds of thousands of years and so nothing can be calculated. There is the difference of day and night between the intellects of you children and of those on the path of devotion. You have Godly intellects whereas they have devilish intellects. It is in your intellects that this whole cycle is of 5000 years and that it continues to turn. Those in the night say that it is hundreds of thousands of years and those in the day say that it is 5000 years. For half the cycle you heard false things on the path of devotion. Such things do not exist in the golden age. There, you receive your inheritance. You now receive direct instructions.

This is the Shrimad Bhagawad Gita. The word “shrimat” is not mentioned in any other scripture. This most auspicious confluence age, the age of the Gita, comes every 5000 years. It cannot be a question of hundreds of thousands of years. Explain the confluence age to anyone who comes. The unlimited Father has given you the introduction of the Creator, that is, of Himself and His creation. Even then, He says: Achcha, remember the Father! If you are unable to imbibe knowledge, just consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father. You have to become pure. You are claiming your inheritance from the Father and so you also have to imbibe divine virtues. 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: September 03, 2014: Change Skill

Daily Positive Thoughts: September 03, 2014: Change Skill

 

Beautiful Turtles, Maldives

Change Skill

There is nothing more certain than that the world will continue to change. Accepting and not resisting this is the first and most important inner skill in this frenetically changing, modern world. Life tests us every day to see how well we have developed this ability. Equally, there is nothing more real than the inner space within each of us that never ever changes. We may change our thoughts, our feelings, even our sense of who we are, but we fail to visit the unchanging centre of our own self. The ability to be in this inner space, where our peace is found, when all around would prefer chaos and crisis, is the deepest spiritual change skill. It is the eye of the storm, it is the oasis in the desert, it is the place where peace is power. Call in today. You'll be surprised how much it can influence and change everything and everyone around you!

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Effective Correction

When we find someone making mistakes, we tend to react to those
mistakes and point them out to the person. We make sure we go on
talking about it till the other person realizes his mistake. But
usually there is no benefit for the other person in any way by talking
about weaknesses. Either the person doesn't want to or doesn't have the
courage to accept. When we recognize someone's mistake, before we tell
him about it, we need to ensure that he does not lose his courage to
move forward because of our correction. For this we need to point out
his mistake with love, and also before doing so we need to appreciate
something good in him. Then our correction will be effective.

The Seven Relationships With The Supreme

Every soul has a close relationship with the Supreme (God), but we simply forget it as we become over-involved in, attached to and distracted by our life on the physical plane and our different relationships with different physical beings during our journey of births and rebirths. Spirituality makes us realize the need of restoring our connection with God, which has either broken or has become loose. It also makes us realize that this connection needs to be a very deep and personal one.

God plays many roles, just as a good parent, being one, but will play many roles while bringing up his or her child. Each role consists of different spiritual characteristics and virtues of God, expressed by Him. Take a few moments to think about the main roles that God plays in our life and identify the main virtues and characteristics which He expresses e.g. in the role of Father He demonstrates the art of living to us and how to perform right karmas. In the role of Mother he gives spiritual sustenance, in the form of virtues like peace, love and joy to us. In the role of Teacher, he showers us with true knowledge of the spirit or the soul. These are just a few examples. We suggest you do your own thinking about seven different roles that God plays: Father, Mother, Teacher, Guide (or Guru), Companion (or Beloved), Friend, Childand how he plays them. Once you have done this inner thinking exercise, experience each of these seven roles on each of the seven different days of the week, one role per day. Feel Him being in that role for you and then note what you feel exactly and how you relate to Him. Also identify the spiritual characteristics and virtues that it brings out from within you.

Soul Sustenance

The Consciousness Switchover (cont.)

Given below are few simple methods which help us in the process of rising above action or role consciousness and make the task of switching of consciousness to a spiritual one, easy.

1. Every hour, stop for a few seconds and note down in a small diary, which you carry with yourself through the day, to what extent, in the hour that has just gone by; you have maintained the light and detached awareness of yourself as a soul, a being of peaceful and blissful light, situated at the centre of the forehead, playing its part through the physical body costume and the physical role costume and seeing others the same way. If you haven’t had any awareness, that’s fine: the light reminder will help you remain attentive for the next one hour period. This will over a period of time become an easy, natural and enjoyable exercise, which is very relaxing.

2. Every 2-3 hours, stop whatever you are doing for a 3-4 minutes and turn your attention within, creating an awareness and feeling of the soul, but a very deep one. Remind yourself of your spiritual relationship or your relationship on a soul level with the Father of the soul, the Supreme Being or God. Experience the relationship. At centres of the Brahma Kumaris and even at their homes and workplaces, the members of the Brahma Kumaris around the world, follow this exercise. Where it’s feasible, music is played at these times to make the break effective and soothing. This exercise is called 'traffic control', because the peace experienced in this exercise helps you become aware of the traffic of your thoughts and slow it down, reducing the risk of accidents that are caused due to internal mental clashes as well as clashes with the variety sanskaras or personality traits of people whom you come in contact with.

3. Every time you eat or drink something i.e. you nourish the body, along with that sustain the soul with spiritual thoughts, above the mundane or ordinary. These spiritual thoughts could be based on something positive that you have read in the morning at the start of the day.

Message for the day

To know the fruit of efforts will surely come is to remain happy and healthy.

Projection: To know that the fruit of my effort will eventually come one day is to understand the importance of making effort. Once there is this understanding, it becomes easy to continue making effort, which is like nourishment that keeps one happy. So effort is never stopped till what has to be achieved is achieved.

Solution: Knowing that my effort will surely be fruitful makes me enjoy everything I do. It makes me remain happy, keeps me enthusiastic and free from tiredness, even when things are not going right for me. My mental happiness and well being thus keeps me healthy. In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli September 02, 2014

Essence of Murli September 02, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, Brahmins are the topknot and shudras are the feet. When you become Brahmins from shudras, you can then become deities.

Question: What pure feelings do you have that people oppose?

Answer: Your pure feelings are that this old world should end and the new world be established. For this, you say that the destruction of this old world is about to take place, but people oppose even this.

Question: What is the main law of this Court of Indra?

Answer: No impure shudra can be brought to this gathering of the Court of Indra (Indrprasth). If anyone brings someone impure here, that one also accumulates sin.

Blessing: May you be truly loving and remain free from all attractions by your heart imbibing the Father’s love.

The Father gives all the children the same love, but the children imbibe that love according to their own power. No other love attracts those who imbibe the Father’s love in the beginning of the day at amrit vela, because they have God’s love merged in their heart. If you do not completely fill your heart with love, then, because there is space, Maya attracts you with various forms of love. Therefore, be truly loving and remain full of God’s love.

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

Baba’s treasures are unlimited. Fill yourself with whatever you can, and to whatever extent you can. Make yourself so full that there is no lacking in anything and nothing else can penetrate. Have spiritual love for all.

Slogan: Instead of trying to break the rock of problems with the hammer of waste thoughts, take a high jump and become those who overcome the mountain of problems.

 

Points to churn from the slogan:

By releasing the arrows of silence, we, the souls, can bring about greenery in the desert and can even extract water from a hard mountain...with our fingers of determined thought, we finish the iron-aged mountains of problems... we are the intense effort-makers taking a high jump...  we do not keep our feet in the old world of our body and bodily relations, and  close all gates to all attractions and attachments ...we are here but not here...by being beyond the awareness of the corporeal world we do not waste time over trivial matters.... by being the trustees of our bodies and minds, that is, of our thoughts, by giving the Father all our responsibilities, we take a high jump...

 

 

Om shanti. The spiritual Father sits here and explains to you spiritual children. You spiritual children know that you are once again establishing your deity kingdom for yourselves because you are Brahma Kumars and Kumaris. Only you know this. However, Maya still makes you forget this. You wish to become deities, and so Maya makes you into shudras from Brahmins. Because of not remembering Shiv Baba, Brahmins become shudras.

You children know that you are establishing your own kingdom. When the kingdom is established, this old world will not remain. Everyone is sent to the land of peace from this world. These are your pure feelings. However, when you say that this world is about to be destroyed, people will definitely oppose you. They say: What are these Brahma Kumaris saying? They continually speak of destruction.

You know that only in this destruction will there be benefit for Bharat in particular and the world in general. People of the world do not know this. When destruction takes place, everyone will go to the land of liberation. You now belong to the Godly community. Previously, you belonged to the devilish community.

God Himself says to you: Constantly remember Me alone. The Father knows that no one can remain in constant remembrance. If anyone were to be in constant remembrance, his sins would be absolved and he would then reach his karmateet stage. At present, all are effort-makers. Only those who become Brahmins will become deities. From being Brahmins they will become deities.

The Father has explained that Brahmins are the topknot. When children do a somersault, first is the head, the topknot. Brahmins always have a topknot. You are Brahmins. Previously, you were shudras, that is, you were the feet. You have now become Brahmins, the topknot, and you will then become deities. The face is said to represent the deities, the arms are the warriors, the stomach is the merchants and the feet are the shudras. Shudras means those with shudra intellects, degraded intellects. Those who don’t know the Father are said to have degraded intellects.

In fact, they continue to defame the Father even more. This is why the Father says: Whenever there is defamation in Bharat, I come. The Father only speaks to those who are residents of Bharat. Wherever there is extreme irreligiousness...( "Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanir Bhavati Bharat),  the Father comes in Bharat alone. He doesn't come anywhere else.

Bharat alone is the imperishable land. The Father is also imperishable. He never comes into the cycle of birth and death. The Father sits here and gives this knowledge to only you imperishable (avinaashi) souls. This body is perishable (vinaashi). You have now shed the consciousness of the body and have begun to consider yourselves to be souls. The Father has explained: During the festival of Holi, when they cook a "koki" (sweet chappati with a thread through it), the koki gets burnt, but the thread doesn't. The soul can never be destroyed. That example is based on this.

 Human beings do not know that souls are imperishable. They say that souls are immune (nirlep) to the effect of action. The Father says: No, it is souls that perform good and bad actions through their bodies. Souls shed one body and take another and suffer for their actions. So, souls carry those karmic accounts. This is why people in the devilish world experience a lot of sorrow. Their lifespan is also short, but people consider all of that sorrow to be happiness.

You children tell them so much to become viceless, but, nevertheless, they say that they cannot stay without poison. This is because they are the shudra community; they have shudra intellects. You have become Brahmins, the topknot. The topknot is the highest of all; it is even higher than the deities. At this time you are even higher than the deities because you are with the Father. The Father is teaching you at this time. The Father has become your obedient Servant.

A father is the obedient servant of his children. He creates children, takes care of them, educates them and then, when the children have grown up and he has become old, he gives all his property to his children, adopts a guru and steps aside, he goes into the stage of retirement. He adopts a guru in order to go to the land of liberation. However, he cannot go to the land of liberation. Parents take care of their children. For instance, if the mother falls ill, then the father has to clean the child. Therefore, the parents are the servants of the children. They give all their property to their children.

The unlimited Father says: When I come, I do not go to little children. All of you are grown up. I sit here and give you teachings. When you become Shiv Baba's children, you are called BKs. Prior to that, you were shudra kumars and kumaris; you were in the brothel. At present, you are not residents of the brothel. No vicious beings can stay here; they don't have a right. You are BKs. This place is for BKs to stay in.

Some children are very foolish and they don't understand that those who are impure and indulge in vice are called shudras, and that they don't have a right to stay here; they cannot come here. There is the story of the Court of Indra. This is the Court of Indra where there is the rain of knowledge. If any BK secretly allows an impure person to sit in this gathering, then both of them are cursed: May you turn to stone! This is the true Court of Indra. This is not a spiritual gathering of shudra kumars and kumaris.

Deities are pure whereas shudras are impure. The Father comes and makes impure ones into pure deities. You are now becoming pure from impure. So, this is the Court of Indra. If someone brings a vicious person without permission, he receives a lot of punishment and becomes one with a stone intellect. You are becoming those with divine intellects here.

So, those who bring such people are also cursed: Why did you secretly bring a vicious person here? You didn’t even ask Indra (the Father). Therefore, so much punishment is received. These are incognito matters. You are now becoming deities. The laws are very strict. They fall in their stage and they completely turn to stone. They have stone intellects, and they don't even make effort to become those with divine intellects. These matters are incognito and only you children can understand them. BKs stay here, and it is the Father who makes them into deities, that is, He makes those with stone intellects (patthar buddhi) into those with divine intellects (paaras buddhi).

The Father explains to you sweetest children: No one should break any laws. Otherwise, they will be caught by the five vices - lust, anger, greed, attachment and ego. These are the five big evil spirits of half the cycle. You have come here to chase away the evil spirits. Souls that were pure and clean have become impure, unclean, unhappy and diseased. There is a lot of sorrow in this world. The Father comes and rains the rain of knowledge. He only does that through you children. He is creating heaven for you. You alone become deities with the power of yoga. The Father Himself doesn't become that. The Father is the Servant. A teacher is also a servant of the students. He serves them and educates them. The Teacher says: I am your most obedient Servant. Other teachers make them into barristers, engineers etc., and so they are servants.

In the same way, gurus too show the path. They become servants and do the service of taking souls to the land of liberation. However, nowadays, none of those gurus can take anyone there, because they themselves are impure. Only the one Satguru is ever pure. All the gurus themselves are also impure. This whole world is impure. The golden age is called the pure world and the iron age is called the impure world. Only the golden age is said to be full heaven. It is two degrees less in the silver age. You children understand these things and imbibe them. People of the world do not know anything. It isn't that the whole world will go to heaven.

The people of Bharat who were there in the previous cycle will come once again and become deities in the golden and silver ages. Then, in the copper age, they will begin to call themselves Hindus. In fact, even until now, the souls who come down from up above into the Hindu religion also call themselves Hindus. However, they do not become deities, nor do they go to heaven. They will come down at their own time after the copper age begins and will call themselves Hindus.

Only you, who have parts from the beginning to the end, become deities. This is a very big yukti in the drama. This doesn't sit in the intellects of many and so they are unable to claim a high status. This is the story of the true Narayan. Those people tell false stories. No one becomes Lakshmi or Narayan through them. You become that in a practical way here. In the iron age, there is nothing but falsehood. It is said: Maya is false, the body is false.... The kingdom of Ravan is falsehood. The Father is creating the land of truth. Only you Brahmin children know this. However, you also know it numberwise, according to the effort you make, because this is a study.

Those who study very little fail. This study only takes place once. Later, it will be difficult to study. Those who studied in the beginning and then departed having shed their bodies took those sanskars with them. So, they must have come here again and would be studying. However, their names and forms have changed. It is souls that receive whole parts of 84 births which they play through their various names, forms, time periods and places.

Such a tiny soul receives such a big body. There is a soul in every being. Such a tiny soul also exists in a tiny mosquito too. All of these are very subtle matters that have to be understood. Only the children who understand these things well will become beads of the rosary. The rest will claim a status worth a few pennies. Your flower garden is now being created. Previously, you were thorns.

The Father says: The thorn of the vice of lust is very bad. It causes sorrow from its beginning through the middle to the end. The main reason for sorrow is lust. Only by conquering lust will you become conquerors of the world, and it is this that many people find difficult. It is with great difficulty that they become pure. Those who became pure in the previous cycle will become pure again. It is understood who are making effort and who will become the highest-on-high deities. You change from an ordinary man into Narayan and from an ordinary woman into Lakshmi. In the new world, both husband and wife are pure; they are now impure.

When they were pure, they were satopradhan. They have now become tamopradhan. Both have to make effort here. Sannyasis cannot give this knowledge. That religion of the path of isolation is totally separate.

God teaches both men and women here. He says to both: Now, change from shudras into Brahmins and then become Lakshmi and Narayan. Not everyone will become that. There is also the dynasty of Lakshmi and Narayan. No one knows how they claimed their kingdom. It was their kingdom in the golden age.

People understand this, but it has been said that the golden age is hundreds of thousands of years, and so that is ignorance. The Father says: This is a forest of thorns whereas that is a garden of flowers. Before coming here, you were devils, and from devils you are now becoming deities. Who is making you that? The unlimited Father. When it was the kingdom of deities, there was no one else there. Only you understand this. Those who don't understand are said to be impure. This is the gathering of the Brahma Kumars and Kumaris. If people do anything devilish, they curse themselves and they become those with stone intellects.

They are not those with golden intellects, those who become Narayan from an ordinary man. They receive proof of this. They will then go and become third grade maids and servants. Even now, kings have maids and servants. It is remembered that some people's wealth remained buried in the ground.... (Kinki dabi rahegi dhool men, kinki raja khaaye)... There will be incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs too. Death definitely has to come. They are preparing such things that there will be no need for human beings or weapons. Just sitting somewhere, they will be able to release the bombs, and they will spread poison in such a way that it will quickly finish everyone off. So many millions of people will die. This is not a small thing.

 In the golden age, there are so few people. All the rest will have gone to the land of peace which is the residence of us souls. Heaven is in the golden age and hell is in this iron age. This cycle continues to turn. By our becoming impure, this becomes the land of sorrow.

The Father then takes you to the land of happiness. The Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, is now granting salvation to everyone, and so there should be happiness. People are afraid, but they don't understand that it is through death that they will receive liberation and salvation. 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: September 02, 2014: The Value of Silence

Daily Positive Thoughts: September 02, 2014: The Value of Silence

The Value of Silence

Silence means unplugging, disconnecting from the many sources that absorb our energy: problems, worry, pleasing, fear and overload. To be released quickly from all these debilitating socket points, we need to become introspective and quiet. This revitalizes our thoughts.
Every thought we create is energy and it produces its own current, whether negative or positive. In quietness I step inside and I stabilize myself in the thought of that original peace. Then slowly, I begin to feel great. This original current of peace releases me from burden and fear.

The Inner Voice

We all face moral choices in life but it can be easy to ignore the
little voice which is telling you to do the right thing. But learning
to listen to your conscience and developing a strong sense of your own
values will help you develop a feeling of well-being in your life which
will help lift your mood daily. People come under the influence of
other people and they don't even realize what they are doing. Once I
have understood what is right nobody can influence me to do anything
which is not right. If you don't listen to your conscience what is the
point of life? It may as well be a life that is like being dead.

Overcoming Sorrow By Regaining My Original Texture Of Purity

Unless the soul regains its original sanskars of purity, it cannot escape suffering and grief. Purity is the foundation of peace and bliss. And for purity the soul requires the removal of every trace of negativity. Souls are burdened with the accumulated negative sanskars of their previous births, the extent of which varies from soul to soul. According to the law of karma, the soul has to experience suffering as a result of its wrongful acts. A pure soul does not suffer. The evidence that most human beings are bearing sorrow in some form or the other shows that nowadays souls are carrying a load of negative sanskarsresulting from wrong actions committed in this and their past lives.
A question can be asked, "Can a soul be relieved of all its past negative actions through suffering for the same in its present life?" Not really, because due to the cyclic nature of the thought process there is a cumulative effect of negative sanskars which forces the soul to perform more negative actions than it can clear through suffering. That is why the degrees of purity of the soul decrease continuously. The downfall becomes steeper due to the cumulative effect of vices. Negative sanskars give rise to negative thoughts which lead to negative actions, resulting in the formation of still more negative sanskars. Thus, souls are caught in a downward spiral from which they are unable to release themselves. Meditation, however, opens the door to God, and through rising above all physical laws, one can set oneself free from the effects of all wrong actions. Through connection with the purest Supreme Soul, the sanskars of the soul are automatically purified and it moves further towards its original state of purity, peace and bliss.

Soul Sustenance

The Consciousness Switchover

While we have explained in many of our past messages what body consciousness or attachment to physicality is and how it leads to a creation of lot many different types and shades of vices or weaknesses which tend to creep into our sanskaras, thoughts, feelings, attitudes, words, actions, etc. as a result of which we lose access to our pure, positive inherent nature; another process of subtle attachment to physicality that we get drawn into regularly, which leads to the same result, but on a more subtle level, is karma or action consciousness where there is no over consciousness of the physical body but one gets so engrossed in the role one is playing that one becomes role conscious and experiences bondage and burden and mental freedom is lost. As a result our inner comfort and contentment levels drop, others tend to become discontent with us and we become discontent with them, our relationships suffer, the efficiency in our actions drop, even our physical body is affected and we don’t know the reason for the same.

Most of us will experience body consciousness once in a while but we experiencekarma consciousness every day, something which we don’t perceive as negative but it gives a negative result because it is a subtle form of body consciousness, which can accumulate inside us over a period of time and cross the boundaries of subtlety and take a gross form. What is a simple solution for the same? A consciousness switchover from role or karma consciousness to soul consciousness at different points in the day and then returning to playing the part of karma with a revised consciousness. The role remains the same and is to be played, the soul cannot exist without it, but the consciousness is changed.

In tomorrow’s message, we will mention a few very simple methods which help us in doing that.

Message for the day

The one who sacrifices name and fame is the one who gets recognition.

Projection: When we make a positive contribution we usually want to get recognition for it. We might not always say it in words but there is always an expectation that others should recognise our contribution.

Solution: We need to make sure that we enjoy whatever we do. Since the task itself becomes enjoyable for us, we don't anymore expect recognition. The more we become free from expectations we get the love from others and recognition too.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris