Essence of Murli September 05, 2014

Essence of Murli September 05, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, day and night, think, “Baba, Baba” within and you will experience limitless happiness. It will remain in your intellects that Baba is giving you the treasures of Kuber (a very wealthy king).

Question: Which children does Baba call honest flowers? Say what indicates such children.

Answer: Honest flowers are those who never become influenced by Maya. They do not come into conflict (khitpit) through Maya. Even if such honest flowers come last, they make effort to go fast. They keep the aim of going ahead of even the older ones. They stay busy in making effort to remove their defects. They do not see the defects of others.

 

Essence for dharna:

1.      Do not be jealous of anyone. Remove your defects and make effort to become complete. Claim a high status by studying.

2.      Renounce everything including your own body. Do not commit any type of violence. Do not have any arrogance.

Blessing: May you be free from anger by remaining free from selfishness, jealousy and irritation.(swaarth, irsha, chidchidaapan)

You may give your ideas and offer yourself for service, but, after giving your ideas, do not change those ideas into desires. When your thoughts change into desires, there is then irritation. However, give your ideas selflessly, not with selfish motives. Do not think, “This should happen because I said so.” Offer yourself, do not get caught up in “Why”? or “What”? Otherwise, one by one, the companions of jealousy and dislike will also come. Anger arises because of selfishness or jealousy. Now, become free from those.

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

Desires or vaasnaas are the root cause of vices. Vices are all inter-related. Selfishness stems from greed (lobh); jealousy from attachment (moh) and irritation from anger (krodh). Where there is any vice to some extent, other vices will also exist. Anger arises from unfulfilled desires. Become free from the knowledge of desires (ichchaa maatram avidya)

Slogan: Become a messenger of peace (shanti doot) and give everyone peace: this is your occupation.

Points to churn from the slogan:

We, the souls, have our original religion, original form and original home of silence...with the power of silence, we remain stabilized in our original qualification of being the embodiments of peace...by giving rays of peace to the peaceless souls, we make a great donation with the great power of silence... we put this great power of peace into a practical form through our thoughts, words and deeds and become the master bestowers of peace...we are magnets of peace attracting all the souls of the world to the experience of peace... we are the messengers of peace and the instruments for the establishment of the new world, who make giving everyone peace our occupation...

Om shanti.

God Shiva speaks. He is the spiritual Father because Shiva is the Supreme Spirit, the Supreme Soul. Every day, the Father explains new things to you. There are many sannyasis etc. who relate the Gita. They are not able to remember the Father. The word “Baba” cannot emerge from their lips. This word is for those on the family path whereas they belong to the path of isolation. They only remember the element of light. They never say “Shiv Baba”. You can go and check.

When great knowledgeable sannyasis, such as Chiminyananda etc., relate the Gita, it isn't that they consider Krishna to be the God of the Gita or have yoga with him. No; they only have yoga with the element of light. They have knowledge of the brahm element and the elements. It is not possible for anyone to call Krishna “Baba”. Therefore, Krishna is not the Baba who relates the Gita.

Everyone calls Shiva “Baba” because he is the Father of all souls. All souls call out to Him: Supreme Father, Supreme Soul. He is the Supreme, the highest, because He resides in the supreme abode. All of you also reside in the supreme abode but He is called the Supreme Soul. He never takes rebirth. He, Himself, says: My birth is divine and unique. There is no one else who can enter a chariot and show you the way to become the masters of the world. This is why the Father says: No one knows Me as I am or what I am. It is only when I give My own introduction that you can come to know Me.

How can those who believe in the element of light or the elements consider Krishna to be their Father? All souls are children. How could everyone call Krishna “Father”? It cannot be said that Krishna is everyone’s Father and that we are therefore all brothers, or that Krishna is omnipresent. Not everyone can be Krishna. If everyone were Krishna, they would also have to have a father.

Human beings have forgotten everything. Because of them not knowing Him, it is said: Only a few out of multimillions know Me. Anyone can recognize Krishna. People from abroad also know him. They call him Lord Krishna. They also have an image of him, but, in fact, it is not an accurate image. They hear from the people of Bharat that he is worshipped a great deal.

Therefore, it is written in the Gita: God Krishna. Can God be called Lord! They say: “Lord Krishna”. In fact, important people are given the title “Lord’ They give this to many. This is called the city of darkness (andher nagri). They call any impure person a lord. There is such a difference between impure people of today and Shiva or Shri Krishna.

The Father says: The knowledge that I give you now will later disappear. It is I who come and establish the new world and it is I who now give you knowledge. It is only when I give knowledge that you children can listen to it. No one, apart from Me, can relate it. No one even knows it. Can those sannyasis remember Shiv Baba? They cannot even tell others to remember incorporeal God. Have you ever heard them say this? Even many well-educated people don’t understand anything.

The Father now explains that Krishna is not God even though human beings continue to call him God. There is so much difference! The Father sits here and teaches you children. He is the Father, the Teacher and the Guru. Shiv Baba sits here and explains to everyone. Because of not understanding this, they have not shown Shiva in the Trimurti. They portray Brahma, who is called the Father of Humanity, the one who creates people. However, he is not called God. God does not create people, all souls are the children of God. He therefore has to create people through someone.

 Who adopted you? The Father adopted you through Brahma. It is only when you first become Brahmins that you can then become deities. You have never heard this aspect before. The Father of Humanity surely has a part; he surely has to act. Otherwise, where would so many people come from? They cannot be children born through vice. Those brahmins born through vice would say that their surname is “Brahmin”. Everyone’s name is different.

Prajapita Brahma is called by that name only after Shiv Baba enters him. This is a new aspect. The Father Himself says: No one knows Me. No one knows the world cycle either. This is why the rishis and munis all say: Neti, neti. They neither know the Supreme Soul nor the creation of the Supreme Soul. The Father says: Only when I come and give My own introduction can they know Me. Those deities there do not know how they received their kingdom; they don’t have any of this knowledge. Once they have attained their status, there is no need for knowledge.

Knowledge is needed for salvation. They will have already attained salvation. These are very deep matters that have to be understood. Only sensible ones will understand. However, the old mothers etc. do not have as much wisdom. Each one of you has your own part according to the drama plan. They would not say: O God, give me a good intellect! If I were to give everyone the same intellect, everyone would become Narayan.

Would everyone sit on the throne on top of each other? Yes, the aim and objective is to become that. Everyone is making effort to change from an ordinary man into Narayan; they will become that according to their efforts. If you all raised your hands to say that you will become Narayan, the Father would laugh internally. How can everyone become the same? They would all be numberwise. There is Narayan the First, the Second, the Third, just as there is Edward the First, the Second, the Third etc.

Although you have the same aim and objective, each of you can understand for yourself what status you would claim if your activity remains as it is. You definitely have to make effort. Baba brings numberwise flowers, and He could also give them out, numberwise. However, He does not do that because some of you would lose hope (funk).

Baba knows and He also sees which ones are doing more service, which ones are good flowers. Then, all the rest are numberwise. There are many older ones sitting here but there are also some new, good flowers. He would say: This one is a number one honest flower. He does not have any conflict or jealousy etc. Many definitely still have one defect or another. No one can be called complete. You need to make a great deal of effort in order to become 16 celestial degrees full. No one can become complete yet.

Even now, good children have a great deal of jealousy in them. They do have defects. The Father knows what type of effort each of you is making. What do the people of the world know? They do not understand anything. Very few people understand. The poor understand quickly. The unlimited Father has come to teach you. By remembering that Father, your sins will be cut away. We have come to the Father. We will definitely receive the inheritance of the new world from Baba.

It is numberwise, from one hundred to one, but, once you know the Father, once you listen to a little knowledge, you will definitely go to heaven. It is not a small thing to go to heaven for 21 births. It is not like they say when someone dies, that he goes to heaven for 21 births. Where is heaven? There is so much misunderstanding!

Even good and important people say that So-and-so has gone to heaven. They don’t understand what they refer to when they say “heaven.” Only you know this. You are also human beings but you have become Brahmins. You call yourselves Brahmins. You Brahmins have one BapDada.

 Therefore, you could ask the sannyasis: The great versions spoken by God say, “Forget the body and the religions of the body and remember Me alone!” Was it Krishna who said, “Remember Me alone”? Is it Krishna you remember? They would never say “yes”.

There would then be revelation. The poor innocent ones who go to them don’t know anything. They become angry in front of their followers. The name Durvasha (sage known for his anger) is remembered. They have a great deal of arrogance. They have many followers. It is the kingdom of the path of devotion.

No one has the power to question them. Otherwise, you could ask them: You worship Shiv Baba, so whom do you call God? Is God in the pebbles and stones? Later on, they will come to understand all of these things. They now have so much intoxication. All of them are worshippers. They cannot be called worthy of worship.

The Father says: Scarcely a few know Me. Out of you children too, only a few know Me accurately as I am and who I am. Internally, you experience a great deal of happiness. You understand that Baba is giving you the kingdom of heaven. You receive the riches of Kuber. A play about Aladdin’s lamp (Allah Awaldeen) is also shown. When the lamp is rubbed, huge treasures emerge.

Many such plays are shown. There is also a story about what an emperor, whose friend was God, did. He would give his kingdom for a day to the first person who came on to the bridge. All of those are just stories. Now, the Father explains that God is the Friend of you children. He enters this one and eats, drinks and plays with you. The chariot of Shiv Baba and Brahma Baba is one and the same. Therefore, Shiv Baba must also surely be playing with you. When you remember the Father whilst playing, it means that both are in this one. There are two: Bap and Dada.

However, no one understands this. They say that He came in a chariot and so they have portrayed a horse chariot. It cannot be said that Shiv Baba sits in Krishna and gives knowledge. They then say: God Krishna speaks. They do not say: God Brahma speaks”. No; this is the chariot. It is said: God Shiva speaks. The Father sits here and gives you His own introduction and tells you the beginning, the middle and the end of creation and its duration. No one else knows these things. Those who are sensible would use their intellects. Sannyasis have to renounce everything. You also renounce the whole world including your bodies. You understand that those are your old skins and that you have to go to the new world. We souls are not residents of this place. We only come here to play our parts. We are originally residents of the supreme abode. You children also know what the incorporeal tree up there is like. All souls reside there.

This drama is predestined. There are many billions of human souls. Where do they all reside? In the incorporeal world. However, the stars in the sky are not souls. People have even called those stars deities, but they are not deities. We call Shiv Baba, the Sun of Knowledge. Those stars cannot be called deities. So many wrong things have been written in the scriptures. All of that is the paraphernalia of the path of devotion through which you have continued to come down. You will definitely come down if you are to take 84 births. This is the iron-aged world. Satyug is called the golden-aged world. Who resides there? The deities. No one knows where they went.

You understand that they took rebirth. The Father has explained that, whilst taking rebirth, they changed from deities into Hindus; they became impure. No one else’s religion changes in this way. No one knows why their religion changed. The Father says: They became corrupt in their religion and their behaviour. When they were deities, they were pure couples. Then they became impure in the kingdom of Ravan and so they could no longer be called deities. This is why the name Hindu was given. God Krishna did not establish the deity religion. Surely, it must have been Shiv Baba who came and established it. People celebrate the birth of Shiva or the night of Shiva, but they do not know what He did when He came.

There is also the scripture “Shiva Purana”. In fact, there is only the one Gita of Shiva which Shiv Baba spoke. There are no other scriptures. You do not commit any violence. No scripture of yours is created. You go to the new world. There are no scriptures or Gita etc. in the golden age. Who would study them there? People say that the Vedas and scriptures have existed since the beginning of time. They do not know anything. There are no scriptures in heaven. The Father created the deities. They all attained salvation and so there would be no need for them to study scriptures. There are no scriptures there.

The Father has now given you the key of knowledge through which the locks on your intellects have opened. Previously, those locks were completely locked and so you did not understand anything. 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 05, 2014: The Power of Thoughts

Daily Positive Thoughts: September 05, 2014: The Power of Thoughts

The Power of Thoughts

Thoughts are more powerful than actions because they are the creators of actions. You have to keep in mind that the thought-waves of your good wishes and pure feelings, your vibrations of peace and love, can once again bring harmony in nature and happiness in the world.

Look at Specialties

Most of the time, we are caught up in looking at people's negativity.
When we see some negative quality in someone, we immediately make his
specialties a background and start focusing on his negative traits.
The more we think of these negative qualities, the more they occupy the
conscious mind, changing all reactions too. It is natural to be
coloured or influenced by what we see. If we see specialties, we'll
take on a little of that and if we see weaknesses, we'll take on a
little of that too. So we need to make an attempt to look only at
specialties and encourage others too to use their specialties.

Practical Ways of Changing Old Habits or Beliefs (cont.)

Positive Affirmations

Affirmations are promises that we make to ourselves. They are helpful for breaking negative habits or weak thoughts that have been created as a result of mistaken attitudes. Affirmations help to strengthen the mind, although to be effective there must be acceptance and understanding behind them. It is interesting to begin experimenting with them and, later on, we can begin to create variations of new affirmations, according to our individual needs.

Here are some examples:
* Today I will experience peace through positivity. I will see what is good in others and will not think about what is negative or harmful. I will see others in the way I would like them to see me.
* From now on I will not judge others.
* Today I will speak peacefully and share peace with everyone around me. I must speak as softly as I can.
* Today I will make the past the past and look towards the future with a new vision.
* Today I will not react angrily. I will stay calm and in peace and will not sacrifice this for anyone or any situation. I must not allow anything or anyone rob me of my peace.

For the affirmation to be effective, we must repeat it to ourselves often, so that it becomes recorded in our subconscious. It is also important to proclaim the affirmations with feeling, believing in them and not in a monotonous and impersonal voice. As a minimum, you should repeat each affirmation at least five times a day. If we listen to something repeatedly, we begin to believe in it. In reality, this is the origin of the majority of our beliefs, when as children we heard our parents tell us things over and over again. Advertising uses this technique constantly. They create a phrase, a slogan, and repeat it over and over again in the media until, finally, people believe it. To be able to control your life, first you must know and dominate your beliefs. One way of doing this is through affirmations.

(To be continued tomorrow .....)

Soul Sustenance

Understanding Fear And Its Effects

The reason we sometimes cannot see the other options, when faced with a challenging situation, is because our deepest learned habit is to create fear and then react from that fear, and it's fear that shuts down our ability to create choices, not to mention paralyzing our ability to assess the strengths and weakness of each option and make the right choice. We have been taught to believe that the fear is normal and natural. But the truth is that the fear paralyses our ability to create what may be much more appropriate and effective responses. Fear is a learned habit and very soon we are generating fearfulness at the slightest perceived threat. Contrary to popular belief, fear has absolutely no value to our well-being. E.g. You don't even need fear to respond effectively to the unexpected encounter with a thief late at night or an unexpected outburst by your boss in the office. You need the cool, calm and concentrated focus of a gymnast and the creativity of a skilled sculptor to respond effectively. It's not the thief or the boss that scares you, it's what you do with the thief or the boss in your mind that generates the fear. Who or what are such fears in your life? What are you doing with them in your mind?

Message for the day

The beauty of things lie in the ability to appreciate them.

Projection: Nothing is positive or negative in itself, but the one who has the eye for positive things sees only positively even when there is negativity around. Such a person is like a swan, which separates and picks up only pearls from stones.

Solution: When I am looking only at the positive aspects, I am able to remain happy. If I am able to appreciate everything that comes my way, even if it is visibly negative, I find nothing to be a problem, but everything becomes enjoyable for me.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli September 04, 2014

Essence of Murli September 04, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, to follow shrimat constantly is elevated (shreshth) effort. When you follow shrimat, the lamp (deepak) of the soul is ignited.

Question: Who can make full effort (poora-poora purushaarth)? What is the highest effort?

Answer: Only those whose attention, that is, whose intellect’s yoga, is connected to One can make full effort. The highest effort of all is to surrender (kurbaan) yourself to the Father fully. The Father loves the children very much who surrender themselves to Him.

Question: What advice does the unlimited Father give you to celebrate the true Deepawali?

Answer: Children, imbibe unlimited purity. When you become pure in an unlimited way here, when you make the highest effort, you will then be able to go to the kingdom of Lakshmi and Narayan, that is, you will be able to celebrate the true Deepawali which is the coronation day.

Essence for dharna: 

1.   For your own benefit forget all bodily relations. Do not have love for them. Only follow God's directions and not your own. Protect yourself from bad company (kusang )and stay in the company of God (Ishwariya sang).

2.   Anger is very bad; it burns the self. Do not be disobedient under the influence of anger. Remain happy and make effort to make everyone else happy.

Blessing: May you be free from all attachment by imbibing purity, the newness of God’s knowledge.

The newness of this knowledge from God is purity. You say with spiritual intoxication that, although fire and cotton-wool stay together, there cannot be fire. You have challenged the world in that it is not possible to become gyani and yogi souls without having purity. So, purity means to be completely free from attachment. Let there be no attachment to any person or physical facilities. It is only through such purity (pavitrta) that you will be able to do the service of purifying the elements.(prakriti paavan)

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

Different religions have started since the copper age, but no religious leader has mandated followers on the family path to be celibate. This is the task that only the One Almighty Authority can undertake, as He is All Powerful. (Sarvshaktimaan). It is beyond the capacity of human beings. God’s knowledge has that element of newness, that concept of purity that makes it different from other preceptors. He comes with the knowledge that destruction is just ahead, become pure in this last birth and make yourself worthy of entering the gates of heaven and enjoy the peace, purity and prosperity of Paradise.

 

Slogan: Purity is the main foundation of your life. No matter how many adverse situations there may be, you will not let go of your religion.(dharat pariye dharm n chhodiye)

Points to churn from the slogan:

Purity is reality...purity is royalty... the authority of purity is the greatest personality... purity is the foundation, the original religion and the most elevated decoration of Brahmin life... purity is the mother of peace and happiness....By making the dharma of purity our personal dharna in life, we, the souls, become great...by imbibing purity, we experience super sensuous joy and sweet silence...

It is said: Even if you have to face the most difficult situations, you must not let go of your religion (dharma)....By waking up at brahm mahurat and talking very sweetly to the Father, by churning the knowledge in an entertaining manner and with the power of yoga, we, the souls, settle our karmic accounts, in this time of settlement, become free from the bondages of karma, and become karmateet...

We are courageous and enterprising...by making full effort we conquer Maya, create tactics to remain pure, and remain as pure as a lotus flower while living in a household...

 

Om shanti.

What are children doing whilst sitting here? Whilst walking and moving around and whilst sitting here, the sins of many births that you have on your heads are being absolved by your remaining on the pilgrimage of remembrance. The soul knows that the more the soul remembers the Father, the more the sins are cut away. The Father has explained to you very well: Although you are sitting here, only those who follow shrimat like the advice that the Father gives. You receive advice from the unlimited Father to become pure in an unlimited way. You have come here to become pure in an unlimited way and you will become that through the pilgrimage of remembrance. Some are not able to have any remembrance at all. Some understand that they are cutting away their sins through the pilgrimage of remembrance, that is, they are benefitting themselves.

People outside do not know these things. Only you have found the Father. You stay with the Father. You know that you have now become the children of God, whereas previously, you were devilish children. You now keep the company of the children of God. It is sung: Good company takes you across and bad company drowns you. (sang tare kusang duboye) You children repeatedly forget that you are the children of God and that you should therefore only follow God's directions and not your own dictates. Human dictates are said to be the dictates of the mind. Human dictates (manushya mat) can only be devilish.

The children who want to benefit themselves continue to remember the Father very well in order to become satopradhan. Those who are satopradhan are praised. You know that you truly do become the masters of the land of happiness, numberwise. The more you follow shrimat, the higher the status you claim, whereas the more you follow your own dictates, accordingly, your status will be destroyed. You continue to receive the Father's directions for your own benefit.

The Father has explained that this is also effort. To the extent that you remember the Father, so your sins are cut away. Without staying on the pilgrimage of remembrance, you won't be able to become pure. Whilst walking and moving around, just have this one concern. You children have been receiving these teachings for so many years, and yet you understand that you are very far away.

You are unable to remember the Father that much. It will take a lot of time to become satopradhan. So, if in the middle of that, you shed your body, your status will be low for cycle after cycle. You now belong to God and so you should make effort to claim your full inheritance from Him. Your intellects should remain in only one direction. You now receive shrimat. He is God, the Highest on High. If you don't follow His directions, you will be deceived a great deal. Whether you follow them or not, only you and Shiv Baba know.

It is Shiv Baba who inspires you to make effort. All bodily beings make effort. This one is also a bodily being and Shiv Baba is inspiring him to make effort. It is you children who have to make effort. The main thing is to make impure ones pure. In the world, there are many who are pure. Sannyasis too remain pure, but they only become pure for one birth. There are many who have been celibate from birth in this life but they cannot help the world with purity. Help can only be given when you become pure according to shrimat and also make the world pure. You are now receiving shrimat. For birth after birth, you have been following devilish dictates. You now know that the land of happiness is being established. The more effort we make, according to shrimat, the higher the status we will claim.

These are not the directions of Brahma; he is an effort-maker. His efforts are definitely very high. This is how he becomes Narayan. Therefore, you children have to follow his directions. You have to follow shrimat and not the dictates of your own minds. You have to ignite the light of your soul. Deepawali is now coming, but there is no Deepawali in the golden age; there is just the coronation there. The souls will have become satopradhan.

 The Deepmala that is celebrated now is false. They ignite lamps outside, but lamps would be ignited there in every home, that is, every soul there is satopradhan. The poured oil of knowledge lasts for 21 births. Then, they gradually diminish, until now when the lights of the whole world are extinguished (ujhaai) . In this, too, in Bharat in particular and the world in general, all are now sinful souls. It is the time of settlement (qayaamat ka samay) for everyone.

Everyone has to settle their karmic accounts (hisaab-kitaab). You children now have to make effort to claim the highest-on- high status. You will only claim that by following shrimat. In the kingdom of Ravan, Shiv Baba has been disobeyed a lot. If, even now, you don't obey His orders, you will be deceived a great deal. You have called out to Him to come and make you pure. So, now, in order to benefit yourself, you have to follow Shiv Baba’s shrimat. Otherwise, there will be a great loss.

You sweetest children also know that you cannot become completely pure without having remembrance of Shiv Baba. You have been here for so many years, but, in spite of that, why are you unable to imbibe knowledge? Only when you have a golden vessel can you imbibe. New children become so serviceable. Look how much  difference there is! Older children don't stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance as much as the newer ones do.

Many very good, beloved children of Shiv Baba come and do so much service. It is as though those souls have surrendered themselves to Shiv Baba. By surrendering themselves, they then also do so much service. They are so sweet and loving. They are helping the Father by staying on the pilgrimage of remembrance. The Father says: Remember Me and you will become pure. You called out to Me to come and purify you. Therefore, the Father says: Now continue to remember Me. You have to renounce all bodily relations. Even your friends and relatives should not be remembered - no one except the one Father. Only then will you be able to claim a high status. If you don't have remembrance you won't be able to claim a high status.

BapDada can understand this. You children also understand. New ones who come realize that, day by day, they are improving. It is only by following shrimat that you are reformed. By making effort to conquer anger, you will gradually gain victory. The Father also explains: Continue to remove the defects. Anger is very bad: it burns you inside and it also burns others; it has to be removed. When children don't follow the Father's shrimat, their status is lowered, and a loss is incurred for birth after birth, cycle after cycle. (janm janmaantar, kalp-kalpaantar)

You children know that that is a physical (jismaani) study whereas this is a spiritual (ruhaani) study which the spiritual Father teaches. Care has to be taken in every way. No vicious beings can come here to Madhuban. If, at times of illness, your friends and relatives, who indulge in vice come, that isn't good either. We would not like that, because those friends and relatives would be remembered in the final moments. Then, you would not be able to claim a high status.

The Father continues to inspire you to make effort. No one should be remembered. It should not be that, because you are ill, you expect your friends and relatives to come and visit you. No, it is not the system to invite them. It is only by following the systems that salvation is received. Otherwise, you cause yourself a loss unnecessarily. However, those with tamopradhan intellects do not understand this. God advises them and they still do not reform themselves! You have to move along here with great caution.

This is the holiest of holy places. Impure ones cannot stay here. If you remember your friends and relatives, then, at the time of dying, they would definitely be remembered. By becoming body conscious, you only cause yourself a loss and this also becomes a cause of punishment. By not following shrimat, you cannot become worthy of doing service for there is great degradation. No matter how much you beat your heads, you cannot become worthy of doing service. If you are disobedient, you will become those with stone intellects. Instead of climbing up, you would fall.

The Father would say: You children should become obedient. Otherwise, your status will be destroyed. A physical father has four to five children, but, in that too, he has love for those who are obedient. Those who are not obedient would only cause sorrow. You children have now found two very great fathers; you must not disobey them. If you are disobedient, you receive a very low status for birth after birth and cycle after cycle. Make such effort that only one Shiv Baba is remembered at the end. The Father says: I can know what effort each one of you is making. Some have very little remembrance. Others simply continue to remember their friends and relatives. They cannot remain happy or claim a high status.

For you, it is the day of the Satguru every day. Children are admitted into college on a Thursday, the day of Jupiter (Brihaspati). That is physical knowledge, whereas this is spiritual knowledge. You know that Shiv Baba is our Father, Teacher and Satguru, and so you should follow His directions, for only then will you be able to claim a high status. Those who are effort-makers have so much happiness inside them, don't even ask! If you have happiness, you make effort to make others happy.

Look how much effort some daughters continue to make day and night because this knowledge is wonderful. BapDada has mercy because some children cause themselves so much loss through not understanding. They become body conscious and are very jealous inside. People in anger become as red as copper. Anger burns human beings and lust makes them ugly. They don't burn as much through attachment or greed; they burn with anger. Many have the evil spirit of anger; they fight so much! By fighting, they only cause themselves a loss. They disobey both the Incorporeal and the corporeal. The Father understands that they are unworthy.

If you make effort you will claim a high status. So, for your own benefit, you have to forget all your relationships. Do not remember anyone except the one Father. Whilst living at home and seeing your relatives, only remember Shiv Baba. You are now at the confluence age. Now remember your new home, the land of peace. This is an unlimited education. The Father gives you teachings and there is benefit for you children in that. Some children cause harm to themselves unnecessarily through their unlawful behaviour. You are making effort to claim the sovereignty of the world, but Maya, the cat, cuts off your ears. You have taken birth, and you say that you will claim that status, but Maya, the cat, doesn’t allow you to claim it and so your status is destroyed. Maya attacks you very forcefully. You come here to claim a kingdom, but Maya harasses you.

The Father feels mercy and feels that it would be good if the poor children were to claim a high status, that they should not become those who defame Me. Those who defame the Satguru cannot claim a high status. (Satguru ka nindak thhour n paaye) Whose defamation is it? That of Shiv Baba. Your behaviour should not be such that the Father is defamed. There is no question of arrogance in this. 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 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.