Essence of Murli August 28, 2014

Essence of Murli August 28, 2014:

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

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

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

Essence for dharna:

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

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

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

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

Today, from the blessing we also can infer:

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

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

Points to churn from the slogan:

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

 

Om shanti.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The spiritual children says namaste to the spiritual Father.

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 28, 2014: Cheerfulness

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 28, 2014: Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness

 

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

 

See Positivity

 

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

Quality Transformation

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

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

(To be continued tomorrow .... )

 

Soul Sustenance

 

Experiencing The Light, Power And Love Of The Spiritual Sun

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

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

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

Message for the day

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

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

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

In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 27, 2014

Essence of Murli August 27, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, I, your bodiless (Videhi) Father, am teaching you bodily beings (dehdhaari)  in order to make you bodiless. This is a new thing which only you children understand.

Question: Why does Baba repeatedly (baar-baar) need to explain the same thing to you children?

Answer: It is because you children repeatedly (ghadi-ghadi) forget. Some (koi-koi) children say: Baba is explaining the same things over and over again. Baba says: Children, I definitely have to say the same things because you forget. The storms of Maya distress you. If I did not caution (khabardaar) you every day, you would be defeated by the storms of Maya. You have not yet become satopradhan. When you do become that, Baba will stop speaking knowledge to you. 

Essence for dharna:

1.      Only look at the soul with the third eye of knowledge. Do not look at anything with your physical eyes. Practice becoming bodiless.

2.      Make your character divine by having remembrance of the Father. Ask your heart: To what extent have I become virtuous? Did I have any devilish behaviour at all during the day?

Blessing: May you be a master of the self (swrajya adhikaari) and make all treasures your own with the awareness of being a child and a master.

At this time, you children are not just children, but you are the children who are also the masters. Firstly, you are masters of the self and, secondly, you are the masters of the Father’s inheritance. Since you are masters of the self, all your physical senses should be under your control. However, from time to time, the mind makes you forget the awareness of your being a master and controls you. Therefore, the Father’s mantra is manmanabhav. By remaining in the stage of manmanabhav you will not be influenced by anything wasteful but will experience all the treasures to be yours.

Baba says, there is an interplay between the child and the master. In your relationship with the Supreme Soul, the Parmaatma, you are a child; in the relationship with your body you are a master- you are in charge, you are in control. When you are in a gathering, become a child, and when it comes to presenting your point of view or ideas become a master. The mind keeps on wandering; it is a child; be a master and bring it back to awareness, bring it back to the stage of remembrance; master your thoughts; master your physical organs, and you become a self-sovereign; then, the Father’s unlimited treasures are for you to take as much as you can, according to your capacity; become a child and fully enjoy them.

Slogan: To celebrate the pleasure (mauj manaana) of the flying stage in the swing of God’s love (muhabbat) is the most elevated fortune of all.

Points to churn from the slogan:

We, the souls, are the gopes and gopis of Gopi Vallabh who remember the Heavenly God Father with a lot of intoxication...we swing in the swing of love by saying My Baba from the heart and belonging to the Father....we are the natural yogis who get lost in love and absorbed in love of the Father... by finishing the mischief in our mind, the wandering of our intellect and the old sanskars, we swing on the swing of super sensuous joy...we are the heirs, the children of God in the flying stage, equal to the Father, who have the elevated fortune of  constantly being the Father’s helpers (Khudaai khidmatgaar)

 

Om shanti.
This is called a unique (vichitr)  spiritual study. Even in the new world of the golden age, it will be bodily beings who teach one another. Everyone teaches knowledge. It is taught here too. All of those bodily beings teach one another. You would never have heard that it is the bodiless Father or the spiritual Father who is teaching. Even in the scriptures they have written, "God Krishna speaks". He too is a bodily being. On hearing this new thing, people become confused. You too understand, numberwise, according to the effort you make, that the spiritual Father is teaching us spirits. This is something new.

It is only at this confluence age that the Father Himself comes and tells you: I teach you through this one. That One is the Ocean of Knowledge, the Ocean of Peace and the Father of all souls. This is something to be understood.

There is nothing to see. The soul is the main thing and it is imperishable whereas the body is perishable. That imperishable soul sits here and teaches you. Although you see a corporeal body in front of you, you know that it is not the bodily being who is giving you knowledge. It is the bodiless Father who is giving you knowledge. How does He give that? You understand this too. People understand this with great difficulty.

You have to beat your heads so much to enable them to have this faith. Those people say that the incorporeal One has no name, form, time or place. (naam, roop, kaal, desh)That Father Himself sits here and teaches you. He says: I am the Father of all souls. You cannot see Him. You understand that He is bodiless. He is the Ocean of Knowledge, Bliss and Love. How would He teach you?

The Father Himself explains how He comes and whose support He takes. I do not take birth through a womb (garbh). I never become a human being or a deity. Even deities adopt bodies. I always remain bodiless. I alone have the part in the drama of never taking rebirth. So, this is something to be understood. I am not visible. Those people think that it is God Krishna who speaks. Look at the type of chariot that they have created on the path of devotion. The Father says: Children, you are not confused? If you don't understand something, come and understand it from the Father.

In fact, the Father continues to explain everything to you without your asking Him. You don’t need to ask anything. I only incarnate at this most auspicious confluence age. My birth is wonderful. You children also find it a wonder. He enables you to pass such an important examination. He is teaching you to make you into the greatest masters of the world.

This is something wonderful. O souls, I come to serve you every 5000 years. I am teaching you souls. I come at the confluence age of every cycle in order to serve you. For half the cycle, you have been calling out: O Baba, o Purifier, come! Krishna is not called the Purifier. Only the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, is called the Purifier. (Param Pita Parmaatma Patit-Paavan)  So, Baba has to come here to purify the impure ones.

This is why it is said: The Immortal Image (Akaalmoort) of the true Baba, the Immortal Image of the true Teacher and the Immortal Image of the true Satguru. Sikhs have very good slogans. However, they don’t know when the Satguru, the Immortal Image, comes. It is remembered that it didn't take God long to change human beings into deities. (manushya se devta kiye karat n laagi vaar) When does He come to change human beings into deities? He alone is the One who grants salvation to everyone. You should have this firm faith. What does He come and say? He simply says: Manmanabhav! He also explains the meaning of that. No one else explains its meaning. The Satguru, the Immortal Image, sits here and explains to you through this body: Consider yourself to be a soul.

So, you should understand this. The Father has to come here to serve you children in order to make you into the masters of the world. He explains: O spiritual children, you were satopradhan and you then became  tamopradhan. This world cycle continues to turn. There was the pure world of only those deities. Where did all of them go? No one knows this; they are confused. The Father comes and makes you sensible.

Children, I only come once. Why should I come into the pure world? Death cannot come there. The Father is the Death of all Deaths. (Kaalon ka Kaal)There is no need for Him to come into the golden age. Neither Death (Kaal) nor the Great Death (Mahakaal) come there. He comes and takes all souls back. You go back in happiness. Yes Baba! We are ready to go back happily with You. This is why we called out to You: Take us from this impure world to the pure world via the land of peace. Do not repeatedly forget these things.

However, Maya, the enemy is standing here. She repeatedly makes you forget. I am the Master the Almighty Authority, but Maya too is almighty. She rules over you for half the cycle and makes you forget. This is why the Father has to explain  to you every day. If Baba were not to caution you every day, Maya would cause a lot of damage. This is a play of the pure and the impure. The Father now says: Become pure in order to reform your behaviour.

There are so many battles because of the vice of lust. The Father says: You have now received the third eye of knowledge and so only look at souls. Do not even look at anything with your physical eyes. All of us souls are brothers. How can we indulge in vice? We came bodiless and we have to become bodiless and return home. The soul came here satopradhan and he has to become satopradhan and return to the sweet home. The main thing is purity. People say: It is fine that the same thing is explained every day. However, they should at least follow all the things that are explained to them. They are explained to you so that you can put them into practice, but hardly anyone follows them, and this is why Baba has to explain every day.

You don't say: Baba, we have understood very well what You explain to us every day and we will now become satopradhan from tamopradhan. You are now free! Do you say this? Therefore, Baba has to explain every day. There is just the one thing, but you don't do that. You don't even remember the Father.

You say: Baba, I forget You repeatedly. The Father has to tell you repeatedly in order to remind you to have remembrance. This is what you have to explain to one another: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Supreme Soul and your sins will be cut away. There is no other method. This is what He says at the beginning and at the end. It is only through remembrance that you can become satopradhan.

You yourself write: Baba, the storms of Maya make me forget You. So, should the Father not caution you? Should He just leave you alone? The Father knows that you are numberwise according to effort. You cannot return until you become satopradhan.

This also has a connection with the war. The war will begin when you become satopradhan, numberwise, according to your efforts. Knowledge is of just a second. You have found the unlimited Father, but only when you become pure will you receive unlimited happiness from Him. You have to make effort very well.

Some don't understand anything at all; they don’t even have the sense to remember the Father. They have never studied this study. Throughout the cycle no one has ever studied with the incorporeal Father. So, this is something new. The Father says: I come every 5000 years to make you satopradhan. Until you become satopradhan, you cannot attain that status.

 Just as students fail in other studies, students fail here too. They don’t understand at all what will happen by remembering Shiv Baba. He is the Father and so you would definitely receive the inheritance of heaven from Him. The Father only explains to you once and you become deities through that. You become deities and then everyone else will come here, numberwise, to play their parts.

Not all of these things can sit in the intellects of the old mothers. So, the Father says: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father. That is all. That Shiv Baba is the Father of all souls. Everyone has his or her own physical father. Shiv Baba is incorporeal.

While remembering Him you will become pure, shed your body and reach the Father. The Father explains a lot, but not all of you understand to the same extent. Maya makes you forget. This is called a battle. The Father sits here and explains to you so well. He reminds you of so many things. Make a list of the main mistakes that have been made. One is of the Father being omnipresent. God speaks: I am not omnipresent.

It is the five vices that are omnipresent. This is a very severe mistake. Krishna is not the God of the Gita. It is the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, Shiva, who is that. Put these mistakes right and you will become deities. However, no child has yet written to Baba saying that he explained to others that it is because of these mistakes that Bharat has become impure from pure. This too has to be told to them. How can God be omnipresent? God is One and He is the Supreme Father, the Supreme Teacher and the Supreme Satguru.

No bodily being can be called the Supreme Father, Teacher and Satguru. Krishna is the highest in the whole world. He comes when the world is satopradhan, and then Rama comes when the world is sato. Then others come down, numberwise, at their own time. In the scriptures, they show that the throat of Shankar became blue on taking in everyone's vices.

However, even now, while explaining these things, your throat dries up. It is such a small matter, but Maya is so powerful (rustam)! Each one of you can ask your heart: Have I become virtuous and satopradhan? The Father explains: You cannot reach your karmateet stage until destruction takes place, no matter how much you beat your heads. Sit and remember Shiv Baba the whole time. Do not even talk of anything else. That is all.

Baba, I will definitely attain the karmateet stage before the war takes place. It is not possible in the drama for someone like that to emerge. Only one person will claim the first number. Even this one says: I have to beat my head so much. Maya comes even more powerfully. This Baba himself says: Shiv Baba is sitting right next to me, but, in spite of that, I am unable to remember Him; I forget Him. I understand that Shiv Baba is with me, but, even then, I have to remember Him in the same way as you do. It isn't that because I am with Him, I become happy with just that; no. He tells me too: Remember Me constantly! You are with Me and you are powerful, but you will have even  more storms. How else would you be able to explain to the children? All of these storms will pass by you.

Even while sitting so close to Him, I am unable to reach the karmateet stage, so who else would become like that? This destination is very high. According to the drama, everyone continues to make effort. Let someone make that effort and show this: Baba, I will show you by becoming karmateet before you. That is not possible. This drama is predestined. You have to make a lot of effort. The main thing is your character. There is so much difference between the character of the deities and that of impure human beings. It is Shiv Baba who makes you viceless from vicious. So, you now have to make effort and remember the Father. Do not forget Him. The poor innocent mothers are under the influence of others, that is, they are under Ravan's influence. So, what can they do? You are under the influence of God Rama.

Those people are under the influence of Ravan. This war continues, but there isn't a war between Rama and Ravan. The Father explains to you children in different ways every day: Sweetest children, continue to reform yourselves. Look at your chart every night: Did I have any devilish behaviour throughout the day?

Flowers in a garden are numberwise. No two flowers can ever be the same. All souls have received their own parts. Every actor continues to play his or her own part. The Father comes and definitely carries out the task of establishment and only then does He return. He definitely comes every 5000 years and makes you into the masters of the world. He is the unlimited Father and so He would surely give you the inheritance of the new world. Achcha.

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

The spiritual children says namaste to the spiritual Father.

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 27, 2014: Think Big

Daily Positive Thoughts: August 27, 2014: Think Big

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Think Big

Rise above little things. Be a big thinker. You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, dream big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, image big, love big, live big. Carry that list and you'll start feeling big. Be a believer and you'll be an achiever.

The Art of Listening

When I hear something negative about someone, I usually get influenced
by it. In spite of the fact that I may not have had any negative
experience myself, I still tend to get influenced negatively. This
brings about a change in my attitude and behaviour towards that person.
I need to learn the art of listening which enables me to respond in the
right way. When someone describes something, which involves the
negativity of another person, instead of getting influenced by it, I
need to understand his feelings and emotions at that time. When I do
this I will be able to provide support to him without adding my own
negativity to it.

The Negative Shade Of Respect In Relationships (cont.)

In yesterday's message, we had looked at the incorrect and negative side of respect (the energy of fear) in relationships. Today we look at this kind of relationship from that person's perspective from whom respect is demanded. When the boss or the parent or the spouse (please refer to yesterday's message) tries to induce respect inside you for him or her, in return you fear him or her, most of the time thinking it is respect. But, at that point, you need to remember it is impossible to give respect to another if we, at the back of our own minds, fear them. If you are scared of someone or something, it means there is an absence of self-respect, there is a lack of a true realization of your own value, your specialties, your skills and the virtues and powers that you possess. And if you do not respect yourself, you cannot truly respect another. It is only when you are firmly established in your own self-respect that you have no fear of others and are then capable of giving genuine respect to others. Sometimes we are not comfortable with being seen as fearful, because our image will take a beating, so we try to avoid admitting we fear someone by saying we respect them, but internally we are in awe of that person and being in awe is not respecting him or her.

Many a times, two prominent people e.g. two actors or politicians or sportsmen are not on good terms. They accuse and bring down each other publicly and are known enemies in the press. While they do that, they also carry a subtle fear of each other, a fear that the other will outperform them; the other will be more popular, the other will be more powerful etc. This normally happens because of a lack of self-respect. They both will probably hide that and will pretend that they are confident and established in their self-respect. But if their self-respect were genuine, they would not be scared of each other, and they would have the courage and the patience to talk and work with each other and listen to and offer the hand of friendship to each other, whom they perceive to be an enemy. But when they don't have the strength of their own self-respect and when they are unaware of their lack of self-respect, subtle fear for the other creeps in, which they don't realize and if they realize, they do not admit the same. And that's why the restoration of self-respect is only possible when the ego is recognized and no longer nourished. Because, fear always comes from the ego and ego is nothing but an excessive attachment to one's false image.

Soul Sustenance

Self Responsibility (cont.)

Because we have forgotten the principle of karmic returns (discussed yesterday), we have learned to avoid taking responsibility for many of our actions. We fail to see the impact of our actions upon others and we fail to see that the real meaning of responsibility is 'responding correctly'. Life can be seen as a series of responses which we each create in our interactions with other people and events. As is the quality of our ability to respond (energy given), so will be the quality of the return (energy received). The Laws ofKarma also serve to remind us that the situations in our life, the quality of our body, wealth, relationships etc. and the type of person we are today are the result of what we thought and did yesterday, last month, last year, perhaps in our last birth. Many people do not like this idea or find it difficult to accept because most of us have been taught that our destiny lies in someone else's hands or in the hands of fate or luck, about which we can do nothing. The Law of Karma or the Law of Reciprocity teaches us that there is no such thing as luck and that whatever happens to us today is the result of our positive or negative actions in the past. If you spend a few moments reflecting on events in your life, without being judgmental, you will begin to see connections between actions and results, causes and effects. When you see how all effects have their causes, you will then be convinced that this universal law is at work in your life at all times.

Message for the day
To be a donor means to give at each step and increase one's own stock.

Projection: Usually it seems very difficult to be a donor - to give from whatever resources we have. The thought often arises in the mind that we cannot give because we are ourselves not complete or full. We find ourselves constantly trying to fill ourselves and we then have no time or thought for giving to those around us.

Solution: We have a lot of treasures within us which we can give to those around us, our virtues, our specialities etc. Even if we have just a little and give to the others, we will find ourselves benefitting. For having given from whatever we have, we find that these treasures begin to increase within ourselves too.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris

Essence of Murli August 26, 2014

Essence of Murli : August 26, 2014:

Essence: Sweet children, stay in remembrance of the one Father while working. Remember the Father and the home while walking and moving around. This is your act of courage.(bahaduri)

Question: When and how is there regard and disregard for the Father?

Answer: When you children remember the Father very well, you are giving Him regard. If you say that you don’t have time to remember the Father, you are disregarding Him. Actually, you are disregarding yourself and not the Father. Do not only become well known (naamigraami) for giving lectures but become well known for having the pilgrimage of remembrance. Keep a chart of your remembrance. It is through remembrance that you souls will become satopradhan.

 

Essence for dharna:

 

1.   In order to take power(shakti) from the Almighty Authority Father, (Sarvshakimaan) increase your chart of remembrance. Create different methods to have remembrance. Sit in solitude and accumulate an extra income for yourself.

2.   Be concerned (ona) about becoming satopradhan. Do not make mistakes.(gaflat) Do not become arrogant.(ahankaar) Be interested (shawk) in doing service. Together with that, stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance.(yaad ki yaatra)

Blessing: May you be a true yogi and a true server (sevadhaari) and with the awareness (smriti) of the one word “Baba” remain engaged in remembrance and service.

You children repeatedly say “Baba” through your lips and in your mind. Since you are the children, to remember or think of the word “Baba” is yoga and to say again and again, “Baba said this” or “Baba says this,” is service. However, some use the word “Baba” from their hearts (dil) whereas others use it on the basis of knowledge from their heads (dimaag). Those who say it from their hearts constantly experience instant attainment (pratyaksh praapti) in the form of happiness and power, whereas those who use the word from their heads experience happiness only at that time of speaking and not at all times.(sadaakaal)

Today’s murli is about remembrance. Baba says, be sincere in your efforts; put your hearts in service and in remembrance. You are an instrument, so give the credit to Baba for using you as an instrument to do service and acknowledge Him... The Lord is pleased with an honest heart (sachche dil par sahib raazi) . Lip service can be done by many; many say, do what I say, not what I do. That is not practicing what you are preaching. You will not be able to give an experience to others of what you are teaching. Rewards are based on the truth within the self.

Slogan: Someone who sacrifices the self to God, the Flame (Shama), is a true moth (parvaana).

Points to churn from the slogan:

 We, the souls remember Alpha with a lot of love, and surrender to the Flame...we are the number one moths (parvaane),  the light houses and might houses equal to the Flame (shama)...we adopt the form and powers that are equal to the Father’s, merge all the Father’s treasures within ourselves, that is, we merge in the Father and totally die alive...we do not have concern for ourselves, that is, we have no concern of body consciousness, of day or night, of hunger or thirst, of our own physical comforts, of rest or of anything else...we are the form of light and might, ignorant of the knowledge of desire, who die alive and are constantly merged in the love for the Flame...

The spiritual Father explains to you spiritual children. The cycle of 84 births is explained to you. This is the knowledge which you children have studied for many births and have continued to imbibe. This is absolutely easy; it is not something new.

The Father sits here and explains how many births and rebirths (punarjanm) you have taken from the golden age till the end of the iron age. This knowledge is already in your intellects in an easy way. This is a study. You also have to understand the beginning, middle and end (adi, madhya, ant) of creation. No one, except the Father, can explain this.

The Father says: The pilgrimage of remembrance (yaad ki yaatra), which is also called yoga, is even more elevated than this knowledge. The word (akshar) “yoga” is very famous,(mashoor) but this yoga is the pilgrimage of remembrance. People who go on pilgrimages say that they are going on a pilgrimage to such-and-such a pilgrimage place. They go to Shrinath or Amarnath, and they remember those places.

Similarly, you now understand that the spiritual Father teaches you a very long pilgrimage of remembrance. He says: Remember Me! People return from those pilgrimages. This is a pilgrimage where you have to go and reside in the land of liberation. Although you have to play parts, they will not be in this old world. You have disinterest in this old world. This is the dirty kingdom of Ravan. Therefore, the main aspect is the pilgrimage of remembrance. Some children don’t even understand how to have remembrance. Whether someone has remembrance or not is not visible.

The Father says: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember Me, your Father. This is not something that is visible. It cannot be known to what extent someone stays in the stage of the pilgrimage of remembrance. Only that individual would know that. This method has been shown to many. The Benefactor Father has explained: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember Shiv Baba.

By all means, continue to do your service. For example, there are children on security duty: they walk around, and it’s very easy for them to stay in remembrance. You should not remember anything other than the Father. The Father explains to you using examples. You have to keep coming and going on this pilgrimage of remembrance. Just as Christian priests   walk in silence, so you children also have to remember the Father and the home with a lot of love.

This destination is very high. Devotees also continue to make this effort. However, they don’t know that they have to return home. They think that they will return when the iron age finishes. There is no one to teach them, whereas you children are being taught. When you are on security duty, the more you remain in solitude and remember the Father, the better it will be. It is by having remembrance that your sins are cut away. There is a burden of sins of many births on your heads.

Those who become satopradhan first are also the ones who go into the kingdom of Rama first. Therefore, they are the ones who have to remain on the pilgrimage of remembrance the most. This is a question of each and every cycle and so they have a good chance to stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance.

Here, there is no question of fighting or quarrelling. As you come and go and as you sit, you can carry out the two tasks at the same time - keep watch and also remember the Father. Continue to remember the Father while performing actions. Those on security duty experience the most benefit. Whether it is day or night, those on security duty can benefit a great deal if they imbibe the habit of staying in remembrance. The Father has given you very good service to do - security duty and the pilgrimage of remembrance. You receive a chance to stay in remembrance of the Father.

You are shown many different methods to stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance. You are not able to stay in remembrance outside, in your business etc., as much as you are able to here. Therefore, you come to Madhuban to be refreshed. So, go into solitude in the mountains, sit on a rock and stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance. It does not matter if one goes or if two or three others go. There is a very good chance here to do this. The main thing is remembrance of the Father.

The ancient yoga of Bharat is very famous. You now understand that your sins are cut away with this pilgrimage of remembrance; you will become satopradhan. Therefore, you have to make very good effort in this. To demonstrate staying in remembrance of the Father while working is an act of courage.

You definitely have to perform actions because you belong to the household path. Let there be the Father’s remembrance while living at home with your family and doing business etc. There is a great deal of income in this for you. Although it does not enter the intellects of some children, the Father continues to tell you to keep a chart. Some write their chart for a little while. The Father shows you many methods. Children want to come to Baba. You can earn a great deal of income here. The solitude here is very good. The Father sits here and personally explains to you: Remember Me and your sins will be cut away, because there are the sins of many births on your heads.

Many fights and quarrels take place due to vice; there are many obstacles. Some say: Baba they won’t let us remain pure. The Father says: Child, stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance and remove the burden of your sins of many births from your head. Continue to remember Shiv Baba while sitting at home. You can have remembrance wherever you are sitting. You can practice this wherever you live. Whoever comes, give them this message: The Father says: Consider yourself to be a soul and remember the Father. This is called the power of yoga. Power means strength, shakti. The Father is called the Almighty Authority. So, how can you receive that power from the Father?

The Father Himself says: Remember Me! While coming down, you have become tamopradhan, and so that power has now completely finished. There is not even a pennyworth left. There are some among you who explain this very well and who remember the Father. Therefore, you have to ask yourself what your chart is like. The Father tells all the children that the pilgrimage of remembrance is the main thing. It is through remembrance that your sins will be cut away. Even if there is no one to caution you, you can still remember the Father. Even if you live alone abroad, you can still stay in remembrance.

For instance, if you are a married couple and your wife is elsewhere, you can write and tell her:  Simply remember one thing: remember the Father and your sins of many births will be burnt. Destruction is standing ahead. The Father continues to explain many good methods, but whether you do it or not is up to you. You children understand that the advice the Father gives is very good. Our duty is to give the message to everyone, our friends, relatives and whomsoever we meet. Whether they are your friends or whoever they are, you should be interested in doing service.

You have pictures as well as a badge. They are very good things. This badge can make anyone into Lakshmi or Narayan. You have to explain the picture of the Trimurti very well. The One above them is Shiva. Those people make an image of the Trimurti; they do not show an image of Shiva above it. Because of them not knowing Shiva, the boat (beda) of Bharat has sunk. Now, only through Shiv Baba can the boat of Bharat go across.

 They call out: “O Purifier, come and purify us impure ones”. Yet they say that He is omnipresent! This mistake is worth pennies. The Father sits here and explains to you the way to give lectures. The Father continues to give you directions about how to do service and open museums. Then, many will come.

A circus goes to many big cities. They have so much equipment. People from many villages go to see them. This is why the Father says: Build such a beautiful museum that people become happy when they see it and tell others about it. It is also explained that whatever service takes place, it happened as it did in the previous cycle. However, you have to have a great deal of concern about becoming satopradhan. It is in this that children make mistakes. Maya also creates obstacles in this pilgrimage of remembrance. Ask your heart: Do I have that much interest? Do I make effort? Knowledge is a common matter. No one, except the Father, can explain the cycle of 84 births.

However, the pilgrimage of remembrance is the main thing. At the end, no one except the one Father should be remembered. The Father continues to give you full directions. The main aspect is to remember Baba. You can explain to anyone. Whoever they are, you can explain the badge to them. No one else has such a significant medal. Those in the military receive a medal when they do something good. Anyone who sees the medal of Rai Sahab would see that he received the title from the Viceroy. Previously, there used to be viceroys, but they don’t have any power now.

There are so many quarrels now. Human beings have increased so much and so land is needed for them in the cities. The Father is now establishing heaven. So many will be destroyed and very few will remain. There will be so much land there and everything will be new there. You have to make very good effort in order to go to that new world. Every human being makes effort to claim a very high status. It is understood that if someone does not make effort fully, he will fail. He himself understands that he will fail and so he stops studying and finds employment. Nowadays, they have many strong employment laws. Human beings are very unhappy. Baba now shows you such a path that there will be no trace of sorrow for 21 births.

 

The Father says: Simply stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance to whatever extent you can. Night time is very good. By all means, remember Baba while lying down. However, some fall asleep. An old person would not be able to sit for long. Therefore, he would surely go to sleep. He would continue to remember the Father while lying down. He would experience great internal happiness because there is a great deal of income in this.

 You think that there is still time left, but it is not known when death will come. Therefore, the Father explains: The main thing is the pilgrimage of remembrance. It is difficult to have this outside in the cities. When you come here, you  have a very good chance. There is nothing to worry about here. This is why you must continue to increase your chart here. Your character will also continue to be reformed through this.

However, Maya is very powerful. Those who live in this home do not give it as much value as those who live outside do. However, at the moment, the result of the brothers, lost in love of God, is still good. Some daughters write: They harass us a great deal to get married. What can we do? Strong and sensible daughters would never write in this way. If someone writes in this way, Baba understands that she is like a goat or a sheep. It is in your own hands to protect your life. There are many types of sorrow in this world. Baba now explains to you in a very easy way. You children are greatly fortunate because you have become the children of the Lord and Master. The Father makes you so elevated, yet you defame the Father! That too is false defamation.

You have become so tamopradhan, don’t even ask! How much more can one tolerate? People threaten one another and say: If you cause any more distress, I will put an end to you. (jaasti tang karenge, to khatm kar denge) The Father sits here and explains this. Only stories have been written in the scriptures. Baba shows you very easy methods. Have remembrance while performing actions. There is a great deal of benefit in this. Come here early in the morning and sit in remembrance; you will experience great pleasure.

 However, you don’t have much interest in doing this. A teacher is able to understand from the behaviour of his students which ones will fail. The Father also understands which ones will fail and that too is for cycle after cycle. Although they may be very clever at giving lectures and be able to explain at exhibitions, they don’t have remembrance; they fail in this. This shows a great deal of disregard. They are in fact disregarding themselves. Shiv Baba cannot be disregarded. None of you can say that you don’t have time for remembrance; Baba would not believe you. You can have remembrance while bathing. Remember the Father at the time of eating. You can earn a great deal of income in this. Some children are very well known only for giving lectures; they have no yoga. That arrogance also makes them fall. 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.