08/05/73 Avyakt BapDada 18/07/94

At the present time, in which stage of self­respect do you consider yourselves to be? Do you know your stage of self­respect? You know that it is the greatest stage of self­respect, but what is this stage of self­respect? What is the greatest self­respect of this time, and by speaking of this, it is visible that there can be no other self­respect greater than this? What is it? The greatest self­respect of this time is that you become the master of the Father. Before you become the masters of the world, you become the masters of the Creator of the world. You are even the masters of Shiv Baba. This is why they say, "Malekam Salaam" (Salutations to the master). Worthy children are even the masters of the Father. At this time, you have made the Father belong to you. Throughout the entire kalpa, you cannot make the Father belong to you in this way. At present, you can make the Father belong to you when you want in whatever form you want. In which bondage is the Father tied at this time? (Of the children.) You are those who have tied the Creator in a bondage, the ones who have made the Creator into the Server. Will you experience suchself­ respect at any other time? You have made the Father into your Server, in order for Him to serve you. This is pure self­respect. There is no arrogance in this. Where there is self­respect, there cannot be any arrogance. You have made the Father into the Server, but there is no arrogance in this. So, do you remain stable in the stage of pure self­respect and pride where there is no name or trace of arrogance?

Just as Baba always considers you children to be the crown on His head by saying, "Yes, child, sweet child, My childwho is the master of the world", in the same way, do you remain stable in the stage of being the crown on the head?Where is the top­knot of the Brahmins? It is on the head, is it not? So a Brahmin top­knot means the crown on theFather's head. So, just as Baba always gives the children that respect and makes them equal to Himself, in the sameway, do all of you give respect to all souls and make them equal to the Father? Does it constantly remain in yourintellect that, at this time, you have to take only from the one Father and give to everyone else? You souls must nottake from souls, but give to them. Simply take from the one Father. You have to give to others what you have taken.You are the bestowers, are you not? Does this constantly remain in your awareness? Or, do you have a desire toreceive from where you give? If a soul keeps a desire to receive something from another soul, what attainment wouldthere be? It would be temporary attainment. From limited souls, there will be limited attainment. From the unlimitedFather, there will be all attainments for all time. So, are you taking from where you have to take and giving whereyou have to give? Or, do you sometimes change this? If a soul gives something to another, then it would only givethat which it had itself received from the Father, would it not? The slightest desire of taking from others makes youfall from your stage of self­respect.

When you become instruments to give souls the treasures you have received from the Father, what awareness do youhave at that time? Does the soul have anything that belongs to itself? You have made that which you have beengiven by the Father belong to you. If, when you become instruments to give to others, you do not have the awarenessthat you are giving the treasures you have received from the Father, then you are not able to connect those souls in anelevated relationship. Do you perform every action whilst staying in this awareness? You should also have theintoxication of your elevated stage of self­respect. Together with that, what else do you have? (Happiness.) Asmuch intoxication as you have in the intellect, there should be just as much humility in your actions. The sign of thisintoxication is that although you will have elevated intoxication, there will be humility in your actions. There willalways be humility in your eyes, and, therefore, there will never be any loss or damage through the intoxication. Doyou understand?

Do not just have intoxication. On the one side, there should be a lot of intoxication but on the other side, there shouldbe great humility. You were told that even the highest­on­high Father comes as the Server of the children. So, that ishumility, is it not? To the extent that you are great, so accordingly, there has to be that much humility. Do you havethis balance? Or, are you not able to think of anything else when you stay in this intoxication? Do you stay in theself­respect of the intoxication of being the masters of the Creator of the world. Then what should be the duty ofthose who stay in such intoxication? There cannot be world benefit without humility. You made the Father belong toyou when with humility, He became the Server of you children. In the same way, follow the Father. At everymoment, check how many treasures you have received from the Father. Do you know how many treasures you arethe masters of? (Countless.) However, you can speak of some of the main ones. How many main treasures are thereat this confluence age? How many treasures have you received? The greatest treasure is that you found the Father.This is the number one treasure, is it not? When someone receives the key, it is as though he has found everything.Having found the Father, you have found everything. What else have you found? You also speak of this. You havereceived the knowledge and also the eight powers. If you speak of each power individually, then each power is atreasure. In the same way, the virtues of the Father that you speak of can also be described as a treasure. In the sameway, every second of the invaluable period of the confluence age is a treasure. Just as you receive attainment fromthe treasures, in the same way, you can have an elevated attainment from every second of the confluence age. So, thistime of the confluence, that is, every second of the confluence age, is a treasure greater than multimillions. If youwere to accumulate multimillions on the one side and, on the other side, you kept one second of the confluence age,then the second of the confluence age would be more elevated, because the attainment for all time is available in thisone second. You can tell everyone that they can claim the inheritance of mukti and jeevanmukti in one second.Therefore, even one second is so valuable. The time of the confluence age is also a huge treasure. So, check to whatextent you have been able to imbibe within yourselves all these treasures. Or, is it that you have imbibed sometreasures and not other treasures? You are not missing out slightly on any of the treasures, are you? You cannot bedeprived, but if you only attain a little, then too, you become part of the moon dynasty. You cannot then be part ofthe sun dynasty. To be in the sun dynasty means to be complete. If you are not complete in any aspect, then you arenot part of the sun dynasty. If the soul is not complete, it cannot be called part of the sun dynasty. So keep all thetreasures in front of yourself and check where you have reached. How far have you reached? It should not be thatyou become happy with only a little. So, check all these treasures. And, together with that, also check whether youhave become a great donor of all the treasures you have received or whether you have just kept them for yourself.Those who are great donors give whatever they have to others. And, even then, they themselves do not becomebeggars, because whatever they give automatically increases within them. So also check to what extent you havegiven the treasure of purity to all souls. You also have to check your treasure of supersensuous happiness: do youkeep more for yourself or more for the service of the world? You have attained it for yourself, but the present stage isfor using it for world service. So check to what extent you have used all the treasures for yourself and to what extentyou use them for others. This is called the complete stage. Have you used all the treasures for others? If you use thetreasures of knowledge and the powers for your own effort, then that too is not called the complete stage. Now is thetime to use all these for others. If, even now, you continue to use all powers for your own self, then when would youbecome a great donor and one who grants blessings to others? Now practise in such a way that you do not have to usethem for your own self. If you continue to use all your treasures for others, would you become empty?

Just as the father also gave the time of his own rest, which was essential for his own body, and used it for the sake ofworld benefit, in the same way, all the powers should be used for world benefit, not for your own self. Wheneveryone has to become equal to the father, they would also adopt the stage equal to that of the father, would theynot? Only when you begin to give to others will you begin to experience yourselves to be complete in all aspects. Inteaching others, you automatically teach yourselves. At present, you take double the time; a separate time foryourself and a separate time for others. Now, do double the work in the same time, because there is very little timeleft. When there is little time, people study a double course, and so this is the same. Time is coming close. So,together with giving to others, accumulate for your own self; do not just use it for your own self. If, even now, youcontinue to use it for yourself and continue to waste time, you cannot become world emperors. You have the aim ofbecoming world emperors, do you not?

When the Ganges of knowledge emerged in the beginning, what was the speciality of service at that time? What isthe difference between the heirs who emerged at that time and the souls who have emerged at this time? A lot ofservice is taking place now, but there aren't as many heirs visible. What is the reason for this? There is a lot ofexpansion, so what is the main reason? At that time, they did not have the feeling of "mine", but the feeling that theyhad to give everything of theirs for world benefit. They belonged to One (ekname) and they had economy. Theywere economical with all the treasures; they never wasted anything. The time and powers they had received had to begiven to others, that is, they had the stage of being great donors, because they were special instruments. Look at howmuch difference there is in the stage of that time and that of the present time! Now, first of all, some think of theirown facilities and then facilities of service. That is, they first think of their own comfort and facilities and then theneed of service. In the beginning, they first thought of service and then, whether they received facilities or not, itdidn't matter. They didn't have the slightest thought that they could only do service if there were the facilitiesavailable. They did not have the thoughts: We can do service only if we have the facilities; we can do service only ifwe have a companion; we can do service only if the situation is right. Wherever you go, whatever the situation is andwhatever facilities are provided, you have to increase service with your own power of tolerance. This is the stage ofbeing a great donor. The fortune of others is created through renunciation of the self. Where there is no renunciationof the self, the fortune of others cannot be created. The father renounced everything for himself, and this is how yourfortune was created. So, in their stage, they renounced all the luxuries for the self, and it was through this that fortunewas created. Are you making as much fortune for others as you have renunciation for the self? This is why the heirsare hidden. So now, let those sanskars of being the great donors emerge, that is, whilst having all attainments and allfacilities, do not get trapped in the facilities, but maintain your own spiritual endeavour. At present, there is littlespiritual endeavour and more facilities. Earlier, they made more spiritual endeavour and had fewer facilities. This iswhy you must now constantly maintain that spiritual endeavour, that is, even whilst having all the facilities, maintainan attitude of renunciation through which you can create the fortune of many souls. BapDada has given all you soulsthe authority of drawing the line of fortune on the hands of others. So, it should not be that, because of the lack ofyour own renunciation, you are unable to create the complete fortune of other souls. You have a great responsibility.Just as time is coming closer, so too, the responsibility on each soul of not wasting any thoughts is also increasing.Now, do not consider this to be your childhood. Whatever you did in your childhood was good. Even thecarelessness of a child is enjoyed by others. But if an adult is careless, no one likes it. Therefore, according to thetime, maintain your stage of self­respect for all time and continue to fulfil your responsibility. Do you understand? Achcha.

To those who make such a Father belong to them with all relationships; to the great donors, the images that grantblessings and the great renunciates who give the donation of all treasures to all souls and to the multimillion ­times fortunate children, love, remembrances and namaste.

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