08/07/96 Om Shanti Avyakt BapDada Madhuban 24/10/75

Each mouth苑orn Brahmin is the temple of the living saligram.

Do you experience yourselves to be like lotus flowers: extremely detached and loving to the Father? Firstly, becauseof being light, a lotus floats on water and yet remains detached from the water; whilst having a family, it is able toremain isolated from the family. In the same way, whilst living in a lokik or an alokik household, do you remainisolated, that is, detached? In order to remain isolated, especially check your attitude. As is your attitude, so is yourhousehold. Which type of attitude should you have? A soul苞onscious and spiritual attitude. Through this attitude,you will be able to bring about spirituality within your family, that is, because of having spirituality within the family,you will continue to move along whilst considering everything to have been entrusted to you. Then, through this, theconsciousness of "mine" will easily finish. You cannot have the consciousness of "mine" for something entrusted toyou. Due to the consciousness of "mine" there is attachment and the interference of other vices. To finish theconsciousness of "mine" means to become free from the vices; viceless means to become pure through which thefamily will become a pure household. To destroy all vices means to become elevated. So, do you consider yourselfto be an elevated soul who has destroyed all vices?

Have you made your household a pure household? The first household is of your body. Next is the household ofbodily relations. So, you have to make the first household, the physical organs of the body, pure. Unless you makethe household of the body pure, you will not be able to make the household of bodily relations, whether limited orunlimited, pure. Which is the household of the Brahma Kumars and Kumaris? Just as there is the household oflimited relations, in the same way, in terms of being Brahma Kumars and Kumaris, you have the relationship of beingcorporeal brothers and sisters with all the souls of the entire world. You have such a huge, unlimited family!However, you first have to purify the household of your body; only then will you be able to make the unlimitedhousehold pure. It is said: Charity begins at home. That is, first of all, do the service of making your home, that is,your body, pure and then you can do unlimited service. So, first of all, ask yourself: Have I made the home of mybody pure? Have I made my thoughts, intellect, eyes and lips spiritual and pure? Just as on Deepawali, they cleanevery corner of the home, and pay so much attention that not a single corner is left unclean, in the same way, haveyou cleansed every physical organ and lit the light of the soul for all time? Have you celebrated such a Deepawali ordo you still have to do this? Everyone's light is sparkling constantly, is it not? It is said that every home will becomea temple. In the same way, have you made the home of your body into a temple?

However many Brahmins there are, each Brahmin is the temple of the living saligram. Each one is the temple of theliving spark. Have you made it pure considering it to be a temple? According to the present time of making effortand according to the time of complete transformation of the world, you should not be influenced by matter or anyvice. Just as evil spirits do not enter a temple, so have you made every home into a temple? Impurity and vices enterwhere there is uncleanliness. Devilish thoughts or devilish sanskars cannot enter the temple of the living saligram,the temple of the living embodiment of power, the temple of one who destroys evil. If they do enter, then there mustbe one or another type of uncleanliness or impurity. So check yourself. If there is any type of uncleanliness anywhere, then finish that and celebrate the true Deepawali. When you make your household pure in this way, worldtransformation will take place.

You come to Madhuban for a spiritual pilgrimage. And so, when you return from a spiritual pilgrimage you have toleave your weaknesses behind. Madhuban is the land of transformation.

Having come to the land of transformation, if you do not bring about any transformation, then what benefit would youhave taken from the land of transformation? You mustn't bring about transformation for just the time that you are inthe land of transformation, but there has to be permanent transformation. Madhuban is called the great yagya, thesacrificial fire in which the horse is sacrificed; generally, something is sacrificed in a sacrificial fire. Do you offer thegreatest sacrifice in the great sacrificial fire, or do you take back whatever you have sacrificed? Do you also performthe task according to the name or not? It is called the great sacrificial fire, the land of transformation, the land ofblessings. Therefore, perform the tasks according to the name. Continue to fulfil the promise that you make here.Or, do you find it difficult to fulfil it? Souls who fulfil a promise come into three categories. Some are like the truemoths in fulfilling a promise: they surrender themselves completely to the Father, that is, they sacrifice themselves inorder to fulfil the orders they have received. The next type become like bhagats in fulfilling their promise, that is,they repeatedly take power from the Father, that is, they continually ask for power: "Give me power to tolerate andthen I will be able to fulfil my promise." "Give me power to face and then I will be able to fulfil my promise." Theycontinue to beg in this way, that is, they become bhagats. The third type of souls become cheats. They say and writeone thing and yet they cheat. There are also such cheats. Some do not have any power to fulfil their promise.However, in order to protect themselves, they make excuses. They hide their own weaknesses and make excusesabout others. "This relation is like this and therefore, this happened." Or, "The atmosphere and the environment waslike this and that is why this happened." "It happened according to the circumstances." They all say the same thing:Mine is the one Father and none other, and whatever you say and make me do, I will do just that. But, there are manydifferent categories of those who actually do it and put it into practice. Therefore, whatever you have done up to now,considering yourselves to be ordinary, let the past be the past, that is, have mercy upon yourself. Know very clearlythe importance of this land. Do not consider this land to be ordinary. You come to the great place in order to makeyourselves so great. To become great means to know the importance. Do you understand?

To those who transform themselves according to the time; to those who are instruments for world transformation; tothose who fulfil the responsibility of love for the Father; to those who have made the Father their constant Companionand who constantly remain as detached as a lotus flower; to such constantly loving children, love, remembrance andnamaste from BapDada.

Personal meeting with sisters from Punjab:

The special virtue remembered of Shaktis is that of being fearless. Do you experience yourselves to be this? Not justto be fearless of human souls, but also fearless of any attack of Maya. Those who are not afraid of Maya are calledShaktis. You are not afraid of Maya, are you? Those who have fear are defeated, whereas those who are fearless areable to make Maya afraid of them. Because of fear, you lose power and your understanding. Generally, when peopleare afraid, they lose consciousness; they even lose their understanding. Here too, those who are afraid of Maya losetheir understanding, and they are therefore not able to conquer Maya. So, because your name is the Shakti Army andsince you have the speciality of being Shaktis, then fearlessness should be visible practically, for only then would yoube called Shaktis. If there is any type of fear, you cannot be called Shaktis. Weak ones are always dependent onothers; they never have all rights. You are those who have all rights, are you not? You will not become dependentbecause of fear, will you? So, is the Shakti Army of Punjab so fearless?

Ever since you became Brahmins, you have been issuing a challenge to Maya: Come Maya! Come and attack asmuch as you want! I am a Shiv Shakti. You come under the influence of Maya because of your own weakness.

Where there are weaknesses, it is there that Maya exists. Just as where there is rubbish, mosquitoes come, in the sameway, where there are weaknesses, that is where Maya comes. So, to become weak means to invoke Maya. Youyourselves invoke Maya and then you become afraid of her. So then, why do you invoke her? Always have theintoxication that you are the Shiv Shakti Army. You became victorious over Maya a kalpa ago also. You are, evennow, repeating that part once again. How many times have you been victorious? One who has been victorious manytimes would be so fearless! Would such a soul be afraid? Which drums have the Shaktis been beating to reveal theFather? In order to awaken Kumbhakarna, beat huge drums. When you beat small drums, Kumbhakarna just turnsover to the other side. That is, others say that this is good, but they then just go back to sleep. So, for them, you willnot be able to do anything with small drums. This is why you have to increase contact with them again and again. Itis not their fault that they are in deep sleep. Your duty is to make a special programme and awaken them.

Personal meeting with brothers from Punjab:

As is the place, so by having awareness of that place, you receive strength in your stage. In the same way, byconsidering yourself to be a resident of Madhuban, you are automatically able to create the stage of an angel. Anangel is one who doesn't have any relationship with the body. So, you forget all the relationships of the body here.Are you able to experience this stage for even a short time? Every now and then, it is very difficult to come toMadhuban, yet why do you come again and again? Because whatever you experience here, it gives strength to yourawareness when you get back, and so, it is necessary to come to Madhuban. Your staying with the family back thereis also for service. If you consider it to be your home, you will be a householder, whereas if you consider yourself tobe a server, you will be a trustee. Karmic bondages from all directions will pull a householder. If you consideryourself to be a server, then with your awareness of being a trustee, all consciousness of "mine" will be finished. Ahouseholder always has the consciousness of "mine". The consciousness of "mine" is very long and complicated.Where there is the consciousness of "mine", the Father cannot be there, whereas where there is no consciousness of"mine", the Father is present. When you consider yourself to be a householder, you claim limited rights: "Whatever Isay should be accepted, others should listen to me, others should move along according to what I say". Where thereare limited rights, the unlimited rights finish. Now, let the past be the past and apply a full貞top. A full貞top is apoint. When you do not apply a full貞top, that is, when you do not stabilise yourself in the point苯orm, then you eitherapply an exclamation mark or a question mark. What is the sign of an exclamation mark? When you say: Does thisalso happen? Does this happen amongst the Brahmins also? This is a sign of an exclamation. You should not evenapply this sign. "Why did this happen?" To ask, "why?" or "what?", is to apply a question mark. This is also thefoundation for the creation of waste thoughts. Whatever happens, continue to observe that as a detached observer.Instead of being a detached observer, you become a companion of the soul. Instead of being the companion of theFather, you become a companion of the other soul. "Achcha, it is like that, isn't it? I also think the same thing." Thisis giving your agreement in listening to others and relating to others. So, when you become a companion of anothersoul, how can you become a companion of God? As long as you are a companion of another soul, you cannot be acompanion of God. This is broken yoga. Anything that is broken has to be thrown away. An idol that was worthy tobe worshipped has no value when it is broken. So here, too, when your yoga is broken, you cannot have any elevated attainment, that is, there is no value. Someone who is a constant companion is a constant yogi. Are the residents of Punjab the constant companions of BapDada who have unbroken yoga?

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