19/05/97 Om Shanti Avyakt BapDada Madhuban 16/05/77
The two powers necessary in order to oppose Maya’s attack.
BapDada is seeing the result of the speed of effort of all the children. Whilst seeing the speed of effort of the new and the old children, as well as having a lot of love for them, Baba also felt a lot of mercy. Why did He feel that love? Because, whether they were young or old, as soon as they received the introduction, on the basis of what they attained according to their capacity, they experienced a great difference between their past life and their present Brahmin life. Having found a destination from their wandering, having faith in the intellect, with one another’s cooperation and the support of one another’s experience, they started to move towards their destination. Because of experiencing happiness, power, peace and joy, they weren’t concerned about public opinion, but the experience of the alokik life was enabling them to move forward. Compared to what they attained, they didn’t have the slightest consciousness of anything they were renouncing. With the deep intoxication of having found everything because of having found the Father, they didn’t feel their renunciation to be renunciation, but became engaged in remembrance and service with their body, mind and wealth. The first intoxication, the first happiness, the first zeal and enthusiasm they experienced was very lovely and unique. This renunciation, the intoxication of first coming to Baba, and the first force of the trikaldarshi stage, of being a master ocean of knowledge and a master almighty authority, in which there is no other awareness, made them experience everything of the old world to be impure and tasteless. Seeing this first stage of everyone, Baba felt a lot of love for them because each one had made so much effort to renounce everything, and were continuing to move along with a lot of love for the Father. BapDada surrendered everything, including all His wealth, to such children who were embodiments of renunciation, embodiments of knowledge and who had faith in the intellect. Just as children had the thought, “Baba, I now belong to You”, so too, Baba said in return, “Child, whatever belongs to the Father is yours”. Children claim this right, but what happens afterwards? As you are moving along, when you become a Mahavir, that is, when you become a warrior, and begin to challenge Maya, and consider it your right to be victorious, there are two things you lack and so are unable to oppose the different attacks of Maya. What two things are lacking? One is the power to face and the second is the power to discriminate and decide. Because you lack these two powers, you are sometimes victorious and sometimes defeated by the different attacks of Maya. Therefore, you sometimes become aggressive and sometimes you have the right consciousness. What is the reason for you lacking the power to face? You do not know how to make Baba your constant Companion. You do not know the method to seek His Company. The easy method is the stage of being one with all rights. This is why, when Maya sees that you are weak, she attacks you.
What is the reason for not having the power to discern? There isn’t stability in the intellect. There is the upheaval of waste or impure thoughts. There isn’t the constantly stable stage of taking the sweetness of all relationships with One. By having a variety, the intellect and stage constantly fluctuate. Because of this, the power to discern is reduced, and because you are unable to discern, Maya makes you her customer. Then you are not even able to recognise that it is Maya. You are not able to realise that something is wrong. Instead, you become a firm customer or companion of Maya and you give your wisdom to Baba or the instruments and tell them: This happens all the time; all of this will continue to happen until we become complete. In this way, you become Maya’s lawyer and put forward many different points of this nature to Baba and the instruments, because, when you become Maya’s companion, you become part of the opposition party. You give up the position of being a conqueror of Maya. What is the reason for this? You lack the power to discern.
Baba receives many such wonderful and entertaining cases, and the points put forward are also very good. Because your backbone is Maya, you create many new inventions. When BapDada sees this stage of the children, He feels mercy for them. Baba is teaching you and yet what do you do because of making a small mistake? The little mistake is that you mix the dictates of your own mind with shrimat. What is the foundation of that? Carelessness, laziness and being attracted by many types of Maya’s attraction. You lack the total power needed to become a conqueror of Maya and this is why the first zeal and enthusiasm reduces as you move along. You then stop making effort and think “What can I do? For how long will I be able to continue this? I wasn’t aware of this”. You then become caught in the spinning of such waste thoughts. However, all these things are side scenes, that is, the scenes along the path; they are not the destination. You have to cross them and not stop there considering them to be the destination. Some children consider this to be the destination, that is, they think such is their part or that such is their fortune: They consider the scenes along the path to be the destination and become distant from the true destination. In order to reach a high destination, you first have to experience storms; in order for a steamer to cross an ocean, it has to go through the middle of it. Therefore, do not become afraid very quickly; do not become tired; do not come to a standstill. Keep your Companion with you and every difficulty will become easy. Become courageous and you will definitely receive help. See the Father and follow the father and you will constantly experience a life of zeal and enthusiasm. Do not make any person or thing your support whilst moving along the path. How can a perishable support give you imperishable attainment? Constantly make the lesson of, “one faith and one support”, very firm, and you will easily be able to come out of the middle of the ocean and experience your destination to be very close. This was the result of the effortmakers. The majority of you are still confused in the middle of the ocean. However, Baba says: Consider all these things to be very good signs to enable you to progress towards your destination. Just as you consider destruction to be a good sign and something beneficial, so too, these exams are the means of making you strong. These signs show that you are on your path and moving forward. Do not become tired from seeing all these things. Always have the one thought that you have now almost reached your destination. Do you understand? Just as you do not like fluctuation in the electric current; you like stable electricity, so too, Baba also likes a stable stage in the children. Matter is playing games, but you should not play such games. Constantly remain unshakeable, immovable and stable.
To such master knowledgefull souls; to those who are constantly successful and who constantly remain cheerful; to those who constantly remain beyond the attractions of Maya; to the souls who have come close to their destination, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.
BapDada meeting a group of sevadharis:
How much have you accumulated for your future? You constantly receive the nourishment of service, that is, whatever you do, you receive a multimillionfold reward. It is the same as when you sow one seed, yet receive so much fruit from it; it isn’t just one fruit that emerges. You sow only one seed and yet receive fruit for many seasons. This nourishment of service is also accumulated multimillionfold and you continue to receive it in every birth. Have all of you done all three types of service: service through the mind, words and deeds? Together with serving through words and deeds, you can also do a lot of service through the mind, by having pure thoughts and an elevated attitude. If you do not do all three types of service at the same time, you will not receive that much fruit. According to the present time, all three types of service should happen at the same time, not individually. Only when your thoughts are powerful can there be power in your words. Otherwise, the speaker sounds like a pundit. Pundits relate beautiful stories, but why are they called pundits? Because they just repeat everything a like parrot. A gyani soul is one who is sensible. By doing service through understanding, there will be success. Sensible children would do all three types of service simultaneously. If you do not remain pictureconscious (with your attention focused on the picture when explaining at exhibitions), but do everything with the consciousness of the Father (your attention focused on the Father), then all three types of service will take place at the same time. If you do service considering it to be your duty, you will not have the spiritual awareness to be able to awaken souls. They too will consider it their duty to listen to you, and having heard you, will go away. If you become merciful and do service with benevolent feelings, the souls would be awakened. They would also then feel mercy for themselves and feel that they should do something for themselves. Baba constantly gives the children a signal to move forward. Whatever you have done, according to the drama, you made very good effort. Whatever time you gave, you accumulated for the present and also the future. Achcha.
Blessing: May you be an embodiment of happiness who creates a stage of happiness through having an elevated awareness. The basis of your stage is your awareness. Simply become an embodiment of awareness, for, as is your awareness, so will be your stage. If you maintain the awareness of happiness, your stage will be one of happiness. If you have the awareness of sorrow, your stage will be one of sorrow. Sorrow is going to increase in the world. Everything is to go into the extreme, but you children of the Ocean of Happiness, the ones who are constantly happy, are embodiments of happiness and beyond sorrow. Therefore, no matter what happens, you should constantly continue to experience pleasure.
Slogan: To save the treasure of time from being wasted is the sign of an elevated effortmaker.
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