03-04-81         Om Shanti           Avyakt Bapdada             Madhuban

The path of bhakti is the memorial of those on the path of knowledge

What meeting is now taking place in Madhuban? Today is the meeting of the many rivers with the Ocean. Each small and large river of knowledge is a purifier, like the Father. Baba is looking at His service companions, the purifying rivers, who left this land and went abroad. The souls of this land and abroad have been purified and are singing many songs of praise. The songs that are now in the mind will in the copper age become the songs sang through their lips. The songs of praise that Baba now sings is of the elevated task and the elevated life of you elevated souls. Later, on the path of bhakti, this song will be remembered in the form of devotional songs. Now, because all of you souls experience the attainment of supersensuous happiness, you souls are dancing in your mind, then on the path of bhakti you will be dancing with your feet. You now turn the beads of the rosary of the virtues of elevated souls and speak of their virtues. Later on the path of bhakti, they will turn the beads of the physical rosary of you. You now offer bhog to the Father and in return people on the path of bhakti will offer bhog to all of you. Just as you don’t accept anything without first offering it to Baba, similarly, people on the path of bhakti will not accept anything without first offering it to you deity souls. Just as, at present, you put Baba first and then yourself, so they will put you deities first and themselves afterwards. They copy everything that you do. You become embodiments of remembrance and they become embodiments of the remembrance of the memorial of that. You are all constantly unadulterated, that is, you constantly stay in the remembrance of One, so that no one can shake you or make you change in a negative way. Similarly, your intense devotees, your true devotees, your first devotees have an intellect that has very strong faith in you, their special deities. Their faith in you is unshakeable and unbreakable. Even if devotees of Hanuman were to attain Rama, they would still remain devotees of Hanuman. They have such strong faith. They copy you in the way you have one strength and one support.

It is at this time that all of you become spiritual pilgrims. Your pilgrimage is of remembrance of God and their pilgrimage is in memory of you. At present, all of you walk around the pillars of the tower of knowledge and peace in order to read the elevated versions and teachings of becoming an embodiment of remembrance, and you also make everyone else walk around it. You walk around the tower to read the teachings written on the tower; you don’t miss any side of the tower. When you have been around of all four sides the tower, you feel that you have seen and experienced everything. Later on, in memory of this, devotees go around all of you idols. Until they have gone around those idols, they wouldn’t feel that their worshipping is complete. On the path of bhakti they copy in a physical way every subtle action and virtue of all of you. This is why BapDada constantly advises all of you deity souls to keep firm faith in One in your intellect. If you don’t stay in constant and stable remembrance of One at this time, if you don’t concentrate on One, if you don’t remain unshakeable, then your devotees cannot have an intellect with strong faith in you. If the foot of your intellect wanders here and there, later the feet of your devotees would stumble around. Sometimes, they would consider one idol to be their deity and sometimes another idol. Today, they would be devotees of Rama and tomorrow, they would be devotees of Krishna. If you don’t now have the stage of experiencing all attainments from One, then your devotee souls would be wandering around from one deity to another, for some attainment. When you move away from your elevated honour now, your devotees will later on also become distressed and leave you. Just as now, instead of having subtle experiences through remembrance, you complain because of the lack of attainment due to your weaknesses. Either you complain of being disheartened or you complain out of love. Therefore, your devotees too will constantly complain. Each of you knows all the complaints very well and therefore Baba is not going to tell you about them.

Baba says: Be merciful and constantly have feelings of mercy! However, instead of mercy, you sometimes have arrogance or doubt. The same thing happens with your devotees. To have doubt means “Should I do this? Will be it like this? Should it not be like this?” In this too, they forget mercy. Be merciful to yourself and to others. You have doubt in yourself and also in others. If your illness of doubt increases, it becomes like a cancer. Those who are still in the first stage of cancer can be cured, but it is difficult to cure those in their last stage. They are neither able to stay alive nor are able to die. Here too, they are neither totally ignorant nor are they totally knowledgeable. Their sign is that they constantly chant the same slogan. For themselves, they say “This is how I am”. And, for others they say “This one is always like that.” No matter how much they try to change themselves, they will still chant the same thing. Cancer patients may appear to eat and drink very well. Externally they would look very well and strong, but internally, they would be powerless. Similarly, those who have the illness of doubt would externally conduct themselves very well. Externally, they would be appear to lack of nothing. They wouldn’t even accept it if they were told that something was lacking. However, internally, because such souls would be very discontented, their attainment of happiness and power would very weak. There is also a similar illness of arrogance. The sign of being merciful is that you would have one Baba and none other in your every word and thought. Wherever they look those who are merciful will constantly see the Father, whereas wherever those who have arrogance look will only see themselves!. Those with arrogance will be turning the rosary of “I, I”, whereas those with mercy will be turning the rosary of the Father. Their consciousness of “Me” will be merged in the Father. This is what it means to be absorbed in the love for Father. This type of soul is merged in the Father’s love and the other type of soul is merged in the consciousness of “Me”. You are master gods for your devotees. You are the father of the people in the golden and silver ages and at the confluence age, you are the images of support who reveal BapDada’s name and His task. You can either glorify Baba’s name with your elevated actions and your transformation, or you can defame Baba’s name with your wasteful actions and ordinary behaviour. Children, it is all in your hands!

At the time of destruction, you will be in your form of great benefactors, the great bestowers of blessings, and great donors, the greatly charitable souls for the whole world. Therefore, you are very elevated at all times. You are images of support during this whole time. Do each of you consider yourself to be this? Do you know your own biography from the beginning, through middle to the end? You are not alone, there are many others behind you who are copying you. Therefore, constantly pay attention to every action you perform.

To those who are great in all three aspects of time, to those who are embodiments of power and who remain in remembrance of the Father, to those who are merciful, to those who are constant embodiments and bestowers of attainment, to souls who are complete like the Father, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.

Baba meeting a group of teachers:

The practical form of a teacher is that of being a constant server. You all know this very well. What is the speciality of a server? How does the server become successful? The speciality of a server who is constantly lost in service is that he would have renounced any feeling of doing service or having done any service. In other words you call this “ The renunciation of having renounced anything”. When you say, “I did this service”, that service would not be successful. “I did not do anything but I was the instrument through whom it was done, and Baba was the One doing it.” Then, there is praise of the Father. When you say that you are the server or that you did something or that you will do something, then that consciousness of “I”, even in terms of being a server, won’t allow that service to be successful. When service is mixed with the consciousness of “I”, it becomes service filled with a selfish motive, not service filled with renunciation. In the world there are two types of serviceable souls. One type of serviceable soul are those who serve with selfish motives and second type are those who are embodiments of renunciation out of love. So what type of server you are? You have already been told that when your consciousness of “I”, is merged in Baba’s love, then this is what it means to be a true server. Then the language of “I” and “You” comes to an end. Baba is the One inspiring the act and you are the instrument performing it. Anyone can become an instrument. When you have the consciousness of “I”, what does that mean? Who bleats “Meh! Meh!” all the time? (A goat). By constantly bleating “I”, you become dependent. The head and shoulder of a goat is constantly bowed down whereas a lion constantly holds his head high. So, where there is the consciousness of “I”, you are bowing down to one or another desire and do not have the intoxication to hold your head up high. Due to one or another reason, you keep your head down like a goat. A householder’s life is like that of a goat because you are constantly bowed down. To bow down in humility is a different matter; this is not humility making you bow down, but Maya making you bow down. She forces you to bow your head and makes you look down. To have the consciousness of “I” mixed in service means to become dependent, you would then be dependent on a person or a possession, the atmosphere or anything else. You even become dependent on your own sanskars. To be dependent means to be under an external influence. Those who are influenced by others become dependent. Servers cannot have this sanskar. Servers are those who issue a challenge. You always hold your head high when you issue a challenge. When you have made a mistake, you would look down whilst you speak. To be a server means to be one who challenges. To be a server means to be one of those who challenge Maya and also the souls of the world about the Father. Those who have first challenged their old sanskars are then able to challenge others. First, you have to challenge your own sanskars in particular and then you can challenge in general all the obstacles that come. Obstacles can never stop true servers. Those who challenge others are able to change the mountainous form of Maya into a mustard seed form within a second. In the drama you show about Maya, what is it that you show? That you will change a mountain into a mustard seed.

To be a true server means to be those who are equal to the Father. What does the Father first of all call Himself? He says: I am the World Servant. To be a server means to be equal to the Father. The service you do in this one birth enables you to claim a crown and a throne for many future births. The confluence age is the age of doing service. And, for how long do you have to do that? In any case, the confluence is a small age. Therefore, if you do receive an opportunity to serve in this age, it is for a short time. Even when someone has been serving for 50 to 60 years, if you subtract 50 to 60 years from 5000 years, then all the rest of the cycle is the time of the reward. That means serving for 60 years and enjoying the nourishment of that for the rest of the cycle. You become worthy according to the effort you make at the confluence age. Then, you will become a worshipper according to how worthy of being worship you became. You will become the foremost worshippers. Then just see how good your final birth is too! Even the final birth of you good effort­makers has been good, and so from this, you understand how good your past births must have been. This is like experiencing a little sorrow in comparison to the happiness you have experienced. When for instance, a very wealthy person becomes a little poor, you would say that he has become poor. When the temperature of a wealthy person is even one degree too high, you would say that he has a temperature. However, when the temperature of a poor person is almost 5 degrees too high, no one would even ask! Similarly, the sorrow that you experience is not that much but, because you have experienced extreme happiness, it is said that you are experiencing sorrow. Even in your final birth, you haven’t become beggars, have you? You have never become those who beg for a couple of chappatis at every doorstep. This is why you have been told that whereas the time for making effort is very short, the time for experiencing the reward of that is very long. The reward is so elevated! What would your stage become when you have this awareness as long as possible? It would become elevated, would it not? To become a server means to claim a right to eat nourishing fruit for the whole cycle. Never ask as to whether you will have to keep on serving for the whole of the confluence age. When you are eating nourishing fruit, would you ask whether you are going to eat that for the rest of the cycle? It is at this time that you become aware that you are going to receive all of that reward. You receive one hundred thousand­fold in return for one, and so there would be an accurate account. To be a server means to be constantly happy for the whole cycle. This is no small fortune! Whether you call yourself a teacher or a server, you receive one hundred thousand­fold in return for the service you do. What is the effort you make? Here, you become Didis and Dadis for the students. At least you receive a title! A ten year old student would also call a new teacher of two years, “Didi”. Even here, you are seen in an elevated light. They all give you regard. If you are a true server, you become worthy to receive regard even at this time. If you have something else mixed in you, you may be called “Didi or Dadi” but tomorrow you may be called something else. When the motivation of your service is mixed, the regard you are given will be mixed. This is why to be a server means to be equal to the Father. To be a server means to place each of your footsteps in the Father’s footsteps; not to be a little ahead or behind. To take each and every footstep according to the Father’s shrimat, whether it be in thoughts, words, actions or in connections and relationships, to be aongst whose who place their feet exactly in Baba’s footsteps us to be called those who take Baba’s footsteps. What do you think? You are such a group, are you not? You teachers are constantly easy yogis, are you not? If you teachers are yourselves experiencing labour in everything, what would be the condition of your students? Achcha.

Blessing: May you be an embodiment of success by maintaining your balance of being an authority on love and truth in service.

In this land of falsehood, you saw Brahma Baba as an authority of truth in a practical form. His words of authority never gave rise to any feeling of arrogance. Love was merged in his words of authority. His words of authority were not just filled with love, but were also very influential. So, follow the Father! Love and authority, humility and greatness should all be equally visible. If you now underline this type of service, you can become an embodiment of success.

Slogan: To transform “mine” into “Yours” means to claim a right to your fortune.

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