Avyakt murli for Wednesday 10 May 1972

⁰> > 10/05/72 Avyakt BapDada Revised: 02/08/93

¹Do you consider yourselves to have the courage to stay in your stage of self­respect and also to be able to follow Baba's instructions?

²To be able to remain stable in your stage of self­respect and to be able to follow instructions: do you consider yourself to be doing both these things all right?

³If you do not stabilise yourself in your stage of self­respect, then there will be something or the other lacking in following the instructions.

⁴Therefore, stabilise yourself in both aspects accurately and create such a stage for all time.

⁵You Brahmins have to stabilise yourselves in the most elevated stage of self­respect of the present confluence age.

⁶By remaining stable in this one elevated stage of self­respect, all the different types of arrogance are easily and automatically finished.

⁷In some cases, whilst doing service or whilst making effort, you make a very tiny mistake of just one word through which more mistakes are made.

⁸The seed of all mistakes is the weakness of one word. ⁹What is that word?

¹⁰You remove the word self from self­respect.

¹¹You forget your self­respect. ¹²And, by then wanting respect you forget the instructions.

¹³You have the instructions to stabilise yourself in your self­respect, but by wanting respect, the instructions are finished.

¹⁴By making the mistake of this one word, you make many more mistakes.

¹⁵Then, when you want respect, your way of speaking, walking etc., everything changes.

¹⁶Just by cutting out one word, you cut yourself off from your original stage.

¹⁷When you come to such a stage, the result is that when you make effort or do service, you have to labour more and yet receive very little instant fruit.

¹⁸You are not able to become the embodiment of success that you should, and because of not being the embodiment of success, because you do not attain success, what is the result?

¹⁹You make a lot of effort, and this is why you become tired as you move along.

²⁰As your enthusiasm decreases, you become lazy. ²¹And when there is laziness, all its other companions will also come.

²²Laziness comes with all its companions; it does not come alone.

²³Just as Baba does not come alone; He is revealed with His children, in the same way, these vices do not come alone; they come with their companions.

²⁴Therefore, when the vices come into existence, because you disobey many instructions, what becomes of your stage?

²⁵You have a desire for one thing or another.

²⁶By cutting out just one word, neither are you yourself content nor are you able to make others content.

²⁷Therefore, when you are making effort for self­progress or when you put any plan of service into a practical form, before you create the plan and put it into a practical form, stabilise yourself in your stage of self­respect, and then make any plans or put them into a practical form.

²⁸Do not make plans whilst letting go of your stage.

²⁹If you create plans having let go of your stage, what will happen then?

³⁰There will be no power left.

³¹Without any power, what will the influence of those plans be in a practical form?

³²You do a lot of service, you bring about a lot of expansion, but you let go of the seed stage.

³³By going into the expansion, you let go of the essence.

³⁴Therefore, do not let go of the essence.

³⁵You do not know how to merge the expansion, that is, how to become the embodiment of the essence.

³⁶You get caught up with quantity, you are not able to reveal your quality.

³⁷Connected with your stage, you have a quantity of thoughts and, therefore, as a result of service, there is quantity, but not quality.

³⁸In the expansion of the whole tree, only one seed is powerful.

³⁹It is not that one of quality amidst the quantity is equal to the expansion of seed.

⁴⁰Do you do service of quality?

⁴¹By going into expansion, whilst bringing benefit to others, you do not forget to bring benefit to yourself, do you?

⁴²When you pay greater attention to others, you do not look at the tension within your own self.

⁴³First of all, pay attention to the tension within your own self, and then you will be able to finish all the different types of tension in the whole world.

⁴⁴First of all, look at your own self.

⁴⁵Do service of the self first. ⁴⁶When you serve yourself, you automatically serve others within that.

⁴⁷When you let go of serving the self and start to serve others, you use a lot more time and thoughts.

⁴⁸Because of this reason, you are not able to accumulate what you should.

⁴⁹Because of not accumulating, you do not have that intoxication or happiness.

⁵⁰If you earn now and use it up now, then that becomes something for a temporary period, whereas whatever is accumulated is constantly with you.

⁵¹So now learn how to accumulate.

⁵²You must not just accumulate for this one birth, but you have to accumulate for twenty­one births.

⁵³If you earn now and consume it now, what will you create for the future?

⁵⁴It should not be that you earn it now and you distribute it now.

⁵⁵After eating something, you also have to digest it, and then distribute it.

⁵⁶If you earn something and instantly distribute it, you will not have any power in your own self.

⁵⁷You will simply have the happiness that you have distributed whatever you received.

⁵⁸You have the happiness of donating something, but you do not have the power to merge that within your own self.

⁵⁹Together with happiness, you also need to have power.

⁶⁰Because of not having power, neither are you able to remain free from obstacles nor are you able to overcome the obstacles.

⁶¹Little obstacles create a disturbance in your love.

⁶²Therefore, you should imbibe the power to accommodate.

⁶³Just as you see the sparkle of happiness on the face, in the same way, you should also be able to see the sparkle of power.

⁶⁴You may be easy­natured and simple, but are you as tolerant to the extent that you are easy­natured and simple?

⁶⁵Because, to have tolerance is also being easy­natured and simple.

⁶⁶Together with being easy­ natured and simple, you also need the power to accommodate and the power to tolerate.

⁶⁷If you do not have the powers to accommodate and to tolerate, then being easy­natured and simple makes you adopt a very innocent form. ⁶⁸In some cases, innocence causes a great loss.