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.

⁶⁹So do not be easy­natured and simple in that way.

⁷⁰Baba is called the Lord of Innocence, but He is not so innocent that He is not able to confront you.

⁷¹Together with being the Lord of Innocence, He is also the Almighty Authority.

⁷²He is not just the Lord of Innocence.

⁷³Here, those who are the embodiment of power become innocent (naive) by mistake and so they are shot by Maya.

⁷⁴At the present time, because of your innocence, you are shot by Maya a great deal.

⁷⁵Become such an embodiment of power that before Maya opposes you, she salutes you so that she is then not able to oppose you.

⁷⁶You have to remain very cautious, careful and clever.

⁷⁷Check your attitude and the atmosphere.

⁷⁸Check your own self to see that no atmosphere is making your attitude weak.

⁷⁹No matter what the atmosphere is like, the powerful attitude of the self is able to bring about transformation in the atmosphere.

⁸⁰If the atmosphere influences your attitude, then this is innocence (being naive).

⁸¹Do not think: I myself am all right, but I was influenced by the atmosphere; no.

⁸²No matter how vicious the atmosphere may be, your own attitude should be viceless.

⁸³Since you say that you are the purifiers, the ones who make the impure ones pure, since you can purify souls, can you not change the atmosphere from being impure and make it pure?

⁸⁴Those who purify cannot be under the influence of the atmosphere.

⁸⁵However, when the atmosphere influences your attitude, then this is a weakness.

⁸⁶Each one of you should think that you have to finish the atmosphere of impurity or weakness with your own powerful attitude. ⁸⁷You are the ones who finish this, not the ones who come under its influence.

⁸⁸You should not even speak of any impure atmosphere.

⁸⁹If you speak about it, then, just as there is the saying that those who witness a sin being committed also accumulate sin, so too, if someone speaks of a weak or impure atmosphere, then that is also a sin, because at that time, you forget the Father.

⁹⁰When you forget the Father, sin is definitely committed.

⁹¹If you have the remembrance of the Father, you cannot commit any sin.

⁹²Therefore, you should not even speak about it.

⁹³Since Baba has given you the instructions to speak the jewels of knowledge, and that no wasteful words should emerge from your lips, so to speak of the atmosphere is also wasteful.

⁹⁴Wherever there is wastage, there isn't the awareness of being powerful.

⁹⁵When you speak whilst in the awareness of being powerful, you will not speak any wasteful words, you will only speak of the jewels of knowledge.

⁹⁶So check your attitude and words.

⁹⁷There are many who think that because they have asked for forgiveness after they have performed some (wrong) action they have now become free.

⁹⁸But no. ⁹⁹No matter how much forgiveness someone asks for, once a sinful or wasteful action has been performed, the mark of that is not removed.

¹⁰⁰The mark remains; the register is then not clean.

¹⁰¹Therefore, do not say: Well, it did happen, but I have asked for forgiveness.

¹⁰²Do not adopt this custom and system.

¹⁰³Your duty is not to have any thought of sin in your thoughts, attitude or awareness.

¹⁰⁴This is known as being a Brahmin, that is, being pure.

¹⁰⁵If you have any impurity in your attitude, awareness or thoughts, then you cannot stabilise yourself in the stage of being a Brahmin. ¹⁰⁶You would then be Brahmins in namesake only.

¹⁰⁷Therefore, remain cautious at every step.

¹⁰⁸Together with happiness, also keep the powers with you.

¹⁰⁹If, together with the specialities, you also have weaknesses, then one weakness would finish many specialities.

¹¹⁰So now, in order to reveal your specialities, finish your weaknesses.

¹¹¹Do you understand? ¹¹²If, whilst doing service, you do disservice, then that disservice is visible.

¹¹³No matter how much nectar there may be, if even one drop of poison is mixed with it, all the nectar becomes poison.

¹¹⁴No matter how much service you do, if you make one little mistake, that becomes a reason for disservice; it finishes your service.

¹¹⁵Therefore, you have to pay a great deal of attention to your own self and to the service you do.

¹¹⁶First of all, you have to do it, and then speak of it in words.

¹¹⁷It is easy to say something, but it takes effort to do it.

¹¹⁸The fruit of effort is very good, whereas the fruit of just speaking is not good.

¹¹⁹First of all, do something and then speak about it.

¹²⁰Then see how much service of quality is accomplished.

¹²¹Look at your quality. ¹²²Do you understand?

¹²³Make your attitude and the atmosphere powerful.

¹²⁴The birth of you Brahmins is for becoming and making others also; not just for becoming.

¹²⁵You have to study in order to teach others.

¹²⁶You are the world benefactors, are you not?

¹²⁷Just as Baba is the Benefactor, you are also His helpers.

¹²⁸Therefore, do not think that your attitude is all right, but that the atmosphere made this thing happen.

¹²⁹If your attitude is all right but it is not influencing the atmosphere, then it means your attitude is not powerful.

¹³⁰Anything that is powerful definitely creates an influence on everything around it; it cannot remain hidden.

¹³¹So, in order to recognise your own attitude, check what influence your attitude has on the atmosphere.

¹³²If the atmosphere appears to be something else, then understand that there is a weakness in your attitude also.

¹³³You should then finish that weakness.

¹³⁴Nowadays, what is especially visible in service in all four directions?

¹³⁵You are very clever in playing music, but by being caught up with the music, you move away from the meaning of the words.

¹³⁶You have to become those who know all secrets, but instead, you have become those who are caught up with the music.

¹³⁷The meaning (significance) and the music should both be equal. ¹³⁸If one is in great force and the other is incognito, then the result also remains incognito.

¹³⁹All of you have become very clever in playing music, but you also have to become those who understand the significance of everything.

¹⁴⁰Now, become raazyukt and yogyukt.

¹⁴¹Achcha.

¹⁴²To those who are raazyukt, yogyukt and yuktiyukt, namaste. ¹⁴³* * * O M S H A N T I * * *