Avyakt murli for Thursday 18 July 1974

⁰> > 26/06/95 Om Shanti Avyakt BapDada Madhuban 18/07/74

¹Today, BapDada is especially seeing the line of fortune of the Madhuban niwasis.

²Each of you is creating your lineof fortune on the basis of the shrimat and sustenance you have taken from BapDada. ³Do you constantly look at yourimage in the mirror?

⁴Do you know the most important specialities of this image?

⁵Those who paint physical portraitsknow what specialities the value of the portrait would be based on. ⁶The most important speciality, the attraction andthe value of a physical portrait, is based on the face.

⁷When any picture is looked at, everyone's vision will first bedrawn to the face.

⁸Each portrait is valued according to the face and features in the portrait. ⁹In the same way, on whatimportant aspects is the value of the image of fortune based?

¹⁰What are its most important specialities? ¹¹If someonewere to look at the image of fortune, what specialities would he look for?

¹²The first and most important speciality seen in the image of fortune is whether the awareness is powerful, that is,whether you are constantly the embodiment of remembrance.

¹³Secondly, does the attitude of being brothers remainconstant at all times?

¹⁴Thirdly, is your vision spiritual, that is, is it completely pure? ¹⁵These three are the main things:awareness, attitude and vision.

¹⁶It is only on the basis of these three specialities that you are able to see in the imagethe shine, the sparkle and the intoxication of divine virtues.

¹⁷If these three aspects are there in an accurate and elevatedform, the image of such fortune automatically attracts all other souls towards itself.

¹⁸Just as when someone is walkingalong a road, souls would be attracted by the physical eyes and features, in the same way, other souls are definitelyattracted towards the portrait of fortune with its spiritual drishti, its constant awareness and its attitude.

¹⁹A physicalportrait becomes instrumental in changing you into a bodily being, that is, it becomes an instrument to make you bodyconscious and attracts you towards itself against your conscious wish.

²⁰It attracts weak Brahmins or the effort­makingsouls and makes them body conscious, and then they complain that whilst walking along the path, whilst seeing livingor non­living images, from being soul conscious, they become body conscious.

²¹In the same way, when you makeyour spiritual image or portrait attractive, many body­conscious souls whilst moving along will become soulconscious.

²²Since physical images have that much attraction, do you living spiritual images not have this muchattraction?

²³If this spiritual image has even one of these three aspects missing, it would not be considered valuable.

²⁴Ina physical portrait, if the eyes, the nose or the ears etc. are inaccurate, the value of the portrait is greatly reduced.

²⁵Nomatter how beautiful the portrait as a whole may be, if something is lacking in the most important part, the face, theportrait becomes useless or its value is halved.

²⁶So too, if even one of the three specialities is missing, the time periodof your reward and attainment is halved, that is, from being sixteen celestial degrees complete, you come into the partof being fourteen celestial degrees, and so the value is halved, isn't it?

²⁷Therefore, you need to check all these threethings at all times.

²⁸Achcha, do you check yourselves in this way?

²⁹Do you know what is the meter for checking?

³⁰You would check using some meter, wouldn't you?

³¹What is the meterwith which you would check yourself?

³²The meter is the intellect, and from the moment you become a Brahmin, youare given the eye of a divine intellect.

³³For instance, in some worldly clans, in order to make someone an expert inbattling or violence, soon after he takes birth, initially, instead of using the sword, they teach him how to use a knifeor a stick.

³⁴Through this he is able to maintain the awareness of his clan of brave warriors.

³⁵BapDada also gives allyou Brahmins the eye of the divine intellect to be able to recognise Maya as well as to save yourselves from herattack.

³⁶However, if instead of having a divine intellect, you become those who have an ordinary intellect, you areunable to check yourself and you are therefore unable to recognise Maya and save yourself from Maya's attack.

³⁷First of all, check if you constantly have the eye of the divine intellect with yourself?

³⁸Is the bad company of Maya ora very influential atmosphere sometimes making the eye of your divine intellect dirty? ³⁹Or, is it causing any defects?In order to create such an elevated portrait of yourself, in order to fill yourself with these three specialities, rememberthree terms : 1) You have to stabilise yourself in the stage of nirvana, the stage of being beyond. ⁴⁰2) You have to behumble.

⁴¹3) You have to bring about construction of the new world. ⁴²To be beyond, to bring about renewal and to behumble, that is, beyond any desire for regard or respect: keep these three terms in your awareness and the portrait ofyour fortune will become very attractive. ⁴³Whilst moving along, you lack these three things.

⁴⁴You stay very little inthe stage of being beyond; you come into sound easily and with a lot of interest.

⁴⁵According to the deep desire ofcoming into sound, to the same extent, the desire which you should have for the sweetness of being stable in the stageof being beyond is lacking. ⁴⁶Instead of being humble, you easily accept all the different types of respect: respect foryour position, your virtues, your service, your success etc., or else you have the desire to accept it.

⁴⁷You seek respectand you are therefore, even now, unable to complete the course of self­respect.

⁴⁸When you stop seeking this form ofrespect, you will easily and automatically be able to have the stage of self­respect.

⁴⁹Desire for respect makes youforget self­respect.

⁵⁰In the same way, instead of being constructive and bringing about renewal, you bring aboutdifferent types of destruction.

⁵¹That is, instead of bringing about renewal, you sometimes become instrumental inbringing someone's stage down.

⁵²In every thought and every action, constantly check whether that particular thought,word or action is instrumental in the task of renewal.

⁵³By having such a stage, you will automatically develop allvirtues.

⁵⁴At the present time, this is the method to intensify your effort.

⁵⁵The result of Madhuban niwasis is good.

⁵⁶The majority of you have been tireless servers in the subject of love and co­operation and will also continue to be this in the future.

⁵⁷You have become worthy of being praised, because BapDadaHimself is praising you.

⁵⁸What do you have to do further now?

⁵⁹Madhuban niwasis should make a vow that is muchmore special than that made by other souls.

⁶⁰What is that?

⁶¹You have to take this vow: We will all follow the onedirection, have the same elevated attitude, the same spiritual vision; we will have a constant, stable stage, be co­operative with one another and have good wishes for one another. ⁶²Whilst having pure feelings and elevated wishesfor all, even though each of us has different sanskars, we will make the fortress of satopradhan sanskars the same asthe Father's and make the nature of the self, that which has self­respect, very strong.

⁶³This is the vow you have tomake. ⁶⁴Do you have the courage to make this vow for yourself and for others?

⁶⁵Even those who stay in theirhousehold and have to go into different atmospheres make this vow just for themselves.

⁶⁶You Madhuban niwasismustn't just make this vow for yourselves, but you also need the courage to make this vow for the gathering.

⁶⁷This isthe speciality of Madhuban, the land of blessings.

⁶⁸Do you understand? ⁶⁹Just as you showed the practical fruit of courage, in the same way, by continuing to caution one another and co­operating with one another, you will be successful in putting this vow into practice.

⁷⁰Just as other zones have beentold to give the proof of their special service, in the same way, Madhuban niwasis also have to give the proof of this.Is it difficult to give this proof?

⁷¹For how long have you been taking loving sustenance and teachings from the sakarand avyakt forms?

⁷²After taking sustenance, you become instruments to give sustenance to other souls.

⁷³Have youbecome instruments to give such sustenance or are you still those who take sustenance?

⁷⁴Now, you older ones have tosustain the new children that come, that is, through your being the embodiment of the teachings and with your love,you have to remain busy in this task day and night and co­operate in making them move forward.

⁷⁵This avyakt part isespecially for the new ones, whilst the older ones now have to become the same as the Father and increase the zealand enthusiasm of new ones.

⁷⁶Just as BapDada places the children ahead of Himself and makes them even more elevated than He is, so it is the dutyof the older ones to show the proof by revealing themselves as the practical embodiment of all the teachings and makethe new ones go ahead of themselves.

⁷⁷You have to give the return of the sustenance in a practical way.

⁷⁸Achcha.

⁷⁹To such worthy children, to those who show the image of their fortune through their dharna; to those who constantlyuse the most important mantra and meter; to those who use their every thought and second for the benefit of others inthe same way as BapDada; to those who constantly maintain their own original respect; to those who reveal theoriginal and eternal sanskars in the same way as BapDada; to the stars of success who use their every thought andmoment in a worthwhile way, BapDada's love, remembrances and namaste. ⁸⁰* * * O M S H A N T I * * *