Avyakt murli for Saturday 14 May 1977

⁰> > 12/05/97 Om Shanti Avyakt BapDada Madhuban 14/05/77

¹Self­respect and orders

²Do you constantly remain happy whilst constantly remembering the fortune you have attained from Baba, the Bestower of Fortune?

³Out of the entire kalpa, it is only at this time that you attain the most elevated fortune.

⁴It is only at this time that you experience the stage of constantly being the most fortunate souls.

⁵Even in the future, you will not attain such fortune.

⁶Just as the Father considers the children to be the ones with the most elevated fortune, so does each one of you also conduct yourself considering yourself to be that fortunate?

⁷This is known as being stable in your stage of self­respect and paying attention to your thoughts, words and deeds.

⁸Firstly, constantly maintain your self­respect. ⁹Secondly, follow Baba’s orders at every step.

¹⁰You have to pay attention to these two aspects: self­respect and orders.

¹¹As well as this, when you interact with others, it has to be with respect.

¹²By stabilising yourself in your self­respect, you will constantly maintain the stage of a destroyer of obstacles. ¹³Do you clearly know what self­respect is?

¹⁴The Father’s praise is your self­respect.

¹⁵Even if you keep just one aspect of His praise in your awareness, you would automatically be able to maintain your self­respect.

¹⁶By remaining stable in your stage of self­respect, you cannot experience any type of arrogance, whether it is arrogance of your body, intellect, name, service or special virtue. ¹⁷All of that comes to an end, and you thereby become a constant destroyer of obstacles.

¹⁸Those who maintain their self­respect are always humble. ¹⁹They do not have any type of arrogance, but remain very humble.

²⁰Through this, you automatically receive constant regard from others.

²¹Because of being beyond any desire of receiving respect, you become worthy of receiving the most elevated respect from everyone. ²²This is an eternal law.

²³You do not receive respect by asking for it from everyone, but it is by giving respect to others and remaining stable in your stage of self­respect that matter becomes your servant, and it is because of your self­respect that you receive respect from others by right.

²⁴By renouncing the desire for regard, you receive the fortune of being respected by everyone.

²⁵Those who maintain their self­respect do not receive respect from everyone for just this one birth, but for the entire kalpa. ²⁶For half the kalpa, they receive respect from their royal family and subjects, and for the other half, they receive it from their bhagats.

²⁷You receive so much, that whilst in your living form at this time, you are still able to see the reward of the respect you received even in your final birth.

²⁸Whilst in the living form, you are able to see your non­living images, are you not?

²⁹So, what was the basis of that respect which you received for the entire kalpa?

³⁰Renunciation of short­lived respect.

³¹That is, you have to stabilise in your stage of self­respect, be humble and give respect to everyone.

³²This giving becomes a form of receiving.

³³To give regard means to put zeal and enthusiasm into other souls and thus enabling them to move forward.

³⁴Short­ lived charity is performed by giving some short­lived thing, or by co­operating for a short time.

³⁵However, it is permanent zeal and enthusiasm, that is, it is the treasure of happiness, the treasure of your co­operation, that enables souls to become charitable souls for all time.

³⁶This is why this becomes the greatest charity of all.

³⁷Throughout the entire kalpa, you receive the fruit of the charity you perform in this one birth.

³⁸This is why Baba said: To give regard is not to give regard, but to receive it.

³⁹In lokik life also, when someone performs an act of charity, he is respected by everyone.

⁴⁰However, the fruit of this elevated charity is that you become both worthy of worship and worthy of respect.

⁴¹Ask yourself: Do I constantly perform such charitable acts as a charitable soul?

⁴²Are you those who receive or those who give? ⁴³When you think, “Give me regard; I should receive regard; why was respect for me not maintained?

⁴⁴Why was the other one given respect?”, the feeling of asking in this way is also a royal form of begging. ⁴⁵So, have self­respect and respect for others.

⁴⁶You have to maintain your self­respect and also give respect to others.

⁴⁷What else do you have to do?

⁴⁸You have to follow orders at every step.

⁴⁹The entire world is surrendered to those who follow orders at every step.

⁵⁰As well as this, Maya too, along with her entire progeny, totally surrenders.

⁵¹If Maya is constantly waging war against you, it proves that you are not following orders at every step.

⁵²Because you do not follow Baba’s orders constantly, Maya also does not surrender to you instantly.

⁵³This is why Maya wages war constantly and why you repeatedly become those who cry out in distress.

⁵⁴When you call out, “Maya has come”, this is crying out in distress, is it not? “Today, she came in this form.

⁵⁵What shall I do now?

⁵⁶How can I finish Maya’s obstacle?” Because you did not instantly surrender, Maya cries out in distress and you also cry out in distress.

⁵⁷Therefore, if you follow orders, Maya will surrender to you.

⁵⁸When you surrender to the Father, Maya will surrender to you.

⁵⁹The method of following orders is so easy!

⁶⁰Self­respect and following orders is very easy, is it not?

⁶¹By adopting this method, you will be liberated from difficulties for many births.

⁶²At present, you are an easy yogi, and in the future you will have an easy life.

⁶³So create such an easy life.

⁶⁴Do you understand?

⁶⁵Achcha. ⁶⁶To the obedient children who constantly follow orders; to those who constantly maintain their self­ respect; to those who renounce short­lived, perishable respect; to those who attain the part of being respected and worshipped by everyone; to the souls who have surrendered themselves to the Father; to the loving souls who constantly give respect to everyone and who become worthy of their love, BapDada’s love, remembrance and namaste.

⁶⁷Are the Pandav army on the battlefield?

⁶⁸Pandavs are known as mahavirs.

⁶⁹A mahavir means one who is constantly a conqueror of Maya.

⁷⁰Mahavirs do not become afraid of Maya, but they challenge Maya.

⁷¹No matter what form Maya comes in, you have to recognise her with the power of discrimination and become victorious.

⁷²So, have you developed the power to recognise her?

⁷³When Maya is coming, are you able to recognise her from a distance or do you recognise her when she begins to attack you?

⁷⁴The sharper your power to recognise is, the more you will be able to see Maya off from a distance.

⁷⁵If you chase her away after she has come, time is wasted. ⁷⁶Then, having come, she sometimes even sits down. ⁷⁷Therefore, you mustn’t allow her to come.

⁷⁸Nowadays, you have to practise being far­sighted. ⁷⁹Scientific instruments help them to see things at a distance.

⁸⁰Previously, when storms would come, you had to make preparations to protect yourself from them, but it is not like that any more.

⁸¹Now, when you know that there is a storm coming, you try to avert it.

⁸²Since science is advancing, the power of silence also has to be very far advanced.

⁸³In order to see Maya off from a distance, you need to be constantly stable in the trikaldarshi stage.

⁸⁴You have to see every aspect in the three aspects of time, in terms of, “What the situation is; what its present form is; and how you can finish it in the form that it came earlier and in the form that it has come now.” When you see the three aspects, Maya will not defeat you in her war against you.

⁸⁵However, because you are not in the trikaldarshi stage when you look at everything, you only see the present, and this is why there is sometimes victory and sometimes defeat; there isn’t constant victory.

⁸⁶Maya can never be protected from those who remain stable in their trikaldarshi stage.

⁸⁷If Maya wages war again and again, then you will not be able to experience supersensuous joy even if you want to.

⁸⁸It is remembered that the supersensuous joy of the confluence age is such a blessing that it cannot be experienced in any other age.

⁸⁹This is the experience of the present time. ⁹⁰So, if you have not experienced supersensuous joy, then what have you accomplished as a Brahmin?

⁹¹The speciality of being a Brahmin is to experience supersensuous joy, and if you haven’t experienced this, you haven’t done anything.

⁹²Therefore, constantly check that you are constantly experiencing supersensuous joy. ⁹³What would be the sign of those who remain in supersensuous joy?

⁹⁴Those who remain in supersensuous joy will never be attracted towards joy experienced through the physical organs.

⁹⁵Just as a wealthy person, walking along a street, is never attracted to anything because he is full and complete, in the same way, those who stay in supersensuous joy will consider the pleasure gained through physical organs to be like poison.

⁹⁶So, would anyone be attracted by poison? ⁹⁷In the same way, they would constantly remain beyond the pleasure experienced through physical organs.

⁹⁸They would not have to labour, but, because of being knowledge­full, they would recognise all of that (pleasure through physical organs) to be degraded.

⁹⁹If, whilst moving along, you become attracted towards the pleasure of the physical organs, it proves that you lack something in your experience of supersensuous joy.

¹⁰⁰You have the desire to experience this, but have not attained it.

¹⁰¹It means that you are still a seeker, not a child.

¹⁰²A child is one who has a right whereas a seeker is one who just has a desire. ¹⁰³It is not that you have the desire to attain something, but you have already attained it.

¹⁰⁴You are those who experience the happiness of this right. ¹⁰⁵Constantly maintain this supersensuous joy. ¹⁰⁶For how many births have you been experiencing pleasure through physical organs?

¹⁰⁷You also know what attainment you gained through that, do you not? ¹⁰⁸What did you attain?

¹⁰⁹You gained something and then lost it. ¹¹⁰Since you have lost it, why are you still attracted towards it?

¹¹¹The time of attainment of supersensuous joy is even shorter now. ¹¹²If you don’t attain it now, you will never attain it.

¹¹³If you don’t make a bargain for it now, you never will.

¹¹⁴You still keep on thinking about it: Should I discard this or not?

¹¹⁵Baba says: If you let go, you will be able to leave it.

¹¹⁶You say, “I am not able to let go.

¹¹⁷You, yourself, are holding onto it and then you say that you are not able to let go! ¹¹⁸You are the creators, and so don’t let this make you stumble again and again.

¹¹⁹In order to remain constantly unshakeable and immovable, which virtue should you specifically imbibe? ¹²⁰Become a customer of virtues.

¹²¹If you pick up virtues in every situation, you will not fluctuate.

¹²²To pick up virtues means to have benevolent feelings.

¹²³When you see defects, there are feelings of harm and there will be fluctuation.

¹²⁴To see virtues in defects is known as picking up virtues.

¹²⁵Even whilst seeing defects, you should pick up virtues.

¹²⁶Pick up virtues from those who have defects; just as they are firm in their defects, you have to remain firm in your virtues.

¹²⁷Become a customer of virtues, not defects.

¹²⁸Which food makes the soul constantly powerful? ¹²⁹That of happiness. ¹³⁰It is said: There is no nourishment like happiness.

¹³¹Those who maintain their happiness would be powerful.

¹³²By using the shield of drama very well, you will constantly remain happy and never wilt.

¹³³If you constantly have the awareness of the drama, you will never wilt.

¹³⁴Even in your intellect, you should constantly have happiness, not just in the form of knowledge.

¹³⁵No matter what the scene is, you should seek benefit for yourself from it and you will constantly remain happy.

¹³⁶To come to such an elevated land means to be very fortunate.

¹³⁷In order to keep this fortune constantly, pay constant attention that your stage remains steady.

¹³⁸To be steady means to be so lost in the sweetness of One that nothing else will attract you.

¹³⁹If your intellect is pulled towards any other sweetness, then you will neither be able to remain steady nor constant.

¹⁴⁰Do you experience yourself to be knowledge­full and an ocean of knowledge, the same as the Father?

¹⁴¹To be knowledge­full means to be one who constantly performs truthful actions and doesn’t waste anything.

¹⁴²Since you are the children of the true Father, and you are establishing satyug, your actions should also be true.

¹⁴³All your thoughts, words and deeds should be truthful.

¹⁴⁴This is known as being the same as the Father, master knowledge­full, that is, an embodiment of knowledge. ¹⁴⁵Achcha.

¹⁴⁶Blessing:May you be free from all bondage and use the treasures of knowledge to experience mukti and jeevanmukti.The treasure of the jewels of knowledge is the most elevated treasure.