Avyakt murli for Saturday 3 April 1982

⁰> > 03-04-82 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹The first and foremost renunciation is the renunciation of body consciousness.

²Today, BapDada is seeing His children who are images of renunciation.

³Each and every Brahmin soul is an embodiment of renunciation.

⁴However, just as you have been told about fortune, that even though all of you are children of the one Father and you all receive the same fortune and inheritance, you become numberwise on the basis of taking care of and increasing that.

⁵So too, all of you have become images of renunciation, but you are also numberwise in this.

⁶You had renunciation and became Brahmins but the definition of renunciation is very deep.

⁷For the sake of it, all of you say the same thing, that you have renounced your body, mind, wealth and relations.

⁸However, the renunciation of the body means the renunciation of the consciousness of the body.

⁹So, have you renounced the consciousness of the body or are you still renouncing it?

¹⁰Renunciation means to let go of everything and every situation, to step away from the feeling of anything belonging to you and to finish your rights to it.

¹¹Whomsoever you renounced that thing to, it now belongs to that person.

¹²You cannot even have any thoughts of whatever you have renounced, because you cannot take back anything that you have renounced or promised to renounce, even in your thoughts.

¹³For example, limited sannyasis renounce their home and relations and go away. ¹⁴However, if they were to return home again, what would that be called?

¹⁵According to their rules, they cannot return.

¹⁶In the same way, you Brahmins are unlimited sannyasis and renunciates.

¹⁷You images of renunciation have renounced your old home, that is, your old body and the consciousness of the old body. ¹⁸Your intellect had the thought of never again being attracted to that old home.

¹⁹You would not come back to it even in your thoughts.

²⁰That was the first renunciation.

²¹This is why it is said: Renounce all bodily relations including the body and renunciation of the consciousness of the body.

²²So, you don’t come back into the house that you have already renounced, do you? ²³What did you promise?

²⁴Did you say “Even the body belongs to You” or did you just say “The mind belongs to You”?

²⁵The first word you used is “body”.

²⁶You speak of body, mind and wealth. ²⁷You speak of the body and bodily relations.

²⁸So, what was the first renunciation?

²⁹To forget the consciousness of the old body and to step away from it.

³⁰This was the first step of renunciation.

³¹In a home, you have all the paraphernalia of a household. ³²In the same way, the different physical senses are the paraphernalia of the home, the body.

³³Therefore, renunciation of the home means renunciation of everything.

³⁴So, although you have left your home, if there is still attachment to even one thing, would that be called renunciation?

³⁵Similarly, if any of the physical senses attract you towards themselves, then would that be called complete renunciation?

³⁶Check yourself in this way.

³⁷Don’t become careless thinking that because you have let go of everything else, then if only one of the physical senses is causing mischief, that will automatically be put right in time.

³⁸However, the attraction of even one of the physical senses will stop you from belonging to the Father.

³⁹It won’t allow you to stabilise in a constant and steady stage.

⁴⁰It won’t allow you to enter the first division.

⁴¹If someone has given up all their diamonds, jewels, and palaces but still has attachment to a damaged earthenware vessel, then what will happen?

⁴²Just as a diamond attracts towards itself, similarly, the broken earthenware vessel would repeatedly attract that person even more than a diamond.

⁴³Even against their conscious wish, their intellect would repeatedly be pulled to it.

⁴⁴In this way, if you are still attracted by any of the physical senses, then that will repeatedly bring you down and stop you from claiming an elevated status.

⁴⁵Therefore, there has to be renunciation of the old home and all the old paraphernalia of that. ⁴⁶Don’t think that that is a very minor thing, because, even that small amount will make you lose a great deal.

⁴⁷Therefore, there has to be complete renunciation.

⁴⁸Consider that old body to be an invaluable treasure that you have received from BapDada.

⁴⁹You have to use it for service. ⁵⁰That body is not yours, but an invaluable treasure for service.

⁵¹It is as though you are living in that body as a guest.

⁵²BapDada has given you that body for a short time in order to carry out a task.

⁵³So what have you become?

⁵⁴A guest! ⁵⁵Renounce the consciousness of “mine”.

⁵⁶And, whilst considering yourself to be a guest (mehmaan), use the body for a great task (mahaan).

⁵⁷What does a guest remember?

⁵⁸Do they remember their real home or do they become trapped in this one?

⁵⁹So the home of the body of all of you is that of the angelic form and then that of a deity form. ⁶⁰Therefore remember that!

⁶¹Just like BapDada takes the support of this old body and yet doesn’t become trapped in it, so too, live in that old body.

⁶²Take the support of it in order to perform actions and then stabilise yourself in your angelic form.

⁶³Stabilise yourself in your incorporeal form.

⁶⁴Simply come down from your elevated stage of being up above and detached, in order to perform actions through the physical senses.

⁶⁵This is known as being a guest, that is, being great.

⁶⁶Do you live like this? ⁶⁷Have you finished taking the first step of renunciation?

⁶⁸Something amusing that BapDada hears nowadays is that none of you consider yourself to be any less.

⁶⁹If any of you were told, that, out of two people, one is junior and the other is senior, then what do you do? ⁷⁰Do any of you consider yourself to be any less?

⁷¹You take the weapons of “Why?” and “What?” and show the wrong form of power. ⁷²These ornaments are no less!

⁷³Just as there are the ornaments of all powers, so too, the arms of Maya, Ravan, are no less.

⁷⁴Shaktis have been portrayed with many arms.

⁷⁵They are portrayed with 8 or 16 arms, but Ravan has been portrayed with many heads.

⁷⁶Why is this?

⁷⁷Because the power of Ravan, Maya, first of all creates upheaval in the head.

⁷⁸How many forms does Maya take the second she comes?

⁷⁹So many heads of the questions are created in the form of: “Why? ⁸⁰What? ⁸¹Is it like this?

⁸²Is it like that?” ⁸³As soon as one is cut off, another one is created.

⁸⁴10 things instantly come into your intellect at the same time.

⁸⁵Therefore that is like giving 10 heads to one thing.

⁸⁶You have experienced these things have you not?

⁸⁷Then each head shows its own form.

⁸⁸You become one who has the weapons of 10 heads.

⁸⁹Shakti means to be co-operative.

⁹⁰Not a Shakti with the head of arrogance, but someone who always has all arms, that is, someone who co-operates in every situation.

⁹¹Souls who have the 10 heads of Ravan never co-operate even in small situations.

⁹²Through the heads of “Why?

⁹³What? ⁹⁴How?” they will reveal their false arrogance.

⁹⁵They solve the question of “Why?” and then raise the head of “How?”

⁹⁶That is, they solve one thing and then start something else.

⁹⁷They solve the second thing and then create the third thing.

⁹⁸They repeatedly say: That is fine, but what about this?

⁹⁹Why is that like that?

¹⁰⁰This is called being a Shakti who gives 10 heads to one thing.

¹⁰¹They never co-operate; they constantly create opposition to everything.

¹⁰²Therefore, those who create opposition belong to the community of Ravan, do they not?

¹⁰³Although they have become Brahmins, because they are influenced at that time, there is the influence of devilish power.

¹⁰⁴Whereas someone who is an embodiment of power will constantly co-operate in every situation.

¹⁰⁵The symbol of co-operation are the arms.

¹⁰⁶This is why, whenever a task has to be accomplished collectively, what words do you use? ¹⁰⁷Each one should give a finger.

¹⁰⁸Therefore, this is giving co-operation, is it not? ¹⁰⁹Fingers are part of the arms, are they not?

¹¹⁰So the arms are the symbol of co-operation.

¹¹¹Therefore, do you understand about the arms of the Shaktis and heads of Ravan?

¹¹²So examine yourself to see whether you are constantly an image of co-operation.

¹¹³Have you followed the Father in taking the first step of renunciation?

¹¹⁴You saw or you heard about Brahma Baba.

¹¹⁵What did he constantly have in his thoughts and on his lips? ¹¹⁶That this is the chariot of the Father.

¹¹⁷So to whom does your chariot belong?

¹¹⁸Was it just Brahma who gave his chariot or did all of you also give your chariot? ¹¹⁹The part of entering Brahma is separate, but all of you also said: “The body is Yours”.

¹²⁰You didn’t say: “The body is mine”.

¹²¹The promise that all of you made was: However You make me move, wherever You make me sit...”

¹²²This was your promise, was it not?

¹²³Or is it that I will use my eyes and the Father will use everything else?

¹²⁴That you will in part follow your own dictates and in part follow shrimat?

¹²⁵Was this your promise?

¹²⁶So, is it shrimat or your own dictates for you to be influenced by any of the physical senses?

¹²⁷Therefore, do you understand how deep the definition of renunciation is?

¹²⁸This is how Brahma became number one.

¹²⁹Now, Baba has just told you of the renunciation of the body.

¹³⁰There is still a lot more. ¹³¹There are many steps of renunciation but Baba is just talking about the first step.

¹³²You don’t find renunciation difficult, do you? ¹³³You have to renounce everything.

¹³⁴If you receive something new in return for something old, then is that difficult?

¹³⁵And you receive it now!

¹³⁶To receive it in the future is not a big thing.

¹³⁷However, renounce the old consciousness and take on the angelic form.