Avyakt murli for Monday 2 December 1985

⁰> > 02-12-85 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹Spiritual power – the way to become free from bondage.

²Today, BapDada was looking at the power of spirituality of His spiritual children.

³Because of being His children every spiritual child has claimed the full right of spiritual power from the Father.

⁴However, Baba was seeing to what extent you have become embodiments of attainment.

⁵Every day, all the children call themselves spiritual children and give the return of love and remembrance to the spiritual Father either through their lips or their mind in the form of love and remembrance or namaste.

⁶You do give this return, do you not?

⁷The meaning of this is that every day the spiritual Father calls you the spiritual children and reminds you of the real meaning of spiritual power because the speciality of this Brahmin life is spirituality.

⁸You transform yourself and others with the power of this spirituality.

⁹The main foundation is this spiritual power.

¹⁰It is with this power that you receive liberation from many types of bondage.

¹¹BapDada was seeing that even now there are some subtle bondages which you also experience you should have been liberated from, but that you are unable to put into a practical form the method to attain liberation. ¹²What is the reason for this?

¹³It is because you don’t know how to use spiritual power in every action.

¹⁴At the same time, you have to make all three – thoughts, words and deeds powerful.

¹⁵But what is it that you become loose in?

¹⁶On the one hand you make your thoughts powerful, but you become a little loose in your words.

¹⁷Sometimes, you make your words powerful and you become a little loose in your deeds.

¹⁸However, to make all three powerful spiritually at the same time is the method to attain liberation.

¹⁹Just as for the creation of the world, all three tasks of creation, sustenance and destruction are essential, in the same way, the method to become free from all types of bondage is that it is essential to have spiritual power in all three – thoughts, words and deeds – at the same time.

²⁰Sometimes you look after your mind and then something is lacking in your words.

²¹You then say: I wasn’t thinking like that, and I don’t know why it happened.

²²There has to be full attention to all three.

²³Why? ²⁴All these three methods will reveal your stage of perfection and the Father.

²⁵In order to attain liberation, spirituality has to be experienced in all three.

²⁶Those who are yuktiyukt in all three are liberated­in­life.

²⁷So BapDada was looking at the subtle bondages.

²⁸In the subtle bondages, these three also have a special connection.

²⁹The sign of someone in bondage is that that one is always influenced by others.

³⁰Someone who is in bondage will not always experience internal happiness or have the constant experience of happiness.

³¹In the physical world, temporary facilities give you the experience of temporary happiness and joy, but there isn’t the experience of internal or imperishable happiness.

³²Similarly, souls who are tied in these subtle bondages continue to move along in this Brahmin life for a short time on the basis of the means of service, the power of a gathering, one attainment or another or elevated company, and whilst they have these methods (means), they are able to experience happiness and joy.

³³However, when the means finishes (or is removed), their happiness also finishes.

³⁴It doesn’t stay constant.

³⁵Sometimes they would dance in such happiness that, at that time, there is no one like them.

³⁶However, when they come to a standstill, even a tiny stone will be experienced to be like a mountain.

³⁷Because of not having their original power, they dance in happiness on the basis of those means.

³⁸Once the means are removed, where will they dance?

³⁹This is why internal spiritual power is always essential simultaneously in all three forms.

⁴⁰The main bondage is that there is no controlling power on the thoughts in the mind.

⁴¹Because of being influenced by your own thoughts, you experience yourself to be influenced by others.

⁴²Those who are in bondage to their own thoughts remain busy in this for a long time.

⁴³You also speak of building castles in the air.

⁴⁴You build the castles and then you break them.

⁴⁵You put up a big wall.

⁴⁶This is why it is called a castle in the air.

⁴⁷Just as on the path of devotion they worship idols, decorate them and then sink them, in the same way, souls who are tied in bondage to their thoughts build many things and then they also spoil many of those things.

⁴⁸They themselves become tired of that wasteful task and also become disheartened.

⁴⁹And, sometimes, out of arrogance, they blame others for their own mistake.

⁵⁰Then, when that time has passed by, they understand and think that what they did was not right, but because of being influenced by arrogance, in order to save themselves, they blame others.

⁵¹The biggest bondage is this bondage of the mind which locks the intellect.

⁵²Therefore, no matter how much you try to explain to them, they are just not able to understand.

⁵³The special sign of being in bondage is that the power of realisation finishes.

⁵⁴This is why, without finishing this subtle bondage, you are unable to experience internal happiness or supersensuous joy for all time.

⁵⁵The speciality of the confluence age is to swing in the swing of supersensuous joy and to dance constantly in happiness.

⁵⁶So, what can be said if after becoming confluence­aged you do not experience this speciality?

⁵⁷Therefore, check yourself that you are not in any type of bondage of thoughts, whether it is a bondage of waste thoughts, a bondage of thoughts of jealousy or conflict, thoughts of carelessness or laziness – any of these types of thought is a sign of bondage in the mind. ⁵⁸So, today, BapDada was seeing the bondages: How many are liberated souls?