Avyakt murli for Friday 18 December 1987

⁰> > 18-12-87 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹The deep definition of the karmateet stage.

²Today the Bodiless Father is seeing His elevated children who remain stable in the bodiless stage.

³Every Brahmin soul is coming close to his perfect stage through having the elevated aim of becoming bodiless and karmateet.

⁴Today BapDada was seeing the closeness of your karmateet and bodiless stage: Who has come close to this stage and how close have you come to it?

⁵To what extent have you followed Father Brahma or are still doing so? ⁶The aim of all of you is to be close to the Father and become equal to Him, but you become numberwise in the practical form. ⁷You saw the physical example of Father Brahma staying in that body and yet remaining bodiless, that is, karmateet.

⁸So, what is the speciality of becoming karmateet?

⁹For as long as you still have that body and you are playing your part through your physical organs on this field of action, you cannot stop performing actions for even a second.

¹⁰Karmateet means to beyond the bondage of karma while performing actions. ¹¹One is a bondage, and the other is a relationship.

¹²To enter a relationship of karma through the physical organs is a different matter from being tied in a bondage of karma.

¹³Karmic bondage makes you dependent on the limited fruit of karma. ¹⁴The word "dependent" proves that you are depending on someone.

¹⁵Those who depend on others become those who wander around like ghosts.

¹⁶What is the condition of a person whom an evil soul has entered?

¹⁷He just wanders around under someone else's control.

¹⁸In the same way, if you are controlled by your actions, that is, if you are controlled by the desires of the perishable fruit of karma, then that karma will tie you in bondage and continue to make your intellect wander. ¹⁹That is called the bondage of karma that causes distress for the self and others too.

²⁰"Karmateet" means someone who is not dependent on karma, but someone who comes into a relationship (connection) with the physical organs as their master, as an authority, someone who is detached from perishable desires and makes the physical organs act. ²¹The karma should not make the soul, the master, dependent, but as one with rights he should enable the organs to continue to perform actions.

²²When physical organs attract you, it means you are controlled by your actions; you remain dependent and tied in bondage. ²³Karmateet means to be beyond this, that is, to be detached from this.

²⁴It is the task of the eyes to see, but who is it that enables the eyes to see?

²⁵The eyes perform the action, but it is the soul that enables that action to be performed.

²⁶So, when the soul that makes an action be performed becomes dependent on the physical organs that perform the action, that is called bondage of karma. ²⁷When you become one who makes actions be performed or makes an action take place, it is called coming into relationship of karma.

²⁸A karmateet soul comes into relationship, but does not remain tied in bondage.

²⁹Sometimes, you say: I didn't want to say that, but I just said it. ³⁰I didn't want to do that, but I just did it.

³¹Such a soul is said to be a soul who is controlled by the bondage of karma.

³²Would such a soul be said to be close or far from the karmateet stage?

³³Karmateet means to be beyond, that is, separate from the bondage of the body, bodily relations, materials and lokik and alokik relationships.

³⁴Although the word used is "relationship" ­ bodily relationships or relationships with physical relatives ­ if there is dependency on the body or the relatives, then that relationship too becomes a bondage.

³⁵The word "relationship" is one that gives you a lovely and unique experience.

³⁶The relationships of all souls today have changed into bondages. ³⁷Where a relationship has taken on the form of a bondage, that bondage continues to cause distress for the self in one way or another. ³⁸It will make them experience waves of sorrow or unhappiness.

³⁹Although having all perishable attainments, they will experience the happiness of those attainments temporarily.

⁴⁰Together with that happiness, one minute they will experience being an embodiment of attainment, and the next minute, although having all attainments, they will experience the stage of a lack of attainment.

⁴¹Although full and overflowing, they will feel themselves to be empty.

⁴²Although having everything, they will continue to experience, "I need something else." ⁴³And, where souls are constantly wanting something, there cannot be contentment.

⁴⁴It will not be possible for the mind, for the body or for everyone else to remain constantly happy at all times.

⁴⁵They will continue to be upset with themselves or with others due to one thing or another, even against their conscious wishes because to be upset means you have not understood the significance.

⁴⁶It means you have not understood the significance of being one who has the right to make the physical organs act.

⁴⁷So, you would then be upset, would you not?

⁴⁸Those who are karmateet will never get upset because they know the significance of the relationship of karma and the bondage of karma.

⁴⁹Perform actions, not while being dependent, but as one who has a right, as a master.

⁵⁰Karmateet means one who is free from the bondage of his karmic account of past karma.

⁵¹Even if there is an illness of the body due to the karmic account of past karma or if the sanskars of your mind are in conflict with the sanskars of other souls, someone who is karmateet would not be controlled by the suffering of karma, but as a master would enable that account to be settled.

⁵²To be a karma yogi and settle the suffering of karma is the sign of becoming karmateet.

⁵³Through yoga, with a smile, change the suffering of karma from a crucifix to a thorn and burn it, that is, finish the suffering of karma.

⁵⁴It should not take on the form of a disease.

⁵⁵When it becomes the form of a disease, then that one himself constantly continues to speak of it as a disease.

⁵⁶He will speak about it in his own mind and also through his lips.

⁵⁷Secondly, because of it being the form of a disease, he himself will be distressed and will also make others distressed.

⁵⁸Such a soul will cry out, whereas someone who is karmateet will manage.

⁵⁹Some people have only a little pain and they cry out a lot, whereas others have a lot of pain and yet they manage.

⁶⁰Because one with a karmateet stage is the master of his body, even though he is suffering for his karma, he will have the practice of being detached.

⁶¹Every now and then, the experience of the bodiless stage will take him beyond his illness.

⁶²Just as when someone in pain is made unconscious through the facilities of science so that his pain is forgotten and he doesn't feel that pain because there is the drowsy effect of that drug, similarly, because someone in his karmateet stage has the practice of being detached, he has this spiritual injection every now and again.

⁶³Then, through this, he experiences the crucifix as a thorn.

⁶⁴And, another thing, through following the Father, as visible fruit of being especially obedient, he receives special blessings from the Father's heart.

⁶⁵First is their own practice of being bodiless and secondly, the blessings from the Father as a result of their being obedient change the illness, that is, the suffering from karma, from a crucifix to a thorn.

⁶⁶An elevated karmateet soul will change the suffering of karma with his stage of karma yoga.

⁶⁷So, do you experience this or do you feel it is a very big thing?

⁶⁸Is it easy or difficult?

⁶⁹To make a small thing big or to make a big thing small depends on your own stage.

⁷⁰To be distressed or to maintain the honour of being a master depends on yourself.

⁷¹"What has happened?" or "Whatever happened is good" depends on yourself.

⁷²This faith can change bad into good, because due to settling your karmic accounts and due to taking a practical paper from time to time, according to the drama, some things will come in front of you in a good form, whereas at other times, some things would have a good form, but would seem externally to have a harmful form. ⁷³You would refer to this and say: It wasn't good in that form.

⁷⁴Situations will come and, even now, situations continue to come and will continue to come in those forms, but behind the curtain of loss, benefit is hidden. ⁷⁵The external curtain would appear to be one of loss.

⁷⁶If you were to be patient for a little while and have a tolerant stage and see everything with introversion, you would be able to see what is hidden behind the external curtain, and, even while seeing the superficial form, you wouldn't see it. ⁷⁷You are holy swans, are you not? ⁷⁸Since those swans can separate stones from jewels, then holy swans would take the hidden benefit; they would find the benefit amid the loss.

⁷⁹Do you understand?

⁸⁰You quickly become afraid and so what happens then? ⁸¹Whatever you had thought was good also changes when you become afraid. ⁸²So, do not be afraid. ⁸³Seeing the karma, do not become trapped in the bondage of karma.

⁸⁴"What happened?

⁸⁵How did it happen? ⁸⁶It should not happen like that.

⁸⁷Why does it always happen to me?

⁸⁸It is just my fortune that is like that." ⁸⁹You continue to tie strings like this.

⁹⁰These thoughts are the strings.

⁹¹Therefore, you become tied in the bondage of karma.

⁹²Waste thoughts are the subtle strings of the bondage of karma. ⁹³A karmateet soul would say, "Whatever happens is good, I am good, the Father is good and the drama too is good.

⁹⁴These thoughts work like scissors to cut the bondage.

⁹⁵Once the bondages are cut you become karmateet, do you not?

⁹⁶Because of being children of the Benefactor Father, every second of the confluence age is benevolent.

⁹⁷At every second, your business is to bring benefit; your service is to bring benefit. ⁹⁸The occupation of Brahmins is world transformers, world benefactors.

⁹⁹For souls who have such faith in the intellect, every moment is definitely benevolent.

¹⁰⁰Do you understand? ¹⁰¹There are a lot more definitions in the language for karmateet.

¹⁰²Just as the philosophy of karma is deep, so the definition of the karmateet stage is also very great, and it is essential to become karmateet.

¹⁰³Without becoming karmateet, you cannot go with the Father. ¹⁰⁴Who will go with the Father? ¹⁰⁵Those who are equal.

¹⁰⁶You saw Father Brahma and how he achieved his karmateet stage. ¹⁰⁷To follow him in becoming karmateet means to become worthy to go with the Father.

¹⁰⁸Enough said for today. ¹⁰⁹Just check this much now, and then Baba will tell you more.

¹¹⁰Achcha.

¹¹¹To all those who remain stable in the stage of having a right, to those who change the bondage of karma into the relationship of karma, to those who change the suffering of karma into the karma yoga stage and change a crucifix into a thorn, to those who bring benefit at every second, to those who experience being close to the karmateet stage like Father Brahma, to such special souls, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.

¹¹²Blessing: May you experience the ascending stage by being honest and remaining clear in front of the Father.

¹¹³To reveal yourself in front of the Father as you are and what you are is the greatest method for the ascending stage.

¹¹⁴This is the easy way to finish all the different types of burden that are on the intellect.

¹¹⁵To remain honest and to keep yourself clear in front of the Father means to make your path of effort clear.

¹¹⁶Whenever you make plans with cleverness, according to the dictates of your own mind or the dictates of others, and then place then in front of the Father or the instrument souls, then that too is not honesty. ¹¹⁷Honesty means: Just as the Father is revealed to the children as He is and what He is, in the same way, children should be revealed to the Father. ¹¹⁸Slogan: A true tapaswi is one who always maintains the position of a complete renunciate. ¹¹⁹* * * O M S H A N T I* * *