Avyakt murli for Friday 16 February 1996

⁰> > 16-02-1996 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹In the Year of the Diamond Jubilee, pay special attention to accumulating the treasures of time and thoughts.

²Today, Father Shiva, the Creator of the Trimurti, is giving His children trimurti greetings.

³Children have come to give greetings to the Father and so, in return, the Father is giving three types of greetings.

⁴First are the greetings for Shiva Jayanti, the second are greetings for the Diamond Jubilee and the third are greetings for having zeal and enthusiasm for doing service at the present time.

⁵So BapDada is giving three types of greetings to children in all directions.

⁶The news of zeal and enthusiasm in everyone's heart for service reaches BapDada.

⁷This alokik birthday cannot take place at any other time throughout the whole kalpa.

⁸Because, throughout the whole kalpa, whether it is deity souls, whether for great souls (the mahatmas) or whether for ordinary souls, you souls have been celebrating the birthdays of souls.

⁹However, at this confluence age, whose birthday have you elevated souls come to celebrate?

¹⁰That of the Supreme Father; and the Supreme Father celebrates the birthday of the children.

¹¹Even in the golden and silver ages, neither the Supreme Soul will celebrate your birthday, nor will you celebrate the birthday of God. ¹²So you are multi, multi, multimillion times lucky souls.

¹³Did you ever even think of this elevated fortune such as yours even in your dreams?

¹⁴You didn't think about it, did you? ¹⁵However, today, you are celebrating this in the corporeal form.

¹⁶So you have this happiness, do you not? ¹⁷You have a great deal of happiness.

¹⁸Look, whether you are from this land or abroad, all those sitting in this group, even if you are Madhuban niwasis, wherever you are from, you have reached here and are sitting here today, and so you are so lucky!

¹⁹You are lucky, are you not?

²⁰So what song are you singing internally?

²¹Wah, my fortune! ²²And the Father also sings the song: Wah, the fortune of My children!

²³The group of souls doing special service is sitting here. ²⁴Special souls from all directions have come. ²⁵So you are the special souls who attain the practical, instant fruit of special service.

²⁶The Father is also happy to see such elevated children.

²⁷Are the children more happy than the Father or is the Father happier to see the children?

²⁸Is it both or is the Father more happy?

²⁹You are more happy!

³⁰Achcha.

³¹Today, BapDada is seeing the rosary of the serviceable diamonds in all directions.

³²All of you are part of the rosary, are you not?

³³Are you the beads, the sparkling diamonds, of the garland around Baba's neck or is someone else this? ³⁴Are you this?

³⁵Are you this, and not anyone else?

³⁶People speak of the rosary of one hundred and eight, but how big is the rosary of all of you diamonds around Baba's neck?

³⁷One hundred and eight would be of just all of you sitting down below.

³⁸All of you sitting at the back are also this, are you not?

³⁹Look, the instant fruit of renunciation is that BapDada gives more congratulations to those who are sitting at the back; and even more than them to the ones who are sitting down below (in the meditation hall).

⁴⁰BapDada sees the specialities of all the children.

⁴¹Even if you haven't become perfect but are still an effort­maker, there isn't a single child of the Father who doesn't have a speciality.

⁴²Each one of you has a speciality.

⁴³The first speciality is that at least you are in the list of the handful out of multimillions.

⁴⁴And the speciality is that even though the great tapaswi souls, those who call themselves the 16,108Jagadgurus, the scholars of the scriptures, even though the great Mahamandleshwars have not been able to recognise the Father, all the children of the Father have recognised the Father.

⁴⁵Therefore, to know the Father is such a great speciality.

⁴⁶You say from your heart, "My Baba".

⁴⁷By saying, "My Baba", at least you claimed all rights.

⁴⁸What would you call this?

⁴⁹Those who have recognised the Father at least have the speciality of an intellect which is able to recognise the Father. ⁵⁰At least they have the power to discern.

⁵¹So, all of you have a very elevated power to discern. ⁵²Achcha.

⁵³Today, all of you have specially come to celebrate, have you not?

⁵⁴Today is the day for celebrating. ⁵⁵It is, isn't it? ⁵⁶Or, is today also just a day for listening to Baba?

⁵⁷You also want to hear something?

⁵⁸Achcha.

⁵⁹People speak of Shiv Ratri, but what is it for you now? ⁶⁰Is it night?

⁶¹For you, if it not night, then what is it? ⁶²The confluence?

⁶³Or is it amrit vela?

⁶⁴You have come out of the night, have you not? ⁶⁵Or, is it still a little bit of the night?

⁶⁶Has the night taken leave?

⁶⁷Do you have any type of darkness? ⁶⁸Or has it finished?

⁶⁹Amrit vela is the time for constant blessings, and so what do you receive every day?

⁷⁰You receive blessings, do you not? ⁷¹You would say that the Father comes in the night, but that it has become amrit vela, the golden morning and the diamond morning, for all of you.

⁷²So, do you see your form as one who has received such blessings?

⁷³Maya does not make you forget your blessings, does she?

⁷⁴Does Maya still come?

⁷⁵Does she come sometimes?

⁷⁶Maya will come till the final moments.

⁷⁷She will not go away just like that.

⁷⁸It is Maya's duty to come and your duty to chase her away from a distance.

⁷⁹You cannot tell her not to come nor should you chase her after she has come.

⁸⁰No, that time has now finished. ⁸¹The time when Maya came and made you fluctuate and then you chased her away has now gone. ⁸²However, with the method of silence, you can recognise Maya from a distance.

⁸³Do not waste any time in this. ⁸⁴Maya also sees that you allow her to come and so she develops the habit to come.

⁸⁵If you instil a habit in a bird or an animal to come to your home, and then, when you are fed up, if you try to chase it away, it will not go because it has developed the habit.

⁸⁶And Baba has already told you earlier that some children even offer hospitality of tea etc. to Maya.

⁸⁷What tea do you offer her? ⁸⁸You know about this, do you not?

⁸⁹"What can I do?

⁹⁰How can I do it? ⁹¹I am still an effort­maker. ⁹²I haven't yet become perfect, but I will become this by the end." ⁹³These thoughts are the tea.

⁹⁴So Maya sees that she is being offered tea.

⁹⁵If you offer tea to someone, would that person go away or would he sit there comfortably?

⁹⁶So whenever any situation comes and you have the thoughts of "Why? what? how? this happens sometimes anyway, who has passed as yet? everyone has this" etc, this is offering hospitality to Maya.

⁹⁷You offer her something savoury and also something sweet.

⁹⁸What do you do then?

⁹⁹Then, when you are distressed, you tell Baba to chase her away.

¹⁰⁰You are the ones who allow her to come; so why should Baba chase her away?

¹⁰¹Why do you allow her to come?

¹⁰²Why does Maya come again and again?

¹⁰³Because at every second and whilst performing every action, you do not set yourself on the seat of being trikaldarshi. ¹⁰⁴To be trikaldarshi means to know the past, present and future.

¹⁰⁵Then you would not have to ask "Why? what?" etc.

¹⁰⁶Because of being trikaldarshi, you would know in advance that these things are to come, that this is to happen. ¹⁰⁷Whether through the self, through others, through Maya or through the elements, all types of circumstances will arise in all directions. ¹⁰⁸They have to come.

¹⁰⁹However, if the stage of the self is powerful, then the external situation is nothing in front of that.

¹¹⁰Is an external situation greater than the stage of the self?

¹¹¹Which is greater? ¹¹²Or, is it sometimes the stage of the self and sometimes the external situations?

¹¹³Does this become greater sometimes? ¹¹⁴The method for this is to check all three aspects of time ­ the beginning, the middle and the end ­ to understand them, and then do whatever is required.

¹¹⁵Do not just look at the present.

¹¹⁶If you simply look at the present, then sometimes the external situations become greater and sometimes the stage of the self seems greater.

¹¹⁷In the world also, people say: Think before you act!

¹¹⁸If you do not first think about it, then that later on takes on the form of repentance.

¹¹⁹Then you think, "If I hadn't done that, but had instead done this." ¹²⁰So these thoughts change into a form of repentance. ¹²¹However, to think about something beforehand is a sign of being an enlightened soul.

¹²²In the copper and iron ages, you have been repenting in many different ways, have you not?

¹²³However, to carry on repenting at the confluence age is not a sign of being an enlightened soul.

¹²⁴Make yourself such that you do not have to repent in your mind for even one second.

¹²⁵So, in this Diamond Jubilee, pay special attention to two treasures throughout the day: one is of time and the other of thoughts.

¹²⁶There are many treasures, but you specially have to pay attention to these two treasures.

¹²⁷Every day, check how many elevated and pure thoughts you accumulated, because it is now that the bank has opened for you to accumulate for the entire kalpa.

¹²⁸In the golden age, this bank for you to accumulate will be closed.

¹²⁹There will not be this bank nor will there be any other bank.

¹³⁰You will all have so much wealth that there will be no need for anyone to take from anyone else.

¹³¹Why is it kept in a bank?

¹³²Firstly, for safety and secondly, because you receive interest.

¹³³Many are very clever in that they simply live on the interest they receive.

¹³⁴If there are such clever ones at this time, that is good; at least they are accumulating.

¹³⁵However, you have to see how you are using the interest that you receive.

¹³⁶So, in the golden age, neither will there be that bank nor will there be the bank for you to accumulate the spiritual treasures.

¹³⁷Neither banks will exist there.

¹³⁸At present, this bank gives you multimillion fold return of one, but only when you accumulate one­fold will you receive multimillion­fold. ¹³⁹You won't get it otherwise; there is the proper account.

¹⁴⁰So it is firm for all of you that, in this Diamond Jubilee, you have to become real diamonds, is it not?

¹⁴¹Or, do you sometimes have the thought about whether you will be able to become this or not?

¹⁴²You don't have the thought of not knowing, do you?

¹⁴³No matter what happens, even if you have to have renunciation, if you have to have tapasya, if you have to become humble, no matter what you have to do, you definitely have to become this. ¹⁴⁴Is this all right?

¹⁴⁵Speak!

¹⁴⁶Ha ji or na ji? ¹⁴⁷(Ha ji).

¹⁴⁸Just be careful, because it is very easy to simply say "Ha ji", but in order to become "ha ji", you have to pay a lot of attention.

¹⁴⁹The first renunciation is of the word "I".

¹⁵⁰This word is very old, but in fact, this word today has taken on a very royal form.

¹⁵¹Even in your speech, this word "I" should finish and be replaced with "Baba, Baba".

¹⁵²In speaking about it, it may seem something ordinary. ¹⁵³"I am a worthy soul. ¹⁵⁴Because I am worthy, I should be given facilities and service accordingly.

¹⁵⁵I am worthy, I am doing this." ¹⁵⁶So is this right?

¹⁵⁷"I am doing this, so why don't people say that I am doing this?

¹⁵⁸Whether I am wrong or right, it would be said that I am doing it." ¹⁵⁹Are you not doing it?

¹⁶⁰It is Baba that is doing everything.

¹⁶¹Baba is Karavanhar (One who inspires), but I am karanhar (one who does).

¹⁶²So why is it wrong to say that "I" am doing it? ¹⁶³When you use the word "I", whom do you refer to as "I"?

¹⁶⁴The soul or the body?

¹⁶⁵Who am "I"?

¹⁶⁶"I" am the soul. ¹⁶⁷It is not the body, is it?

¹⁶⁸If someone who is soul conscious uses the word "I" with the awareness of "I am a soul", then that is right.

¹⁶⁹However, if you use the word "I" out of body consciousness, then that is wrong.

¹⁷⁰Throughout the day, you use the word "I" a great deal, and in fact, it will be used.

¹⁷¹So practise being aware of the self: when you use the word "I", who are you?

¹⁷²In fact, you are a soul.

¹⁷³Do you refer to the body as "I"?

¹⁷⁴You speak of it as "It is mine". ¹⁷⁵If you use the word "I" with soul consciousness, then the soul will automatically remember the Father.

¹⁷⁶There won't be any need to say anything.

¹⁷⁷"I am a soul" ­ instil this practice, just as you have the practice of the natural awareness of your name and form when you speak of yourself. ¹⁷⁸Who am "I"?

¹⁷⁹I am "So­and­so".

¹⁸⁰What am I like?

¹⁸¹You have had the wrong practice, and it has become natural.

¹⁸²You don't even have to think about it. ¹⁸³When you use the word "I" with the wrong awareness, you have to labour more and attain less results.