Avyakt murli for Tuesday 20 February 2001

⁰> > 20-02-2001 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹Shiva Jayanti, the memorial of taking a vow and totally surrendering the self.

²Today, Father Shiva, the Creator of the Trimurti, has come to meet His worthy­of­worship saligrams.

³Today, it is a meeting as well as a celebration.

⁴All of you have arrived here from all over the world with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm in order to celebrate BapDada's birthday.

⁵Children say that they have come to celebrate the Father's birthday and the Father says that He has come to celebrate the children's birthday.

⁶All of you have also come to celebrate your alokik birthday.

⁷At no other time throughout the whole cycle can there be such another lovely and unique birthday.

⁸Throughout the whole cycle, did you see or celebrate such a birthday that is the same for the Father as well as the children?

⁹This is because, for the task of world transformation, together with Father Shiva and Brahma Dada, Brahmins are also needed.

¹⁰A sacrificial fire cannot be successful without Brahmins.

¹¹This is why the birthday, the jayantis, of the Father and children are together.

¹²Children are congratulating the Father from their heart and the Father is giving each Brahmin child more than multi­multi­million times congratulations as well as blessings from the heart for the alokik birthday.

¹³Congratulations! ¹⁴Congratulations!

¹⁵Congratulations! ¹⁶Very good! ¹⁷You enjoy clapping with one hand, not two hands.

¹⁸There is a lot of happiness and so you can't stop your hands; they just move automatically.

¹⁹In the world also, devotees celebrate Shiv Jayanti with a lot of splendour.

²⁰However, their celebration is one night without sleep (jagran) or a fast for one day.

²¹You children have not had the thought of having jagran of the sleep of ignorance for only one day ­ they too have jagran ­ but you have stayed awake for the whole of this one life of the confluence age that is like a diamond.

²²You have awakened, have you not? ²³You will not now go back to sleep, will you?

²⁴Or will you fall asleep a little?

²⁵Achcha, you may not have fallen asleep, but perhaps you nod off!

²⁶This staying awake throughout the night is such that you yourself are awake, and you also awaken others.

²⁷In this life of knowledge, to remain awake means to come out of the darkness and into the light.

²⁸All of you like this spiritual wakefulness, do you not?

²⁹From the moment you took birth and celebrated your birthday, what vows have you kept from that time?

³⁰Do you remember them? ³¹Children say: Let alone remembering them, our life has become that of a natural vow.

³²Our life has become one of pure diet, pure interaction and pure thoughts.

³³It isn't for just one or two months, but it has become such that we have imbibed this vow in our life.

³⁴It has become natural and it has become our nature.

³⁵You have made your nature that of purity, have you not?

³⁶Has your nature become that or do you have to make it that?

³⁷It has become that, has it not?

³⁸Simply nod in agreement, that's all!

³⁹Has it become that? ⁴⁰Has impurity finished in your nature and has purity merged in your life?

⁴¹You have now celebrated Shiv Jayanti and saligram jayanti that are as valuable as a diamond.

⁴²The children from everywhere abroad and in this land are also celebrating it at the same time.

⁴³BapDada is seeing that together with you and the Father, they too are all so happy!

⁴⁴Today, as your memorial, devotees especially offer a sacrifice.

⁴⁵All of you surrender yourself to the Father in your thoughts, words and deeds. ⁴⁶In memory of that, devotees don't offer themselves as a sacrifice, but sacrifice a goat instead.

⁴⁷Could they not find anything else? ⁴⁸Could they only find a goat?

⁴⁹You know the significance of this. ⁵⁰It is because the greatest cause of body consciousness is the consciousness of "I" (mai ­ in Hindi is "I").

⁵¹When you surrender the consciousness of "I", it is then that you become Brahmins.

⁵²So what does a goat do? ⁵³"Maiii, maiii!"

⁵⁴So this is a sign of the body consciousness of "I". ⁵⁵The consciousness of the "I" of body consciousness is also very subtle and has a variety of forms.

⁵⁶The first consciousness of "I" is "I am a body!" ⁵⁷"I am so­and­so!"

⁵⁸Then, as you move further, there are the different forms of "I" as you become trapped in relationships.

⁵⁹Then, as you move further, there are the different forms of "I" of position.

⁶⁰Even more subtle than that is the "I" of your own speciality which brings you down from up above. ⁶¹Each of you has a speciality.

⁶²Whether it is in a gross or a subtle form, there isn't a single human soul who doesn't have a speciality. ⁶³In this life of knowledge too, each Brahmin definitely has at least one speciality.

⁶⁴However, in the life of knowledge, a speciality is a gift bestowed by God. ⁶⁵It is God's gift. ⁶⁶When you put the consciousness of "I" into the gift that God has given you, this is royal ego and the biggest consciousness of "I".

⁶⁷And so you are already surrendered yourself, but what do you still have to consider further? ⁶⁸What do all of you teachers call yourselves?

⁶⁹You are surrendered, are you not? ⁷⁰Are all teachers surrendered?

⁷¹Achcha, are those who are living at home with their family surrendered?

⁷²Yes or no? ⁷³You are surrendered!

⁷⁴Are the Pandavas surrendered? ⁷⁵Very good!

⁷⁶Congratulations!

⁷⁷What are you going to do now?

⁷⁸You have surrendered yourselves and that is very good.

⁷⁹Now, in future, you have to check that… ⁸⁰Should Baba tell you?

⁸¹You would say: We are surrendered, so what else do we have to do now?

⁸²One is to surrender, but after that there is total surrender.

⁸³Especially underlined in total surrender is the surrender of your mind, intellect and sanskars.