Avyakt murli for Tuesday 17 February 2004

⁰> > 17-02-2004 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban

¹The special slogan for the birthday festival of Shiv Ratri - Give everyone co-operation and make them co-operative. ²Let your treasure-store continue eternally.

³Today, BapDada Himself has come to celebrate His own birthday as well as the children's diamond-like birthday, Shiv Jayanti.

⁴All of you children have come here to celebrate the birthday of your parlokik and alokik fathers and the Father has come to celebrate your birthday.

⁵The Father is pleased to see the fortune of you children: Wah! ⁶My children with the elevated fortune.

⁷Wah that you have incarnated at the same time as the Father to finish the darkness of the world!

⁸Throughout the whole cycle, no one else can have such a birthday which you children celebrate with God, the Father.

⁹Devotee souls also celebrate this alokik, extremely lovely and unique birthday, but you children celebrate a meeting whereas devotee souls simply sing praise. ¹⁰They sing praise and they also continue to call out.

¹¹BapDada, listening to the praise that devotees sing, also hears their call and gives them the fruit of their numberwise feelings of faith.

¹²However, there is a great difference between devotees and you children.

¹³They celebrate the memorial of the elevated actions you performed and your elevated fortune very well and this is why BapDada congratulates the devotees when He sees the divine activities of their devotion, for all of them have copied your memorials very well.

¹⁴They also hold a fast on this day. ¹⁵They hold a fast for a short time, of just temporary cleanliness of their food and drink.

¹⁶You take a vow for the whole birth (life) of complete purity which includes your food, interaction, words and deeds.

¹⁷Whilst living your life at the confluence age, you also have to remain pure in your thoughts, words and deeds.

¹⁸Not only do you have to become pure, you also have to make others pure.

¹⁹So, look at how the intellect of devotees is no less. ²⁰They have copied your memorials very well.

²¹All of you have surrendered everything wasteful and have become powerful, that is, you have surrendered your impure life. ²²As a memorial of your surrender, they make a sacrifice, but they don't offer themselves as a sacrifice.

²³They sacrifice a goat. ²⁴Look how well they have copied you.

²⁵Why do they sacrifice a goat? ²⁶They have copied this very well too.

²⁷What does a goat do?

²⁸It constantly says "Mai, mai, mai ("I" in Hindi).

²⁹That is the consciousness of the "I" of body consciousness, because it is in this "I" that there is the arrogance of the body, and this arrogance of the body is the seed of all vices.

³⁰BapDada has also told you earlier that it is this consciousness of "I" of body consciousness that causes an obstruction to your totally surrendering yourself.

³¹It is easy to surrender the common consciousness of "I", that I am a body, or the consciousness of "I" in terms of relations of the body or possessions of the body.

³²You have done this already, have you not?

³³Or, not yet? ³⁴Has this not been done yet?

³⁵The more progress you make, the more the consciousness of "I" becomes extremely subtle and deep.

³⁶It is easy to finish the gross consciousness of "I".

³⁷However, the deep consciousness of "I" - if you develop any consciousness of "I" for the specialities you receive as your Godly birthright, for the blessing of the intellect you have, or for the blessing of becoming an embodiment of knowledge, for the blessing and specialities of service, or for a Godly gift - then that is called the deep consciousness of "I".

³⁸"Whatever I am doing or whatever I am saying is right, that is what should happen." ³⁹This royal consciousness of "I" becomes a burden stopping you from going into the flying stage.

⁴⁰So, the Father says: Surrender the consciousness of "I" in even this. ⁴¹There should be no consciousness of "I" for a Godly gift.

⁴²Neither "I" nor "mine". ⁴³It is a Godly gift, a blessing from God, a speciality from God.

⁴⁴So, the surrender of all of you is so deep.

⁴⁵So, have you checked whether you have surrendered the consciousness of "I" of both ordinary things and also of the royal form?

⁴⁶Have you done this?

⁴⁷Or, are you still doing it?

⁴⁸"I will have to surrender it anyway." ⁴⁹All of you jokingly say "We have to die (bow down) anyway."

⁵⁰However, this dying is living in God's lap.

⁵¹This dying is not dying.

⁵²It is taking birth in the lap of the deities for 21 births.

⁵³This is why you surrender yourselves in happiness, is it not?

⁵⁴You don't surrender yourselves while crying out, do you?

⁵⁵No. ⁵⁶In bhakti too, a sacrifice that cries out is not accepted.

⁵⁷So, those who surrender themselves with their limited "I" and "mine" can happily claim a right to an inheritance for birth after birth.

⁵⁸Therefore, check: When it comes to the transformation of wasteful thoughts, wasteful words and wasteful activities, do you bring about that transformation happily or by compulsion?

⁵⁹Do you transform yourself out of love or by effort?

⁶⁰When all of you children took birth, you made the occupation of your life that of world transformers who transform the world.

⁶¹This is the occupation of the Brahmin birth of all of you, is it not?

⁶²If this is firm, wave your hands.

⁶³You are waving your flags. ⁶⁴Very good.

⁶⁵Today is the day for flags. ⁶⁶Very good. ⁶⁷However, don't wave the flags just like that.

⁶⁸It is very easy to wave flags just like that, but you now have to shake your mind.

⁶⁹You have to transform your mind.

⁷⁰You are courageous, are you not?

⁷¹Do you have courage?

⁷²You have a lot of courage. ⁷³Achcha.

⁷⁴BapDada saw one thing of great happiness. ⁷⁵What was that?

⁷⁶Do you know that? ⁷⁷For this year, BapDada has given a special gift that if you have even a little courage in any task this year - whether it is for self-transformation, for any task or for world service - if you do that with courage, then this year has received the blessing of your being given extra help.