Daily Murli for Sunday 16 August 2020

⁰ 16/08/20 Madhuban Avyakt BapDada Om Shanti 07/03/86

¹Maha Shiv Ratri is the accurate memorial of the four subjects of the study.

²Today, the Bestower of Knowledge, the Bestower of Fortune, the Bestower of Blessings and of all Powers, the Father, the Innocent Lord who fills everyone with all treasures, has come to meet His extremely loving, constantly co-operative and close children.

³These meetings become memorials that are celebrated from time to time as festivals.

⁴All the festivals that are celebrated with different names from time to time are thememorials of the sweet and enthusiastic meetings of the Father and the children of the present time; they take the form of festivals in the future.

⁵At this time, each moment of each day of you most elevated children is for staying in constant happiness.

⁶From the copper age, devotees have been making the alokik life of this short confluence age, the alokik attainments and the alokik experiences into festivals with different names.

⁷This life, this one birth of yours, becomes a means of remembrance on the path of devotion for 63 births.

⁸You are such great souls!

⁹The most wonderful thing of this time is that you are celebrating it practically and are also now celebrating its memorial, which you can see. ¹⁰You now exist in the living form and the images also exist at the same time.

¹¹What did each of you attain 5000 years ago? ¹²What did you become?

¹³How did you become that? ¹⁴You now know very clearly this accurate memorial and your horoscope of 5000 years. ¹⁵You are listening to this and are also very pleased to see that they are remembering and worshipping you and telling the stories of your lives.

¹⁶They couldn’t create your original images identically, but they were touched with that love and faith, and this is why they made those images.

¹⁷So, you celebrate Shiv Jayanti in a practical way every day, because the confluence age is the age of the incarnation (of God).

¹⁸It is the age of performing an elevated task and elevated activities. ¹⁹However, you are also celebrating the memorial of this day within this unlimited age.

²⁰All of you celebrate by having a meeting, whereas their celebration is an invocation.

²¹Theirs is calling out, whereas yours is having attained. ²²They say, "Come!", and you say, "He has come, we have found Him!"

²³There is as much difference between the memorial and the practical as there is between day and night. ²⁴In fact, this is the day of the Father, the Innocent Lord.

²⁵The Innocent Lord means the One who bestows without counting, without keeping an account of it.

²⁶Generally, there is an account of receiving as much as you give. ²⁷Whoever does something, receives the return of that, accordingly.

²⁸That is an account. ²⁹However, why is He called the Innocent Lord?

³⁰Because, at this time, He doesn't keep an account of giving to you the same as you give.

³¹The account is of receiving multimillion-fold for one. ³²So, it has become countless, has it not?

³³There is such a great difference between one and multimillionfold.

³⁴"Multimillions" (padam) is said because that is the last word in counting (multimillions = padma padam).

³⁵They celebrate as a festival the day of the Innocent Treasurer, the One who gives without counting.

³⁶You have received so much that you are completely full at this time, and you will also always be completely full for 21 births and 21 generations.

³⁷No one else can give a guarantee for so many births.

³⁸No matter how great a bestower someone is, no one can guarantee to make your treasure-store completely full for so many births.

³⁹So, He is the Innocent Lord, is He not?

⁴⁰Whilst being knowledge-full, He remains innocent. ⁴¹This is why He is called the Innocent Lord.

⁴²In fact, if He kept accounts, He could know the account of each and every thought.

⁴³However, whilst knowing all of that, He becomes the Innocent Lord when it comes to giving.

⁴⁴So, all of you are innocent children of the Father, the Innocent Lord, are you not?

⁴⁵On the one hand, you call Him the Innocent Lord and, on the other hand, you call Him the Treasurer who is completely full.

⁴⁶Look how well you celebrate the memorial!

⁴⁷Those people who celebrate it do not know it, but you know it. ⁴⁸All four special subjects of the main study of the confluence age are celebrated on this memorial-day.

⁴⁹How?

⁵⁰You were also told earlier that on the day of this festival special importance is given to the point and the drop.

⁵¹The point is a symbol of the subject of remembrance, that is, of yoga.

⁵²In remembrance, you stabilise yourself in the stage of a point, do you not?

⁵³So, the point is a symbol of remembrance, and the drop represents the different drops of knowledge.

⁵⁴The sign given to the subject of knowledge is the drop.

⁵⁵The sign of dharna on this day is the special fast they keep.

⁵⁶So, you observe a fast.

⁵⁷In dharna, you have determination.

⁵⁸So, you make a vow (fast) that you will definitely be tolerant and introverted.

⁵⁹You make this vow, do you not?

⁶⁰This symbolises dharna, and the sign of service is "jaagran" (staying up all night).

⁶¹In fact, you do service in order to awaken others.

⁶²To awaken them from the sleep of ignorance, to enable them to stay awake and toawaken them is your service.

⁶³So, this jaagran symbolises service.

⁶⁴So, all four subjects have been covered, have they not? ⁶⁵However, they have just taken a physical form.

⁶⁶Nevertheless, devotees have that love and faith, and the sign of true devotees is that, whatever thought they have, they will remain very firm in that thought. ⁶⁷This is why the Father also has love for devotees.

⁶⁸At least they have made your memorial continue eternally from the copper age. ⁶⁹Especially on this day, just as you repeatedly have surrender ceremonies here at the confluence age and you also celebrate it individually, in the same way, as a memorial of this function of yours, they do not sacrifice themselves, but they sacrifice a goat.

⁷⁰They make a sacrifice.

⁷¹In fact, BapDada also says amusingly that it is only when you surrender that consciousness of "I" (meh, meh) that you can surrender yourself, that is, you can become complete and equal to the Father.

⁷²What was the first step that Father Brahma took?

⁷³He celebrated the surrender ceremony of "I" and "mine", that is, in any situation, instead of "I" you always heard the word "Father" in his natural language, in his ordinary language.

⁷⁴He never said, "I".

⁷⁵“Baba is making me do it, not that I am doing it.

⁷⁶No, Baba is making me move, not that I am saying this.

⁷⁷No, Baba is speaking.”

⁷⁸To have attachment to any limited being or thing is to have the consciousness of "mine".

⁷⁹To surrender the consciousness of "mine" and "I" is called making a sacrifice.

⁸⁰To make this sacrifice means to make the greatest sacrifice.

⁸¹So, this is a sign of surrendering.

⁸²Baba gives thanks to the devotees for one thing: whether in Bharat or in any other country, in order to spread a wave of enthusiasm in any form, they have created very good festivals.

⁸³Whether it is for two days or just a day, at least the wave of enthusiasm (utsaah) spreads. ⁸⁴This is why it is called a festival (utsav).

⁸⁵At least the attention of the majority of them is drawn to the Father temporarily for a special purpose.

⁸⁶So what special things will you do on this special day?

⁸⁷On the path of devotion, when some people hold a fast they do it for good, whereas others don't have that courage and have the fast for a month or a day or for just a short time; they then break that fast.

⁸⁸You don’t do this, do you?

⁸⁹In Madhuban, your feet are not on the ground.

⁹⁰So, when you go back to foreign lands, will you come down to earth or will you remain up above? ⁹¹Will you always remain up above and just come down to act or will you act whilst always being down below?

⁹²To remain up above means to remain in the stage up above (high stage).

⁹³It isn't that you have to dangle up above from some ceiling!

⁹⁴It means to remain stable in a high stage and perform ordinary acts, that is, to come down (to act). ⁹⁵Whilst performing ordinary acts, let your stage remain up above, that is, let it remain elevated.

⁹⁶The Father adopts an ordinary body and He only performs ordinary acts. ⁹⁷He speaks in the same way as you do.

⁹⁸He moves in the same way as you do.

⁹⁹So, the actions are ordinary, the body is ordinary but, whilst performing ordinary acts, His stage remains high.

¹⁰⁰In the same way, let the stage of all of you always be high.

¹⁰¹Just as you call today the day of the incarnation, similarly, every day, at amrit vela, don’t think that you have come from being asleep but that you have incarnated from the land of peace in order to act.

¹⁰²At night, after acting, you then return to the land of peace.

¹⁰³An incarnation incarnates to perform an elevated action.

¹⁰⁴They are not said to have taken birth, but they are said to have incarnated.

¹⁰⁵An incarnation is when they come down from the stage up above.

¹⁰⁶So, when actions are performed in that stage, even ordinary actions change into alokik actions.

¹⁰⁷Other people eat their meals (bhojan), whereas you eat Brahma bhojan. ¹⁰⁸So, there is a difference, is there not?

¹⁰⁹You also move along, but you move along as angels do, you move in a double-light stage.

¹¹⁰So, it is all alokik activity and alokik actions.

¹¹¹Therefore, it is not just today that is the day of the incarnation, but the confluence age itself is the day of the incarnation.

¹¹²On this day, you congratulate BapDada but BapDada says: You first. ¹¹³If it weren't for you children, who would say, "Father"?

¹¹⁴It is the children who call the Father, “Father”.

¹¹⁵Therefore, first of all, congratulations to the children.

¹¹⁶All of you sing the birthday song: Happy birthday to You. ¹¹⁷BapDada also says: Happy birthday to you. ¹¹⁸The children gave birthday congratulations to the Father and the Father gave them to the children.

¹¹⁹You are being sustained with congratulations (encouragement).

¹²⁰What is the sustenance of all of you?

¹²¹You are being sustained with congratulations from the Father and the family.

¹²²You are singing, dancing, being sustained and flying with congratulations.

¹²³This sustenance is also wonderful.

¹²⁴What do you give one another at every moment?

¹²⁵Congratulations and this is the means of sustenance.

¹²⁶No matter what someone is like, BapDada knows and you also know that everything is numberwise.

¹²⁷If it weren't numberwise, then, in the golden age, you would need to build a minimum of 150,000 thrones. ¹²⁸This is why it has to be numberwise.

¹²⁹It has to be numberwise, but if you sometimes think that someone is wrong, that he is not doing something good, the way to put that wrong right, the way to teach the accurate method of doing something to someone who is not doing something correctly, is not to tell him directly that he is wrong.

¹³⁰If you say this, that person will never change.

¹³¹In order to put out a fire, you don't start another fire; you pour cold water on it. ¹³²Therefore, if you first tell someone he is wrong, that person will then become even more disheartened.

¹³³First of all, reassure that person by saying that he is good, that everything is good. ¹³⁴First of all, at least sprinkle the water, then explain to him why the fire started.

¹³⁵Don't tell him straightaway: You are like this and you did this and you did that.

¹³⁶First of all, sprinkle cold water.

¹³⁷Then he will also realise the reason why the fire started and what the method is to put out the fire.

¹³⁸If someone is bad and you tell him that he is bad, that is like pouring oil on to a fire.

¹³⁹Therefore, first of all say, "It is very good, it is very good", and then tell him whatever you have to and he will then have the courage to listen to it and imbibe it. ¹⁴⁰This is why Baba was telling you that to say, "Very good, very good", is to give congratulations.

¹⁴¹For instance, BapDada too would never say to anyone directly that he is wrong. ¹⁴²He would say in the murli what is right and what is wrong.

¹⁴³However, if someone comes and asks Baba directly if he is wrong, he would say, "No, you are absolutely right," because that person doesn't have courage at that time.

¹⁴⁴Just as, when a patient is about to go and is on his last breath, if he asks the doctor if he is now about to go, the doctor would never say: “Yes, you are about to go, because the patient doesn’t have courage at that time.