Daily Murli for Sunday 18 August 2024

⁰ 18/08/24 Madhuban Avyakt BapDada Om Shanti 20/02/2001

¹Shiva Jayanti: the memorial of making a vow and totally surrendering oneself.

²Today, Father Shiva, the Creator of the Trimurti, has come to meet His worthy-of-worship 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.

⁵You children say that you 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 for 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 birthdays, the ‘jayantis’, of the Father and children are together.

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

¹³Congratulations! ¹⁴Congratulations! ¹⁵Congratulations!

¹⁶(Everyone waved their hands.) ¹⁷Very good! ¹⁸You enjoy clapping with one hand, not two hands.

¹⁹There is a lot of happiness and so you can't stop your hands; they just move automatically.

²⁰In the world also, devotees celebrate Shiv Jayanti with a lot of splendour.

²¹However, their celebration is for one night without sleep (jagran) or a fast for one day.

²²You children have not had the thought of having a jagran of the sleep of ignorance for only one day. ²³They have a jagran, but you have also stayed awake for the whole of this one life of the confluence age that is like a diamond.

²⁴You have awakened, have you not? ²⁵You will not now go back to sleep, will you?

²⁶Or, will you fall asleep a little?

²⁷Achcha, you may not have fallen asleep, but perhaps you nod off.

²⁸This staying awake throughout the night is such that you yourselves are awake, and you also awaken others.

²⁹In the life of this knowledge, to remain awake means to come out of the darkness and into the light.

³⁰All of you like this spiritual wakefulness, do you not?

³¹What vows have you kept from the moment you took birth and celebrated your birthday?

³²Do you remember them?

³³You children say: Let alone remembering them, our lives have become those of a natural vow.

³⁴Our lives have become those of a pure diet, pure interactions and pure thoughts.

³⁵These are not for just one or two months, but they have become such that we have instilled these vows into our lives.

³⁶They have become natural and they have become our nature.

³⁷You have made your nature that of purity, have you not?

³⁸Has your nature become that or do you have to make it that?

³⁹It has become that, has it not?

⁴⁰Simply nod in agreement, that's all.

⁴¹Has it become that?

⁴²Has impurity finished in your nature and has purity emerged in your lives?

⁴³You have now celebrated Shiv Jayanti and saligram jayanti that are as valuable as a diamond.

⁴⁴The children everywhere abroad and in this land are also celebrating it at the same time.

⁴⁵BapDada is seeing that, along with you and the Father, they too are all so happy.

⁴⁶Today, as your memorial, devotees especially offer a sacrifice.

⁴⁷All of you surrender yourselves to the Father in your thoughts, words and deeds. ⁴⁸In memory of that, devotees don't offer themselves as a sacrifice, but they sacrifice a goat instead.

⁴⁹Could they not find anything else? ⁵⁰Could they only find a goat?

⁵¹You know the significance of this. ⁵²It is because the greatest cause of body consciousness is the consciousness of "I" (mai - in Hindi is "I").

⁵³When you surrender the consciousness of "I", it is then that you become Brahmins.

⁵⁴So what does a goat do?

⁵⁵"Maiii, maiii!" ⁵⁶So, this is a sign of the body consciousness of "I". ⁵⁷The consciousness of the "I" of body consciousness is also very subtle and has a variety of forms.

⁵⁸The first consciousness of "I" is "I am a body" "I am so-and-so."

⁵⁹Then, as you move further, there are the different forms of "I" as you become trapped in relationships.

⁶⁰Then, as you move further, there are the different forms of "I" of position.

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

⁶²Each of you has a speciality. ⁶³Whether it is in a gross or a subtle form, there isn't a single human soul who doesn't have a speciality.

⁶⁴In this life of knowledge too, each Brahmin definitely has at least one speciality. ⁶⁵However, in the life of this knowledge, a speciality is a gift bestowed by God.

⁶⁶It is God's gift. ⁶⁷When you put the consciousness of "I" into the gift that God has given you, it becomes royal ego and the biggest consciousness of "I".

⁶⁸Therefore, you have already surrendered yourselves, but what do you still have to consider further?

⁶⁹What do all of you teachers call yourselves?

⁷⁰You are surrendered, are you not?

⁷¹Are all of you teachers surrendered?

⁷²Achcha, are those who are living at home with their families surrendered?

⁷³Yes or no? ⁷⁴You are surrendered.

⁷⁵Are you Pandavas surrendered?

⁷⁶Very good. ⁷⁷Congratulations!

⁷⁸What are you going to do now?

⁷⁹You have surrendered yourselves and that is very good.

⁸⁰Now, in future, you have to check that… should 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 minds, intellects and sanskars. ⁸⁴This is because, in order to move forward, you have to take fast steps in your efforts. ⁸⁵You are doing that, even now, according to the present atmosphere in your Brahmin lives, because the majority of you sitting here is of Brahmins. ⁸⁶There is just an influence of waste on your minds, nothing bad, because all bad things have finished. ⁸⁷However, according to the present atmosphere, wasteful and negative things influence intellects a great deal, and because of this, your power of realisation to make accurate and true decisions decreases.

⁸⁸There is realisation through the understanding that, "Yes, this is wrong, this is not right." ⁸⁹However, one is realisation with common sense and the other is realisation with your heart.

⁹⁰When you realise something with your heart, then, even if the world changes, you yourself will not change.

⁹¹So you have been told about the mind and intellect.

⁹²Now the sanskars. ⁹³Because your sanskars are 63 births old, they have become natural. ⁹⁴In other words, you say, “This is not a mistake, but it is my nature.”

⁹⁵Therefore, after some of the old sanskars are erased and after others are suppressed, they then emerge again.

⁹⁶However, “total surrender” means that the motives and feelings in your minds for every soul have to be transformed. ⁹⁷BapDada refers to this as: No matter what souls are like, there will always be variety. ⁹⁸This is the kalpa tree, and if there were no variety in it there wouldn't be any beauty. ⁹⁹However, let there be good wishes and pure feelings for every soul.

¹⁰⁰You even have to transform bad wishes into good wishes and pure feelings.

¹⁰¹Have good wishes for every soul that they will definitely transform themselves.

¹⁰²Don't think: “This one is never going to change.” ¹⁰³Don't become their judge and make a judgement that they are never going to change.

¹⁰⁴Since you have issued a challenge that you will transform the elements and make them satoguni, then you have to do it.

¹⁰⁵There is no question of whether or not they will become that, but it is you who have to make them that.

¹⁰⁶You have underlined the words "have to do it".

¹⁰⁷So, is it that the elements can change but souls cannot change?

¹⁰⁸Souls are the masters of matter.

¹⁰⁹Matter changes and the masters don't? ¹¹⁰Why?

¹¹¹So, at the present time, the only service to do is the transformation of oneself – the mind, intellect and sanskars; the transformation of everything.

¹¹²Everyone is asking: What are we going to do this year?

¹¹³You have to do double service.

¹¹⁴First, totally surrender yourself! ¹¹⁵Surrender yourself to such an extent that your vibrations, atmosphere, company, co-operation of the heart and blessings of the heart help others to bring about easy transformation.

¹¹⁶You have to transform yourself to this extent.

¹¹⁷You have to surrender everything totally.

¹¹⁸This is one type of service and the other is that of serving other people. ¹¹⁹As a result, it has been seen everywhere, in this land and abroad, that whatever service you Brahmin children have done, even in the villages, you have done it with love for the Father. ¹²⁰BapDada is giving many, many congratulations for that.

¹²¹What will you do in the future?

¹²²BapDada has seen that there is growth in the number of Brahmins and there will be even faster growth.

¹²³However, along with this, the service you have done that people like, the service that is taking place through the different projects, is very good.

¹²⁴Now, very good co-operative souls have become good instruments at many different places.

¹²⁵They are very good co-operative souls. ¹²⁶They have taken one step of co-operation; they have put one foot forward. ¹²⁷However, the other foot is to become an easy yogi and a karma yogi.

¹²⁸A few have become karma yogis and easy yogis to some extent; this is the second stage.

¹²⁹Now, such souls have to play a practical part on the stage.

¹³⁰A mike is always on a stage.

¹³¹Therefore they should become mikes and definitely come on to the stage of service in a visible way.

¹³²You are the might and they are the mikes.

¹³³Just as Brahma Baba is the might in the subtle form who has made you children mikes, in the same way, now become the might and prepare such mikes.

¹³⁴They are very good, there is hope for them, and they can go fast. ¹³⁵However, it is now necessary to increase your connection with such souls.

¹³⁶They want to know what to do and how to do it. ¹³⁷Become the might and show them that, whilst keeping a balance of their worldly occupations and their spiritual service, they, who have come last, can go fast and come into the line of those who come first.

¹³⁸There are such souls; they just have to be revealed.

¹³⁹Simply stay in connection with them and give them a current - the current of spirituality, the current of vibrations and the atmosphere - and also show them the way to become instruments to reveal that a balanced life is very good and easy.

¹⁴⁰Is this all right?

¹⁴¹You have now heard what you have to do, have you not?

¹⁴²Prepare small bouquets.

¹⁴³OK, not a big bouquet, but at least bring a bouquet of five or ten flowers.

¹⁴⁴They exist everywhere in BapDada's eyes.

¹⁴⁵Did you hear that?

¹⁴⁶Did the Pandavas hear that?

¹⁴⁷Very good!

¹⁴⁸Double foreigners are not jumping, but flying. ¹⁴⁹So, who will bring the first bouquet, those from abroad or those from Bharat?

¹⁵⁰Who will bring it?

¹⁵¹Or will both bring them at the same time?

¹⁵²The bouquet from abroad on one side and the bouquet from Bharat on the other. ¹⁵³Both bouquets will come on to the stage.

¹⁵⁴Just as you celebrate this ceremony, so we shall then also celebrate that ceremony with both bouquets, one from Bharat and one from abroad.

¹⁵⁵Is this all right?

¹⁵⁶What do those from abroad think?

¹⁵⁷Will you bring them in the next season?

¹⁵⁸Will you bring them?

¹⁵⁹Will those from Bharat bring them?

¹⁶⁰Bring those who have a balance of their worldly and spiritual occupations, not just those who have a Brahmin life like you, but both worldly and spiritual. ¹⁶¹Their impact will be greater.

¹⁶²People will come to you for drishti.

¹⁶³Achcha, what are you thinking, Jayanti?

¹⁶⁴Are you thinking about names?

¹⁶⁵Nirmala, Mohini, you are thinking about names, are you not?

¹⁶⁶Look at the Pandavas here! ¹⁶⁷There are fewer Pandavas in Bharat. ¹⁶⁸They are equal to Allah!

¹⁶⁹Look, some are even sitting here.

¹⁷⁰This is Brian sitting just in front, is it not?

¹⁷¹(Speaking to Brian of Australia). ¹⁷²A bouquet has to be prepared, does it not?

¹⁷³There are very good souls. ¹⁷⁴What is the name you use? ¹⁷⁵NCO (National Co-ordinating Office). ¹⁷⁶Achcha.

¹⁷⁷Those from the NCOs abroad, raise your hands!

¹⁷⁸It is not easy to become an NCO! ¹⁷⁹You will have to perform wonders!

¹⁸⁰You can do it; it is not a big thing because the land is now ready.

¹⁸¹The seed is also sown; it just needs to be watered with sustenance.

¹⁸²The seed now needs the water of sustenance.

¹⁸³Achcha.

¹⁸⁴Many teachers have also come.

¹⁸⁵Congratulations to the teachers also!

¹⁸⁶All of you have done service, have you not?

¹⁸⁷So, congratulations for the service!