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.