Mamma's Murli - gyan-sitar-17

⁰28th April, 1959

¹This is a game of remembering and forgetting, but the soul always has a mind and an intellect.

²Om shanti.

³We are now receiving knowledge about God and the soul through God.

⁴The soul is said to have a mind and intellect.

⁵The soul comes into the cycle of birth and death, but it does not have the awareness of the entire part that it plays.

⁶Although the soul has a mind and intellect, it does not have the awareness of what it does in all its many births.

⁷Even if you take just one birth, you are not able to retain the full details of that.

⁸The intellect remembers and forgets, but the intellect still remains.

⁹You cannot say that the intellect goes away.

¹⁰But when it does not function well, it is said that that one's intellect has gone.

¹¹But you cannot say that the soul does not have an intellect.

¹²The soul always has a mind and an intellect.

¹³When the soul is in satyug, it isn't that it has the awareness of its eighty-four births.

¹⁴God, who is the Knowledge-full One, has the entire knowledge of everything.

¹⁵So His patt is played at this time.

¹⁶When He enacts His part He gives us knowledge.

¹⁷He only emerges as much knowledge as is required for the progress of the soul.

¹⁸Although He is the One who knows everything, He only tells us as much as we need to know.

¹⁹It isn't that the soul has awareness of everything at the same time.

²⁰It constantly remembers and forgets.

²¹But this does not mean that the soul is without a mind and an intellect: it is just that it loses awareness.

²²This is the game of body-consciousness and soul-consciousness, but the soul is a soul.

²³It just forgets.

²⁴Then it receives awareness through God.

²⁵Whilst coming into the cycle of birth and death, the degrees of the soul decrease.

²⁶God comes and tells us everything.

²⁷But He does not tell us the details of every birth.

²⁸That would be of no use to us.

²⁹We know that previously we had a life of sorrow and now we have to forget it.

³⁰So why should we need to know the details?

³¹The game of the drama and the knowledge of the soul is explained by God.

³²You have an intellect but sometimes some things are totally removed from your thoughts.

³³But you cannot say that you do not have an intellect.

³⁴By understanding this knowledge, you can solve small problems even with your own thoughts.

³⁵We now have the experience of both the past and the future.

³⁶We can understand through the intellect.

³⁷It isn't that we can only understand this when we have visions.

³⁸It is the task of the intellect to understand.

³⁹It does not matter if you have not had any visions.

⁴⁰Understanding is not dependent on having visions.

⁴¹Knowledge does not mean having visions.

⁴²People think that you can only attain success when you have visions.

⁴³But knowledge is called gyan.

⁴⁴It is said that there cannot be salvation without gyan.

⁴⁵It isn't said that there isn't salvation without visions.

⁴⁶God is said to be loving and detached.

⁴⁷People of the world think that just as the soul comes into the cycle of birth and death and is also immune so, too, God is the same, because they think that the soul is God.

⁴⁸But we know in which way God is loving and detached.

⁴⁹He is beyond birth and also beyond happiness and sorrow, but He also has the sanskars of playing a part, and He plays an extremely beautiful part because He makes everyone happy.

⁵⁰God comes and carries out an unlimited task.

⁵¹He makes all souls happy.

⁵²This is why He is loved by all souls.

⁵³Souls have received love and have become happy and this is why, in return, they have so much love for Him.

⁵⁴God has played this part with us souls.

⁵⁵He has made us happy and this is why He is loved so much.

⁵⁶But He is different from us souls.

⁵⁷Although He also plays a part as a soul, His acts are different.

⁵⁸He does that which souls are not able to do.

⁵⁹He makes all souls content and gives them all peace and happiness.

⁶⁰This is why He is loved.

⁶¹So to be detached does not mean that He is immune to the effects of action.

⁶²Whatever He does, He definitely receives something in return.

⁶³It is because He has served us that we love Him so much.

⁶⁴This is also a return, isn't it?

⁶⁵Although people do not know who He is and what relationship they have with Him, at least they love Him and remember Him.

⁶⁶Achcha.