Avyakt BapDada 6th January 1988
Today, BapDada the Ocean of Love has come to meet his loving children. This spiritual love, Godly love, is altruistic true love, love of a true heart. This soul love, eternal love, is the foundation of Brahmin life – it brings the experience of true bliss and spiritual intoxication. Godly love is the magnet which easily transforms impure souls. It enables you to claim all rights. If there is love then Brahmin life is entertaining. If there isn’t love then Brahmin life becomes dry – a life of labour.
Godly love is the love of the heart. Worldly love breaks the heart into many pieces, because it has to be distributed. Alokik spiritual love is that which brings together all the broken pieces of the heart and links them to one. If there is love for the one Father then automatically the soul becomes co-operative with all, because Baba is the seed. By giving water to a seed, every leaf receives water – there is no need to give water to each leaf individually. To be linked in love with the spiritual Father means to have love for all. This love makes every task easy, and liberates the soul from labour.
Where there is love, remembrance is automatic and easy – you don’t forget the one you love. Knowledge is accurate only when it is filled with love – dry knowledge does not give experience – it is love that gives the experience of all relationships from the heart. If there is only intellectual remembrance – remembrance with the head and not the heart – there will be labour in yoga, in service, in inculcation – the intellect will battle even with knowledge – constant questions – many waste thoughts – battle with the self. When there is love there is no battle, because the soul is lost in love, merged in love.
If there is knowledge, but remembrance is like labour, and there is no experience of bliss, power, or peace, it is because love is still lacking – knowledge has reached the head, but it is intellectual only – it has not become merged with the heart. The heart is the symbol of love. Knowledge is the seed, and love is the water – a seed without water will not bear fruit.
You have seen the world outside – with love, even a tiny gift brings pleasure – but in a selfish relationship, the greatest gift does not bring contentment, but the souls will still find fault in one way or another. Love brings closeness – lack of love creates distance. When there is love in the heart then there is no calculation involved. Love of the heart is able to settle all past accounts. Love is such a special experience.
If there is any trace of attachment, that is not true love. The sign of attachment is that thoughts, words, and actions are subservient to that one, or that object. This weakens the heart – power is lost, and the soul becomes unable to remember Baba. Then there is discontentment – the heart shrinks and loses hope. Only when there is no attachment to any individual or possession can the soul become a constant easy yogi. Use possessions by all means, but be a yogi and keep the mind detached from them.
As time passes, by belonging to Baba, matter and nature will become the server – the attainment of material possessions will continue to increase – this is the instant fruit of your attainments. So, as you eat the fruit, do not forget the Seed. Keep yourself safe from attachment, and do not be subservient to individuals or possessions. Otherwise there will be complaints, rather than contentment. Others may think you are happy, but inside you will be sad. Like a gas balloon, as soon as the soul is filled it becomes very elevated – it will go very high – but when it becomes empty it falls completely. When you first look at it, it is flying, and it is very beautiful, but all this is temporary. Such a soul is never content with his own fortune – he will blame others – but that is an excuse, for in fact it is the Bestower of Fortune who enables you to make your fortune – and the power of a human soul can never shake the fortune of Godly power. So play the game of ascent, not the game of making excuses.
If there is jealousy or distaste fro someone, that is also subservience, because that one will be remembered again and again. Subservience in either direction pulls the soul down. If you create and account, don’t ask Baba to settle it. Baba cannot settle your accounts. He can inspire you to settle them: He is in bondage to give you inspiration, but you are the ones who have to do it.
So what is the essence? Do not just have dry, intellectual knowledge, but let there be knowledge within the heart. Have love, and don’t lose any to subservience.
To those who are detached and beyond subservience to individuals and possessions; to those who are merged with the Father’s love, who have accurate knowledge, who have the consciousness of love and knowledge combined; to those who become yogis and use all physical instruments for spiritual endeavour; to those who are constantly content with the self and so remain content with others; to those who are constantly merged with the love of the heart; to such children, love, remembrances, and namaste, from the Father, the Comforter of Hearts.