Avyakt BapDada 21st October 1987

Today, the master of the eternal living lamps, the King of Lamps, has come to meet his queens of lamps – all of you are queens of the Confluence Age, lovers of the one King of Lamps, the true Sitas, constantly in the company of one Rama, the Father. Together with the Master of Lamps, the King of Lamps, you are praised in the form of a rosary of lamps. They ignite one lamp, the King of Lamps, and from one lamp innumerable other lamps begin to glimmer. This day is called Deepmala – the rosary of the lamps.

You sparkling souls are visible as the lamps of love. The memorial of your divine light is show as physical light. This is the memorial of the sparkling souls. On the one hand it is a memorial of the incorporeal soul, and on the other hand it is a memorial of your future corporeal form, the deity form of Lakshmi. Lakshmi is also the eternal Goddess of Wealth, the memorial of this Confluence Age, the form of the bestower, the one who constantly gives wealth. In satyug there will be nobody who takes, so who would you give to? So it is a sign of the elevated activity of the Confluence Age. Deepmala is also celebrated as the day of coronation – this is the sign of the future – so they have mixed up the two ages, because the Confluence Age is a very short age. However it is just as great as it small. You have great experiences, carry out a great task, have a great stage, and have great attainment, during this short age. Because you experience many attainments, and because satyug comes very quickly after the Confluence Age, they have mixed the images and activities of the two ages. They have shown the images of the Golden Age together with the activity of the Confluence Age. In this way Deepmala is the memorial of your double form, a double period. They have also mixed up different ceremonies – on the one hand the finishing of old accounts and create a new one, and on the other hand they wear new clothes accurately, according to the system. To settle old accounts and to begin a new account is the memorial of the Confluence Age. You forget everything old and you have a new birth. You transform everything except the new clothes, which is the new body, a sign of satyug. You don’t receive a new body at the confluence, you live in your old costume. So they have mixed up systems. New golden clothes, that is, the satopradhan body, will be adopted in the future. At the moment you have a body of old patches stitched together.

They celebrate for one day, three at the most, while you celebrate for eternity., for innumerable births. The lamps will remain lit – they are not extinguished. Now Deepmala has become an entertainment – the love has finished and there is only selfishness – they have the selfish motive to increase their wealth. Previously there was spiritual effort and feeling in the invocation of the lamps, but now that feeling has turned to desire. The significance has ended, though the custom and system remains. This is why the accurate form of Lakshmi does not come to anyone – if wealth comes, it is dirty wealth. It is not divine wealth, it is devilish wealth. But all of you invoke your deity status with an accurate method.

You have come to celebrate Deepmala, have you not? Will you simply light a candle, cut a cake? Is this what it means to celebrate. Okay, you may even dance and sing. Is this celebrating? To constantly dance is the right of Brahmin life, to constantly ignite another light with your light. The celebration of the Confluence Age means to become like Baba. Only then will you come close in the rosary. The celebration you have is ceremonial entertainment. By all means celebrate, celebrate a great deal. However, while having ceremonial celebration, celebrate a meeting with Baba. Don’t just entertain yourself, but be manmanabhav – you are spiritual are you not?

All of you have finished the old accounts, and have adopted the method for new, that is, spiritual, thoughts, actions, and words, at every moment. The old account does not remain even slightly does it? Sometimes, when you become weak, you say you didn’t want it to happen but it is an old sanskara, old nature, or an old habit, and gradually it will finish… so where did the old account come from? Have you carefully kept it aside? You haven’t tied it in a bundle have you? If you have tied it in a bundle you are a thief. Have you finished the old account? The old account is Ravan’s account, whereas the new account is that of Brahma Baba and the Brahmins. If the old account remains even slightly, then it belongs to Ravan. And so if something belongs to him he will surely take it by right. This is why Ravan and Maya circle around. If you don’t have anything of theirs, Maya and Ravan will not come to you. What do people do if someone is in debt to them? They will go around to that one again and again – they will not let it go. No matter how much you try to avoid it, the one who has a debt will definitely want it settled. If you have not finished any old sanskara in the old account, you are in debt to Ravan, and this debt is a sickness – it makes the soul weak – it becomes an illness.

So finish this debt in a second with the determined thought that this is old, this is foreign – burn it. They light fireworks, do they not? They throw “bangers”. So today, with the matchstick of determined thought, light the spiritual “bangers” through which this all finishes. They lose money when they light fireworks, while you earn an income through having fireworks.

At Deepmala they also clean every corner. They clean all four corners, not just two or three, because cleanliness is greatness. Cleanliness for you means purity – purity in all four varieties.

So, celebrate Diwali with these methods. To celebrate means to become like Brahma Baba. On the one side there is burning, the burning of fireworks, on the other there is the igniting of lamps. On the third side there is celebrating, eating sweets, wearing of new clothes, and on the fourth side there is cleaning. This is the celebration of Deepmala in all four varieties. It should not be that you know how to burn and how to celebrate, but you don’t know how to clean. It should not be like this. Become like Baba in all four respects. Understand the meaning of Deepmala – this is the story of the queens of lamps and the King of lamps. So you have to become the eternal queens of the unlimited King of the Confluence Age. In satyug there will be deity queens, but now you are Godly queens. Krishna is shown as a young child, yet he is shown with queens. So they have mixed it up have they not? All of you are the queens of the One who creates kings of kings. Become brothers and sisters one minute, the next become brothers, the next Sitas. Become souls one minute, and the next become angels. This spiritual magic is very entertaining – enjoy it, don’t be afraid of it. You, yourselves have become magicians. Achcha, eternal congratulations for Deepmala and Deepawali.

If you constantly keep dancing, if you constantly keep singing, these congratulations are eternal. You say “happy Deepawali” and BapDada says “eternal, holi, happy, healthy, Deepawali”. You want everything, do you not? You don’t just want to be happy, you want wealth as well. You want everything. So congratulations for a happy, healthy, wealthy and holy Deepawali. You are the lamps that are constantly ignited. Your mouths remain constantly sweetened, sweetened by the best sweet of all, just Baba. This is the sweet that brings happiness to the heart. You ate this sweet and became sweet. Those who eat this sweet constantly are sweet constantly. Everyone can make this easy sweet. The glimmering lamps in all four directions are in front of Baba in the form of a rosary. BapDada is smiling on seeing each lap, and is giving congratulations.

To the queens of lamps, from all four directions, who give imperishable light to the world and become like Baba; to those who celebrate the true Diwali, BapDada’s love and remembrances, and many many congratulations.

Eat, drink,
and experience pleasure. You have come to experience pleasure. You have been born to experience pleasure. You were born with pleasure, was there any difficulty? You heard knowledge and you took birth. So you were born with pleasure, and you were born for pleasure, and you will go with pleasure. You will return with Baba. BapDada is happy when the children have celebrations, because BapDada celebrates pleasure in the children’s pleasure. So light candles and cut a cake, do whatever you want. Cut even a thousand cakes, nothing is wrong with that. The children are with Baba – everyone will cut each one. Even the deities will not celebrate festivals as the Brahmins do, because you celebrate with Baba whereas there, souls celebrate with souls. So why not celebrate with pleasure? Celebrate without confusion. The whole of this creation is for pleasure, but human beings have created confusion within the creation of pleasure. The elements are in order to experience pleasure, but the vibrations of human beings spoil the atmosphere, and the atmosphere influences the elements, and then the elements create confusion. Let them create confusion, but are you going to be shaken? No, you are unshakeable. You are celebrating the season. There is no water but there is love – the water of love. Achcha. Sing, dance, do whatever you want.