Avyakt BapDada 18th September 1969
(to mothers)
Are you seeing the physical form or the avyakt? If you do not see your own physical form or that of others, and instead see the avyakt form, you will become the image that attracts. When you see the physical form, you will not become an image that attracts. If you want to become an image that attracts, do not see the physical form. Only when you see the attractive form that is in the physical form will there be an attraction by yourself and by others. So now only this subtle service remains.
Why do you come into the corporeal? What is the reason for this? Since you like becoming avyakt, why do you come into the corporeal? There are useless thoughts and wasteful actions only when you come into the corporeal form, so why do you find it difficult to become avyakt from corporeal? You quickly come into the corporeal form, but it is with difficulty that you stabilise yourself in the avyakt form. What is the reason for this? You forget. Why do you forget? Why do you become body conscious? The reason is that there is attraction of the body. In order to move yourself away from this attraction you have to make effort. What do you do when something that is being used to pull is being pulled away? A magnet attracts towards itself even when you don’t want it to. If something is pulling someone even when he doesn’t want to be pulled, and if you want to keep that person away from that pull, what will you do? You will either take him far away, or you will place something in between so that it isn’t able to attract anymore. In the same way, like a magnet, you become body conscious, or come into the corporeal feeling when you don’t wish to. What will you place in-between? What do you need in order to know yourself? It is only one word. In order to know yourself and the Almighty Father accurately, you need discipline. When you forget discipline, then you also forget the Almighty Authority. Why is there the sanskar of laziness? Because you forget one or another discipline. Discipline brings the self closer to the Almighty Father. If discipline is lacking, there isn’t that closeness of the soul to the Almighty Father. And so the thing in-between is discipline. When you let go of one or another discipline, you forget to remember Baba. If your disciplines are accurate, the stage of the self also remains accurate. And when the stage of the self is accurate, everything is accurate. So it is the attraction of the body that draws you again and again. If you place discipline in-between, the attraction of the body will not attract you.
Whenever you see any image, do not see the body (chitra), but see the living being (chetan) within the image. See that and the activities (charita) of the image. When you see the living being and the activities, because your attention is towards the activities, you will move away from the image, that is form the consciousness of the body. There is definitely one or another divine activity in each of you: each activity of those who are Baba’s helpers is a divine activity. So see the activity, and the living being, that is, the one without an image (vichitra).
When you change your feelings, everything will change. But there is still attraction (asaki). If, instead of being attracted, you consider yourself a shakti, attraction will be finished. When you don’t consider yourself a shakti, many types of attractions come. If any type of attraction is created, whether to the body, or to the comforts of the body, at that time remember: I am a shakti. How can a shakti be attracted? So finish all attractions.
What is the obstacle that comes most in front of the mothers? (Attachment). Why is there attachment? Attachment is created through the consciousness of ‘mine’. But what is the promise that all of you made? I belong to You, and so everything belongs to You. This was your first promise. I belong to You, and so everything that belonged to me now belongs to You. You mix mine with Yours. You have forgotten your first promise. The first promise that all of you made was: Whatever You say, that we will do. Whatever You fed us, that we will eat. wherever You make us sit… Baba is making you sit in the subtle region. So why do you come into the corporeal region? You did not fulfil your promise very well then. Your promise was: wherever You make us sit, there will we sit. Baba did not say: sit in the corporeal region. Whilst being in the corporeal world, remain avyakt. If you forget the first lesson, what kind of training will you have? In your training, at least make the first lesson firm.
Are all of you mothers who have come for training surrendered? If you are surrendered then where did the attachment come from? When something burns and crumbles away, does anything remain? Nothing at all. If something still remains it means that, although the matchstick has been lit, you did not completely burn away. You have died but not yet burned away. They first kill Raven and then burn him. So you have died a living death, but you have not yet turned to ashes by being burnt away. The meaning of surrender is very great. Nothing of mine remains in that. when you surrender, you surrender the body, mind, and wealth. How can you perform sinful actions through the body? This shows that you gave it to Baba and then took it back. Since you have given your body, mind, and wealth, you have received shrimat about what you should have in your mind, and about what you have to do through your body. You know what you have to do with your wealth as well. You have to follow the directions of the One to whom you have given everything. In order to conquer attachment, remember your promises.