Of course you are most welcome
Thanks for the welcome. I would definitely give it a try.
Regards,
OGS,
Arjun
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arjun wrote:In fact, whenever Avyakt BapDada refers to Mama in the Avyakt Vanis, he says that Mama is always remembered for always saying 'hanji' (yes, please) to Baba. How can she give Baba's directions? When Baba himself says that he is an obedient servant, how could Mama be said to have violated this Shrimat? Could any BK kindly clarify this ambiguity?
arjun wrote:Supplementary Question: Can a PBK become member of the BK forum (http://www.brahmakumaris.com.au)?
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Anamik wrote:2. That soul has taken physical rebirth after leaving his body as Dada Lekhraj in january 1969.
PBK Surya wrote:I am a bit surprised that the pressure is finally up on you. For you to move the celebration date to January 20th instead
arjun wrote:This should not come as a surprise because it is customary for most of the BK centers to organize the public function related to 18th January on some other nearest or convenient day because most BK centers devote the entire day of 18th January to be in remembrance of ShivBaba (or perhaps Brahma Baba).
This is a chit-chat, not a class. The spirit needs conversation. Baba is the only one who really speaks to the spirit. The time of the Confluence Age is passing very fast now. Whatever advantage we want to take of it, we have to do it now. Once the time has passed by, we won't be able to take benefit.
Shiv Baba has been giving to us, and even now is still giving, as the Innocent Lord. It is now that we also have the opportunity to be with this Godly family. We have the self, Baba, the family, service, all together. In fact, we cannot separate them. I am having a heart-to-heart conversation with all of you just as I speak to my own self.
Dadi told the doctors she was well again. They knew that it was because of the pull from Madhuban. It's the love of the Godly family that makes me well. I had to be here! I don't get the love and blessings I receive here from anywhere else. So I cannot miss out on this.
I race with Brahma Baba. I say to him: "OK Baba, you say you've given your body on loan to Shiv Baba, after Baba entered you; but you had to make your own effort to become karmateet, too. OK, you are the lucky Chariot; but I am 100 times more fortunate. I don't say I've given my body on loan to Baba, but He has taken everything of mine. The body is mot mine, either." Baba is very clever and we can be too! It's fine to have chit-chat with Baba in this way.
Kill this "I" completely. What else is there to do? The consciousness of "I" doesn't remain, so I don't have ego; and the consciousness of "mine" doesn't remain, so there is no attachment. So, Baba freed me completely. Let each one check this: Am I free from "I", empty of "mine"?
I say to Baba, "Baba, I am yours" and He says, "Yes, you are Mine". My whole life is such that he becomes the One who completely has that right. Everything that is happening is because of Him. He has enabled so many beautiful experiences to happen; and they happen because of the faith I have – God applies conditions. I might say, "I have faith in You", but He will say, "OK, show Me the proof."
To know that He comes in the body of Brahma, who He is, where He resides, what He does – yes, but all that is in the intellect. There is so much pain, so much suffering and sorrow, so much corruption in the world. He has made me free from all that. He has made me sit with Him. Wherever I am, that is also Baba's home – my service place, and my home. And the family is also mine.
Wherever you are, let there be the awareness that you have to remove the sorrow of that place. Enable victory to take place in everyone. Then others will see you with that vision. Baba teaches us motherly love. But also, Baba becomes your authority, your strength, to see yourself and see what you have to become. Through us, others should have the experience of what my mother and Father should be like, just as Baba has given us this experience.
Baba understood his part and considered the whole world to be his children. Mama also gave that motherly sustenance to everyone. When you sustain yourself on the basis of Gyan, you become a mother to yourself. Also, just as Baba through Yoga enables us to become bodiless, we will support that work too. With Baba as Mother and Father and ourselves as souls, we see ourselves clearly as one family, Brothers and Sisters. So much power comes from this meeting of the soul with the Supreme. Experiencing that I am a soul, and who He is, and belonging to Him; this is what brings that power.
Because we experience so much love from Baba, Maya/Ravan then gets jealous, and comes in-between. That is because of body-consciousness. Then, total chaos happens inside and "Baba" will no longer emerge deeply from the heart. Maya won't stop until the soul cries a lot. Whereas Baba makes us smile! When there is that love for Baba, it's easy to smile. When that is experience is not there, it is difficult to smile – one makes a lot of effort in what one does, but it is hard work.
Experience this new birth with Baba today. Such that you sing Baba's praise; and then the world will sing your praise.
"The road of this life is a very long one. Let's walk along it laughing and dancing." It's when you hear such songs that your face begins to smile. Where are we going? To our Baba's home. I cannot force anyone to go with me on this journey, but I should walk in such a way – accurately, happily - that they want to follow. In every way, Baba teaches us the wisdom of how to stay as a carefree emperor.
Melt yourself completely. It really is a wonder: "Baba, with Your love, everything becomes so easy." You can experience success instantly in this. However, worries get in the way. We have to find such cures for those inner illnesses that we experience healing and recovery quickly.
We should not be subservient to our own nature. Whatever is not good in me, let me change it very fast. When it has penetrated my sanskaras, it is difficult. I have to have this loving feeling in my own self: I am the one who has to change.
Catch the feelings and intentions behind what I am saying, and this meeting will be very significant! As Baba has given me mercy and forgiveness as an inheritance, take that for yourself, so everyone in the world sees you flying, and wants the same.
In hospital in Ahmedabad, there was one night when Dadi was unable to sleep. I did not have the thought that I should be able to sleep. Instead, there was the feeling of Baba having pulled me into the Subtle Region. Suddenly there was the experience of deep silence, and many others also came there. I felt Baba had brought me to the hospital for this reason – that others should also begin to fly.
He doesn't just make me sit there. He says to me, "Use your power of Yoga, stay yug-yukt." You are my friends and family, and you have to have this feeling too. Learn to be a friend. Consider the family to be your family. This is also a matter of great fortune.
Dadi Janakiji wrote:I race with Brahma Baba. I say to him: "OK Baba, you say you've given your body on loan to Shiv Baba, after Baba entered you; but you had to make your own effort to become karmateet, too. OK, you are the lucky Chariot; but I am 100 times more fortunate. I don't say I've given my body on loan to Baba, but He has taken everything of mine. The body is mot mine, either." Baba is very clever and we can be too! It's fine to have chit-chat with Baba in this way.
Kill this "I" completely. What else is there to do? The consciousness of "I" doesn't remain, so I don't have ego; and the consciousness of "mine" doesn't remain, so there is no attachment. So, Baba freed me completely. Let each one check this: Am I free from "I", empty of "mine"?
Time is cautioning us...
All of us have loving Dadiji in our thoughts at present. Dadiji has claimed the throne of the Father and Mother and served through her own stage. One can see the fruit of her service in every part of Madhuban. I have never seen her get upset or angry; she always used
the thread of love to bind the family as one. We too have to make Baba's teachings part of our experiences. Knowledge should not simply be in the intellect or on our lips but our life should be filled with experiences.
The times are cautioning us to look at ourselves and not at others. Baba talked about 'detachment' today, which is not just a matter of remembering myself as a soul and not the body but being aware that I am a child of the Supreme, the mouth-born creation of the Father of Humanity (Prajapita). Only then can I realise my role and experience
dying alive. I cannot stabilise myself in soul-consciousness if I don't experience a living death. Nothing of the old Kaliyugi world attracts me because I know how it had made me impure. Baba has freed me from it and kept me safe in His lap.
Let there never be a moment when I forget the joys of my spiritual childhood. Through the lips of Brahma, God has said, "You belong to me. I will destroy all your sins only if you are honest in remembering Me." Do I have such intense attention? If I hold onto my old sanskars, I cannot experience the bliss of my childhood.
It is not possible for anyone to truly describe how much service Dadiji has done in her life. She always followed Baba's directions. We used to call her 'Munni Mama', that is 'Younger Mama' as she gave us the experience of being a Dadi, a friend and a mother. Thus she
always received love from the family. Let me check: if I am not receiving love from the divine family or I don't have love for the family, what use is this life? I should never keep conditions in giving love. If I am true with the family, I receive true love. Let me remember that these are my Baba's children. It is Baba's task and home, but I am instrument to see that everything goes well, which is possible only with truth, humility and love.
My efforts should be such that there is no trace of sorrow in my final hour. If I have a delicate nature, things will affect me. I cannot take care of myself if I am delicate. Childishness will make you happy sometimes and unhappy at other times. This nature of being too sensitive is a dangerous obstacle in creating my future. We have been
careless and arrogant for too long and in turn deceived ourselves. If the heart is keeping anything else but Baba and His teachings inside, Baba cannot work on me.
There are many new souls who instantly understand and imbibe Baba's teachings (like the Governor of Rajasthan who met Bap Dada on 2nd February), and on the other hand there are Baba's children, old in Gyan, but unable to pick up Baba's signals as there is a lock on their intellect. Let me check and see how much body-consciousness remains. It has entrapped the soul for so many births but God's power liberates me from body-consciousness. If I am pleased with a little, it's not possible to check and change myself. The more I am motivated to change, the more Baba will help. Baba repeatedly says, when the child has one step of courage, the Father comes forward 1000 steps with His help. But the basis of receiving this help is my honest heart. Let there be the accumulation of power through honest Yoga.
I should have the ability to rule myself and not allow the intellect to run haywire in controlling others. The power of elevated actions makes me strong and independent.
Baba is the Ocean of Mercy and Forgiveness, and has kept us on his path (gali) in order to make us the garland around His neck (gale). I should make such efforts that Baba Himself calls me 'His worthy child'. It is my duty to share whatever I have learned from Baba; drink nectar and give others the drink of nectar. The world is to take benefit from Baba through I the soul, and so my intellect needs to be free from trivial things. When my drishti and attitude are elevated, I can truly call myself richest in the world.
Om Shanti
Dadi Janki spoke not wrote:Have I really left the shore?
‘Om Shanti’ says a great deal in itself. When we say ‘Om Shanti’ there is no need to say, ‘How are you - are you happy and content?’ or, ‘Is everything OK’? The other important word is, of course ‘Baba’. Baba has given us such drishti that our third eye opened. It was through this that we are able to have the pleasure of seeing ourselves and Him. We might have known about the existence of the soul but we didn’t know that it was in the centre of the forehead. We learned about soul and Supreme Soul from Baba and thus the darkness was removed. It is such a wonder. We learned to see. Baba then gave us knowledge of the Three Worlds.
When we stand at the Confluence Age we leave the Iron Age behind and are inspired to let go of it completely. There is a story; a saint and a great soul were both sitting in a boat. It was night and due to the darkness they could not see. They could feel the movement of the boat and so they thought they were moving along nicely. They spent the whole night thinking that they were moving and so were quite content and happy just to sit there. However, when morning brought light they discovered that they were still moored to the bank. This story teaches us to be aware; we should not be moored to the bank by our karmic bondages. I have to make sure that I really am moving forward and for this the method is to sit in the boat of truth and cut all ropes of bondages.
We have such fortune at the Confluence Age to be with Baba, the true Supreme Soul. None of us will get such fortune in The Cycle again. I am multi million times fortunate – think like this. We become multi million times fortunate by spinning the discus, staying at the Confluence Age and remembering the Home. Our part in the play has finished – I need to let scenes just pass me by. This is the practice Dadi has. When we understand drama we can remain constantly cheerful and this shows on our faces. Everyone has their own part and everyone’s part is good. Let Baba's words echo in my head and automatically you will become cheerful. In fact, only Baba can really give happiness.
Baba's blessings make us worthy to sit in the Dilwara Temple. Baba is the one who can make my heart not just happy but ever happy and Baba has taught me to extend this happiness to others. I should receive blessings from the hearts of those I come into contact with. This is such fortune.
We are instruments. A true instrument learns to sit in the Subtle Region and serves from there. The Subtle Region has been created for us as well as BapDada. When BapDada comes we feel we are sitting in front of Him in the Subtle Region. Baba comes especially to help us to be detached from the body and bodily relationships. We receive the eye with which to see ourselves and to see Baba. The Subtle Region is full of light, cleanliness, coolness and truth. The purity there is so sweet.
I should be so full of light that anyone who sees me has the experience of seeing an angel. An angel is one who has no relationships with anyone.
Baba is very innocent: He becomes pleased with us very quickly when He sees that we belong to Him with a true heart. He is the Bestower. We receive the power from Him to understand Maya and overcome the vices. Where there is courage Baba definitely helps. Now surrender completely to Baba. If I hold a little bit back what will I get from Baba? And then what will I give to others? Then the question has to be asked: who am I keeping it for?
I am here on this earth for the sake of service. My breath, thoughts, time, virtues, The Knowledge I have received, are all for the sake of service.
Many human beings have very good qualities and virtues but along with these they also have defects. Having defects themselves means they also see defects. Baba is asking us to imbibe divine virtues. If I remember Baba as my Mother, Father and Friend arrogance will not emerge in me. In service no one can say ‘this is my virtue or quality’. We become virtuous on the basis of God's teachings. He teaches us to donate and this creates our fortune. God's virtues make us virtuous and give us the power to become angels. Deities have parents but angels are the children of God. They are light and virtuous and through this they become protectors of the entire world.
Om Shanti