Avyakt BapDada 16th February 1988

All the souls of the world are children of the Lord, but Brahmin souls are the closest and the most loved of all, because the Brahmin souls are the original creation. The children are dancing with the happiness of zeal and enthusiasm in celebrating Baba’s birthday. BapDada is celebrating the children’s birthday. BapDada, Jagadamba, the advance party, are showering you with golden flowers, and congratulating you from the heart.

Shiv Jayenti is the day of the Shiva lingum image – the memorial of the Father in the form of a point of light – this is the significance of the dot. You are a dot and the Father is also a dot of light. Today is the memorial day when every bhagat all over Bharat gives importance to the dot form. Just as the dot is extremely subtle, it is also extremely powerful. This is why the Father, the Dot, is also called the Ocean of All Powers, the Ocean of All Virtues, and the Ocean of All Knowledge.

: Today you hoisted a flag of Shiv Baba, but what did the Father do? BapDada raised the flag of love of the specialties of the children. You have the thought “we have found the Father” and the Father has the thought “I have found my children”. The Father is intoxicated and proud of His original creation, the Brahmins. You are Brahmins are you not – is there anyone who is just a warrior? Is there anyone who is second rate, belonging only to the moon dynasty? Everyone belongs to the sun dynasty. The sun dynasty is the original creation. All souls of the world are the eternal creation – you are both the eternal and the original creation. And so there is a double intoxication, isn’t there?

Every moment of Brahmin life is a festival day. Celebrate the festival, and maintain enthusiasm, and inspire others. When you do service, consider it to be a game. The higher the form of service, the more you receive a very beautiful, huge, visible form of the fruit of that service – eating this immediate fruit gives you strength and the power of happiness – and so you don’t feel tired. You are not serving – you are celebrating a festival.

In Brahmin life, firstly there is service, but what else is there? Maya comes! All of you are now laughing hearing about Maya: illusion, ignorance, and negativity. Perhaps you were thinking that you love Maya, but Maya loves you also. If there is enthusiasm, then you watch the game. Maya comes to play a match with you to see whether she can hit the target or whether you can. So Maya throws the ball, sometimes in the form of anger, sometimes in other forms, to see whether you can catch it – if you recognise it as a game there will be enthusiasm. If you see Maya as your enemy, if you see any difficulties which have been created by Maya, then there is confusion. So see it as a game. In cartoons of Mickey Mouse, sometimes there are monkeys, cats, dogs, and mice. Do you get confused by those? Is there confusion or pleasure seeing all that? And so also see the games of Maya as a festival – just watch with awareness – watch the game and dance with happiness.

You are singing the songs of praise of the specialties of the Father and the Brahmin family, and eating Brahma bhojan with happiness. No one else in the world receives food which is as clean and filled with as much remembrance as you do. This food has been called the food that removes all sorrows. Why? Pure food purifies the mind and body. If wealth is unclean it destroys happiness and creates worries – worry is like a funeral pyre. And unclean wealth comes from an unclean mind. Clean food purifies the mind, and so wealth and body also become clean. So there is importance in food that is prepared in remembrance, and there is praise given to such food, to Brahma bhojan. Food prepared and eaten in remembrance works as medicine, and also blessings. Food cooked in remembrance can never cause any damage. So at all times celebrate the festival.

No matter what form Maya may take – perhaps it comes as attachment – think of it as a monkey’s game. Attachment comes like a monkey – watch the game – be entertained – but be a detached observer. Don’t get caught in the spin of Maya. Watch it like a Mickey Mouse cartoon. Whatever form Maya comes in, one moment it comes, and the next moment it goes. Let Maya go away, but don’t let your elevated stage of consciousness go away. Let the scenes change, but don’t allow your elevated consciousness to change. Watch the game of trying to make you fall – catch the form that it has come in – watch the scene as a detached observer – and learn from the scene how to strengthen the eternal consciousness of the self for the future, and so move forward.

And so the festival of the night of Shiva brings enthusiasm – but it doesn’t just refer to today – for you there is always a festival and so there is always enthusiasm. The Father is making a golden offer to each of the children to experience constant companionship. So always remain in the company of the Father.

It seems that the double foreigners prefer to remain alone. They want to be free – they don’t want to come into any sort of bondage – but in this company, in this companionship, there is no bondage. Rather, there is freedom.

To those who remain always in the intoxication of being the eternal and original creation; to those who celebrate each moment as a festival; to those who remain in the enthusiasm of remembrance and service; to those who consider every situation of Maya to be a game, and watch it as a detached observer; to those who constantly remain with the Father at every step and become the constant companions; to such elevated Brahmin souls, congratulations on the spiritual birth, and love and remembrances.