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.

Avyakt BapDada 31st December 1987

Today, the trimurti Father is seeing three confluences. One is the confluence of Baba and the children, another is the confluence of the two ages, and third confluence is that of today and the new year. The confluence of the two years gives inspiration for newness. During this new year, let greetings and congratulations emerge from your heart all the time for every Brahmin soul and for those ignorant (agyani) souls who come into relationship or connection. To greet one another means to exchange happiness. No matter what their reaction is like, you, the elevated souls who receive greetings from BapDada at all times, should give happiness constantly to everyone. If they give you a thorn, give them a spiritual rose in return. Do not become as they are. Do not become ignorant with those who are ignorant, who are under the influence of their own sanskaras or nature. You are bestowers – you are deities – those who give. So in this new year keep giving greetings of happiness – throughout the year – not just for two days. Your greetings from the heart will make the hearts of other souls happy.

Distribute the sweet that brings happiness to the heart. Don’t eat or give this sweet to others for only one day. Eat the sweet that sweetens the mouth as much as you wish, and give it to others – feed many with sweets. You experience happiness just by hearing about sweets, aren’t you? In today’s world people are afraid to eat sweets, but you can eat this sweet that brings happiness to the heart as much as you wish, and you can give it to others. This will not cause sickness, because BapDada is making the children equal to himself.

This year become like the Father in front of the world and in front of the Brahmin family. Every soul experiences sweetness and happiness by saying “Baba” – the word “baba” sweetens their mouth – this is because there is attainment. In the same way every Brahmin soul should be happy as soon as they mention the name of another Brahmin soul, because, like the Father, you also have an exchange with each other through the specialities attained from Baba. You co-operate with one another, become companions, and enable each other to progress. Don’t be each other’s life companions, but companions in the task. Just as souls begin to dance as soon as they remember Baba, in the same way all Brahmin souls should experience spiritual happiness, and not limited happiness, as soon as they rememeber each Brahmin soul. Give greetings to one another at all times, with every thought.

Everyone’s aim is the same – to become like the Father – because without becoming equal you will not return with Baba to the sweet home, nor will you come into the kingdom with Brahma Baba. The soul will come down from up above, will it not? Souls will not only return together but will come down with Brahma Baba, and they will also become worshipped with Brahma Baba. So there is the companionship of many births.

The speciality of this year is the number 88. There is so much significance in the number 8. Look, the memorial of your worship worthy stage is that of 8 arms, 8 powers, 8 jewels, 8 kingdoms. The number 8 is remembered in many ways.

This year become equal to the Father. Become like Brahma Baba in your thoughts, and in the words that you speak while coming into connection and relationship. It is easy to become like Brahma Baba, isn’t it? He was corporeal, the soul who took 84 births. He is the soul who has the experience of being worthy as well as being worshipper. He has experience of everything, the old sanskars of the old world, old karmic accounts, and also of being in the gathering and working with others. It isn’t difficult to follow the one who has all experiences. So Baba says “place every footstep over the footsteps of Brahma Baba”. Follow the footsteps. What is diificult about that? You don’t have to find a new path, but simply copy – it is easy to copy someone else, isn’t it? Just copy Brahma – what else do you need to do? You have that much wisdom don’t you?

Both Bap and Dada are waiting to return with you. The incorporeal Father is resident of the supreme region, but at the confluence He has to play a part through the corporeal. As the part of this cycle of one kalpa draws to a conclusion, the part of both Bap and Dada comes to an end for this kalpa. The kalpa will repeat again – so the incorporeal Father is in bondage to play a part again with you children. It is a pure bondage, but it is still a bondage – the bondage of playing a part, the bondage of love, the bondage of service – it is a sweet bondage, not a bondage of the suffering of karma.

So what have you heard? The new year is that of constant greetings; of becoming like the Father; and of claiming the blessings of returning with Baba to the sweet home, and of being with Baba in the sweet kingdom.

Constantly be with Baba from now on. To be with Baba now means to be with Baba for all time. Otherwise you wil be part of the procession. Instead of being one of the close relations, you will be a distant relative, and you will meet with Baba only sometimes. You aren’t those who meet sometimes, are you? The sparkle and splendour of happiness of the first birth in the first kingdom, and of being one of the royal relations of the first numbered sovereigns, the world emperor and empress, is unique. There is still a difference in being part of the royal family of the second numbered world emperor and empress. There is a difference of one birth. This cannot be called being with Baba. What is said when something has been used even once? It is known as used object, isn’t it? It cannot be called new, can it? To return together with Baba, to come down together, to be part of the royal family and claim the fortune of the kingdom with Baba in the first birth, this is known as becoming equal to the Father. What will you do? Will you become equal, or become part of the procession?

BapDada was seeing the difference between the enlightened ones, and the ignorant ones – Baba was seeing this is in the form of a scene. What are Baba’s chilren like, and what are the ignorant ones like? What have the vicious souls of today’s world become? These days when a fire is burning in a huge factory, they build a chimney to let the smoke out – there is always smoke coming out, and it is always black. So, because today’s people have become vicious, under the influence of the vices, in their thoughts and words there is always the smoke of jealousy, hatred, or some other vice. From their eyes there is the smoke of the fire of vices, while you enlightened children are like angels filled with blessings. So never let the smoke of the fire of vices emerge – even in thoughts. Constantly let blessings emerge. Let there be this checking – does smoke emerge instead of blessings? An angel is the embodiment of blessings. If ever such a thought or word emerges then bring the scene of what you have become at that time in front of you, and ask yourself “have I changed from an angel?”. Waste thoughts are also smoke. The other is the smoke of an intensely burning fire, but this is smoke of a half burning fire. What happens when a fire is not fully lit, when there is just a tiny flame burning? There is smoke, is there not?

So, be master merciful, compassionate, a constant bestower of blessings – be like an angel. Have mercy on your self and on others. Don’t speak about the things that you see and hear – don’t think about them. Have compassion, good wishes, and mercy, for the souls you hear saying, and see doing, such things. Don’t have mercy in any other way – don’t give them blessings with your hand – but to not keep in your mind what you saw means to have mercy for that soul. To speak of wasteful things means to allow the seed of a wasteful tree to grow. When a tree of waste grows, the one who started it becomes even more stubborn to justify the waste. So what is spreading in the atmosphere? The waste has spread – it is smoke that is spreading. So merge the waste you see with love – while listening to i
t, merge it with the pure feelings of love. Don’t extend it further. This is known as having mercy on others, of giving blessings. So become master merciful, compassionate.

So this year make preparations for becoming equal to the Father, for returning with Baba, and for living with Baba. Don’t think it is better to stay behind a little longer. Even if you stay, stay after having become like the Father. Anyone who wants to stay has permission, but only having become equal to the Father. Are you are ever-ready? Whether it is service that is keeping you, or the drama that is keeping you, is something else, but don’t stay behind because of your own reasons. Don’t be the ones who stay behind under the influence of the bondage of karma. The book of karma accounts should be clean and clear. Do you understand? Achcha.

Let the greetings of becoming great in the great new year be with all the children of all four directions. To those who follow the Father with courage and constantly feed one another with the sweet that brings happiness to the heart, to those angels who are constantly giving blessings, to such children who are equal to Baba, to those who are merciful and compassionate, BapDada’s love, remembrances, and namaste.

Avyakt BapDada 27th December 1987

Today, Baba was seeing the signs of the faith of each child. As is the faith, so will be the actions, the words, and the spiritual intoxication visible on the face. Faith brings easy victory – instant fruit for every action, every thought – as a right, not through effort. Faith means having no doubts about your elevated fortune, no doubts about this elevated life, and no doubts about your relationship and contacts with Baba, or with the Family. All question marks are finished, and the souls is able to apply a dot, a full stop. You experience being a carefree emperor, without having to remind yourself – with no effort – you are constantly stable on the elevated throne. Your stage is not dependant on the circumstances. You create whatever elevated stage you need through the light and might received through the knowledge from BapDada, and through the power of remembrance. You have inherited the powers of yoga and gyan from the Father.

Those who create their stage according to circumstances can never be stable – one moment they are dancing in happiness, the next moment they are upside down. Instead, you should transform the circumstances, on the basis of your inheritance, your blessings, and your elevated consciousness. If the soul is the embodiment of all attainments, an almighty authority, then there is nothing missing, and so nothing to worry about. And so a soul who has faith is constantly a carefree emperor.

To have faith means to sacrifice the self to the Father – total surrender so that not even the slightest trace remains of arrogance, desire, or attachment, or of their progeny. To surrender means to renounce all traces. To surrender does not mean that you settle down in Madhuban or one of the centres. Surrender is a ladder that the soul climbs – the final step is to surrender every trace. The progeny have finished when there is no trace of body consciousness, of relationships of the body, or of desire for material objects, in thoughts, or even in dreams. If there is even the slightest trace, then progeny will be created. So the definition of renouncing every trace is very deep, and you will hear more about this later.

Faith brings lightness, certainty, and spiritual intoxication, to the self, and to others through influence. The soul has the feeling of being an instrument in every activity, and so is humble, and creative. Language will be sweet and generous, keeping others ahead. Through generosity and humility, the soul automatically receives whatever the heart desires. The soul who says “you first” will be put in front by others. They will be content, and will benefit everyone. Faith is the foundation.

When the storms of circumstances, of Maya, of sanskaras or the different natures of others, come, you will recognise the extent of your faith and your strength. What does a storm do? First it makes you fly with great pleasure, and then it throws you! Maya takes you very high with temporary intoxication, of artificial attainment,and then brings you down into descent. The soul with faith is three eyed (trinetri) – seeing the three aspects of time he can never be deceived. So your faith is discerned at the time of storms.

Just as physical storms uproot huge old trees, in the same way these storms try to uproot your faith. But the foundation is not so much broken, as shaken and weakened. At such a time check your foundation. Don’t let the wasteful gain victory over the powerful, or you will become disheartened. Desire for limited name and fame, or any other limited desire, and the consciousness of “I”, bring the soul down from spiritual pride and faith. Your faith will be tested, so continue to check your foundations. Victory brings self love, the love of Baba, and the love of the family.

To all the jewels who are victorious through having faith, who are free from worry, carefree emperors, special souls who cross the storms and experience them as gifts; to those victorious souls who remain stable, immovable and constant; love, remembrances and namaste from BapDada.