07-03-86 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban
The Maha Shiv Ratri the accurate memorial of the four subjects of the study.
Today, the Bestower of Knowledge, the Bestower of Fortune, the Bestower of Blessings, of all powers, the Father, the Innocent Lord who makes everyone full of all treasures, has come to meet His extremely loving, constantly cooperative and close children. These meetings become memorials that are celebrated as festivals at all times. All the festivals that are celebrated with different names from time to time are the memorials of the sweet and enthusiastic meetings of the present time between the Father and the children; they take the form of festivals for the future. At this time, each day and each moment of you most elevated children is for staying in constant happiness. From the copper age, the devotees have been making the alokik life of this short confluence age, the alokik attainments and the alokik experiences into festivals with different names. This life, this one birth of yours becomes a means of remembrance on the path of devotion for 63 births. You are such great souls! The most wonderful thing of this time that you are seeing is that you are celebrating it in practice and are now celebrating the memorial. You now exist in the living form and the images also exist at the same time.
What did each of you attain 5000 years ago? What did you become? How did you become that? You now know very clearly this accurate memorial and your horoscope of 5000 years. You are listening to this and are also very pleased to see that they are remembering and worshipping you and telling the stories of your life. They cannot create your original image identically. However they were touched with that love and faith, and this is why they made those images. So, you celebrate Shiv Jayanti in a practical way every day, because the confluence age is the age of the Incarnation. It is the age of performing an elevated task and elevated activities. However, you are also celebrating the memorial of this day within this unlimited age. All of you celebrate by having a meeting, whereas their celebration is an invocation. Theirs is calling out whereas yours is having attained. They say, "Come", and you say, "He has come, we have found Him." There is as much difference in the memorial and the practical as there is between day and night. In fact, this is the day of the Father, the Innocent Lord. The Innocent Lord means the One who bestows countlessly, without keeping an account of it. Generally, there is an account of receiving as much as you give. Whoever does something receives the return of it, accordingly. This is the account. However, why is He called the Innocent Lord? Because, at this time, He doesn't keep an account of giving you as much you give. The account is of receiving multimillionfold for one. So, it has become countless, has it not? There is so much difference between one and multimillionfold. "Multimillion" (Padams) is said because that is the last word in counting (multimillion=padma padam). They celebrate as a festival the day of the Innocent Treasurer, the One who gives without counting. You have received so much that you are completely full at this time, and you will also always remain completely full for 21 births and 21 generations.
No one else can give a guarantee for so many births. No matter how great a bestower someone is, no one can guarantee to make your treasurestore completely full for so many births. Therefore, He is the Innocent Lord, is He not? Whilst being knowledgefull, He remains innocent. This is why He is called the Innocent Lord. In fact, if He kept accounts, He could know the account of each and every thought. However, whilst knowing all of that, He becomes the Innocent Lord when it comes to giving. So, all of you are innocent children of the Father, the Innocent Lord, are you not? On the one hand, you call Him the Innocent Lord and on the other hand, you call Him the Treasurer who is completely full. Look how well you celebrate the memorial. Those people who celebrate it do not know it, but you know it. All the four special subjects of the main study of the confluence age are celebrated on on this memorial day. How? You were also told earlier that on the day of this festival there is special importance given to the point and the drop. The point is a symbol of the subject of remembrance, that is, of yoga. In remembrance, you stabilise yourself in the stage of a point, do you not? So, the point is a symbol of remembrance, and the drop represents the different drops of knowledge. The sign given to the subject of knowledge is the drop. The sign of dharna on this day is the special fast they keep. So, you observe a fast. In dharna, you have a determined thought. So, you take a vow (fast) that you will definitely be tolerant or introverted. You take this vow, do you not? This symbolizes dharna, and the sign of service is "jaagran" (staying up all night). In fact, you do service to awaken someone. To awaken them from the sleep of ignorance, to enable them to stay awake and to awaken them, is your service. So, this jaagran symbolizes service. So, all four subjects have been covered, have they not? However, they have taken its form just in a physical way. Nevertheless, devotees have that love and faith, and the sign of true devotees is that whatever thought they have, they will remain very firm in that thought. This is why the Father also has love for devotees. At least they have made your memorial continue eternally from the copper age. Especially on this day, just as you repeatedly have surrender ceremonies here at the confluence age, you also celebrate it individually, in the same way, as a memorial of this function of yours, they do not sacrifice themselves, but they sacrifice a goat. They make a sacrifice. In fact, BapDada also says amusingly that it is only when you surrender that consciousness of "I" (meh, meh) that you can surrender yourself, that is, you can become complete and equal to the Father. What was the first step that Father Brahma took? He celebrated the surrender ceremony of "I" and "mine", that is, in any situation, instead of "I" you always heard the word "Father" in his natural language, in his ordinary language. He never said, "I". “Baba is making me do it, not that I am doing it. No. Baba is making me move, not that I am saying this. No. Baba is speaking.” To have attachment to any limited being or thing is to have the consciousness of "mine". To surrender the consciousness of "mine" and "I" is called making a sacrifice. To make this sacrifice means to make the greatest sacrifice. So, this is a sign of surrendering.
Baba gives thanks to the devotees for one thing: Whether in Bharat or in any other country, in order to spread a wave of enthusiasm in any form, they have created very good festivals. Whether it is for two days or just a day, at least the wave of enthusiasm (utsaah) spreads. This is why it is called a festival (utsav). At least the attention of the majority of them is drawn towards the Father temporarily for a special purpose. So what special things will you do on this special day? On the path of devotion, when some observe a fast they do it for all time, whereas others don't have that courage and observe the fast for a month or a day or for just a short time. They then break that fast. You don’t do this, do you? In Madhuban, your feet are not on the ground. So, when you return abroad, will you come down to the ground or will you remain up above? Will you always remain up above and just come down to perform actions or will you perform actions whilst always being down below? To remain up above means to remain in the stage up above (high stage). It isn't that you have to go onto the roof and dangle from there. It means to remain stable in a high stage and perform ordinary actions, that is, come down (to perform actions). Whilst performing ordinary actions, your stage should remain up above, that is, it should remain elevated. The Father adopts an ordinary body, and He only performs ordinary actions. He speaks in the same way as you do. He moves in the same way as you. So, the actions are ordinary, the body is ordinary, but, whilst performing ordinary actions, His stage remains high. In the same way, the stage of all of you should also always be high.
Just as you call today the day of jaagran, similarly, every day, at amrit vela, don’t think that you have come from sleep but that you have incarnated from the land of peace in order to perform actions. And, at night, perform actions and then return to the land of peace. An incarnation incarnates to perform an elevated action. They are not said to have taken birth, but they are said to have incarnated. An incarnation is when they come down from the stage up above. So, by performing actions whilst in that stage, even ordinary actions change into alokik actions. Other people eat their meals (bhojan) whereas you eat Brahma bhojan. So, there is a difference, is there not? You also move along, but you move along as angels do, you move in a doublelight stage. So, it is an alokik activity and alokik actions. So, it is not just today that is the day of the incarnation, but the confluence age itself it the day of incarnation.
On this day, you congratulate BapDada but BapDada says: You first. If it weren't for you children, who would say, "Father"? It is the children who call the Father, Father. Therefore, first of all, congratulations to the children. All of you sing the birthday song: Happy birthday to You. BapDada also says: Happy birthday to you. The children gave birthday congratulations to the Father and the Father gave them to the children. You are being sustained with congratulations. What is the sustenance of all of you? You are being sustained with congratulations from the Father and the family. You are singing, dancing, being sustained and flying with congratulation. This sustenance is also wonderful. What do you give one another at every moment? Congratulations, and this is the means of sustenance. No matter what someone is like, BapDada knows that, and you also know that. Everything is numberwise. If it weren't numberwise, then, in the golden age, you would need to build a minimum of 150,000 thrones. This is why it has to be numberwise. It has to be numberwise, but if sometimes you think that that someone is wrong, that he is not doing something good, then the way to put that wrong right, the way to teach the accurate method to someone who is not doing something correctly is not to tell him directly, that he is wrong. If you say this, that person will never change. In order to put out a fire, you don't start another fire; you pour cold water on it. Therefore, if you initially tell someone he is wrong, then that person will become even more disheartened. First of all, reassure that person by saying that he is good, that everything is good. First of all, at least sprinkle the water, then explain to him why the fire started. Don't tell him straightaway: You are like this and you did this and you did that. First of all, sprinkle cold water. Then he will also realise the reason why the fire started and what the method is to put out the fire. If someone is bad and you tell him that he is bad, that is like pouring oil on to a fire. Therefore, first of all say, "It is very good, it is very good", and then tell him whatever you have to, and he will then have the courage to listen to it and imbibe it. This is why Baba was telling you that to say "Very good, very good" is to give congratulations. For instance, BapDada too would never say to anyone directly that he is wrong. He would say in the murli what is right and what is wrong. However, if someone comes and asks Baba directly if he is wrong, he would say, "No, you are absolutely right," because that person doesn't have courage at that time. Just as a patient is about to go and is on his last breath, and he asks the doctor if he is now about to go, the doctor would never say: “Yes, you are about to go, because the patient doesn’t have courage at that time. If someone has a weak heart and you tell him this sort of thing then he would definitely have heartfailure, that is, he would not have the power to make effort to bring about transformation. So, the confluence age is the age to bring about growth through congratulations. These congratulations are the elevated sustenance. This is why, whenever they celebrate the memorial of the sustenance of your congratulations on the day of any of the deities, they call that a big day. Whenever it is Deepmala or Shiv Ratri, they call it a big day. Any festival they have they call it a big day because you have a big heart, and so they have called it a big day. To give congratulations to one another is to have a big heart. Do you understand? It is not that you wouldn't tell someone who is wrong that he is wrong. However, have a little patience. You will have to give a signal, but at least choose the right time. That person is dying and you tell him: Die, die..! Therefore, consider the time, consider his courage. By saying, "Very good, very good", that person receives courage. However, say it from your heart. Don’t just say it superficially so that that person feels you are just saying it for the sake of it. This is a matter of feeling. Let the feeling in your heart be that of mercy, and his heart will also feel that mercy. Therefore, constantly continue to give congratulations and continue to receive congratulations. These congratulations are a blessing. Achcha.
To all the children everywhere, imperishable congratulations for the day of incarnation for every day of the confluence age, to those who are always bestowers and bestowers of blessings, the same as the Father, and who make every soul full, to the children who are master lords of innocence, to those who always stay in remembrance and make their every action a memorial, to the elevated children who always move forward in service and selfprogress with zeal and enthusiasm, on this special day of the memorial of Shiv Jayanti and so Brahmin Jayanti, the jayanti as valuable as a diamond, congratulations for the jayanti of making everyone happy and full, love, remembrance and namaste.
Blessing: May you be a worthyofworship soul and invoke your deity status in the right way at Deepmala.
On Deepmala, people used to ignite lamps with the right method and made sure that the lamps would never go out. They would keep pouring oil into them, and systematically, with the right method, they would maintain the practice of invocation. Nowadays, instead of earthenware lamps, they just switch on a lightbulb. They don't celebrate Deepmala now, for it has just become entertainment. The method and spiritual endeavour of invocation has now finished. That love has finished and just selfishness remains. This is why the real bestower Lakshmi does not come to anyone. However, all of you invoke your deity status in an accurate way and this is why you yourselves become worshipworthy deities.
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