Today, Trimurti Shiv Baba has come to meet his extremely loving and sweetest saligram children. Today is the special day of Shiva and the saligrams.Baba is happy because he has come to meet his children and to celebrate their birthday, and you children are happy to celebrate the birthday of your Father. There is no other such birthday throughout the whole kalpa.
You few children have been given unlimited inheritance from Baba, as soon as you took birth in this alokik life. You will remain fortunate in an immortal way for half a cycle. The moment you children took birth, Baba gave each of you your elevated tilak of awareness. That tilak is imperishable. The tilak on the forehead of you Brahmins is the indication of your elevated fortune.
All of you children are celebrating this lovely and unique birthday with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm. No meter has yet been invented in this world to measure your happiness. The ocean is nothing compared to the vastness of your happiness. Your happiness is higher than the sky.
BapDada wants to see every child as a spiritual rose in full bloom – not half blossomed. A fully blossomed flower is so lovely, a pleasure to look at. If it is even slightly wilted, you would put it aside. BapDada does not put you aside, but you put yourself to one side.
: Today is a day for celebration: dance and sing in your mind – not with your feet, or there will be a lot of chaos! BapDada can see when you children are dancing, and also singing many songs in praise of the sweetest Father, and your own alokik life. The sound of your minds reaches BapDada from al directions. Baba says: hey, loveliest children of the world, dance and sing as much as you want to!
What else do you have to do? Is yoga hard work? Yoga means to have a meeting with the supreme soul, God. When this meeting takes place, you dance in happiness. Your heart starts to sing sweet songs of praise to the Father. This is the work that you Brahmins do – you just continue to sing and dance. Is it difficult to sing and dance? Why do you purposely move away from something and make it difficult? It is not difficult – it is very easy. Baba knows that for half a cycle the lives you had were very difficult – therefore this one now is very easy! Does anyone here find this difficult? Do those sitting at the back find it difficult? Do you sometimes find it difficult?
When people lose their way and end up on the wrong path, they find it difficult. The path of knowledge is not difficult, whereas the work of warriors is to confront and fight. It is hard to battle, but easy to celebrate in pleasure. You become warriors instead of Brahmins, and the work of warriors is to fight and quarrel.
The Shiva Jayanti of today symbolises two important things. Firstly people hold a fast or take a vow on this day. Double foreigners do not have to celebrate it in this way – it is the people of Bharat who celebrate in this way. The second thing is that they stay awake throughout the night.
Your fast is your vow of complete purity – this is not just a vow of celibacy (brahmchari), but it is to remain pure in every thought, word and deed, the same as Brahma. This is known as brahmchari (celibacy), and Brahmachari (one who is following Brahma). Vibrations of purity should be merged in every word you speak. Every thought you have should be filled with the recognition of the importance of purity. You should experience being a karma yogi – that is, you should remain in yoga in every deed you do. This is what is meant by being a Brahmachari. Your birth is not ordinary – it is alokik (spiritual) – this means to have complete purity. You have to become 100%.
Watch yourself every day – don’t watch others! Check every day what percentage transformation is taking place – you should be transforming into your ascending stage, not your descending stage.
BapDada looks at the chart of very child – not just that of a few special children – from time to time – not all of the time. You are laughing – so should BapDada tell you what he saw? Today is a day for celebration and so Baba will not tell you. However, Baba is signalling you that in future you must remember how important this day and time is – it is the day and time of maintaining your fast – that is, of having a determined thought. True devotees never break their vow.
: Today is known as the day of the incarnation. BapDada’s pure desire for all of the children is that it should become the day when all of you become incarnations of economy of thought. Transform the power of your thoughts – your thought is sometimes being wasted too much. When you are economical in your thoughts, with no waste thoughts, you will automatically be economical with all of your other treasures.
You were wondering previously what would happen in 1999 – it is already February. Did anything happen? Even if something happens, what does that matter to you? Would there be any loss to you? Are you afraid? It will all be good. Everything for you will be good. No matter what happens in the world, you simply have to remain fearless and cheerful, and watch the drama. In a drama, as well as love they also show blood – as well as good things, they also show fighting. So continue to sit and enjoy watching the drama. This too is an unlimited play.
If you have the slightest fear or concern about what happens, then you are affected by it, and experience turmoil inside yourself. Don’t become afraid! Let the games continue – simply watch and enjoy it. Don’t become upset by wondering why something happened. You shouldn’t have the slightest thought about it. All of you have given the elements of nature long brooms to clean up everything. So why are you afraid? Nature will clean up everything according to your orders – you are the ones who issued this order. So, become unshakeable and immovable, and make your mind and intellect completely powerful. Stabilise yourself in the unshakeable and immovable stage. Continue to watch the game of nature. Don’t be afraid.
You are alokik and not ordinary. It is ordinary people that fluctuate and become afraid. You, the unique master almighty authority souls, should just watch the drama and remain busy in your task of world benefit. If you don’t keep your mind and intellect busy, you do become afraid. If you make your mind and intellect a lighthouse and a might-house, and remain busy in the task of spreading that light, you busy souls would never have the time to be afraid.
By remaining a detached observer, if there is any upheaval your intellect remains clear. Then, according to the time, even if the post, telephones, TV and other means of communication don’t work, you will be able to clearly catch BapDada’s directions. Don’t ever make the instruments of science your support – use them but don’t rely on them. No matter how adverse the situation may be, your power of silence will enable quick and clear communication – however you must keep the line of your intellect clear. Do you understand?
You are invoking the Golden Age to come soon, are you not? There has to be this cleanliness in the Golden Age. So nature will cleanse everything very well for you. The Lord is pleased with an honest heart – an honest and clean heart. At the present time there is a great need for honesty and cleanliness – honesty in your heart, honesty with the family, and honesty with Baba. Do you understand?
BapDada didn’t want to say anything today, but he said it anyway! BapDada has great love for you, and so he cannot bear to see even a little weakness in you. BapDada constantly wants to see every child as perfect as himself.
There is upheaval everywhere. All the elements of nature are creating a great deal of upheaval everywhere. Not a single place is free from upheaval. People are in upheaval, and so is nature. When there is upheaval everywhere in this world, what will you do? Can you remove yourself from upheaval in a second, and make yourself videhi (incorporea
l – the highest state of awareness – beyond and liberated, in your original eternal form), ashariri (bodiless – the middle state of self awareness, when though you may be aware of the body, you feel yourself to be a soul clearly), atma abhimani (soul conscious – the initial state of self awareness – when you are contrasting body and soul, in order to develop your state of self awareness), and unshakeable? Or will it take you some time to become this? Try this now! Are you able to stabilise your mind and intellect when and where you want? This is known as sadhana (spiritual endeavour). Achcha.
To all the children in this land and abroad who are merged in Baba’s love – to all the loving and co-operative children who stabilise themselves in the stage of being Brahmachari – to the courageous children who constantly belong to the One and who remain economical in every task they do – to the fearless souls who remain unshakeable during any upheaval – to those who constantly celebrate in pleasure – to the children who remain close to the Father – love, remembrance and namaste.
BapDada has received and seen all the birthday cards the children have sent, and also Valentine Day’s cards some of you have sent. Together with greetings for Shiv Ratri, Baba, the ocean of love, is also giving you greetings for Valentine’s day. Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations!
(hoisting the flag)
Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations for the birthday of both the Father and the children! You are all dancing in a lot of happiness – may you remain immortal in this. Just as when this flag was hoisted, and the flower petals showered down on everyone, so, too, constantly keep the flag of Baba’s remembrance flying in your heart. The flag should not be flapping up and down – it should always remain high. Then, people of the world will say that it is your great fortune to have the Father showering flowers filled with blessings down on you children. On one side fly the flag of remembrance, and on the other become an incarnation of economy. Let the flag of revelation of the Father fly constantly in all directions, in front of all the souls of the world. This is how important the flag is. The day is almost here when people of the world will sing the Father’s praise and come under the protection of the flag of revelation. They will come here to take this support. And you will be the master bestowers of support, the children of the bestower of support. That day is almost here. Achcha.
To all the children in all the countries, cities, towns and villages – and most of all to the children in the small villages – love, remembrance and namaste. Congratulations to all of you also! How many congratulations can Baba give? Baba is giving more congratulations than you can accept.
The Murli 