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Dadi Janki 20 March 2009 Shantivan - Stand on your own two feet and follow in the Father’s footstep
In Bhakti we used to sit at the feet of God. It is Baba who has given us the chance to make our lives very elevated and to live in His heart. In the home up above there is always light and might. That light and might is available to us all the time. Do you keep the aim to come into the kingdom of Lakshmi and Narayan? That is the family path. Many BKs stay in the family and become elevated. Sanyassis leave the family, go into the jungle and have Yoga. However, here we stay in the family and transform our lives. This is why it is said in the Gita that the family path is very elevated. Those in the family become trustees and beyond all attraction.
Baba liberates us from everything that used to waste our time, money and energy. Think of the time and expense involved in arranging a wedding. It’s really only now that we come to know what waste is. We also understand what sin is and what charity is. Only Baba could give us this understanding. There is now a great difference in our activity. The intellect used to wander a great deal; it would get diverted and ‘hung up’ on something. However, Baba has changed all that. He told each one, "You are mine" and told us to remember Him. He taught us how to connect with Him and take power from that connection. So now ask yourself honestly: is my mind connected to God or is there some diversion, some distraction? Sages and saints make great effort to connect their minds to God and yet still they find their minds get distracted. Do you have the experience of real peace that comes through connecting your mind to God?
There are three main powers. Listen, note and then think about these things deeply. Firstly is the power to remain content. You may be living in a hut or a palace but you have to remain content. Contentment brings happiness. Contentment comes when you stop looking at others and appreciate what you have. You may not have a car but you have 2 legs and can walk. Learn to think in the right way. Stop comparing yourself with others. Don’t become dependent. Don’t make anything or anyone your stick of support. Stand on your own feet and follow in the Father’s footsteps. Follow in His footsteps and you will earn multimillions at every step. To be able to do good actions, the heart has to be healthy. The heart also has to be in the right place. If you are having heart palpitations, will you be able to do anything?
If you don’t feel good in the head, if you have a headache, you also won’t be able to do good actions. Therefore, on a spiritual level as well a physical one, the heart and the head have to be healthy and strong. If you heart and head aren’t good, how can your hands work? In fact, it is Baba who has operated and keeps operating on our hearts to make them healthy. He takes away all the pain that the heart had accumulated through different births. He also operated on our intellects; He taught us how to remove all hatred. It is thanks to Him performing these operations that the heart and mind could become peaceful. He has taken away the sorrow and shown us how to be happy, how to be content.
Secondly, we have the power to tolerate. Previously we didn’t have this power and, when anyone said anything we didn’t like, the Brothers would react by getting into conflict, while the Sisters would cry. We constantly used to think that people should not say this, or not do that. Baba has taken us away from this by teaching us to do good actions and by showing us how not to look at others. Baba has shown us how to go beyond all desires and to remain content. The power to tolerate resides in the heart. Thirdly, we have courage. It is courage that makes the soul sweet. It is courage that allows us to do something immediately without having to spend time thinking about it. Patience is also needed in life. If there is no patience how will you ever become peaceful?
Today Baba said that we need to keep connecting to Him and receiving the current. Those who really practise being bodiless and having Yoga go beyond all desires. It is then that the soul really feels that Baba means everything to him. So ask yourself: what you really need in your life? Become complete with all virtues, leave all weakness, do good actions and everything will come to you automatically. You will be like a deity who is full of tolerance, patience and contentment. When you are like this, your home will become like a temple and you will be the living deity in it, remembering the Father, offering Bhog and reminding others to remember God.
Om Shanti
Dadi Janki 22.3.09 London by phone from Madhuban
Remain intoxicated with the experience of love from the Mother, Brahma. Happy Mother’s Day! Dadi has been with the teachers, sharing this morning’s Murli about love with great intoxication. It is Brahma Baba who gives us the experience of the Mother, taking us into his lap and giving us so much love. Shiv Baba is the Father and, as Dilaram (the Comforter of Hearts), we are able to sit in His Heart. It is when Brahma Baba and Shiv Baba are combined that we experience comfort. Who is it who has won our heart - who has conquered our hearts with honesty? The One with a true heart.
Dadi Janki and Dadi Gulzar have had a wonderful chit chat with the teachers. Dadi Gulzar was telling the teachers that they are ‘gurubhai’. When we keep the soul consciousness vision of brotherhood then we are able to see each other respectfully as ‘gurubhai’. Dadi Janki feels that she has never taught anyone, "I don’t have students as such ... everyone is a student and Dadi is a number one student". It is wonderful to be a student. Our head remains cool and everything remains unlimited.
We have such a wonderful Father, and Baba loves us constantly to listen to Him and do everything with Him. When we come in front of Baba, Baba embraces us and gives us so much love. In today’s Murli, Baba has said, "Consider yourself to be a child and you will remain safe from Maya". When we speak of Baba, who are we remembering - Shiv Baba, or Brahma Baba? In fact, we are remembering both as BapDada and, together with this, we remember the divine activities of Brahma Baba. Do I remember Baba or His Teachings?
It is so wonderful that Baba has created such a beautiful creation in Madhuban in three places (Pandav Bhavan, Gyan Sarovar and Shantivan) and so Dadi makes herself available in all three. Baba says that the true ‘gurubhai’ is the one who follows every direction. Constantly experience the treasure of happiness and do not keep it locked away in your locker - distribute it and it will increase.
[Jayminiben: Dadi is a world mother and everyone loves Dadi so much because she is a key for their life. Brahma Baba is the mother and Dadi is the Grandmother!] Om Shanti.