God Shiva is wonderful and the part of all of us in the world drama, is wonderful too. One must see the self as someone who has a very special part and is multi-million fold fortunate. One gets a unique experience in Madhuban because even the environment contributes to creating spirituality. Positive vibrations emanate from the atmosphere. Environment, atmosphere, vibrations. Vibrations travel–they go out far and wide into the world.
So what is my environment, where am I? I am with Shiv Baba. Wherever I look, I see only Him. As soon as we take Shiv Baba’s name, many tasks get accomplished. It is God’s task that He carries out but we are the ones who get the prize for it. Why? Because the ‘I’ and ‘my’ are removed. Sometimes when we are challenged or insulted, as per Baba’s directions we stay quiet and just work on maintaining a powerful and positive stage. There are, however, instances when we are actually using that quietness to subtly avoid facing something. Are there times when we should face or say something rather than be quiet? Any type of facing means I have come into feeling at some level. Rather I have to stay unshakable and immovable and still. This should become my nature. It’s the sign of a delicate nature to feel ‘I need to face something’.
Things and situations confront all of us. All are facing circumstances but we should do away with this. A Mahavir or a Maharathi doesn’t need to face. If one becomes a detached observer of his own self, he would see that he is bound in some or the other limitation. When, for instance, one insults the other, the latter’s anger or irritation becomes visible on his face. However, there should not be the slightest feeling inside us. No two souls can have the same part. Each one has his or her own part–the knowledge of the drama is very deep.
Didi Manmohini came to Baba’s hut once and told him about a particular sister who was being disruptive. Baba said, “Why has your face become upset?” Sometimes the feeling of what another person does, goes inside us so deep that it becomes visible on our face. Another time when I was in Baba’s hut, Baba said, “Your yoga is not accurate”. I said in my heart, though not in words that I pay a lot of attention on yoga. Baba said these words and became deeply silent, and in that instant, I became completely bodiless. What Baba wanted to indicate was that I didn’t pay the kind of attention whereby I could become completely bodiless in a second. No two parts can become the same, but we can become equal when it comes to being bodiless and far away from the consciousness of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. If that were to spread into the atmosphere, no matter where you are, all will be seen as one, bodiless. We need to keep our line of intellect clear at a very subtle level. We need to look at our own stage. What changes do we have to bring in the self? It should not be that my eyes are in one place and my ears somewhere else. Brahma Baba used to note such things, if there was anything that made our stage go up and down.
Our ears do service and also dis-service. Knowledge goes in through the ears and starts working deeply, but sometimes it goes in through one ear and out from the other. If one gets good food but is not able to digest it, something is not working well in the stomach, that’s why it’s not getting digested. So one should be the observer of oneself, say to oneself, ‘What is it that is stopping me from becoming complete?’ We must have the realisation about the thing that is preventing us from becoming complete. I have to stay in good thoughts for the self and have good wishes for others. Others should experience the positive vibrations of our company, no matter how far away we may be from them.
The Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU) is an international non-governmental organisation, which intends to help individuals re-discover and strengthen their inherent worth by encouraging and facilitating a process of spiritual awakening.
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