Greetings and welcome to Awakening With Brahma Kumaris.
Sister Shivani is with us. Welcome, Sister.
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti. Shall we study Murli today?
Definitely. The title of today's Murli (which is God's message) is
Become free of others opinions, thinking about other people and noticing them. Serve other people.
Free yourself from 3 habits pertaining to other people.
And do one thing.
Par-Mat, Par-Chintan and Par- Darshan
Par-Mat means other people's opinions.
Par-Chintan means thinking about other people.
Par-Darshan looking or noticing other people.
Free yourself from these and serve other people.
Just services but don't do the other three.
When do the first three things but do the other one thing.
God whom we lovingly call as Shiv Baba
The Murli says - today Baba is watching how all the children are wasting the time meant for self-transformation.
We want to work on ourselves.
We want to change our Sanskars.
Self-transformation is our aim.
But why are we wasting time?
Everyone wants that our time should be well utilised.
Whether it is self transformation or anything we are doing externally.
Today we all have a common line.
I am too busy, I don't have time.
We all want more time.
Because our time is not always getting utilised properly, it is getting wasted.
Baba says everybody wants their time to be well utilised.
But during the day, sometimes we waste half an hour
Or sometimes 15 minutes or even 5 minutes here and there.
So we keep wasting 30 minutes 15 minutes or 5 minutes.
What is the reason?
There are three reasons why self transformation is either slow or blocked in a majority of people.
What are the three reasons mentioned earlier?
Par-Mat, Par-Chintan and Par- Darshan
First - as we progress along with the God's instructions or knowledge
We mix the opinions of other people.
Shrimat refers to the guidance of
God is an ocean of knowledge. Giving us Gyan is His highest quality.
So the first thing we get from God is Gyan.
The Gyan we get from God is his guidance.
He gives us instructions of what to think and what not to think.
How to speak, how to behave
What to eat and drink, at what time to sleep
God's knowledge is meant to uplift every soul.
If we keep following God's instructions then soul keeps becoming stronger and powerful.
Following God's instructions is right for the soul.
This we have to remember.
The guidance which we get from the rest of the world
We have already taken guidance from the World, so now we need to take it from God
Only then will come back to our originality.
Originality has power, knowledge and everything else.
So God's guidance and knowledge will make the soul perfect.
We all have to remember this
Whenever we need to take a decision in life about what is right for me
What is not right for me
We only need to check one thing - which of the options will increase soul power.
Because once soul power increases, everything else will become fine thereafter.
Many times before we say we say we need to eat this because it is good for health.
Let us drink this because it is written that it is good for our body.
It is possible that something is very good for our body.
Likewise something can be very good for our position.
Something else can be very good for our possession and property.
But is that right for I, the soul?
If it is not right for the Soul then that Karma is not right for me.
But whatever is God's will
It was there even in the past, it is there today and it will be there future also.
Where is if you go to a doctor - today they say you can eat this item, tomorrow they ask us to avoid the same thing.
Maybe that is why God says we should not mix His will with the world's will.
It is a science.
So what happens to science continuously?
Science will change but Baba's will, shall never change.
His will for us is permanent and always right.
It is eternal.
Whereas the will of the world will have confusions, they keep changing, sometimes they improve.
That is why His will is called Shri-mat.
It means the highest and the best will.
Whereas other people's will is called par-mat
Baba says that over a period of time we tend to mix par-mat with Shri-mat.
Once we get Shri-mat or Gyan of God
Once we understand what is right for the soul and what is not right
After that we don't need to take anybody else's opinion.
It might take a some time to implement because that is our journey.
We are on our journey, but once we have understood what is right
We will not have the need of taking anybody else's opinion.
That will mean we still doubt God's will.
Why did we have to take it then from Him?
Very true. And when we start doubting what happens to Soul power?
When we have a doubt how will there be any effect of the Gyan?
That is why there is a line with says - Nishchay Buddhi Vijayanti.
Nishchay Buddhi Vijayanti.
Whenever there is complete faith in our intellect
Victory is guaranteed.
So the whole day we need to check - that we have Shrimat with us.
If we are really confused about what to do and what not to do, recall Gyan
Take Shrimat and you will immediately get the answer of what is to be done.
Baba says if somebody says something
And if you feel that person is good
And you develop faith in that person.
Somebody said something.
And you believe that the person is good
You will have faith in him.
When such a person tells you something
You will feel interested
If whatever you hear is good news
If you keep the faith and listen to it
You accepted it and consumed it.
What you heard might be right and the news might be true.
Not everything will be false.
It could be true but what does Baba want?
Is it good for you to listen to it?
Does Baba desire it?
No.
Why shouldn't I listen to it?
Because we get confused. Suppose I go to a doctor and he prescribes a medicine
I start taking it but if I consult another doctor and take a different medicine
He might not agree with the first doctor's views
And then I go to a third doctor.
An entire lifetime will get spent this way.
One is about points of Gyan which we are listening.
Baba says somebody shares about something with you.
And because you have faith you will listen to it.
You said this person is good so you listened to him
Baba also says that the person is speaking the truth.
He is not lying.
But when he is sharing it with you, you accepted and consumed that information.
You did not cut it and it is a fact also.
But listening to such information
Is it right?
Is it about the information?
It can be any information.
That is just a piece of News or information which somebody is sharing with you.
Is it about what is printed in the newspaper?
Not necessarily but anybody can come and share anything with you.
It can be about anything.
We have seen in so many episodes that we should not keep on filling information.
That is the point.
People keep coming and telling us things.
Baba says that the person might be speaking the truth.
But of what use is it to me?
Any information which is not necessary for us
We should not even take in that information within us.
Waste of thoughts, energy and time.
Baba has mentioned it in the first line also.
That we are not utilising our time productively.
If we are consuming information which isn't useful then we are wasting time.
We don't lose only that duration while we are listening to it
When information goes in, it will affect our perspective.
It will affect our thoughts.
It will come into our behaviour.
We share it with 10 people and it comes into our Karma.
We even call up people and tell them this is what happened.
All these are time wasters.
All this amounts to gossip.
But Baba says that the information is true.
But if it is not of use to you
This is important and to be underlined.
So many happen in the world we only need to take what is useful to us.
Today we say the mind is creating too many thoughts.
We are unable to concentrate.
Thinking too much is affecting our body also.
It is affecting our mental health.
It is weakening the soul. Too many thoughts are because of too much information.
Somebody offered and asked me to take up a very high post in the Government.
I asked whether it will take me to my goal.
It was not aligned to what I wanted.
Otherwise I will just drift away from my path if I take it up.
The path we are on and the purpose of our life
That the soul is to be empowered
The first depleter to it is waste information.
Like Baba says, it is true but it is not useful for us.
I do not need it.
That is why Baba has mentioned all the scenarios
That the person sharing that information with us is also good.
And whatever he is sharing is also the truth.
But is that bit of information useful for you?
If it is not, then does Baba like us to listen to it?
Anything which has no connection with us
We need to check this very deeply.
When we don't have any connection with something
It is just an interesting piece of information
You cannot do anything about it
We need to check these criteria
Something which we have no connection with.
Something which we cannot do anything about.
It's just a bit of interesting information.
You cannot do anything but you just heard it.
That information has entered your intellect anyway.
Did your time get wasted or not?
Baba has used the word 'interesting'.
It could be interesting for a person who is not yet focused on Baba.
For that person other things seem more interesting.
Throughout the day, whether it is news about the world
Whether it is the news we get to listen where we live or where we work
Do you know what happened at office, do you know what he said?
What is going on there, what did he tell him
This is also information.
Even the social media we have today has information.
If we apply all this criteria to that information
Information with which we have no connection
About which we cannot do anything
If we listen to such things we waste the energy of the intellect.
Even if we open WhatsApp or Facebook today
If we observe Facebook today
Somebody is travelling, somebody is having a family meal, somebody is on vacation
All this information is true
None of them are wrong but I have no connection with it.
Information, information, information
It wastes the energy of our intellect.
If you check your WhatsApp messages today
There is a certain percentage where conversations are related to work
Everything else that comes on WhatsApp
The videos, audios, photos and posters
Baba has said all this so many years ago
That we have no relationship with such things.
We have nothing to do with it but it is just an interesting piece of information.
Whatever is happening today Baba has mentioned it years ago.
With whatever information you have no connection at all
We don't even have any connection with what is posted on Facebook.
It is the truth for somebody else.
Somebody will tweet that he is in Shimla, he is here, he is there
I am enjoying this weather.
It is the truth and it is interesting.
But we neither know him nor is that information useful for us.
If we look at it from normal perspective somebody will ask what is wrong in it.
There is nothing wrong in it.
We didn't commit any sin, what is wrong in it?
Listening to information or reading about somebody - what is wrong in doing it?
Overloading of information which is not relevant to us.
Increases the thought process
Influences the thought process
With the perspectives of other people.
Our thoughts get coloured by other people's perspectives.
And in the process the Gyan we studied might get slipped sometimes.
Today if we just underline this for ourselves
Any information we have no connection with
And something which we can do nothing about. If we can do something then it is fine.
But these two criteria.
If we can help somebody as Baba has mentioned earlier - Par-upkaar
Then it is fine.
If we can do something about it we need to listen carefully
Consume that information, work towards it and help.
Today there is a belief system
That being knowledgeable means the person has a lot of information.
The person should read and be aware of everything that is happening in the world.
The other day one sister says to me
If we don't be aware of what is coming in the newspaper or on TV channels
People college intellectually challenged.
That we don't have any information of what is happening in the world.
Today people are aware of what is happening in the world.
But they don't know what is happening in their mind.
They don't know what is happening in their house.
What is going on within ourselves?
What are the kind of thoughts we are creating?
What are the deep emotions filled with anus?
The reason is that we are feeling ourselves with unnecessary information.
Where is our attention?
The more we focus on the outer world
The more we start drifting away from our inner world.
We don't know what is happening in the outer world
Is considered by the society that you are not knowledgeable
Yes but which society?
It is a belief system and we live in that society.
It could be a few people believing that way.
We are living in that society.
Where that is a belief system.
Somebody is well read and well informed.
What about being self realised?
So we need to pay attention there.
We need to keep our focus right.
My attention should be on the seed within.
Even if we have to pay attention to the tree then which tree should I focus on?
The tree of my life.
But whatever we are discussing is relevant told you to somebody who has chosen this path.
If it is a journalist he will continue doing his work.
What is the meaning of - the one who will choose this path?
Spirituality is not a path.
Why not?
Spirituality is not a path.
Spirituality is the way to walk on your path.
Spirituality is not the path.
What is your goal?
Let your roles and responsibilities be anything today.
Whether it is an actor, doctor, businessman, Housewife or a student.
They say this is my path. Spirituality is not a different path.
Spirituality means whatever is your path
The life that you are living
That path will have your family your work place, your friends, your relatives
Or your service - whatever is your path
How do you walk that path? That is spirituality.
Spirituality is not a different road.
Spirituality is the way to walk on the road of your life.
Like home values are to be used to govern, likewise using the right means to walk on your path
Whether I want to become an actor or do a business
Walking the right path
Today we have started considering spirituality to be a separate profession and say - this person is spiritual.
Spirituality is not a separate field.
He is this, she is that, he is spiritual.
Each being, each soul will need to be spiritual if they want to be happy and healthy.
In any case every being is spiritual.
Spiritual means, the right way of thinking and living with spirituality is teaching us
It is not a separate field
It is not meant for a particular age group.
It is not restricted to a few people.
It is for every soul.
Spiritual businessman
Spiritual parent
Spiritual student
It's not student, parent, businessman, and this person is spiritual.
It can also be called righteous.
Right here.
Today if we check for our self, Physical health
Why is it getting affected?
Because our thinking is not spiritual.
Lifestyle is not spiritual.
Our diet is not spiritual.
What is the reason for mental health being affected?
Thinking is not spiritual.
Earlier people would be gauged for intelligence quotient, IQ.
Then it was emotional quotient, EQ
Today people are talking about spiritual quotient
Because if spiritual quotient is strong everything else will automatically be strong.
Spiritual quotient only means right way of thinking.
Physical health will be fine only if we start thinking right.
The mind will be fine if we think right.
Relationships will be beautiful if we think right.
We will be successful in our profession is we think right.
So spirituality cannot be a different path.
Sometimes we say - this person is very spiritual, so all these things are right for him.
We are on this side of life.
It is not about this side or that side.
I feel spirituality teaches us but there are two way to get things done - one is with anger, other is with love.
Which one will you choose?
This makes you choose the right path.
Both the paths maybe right, but what is the effect of love?
Both are not right.
Because in the short term
Right for the result.
You might feel it is right in the short-term because you get the result.
I am talking of the consequences.
Whether you spoke lovingly or created anger, work got done.
But what is happening in the long run?
Happiness is reducing, depression is increasing.
Diseases are increasing.
It didn't happen just because you scolded once.
Nothing will happen just by scolding once.
By scolding once it is only visible that work got done.
People obey you.
Spirituality gives the wisdom of what happens when you use love and what is the outcome with news anchor.
Spirituality is the foundation of your life.
The building of our life stands on that Foundation.
If the foundation is strong that the building will stand erect.
If the foundation is not strong
Even with a slight storm, the building gets shaken.
Spirituality is our foundation and we need to really explain this to us.
Spirituality is not about age
It is not about which phase of life I am in.
Spirituality should be taught to us from nursery.
That's right.
When you teach a child how to walk and speak
Right at that time teach them how to think.
In our country spirituality is a part of our culture so it is already in our genes.
So spirituality is not a separate path.
At any point when somebody is deciding what is right or wrong
We should never say we are on this side of life so we need to do certain things.
Whereas that person is on a spiritual path
There is only one path and important is how do we want to walk on that path.
This is very important
People have created a wrong image of spirituality.
Because what did we equate spirituality with?
What kind of clothes they wear, what profession they choose
This person lives in an Ashram
This person is taken up Sanyas.
Spirituality is not that. A few souls do those things.
They are also rendering a beautiful service.
They are like teachers.
Like teaching as a profession
Only because of you souls decide to teach in schools and colleges, students get knowledge from them.
Similarly few souls who have taken up Sanyas or living in an Ashram
They are giving us Gyan and they are teachers.
They are teachers who share God's knowledge with us.
But spirituality is a way of living our life.
It has nothing to do with the different path a different age group a different field
It is also not something to be chosen as a path, just because there is a challenge that came in life.
So many people ask - what happened in your life that you went in that path?
You went on to the other side, towards spirituality - so what happened in your life?
So spirituality still remains as a different path or direction in life.
But it happens isn't it?
Some people experience such a severe shock in life that they are shaken
It is possible that there is a very big situation that came in your life.
But what is the question that arises?
The question is what happened that you went into that path?
As if you are so disheartened that you just left everything behind and went elsewhere.
It is not a separate path.
We really need to keep on telling this to ourselves.
That is the only path and there is no other path.
Just like how Physical health is not a separate path.
In Olden times after the age of 50 people would spend their life in spirituality.
After they finish their Brahmacharya and after handling business they would say it is enough.
After the age of 50
It cannot be after 50.
Again, it cannot be.
It should be right from day one.
What it was is - life was divided into phases
That you will study up to this age
You will manage your family up to this age
You will retire and handover things after this age.
It gives Mukti and a sense of detachment.
But detachment is not for after the age of 50.
Detachment is not after 50.
Detachment should be from our ego.
We have to be taught from day 1.
If we spent 50 years of life with Ego and everything associated with ego.
How did those 50 years go?
And after that we said - okay, now detachment.
It's not possible and not easy also.
So it is not phases or age to say - spirituality after this age.
Spirituality means health of the soul.
Sister let us continue the Murli in the next episode
Spirituality means health of the soul.
Thank you so much.
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti.
Om Shanti.
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