Baba says, “No matter what someone is like, the world can change through your vision.”

In the past, I used to hear that I can ‘change the world with my vision’. It felt poetic back then but didn’t mean much else. Now, I have actually experienced this. The world has indeed changed through my spiritual vision and not by a little, but completely. Previously my intellect used to wander around the world, whereas now the Father has become my world. So the wandering of my intellect has stopped; Previously in my life, my intellect used to wander toward many things- relations of the body and possessions of the body. All of that has now changed, my intellect has become stable. Now, when my intellect goes towards a body, I consider that to be wrong. Then, I change myself; instead of considering myself to be a body, I practice being a bodiless being. So, my world has changed, indeed, I myself have changed.

Now, the Father alone is my world, my intellect no longer wanders toward perishable wealth or perishable relationships. Now, nothing of ‘mine’ remains. Now, I don’t even have a thought or dream such as: ‘I have a lot of wealth’ because I have handed over everything to the Father. I have made ‘mine’ into ‘Yours’ and become the trustee. “You have, haven’t you?“, asks Baba, “or do you think: what belongs to me is mine and what belongs to the Father is also mine?” That doesn’t work; unless I give, I cannot receive. This is an exchange of the old for the new, not a purchase. That perishable body, wealth and old mind are not ‘mine’; I have given them to the Father. The first thought I had for transformation was: ‘Everything is Yours’, and it is only by saying “Yours” that I benefit. Sometimes, I innocently think that I am ‘giving’ to the Father but the Father is the Bestower, He doesn’t need or take anything from me. It is I who benefit from the trade because by saying ‘mine’, I become trapped, whereas by saying ‘it is Yours’, I become detached. By saying ‘mine’, I become burdened whereas by saying “Yours”, I become a double-light trustee that just has to follow directions. “Until you become light, you cannot reach a high stage”, teaches Baba. “It is the flying stage that will give you the experience of bliss. There is pleasure in remaining light.” For proof, I just have to look at the images of the angels! They are never morose, they are always happy and light, always in the flying stage. They come down, per the Father’s direction, to perform a task and then promptly go back up to the Father. They never remain in the corporeal world.

So, in other words, to have an angelic stage, I have to make my drishti or vision, soul conscious. Drishti can deceive me- when I see myself as “I am so-and-so role or relationship” and see people and things as ‘mine’- but drishti can also purify the impure. When my drishti changes, that is, when the ‘I and mine’ changes to ‘I am a pure soul, a child of God’ and ‘mine is one Baba and none other’, then the world changes. “Has your drishti changed completely?“, asks Baba. When someone has poor vision, they see double. In the same way, if I have poor spiritual vision, that is, if my vision hasn’t changed completely, then I too see double- sometimes I see the soul, other times I see the body. The accurate form is that of the soul, not the body. When Baba sees me, He only sees the soul and that too in its perfect form. This is why He never gives up on me despite the many flaws, the many mistakes, the sanskars etc. He only sees and holds the pure form in His vision. Its not that He is in denial re: my sanskars; rather, He chooses to hold the truth in His vision and it is this purity of vision that enables me to also believe in my goodness, it builds my faith in myself and inspires me to transform. “You too should only see the accurate form. You have to pay a lot of attention to your drishti“, says Baba.

If my drishti for someone is impure, that is, it sees their present flawed form, then that doesn’t help them at all. They already see themselves as flawed beings, my seeing them that way only reinforces it. Instead when I change my vision for them, they too will see their accurate form, they will be reminded of their real home – the sweet silence home, and the real kingdom- that of purity, peace and happiness. “There is so much power in drishti, but only if your drishti is accurate“, teaches Baba. “So constantly check yourself: If someone comes in front of you, what vision will he have through your drishti? Whatever is in your attitude is what many others will see through your drishti.” Indeed the basis of drishti is my attitude. If my attitude is body conscious: “this person will never change”, “they always do this” etc., then that’s what comes through in my drishti. Sometimes, my attitude about myself is poor too: “I don’t know if I can ever get past this sanskar”, “I never get this right” etc. Baba says, “Don’t give yourself or others a certificate of weakness. Make this promise to yourself: You will never ever see anyone’s weakness or defect. You will not listen to or speak of anyone’s weaknesses or defects. You will not listen to them, you will not speak of them, you will not see them. You will only have good wishes and become an embodiment of virtues, not of weaknesses.”

Sometimes I say, “but the situation was so big or the atmosphere was like that, it was negative.” I am a world transformer, Baba reminds me, and so by definition, I should be able to change the atmosphere! “Take whatever is impure in anyone as something pure. Even whilst seeing anything impure, see it with your pure vision.”, He teaches. Sannyasis believe there can be no true peace or happiness in this world, so they leave everything and move to the forests where they do penance for permanent liberation from the world. Baba says, “permanent liberation is not possible and neither is it the solution.” The same world that is now old has to become new again and then, it will be the land of peace and happiness. The reason the world hasn’t yet changed is that the drishti has not yet changed. The reason the drishti hasn’t changed is that the attitude hasn’t changed. If my drishti changes, the shrishti or the world will change.