Baba says, “According to the drama, those whose intellects have complete faith and have the thought in their hearts, “The Father is mine and I belong to the Father”, such children automatically receive help.”

The Father and the child- this is such an intimate and subtle connection that no one has the power to separate me from the Father. This is why the very first thing God does when He comes is adopt me as His child and make me belong to Him, practically. Of course, as a soul, I am always God’s child but it is only at this auspicious confluence age that I get to experience His sustenance, practically, in the corporeal. And when I look around the world, I realize that the Father whom the whole world is longing to get just a glimpse of, for whom the sannyasis do intense penance, that Father is mine, practically. The whole world remembers the Father but the Father remembers me, His child.

The question is: do I always have this intoxication or does it come and go? In the world, it is said that intoxication is bad, that it is damaging and so they try to bring it down. But this intoxication is the healthiest for me and so make every effort, Baba says, to keep it up. Storms will come, obstacles will come, opposition will come but come what may, the key is to never come to a standstill in my journey. I have to keep moving forward. And this relationship of the Father and child is what ensures that I keep moving. Maybe I am flying and then some circumstance or situation comes and it brings me into a walking stage but because my intellect has complete faith in who I am and Whose I am, because in my heart, I have the song “The Father is mine and I belong to the Father” constantly playing, I automatically receive the Father’s help. How long does it take me to receive the Father’s help? A second! And I continue to fly again.

But the key is that this thought of ‘My Baba, my Father’ needs to be from the heart. It mustn’t be that I simply say ‘Baba’ to get my work done or my obstacle removed but really, I live life on my own terms. No, the foundation is the true relationship of the Father and the child- I have to actually be the child and relate to God as my Father, love Him from my heart as my Father and only follow His directions for my life. Because, a child obeys the father, it doesn’t live life on its own…it doesn’t even know how. At this point in the cycle, Ravan and Maya have ensured that I too don’t know how to live life on my own. I was an orphan before Baba came along- I had no one looking out for me, sustaining me, no one teaching me or guiding me. Now, I receive all three and from the same One! I don’t even have to go to three different people and worry if their ideologies match…the Father is all-in One! He sustains me as the Father, gives me the knowledge of the beginning, middle and end of my story as my Teacher and guides me as the Satguru. I simply have to use the relationships, take benefit of what I am being given.

So no matter what happens, Baba says, never step away from the Father and service. Even if my mind cannot stay in remembrance or cannot study, “force yourself to listen and continue to have yoga and everything will be fine“, He teaches. The disciplines have been created for my safety from Maya because even as I am trying to find my path back to my truth, she is waiting for me to step aside just a little so that she can pounce on me. As long as I am within the guardrails of Baba’s world, I am safe and so Baba says: “Never let go of your disciplines. Your study, Amritvela, service- whatever timetable is set for the day, even if your mind cannot concentrate on that, don’t miss anything from the timetable.” In Bharat, it is said: kaida mein faida, that is, there is benefit in the laws. And so Baba says, don’t miss any of the laws, they are there for my safety. In fact, on the path of bhakti, devotees too observe their disciplines diligently- even on days when they don’t feel like going to the temple, they go anyway. “Remember that you are the lawmakers“, points out Baba, “always remember that you are the ones that created the codes of conduct and the disciplines.”

When I realize that the disciplines are for me, for my safety, then I want to follow them, despite what ‘I think’ or how ‘I feel’. I go by what I know to be true. The Father has given me the knowledge of the three aspects of time, that is, He has made me trikaldarshi and so seated on that seat, I choose to follow the laws because I know, but because I have the complete faith in the intellect that it will serve me well now and for the future. “You have unbroken love for the Father and so no matter what happens, you will continue to fly“, explains Baba. When I have love for the Father from the heart, then I also have love for His disciplines, His knowledge,…everything. “Check yourself in this”, says Baba. Nothing can stop those children who have unbroken love for the Father. The Father’s love takes them beyond everything. They continue to fly.