Baba says, “In order to claim your inheritance of liberation-in-life from the Father, become free from all the bondages of Maya.“

For half a cycle, I was liberated-in-life because I was pure, sensible. I was the master of the world. Then, due to the entry of Ravan i.e. the five vices, I became impure, senseless and poverty-stricken. I became a slave not to wealth or possessions but to Maya, Ravan. I became tied by the chains of the five vices and put into the cottage of sorrow. This kingdom of Ravan is over the entire world but especially over Bharat; this is why whatever I do becomes wrong at this time.

The Father comes and tells me everything right. This is why the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul, is known as the Righteous One. Ravan is the unrighteous one. It is said: Liberation-in-life in a second. I can claim liberation-in-life in a second when I have this faith that indeed I am now sitting before God Himself and that He is telling me everything true. He is now reminding me of who I truly am and the story of what happened to me as the cycle progressed. He is incorporeal and speaks to me by taking the support of the body of Brahma. I am now sitting before my true Mother and Father. God has come looking for His long lost children who have been separated from Him for 5000 years. He has found me now and adopted me, practically. Why? So He can give me the inheritance of the world of happiness again.

Do I understand deeply in my bones that I now belong to God? The moment I do, I attain liberation-in-life. I am no longer an orphan fending for myself, trying to navigate the world; I now have God Himself who sustains, teaches and guides me as my Father, Teacher and Satguru. When I make myself belong to Him, I follow only His directions for my life. That is, I surrender my intellect to Him. I had been making choices on my own so far; they became wrong choices because of the influence of Ravan. Now my Father gives me a divine intellect that ensures I make only right choices. This is how He liberates me from sorrow. He doesn’t show me mercy like He does with bhagats- there, they make wrong choices, cause themselves sorrow and ask God to bail them out. But then they go on to make more poor choices. Theirs is not a study, theirs is devotion. Here, I have to understand everything clearly– what causes me sorrow and what do I need to do differently so that I can keep my peace and happiness. In the past I didn’t even know peace and happiness belonged to me, I thought how I felt depended on how others treated me, on the circumstances, events etc. Now, I know that peace, happiness, contentment are my Godfatherly birthright. They are mine until I give them away as a result of my poor choices.

My Father gives me directions for every aspect of my life from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep. He has taught me how to deal with any and every situation, how to treat people no matter what their sanskars. To the extent that I follow His directions, I liberate myself from the strongholds that Ravan has built in my mind. For example, to forgive that person that did me wrong will feel like the hardest, most unfair thing to do but if I can simply take the step of courage, the Father gives me thousand-fold help. Unforgiveness is the door most often used by Maya and it is the heaviest burden I carry on my heart. To give regard to that person who doesn’t give regard to my ideas, who routinely insults others, who is arrogant might seem next to impossible but if I can emerge my sanskars of mercy and compassion like the Father, then I won’t get bitter and angry. The Father is here to take me back home and then send me to the new world; this is the confluence. When I have this faith, then I will not chase after perishable wealth, possessions, name, fame, position and all the rest of this old world. I will liberate myself from half a cycle of hustling. When I have faith in the knowledge of the drama- that whatever has happened is good and that whatever is to happen will be the best, then when past mistakes, past hurts, past events pop up on the screen of my mind, I will know to let go and focus on the new beginnings God has for me. This, is claiming liberation-in-life in a second; it’s based on the choices I make every second of every day.

People in the world outside are still in the clutches of Ravan. They don’t know heaven nor do they realize that this is hell. They say that all of this knowledge is just “imagination”, that no one can become liberated-in-life, that this is how the world is. Faith leads to victory. Because I have faith that I now belong to the Mother and Father, I become busy establishing my heaven, I am busy becoming worthy of ruling my kingdom by following the Father’s directions. He explains every single day to reinforce these things. He tells me every day that Maya will not allow me to stay in remembrance, that she will try to sow doubt. And so I have to be firm in the faith that God has indeed come. I called out: “O Resident of the far away land, come! Come and take us back with You because we are experiencing a lot of sorrow.” The Father says: “I have come and I will take you back with Me. First of all, Manmanabhav! Remember Me and your sins will be burnt away. Only follow shrimat. This is a very easy method. If you have faith, you will become liberated-in-life.”