Baba says, “When you have true love for the one Father, your love for the old world and old bodies will finish. To die alive is a sign of love. Let there be no love for anyone except the Father.“

My true, eternal Father is God Himself. He and I, we live in the same home as a father and child would. I left home 5000 years ago to play my role in the unlimited drama that plays out on the physical world stage. Now, at the end of the drama, He comes to pick me up and take me back home as a father would. In the meantime though, I’ve gotten attached to playing my role in the drama, to donning costumes, to my co-actors, to the set and all it’s props however false they may be. This pull is so strong that even though my own Father is here and I should be jumping for joy, I’m not. The world isn’t even the same as what it was when I got here- it’s changed for the worse. Then, it was heaven but now, it’s hell, it’s full of sorrow. It’s crowded, there is lack instead of abundance, there is fear and anxiety everywhere. In fact, the funny thing is that because of all this sorrow, I myself called out for the Father to come and take me back. And yet, now that He’s here, I’m not ready. Indeed, Baba says, the journey back is very long.

This journey back is a journey of remembrance. “Simply remember that you now have to return home. The play is coming to an end.“, the Father explains. When I remember this, I will prepare for the return journey. But what do I need to do to prepare, how would I know what to take, not to take? The Father says, “Follow Me alone.” If I need a corporeal example, then follow Father Brahma alone, no one else. Sometimes, I have ideas of my own on what is right or wrong. For example, I think: “I want to get involved in supporting a charity” or “I want to do social service..” or “I want to adopt a child or a dog…” etc. I think these are noble deeds to give my time and attention to. True, these are good deeds but not at this time in the cycle. Now, it is time to go back home. I don’t follow a cause, an idea, an organization, a principle…I only follow the Father. Sannyasis call people their followers but those people don’t really follow them. They simply hear what the sannyasis say and then go back to doing what they want or think is right.

With God, it’s different. Following Him is not an option, it’s a command, an expectation. I don’t use my own intellect, I surrender it to Him and allow Him to lead and guide me. I learn to depend on Him. Sure, I can choose to disregard His command and not follow Him but that would only cause me unimaginable harm. Not only will I continue to live a life of confusion now but it will also cost me my future. I’ve already tried following my own dictates and others’ dictates, why would I want to continue down that path when I have God Himself, the Intellect of the Wise, here to guide me? When I do choose to follow Him, every single aspect of my life is impacted, it is transformed. My attitude, my conversations, my character, decisions, relationships…everything. They become right from wrong and thus, I become liberated from the attachments I had become bound in. I cannot be a true follower and not have my whole being transformed; that is a direct, guaranteed outcome.

But I have to be a true follower- I think, speak and do what He says, when He says, where He says and in the way He says. Sometimes, I deceive myself into thinking that I have come late and so I don’t have access to the same guidance as was available in the sakar days. That couldn’t be further from the truth. But when this is what I believe, I then feel justified in wanting a corporeal companion- lokik or alokik- to rely upon. Baba says, “You forget that if you have a true bond with the one Father, if you experience all relationships and you trust and have firm faith in the Bestower of Support, then, although BapDada is incorporeal and subtle, He is bound to you in the bond of love. He gives you the feeling of the corporeal form.” The reason I don’t experience His companionship is because I don’t practically have all my relationships with the Father. It is one thing to say the words: “Mine is the One Father and none other” and a different thing to put those words into practice.

Continued in Part II