Baba says, “The children who renounce body consciousness in this one birth and remain stable in their self-respect, receive from the Father, the Bestower of Fortune, the fortune of being constantly respected throughout the whole cycle, in return for this renunciation.“

Only the children who have self-respect receive respect throughout the cycle, explains Baba. I have self-respect for one birth and I receive respect for the whole cycle. To respect the self is to be a self-sovereign. Because I claim the right to claim over my own kingdom, I receive respect from my subjects and for half the cycle, I receive respect from devotees. “Now, even in your last birth, you can see and hear devotees giving respect to the deity souls and to the Shakti form. Even now, they give so much respect with love from the depths of their hearts.”, points out Baba. How did you attain such elevated fortune? All of this is the fortune that comes from renouncing just one main thing – body consciousness.

I cannot stabilize myself in self-respect unless I renounce body consciousness. And in return for this renunciation, God, the Bestower of Fortune, gives me the blessing of this fortune. Secondly, the Father Himself has given you children respect, says Baba. I used to sing of being a servant at His feet, the Father has made me into the crown of His head. He has given me such great self-respect. Even the Father has respect for the children who have such self-respect. The Father always keeps the children ahead of Himself. He always sings praise of the virtues of the children. In order to give you children love from the depths of His heart, He comes into the corporeal world from the supreme abode everyday. He doesn’t just send His love from there, But He comes personally to give it. You receive love and remembrance every day, do you not? No one else can give such elevated respect. The Father Himself gives you this respect and this is why you have become those who have a right to respect eternally. Do you experience such greatness?, asks Baba. Self-respect and respect are inter-connected.

Those who have self-respect would maintain regard for the respect they have received and also maintain respect for themselves, and they would also look, speak and form connections with others with respect. The meaning of respect for the self is to have regard for the self. The Father receives regard from all souls of the world; each one gives Him that regard. However, to the extent that the Father gives respect, He also gives just as much respect to all the children. If someone doesn’t give, then that one doesn’t become a deity (a bestower). “You become deities for many births and you are worshipped in the form of a deity for many births. You become Brahmins for one birth, but you rule as deities and become worthy of worship for many births. Deities means those who give. If you don’t give respect in this birth, how would you become deities? How would you receive respect for many births? So, follow the Father.“, says Baba.

Father Brahma always considered himself to be a world servant. He considered himself to be the children’s servant and made the children the masters. He always saluted them as the masters. He always gave little children love filled with respect and saw them in the form of future world benefactors. He always saw the kumars, kumaris and youth as the ones who challenged the great, the well-known souls of the world, the ones who made the impossible possible, the ones who made the heads of the great souls bow down; he saw them with the respect of such pure souls. He always gave them respect, considering them to be great souls who performed even greater wonders than he did. Similarly, he always considered elderly souls to be experienced; he gave them regard of being his equals. He always saw those in bondage with the regard to being number one in having remembrance. This is why he became the soul to receive number one imperishable regard. He is number one in receiving respect in the kingdom; as the world emperor and in the worthy of worship form too; he is first to be worshipped after the Father in the form of Lakshmi and Narayan. This is because he gave everyone respect and regard.

He never thought that he would only give regard when he received regard. Those who give regard even consider those who defame them to be their friends. They don’t consider only those who give them regard to belong to them, but even those who insult them are considered to belong to them, because the whole world is their family. “You Brahmins are the trunk of all souls. All the branches, that is, all the souls of the different religions have emerged from the main trunk. So, all of them belong to you, don’t they?“, asks Baba. “Those who have such self-respect, constantly consider themselves to be master creators and are constantly the bestowers of respect to all.”