Baba says, “You should not dislike anyone, but you definitely do have to become as pure as a lotus flower.”

The Father comes at this most auspicious confluence age and speaks the true Gita. The first lesson of the true Gita is the answer to the question: “Who am I?” and the final lesson is to be an embodiment of the answer: “I am a pure soul, a child of God.” The journey in between is to be a conqueror of all attachments that get in the way of my becoming an embodiment.

The sign of being a conqueror of attachment is that in any/all relationships, whether lokik or alokik, I will neither have dislike for anyone nor will there be dependence on anyone. This is called living like a lotus flower- in the midst of all relationships but without attachment. If I dislike anyone, then the defects of that person, or actions that I don’t like performed by them, will repeatedly disturb my intellect. Even against my conscious wish, I will automatically have wrong ideas about that person in my thoughts, words and dreams. I will try to remember the Father but that person will instead appear in front of me. Similarly, a soul that I am dependent on in my heart, will automatically attract me, even against my conscious wish. They will attract me with their virtues or love, and a soul I dislike will disturb my intellect because of my selfish motives not being fulfilled. Until those selfish motives are fulfilled, the karmic account of opposing that soul in my thoughts and actions will continue.

Baba says, “As yet, some children are still eclipsed by bad omens. Their lines are not clear. Obstacles continue to come. They will continue to come according to the drama. The more effort you make, the higher the status you will attain.“

The seed of dislike is a royal form of a selfish motive, and that is, ‘They should do this!’, or ‘they shouldn’t do this’, ‘this should happen!’. This selfish desire of what I want to see happen forges a wasteful relationship with that soul. Because of constantly having wasteful thoughts for a soul I dislike, I spin the discus of looking at others. This wasteful relationship will not allow me to become a destroyer of attachment. There isn’t love out of love but out of force. Then I say: “I’m so fed up!” Of course the intellect would be pulled by whoever is is making me feel fed up! My time is wasted, my intellect is wasted and my powers are wasted in this.

In the case of dependence on the basis of perishable love or attainment or because I perceive someone to be a support for me, that too pulls my intellect towards itself, in terms of both lokik and alokik relationships. In many cases, I manage to untangle myself from lokik relationships but then I transfer the dependence onto alokik relationships- I find an ‘alokik support’ or have a special attachment to certain souls in the Brahmin family. These too are relationships with bodily beings and so when there is a problem, or there is some confusion in my heart, even against my conscious wish, I will only remember that soul; I won’t remember the Father. I justify this by saying: “The Father is incorporeal and subtle, someone is definitely needed in the corporeal form!” I forget that if I have all relationships with the Father, if I trust and have very firm faith in the Bestower of Support, then although BapDada is incorporeal and subtle, He is bound to me in the bond of love. He gives me the feeling of the corporeal form. The reason I don’t experience this is because while I know of this, I don’t practically have all my relationships with the one Father. Even Meera, a devotee, was able to have a practical experience, not just a vision; so then, can’t I, the direct child of God experience the Father in my practical life?

“Pay attention to the account of karma, it is very deep“, cautions Baba. When I take some temporary support from a soul, then because my intellect is dependent on that soul, instead of my becoming karmateet, a bondage of karma is created. “You now have to return home with Baba. Baba has come to take you back with Him. Remain as pure as a lotus flower while living at home with your families.“, Baba teaches repeatedly. A soul bound by a bondage of karma will not be able to experience any relationship with the Father. I will not have the experience of being completely stable in the stage of the pilgrimage of remembrance. I will be weak in the subject of remembrance. I might be clever with knowledge, even serviceable, but because I lack the power of yoga, I will be unable to be a destroyer of obstacles. Even if service grows, it won’t be through the right method. Such souls become speakers, Baba says, but will be unable to progress with speed, that is, unable to experience the flying stage.

“So first of all check“, says Baba, “if you have attachment to anyone in terms of dislike or in terms of attainment or support from them, that is, check that your intellect is not dependent.” If my intellect is repeatedly pulled towards someone, that is sign that there is a karmic burden; something that is burdened always bows down. “Souls who are going to become karmateet also have to renounce this bondage of karma“, He teaches. We don’t leave everything and everyone behind and run away like sannyasis do; that is limited renunciation. For Brahmins, to live like a lotus flower is true renunciation, He explains, this is unlimited renunciation. Fortune cannot be attained without renunciation. Just because I have become a Brahma Kumar or Kumari, I don’t automatically become a renunciate or a conqueror of attachments. The definition is deeper for Brahma Kumars and Kumaris.