Baba says, “You have to tolerate all difficulties and still remain engaged in doing this service. You have to become merciful.“

God comes to make me into the master of heaven. If that wasn’t good enough, add to that the fact that He does that for not one day or one year or even one birth- it is guaranteed for 21 births. So, yes, I will have to tolerate a few difficulties to get there. Heaven is being established in a world that is now in the depths of hell. Heaven is being established with souls that now have devilish sanskars. It goes without saying that God has His work cut out for Himself; He clearly has to tolerate more than a few difficulties. He tolerates, that is, He serves with a lot of love. With His love, He transforms impure, degraded humans into pure, elevated deities. He plants the sapling, so to speak, of the golden age, of the deity kingdom, now, at this most auspicious confluence age. The tree has to grow here. It is not like this with other religions. They come from up above in their pure state; there is no transformation needed. When they come, it is as though the tree is already planted and their tree continues to grow; they have no difficulty at all. The founder comes, then others of that religion follow him down and they play their parts. Here, God establishes the future deity religion and kingdom using degraded souls and a degraded world. The task requires tolerating a few difficulties for all concerned.

But that’s okay, says the Father. Yes, it’s a steep climb but the reward is high too; it’s the sovereignty of heaven!

When Brahma Baba surrendered himself, of course he became the inheritor of this sovereignty from the Father but he received something very different from people – he received insults, anger, and opposition. In his lokik life, he had never even heard a single bad word, but when he became Brahma and got on this journey with God, he became number one is having to hear bad words. He was used to a life where he received the most love from everyone, but now, he received enmity from everyone. When the children were assaulted, it was automatically an assault on the father indirectly. However, with the virtue of tolerance, he remained smiling; he never wilted.

To smile when someone praises me is not being tolerant. However, to remain smiling at a time when someone becomes an angry enemy and showers me with insults and to not have even the slightest sign of wilting on my face or even in my thoughts- now that is called ‘being tolerant’. To see, speak and come into connection with merciful feelings with an enemy soul is called having tolerance. In the task of establishment and of service, there were sometimes small and sometimes big storms. But no matter what the storm or obstacle was, Brahma Baba transformed the mountain into a small toy and overcame it as if it were a game; he himself remained light and made others light. This is tolerance. Rather than complain or sulk and make a small stone into a mountain, he made the mountain into a ball; he put the expansion into its essence. This is tolerance. To expand obstacles in my mind with questions of: ‘why me?’, ‘how could this happen?’, ‘can this too happen?’, ‘what will I do now?’ etc. and speak about them to others means to create mountains. Baba never went into expansion, rather, he put the full-stop of ‘nothing new’ and moved forward. This is called putting expansion into its essence.

An elevated tolerant soul is always able to put expansion, problems and obstacles into their essence with knowledge and yoga, just as Brahma Baba did. When I go on a long route, it finishes my time and energy. In the same way, the expansion is the long route and the essence is the short-cut. Both will get me to my destination but when I take the short cut, I will save both time and energy; I don’t become disheartened. I constantly enjoy myself and overcome everything with a smile. This is called tolerance. When I have power of tolerance, I will never be afraid and think: Does this also happen? Because of being constantly full, I will go into the depths of knowledge and remembrance. I can remain full when I am essenceful because I have conserved. When I have the habit of going into expansion, I am empty and I rattle on and get tired. When I am tolerant, I don’t bother with the expansion, I am saved from those things and I enjoy myself; I don’t rattle, I fly.

Baba always enjoyed himself in an easy way and didn’t have to labor. Like the Father who comes into this impure land with the happiness and intoxication of meeting His long lost children, Baba too remained intoxicated with his role in the drama – I am God’s child, I am His helper in this most auspicious task of the establishment of heaven. No matter what the task was that he was doing, no matter how menial or ordinary, he was intoxicated with what the Father was making him. He remained intoxicated by churning the knowledge he was receiving from the Father. If, when I have to do seemingly ordinary, physical work, I think thoughts such as: ‘is this what I became a Brahma Kumari for? is this what I renounced everything for? I came here as a teacher, not to do these things…”, then that is called a life of confusion.

A Brahma Kumari life means a life of pleasure, like that of Father Brahma. However, the basis of this is tolerance. Because of this specialty, Father Brahma always remained unshakeable and immovable. And so the Father says, “Become tolerant. Follow, Father Brahma”.