Baba says, “The main thing is remembrance. There is no other butter like that of staying in remembrance.“

Long, long ago, 5000 years ago, the Father had made me into the master of heaven. For half the cycle, I remained that and then slowly lost everything He gave me over the next half of the cycle until I became completely bankrupted. How come? I forgot who I am and thereby fell prey to the lies I was fed by Ravan. When I forgot, I chased after the very things I had within me- peace, happiness, contentment- in external things. I pursued name, fame, wealth, accomplishments, status, relationships etc. as I sought peace, happiness and contentment from them. But the more I chased, the more empty I felt and thus, Ravan bankrupted me. All because….I forgot.

The Father comes at this most auspicious confluence age to re-establish heaven and make me the master of that heaven once again. For this, His shrimat is: Remember! It’s the main thing, He tells me. I lost when I forgot; now, to reclaim what I lost, I have to remember. Remember what? Who I am, Whose I am and my story through the cycle. When I remain in the awareness of my true identity, when I feel the sense of belonging to the Father and remember what I was and am becoming once again, the mercury of my happiness rises automatically. When I have my whole story in my awareness, I see those seemingly difficult scenes that I encounter in the drama, in perspective. I keep my peace, I don’t blame ‘my karma’ or declare that the drama is bad. I realize that these are just a last few isolated scenes within the drama in which my whole part is splendid, most elevated. When I stay in the awareness that my Father, God Himself, is here, then I do everything per His shrimat…as a child would. As a result, I remain content, I don’t think, speak or act in ways that I come to regret.

“There is no other butter like that of staying in remembrance. The main shrimat is to stay on the pilgrimage of remembrance for as long as possible. It is through this pilgrimage that there will be success in purity, in imbibing the divine virtues and in service.“, teaches Baba. In fact, I have remembrance to the extent I follow shrimat- if I have a chart that shows that I follow shrimat by 75%, then it means that I have a chart of remembrance of 75% also.

But often, the complaint is that the remembrance slips away easily. This is because staying in remembrance becomes an ordinary task in my timetable. “When you sit in remembrance, sit on the seat of one or other form of your elevated self-respect.“, teaches Baba. A lot of times, I simply get out of bed and go and sit where yoga is taking place- whether in the meditation room or in Baba’s room. Sometimes, I say that I sat in yoga the whole day. But, asks Baba, what was the experience or the quality of your yoga? I cannot have quality yoga unless I am seated accurately. Just as you give your body an appropriate place to sit, first of all give your intellect the place of a good stage, teaches Baba. With the right seat, you automatically have that Godly intoxication. Not too long ago, I used to speak with intoxication about my chair or position in the world. “Now, your seat is that of an elevated stage“, explains Baba. Sometimes, set yourself in the seat of the stage of a master seed; sometimes, sit on the seat of an avyakt angel; sometimes, sit on the seat of a world benefactor. In this way, Baba teaches, seat yourself on the seat of the different stages every day. If someone is not seated on his seat properly, he would be unstable. Sometimes, he will sway in one direction and sometimes in the other. Similarly, when I, the soul, am not seated firmly on my seat, then the intellect is in upheaval.

When asked, I casually list out the various titles of self-respect; the list is a very long one. However, says Baba, at every moment, consider yourself to be what you know you are; Don’t just know yourself but also accept yourself as that, He says. If I only know the titles, I may have subtle happiness but when I truly accept myself as that, when I move along in that awareness, then I receive power along with the happiness. I also have intoxication. “Yes, I am this!” So repeatedly check, teaches Baba: Am I set on my seat or have I come down into an ordinary stage? To have thoughts such as: I am not seeing as much success from the effort or hard work, I am not experiencing as much happiness as I should through remembrance is a sign that I am not seated on my seat accurately.

“Make remembrance entertaining“, He teaches, don’t set your seat in the same way all the time, set it in various ways. No matter how delicious something might be to eat, I cannot keep eating the same thing again and again. Similarly, it is good to be the seed form sometimes but then also experience the form of the lighthouse, sometimes that of the mighthouse, sometimes be the seed on top of the tree, sometimes stand on top of the world cycle and give power to everyone. Experience the different titles that you have received in different ways each day. Sometimes, experience the form: I, the jewel of Baba’s eyes, am merged in Baba’s eyes. Sometimes, be the jewel on the forehead. Sometimes, be seated on the heart-throne. Experience the different forms. Let there be variety and you will be entertained, He explains. In fact, BapDada gives me a variety of titles every day in the Murli. He does this so that you can set yourself on those seats, says Baba. Just simply check this from time to time. It is because you forget this and then remember after 6 or 8 hours have gone by that you become unhappy that the whole day was wasted. So let this become a natural practice for only then will you become bestowers of the law, bestowers of success and be able to benefit the souls of the whole world.