Baba says, “when you become jeevanmukt now, then your jeevanmukt stage will influence the souls who have a life of bondage and enable them to break their bondages.“

On the path of bhakti, devotees ask God for liberation. They want out of the cycle of birth and death. There is no peace or happiness here in this world, they say. We’ve had enough sorrow and unhappiness, please God, liberate us from this cycle. Sannyasis take it few steps further -they leave their homes and families and retreat to the jungle to do intense penance so they can attain permanent liberation.

God comes at this most auspicious confluence age and clarifies two things in relation to this request from devotees: 1) there cannot be permanent liberation. This is a cycle, it keeps on turning. Everyone, including Himself, have to come into the cycle to play our respective parts in the unlimited drama that repeats every 5000 years. While this is fact and might actually make one feel stuck, what He clarifies next makes me feel lighter. 2) There isn’t always sorrow. In fact, at first every soul experiences happiness and peace before they descend into a state of sorrow and peacelessness. The reason for this is being stuck in various bondages. So when I ask for liberation, what I am really seeking is liberation from all the sorrow and peacelessness. The method to attain this liberation is to be liberated from all bondage. This is called jeevanmukti or being liberated in life.

Yes, that’s possible. I don’t have to leave the body, make effort to exit the cycle in order to be liberated. I can be liberated right now, in a second, when I get unstuck or disentangled from all the limited bondages I’ve tied myself into. And the method to become unstuck in a second is to consider myself a soul and remember the Father. The moment I shift into the awareness that I am a soul, not the body, I am liberated in life. I am not the role, the relationships, the mistakes, the accomplishments, the position, the status, the gender, the nationality or any of the myriad other things that make up the expansion of body consciousness. But even within soul consciousness, there are two specific dharnas Baba points to that help me with breaking out of bondages. 1) performing every action by first stabilizing myself in the trikaldarshi stage and 2) play my part as a detached observer.

When I am trikaldarshi, then I perform every action knowing the beginning (before), the middle (during) and end (the consequence) of each action. When I don’t become trikaldarshi, then the acts I perform are wasteful or sinful and they bind me to them. I live in guilt and regret, experience unfulfillment and sorrow. Similarly, the acts I perform as a detached observer will never bind me in any bondage of karma. I detach myself i.e. disentangle myself from the scene first, i.e. I become the master and then perform the action. I am not bound by the karma, that is, I don’t perform the action in subservience or under the influence of the karma. While performing actions, I always experience myself to be detached and loved by the Father. “Such detached and loving souls become examples for many souls.”, says Baba. “On seeing them, other souls will become karma yogis and become worthy of claiming their inheritance from the Father. Have you become like Father Brahma in this way?“, He asks.

So constantly remember these three things, He teaches: trikaldarshi, detached observer and the result of that is being an example for the whole world. Constantly remember this stage and you will constantly experience the stage of being free from bondage and liberated-in-life. A lot of time for making effort has passed by, only a short time of the small period now remains. Check your result according to the time now. To consider yourself a soul is lesson one of this study. Are you still on lesson one? It is now the final period of this Godly study. So now, become an embodiment of the lesson by stabilizing yourself in your original religion of being bodiless, that is, of remaining soul conscious.