Baba says, “Just as the Father is merciful, similarly, you children also have to have blessings and mercy for all souls because you have become instruments, the same as the Father.”

The world is full of sorrow and unhappiness at both a macro as well as micro level. While most souls don’t know the Father, they are still His children and at present, due to one reason or other, they need mercy and so they call out to the Merciful Father. In fact, the one praise of the Father that is the most common across all of the world is that He is the Merciful One. Due to one reason or another, souls are calling out for vision filled with mercy. They continue to call out with a lot of sorrow and out of desperation to the Father or to those in whom they believe, for mercy. I have the unbelievable fortune of knowing the Father and have a first hand experience of His mercy and compassion; my brothers don’t. They call out to someone up above, they hope He is listening, they hope He sees their pain, they hope He hears their cries, they hope they are worth His time, they hope He would help them out, they hope He would forgive them for something they did, they hope….it’s the life of an orphan full of uncertainty, it’s a life of a child with no rights, with no sense of belonging. Because they are orphans, they are also easily misled.

Because of not knowing the Father, they call out to the founders of their religions, to the gurus or to a special deity considering them to be merciful. However, I know that, at present, mercy cannot be received from anyone except the one Father, the Supreme Soul. Even if the Father makes any special deity or elevated soul an instrument to fulfill their desires, the Bestower is still the one Father.

And so the Father counts on me to be His helper.

“You children are the arms of the Merciful Father. So have you become master merciful?”, He asks. “They are your brothers and sisters. Whether they are real or step ones, they are still your family; Therefore, become merciful towards all“, He appeals. To show dislike towards a soul who is already in pain is to be merciless. Often, I am busy justifying my dislike. I say things like: “I get very angry when someone doesn’t tell the truth. I get angry because of their lies, or when someone makes a mistake. Otherwise, I don’t get angry.” or “they are clearly selfish. They are saying these nice things because they need something from me. Once they get what they want, they walk away. How can I possibly respect someone like that?” or “After all I did for them, they turned on me! Not only did they not co-operate, they actually opposed me. How can I possibly forget that?” Yes, what they did was wrong. What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right but don’t keep it in your heart, says Baba. That is mercy. I continue to maintain my good wishes and keep my feelings for the soul, pure. This is blessing the soul. Yes, they told a lie and that is wrong but if I get angry due to that, I am wrong too. And two wrongs don’t make a right. A person who is also wrong cannot correct someone else’s wrong. I cannot make an impact on the other person to help them realize they are at fault. “You don’t see your own mistake at the time but you make a big thing of a little lie that someone else told. Become merciful at such a time. Use the powers that you have attained from the Father.“, teaches Baba. It is easy to become the ‘teacher’ and offer correction to the other soul but often I do so without a firm foundation of love. As a result, the correction does not help the other soul, it hurts them; it makes them feel less than; it pushes them down rather than uplift.

When the Father offers me correction, which He does daily!, it doesn’t hurt. I don’t feel like I’m being preached to, I don’t feel inferior. It’s because His vision towards me doesn’t change- He still sees me as His most beloved child, as the elevated deity soul. This is mercy. So when He corrects me, I feel grateful rather than shameful or angry and I want nothing more than to apply that correction into my life and do better next time. This is the Father’s mercy at work; it makes the necessary impact. “Whoever you see, you should feel that one is your brother and that he belongs to your family. In a family, some are close relations and others are distant, but they would still be said to be family.“, the Merciful Father reminds me. “Even if someone is like Kans, Jarasandha or Ravan, they are still children of the merciful Father and so you should not dislike them. You should have feelings of benevolence and for their transformation. After all, they are your family and under an external influence. You should never dislike someone who is under an external influence. All are influenced by Maya. So, you would feel compassion for them. Where there isn’t dislike, there won’t be any anger. When there is dislike, there is a force of anger whereas where there is compassion, you would give the donation of peace. You are children of the Bestower, are you not? So, you would give peace.“

To have mercy for others is to have mercy on the self because bitterness, and unforgiveness are the most frequently used doors by Maya to bring souls to a standstill in their self-progress. To have mercy for the self is to remain in the awareness: I am the child who belongs to the Highest-on-High Father and my aim is to become equal to the Father. When this is my constant awareness, then the mercy in my heart will enable me to have disinterest in the weaknesses of the self and of others. I give everyone the Father’s introduction through my merciful nature and show the proof of it. If I have to tolerate something, I do so. And thus, I become the Father’s helper and do the service of making Bharat into heaven again.