Baba says, “Have true love for the one Father and He will take you back home with Him.“

It is one thing to say: “I love you” and a completely different thing to actually fulfill that love. To fulfill love takes a true and clean heart that wants nothing more than the beloved. For half a cycle, I had been living the life of an orphan, fending for myself, trying to fit into a selfish world. To fit in, I was incentivized to be, ironically, selfish too. If I was ‘somebody’, that is, if I had a recognizable name, fame, wealth, social status, position, medals and trophies, then I could fit in. But for this, I had to hustle, manipulate, strategize for the same slice of pie that everyone else wanted! I was nice to those that I thought could help me in my chase, I tried to impress those whose approval I thought I needed, I expected and even demanded loyalty and support from relationships such as family and friends…all in a bid to serve myself, to make it, to be ‘someone’.

Then, I became a Brahmin.

But becoming a Brahmin doesn’t automatically change my sanskars or the conditioning of the mind over half a cycle. I have to consciously work on it along with God. “Baba comes and shows you the gates to heaven. We are now residents of the confluence age. You now know that you are coming out of hell and going to heaven.” He shows me what I’ve been doing wrong, explains why it is wrong and then shows me the right way. But it is up to me to follow His directions and transform. This is called having a loving intellect or a true and clean heart at the time of destruction. When I have a loving intellect, I emerge victorious.

If I don’t have a loving intellect, then I simply bring over the old sanskars into Brahmin life. I chase after name and fame in the Brahmin family. I hustle for a seat at the conference, I play up to the senior instrument souls so that I can be put in front, I am nice to those who I think can help me financially or with their skills but what’s worse is that I even try to use God. I now know Him, I have become a Brahmin, and so I feel a sense of entitlement. I try to recruit God into helping me in my hustle and chase. “Baba, please help me get that project…”, “Baba, I deserve to be at that conference, if not now, will I attend one when it is time for destruction!?”, “Baba, how come I do so much around here and the instrument teacher forgot my name when it came to distributing credit?” etc. etc.

“Check your motives“, says Baba, “why have you become a Brahmin?” If my goal is still to achieve name, fame and recognition, then my best bet is to go back to Ravan’s world; that’s where I’ll find it. But if my attitude is: I was an orphan before with no identity or sense of belonging. I had to hustle, chase and run with no guidance to try to fit in. Now, I have found the Father and I have become a child with all rights. My chase has ended. If this is how I feel, then I will experience the Father’s love that I had been thirsting for half a cycle. “You now connect your intellects in yoga to the Father. You souls know that you have become His lovers.“, says Baba. When I truly become the child, then I don’t hustle trying to make things happen on my own, I simply follow the Father’s directions for my life. I take His advice at every step, for every task. I pay attention that not even a single thought, word or deed is against His shrimat. This, is my effort now; the old effort for limited attainments has now ended.

The words that emerge from the heart and lips of someone with a true and clean heart are: I eat with You, I sit with You, I speak with You, I listen to You, I fulfill all my relationships with You, I have all attainments from You. My intellect’s love is constantly connected to the one Beloved; it is no longer distributed between people, possessions, limited desires for fame or accomplishments or anything else. God Himself, my long lost Father, my eternal Beloved from whom I had been separated for a long time, is now in personally in front of me; What more could I want! This is my attitude. I don’t love God hoping He will do things for me, hoping that He will make me famous, hoping that He will get me on stage or into conferences. Rather, I love Him for Him. I love Him through all relationships. I have no desires, I just simply love Him for who He is.

Sometimes, I deceive myself into believing that I am thinking the way I do because I want to ‘serve God’. This is Maya at work. “Check“, says Baba, “what is really in your heart.” I believe that I have great speaking skills and so I think I could use it to serve God if He could just help me get on stage. I forget that He is the one who gave me those skills and He knows when to use them. If He puts me on stage before He works on my character, then I might get praised for being a ‘good speaker’ but I won’t really claim my inheritance of the sovereignty of heaven. My Father is more interested in giving me my inheritance rather than getting me noticed on stage. And so, He gets busy purifying me by showing me my blind spots, my dark areas, those strongholds such that I can overcome them. But it is up to me to take His hand and support.

“Let there be true love in the heart for the one Father and Maya will never disturb you. She will be destroyed.“, teaches Baba. However, if there isn’t true love in the heart; if I simply believe myself to be a child of the Father but don’t really follow His shrimat, then I will continue to be hurt by Maya. “You have died alive and taken a new birth and adopted new sanskars, so then why should there still be attachment to the old sanskars? Why should the children love the things that the Father does not love? Don’t put aside diamonds and have love for old stones.“, He explains. When I have a true and clean heart, that is, when I have a loving intellect, I will always fulfill the relationship of love and receive the attainment of all types of happiness in the world for all time. BapDada sings the praise day and night of such children who fulfill the responsibility of love. He sits all others in the land of liberation and gives the fortune of the kingdom of the world to those who fulfill the responsibility of love.