Baba says, “now exercise birth control over wasteful creation.”

Any creation, including wasteful creation, starts with thoughts. And waste thoughts, when they come, are many and they come fast and furious. To control the speed of these thoughts and to make my thoughts calm and steady, I need the power of coolness. Unless I imbibe the power of coolness, I cannot save myself from wastefulness and accidents that are caused due to wastefulness. When I imbibe the power of coolness and learn to control my thoughts, I will be liberated from the fast speed of waste and from asking “why? what? It should not be like this”, etc. To allow myself to be caught up in these questions is to be caught up in quicksand, I keep getting sucked in and drown; It’s as if I cannot rest until I get the answer to my questions. “Once you create your creation, you have to sustain it. You cannot be released from having to sustain it. You will have to give time and energy to it. Therefore, exercise birth control over any wasteful creation.“, He teaches.

To exhaust myself and say: “What can I do? It just happened.” is to demonstrate carelessness, and a lack of control. But I pay more attention when I realize that just as for one powerful thought, I receive multi-million fold fruit, in the same way, for one waste thought, I receive multi-million fold sadness, disheartenment and the loss of my happiness. It’s just as much return for powerful or waste thoughts. “So hold your own daily court like Father Brahma used to, and ask all your workers, that is, your senses, how they are doing.“, teaches Baba. “Whatever subtle powers you have, whether they are ministers or senor ministers, make them function according to your orders. Follow father in this.” If I learn how to run my royal court of my own inner kingdom, then I won’t need to go to the court of Dharamraj, points out Baba. The loss of my stage, the sadness, the disheartenment- all this is the punishment or the fine I pay to Dharamraj when I lose myself to waste. “So become refined and you will not be fined.“, teaches Baba.

The present is a mirror of the future. Through my present stage, I can very clearly see my own future. Will I have all rights to my future kingdom? I can know this based on whether I have all rights to my own inner kingdom. How well can I rule the future kingdom? I know this based on the ruling power I have now over myself. I need to have full rights over my subtle powers- my mind, my intellect and my sanskars. These powers are my special workers, my main co-operative workers. When these three workers work on a signal that I, the soul, the king, the one with the right to the kingdom, give them, then my kingdom will constantly function correctly. A king doesn’t do a task himself but gets it done through others. If the king’s workers don’t serve him properly, then the kingdom starts to shake. So, first I need to have ruling power over them. When I do, then my physical senses will naturally move along accordingly on the right path. “Just as it is said of the golden aged kingdom that there is one kingdom and one religion, in the same way, in your own kingdom, there now has to be one king. That is, let everything function according to your directions.“, teaches Baba.

My mind mustn’t function according to its own dictates, my intellect’s power of discernment should not fluctuate, my sanskars should not shake me. “It can then be said“, Baba points out, “that you have one religion, one kingdom. Imbibe such controlling power.” So whatever the mind thinks should be on my orders. If I say, “Stop!”, it must stop. If I say, “think about service”, it should become engaged in service. If I say, “think about Paramdham!”, I should reach Paramdham. “Now increase such controlling power“, says Baba. “Don’t waste time battling over trivial matters.” When I imbibe controlling power, I will come close to my karmateet stage. When all thoughts become peaceful and I just have the one thought of experiencing meeting the one Father-just the Father and I- that is called powerful yoga. I have to be able to apply a powerful brake to all waste and focus my mind on what’s important. At the end, the final paper will be of a second – put a full-stop in a second! If it takes longer than a second, it will be too late. There has to be the practice of just the Father and myself. There mustn’t be: “I should do this, I still have to see this, why did this happen? what happened?” If such thoughts come, I fail.

Those who can handle their own subtle powers can also handle others, says Baba. Whether it is serving souls without knowledge or interacting with Brahmin souls with love and contentment, I will be successful at both.