Baba says, “You true Brahmins look after this sacrificial fire.”

The Father comes at this most auspicious confluence age when the entire world has become peaceless and sorrowful. He establishes the great sacrificial fire of Rudra in order to make the world peaceful, happy and prosperous again. Even in the world, when a calamity occurs, they create sacrificial fires; those are limited material sacrificial fires. “This, is the biggest of all sacrificial fires“, explains Baba, “you true Brahmins look after this sacrificial fire.“

When one creates a sacrificial fire, a sacrifice is made. This is the greatest sacrificial fire of all time and so the offerings should also be the greatest and not ordinary offerings. Indeed, the whole of the old world is to be sacrificed into this and this greatest of all sacrifices starts with those who are the instruments of this fire. “If you have not yet sacrificed your limited world or you have not put the materials that you have still left with yourselves into the sacrificial fire, then how would the unlimited old world be sacrificed?“, asks Baba. “So check in your own mind“, says Baba, “whether you have made the sacrifice. Have you sacrificed your old world of waste thoughts, nature and sanskars? Or are you still wondering which sesame seeds and which grains to offer?“

Sometimes I hear what Baba is asking me to sacrifice clearly- that anger, that dislike for those souls, that grudge, that bitterness and resentment that I have been nurturing for so many years, that critical nature, that impatience etc. I hear it, I know I should sacrifice it and yet, I find myself unable to. It’s too hard to forgive, to forget, to let go, to move on. It was one thing when this was my nature before I came to Baba but what is my excuse if I still hold on to these negative sanskars that harm me and others even now? What would be said if this is still who I am even after being knowledge-full? Baba says, “Maya has put you to sleep in the sleep of Kumbhakarna. The One who awakens you has now come. Awaken from the sleep of ignorance!“

It is one thing to have the knowledge of right and wrong intellectually and another thing to actually put the knowledge into a practical form and merge it into myself. I might be able to give great lectures on peace, on anger management, on the importance of forgiveness etc. but do I actually practice what I preach? Simply knowing and understanding will get me nowhere, I actually have to use what I know and make every of knowledge a sanskar; then, I have claimed that knowledge, made it my own. That’s when I receive energy from that knowledge and become an embodiment of success. I often start out well- I have the realization, I create a pure thought that I will sacrifice a particular weakness into the sacrificial fire but then that thought becomes weak as the moment passes. As soon as the person comes in front of me, I think: “I can’t do this..”, “what if I go and talk to them and they think I am weak..”. It’s as if I pull my hand back as I feel the heat of the fire. Then, half of what is being sacrificed falls into the fire and the other half spills outside the fire. When there isn’t the total sacrifice, there isn’t total success. “When you think a lot but do very little, there is less fruit received.”, teaches Baba. Every soul is looking for liberation and salvation but that cannot become possible until I can tolerate the heat of the fire, hold my hand steady and make the complete offering.

Every instrument Brahmin is responsible for the completion of the sacrificial fire. Charity begins at home, teaches Baba. The reason I am unable to complete my sacrifice, Baba explains, is because of carelessness. I sow the seed, so to speak, but then I forget to sustain it. I think that because I have offered the weakness to Baba, it is His now and He will ensure I am no longer bothered by it. For example, if I have offered the weakness of anger to Baba, I think that He will hold onto it and so I won’t become angry anymore. That is not how it works, teaches Baba, you still need to pay attention to your thoughts and words. Just as a seed needs to be watered every day, in the same way, I need to revise the seed of my thought daily. “But you lack this concern“, says Baba, “you become someone who slips into rest and comfort.” You don’t become Lakshmi and Narayan just by remembering Baba and the inheritance, He teaches. There is also the study.

To study means I am constantly revising, I am underlining things in my mind, I am paying attention to them, remaining constantly alert. “Your thoughts must be filled with concern. There should be concern for each and every sanskar.“, teaches Baba. The stain of something missing in even one aspect of my efforts is visible as a very big stain. So my thoughts should be in the form of concern, if they are not this, then there is carelessness. “You say something but you don’t do it“, He says. The sanskars of confluence-aged Brahmins should be that of being embodiments of renunciation. Without renunciation, you cannot create your fortune. To think: “yes Baba, I know I promised to give up anger but this situation was just too big…”, “Yes Baba, I did say I’d let go of that grudge but they don’t even have repentance for what they did to me, how can I possibly let go…”, “Baba, yes, I will change…after they change”, these are the sanskars of those of love rest and comfort. “I will definitely do it now“- this is the sanskar of a Brahmin who is the protector of the sacrificial fire. In a worldly study, those who are concerned about their studies are those who pass because they are ready to lose their sleep. “You are still thinking about going to do it practically. You should be concerned, you should have pure thoughts, and have the concern to become perfect, the concern to remove your weaknesses and the concern to show practical instant fruit.“

In the scripture, it is shown the perfect stage of the soul is when the soul merges into the Supreme Soul. The form of the final sacrifice into this sacrificial fire too is the finishing of the consciousness of “I”- what ‘I think’ and how ‘I feel’. Here too, only the words “Baba, Baba” should emerge from your lips and in your mind, teaches Baba. “I have come to bless you, but when you do not follow shrimat and instead follow your own dictates, you curse yourself and destroy your status.“, He explains. At this time, I am a Brahmin of this sacrificial fire. “In your original form as a Brahmin, there should be the dharna of dharma and karma: this is known as being a true Brahmin.“, He teaches.

Only such true Brahmins can be the instruments of completion of the sacrificial fire. You have become creators of the sacrificial fire, now become instruments for its completion, that is, make the final sacrifice. Then, the unlimited old world will automatically be sacrificed. This is the easy way to become perfect. To make the final sacrifice is to make the final offering. Only when you make the holy offering yourself can you enable others to make the sacrifice. Don’t think that you will make it at some point later, do it now! Just as you are first in listening to what Baba has to say, now become first in sacrificing yourself too. Study well, that is, become first in actually putting the knowledge into use practically.