Baba says, “you flying birds must go beyond all bondages, that is, beyond all limitations and become hero actors.”

The fruit of knowledge is liberation-in-life or a life free from bondages. The main essence of all four subjects of this study is in fact this- to be unlimited, bondage free. To stabilize in the meaning of the word “bondage free” is the first and last effort. When I come to the Father and make myself belong to Him, all the bondages of the old body and old world are finished. This is why this life is called a life of dying alive. All the accounts of the past have been settled and I have opened a new account of my Brahmin life. A Brahmin life is not a life of karmic bondage, it is the life of a karma yogi. When I perform actions as a master, those actions are not a karmic bondage. Because I am the master of the physical senses, I can use my senses to perform whatever actions I want, whenever I want and for however long I want. So to be a Brahmin means to be an angel. It doesn’t mean to be a soul with karmic bondage, it means to be a soul who has the pure relationship of service.

A soul is a flying bird and it was when the soul lost its wings- of who it is and Whose it is- that it became a caged bird. I became caged because I tried to find my who and Whose in limited achievements, limited possessions, limited roles and relationships. Now, Baba says, the eternal sanskar of being a flying bird has to emerge once again. This means that I have to stabilize in the angelic form- this is called easy effort. If when a situation comes, I find myself laboring over “what to do, how to do, if I can do”, then the situation becomes big and I become small. The situation becomes powerful and I become weak. In any situation, no matter what it is, whether it is to do with nature, whether it is connected to the body, whether it based on bodily or spiritual relationships, or on my own sanskars or those of others, there is only one answer to resolve all the questions of “how?” and “why?” in an adverse situation: to become a flying bird. Even to say, “my name, my sanskars, my bondage etc.” is to remain bound in bondage of the consciousness of ‘mine’. The language of angels of not the language of ‘mine’; rather to be an angel means that everything ‘mine’ is now ‘Yours’. The consciousness of ‘mine’ makes me a resident of this land, whereas the consciousness of ‘Yours’ lets me be seated on the throne. Therefore, to become an angel means to become free from this bondage of ‘mine’. In this spiritual life, only the Father and none other is ‘mine’. “Have you become an angel to this extent?“, asks Baba.

Sometimes, I become trapped in bondage in the name of service. Maybe Baba has me engaged in what I consider ‘small service’ and I keep longing to do ‘big service’. I have talent, skill that I don’t believe is being used, I have so much in me that I want to give but I feel I lack opportunity. So I keep longing to be picked. Sometimes, I am attached to the service I am involved in right now, I enjoy it very much and subtly, unknowingly, I have attached my identity to this task. And so when I see someone new come along with fresh ideas or new talent, I feel fearful that I will lose ‘my service’. I worry that if I no longer have this, then what am I!? what will I do!? So instead of serving like an angel, I become trapped in service; it becomes a bondage.

There are four types of branches in the kalpa tree, however, the fifth type is most attractive, says Baba. There are the golden, silver, copper and iron branches, but the branch of the confluence age is that of diamonds- the branch of elevated actions. And often, Maya gets me stuck on a diamond branch. I am attracted to the diamond but don’t realize that I now attached or dependent or stuck. Instead of being a ‘hero‘, that is, a flying bird, an angel, a soul that is liberated in life, I cling on to the diamond (hira) branch. I become trapped in the bondage of elevated actions. Limited desires in elevated actions are also chains. Even if it is a diamond branch, bondage is still a bondage!, explains Baba. An angel only loves the Father constantly and the Father constantly loves His angels. Both are constantly absorbed in love for one another. “Check if you have become such angels?“, says the Father. He reminds all the flying birds: Go beyond all bondages, that is, go beyond all limitations.