Baba says, “become most sweet.“

The aim and objective of this Brahmin life is to become like Lakshmi and Narayan. Everyone loves Lakshmi and Narayan so much because they are very sweet. Even just their idols exude sweetness through the eyes, through the smile and the face. To become as sweet as they are, I need to do what they did to become who they are. Lakshmi and Narayan remembered God a great deal in their previous birth. It was through having this remembrance that they became so sweet. And so, it’s through having this remembrance that I too become the masters of heaven like them. “This is the effort you children have to make”, teaches Baba. “Don’t become arrogant by thinking that you have so much knowledge. The main thing is remembrance. It’s remembrance that brings you love. If you want to become very sweet and lovely and also claim a high status, then make effort!“

Knowledge is the foundation, I first need to know who I am and the One I am remembering. Singing praise of someone I don’t really know or sitting in meditation without an introduction is called blind faith; this is bhakti. Through that, not only did I not transform but my sorrow and peacelessness only increased. The only One who has the knowledge of the Creator and the creation is the eternal Father, God Himself. This is why only He is called Truth. He comes at this most auspicious confluence age – reminds me of who I am and gives me the introduction of Himself. He also reveals to me the story of the beginning, middle and end of the world cycle. I am a pure soul, not the body. In other words, I am not how I look in the mirror, I am not the gender or nationality, I am not the roles or positions, I am not the accomplishments or failures, and I am not the relationships. All of this is the expansion of the wrong consciousness of considering myself a body. This is what I did for half a cycle and paid the price for it by losing my peace, joy, happiness, and contentment. I lost all this because I behaved in ways that caused me to lose it- I became selfish as I tried to protect what I thought was mine – my position, role, and relationship. I hustled, manipulated, pushed and pulled. I became alternately fearful and arrogant. I lived birth after birth at the mercy of emotions. I wanted this to stop and return to a place of peace and comfort but didn’t know how.

When God came and explained to me: You are a soul, not the body, it was as if a switch had been turned on and I started to see things clearly again. No wonder I had felt peaceless all this time. I was doing things that were misaligned with who I really am. I had not been operating based on the values of the soul but rather operating based on the vices that come with body consciousness. And so the Father teaches me: “You now definitely have to become satopradhan. For this, remember the one Father.” To be satopradhan means that I emerge the sato (seven) original qualities of the soul and think, speak and act based on them again. These qualities become pradhan (primary) in my life again. I become satopradhan by remembering the One Father because He is the Ocean of Virtues and the only One who operates based on virtues at this time. Everyone else, every human being, is body conscious at this time. Therefore, only God is my reference point. When I observe Him, spend time with Him, learn from Him, follow His directions, then I too become like Him…that is, like my original self again.

However someone is, they would make others the same as themselves. The Father is the sweetest, and so He makes me exactly like He is. “So, in order to become such sweet beings as Lakshmi and Narayan“, Baba says, “remember the sweet Father and the aim“. He tells me repeatedly: “Sweet child, consider yourself to be bodiless and remember Me and I promise that all your sorrow and suffering will be removed with this remembrance. You will become ever healthy and ever wealthy. You will become most sweet.” That makes all the sense in the world. I became sorrowful when I fell prey to the vices; I fell prey to the vices when I forgot who and Whose I am. It’s hard to be sweet when I am sorrowful. Now, by remembering the truth of who and whose I am and stabilizing myself in that truth, I regain my peace and happiness. As I become satopradhan, I start respecting myself again. I return to my original honor and dignity. Then, it is easy to be sweet; in fact, I become sweet naturally, automatically.

There is a great deal of difference between the features of Lakshmi and Narayan and those of Rama and Sita, explains Baba. Lakshmi and Narayan are called 16 celestial degrees pure, Rama and Sita are called 14 celestial degrees pure; that too is still classified as defective. They didn’t pass in the subject of the pilgrimage of remembrance and so some defects remained. It’s like a diamond– even a little flaw makes the diamond less valuable. “You are living diamonds. So, whatever flaws you have, if you don’t remove them by the end, your value will be reduced.“, explains Baba. The Father has come to make you 16 celestial degrees perfect, He says. Knowledge is easy; anyone can learn it. No matter how clever I may be in it, I wouldn’t become sweet just by that. “It is remembrance that is key; it is only through remembrance that you transform into perfect deities from defective human beings. There is no other way.”, explains Baba. “As much as possible“, He says, “make this one point firm: I am a soul, the child of sweetest Baba.”

When you children follow the Father’s directions, everyone else will follow you. My self transformation leads to world transformation.