Baba says, “You are the ones with big hearts, who belong to the greatest Father of all.“

Baba is called Dilaram, the Comforter of Hearts. He is able to comfort and transform even the hardest hearts because of the kind of heart He has- a generous heart filled with love and mercy. This, is called a big heart. To have a heart means to be caught up in the limited consciousness of ‘I’ and ‘mine’. To have a big heart means that I get myself off my mind and think about what I can do for others. To have a big heart means that everything belongs to me, the whole world is my family. To serve the whole world is my duty, my responsibility. To serve is to uplift. There are many in the world who uplift in a physical way- through donation and charity. But that is limited. Spiritual upliftment is uplifting the soul and that requires an unlimited consciousness, it requires strength and power.

No matter what type of soul someone might be, to have a generous heart means that I only have good wishes for them. They might give me something bad, but because my heart is pure, I don’t allow the bad feelings to enter my heart. I separate the soul from what they said or did and by doing that, I reject the bad and accept the soul. That doesn’t mean I have to become best friends with them or spend long hours with them or do whatever they demand of me, not at all. It just means that I maintain my good wishes and pure feelings; I don’t allow dislike or judgment or bitterness and resentment to set in. Then, my attitude and vision toward them and everyone else will remain pure as well.

In fact, when I am a generous-hearted soul, I will be free from especially three things: jealousy, dislike and criticizing or taunting anyone. This is the sign, explains Baba. Jealousy distresses me and others. Just like anger, jealousy too works like fire and burns the self and others. Dislike will never allow me to experience the stage of having pure and positive thoughts for the self and others. Dislike means to make the self fall and others also fall. In the same way, to taunt someone even if as a joke, is like pushing someone while they are moving along to make that person fall. It means to kick them. When someone trips me up, I fall and because I am hurt, I feel weak, I keep thinking about the hurt, about who caused me that hurt. This, is no ordinary thing, explains Baba, this too is called causing sorrow. Always uplift others, don’t make them fall, He teaches.

Sometimes, in service, there is limitedness that comes in- this is ‘my service’, this is ‘my project’ etc. That kind of attitude makes me view others as competitors or threats. I see someone else with talent come in and I get worried: “what if they take away my project?” Rather than invite them in and use their expertise for the task, I strategize about how to keep them at bay. To have a generous and big heart is to recognize that everything is the Father’s task, nothing is ‘mine’. And so whatever anyone can contribute is good because it makes the Father’s task better and successful. So rather than push away, I include and involve. If I am a teacher, the limitedness can come in terms of: “this is my center”, “these are my students”, “this is my zone” etc. Baba says: “Are you those that will bring benefit to only a small area? or are you world benefactors like the Father?” Limits are created when there is a small heart, He explains. Father Brahma, during his corporeal days, stayed in one place while he sustained the children all over. He didn’t say this place is mine and the rest are the children’s, no. He sustained everyone in every place equally. Everyone felt and still feel that they belong to him and that he belongs to them. This, Baba explains, is called having an angelic heart, a big and generous heart. Sometimes, when a teacher can even influence the students to develop limitedness. Because of the teacher’s attitude, the students also start to think in terms of: “only this is my center”, “only this one is my teacher”. To be big hearted means to merge ‘mine’ in ‘Yours’, to merge the limited into the unlimited like Father Brahma.

“Your thoughts, words and method of service should be experienced as being unlimited“, teaches Baba. My aim is to become Lakshmi and Narayan, the emperor/empress of the world. Someone with a limited heart cannot be an unlimited emperor of the world. “Don’t think that the more centers you have opened or the bigger your service projects are, the bigger the kingdom you will create. The prize of heaven is not based on this.“, explains Baba. Sure, service is needed but there should be no trace of limits, He explains. Only then can I be a carefree emperor now and qualify to be world emperor in the future. To open a center, or to conduct a workshop or donate the knowledge through classes or lectures is not a big thing. However, teaches Baba, to donate virtues is the most elevated donation. To make someone virtuous through my own virtues, to co-operate in filling souls with specialties is called being a great donor and generous hearted. To be generous hearted to this extent is called following the father, He explains.

For half a cycle, I lived selfishly, always taking, expecting and demanding. Now, the Father says, it is time to give, it is time to be a bestower.