Baba says, “This is the time to study.“

There is a time to play, a time to study, a time to earn based on the degree I have received and then there is the time to kick back and simply enjoy the reward based on the earnings I have saved or accumulated in my bank account. Bhakti was the time to play, that time has now passed; now, is the time to study. At this most auspicious confluence age, God Himself becomes my Teacher and teaches me new knowledge in a new, unique way. He doesn’t teach from any scripture, He is the Ocean of Knowledge. Through this study, I become a golden aged deity having earned the degree: full in all virtues, 16 celestial degrees complete, completely viceless, completely righteous and non-violent. First of all I need this faith that indeed, this is the most auspicious confluence age and that God Himself is teaching me this most elevated study. Unless I consider myself a Godly student, I will not study what I am being taught. Instead, I will continue to stumble from book to book, from scripture to scripture, guru to guru.

“Everyone in the whole world has a defective intellect. So do not listen to or study anything of this world. Don’t even keep their company. You should only keep the company of those who study this study well.“, cautions Baba.

Sometimes, it’s not others, it’s my own body consciousness that’s my worst enemy. I think I’ve heard it all before, so I don’t give the study the value I should be giving it. I routinely miss the murli, or I allow myself to become distracted, I take it all very lightly. “You don’t consider yourself to be janijananhar (the one who knows everything) and become slack because you think this is a revision course, do you?“, asks Baba. The study is not about simply being able to finish sentences and repeat them to others, it is about understanding each point deeply: what is Baba telling me, how does this apply to my life at this point in time, practically? Unless there is this churning, there cannot be realization and without realization, there cannot be dharna. When I listen to it with the mindset that God is teaching me privately in public, that this is for me, then I will see that while I might have heard the point before, I relate to it differently now; it has new relevance in my life now. “The points are revised not just for the sake of new students but also because the old ones are yet to put these points into the practical form.“, explains Baba. “So now“, He says, “repeatedly pay attention to filling this gap. Through the revised course, the sanskars and nature that you want to be transformed will be transformed.”

That means I cannot afford to miss the murli even a single day because today might be the day I receive the answer to that question that was in the back of my mind. I didn’t even know how to accurately phrase the question yet but the Teacher answered it. The study is so elevated and the One who is teaching me is so elevated. I came into the class hopeless, full of doubts about myself and the world, with not the slightest clue about who I am or Whose I am, or what I am becoming. But His words have so much power in them that they create hope in whom the self and the world has no hope. Not only does He teach me but the very aim of this study is to attain the highest status of all. Within the whole eternal world cycle, from the copper age until now, the most coveted status is the royal status and yet, it doesn’t hold a candle to what I attain through this study. In this one birth, I receive God’s guarantee that I will attain the most elevated status for birth after birth whereas I don’t receive any guarantee of attaining a status for even one birth through the worldly studies. Not just that but if I study well now, it means that I will study well every cycle and create my fortune every cycle exactly like I am doing now. This, Baba points out, is called winning the Godly lottery.

So I study now and the I simply reap the rewards of my earnings starting in the golden age. But when did I earn? While worldly studies require me to receive my degree before I can start earning, here, I earn while I am studying. “What is the calculation of your income?“, asks Baba. “In the world, their calculation might be in thousands or millions but you earn multimillions at every step.“, He points out. This does not mean that I automatically accumulate at every step, no. I have to earn through churning the knowledge and distributing the butter to others. Distribution does not just mean giving lectures, no. It means that I become an embodiment of the knowledge such that my very being serves. My face, my vision, my behavior become elevated. I speak few words, but sweet words that bring others happiness. I radiate vibrations of good wishes and pure feelings to the world through which souls become unburdened and experience lightness. To say things like: “I didn’t mean to say that, it just came out…”, “I didn’t mean to get angry, it just happened…” or to shake and tremble when the slightest situation comes my way, to complain about my circumstances, to crave limited respect and praise, to feel disheartened by comparing myself to others etc. demonstrates that I haven’t really embodied the knowledge, that is, I am not really earning or accumulating an income. To earn means to live a victorious life, a life full of peace, happiness and contentment. Then, others in the world experience my fortune and come into happiness themselves. When they experience happiness, peace and true soul conscious love from me, I receive the blessings from their hearts and from the Father’s heart. This is accumulated in my account. To simply take care to not give sorrow to others by biting my tongue or by “staying out of their way” is not accumulation. To engage fully and make others victorious through my own victory is to accumulate.

Even now, when someone simply dresses up as Lakshmi or Narayan, people automatically bow down to them, they experience greatness and joy through them even though, they are only ordinary souls dressed up as the deities. “However, you souls are living forms of the deities. Let there be greatness experienced through your forms. Let them salute your fortune and dance in happiness in their minds.“, says Baba.

The unique Father teaches this unique study to the unique students who receive unique attainments only once in the whole cycle, at this most auspicious confluence age. No matter how big of a scholar or philosopher someone might be, they cannot know the study and the inheritance I receive from the unique Father and Teacher. The study is internal and the inheritance is internal: I change from an ordinary, impure human being into a completely pure, elevated deity, my character becomes good for all time. This is the time to study.