Baba says, “You mustn’t miss a murli for even a day.“

Each morning, I have the opportunity to sit in front of the Supreme Father, the Supreme Soul and Brahma, the Father of Humanity. I get to sit in front of God Himself who comes at this most auspicious confluence age and adopts me as His own child. I am always His child but now, I experience being His child practically. In bhakti, I used to stand in front of the idols and sing: “You are the Mother and Father and I am Your child” but I never actually related to God in that way. Now, I get to practically. But at least I imagined being God’s child in bhakti. What was beyond even my wildest imagination was that God would become my Teacher too!; that He would one day come and teach me the knowledge of who I am, Whose I am and reveal to me the secrets of the beginning, middle and end of the drama.

But He does.

He comes and teaches me easy Raja Yoga, the study through which I become the king of kings. Even if this remains in my intellect, Baba says, my mercury of happiness would rise. Devotees call out to Him: “O God, please come! Liberate us from this sorrow.” People continue to invoke Him and here He is, sitting in front of me. I have to know deep in my bones that it is indeed incorporeal God, the Supreme Teacher, who is teaching me through Brahma. He takes the support of an old impure body just so that He can speak to His children, so that He can teach them the way out of their problems and guide them back to victory. I need to have this faith and that faith comes when I actually listen to what He has to say and try it. Unless I attend class, I cannot comment on whether someone is really a good teacher or not or if what they teach works or not. I have to listen, merge what I listen into my heart and embody that teaching. Then when situations come, I get to test whether the knowledge works or not. But if I don’t even take the time to attend class, then when situations come, I find myself ill-equipped to face them; I lack the weapons with which to fight. Then, I blame the study saying that it doesn’t work; I defame the Teacher.

In the world, a student who is studying to become a doctor or a lawyer has full faith that their teacher is teaching them to become that but here, Baba observes, the wonder is that one minute someone would say that they have full faith that the incorporeal, unlimited Father is teaching them Raja Yoga and the next minute, they would go outside and their faith would break. God Himself, Whom the whole world remembers, is sitting in front of me and telling me: Child, now make full effort to claim your inheritance from the Father. I understand this and then forget it in a second. I deceive myself by saying: But I belong to the Father anyway. No, that doesn’t work. I have to actually follow the Father’s directions for my life- that is what it means to be the child. And I cannot follow His directions if I wasn’t even present. But, I say, I have a family at home and a demanding job…I cannot always find the time. God says: “Check your priorities. All of that work is worth a few pennies. Whatever income people in this world earn is not going to remain with them; everything is going to end.” There is a time in the cycle for everything. There was a time to earn limited wealth, a time for bhakti, a time to play the game of dolls. Now is not the time for any of those things. Now is the time to prepare for the new cycle– it is the time to burn sins and become pure. It is the time to claim my sovereignty.

I hear that and say: “Well, isn’t the way to burn sins remembrance? I remember Baba and have my relationships with Him. I cook with Him, eat with Him….isn’t that enough?” Yes indeed, the way to burn away my sins is remembrance but the foundation for remembrance is knowledge. Else, I might remember the wrong things. The most tangible form of God is His murli; it gives me insight into how He thinks and operates. I cannot remember Him without actually knowing Him! Remembrance based on true knowledge is the alchemy that heals and purifies. Remembrance gives me power to embody the knowledge; and it is this embodiment through which I claim a status. It is the knowledge that equips me to become victorious in every situation. And the longer the practice of remaining victorious is, the longer I claim liberation-in-life, the longer I get to experience heaven and the higher my status will be.

“Each version of knowledge is a jewel worth multi-millions. Each invaluable jewel should be imbibed in every thought: at every second, so as to make the present and future fortune elevated.“, teaches Baba. And so don’t miss even a single murli, He says. Maya will do her very best to make me miss the study; there will be laziness, or that ‘very important’ thing that I have to attend to right at class time, or I will ‘feel ill’ etc. The special thought to bring about transformation should be: “I am not an ordinary student and this is not an ordinary study. The Father Himself comes daily from the far-off land especially to teach me. I am His specially near and dear student. My study is not a scripture, it is the direct versions of God. The Supreme Directions of the Supreme Father are my study and each word of this study renders an income worth multi-millions. If I miss even one word, I haven’t missed one word but have lost innumerable treasures.” Sometimes I make the mistake of thinking: I’ve heard it all before. But no, I haven’t. While the version might sound the same, depending on where I am in my journey, the same version holds a different significance in my life. I relate to it differently. When I listen with the mindset that each version is for me, then I can see how it applies to my life.

Sometimes, I’ve had a question in the back of my mind, that uncertainty about something that I’ve been carrying around, then suddenly there is the answer in the murli; it was exactly the clarification I needed. But if I miss class, I miss that clarity and I remain uncertain. Sometimes, I hear a point and it offers me a fresh perspective on something or a deeper understanding that I lacked before; it’s like a new door has been opened or another layer has been revealed. But sometimes, I skip the murli because I don’t like the instrument teacher. Baba says, “Don’t look at the one who is reading the Versions but look at the One whose versions are being spoken. Bring that One is front of you. See the incorporeal Father and the subtle Father. Just because you are angry with an instrument, don’t become angry with Baba.” To deprive myself of income worth multi-millions just because of a disagreement with another student or an instrument teacher is foolishness. Let me stay focused on setting myself up for success in the new cycle.

The Teacher says: Good students pay full attention, they don’t miss anything. This study has to be studied regularly. One must not be absent in such a Godly university. Baba continues to tell you deep things.