Baba says, “Gather together the love that has been scattered everywhere and have love for the one Father and you will then be liberated from having to work hard.“

God’s love is my birthright. For half a cycle, I lived like an orphan fending for myself, constantly striving, laboring, because I had forgotten who I am and Whose I am. Then God came and adopted me and made me belong to Him, practically. I went from an orphan to being a child with rights. His love uplifted the soul, returned me to my dignity and honor. Love is such an elevated thing that people consider love to be God. Since the Father came into this world, He gave me His love through the corporeal form in my practical life and is continuing to give it.

When someone wants to show love, the symbol used is that of a heart. Children even write their letters to God in a heart-shaped letter, they send hearts as gifts. “But which heart did you give?“, asks Baba. I gave the Father a heart that has been broken into so many pieces. Mother, father, paternal uncle, maternal uncle, child, friend, wife, husband…the list of people who have a right to my heart is long. “If you were to make a list of relatives in the iron age, it would be such a long list. Firstly, you gave your heart to relatives, secondly, you gave your heart to possessions…how many people and things are there to which you attached your heart? You attached your heart to all of those and your heart was broken into pieces.“, says the Father. The Father took the broken pieces of the heart and put them all back together. “Sow what did you give and what did you receive?“, He asks. This is a deal that, no matter what angle I look at it from, works in my favor. And the way to make this deal is easy too; it is a deal of just a second. All I need to do is accept God as my Father; the word ‘Baba‘ is the way. I simply say from my heart “Baba” and the deal is made in a second.

Such an easy deal cannot be made in any other age, only at this confluence age. And it is the innocent children, the mothers, the sisters, the brothers that make this deal, says Baba. In the world, people are still chasing after limited attainments. After accumulating wealth, wealthy important ones of today are caught up in the problem of looking after their wealth. They are so caught up that they don’t even have time to recognize the Father. Their time goes in just protecting themselves and their money. Even if they are emperors, they are emperors with worry because, after all, Baba points out, it is money that has been earned dishonestly. This is why they are emperors with worry whereas I am a carefree emperor. “You are emperors now and emperors in the future too. Even the subjects there lack nothing.“, points out Baba. Emperor does not mean that one has to be seated on the throne. Am emperor means one who is full, one who doesn’t lack anything, one for whom nothing is missing.

Even though I have the opportunity to make such a great deal, sometimes I am confused much like the shopper who can’t believe their eyes when they see a great deal. They wonder if there is a catch somewhere; maybe the product isn’t actually good, or maybe you have to sign up for something. “You are not caught up in that kind of confusion, are you?“, asks Baba. Those on the path of bhakti have complicated everything; they believe in rituals and that they have to be followed accurately to please God, they believe they have to undertake arduous pilgrimages, observe fasts, prostrate themselves before gurus and idols etc. They have shown long and complicated methods for finding God, the Highest on High. God has come but devotees are too busy in their rituals to notice Him. No matter how many times or in how many ways one tries to give them the message, they find it simply too hard to believe: “Such an elevated God! For Him to come here so easily is just not possible!” They deprive themselves of the deal.

But I have God’s introduction, I have recognized Him and so I shouldn’t be confused as to the quality of the deal. When I truly recognize that I have come to God Himself, that I, the soul, have come to my eternal Father, that I, the seeker have finally united with my Beloved, then I don’t hesitate in making the deal. It is when there is a lack of faith that I still hang on to the friends and relatives, I make my job a priority, etc. I have had a heart broken into many pieces for half a cycle; now, the One I have been seeking is here and He needs a whole heart in which to reside. I don’t have to leave my family or my job but I don’t seat them on my heart-throne; I don’t make them my God. When I seat God on my heart-throne, then I will find that nothing is hard anymore. He guides me on how to manage my priorities, how to make my relationships loving, how to transform my workplace into a place of service. When that situation comes, when that family member suddenly takes ill, when that financial crisis comes, He will guide me and liberate me. I am not an orphan anymore, let me not insist on living like one. I have a Father and I am a child with rights. Let me make the deal of the heart and attain my birthright- liberation-in-life now and for the future.