Baba says, “When you constantly stay in the company of the one Father, that is, when you are constantly in the company of the Truth, you cannot be influenced by the color of anyone else’s company.“

For half a cycle, I thought I was a body and stumbled and suffered as a result of this wrong consciousness. Then, the Father came at this most auspicious confluence age and reminded me of who I am- that I am a soul, a child of the Supreme Soul. I am a soul, a spirit or a spiritual being. Having been body conscious for so long, it is easy to slip back into that same consciousness even now. God, however, is the only being who never becomes body conscious, He is always soul conscious because He remains outside the cycle of birth and death. Due to this reason, He is also the Ever Pure one. And so as I make effort to return to soul consciousness, the best and only way to do it is to remain in the company and companionship of God alone. This doesn’t mean I leave home and become a recluse, no. It means that while I remain in the world, at home with my family, my heart belongs to the one Father. He is first in my life.

When I make the Father my heart’s true Companion, I will constantly be colored with the spiritual color of this company because the greatest company is that of the Almighty Authority. This is why there is the praise of satsang (company of truth) even now. Satsang means to constantly have through the intellect the company of the true Father, the true Teacher and the true Guru. He is also the true Friend and the true Beloved. He fulfills all my relationships, He is my entire world of the heart. This is true company.

By staying in this company of the Truth, I will constantly remain light and cheerful. I will not experience any type of burden. He neither wants nor expects anything other than honesty. The Lord is pleased with an honest heart that is turned toward Him. It is one thing to have faith in the intellect that the Father is good, that He is Almighty etc. but the return of having faith is to keep the Father as your constant Companion. “You should have the Father’s company at every moment, and, by experiencing this constant company, you will experience yourself to be full.“, says the Father. It is only with the Father that I experience myself to be overflowing. When I make the Father belong to me, whatever belongs to the Father also belongs to me.

In fact the greatest reward of this confluence age is to attain God. There is no one higher than God. Having found the Father, I have found everything. By constantly remaining in this awareness of what I have found, I constantly experience all attainments. If there is no awareness, there is no attainment; There is instead fear, anxiety, stress, worry and all other manifestations of sorrow of half a cycle. The whole point of the confluence age is that I now have been made aware; the effort is to remain an embodiment of that awareness. I am the child of the Almighty Authority, I am master almighty authority. All the virtues and powers are my Father’s property and as His child, I have a right to all of them. When I am truly an embodiment of the awareness of who I am, Whose I am and this present time, I experience being the child with rights deeply in my bones. Then, I am never dependent or subservient to anyone or anything. I am not a slave to any of Ravan’s sanskars, they no longer overwhelm or rule over me, I overcome them easily because in my new awareness, nothing of Ravan has any power over me. I am liberated, free. There are no more limited desires or needs or expectations of anyone. There is no more taking, only giving. I have so much that I cannot stay without sharing what I have found with others. The more I give, the more I receive.

Sure, there will be obstacles as I walk with God. Just because I am a child of God, storms don’t stop. But the difference is now I am holding the Father’s hand, I know He is responsible for me. In the past, I was all alone in the storm without any support, flailing my arms, running for cover. Now, I no longer do that, I know I am taken care of. When the Father is constantly with me, nothing is difficult but the moment I forget His company, I become alone and therefore weak. A weak person would find even a small thing to be very big whereas when I know I am with the most powerful, I find the biggest thing to be very small. The Father is giving me His company but it is up to me to take it. And because He fulfills all my relationships, it becomes easy to remember Him. I only have to remember the One and I receive everything, the whole world!

In fact, this is the praise of the Pandavas– they are the ones who maintained the awareness of the Father’s company at all times and became the masters of the whole world. Even though they were only five against a vast army, because of having the intoxication of the Father’s company, they became those who issued a challenge that they would become victorious. The basis was the company of the One. That is a memorial of this time, the Father reminds me. So how intoxicated should I be!? When Maya’s mahavirs came in front of the Pandavas, they were all destroyed. “So do you experience yourselves to be those who overcome the obstcales of Maya, or do you become afraid of Maya?“, asks Baba. Because of having been made trikaldarshi, I no longer am afraid of Maya. Instead I am able to discern why she has come and know the method to chase her away. And as I learn, I do so with the Father right there with me as my Companion.

This is why the memorial of the Shaktis and Gopikas is their dancing in happiness. It is not because they never had storms but rather it is because now, they are no longer afraid of them, the storm no longer has any power over them. So when I understand and consider myself a gopika, I too will constantly dance in happiness. A gopika means one who only has constant love for the one Gopi Vallabh. I am not a householder, I am not someone with responsibilities, I am not a mother, a boss, or anything else. I am a gopika. The Father says: “Others become happy by simply using your name, so how happy should you gopikas yourselves be!”