Baba says, “Constantly remain powerful in your thoughts. Now, celebrate the completion ceremony of waste, because anything wasteful doesn’t allow you to become powerful.”

The whole world is thirsty for a glimpse of the Father for even a second and I am the elevated soul who has the right to belong to that Father in one second. “I belong to the Father and the Father belongs to me.” – This awareness becomes the key to all powers, it is the golden key. “I belong to the Father” means “I am a soul” because He is the Father of souls. To have the awareness of who and Whose I am makes me powerful, automatically. If I forget who and Whose I am, then I lose all the power, it is wasted in body conscious thoughts, words and actions.

Powerful means those who have ended waste. If there is waste, there cannot be anything powerful and there is waste where there is wrong awareness. Then the body conscious thoughts, that is, the waste thoughts bring me down from my elevated stage. These body conscious thoughts are thoughts of comparison, competition, of jealousy, of fear, of doubt, of worry, of disheartenment etc. because when I forget that I am a most elevated soul, the child of God Himself and make myself ordinary – a limited title, a position, a role, a relationship, a list of accomplishments etc., – then it is natural to have very low grade thoughts. Then I am constantly in fear of losing those limited things, in fear that someone else better might come along, that people may figure out that I’m not as good as they think I am, etc. These kinds of thoughts come fast and furious and drain me all my dignity, honor, self-respect, and with it, all my peace and joy. Powerful thoughts, on the other hand, enable me to experience a meeting with the Almighty Father and makes me a conqueror of Maya. They also make me into an embodiment of success.

Waste thoughts finish my zeal and enthusiasm. I remain confused about ‘why?’ and ‘what?’, ‘how this could happen!’, ‘can this too happen!?’ etc. This is why I then remain disheartened with myself over trivial things and I remain deprived of living a victorious life which is my birthright. When I forget who I am, I have many needs and desires because I believe I belong to this old world and that I need to accumulate, accomplish, be better than, win etc. I make many plans and then spend my life pursuing those plans receiving fleeting happiness on some days when those plans work out, then sorrow when they don’t. Even if I attain that which I wanted, my mind now races after the next thing, the desires are endless, the needs are endless. Waste thoughts create an upheaval like a storm- “you are not good enough..”, “try harder…be better…do more…get more..”, “she is better than you…”, or “you are the best thing that ever happened to them, they should respect you more…”, “your idea was the best..”, “you deserve all the credit…”. It’s a constant roller-coaster.

Powerful thoughts, on the other hand, are like spring weather, constantly making me fresh and fruitful– “I am a pure soul, a child of God Himself’, ‘having attained the Father, I have attained everything’, ‘The Father for whose glimpse the sannyasis and devotees thirst for, I experience His sustenance and love practically!’, ‘I am not this body, I am the soul who is wearing this body to play my part in this unlimited drama.’, ‘I am now claiming my inheritance of world sovereignty from the Father’- these thoughts constantly enable me to accumulate soul power, they make my time worthwhile. They enable me to remain an embodiment of the awareness of my elevated honor.

I understand the difference between the two types of thoughts, and yet there is waste. The reason, Baba explains, is that I don’t give sufficient value to the murli. God Himself speaks to me every day! His murli is the treasure trove of powerful thoughts- they are His thoughts. But because I don’t give it that importance, there becomes room for wastage. I might attend the murli daily, I might even take notes and underline but that is not enough. The moment I step out into the world, I forget what I heard and slip back into body consciousness. “Continue to churn each elevated version at every moment, and waste cannot enter a powerful intellect. When the intellect remains empty, then because the place is empty, waste enters. Not to know the method of keeping the intellect busy with powerful thoughts means to invoke waste thoughts.”, teaches Baba.

“Become the businessmen who keep busy. Day and night, become the businessmen of these jewels of knowledge. When you don’t have time, there will be no margin for waste thoughts.“, He explains. So the basis to remain powerful is: Constantly keeping my intellect full of powerful thoughts. The basis for this is to listen to the murli every day, then to merge it into myself and to become an embodiment of it. It’s a 3-step process. Just to listen is no good, even merging into myself only gets me so far- I stay away from waste because I remain full but I don’t become powerful. To become powerful and make others powerful, I have to embody every point. “Ask yourself“, He says, “are you one that listens, one who merges into yourself or one who becomes an embodiment?”

A powerful soul transforms waste into powerful in a second. Only those who are powerful for a long time can rule the perfect kingdom for a long time, explains Baba. So, He says, end the waste of the self.