Baba says, “First of all, human beings want peace. You are now receiving your inheritance of peace.”

Peace is the very nature of the soul. Therefore, when a soul experiences peacelessness, it is like a fish out of water. People get awarded the peace prize for advising others about how to bring about peace in the world. But God points out that 1) no one understands what peace is 2) peaceless souls can neither advise others about how to bring about peace nor bring about peace themselves. I can only give to the world what I have myself and if I am peaceless, how can I bring about peace in the world? And at this point in the cycle, Baba points out, all souls are peaceless. And where there is no peace, there is conflict.

“First of all, human beings want peace“, points out Baba. Peace is not just about stopping wars between countries, or stopping crime in neighborhoods, peace is a soul’s innate quality. It is an inner quietness and serenity that comes when we learn to live in harmonious relationship with the inner self. Many people cannot. There can only be peace in the world when each individual is at peace with themselves; this is why the only two places where there is peace -1) the sweet home or the land of peace and 2) the golden age or heaven. The Father comes to this old world at this most auspicious confluence age to find His children and establish the golden aged world through them. Once the new world is established, the old world is destroyed and all souls return home with the Father. This is every soul’s inheritance. But whether I come back into the golden aged world to experience heaven on earth depends upon whether I become golden aged now.

While home is called the land of peace, the golden age is the land of peace and happiness. To become golden aged is to become peaceful and happy while living in the midst of a very peaceless and unhappy world. If I can achieve that, I would have claimed my inheritance to live and rule in the golden age. First and foremost, I have to become peaceful; then I will automatically be happy. And peace in this world is neither easy nor cheap given there are endless reasons to ensure I remain peaceless. For example:

1. I feel unworthy: I don’t believe I deserve anything good. Even if someone were to congratulate me for something good I did, I don’t accept it. I feel unworthy. This is also a reason why many marriages fail because one of them cannot accept themselves no matter what.
2. I feel insecure: I walk through life gingerly, as if on egg shells all the time. I am never sure if this is right or that is right; maybe I should have taken that opportunity instead of this one etc. When this is my condition, I cannot have peace.
3. I feel I don’t fit in– I am constantly trying to fit in but I never can seem to. I feel a deep sense of rejection. I got the education, I got the house, I got the car, the title…and yet, deep down, I still feel like an imposter. I am therefore never at peace.
4. I don’t feel loved by anyone: In a world of selfish love, it is easy to feel unloved. Maybe I grew up not being accepted by my family or by friends at school. I carry that scar with me into adulthood. AT work, my idea is rejected but that makes me feel rejected and pushed away.

No matter what the reason, the result is that I am not at peace with myself. But God wants me to accept myself. And so the first thing He does is adopts me as His own child, practically. All souls are His children always anyway but at this time, God comes to this physical plane and plays His role as my Father practically, visibly. It is because He comes and makes me belong to Him, because He gives me the experience of His unconditional, non-judgmental, selfless love, because He constantly reminds me that I am His child, that I am able to climb out of the various pits I am in and reclaim my self-respect. When I claim my self-respect, my dignity and honor by realizing that I am in fact a pure, most elevated soul, the most beloved child of God, I feel instantly at peace, I come home.

“You definitely have to go home, to the land of peace by remembering the Father. Even if you don’t remember Him, you will definitely go there. You remember Him so that the burdens of sins can be removed from your heads.“, He explains. The feelings of unworthiness, of rejection, of not belonging etc. may not necessarily be a result of actions/events of just this birth, it is usually a result of actions committed over many births. Half way through the cycle, when I forgot who I am and became body conscious, I started committing wrong actions and accumulating sin. That burden weighs on the soul in the form of feelings of rejection, insecurity, not fitting in, feeling unloved etc. I might have all the material accomplishments, I may try to stand tall physically but internally, I am hunched over unable to bear the burden of these feelings. To relieve myself of this burden, I have to remember the Father, I have to experience His love, I have to experience belonging to Him.

People go to psychologists/psychiatrists and pay them lots of money for therapy. Others pay gurus or priests so they can perform the right rituals to help them find peace. God says, “You receive happiness and peace only from the one Father because He is the Ocean of Peace and Happiness. This is the main thing.” Peace and happiness is my birthright, my inheritance and a child can receive its inheritance only from its father, not from a sister or brother. No one, no matter what kind of an expert, has peace in this world; they don’t even know what peace is. And therefore they cannot show others the way either. It is like the blind leading the blind. Only God becomes the stick for the blind and shows me the way home. He comes to reform the children; When I recognize Him and accept Him as my Father, He becomes involved in every tiniest aspect of my life. He teaches me how to think right, speak and act right. He cleanses my attitudes and my vision and makes me brand new. Only God can purify me this way, no human expert can. Only God is the Father of the soul and knows my whole story- the beginning, middle and end. Only He knows how I got to where I am and how to get me to where I need to be. Because of His purity, only He has the mercy and strength to guide me out of the strongholds and become my true self again.

Even when it comes to accepting each other, the only reason we are able to do that is because we all belong to the one Father, we belong to the same Godly family. He is the central figure, He is the Anchor. He is the Ocean of Peace and He comes to give me peace. Where He is, there cannot be conflict. So if I am conflicted in my heart, if I am feeling burdened, it means I need to check my connection with God. If I made a mistake, let me run to God, not away from Him. Let me tell Him of all that ails me- the hurts, the betrayals, the mistakes, the bad choices…whatever. He knows but when I tell Him, I bond with Him, I feel lighter. Then, He helps me get past the pain and to the other side strong. Only He has the power of love that can rid me of the guilt, the shame and the regrets. He alone gives me the strength to forgive the self and others and move forward. Let me surrender myself to Him by becoming the child.

“From being in bondage-in-life you are now becoming liberated-in-life. In the golden age, there are no bondages.“, He explains. When I am unburdened, I feel free. When I am free, I am at peace, liberated in life. As I go through the journey, there will be people and situations that will try to take away my peace, try to become obstacles on my path but it is up to me to guard my peace. “Remember the land of happiness and continue to forget this land of sorrow. Let there be disinterest in this.“, cautions Baba. Let me listen to what God says about who I am, not to what the world says. Let me focus on where God is taking me and forget about where the world is asking me to go. It isn’t that I have to renounce my home and family like the sannyasis do; rather, God teaches me to live in the world and detach my heart from it.

I now know who I am, Whose I am and where I am going. When I remain stable in this awareness, I am at peace.