Baba says, “Be very very obedient and move along with sweetness.”

Baba has given me shrimat (instructions) about everything- my thoughts, words, actions, relationships and connections- and told me how to act and live from amrit vela until night time. I have been given instructions and directions about what awareness to have in my mind and what the stage of my mind should be in every action I perform. “Are you obedient children?“, asks Baba, “Do you place each step as per the Father’s directions?” To place my footstep when I know where I am supposed to, should be easy. It is when I have no clue as to where/what my next step should be that it feels difficult. And yet, even though I have clear directions from God Himself about where I should place my steps, I routinely mess up and place my step in the wrong place.

It’s usually not the big things that I disobey in, it is the small things. I’ve got the pure life, pure diet part down. The world considers a pure life as impossible and yet, God’s children, live a pure life while living in the household. They show the impossible as possible. But when it comes to anger, for example, most children fail. I tell Baba: “I didn’t get angry Baba but I did have to show a little bit of authority so that work gets done.” Baba says, “You conquered lust and yet, you find it difficult to overcome anger!?” I become routinely irritated and frustrated over trivial situations, or when my expectations aren’t met.

An even smaller disobedience, is when I wake up for amrit vela but I don’t really experience the sweetness of a meeting with Baba. I sit down to remember but either my mind wanders off to my to-do list for the day or I nod off. “You follow half the instruction, that is, you follow the discipline of waking up but you don’t experience success.“, points out Baba. Similarly, another instruction is: ‘Don’t give sorrow and don’t take sorrow.’ Here again, I follow half the instruction, that is, I take care not to say or do anything that might cause others sorrow but I do take sorrow from others. I hear so-and-so said something or I see something and I take sorrow. There are waste thoughts that take over the mind: “Why did they say this?”, “This should not have happened..” The mind has the habit of listening to and looking at waste for 63 births and unless I deliberately practice getting it off waste, the mind keeps going in that direction. “This is why“, Baba notes, “disobedience in little things makes your minds heavy and thus, you are unable to fly to a high stage. They are small things but because you have been disobedient, a small burden begins to accumulate on you.“

When someone is obedient, they receive God’s blessings from all the relationships. This is a law, explains Baba. Even in the world, when I say “yes” to the directions of my parents or my boss or an elder, I automatically receive blessings from their heart. Similarly, here, I receive God’s blessings and I remain double light and have the flying stage. And it isn’t just that I receive a blessing after I have become victorious, no. When the Father sees me being obedient, He matches my will with His enormous will power and ensures that I become victorious- over that anger, that feeling of irritation or over that waste thought. So without having to labor, I receive the instant fruit of my obedient action. Since there is no energy wasted, I remain powerful. “So, today, remember this slogan“, says Baba, “Don’t think waste, don’t see waste, don’t listen to waste, don’t speak waste and don’t waste time doing wasteful things. Become an obedient soul and develop a divine character. Move along with sweetness. This is known as being a constantly powerful soul.”