18-12-87 Om Shanti Avyakt Bapdada Madhuban
The deep definition of the karmateet stage.
Today the Bodiless Father is seeing His elevated children who remain stable in the bodiless stage. Every Brahmin soul is coming close to his perfect stage through having the elevated aim of becoming bodiless and karmateet. Today BapDada was seeing the closeness of your karmateet and bodiless stage: Who has come close to this stage and how close have you come to it? To what extent have you followed Father Brahma or are still doing so? The aim of all of you is to be close to the Father and become equal to Him, but you become numberwise in the practical form. You saw the physical example of Father Brahma staying in that body and yet remaining bodiless, that is, karmateet. So, what is the speciality of becoming karmateet? For as long as you still have that body and you are playing your part through your physical organs on this field of action, you cannot stop performing actions for even a second. Karmateet means to beyond the bondage of karma while performing actions. One is a bondage, and the other is a relationship. To enter a relationship of karma through the physical organs is a different matter from being tied in a bondage of karma. Karmic bondage makes you dependent on the limited fruit of karma. The word "dependent" proves that you are depending on someone. Those who depend on others become those who wander around like ghosts. What is the condition of a person whom an evil soul has entered? He just wanders around under someone else's control. In the same way, if you are controlled by your actions, that is, if you are controlled by the desires of the perishable fruit of karma, then that karma will tie you in bondage and continue to make your intellect wander. That is called the bondage of karma that causes distress for the self and others too. "Karmateet" means someone who is not dependent on karma, but someone who comes into a relationship (connection) with the physical organs as their master, as an authority, someone who is detached from perishable desires and makes the physical organs act. The karma should not make the soul, the master, dependent, but as one with rights he should enable the organs to continue to perform actions. When physical organs attract you, it means you are controlled by your actions; you remain dependent and tied in bondage. Karmateet means to be beyond this, that is, to be detached from this. It is the task of the eyes to see, but who is it that enables the eyes to see? The eyes perform the action, but it is the soul that enables that action to be performed. So, when the soul that makes an action be performed becomes dependent on the physical organs that perform the action, that is called bondage of karma. When you become one who makes actions be performed or makes an action take place, it is called coming into relationship of karma. A karmateet soul comes into relationship, but does not remain tied in bondage. Sometimes, you say: I didn't want to say that, but I just said it. I didn't want to do that, but I just did it. Such a soul is said to be a soul who is controlled by the bondage of karma. Would such a soul be said to be close or far from the karmateet stage?
Karmateet means to be beyond, that is, separate from the bondage of the body, bodily relations, materials and lokik and alokik relationships. Although the word used is "relationship" bodily relationships or relationships with physical relatives if there is dependency on the body or the relatives, then that relationship too becomes a bondage. The word "relationship" is one that gives you a lovely and unique experience. The relationships of all souls today have changed into bondages. Where a relationship has taken on the form of a bondage, that bondage continues to cause distress for the self in one way or another. It will make them experience waves of sorrow or unhappiness. Although having all perishable attainments, they will experience the happiness of those attainments temporarily. Together with that happiness, one minute they will experience being an embodiment of attainment, and the next minute, although having all attainments, they will experience the stage of a lack of attainment. Although full and overflowing, they will feel themselves to be empty. Although having everything, they will continue to experience, "I need something else." And, where souls are constantly wanting something, there cannot be contentment. It will not be possible for the mind, for the body or for everyone else to remain constantly happy at all times. They will continue to be upset with themselves or with others due to one thing or another, even against their conscious wishes because to be upset means you have not understood the significance. It means you have not understood the significance of being one who has the right to make the physical organs act. So, you would then be upset, would you not? Those who are karmateet will never get upset because they know the significance of the relationship of karma and the bondage of karma. Perform actions, not while being dependent, but as one who has a right, as a master. Karmateet means one who is free from the bondage of his karmic account of past karma. Even if there is an illness of the body due to the karmic account of past karma or if the sanskars of your mind are in conflict with the sanskars of other souls, someone who is karmateet would not be controlled by the suffering of karma, but as a master would enable that account to be settled. To be a karma yogi and settle the suffering of karma is the sign of becoming karmateet. Through yoga, with a smile, change the suffering of karma from a crucifix to a thorn and burn it, that is, finish the suffering of karma. It should not take on the form of a disease. When it becomes the form of a disease, then that one himself constantly continues to speak of it as a disease. He will speak about it in his own mind and also through his lips. Secondly, because of it being the form of a disease, he himself will be distressed and will also make others distressed. Such a soul will cry out, whereas someone who is karmateet will manage. Some people have only a little pain and they cry out a lot, whereas others have a lot of pain and yet they manage. Because one with a karmateet stage is the master of his body, even though he is suffering for his karma, he will have the practice of being detached. Every now and then, the experience of the bodiless stage will take him beyond his illness. Just as when someone in pain is made unconscious through the facilities of science so that his pain is forgotten and he doesn't feel that pain because there is the drowsy effect of that drug, similarly, because someone in his karmateet stage has the practice of being detached, he has this spiritual injection every now and again. Then, through this, he experiences the crucifix as a thorn. And, another thing, through following the Father, as visible fruit of being especially obedient, he receives special blessings from the Father's heart. First is their own practice of being bodiless and secondly, the blessings from the Father as a result of their being obedient change the illness, that is, the suffering from karma, from a crucifix to a thorn. An elevated karmateet soul will change the suffering of karma with his stage of karma yoga. So, do you experience this or do you feel it is a very big thing? Is it easy or difficult? To make a small thing big or to make a big thing small depends on your own stage. To be distressed or to maintain the honour of being a master depends on yourself. "What has happened?" or "Whatever happened is good" depends on yourself. This faith can change bad into good, because due to settling your karmic accounts and due to taking a practical paper from time to time, according to the drama, some things will come in front of you in a good form, whereas at other times, some things would have a good form, but would seem externally to have a harmful form. You would refer to this and say: It wasn't good in that form. Situations will come and, even now, situations continue to come and will continue to come in those forms, but behind the curtain of loss, benefit is hidden. The external curtain would appear to be one of loss. If you were to be patient for a little while and have a tolerant stage and see everything with introversion, you would be able to see what is hidden behind the external curtain, and, even while seeing the superficial form, you wouldn't see it. You are holy swans, are you not? Since those swans can separate stones from jewels, then holy swans would take the hidden benefit; they would find the benefit amid the loss. Do you understand? You quickly become afraid and so what happens then? Whatever you had thought was good also changes when you become afraid. So, do not be afraid. Seeing the karma, do not become trapped in the bondage of karma. "What happened? How did it happen? It should not happen like that. Why does it always happen to me? It is just my fortune that is like that." You continue to tie strings like this. These thoughts are the strings. Therefore, you become tied in the bondage of karma. Waste thoughts are the subtle strings of the bondage of karma. A karmateet soul would say, "Whatever happens is good, I am good, the Father is good and the drama too is good. These thoughts work like scissors to cut the bondage. Once the bondages are cut you become karmateet, do you not? Because of being children of the Benefactor Father, every second of the confluence age is benevolent. At every second, your business is to bring benefit; your service is to bring benefit. The occupation of Brahmins is world transformers, world benefactors. For souls who have such faith in the intellect, every moment is definitely benevolent. Do you understand?
There are a lot more definitions in the language for karmateet. Just as the philosophy of karma is deep, so the definition of the karmateet stage is also very great, and it is essential to become karmateet. Without becoming karmateet, you cannot go with the Father. Who will go with the Father? Those who are equal. You saw Father Brahma and how he achieved his karmateet stage. To follow him in becoming karmateet means to become worthy to go with the Father. Enough said for today. Just check this much now, and then Baba will tell you more. Achcha.
To all those who remain stable in the stage of having a right, to those who change the bondage of karma into the relationship of karma, to those who change the suffering of karma into the karma yoga stage and change a crucifix into a thorn, to those who bring benefit at every second, to those who experience being close to the karmateet stage like Father Brahma, to such special souls, BapDada's love, remembrance and namaste.
Blessing: May you experience the ascending stage by being honest and remaining clear in front of the Father.
To reveal yourself in front of the Father as you are and what you are is the greatest method for the ascending stage. This is the easy way to finish all the different types of burden that are on the intellect. To remain honest and to keep yourself clear in front of the Father means to make your path of effort clear. Whenever you make plans with cleverness, according to the dictates of your own mind or the dictates of others, and then place then in front of the Father or the instrument souls, then that too is not honesty. Honesty means: Just as the Father is revealed to the children as He is and what He is, in the same way, children should be revealed to the Father.
Slogan: A true tapaswi is one who always maintains the position of a complete renunciate.
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