Be_a_Karma_Yogi_8 Mohini_Didi June 8, 2024
Om Shanti, Everyone!
Everyone is a karma yogi. Is there anyone who does not do actions or activities all the time? We wake up in the morning, so we want hot tea or coffee, something that action begins, because the soul is in the body, right? So, the household is of the body. If there is no body, then you don’t need food. You do not need to sleep anything, but with the body, there are all the needs of the body, and they have to be fulfilled. We also have to do actions, but it depends upon what type of actions and how you do it. So, when Baba comes, He transforms our household to a pure household. Mama had been saying for a few days that every household has a lot of sorrow, and sorrow is there because there is no purity. So, Baba says, “Connect with Me. When you have a relationship with Me, then there will not be sorrow.” We look at our lives before, and it was giving and taking sorrow. Now Baba says, “Don’t give sorrow, but also don’t take sorrow.” When there is sorrow, it’s because of some impurity. That is why Baba is saying that the intellect can be clever, but intellect does not need to be clever. You should be of good character. So, Baba comes and transforms our household, because the household begins first with our thoughts and intellect. How the intellect is thinking, what is the thinking, and does it have any influence of any vices, or It’s completely pure, innocent?
It is a very beautiful practice for tomorrow. Our homework is to look at our pure household and especially on Sunday at every center. We have to make bhog early, then we have to get together. It’s a big family. Then sharing happens. I know sometimes some mothers come very early to make bhog, especially if there is a big class. So pay attention, listen and practice, and see what all your new experiences are. Sometimes we feel like we came to Baba not knowing that there will be such a big household. How big is our world family today? It’s unlimited and it’s increasing day by day with more and more family members. Baba says that all of you have received a household that is pure activity from the Father. Anything we do, we say that it is Baba’s task. Baba is talking about pure thoughts. The activity of intellect is to have pure thoughts. The action of your words is to relate what you have heard from the Father. Our vocabulary is what Baba speaks, that is our dictionary. Other words that we speak are not necessarily pure words. So Baba says that the activity of karma is to perform every action as a karma Yogi, and that is a pure household. It’s a new definition.
Baba says to be detached and lovely like a lotus flower, and to reveal the Father’s elevated task through your every action, through your elevated actions. To perform every action and divine activity, if you really want to see Baba’s magic, Baba’s miracles, what Baba does, our activity has to be divine, and then Baba performs. Do not be very clever but have a character that also is divine. Only then you will be called a karma yogi. We thought any action we do, even washing pots, cleaning something, is a divine action. It’s an action and we have to make it a divine action. I remember once we had a VIP program at Peace Village. So we had offered participants the kitchen, and if they wanted to help cleaning tables and washing pots, so 23 decided to come. After that, there was a small dining room, and we had a birthday for one of the sevadharis. So we had cake cutting, singing. dancing, so those who were washing pots and dishes we had to call them. These 23 guests became part of that. They were so happy. So the next day in the program, they were sharing how fortunate they were to celebrate this birthday. They felt that if you become part of the family, then you should go and offer your help and cooperation because it’s not just go and eat and come back without doing anything. There are some who have this feeling they must go do something. In Madhuban, in the early morning hours, everyone goes to cut vegetables or help in making breakfast or something. So karma yogi is a divine character. In the pure family, they’re called karma yogi. I like this definition because I love to do karma yoga, and now the way Baba is defining it, it is making it better and richer because every day, every time when we eat, we have to do something, whatever we can do. So that kind of participation, getting the title of karma yogi is called having a pure family.
Om Shanti
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