You have been shown the path - don't wait to be carried down it.

You have been shown the path - don't wait to be carried down it.

"You have now been shown the path. It isn’t that He will hold your hand and take you with Him. You are not blind; you have eyes. Yes, you have each received a third eye of knowledge." Sakar murli, revised 25.08.15

So many times Baba says "Give your cares to me" or "Rest in My lap" or "I will carry you on my eyelids home" - such sweet words.  We get lulled into thinking we don't have to do anything - Baba does it all.  These words are precious and they are meant to uplift when we are feeling disheartened. 

Then there are words like in today's murli (see above) where Baba is requiring us to make the effort.  And we are a little shocked.  Where is Baba?Why isn't He helping?  I'm a yogi now, why are things suddenly difficult?  

It reminds me of a swimming lesson where I learned an important realization.  I was in the lesson and we were all standing in the middle of the pool, right near the place where the shallow end suddenly drops into the deep end.  I had lost my footing in the water and couldn't get back to the shallow side.  I started panicking and calling out for help.  The teacher was ignoring me!  I continued to struggle, I couldn't understand why she wouldn't help.  I kept clawing at the water but I couldn't get my footing.  Finally, she lifted me up and set me firmly on the shallow side.  Then she reprimanded me, "What's the matter with you, Heather?  Don't you know that you can swim?"  She was right;  I could swim.  But in that panic, I forgot I had that ability.  It didn't even occur to me to swim out of the situation.  I was still in the mindset that I needed an adult for safety.  I was limiting myself.

These words of Baba's are not meant to sound as if He's abandoning us.  He's shown us the path, He's given us knowledge, He continues to do so every day.  He's encouraging us now to use what He's given.  He's reminding us of what we have so that we stop placing limits on ourselves.  

It can sometimes be a difficult transition for a toddler - you get carried everywhere, you have the comfort of the pram.  You're excited about learning to walk, but you don't realize that learning to walk means less time being carried, less time in the pram.  It can seem a bit like a punishment.  As one grows and develops new skills, certain comforts are no longer needed.  Baba is not abandoning us, but He is insisting that we grow up!  ;)  

Om shanti.

Teachers, Students and Truth

From a Blessing:May you be a true server who directs everyone towards the Bestower through your every deed and speciality.True servers will not trap anyone in themselves after giving them co-operation. They will forge everyone’s connection with the Father. Their every word will remind others of the Father. The Father will be visible through their every deed. They would never even think that someone co-operates with them because of their own speciality. If others see you and not the Father, then you have not done service, for you have made them forget the Father. True servers will forge everyone’s relationship with the Truth and not with themselves.

The blessing in a recent murli gave important reminders in two ways.  

First is the more obvious - "True servers will forge everyone's relationship with the Truth and not with themselves."  It's possible that in the teacher-student relationship that attachments will form.  But the role of the teacher is to pass on knowledge and teach the student to discern and understand that knowledge - not to make the student dependent upon themselves.  The teacher has to take the responsibility to keep this line clear.  To cross it, time is wasted - nothing is accumulated and there is a loss for both student and teacher.  

Likewise, for each of us as a life student of Baba's, we have to make sure we don't cross the line as a student.  It's so easy to have our 'favourites' - those teachers we want to hear murli from, those whose every word we hang on.  Baba can work through any teacher - and so where is our trust when we say, 'I can not learn anything from this one" or "I can only learn from that one"?  

Having been guilty of this myself, drama has pushed me into situations where I'm learning from those I didn't expect to.  It's a beautiful thing to have a great realization from the most unexpected of places.  Can I really say I know better than God who should be teaching me?  And so I'm learning to appreciate that service from all of Baba's children and not just "my chosen few".  

Each of Baba's children is making that special effort to serve, to give knowledge, to give a drop to the thirsty.  But if we are stubborn about who we learn from, we will miss out on so many jewels.

Om shanti.