MAKING AN UNBREAKABLE CONNECTION WITH

THE SUPREME
How can we keep our connection with the Supreme constant, unbreakable,
and unshakeable? I am sure all of us feel the joy of not just knowing God but
making that relationship a deep experience, and also experiencing ourselves
as peaceful beings. As spiritual beings playing our roles through this
corporeal medium, we express our personality and feelings of joy and
happiness of what we have understood of the knowledge. I am sure all of us
have recognized that which is considered the most difficult thing in the
world. It is the topic of great discussion but not many are able to recognize
and realize the Supreme Father, our Supreme Parent, and our relationship
with Him. We know the soul and the Supreme Soul are eternal, and
therefore our relationship with Him is also eternal. However, this is the
information we forget the most.

On the path of devotion, either in India or elsewhere, people have a lot of

faith in God, but we are neither conscious of the fact that we are human
souls nor of our relationship with the Supreme Soul. Therefore, we barely
experience the benefit we could derive from that relationship. We
continually remember and pray to the Supreme and beg from Him on the
path of devotion. However, when we learn who we are, who God is, and the
deep relationship we have with each other, we begin to communicate with
God and stop begging. We become God’s heirs and recognize our right to
the inheritance from the Supreme Father, just as we receive an inheritance
from our physical parents.

In India, very sweet words are used to address the Supreme: Most Beloved
Father, Supreme Father. As He is the Father of all souls, He bestows that
which only He can bestow. He is the bestower of all the treasures, which the
soul aspires to attain: the invaluable treasure of constant peace, constant
happiness, constant creativity etc. The moment you realize that you are a
spiritual being expressing yourself through the physical costume, a lamp
gets lit and dispels the darkness. The soul exists separately from the body
and when it inhabits a body it is known as ‘jeev atma’, or ‘soul in life’. We
have become more conscious of the physical being and thus forgotten our
real self, the spiritual being,

When we receive this knowledge, we put little effort into detaching ourselves
from the physical body; this effort is not new to us as we do it every day
when we go to sleep. When ‘I’ the soul become tired and don’t want to
perform actions, I detach myself and that detachment is called going to
sleep. There too you are still present, you are the observer in sleep. When
you get up the next morning, you share your experience, ‘I had a very
refreshing sleep’ or ‘I dreamt a lot’. So who was the observer? It was the
self, the soul. ‘I’ was observing my own dreams and actions, and experience
the result of my actions.

We celebrate our birthdays - the birthday of the physical form - but where
was ‘I’ before this? Bearing this in mind, we are reminded that all humans
descended to this world. We used to hear about religious founders
descending to give their message, but we never bothered to think whether
we too came from somewhere else. We now receive the knowledge that all
of us belong to the sweet home of silence. We have all come down from the
place where our spiritual father, the Supreme Father - the only one who is
always incorporeal - dwells. When we wish to communicate with Him He
tells us to be soul-conscious again and think of our relationship with Him.

Whilst interpreting the Gita scripture in India, most philosophers, yogis, and
scholars, mention our relationship with God. There is a wonderful quote
where God is said to be the Supreme Mother and Father, Brother, Teacher,
and Guru. We can establish all relations with the Supreme, provided we are
able to rise above the name and form of the physical costume. This is only
possible, as we practice here, in silence. We withdraw from the external,
although we continue to communicate with each other through vibrations,
knowing that we are communicating soul to soul. This allows us to help each
other when we sit together to experience our closeness to the Supreme and
the love, power, and peace He bestows. In this effort, we recognize that we
inherit these qualities from God being His children.

His qualities are ocean-like and we begin to feel that although we are
separate entities, we too have part of that divinity in us as human souls. We
experience ourselves as being peaceful, loving, and blissful as the children of
the Ocean of Peace, Love, and Bliss - like Father, like Son. I can maintain
this consciousness, appreciate it from the heart, and communicate my
experience with the Supreme Being.

We are used to calling out to the Supreme Father. In India, we say ‘Baba’ or
‘Papa’ for Father. In the temples where God is worshipped as light, Shiva,
people call Him Shiv Baba. There are twelve special places in India,
including Benaras and Gujarat, where God is worshipped in the form of light,
as a stone image or Shivalingam. Here, we address God as 'Shiv Baba', and
it is said with much sweetness: “O Sweet Father, O Baba! What a wonderful
thing to happen in my life! First of all to understand myself and then You,
and to know that I am closely related to You, the Ocean of Love, Peace, and
Bliss. As your child, I am your heir; I receive these qualities as an inheritance
and become very peaceful, loving, and blissful.”

As you think over these words, try to experience them and you will discover
that this is your true self and true nature; these are the real qualities of the
self. It is a process of uncovering that which has been covered by ignorance.
Knowledge and wisdom is light, ignorance is darkness. Light the lamp and
be conscious; think of yourself as a spiritual being; you belong to the
Supreme and you will become the image and embodiment of purity, peace,
love, bliss, and wisdom. If you can maintain this awareness, the intensity of
the experience will continue to increase and you become very powerful
inside. This will be something new, beautiful, and worthwhile to rediscover.
You will want to become this. You begin to appreciate it because it is what
we were before and what we lost. When we were in that form, it was
paradise for us; when we lost it, we also lost paradise.

This is my experience of 50 years as a yogi. I came to the Brahma Kumaris

Raj Yoga centre in Bombay to learn meditation. On my fourth day as a
student, I had a very deep experience by just having the thought: ‘I am a
pure and peaceful soul and I belong to the Supreme Father’. By simply
repeating it twice or thrice in my mind, I went into the experience. It was a
very subtle and divine experience of self- and God-realization. I was totally
beyond this world. There was a complete, inner awakening to the realization
of my true self as being blissful and positive.

The year was 1959, and I decided to come to Madhuban in the same year.
When I came in July, I had the fortune of meeting Brahma Baba. No words
were spoken initially at that first meeting; I just sat in silence in front of him.
I had the same experience that I had had on my fourth day in this
knowledge. I saw a bright glow of light on Brahma Baba’s forehead and I felt
I wasn’t a physical being; it was as though I had a costume of light. He
looked like an angel.

It was the most valuable experience of my life. I was able to visualize the
presence of the Supreme. This made the whole atmosphere so spiritually-
charged that it brought out the best in me. Similar experiences happen
when we go to a church, or temple or a place where nature is pure; our own
real nature emerges and can have a very deep impact. During those
moments of silence, my heart felt deep peace and bliss. I decided then that
every single human soul needed this experience. If we all experienced this,
all problems of the world would be solved; if we could live by this experience,
there would be no conflict or sorrow.
It is not difficult to meditate. Rise above the physical and have a very clear
communication with the Supreme. All that we have to use is our mind and
intellect, and then later add the emotional part of our personality. We
communicate through vibrations and have the experience of this direct
guidance through intuition or ‘touchings’. When we maintain an interest in
communicating with Him, the recognition of God and benefits received from
Him become clear in our minds.

In our worldly interactions, we always look up to a person who can help us

and give us what we need. Although we had everything (physically), there
was no one who could give us what was needed spiritually. Only the
Supreme Father can fulfill this need. We have to understand that we should
not look up to God in fear, as we have learned throughout our lives. God
says, if you fear Me you can never come close to Me. Have love for God,
love yourself and love everyone; this is the secret of meditation. This guides
our mind to focus on the positive qualities of the self, other souls, and the
Supreme Being.

In meditation, we have to avoid what we were doing in our prayers. I don’t

know about the rest of the world but when we pray in India, we praise God so
much, ‘the Highest on High, Lord of Lords’, but refer to the self as ‘the lowest
of the low, sinners’. This is why we have remained distant from God and
have been unable to take the benefits of a close relationship with our
Supreme Father. Instead of fearing God, we should be aware of our
personal, spiritual relationship – the eternal relationship - and emerge the
child within us.

Everyone says we should not forget the child in us, however, as adults we
are so body-conscious that we can hardly imagine ourselves as children. The
easiest way to bring out the child in us is to consider ourselves to be the
spiritual child of the Supreme Soul. This will forge an unbreakable
connection between the Supreme and us. How can a child remain absent in
the heart and mind of the parent and vice versa? God says, “This
relationship can be experienced provided you become my worthy children”;
worthiness comes by following His guidance.

Whenever you meditate, first think you are going to do something very
pleasant and fruitful for yourself and the world – this will bring a smile to
your face. When you do something good you smile, and the smile removes
the burden of negativity on your head; you become light and refreshed.
Whenever you met someone great, you feel good and the one you are going
to meet is God, the Highest and Greatest being.
Think of Him as your Father and Mother and you will experience both
greatness and closeness. A child wants to be close to its parents. God says,
“My sweet children, whilst playing your roles in this world you might have
done good things or not such good things. You may even have done bad
things but don’t worry. You are my children and no matter what you are, you
are mine.” He wants to accept us as we are. However, He then adds, “From
now on, be soul-conscious and remain linked with Me so that you become
like Me.” Are we ready to do this, would you like to do it?

Every parent likes obedience in a child and this is the simplest way to remain
linked and in tune with the Supreme. Consequently, we will have good
experiences in life provided we accept ourselves for who we really are and
accept the one to whom we eternally belong. This acceptance has to be
based on knowledge. Although we had faith previously, we now have
knowledge along with faith and therefore are not victims of blind faith.
Remember God as His child and not as His devotee since devotees never try
to improve; they continue to commit wrong acts and then go to church to
confess. A worthy child would always think: “What can I to do to glorify my
parents and not tarnish their name.”

Change takes place in our thoughts, attitude, and vision, and this changes
our attitude towards each other. Instead of looking at the physical form we
begin to see each other as brother souls; this develops natural spiritual love
and a feeling of belonging to each other.

We have all heard the phrase, ‘We are all one family of mankind’. I
remember the Pope said this when he visited India in 1964; I had attended
the Mass he conducted in Bombay. However, people barely recognize the
fact that we all do belong to one family of God. There is no feeling of
belonging because the outlook is not spiritual. With a new spiritual outlook
everything changes and we begin to feel part of one global family. With this
objective in mind, we become worthy children of God and create a better
place to live in. Thus, by just changing our consciousness, we indirectly
become instruments of change for the better and have a tremendous effect
on the entire global atmosphere.