The Power Of Murli

The Power Of Murli

1.                     Can you talk about the importance of the murli?
2.                    How to use murli of our spiritual progress?

Murli is the link of the soul with Supreme Soul. Murli gives us an understanding of God’s Reality. Not just an understanding, but a real experience of it. However, merely listening the words alone, trying to find a stimulus for the intellect, will not create an experience. We have to do something very specific with those words to change them into an experience. We have to use them as a springboard into a different state of consciousness.

How ?

By practicing concentration and acceptance.

What do you mean by ‘concentration’?

        It means no others thoughts allowed, except for those you want to have. No distractions. It means to become absorbed. To make the connection. If you say, ‘I am a soul,’ with understanding, concentration and acceptance, a whole new world opens to you.

So often, students take points from Baba’s Murli and simply repeat them in their minds, mechanically. This makes it like bhakti. Go deep into the experience of, ‘I am a soul, ‘and just see- no matter how many times you say it – there will always be something new . There will be genuine

How can we make that shift? It sounds like you are talking about going from a left to a right brain approach. How to do that?

It is right to say that the intellect has to understand. That’s an important first step. However, next, there has to be a surrendering of the intellect to that understanding, which only happens though love.

So the next step, really, is love. Dadi speaks about ‘bhavna’, which means very deep, pure feelings of love for God. These turn the points into a reality, an experience, because feelings give us something to dive into. If we only remain on the level of understanding then it will be hard to come into an experience.

 Bhavna means feeling of acceptance. Bhavna means feeling of love- for the one giving me all this, for the Truth itself. Without such feeling, the intellect might be attracted, but it will quickly fall into routine. There will be routine listening, Churning, and explaining.

This is why some students have the feeling that baba says the same things every day. This happens because they’ve not lived what He is saying. This is very important. They’ve not lived it because they’ve not loved it. This is not to say that they have never loved it, it’s just that they keep forgetting that every relationship especially with God – has to be cultivated. We have to give it time.

A really key word for Brahmins is, ‘cultivate’. It is better, even, than ‘training’, because ‘cultivating’ implies, ‘over a long period of time’. We have to give time to God, if we want the relationship to go deeper. Just as drinking water is an on-going requirement, no matter how much we have already drunk, so it is with our relationship with God. We have to give it our attention and time in an ongoing way. However, this we forget to do. Not purposefully, of course. Every Brahmin would only want to be cultivating their relationship with God. However, it is as if ‘being ordinary’ still has a grater pull and so we lapse into ordinariness a going and aging. This is why Baba says, ‘Don’t be ordinary.’ He says, ‘Always see the wonder of what is happening to you  ...keep seeing this on a daily basis.’ After all, it is the Confluence Age. It is blessed time………….