21 Nov 1981

There were various very beautiful, colourful birds on that tree. Each one was sitting on its own branch. Some birds would come flying and sit on Father's fingers. Some just sat at a distance and met Him through their eyes and were happy with just that. those birds wouldn’t come. Although they had wings and were flapping those wings, they were still clutching onto the branches so tightly with their claws that they were unable to fly and come closer. What happened then? Even though they wanted to, they weren’t able to fly. They began to call out with a lot of love, “Father, Father!” They said, “Make us fly! Make us fly!”, and then they said, “Free us! Free us!” Father said: “Instead of saying, “Free us! Free us!” just let go and become free!” Ask yourself to what extent you have made firm for yourself the lesson of “Let go and become free”. “When you yourself let go, you can become free.” The situations are not going to go away, you yourself have to let go and become free. Even if other souls come into conflict with you because of personality, remember that you will only become free when you let go. Don’t think that when the other person stops creating conflict, you will become free, no! If you believe that you can only become free when that person lets go, then, when that conflict ends, another one will start. For how long are you going to keep waiting for the other person to let go, so that you can become free?  

If you hold onto any branch, you are unable to have an experience of the closeness of constantly dancing on the Father’s finger, of constantly moving along with the support of the finger of the Father's directions. You won’t be able to co-operate in every task of the Father’s, that is, you won’t be able to dance on His shoulders. One is to be constantly co-operative and the other is sometimes to be co-operative and at other times to be separated from the Father. Why? It is because, instead of co-operating, you become separated from the Father by clutching onto one of those branches. Now, ask yourself: Who am I? Do you understand? What lesson have you made firm today? “Let go and become free?