Sacrifice to the sacrificial fire

From Gayathri’s succinct explanation: “Yagya means the whole BK organization. Serving the yagya with body, mind and wealth is encouraged.

Sacrifice oneself to the sacrificial fire- To surrender completely including one’s ego to the yagya. To give one’s bone- To give all one could give.”

It is important to remember that explanation. Every BK follower, should be able to recall that, but also go deeply into the following questions:
Do you surrender to the yagya or to God? Or is God equal to the Yagya? Or perhaps, God belongs to the yagya or vice versa?

Those questions are meaningful.
The yagya, is an entity, an impersonal organization represented by “employees”. That is, other BK followers. AKA “family.” Observe how the use of words change our perception.

For most Bks, the Yagya doesn’t go further than the center which they attend.
Basically, this type of “surrendering” will not go further than that. Their type of surrendering will be the one of the dictionary: “To cease opposition and submit to their authority.”

This system of “surrendering” is traditionally used by gurus, so the follower could recognize fully that which we call “I.” However, when this surrendering is used by an organization, many “problems” could occur. For instance, abusive behavior.
The same could happen with a guru. Unless he is a self-realized being.
That is the “gamble” but at the end, is all good. We will learn valuable experiences.

I recall one of the messages that Brahma Baba had given me through my sister, while she was having an amrit vela in Madhuban: “Surrender your ego to Baba.”
Now, looking back; I could see the meaning of this. It is not to surrender my material wealth or health in the name of some ideal or to submit to an authority. But that was to open up to that which I felt I loved the most: God.

That surrender is only possible through the process of observation which I did not have before.  We will need to find that which we call ego within ourselves.

Life experiences brought that into my awareness.

When we are beginners in the path of “spirituality”, we only interpret words as if the meaning of them was in the dictionary. They are not. They are only pointers.
Because for me now, to surrender means to open up. To surrender means to become aware of that which is an obstacle, a separation between that “me” and everything else.

We will not find that “opening up” and “surrendering” are synonyms in the dictionary.
In “spirituality” acceptance is equal to surrendering, and perhaps a more accurate word to use.

Giving your bones for the Yagya

The Sakar Murli does a very good job in cheering up and even motivating the BK follower, into a particular behavior, a path.
However, extremes are known in its interpretation. A follower who is eager to belong, to be recognized or even to believe in earning a better place in the after life, will do what is necessary in his mind, to comply. Sometimes, compliance has been equated with taking his own life.

“Giving your bones to the Yagya” is such a bright example.
The “Yagya” is one of those words which every BK knows what it is, but no one could be specific about it. “The Yagya” is open to interpretation and thus, extremes.

The “sacrificial fire” ( as yagya is commonly translated) could be anything. However, it is important to notice that “sacrifice” of any kind does not add up to “spiritual enlightenment,” on the contrary, it is a sign of trouble, repression.
“Love” being the magic word, is not sacrifice.

“Love” is hard to understand when there is lack of experience. When someone is controlled by his own mind; the next best thing is “sacrifice.”

All I could share is that there is no ideal in the BK system which is worth for someone to sacrifice his own life.

Our lives are sacred. Ideals are only inventions of the mind.