by winston » Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:50 pm
Why should youth take to service actively? How should we ascribe success or failure in any action we take?
The age span, 16-30 years, is crucial, for that is the period when life adds sweetness to itself, when talents, skills and attitudes are accumulated, sublimated and sanctified.
If the tonic of unselfish seva (service) is administered to the mind during this period, life’s mission is fulfilled, for the process of sublimation and sanctification will be accelerated by this tonic.
Do not serve for the sake of reward, attracting attention, or earning gratitude or from a sense of pride at your own superiority in skill, wealth, status or authority.
Serve because you are urged by love. When you succeed, ascribe the success to the grace of the Divine, who urged you on, as Love within you.
When you fail, ascribe the failure to your own inadequacy, insincerity or ignorance.
Examine the springs of action, disinfect them from all traces of ego. Do not throw the blame on the recipients of the seva or on your collaborators and coworkers, or on Him.
- Divine Discourse, May 19, 1969
Man should serve and worship Him when he is walking on two feet; he should not postpone it to old age when he is virtually walking on three feet.
Source: radiosai.org
It's all about "how much you made when you were right" & "how little you lost when you were wrong"