by winston » Sun Sep 22, 2024 10:39 am
Why should we never give up the path of service and how can we become better at it?
Wherever you may be, render service with all your heart. Consider that in rendering service, you are serving yourselves and not others. That will confer on you self-satisfaction (Atma-trupti).
You must examine whether in doing service, you are deriving self-satisfaction or are you are trying to show off. If there is ostentation in service, no real joy can be experienced from it.
The ego will not go. And without the elimination of the ego, you cannot experience spiritual bliss.
The world situation today is dreadful and frightening. Wherever you turn, fear confronts you. Whether you remain at home or go out into the street, whether you travel by train or walk on the road, fear haunts you. The world is enveloped in fear.
To banish this fear, you must develop firm faith in the Divine as the sole refuge. Shedding all fear, carry on your work with courage and determination and without any worry, plunge into service activities!
- Divine Discourse, Nov 19, 1990.
All service should be regarded as an offering to Him and every opportunity to serve should be welcomed as a gift from Him.
Source: radiosai.org
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