SEVA…
The quickest and easiest way by which one can realize the basic absurdity of attachment is the path of Seva. Pour out love, whether it is returned or not, whether it results in success or not. Let love be ever translated into Seva, into beneficial acts, sweet words of consolation, comfort and courage, and thoughts of sympathy and compassion.
Worship of God in temples and shrines has its place in sanctifying time and sublimating the instincts and impulses. Inquiry into reality has its use in clearing the fog of doubt. But, activity in the shape of Seva charged with love fulfils the aims of all paths to Godhead.
"Sarvathaah paani paadham, sarvathokshi shiro mukham," says the Geetha. "All hands are His, all feet, all eyes and all faces and mouths are His"; He works through all hands, He walks through all feet, He sees through each eye. He eats and speaks through every mouth. Everything is He. Every step is His, every look, every speech, every act is His. That is the lesson that Seva instills.
- From Swami's Divine Discourse on 11th February'1971
Creation involves the putting together of substances. What is put together must come apart, in course of time and get liberated. The individual is created and so he has to disintegrate and die. Now some are born happy, and enjoy healthy, happy lives. Some are born miserable. Others are born without hands or legs, or are feeble-minded or defectives. Who hurt them or injured them? God is proclaimed as just and kind. It can be argued: how can such a God ever be so partial and prejudiced? How can such differential treatment come into the realm ruled by God? Such doubts are natural. But the vision of the sages of ancient India who molded the thought of this land revealed to them that God is not the cause of these differences. They are the consequences of the acts indulged in by the individual in lives previous to the present one. They result in happiness and misery, health and handicaps. Good and bad are self-made, the effects of what was done in previous lives. SATHYA SAI BABA
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