Convince yourselves that life cannot continue long without others serving you and you serving others. Master-servant, ruler-ruled, guru-disciple, employer-employee, parents-children, all these are bound by mutual service. Every one is a servitor. The farmer and labourer whom you serve produce by their toil your food and clothing as their service to you. Remember that the body, with its senses-mind-brain complex has been awarded to you to be used for helping the helpless. Service is the highest of path of devotion which wins the Grace of God. It promotes mental purity, diminishes egoism, and through sympathetic understanding, enables one to experience the unity of mankind.
You must cultivate charity, which does not mean giving some money to a person in need or to an organization. Charity calls for the removal of all evil thoughts that are within you and development of a largeness of spirit....When you look around today you find that there is little evidence of sacrifice for the sake of society. A person may call oneself a great devotee, or spiritual aspirant or a scientist, but without a spirit of sacrifice there is nothing great in the person. Seva (service) is the salt which lends savour to life. The spirit of sacrifice imparts fragrance to living. One may live for 60, 70, or 80 years but it will have no meaning unless his/her life has been devoted to the ennobling of one's character and rendering devoted service to others. What you must aspire for are not buildings, positions or factories and industries; a good character is the greatest wealth you can acquire.
You must cultivate charity, which does not mean giving some money to a person in need or to an organization. Charity calls for the removal of all evil thoughts that are within you and development of a largeness of spirit....When you look around today you find that there is little evidence of sacrifice for the sake of society. A person may call oneself a great devotee, or spiritual aspirant or a scientist, but without a spirit of sacrifice there is nothing great in the person. Seva (service) is the salt which lends savour to life. The spirit of sacrifice imparts fragrance to living. One may live for 60, 70, or 80 years but it will have no meaning unless his/her life has been devoted to the ennobling of one's character and rendering devoted service to others. What you must aspire for are not buildings, positions or factories and industries; a good character is the greatest wealth you can acquire.
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