The
Importance of Service
Today,
we are confronted everywhere by statistics parading quantities and reports in
glowing terms. Do not bother about adding to the number or achieving a target.
I value quality, not quantity. Genuine and intensive devoted service offered in
a few spots or villages is more fruitful than superficial service offered to a
large number. Convince yourselves that life cannot continue long without others
serving you and you serving others. Every relationship - be it master-servant,
ruler-ruled, guru-disciple, employer-employee, or parents-children and so on -
is bound by mutual service.
Everyone
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 paths of Devotion which wins the Grace of God. Service promotes
mental purity, diminishes egoism and enables one to experience, through
empathetic understanding, the unity of mankind.
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