Different Aspects of Service
If a person truly wishes to serve the Mission and wants its good, wants
it to grow, wants it to expand, not out of personal egoistic tendencies but
out of that immense gratitude that what I have received, others too must receive,
then there are other ways of serving the Mission. It is like a river, which
flows from the Himalayas down to the sea. We are permitted to take that much
of water that we need, but we cannot dam up the river at our door-step in
a selfish manner, because the river must flow and if you dam it up, the river
starts stinking because it is now stagnant. Life must flow, rivers must flow.
Here too, the good of the Mission means service must flow out of the heart
of every abhyasi. The right aspect of service, service without bias, service
without preference, service without seeking rewards is important. I emphasize
this point particularly because very often we have abhyasis coming to us,
coming to Master Himself, saying, "Babuji, I wish to offer my services to
the Mission." And while their offers are very sincere and very genuine, they
are somewhat premature because the concept of service is not properly understood
and there are yet differences in our minds of what types of service
we shall offer, how that service should be accepted, and in what
form that service should be remunerated. Only when all these three aspects
which are lying dormant in our minds (not really dormant but suppressed by
us because we wish to appear sincere, we wish to appear spiritual, and therefore
they are kept dormant, hidden from the Master, as they think but only really
hidden from themselves) are understood and sublimated, are we ready for real
service. Now it is only when this three-fold idea of qualities of service
etc, disappear from our minds, that the Sadhaka becomes a true Sevaka.
There is a difference between a sadhaka(one who does practice) and
a sevaka(one who does service). A sadhaka does for himself, while
a sevaka does for the Master. |
