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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.
- Divine Discourse, November 21st, 1986. |