Service is God. Why has God endowed man with a body, a mind and an intellect ? Feel with the mind, plan with the intelligence and use the body to serve those who are in need of service. Offer that act of service to God; worship home with that Flower. |
Service is greater than meditation. |
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss. |
Service is your only duty. |
Service springs out of LOVE and it scatters LOVE in profusion. |
Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible. |
Share your joy, your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace. |
Silence is the speech of the spiritual seeker. |
SILENCE, Cleanliness and Forbearance. In Silence can be heard the Voice of God, not in the revelry of noise. Through Cleanliness, you earn purity. |
Since at this place, those who have devotion have gathered and people of all nations have come, I cannot but tell you one fact. |
Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes. |
Since I know the past, the background, My reaction is different. If only you knew, you too will react differently. It is the consequences of the evil, deliberately done in the previous births, and so I have to allow the suffering to continue, modified often by some little compensation. I do not cause either joy or grief; you are the designer of both the chains. |
Since I move about with you, eat like you, and talk with you, you are deluded in the belief that this is but an instance of common humanity. Be warned against this mistake. I am also deluding you by My singing with you, talking with you, and engaging Myself in activities with you. But, any movement, My Divinity may be revealed to you; you have to be ready, prepared for that moment. |
Skill, Knowledge must develop by balance into skill or else it degenerates into KILL. |
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. |