Love All Serve All

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Love All Serve All

 

God is Love and can be won only through the cultivation and exercise

of Love. He cannot be trapped by any trick; He yields Grace only

when His commands are followed - command to love all, serve all.

When you love and serve all, you are serving yourself most, yourself

whom you love most! For God's Grace envelops you then and you are

strengthened beyond all previous experience. Let all days of living

be a continuos offering of Love, as an oil lamp exhausts itself in

illumining the surroundings. Bend the body, mend the senses and end

the mind - that is the process of attaining the status of 'children

of immortality', which the Upanishads have reserved for man.

 

God is the embodiment of sweetness. Attain Him by offering Him, who

resides in all, the sweetness that He has dowered on you. Crush the

cane in the mill of Seva, boil it in the cauldron of penitence;

decolorize it of all sensual itch; offer the crystallized sugar of

compassionate Love to Him.

 

Seva (service) brings out all that is great in man. It broadens the

heart and widens ones vision. It fills one with joy. It promotes

unity. It proclaims the truth of the spirit. It drives out all evil

qualities in a man. It must be regarded as a great spiritual

discipline. You are born to serve, not to dominate. Everyone in the

world is a servant and not a master. All relationships - husband and

wife, mother and child, the employer and employee - are based on

mutual service. The world is progressing because of such mutual

service. Seva should be done out of a sense of duty.

 

The body has been given to man for the performance of right action.

Every person has to discharge his duties in life. It is a sin to

ignore one's duties. Perform you duties without regard to what

others say or do. Engage yourself in service activity. Consider

social service as service to God. To earn the Love of God, this is

the easiest way. The best way to love God is to love all and serve

all. Your entire life sanctified thereby.

 

Devotion consists in expressing love towards all. You cannot effect

a change of heart by speeches. They often lead to confusion and

conflict. Better than speeches is practice of love with faith in the

divine. Follow the path of love and redeem your love.

 

Man knows that God is the very embodiment of love. Only through the

cord of love can God be bound. But it is only when love is for

love's sake that this cord can bind God to man. If love is motivated

by desire for worldly objects, God will be beyond our reach. You

must become embodiments of love. If you are merely loving, your love

will be confined to a few. Only when you become the embodiment of

love can your love comprehend all. Only then you will realize that

it is the same God who is the indweller in all beings.

 

We owe a debt of gratitude to the Divine who has not only endowed us

with this precious human body but which also sustains it. We shall

be able to enjoy these gifts of the Divine only if we discharge this

debt to the Divine. How is this to be done? It is by rendering

service to other bodies saturated with the same Divine, by doing

righteous deeds and consecrating all actions in the service of the

society. This debt to the Divine has to be discharged in full in

this life itself or during many future lives. The earlier we repay

this debt, the sooner we shall realize Divinity.

 

It is needless to search for God. Verily you are the Divine. Strive

to realize this Truth. There is a simple and easy way. Have faith

that every human being is an embodiment of the Divine. Love every

one. Serve all. The best way to God is to LOVE ALL, SERVE ALL.

 

Ref: Divine Discourses:

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1989 |Nov 20, 1990 |14 Jan 1995|

 

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