Sai Darshan News letter - Swami's discourse

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Sai Darshan News letter - Swami's discourse

Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:33:58 +0530

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HELP EVER, HURT NEVER

Everyone should act up to the motto: Help Ever, Hurt Never.

Every educated person should engage himself or herself in selfless service to

society with humility and a pure heart. All academic distinctions or even

observance of spiritual practices are of no use if there is no love in the

heart. Love and compassion are inherent in every person. Each has to share this

love with others. Failure to share one's love is gross ingratitude to society,

to which one owes everything. One should give one's love freely to others and

receive love in return. This is the deep significance of human life.

To purify the mind, one should nurture noble and sacred thoughts of service to

others. One who does not hurt anybody and has feelings of love and compassion

to fellow beings is the greatest of men. That is why sage Vyasa gave the

essence of the eighteen Puranas (scriptures) in the aphorism: Help Ever, Hurt

Never.

Help rendered, however small, if it comes from the deeper urges of service

welling in the heart is as good as the offer of life itself.

Look about for chances to relieve, rescue or resuscitate. Train yourselves that

you may render help quickly and well. Seva is the most paying form of

austerity, the most satisfying and the most pleasurable. It springs out of Love

and scatters Love in profusion. To help the helpless is the only way to please

Him, to follow and reach Him.

Serve people with no thought of high or low; no Seva is high, no Seva is low,

each act of Seva is equal in the eye of the Lord. It is the readiness, the joy,

the efficiency, and the skill with which you rush to do it that matters. Train

yourselves to serve God by serving man, in whom there is God installed in the

heart. Convince yourself that the seva of man is worship of God.

Efforts to serve must spring from agony at the suffering of others and the

service must be genuine effort to get rid of that anguish. Do not worry about

the result. Help as much as you can, as efficiently as you can, as silently as

you can, as lovingly as you can, leave the rest to God, who gave you the chance

to server.

You should make every effort to avoid harming others in any circumstance. You

are only hurting yourself when you hurt others. You should not use harsh words.

When you develop human values, you can be free from diseases and even enjoy good

health with God's Grace.

Ahimsa, the virtue of non-violence involves much more than abstention from

injuring living beings. One should desist from causing pain to any living being

not only by his deeds but even by his words and even in his thoughts. One should

not entertain any idea of hurting or humiliating another.

Service to man will help your divinity to bloom, for it will gladden your heart

and make you feel that life has been worthwhile. Service to man is service to

God. For He is in every man and every living being and in every stone and

stump. Offer your talents at the Feet of God; let every act be a flower, free

from creeping worms of envy and egoism and full of fragrance of love and

sacrifice. If you have the talent, use it for the glorification of God and do

it by uplifting man. A manishi (ordinary man) gets transformed into Maharishi

(sage) by engaging in selfless service.

You have to transform your life through service. You should give no room for

arrogance or self-interest to the slightest extent in your service activities.

Install in your heart the feeling that the service you render to anyone is

service to God. Only then does service to man become service to Madhava.

Hence you should scrupulously follow the maxim:

HELP EVER, HURT NEVER.

Ref: Divine Discourses:

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