The
following was published in the
Krupa
Darshan, October 2003
SEVA
Seva
could be precisely called as a Spiritual
Action born out of compassion to serve
others. If we observe God’s creations,
man has been bestowed with certain
unique qualities, which would naturally
help him to evolve into a higher self.
One amidst such rare benediction is that
“Man” can naturally feel
for another man. But today’s man has
lost touch with this natural quality of
his, due to many factors beyond his
control. By doing Seva in any form, man
can discover this hidden virtue of
Compassion, which is presently dormant
within him.
The
essence of “Seva” is “Sacrifice”.
This sacrifice could be of any kind, but
a Sevak must undergo some hardship while
rendering Seva. If we closely watch how
this nature works, we can actually see
that there is a Bhavana of Seva between
one element of nature with the another.
To elucidate further, take the case of
clouds, they yield to the natural
process of turning from vapor to water
just to quench the thirsting species
down on this earth. Given a choice they
could have still preferred to be up over
there, undergoing no hardship and
sacrifice for someone else’s benefit.
Similarly flowers containing nectar and
inherent fragrance yield themselves to
the honeybees for their survival. Thus
we can see on one hand that God has
created everything with an underlying
principle of Seva accompanied by
Sacrifice. But today’s man has gone far
away from this unwritten law of
creations. He neither believes in
sacrifice, nor is he willing to undergo
any hardship for someone else’s
betterment. All this pursuits are
self-centered. This is the reason he
finds himself very lonely and even the
nature does not co-operate with him in
his endeavours. If at all he wishes to
mend his ways in order to bring
happiness and joy into his life, he must
start doing seva passionately. To begin
with, he can help his co-human beings.
Eventually he would evolve himself to
realise the supreme truth of this
creation.
Sri
Kalki
says
“Man has to move from Passion to
Compassion”. According to Him,
Passion is to feel for one’s own
suffering and Compassion is to see
other’s suffering as your own. When
compassion is put to action Seva
Occurs.
Today’s Man has to realise that he is
karmically related to every other human
being of this whole universe and not
just to himself or to his family. When a
stone is thrown into a pond, it creates
ripples in the entire pond. Similarly,
what affects one human in one part of
our Globe affects the entire human race.
It is our sheer ignorance that we still
cannot come out of our belief in
Individual Karma Theory while it is a
well-acclaimed truth that we are
inter-dependent for our survival. We
have from time to time, played directly
or indirectly some role, which is
capable of creating a significant impact
on the life of some other human being,
somewhere else. For instance we have
intruded upon the lives of tribal and
migrated into their livelihood causing
untold hardship to them. In this way we
have been instrumental in affecting the
entire human race, over a period of
time, by our thoughts, words and deeds.
Hence we must elevate our understanding
and realise that we are a part of the
entire human race on this Planet Earth.
Each one of us is also sharing the
karmic effects of the entire human race.
This higher understanding about our own
life vis-ŕ-vis Karmic principles would
naturally inspire us to serve the
suffering humanity.
The
Spiritual Avatars in the form of
Amma and Bhagavan have been
working tirelessly to help humanity by
bringing joy and happiness into
everyone’s life. They say that they have
not come to help humanity but rather
themselves. It is true that they have
been experiencing the suffering of every
single soul in this Planet earth every
second. Hence a devotee doing any form
of Seva for humanity would naturally
bring joy to Amma and Bhagavan
and would go closer to Them.
Hence
the devotees of this Dharma have taken
upon themselves the responsibilities of
serving this humanity and we invite each
one of you, as a passive reader, to
contemplate on the above truths and join
hands with us. This will also be a
natural way for us to show our
Gratitude to Amma Bhagavan for
whatever They have done for us in our
lives.
No
one becomes a Sevak by training.
Sri Kalki and Amma say, “Every
Cultivated Virtue is a Vice”,
meaning, we cannot cultivate the virtue
of Seva into anyone. The Seva
Bhavana arises naturally from a
flowered heart having deep compassion to
serve the suffering humanity. This is
the need of the hour if we have to save
this humanity from further untold
suffering of every kind. There is no
hope for this Planet to survive if we do
not arise now and discover the joy of
Seva.
Today
Amma and Bhagavan expect only two forms
of Seva from every human being –
-
Get yourself Enlightened and come
out of your own internal suffering
and enrich yourself.
-
Inspire every other human being to
get Enlightened and come out of
their own suffering.
This
is the best form of Seva that we can do
today to bring Joy and Happiness
to Amma and Bhagavan as they
fulfill Their Divine Intentions of
Liberating every human soul from every
form of suffering.
Om Tat Sat
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