Selfless Service

大爱真情

Seva (selfless service) is an integral part of spiritual discipline at the Ashrams based on Aghoreshwar's teachings.

The following nuggets of teaching are taken from the discourses of Aghoreshwar Baba Bhagwan Ramji.

I looked for God in temples, in scriptures, in the places of pilgrimages, in rituals, in chanting and singing holy names. I found God flowing into the tears of the wretched and poor.

What will we do with spiritual powers? Do we want to use them to chastise someone, or do something else with them? What else will we do? Do we build palaces, do we build kingdoms, and what will we do? No. Achieving those powers we should be able to help those beings who are in dire need of livelihood or those who are in complete darkness beset by every kind of sorrow and pain. And to provide that help, too, we need that grace, or we will not even be able to recognize these things (people in need).

The man who performs good deeds without expectation of recognition is immensely fortunate. On the other hand, the man who is desirous of recognition is unfortunate. He sells off his precious pious deeds for a trifle.

Working for social welfare and fulfillment of appropriate social goals is a great service to the Cosmic Energy. There is no spiritual practice, japa, kirtan (chanting the mantra or the divine name, yoga, knowledge or salvation greater than this.

For serving the welfare of humanity, sacrifice is most essential. It should be pure and enlightened, which does not run after beauty even unwittingly or forgetfully. O, mortal, quite to the contrary, beauty and love chase sacrifice.