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SERVICE IS THE ONLY CONCERN OF THE SERF
and purity in action. Then we find our Master not far off to be worshipped but close within our heart to be revered and honored.
In the scheme of things as we understand now, we all have a role to fulfil, a task to accomplish. We have a service to offer designed by the very nature of our existence. Since this work is the expression or outer manifestation of the innermost depth of our being we can become conscious of its definitive nature only when we become conscious of this depth within ourselves. That is the criteria to decide the development of true faith.
True faith in us is brought about within us by a whole series of efforts and inner attitudes. And one of the essential conditions if we want to achieve and maintain within ourselves these attitudes is to devote part of our time each day to impersonal action, every day we must do something useful to others. Until we know the essential thing we are intended to do, we must find a temporary field of action which will be the
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