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SERVICE IS THE ONLY CONCERN OF THE SERF
and enters into His boundless being. Such a one performs all his actions as service to the Lord.
Our prayer then may take the form 'O Lord! Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in Thy service and give me the strength to surrender my strength to Thy will with love!' If we want to be a true worker for the divine or render service to the Master then our first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self-regarding ego. All our life must be an offering and a sacrifice to the Supreme; our only object in action shall be to serve, to become a manifesting instrument of the Divine Master or the Spirit-in- action in his works. We must grow in the divine consciousness till there is no difference between our will and his, no motive except his impulsion in us, no action that is not his conscious action in us and through us. Then we will understand that every selfless act is born from the eternal Spirit- in-action or Master. We then understand that He is present in every act of service. All life turns on this law. This is what we may consider as following the cosmic order or Rtam and such of the persons who
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