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Service is the only concern of the Serf
of the impermanent worldly pleasures. Being scarce and rich in value, it was kept as a closely guarded secret with lots of preconditions imposed for entry into the field lest it should fall on undesirable hands. Here the area is vast, and the benefit is infinite.
Traditionally it has been held that spiritual service is always on a one-to- one equation and never on a mass scale. Number and quality are inversely related. Being individual-based, unconsciously, I believe, ‘others-do not bother’ attitude might have crept into this at some weak past. The emphasis is on self-realization, upliftment of one’s spiritual condition and vertical growth. The Sanyasi ethics and off-the-home culture automatically have embraced it to make spirituality an exclusive privilege of the mendicant. True, spirituality is for the few, truer, it is for the lions and not for the sheep but yet, the loss of human face has its own deleterious impact in not making this to join with the main stream of social life.
The horizontal dimension to the realm of spirituality added a new flavor, a fresh outlook, and above all a soothing ‘I care for you’ attitude. Each flower has to grow to its own size concept, coupled with every Grihastha is entitled to realize God philosophy brought out a new enthusiasm and confidence to the beaming millions for whom service awaits with no pomp and no rigidities. Love is a fascinating word which symbolizes three angles-love asks not or questions not; love knows not the fear; love is never the means. “Unless there is love, philosophy becomes dry bones, psychology becomes a theory, and work becomes mere labor. With love, philosophy becomes poetry, psychology becomes mysticism and work the most delicious thing in creation” ( Swami Vivekananda’s works Vol. vi.P.72 ) Service through Ramchandra’s Raja yoga is a spiritual renaissance and a new darshana as Dr.KCV puts it.
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