It is the purpose of your life to serve the world.
It is the purpose of the world to serve you.
To serve the world is to serve God and love all.
It is our duty to be useful to mankind.
Only through self-realization can we discriminate between the useful and the more useful.
It is noble to feed men's bodies but more noble to feed men's minds.
Give not just water to the thirsty but also lead them to the well so that they may be free to drink, free from obligation to men, free to their own calling.
To render service less self, is to do God's work: the self here does not refer to the true self but the imagined self. The imagined self belongs to those who still think they are this body and mind, which look for gratification of ego and senses; when we find this or realize this, can we truly know God's will for us.
A small good act for God is better than a large act which mankind regards good.
God may lead mankind to water but cannot make it drink because of its free will to choose. This is the dilemma faced by those who seek to serve.
To inspire oneness in the people with different concepts and beliefs, oblivious of the intrinsic oneness of humanity, is service to God, demanding self-surrender.
The greatest service to God is to know the true self. It is the easiest of all tasks it we approach a True Master, because it requires only the desire to know God.
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