To serve humanity is the best way to worship God

     God created this universe and mankind with a sense of dedication and with a spirit of sacrifice.  At the beginning of creation, the Creator, Lord Brahma, gave the following advice to our first ancestors: “May you multiply and prosper by this spirit of sacrifice (free from attachment).  May this yield the enjoyments you seek.  Foster each other with a sense of sacrifice and let the Gods be gracious to you. Fostering each other unselfishly, you will attain the highest good.”

     Mankind is the most exalted creation of ‘Paramatma’.  In fact, while creating human form, He gave it the shape of a mobile temple, in which He established Himself in the form of ‘Atman’. If our perceptions are clear then we can feel His presence in every mobile temple that we come across. Clearer the mirror, equally clear would be the reflection. 

     Depending upon our past and present ‘karmas’ and ‘sanskars’, some of us are more affluent and belong to the privileged class of people.  God Almighty has given such people a unique opportunity to share their possessions with those under-privileged brethren who are deprived of the same.  It is the Law of Nature that the universe operates through dynamic exchange – giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. It is, therefore, essential that we must give and receive in order to keep wealth, material possessions, happiness – or anything that you want in life – circulating in our life.  In order to keep the energy coming to us, we have to keep the energy circulating.  Like a river, wealth and happiness must keep flowing, otherwise it will begin to stagnate, to clog, to suffocate and strangle its very own life force.  Circulation keeps it alive and vital. 

     Serve humanity with a sense of dedication and sacrifice and earn the prayers and blessings of ‘Daridra-Narain’. Fostering each other unselfishly, we are, in fact, serving the Lord Himself (because he is present in every living being) and thus attain the highest good. The more we share our possessions and happiness with others, the more will it multiply in an infinite measure because you will keep the abundance of the universe circulating in your life.

     Interestingly, when you extend a helping hand to the one who is in need of it, not with ostentation or with a sense of pride to gain fame, not as charity to give a feeling to the recipient as if he is an object of pity; but with love and compassion, then you establish an unbreakable bond of ‘bhavana’, and the resultant contentment and happiness is gratifying both to the giver and the recipient in an infinite measure.   Such an act of a ‘karamyogi’ generates ‘satoguna’ and the all pervading infinite is always present where such ‘karmas’ are being performed.

     Spread the fragrance of your goodness and happiness around you and you will have an ocean of happy environment around you in which you can keep on diving for as long a period as you wish to. Let us understand, we  are  not  obliging  people by  rendering service to them.  On the contrary, they are obliging us by giving us an opportunity to serve them and are helping us to increase the bank balance of our ‘karmas’ with the Divine Banker, the Supreme Lord.  No form of worship is greater than serving his own creation - the mankind, and service with a sense of dedication and sacrifice is the shortest short-cut to salvation.

Writer is one of the prime disciples of Guruji of Himgiri - Neelkanth.

 On every ‘Bara Guruwaar’ he renders selfless service with spiritual powers to

thousands of persons at his Guruji's samadhi (Neelkanth Dham, Najafgarh, New Delhi)