Wednesday, April 15, 2009

LEARNING TO SERVE ; THE OTHER WAY .

There is one other way to serve the society and people and our country . to minimize your own services and needs that are due from the society . reduce these services and try to bring them to zero . keep yourself above the law , means lead a life that does not break any law of the society or Government. you create no work for police , for administration , for justice . you neither create nor need the services of Govt . Agencies because you follow all the rules made by Govt . , society and moral laws coming down by rituals . you may not achieve 100 but more and more you go to the right side of fifty ,the more peace and pleasure and physical and mental prosperity comes to you .you are a law -abiding citizen and you are rich by all means say , save your time , money and trouble of all kind that reduce the charm of good life . see ! one example -- you follow the rules of the road and traffic -police and all its laws become nonexistent . this is great service to man kind and very easy to follow but even those of good intelligence and thinking themselves civilized do not follow saying , '' who cares ? '' these are the services rendered to country are very very common and need common sense. but good people comment , '' common sense is but very uncommon and it is very difficult to be common because it needs total awareness for total time.
the other service of this kind is to save the products and materials that are used in daily life . you can do it in two ways -1- by minimizing your demands / needs / consumption as of cloth , eatables , water , electricity , room /houses , rail , road and others so many things on the list . use that much is necessary. 2 - by saving these things from ill -use , wastage , carelessness and other reasons that are under our control . in Yoga these two methods are taken as means of Yoga under Yama that is Asangrah ( not storing more than needed ) and under Niyam -that is tapah and santosh (practicing penance and contentment ) . this is great contribution and excellent service to the society and country at large but sorry to note , we are not so advanced in these national causes as much as we have gone to ours own .
This is all because of our ill- education ; education without culture , education without great Indian convention and legacy that we have been detached from due to a long period of slavery . but we have not lost them completely and we can revive them easily .
then there is vast field of your individual services to individuals as said in previous writ . '' the good live for others alone . . the wise man should sacrifice himself for others . i can secure my own goodonly by doing your good . there is no other way , none whatsoever . the only way of getting our divine nature manifested , is by helping others to do the same till there is inequality in society . , the poor the downtrodden , the ignorant , let these be your God . '' -Vivekanand .

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