Unable to communicate with our fellow-beings, we are trapped in the vicious circle of desire, struggle, jealousy, greed and misery. We have created walls of fear and hatred because of the psyche of separation, on the basis of certain physical or social factors like language and skin colour. By allegiance to a particular religion or “ism”, we have digressed from the very purpose of religion, which is to strengthen universal bonding and establish harmony. Faith in all these temporary things have robbed us of that eternal factor, love.
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Thursday, January 12, 2023
HELPING OTHERS: THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
HELPING OTHERS: THE PURPOSE OF LIFE
Happiness begins from the moment you do something for others. Those who consistently help others, are happy, and do not come across any obstacles in their lives.
The purpose of life is to serve others. However, when doing so, you should not expect something in return; your intention should be to lessen other people’s misery.
Your constant inner intent should be towards helping others. If you are unable to do so for any reason, you can also make sure that you do not hurt anyone. This is an indirect way to help those around you.
Life is meant for practicing benevolence
Life is meant for practicing Benevolence
Life is meant for practicing benevolence and serving others. The deepest science behind this is that when one uses his mind, speech and body for serving others, he will have everything.
What if you were to charge a fee for your services?
But a person has to make a living, surely.
Do not think about your daily needs at all. You will not encounter any obstacles in your life if you Help Others in any way.
liberation superior than the path of service to humanity
How is the path to liberation superior than the path of service to humanity?
If you ask a person who serves humanity what he is, he would tell you that he is a humanitarian.
So to say, 'I am a humanitarian and I Help Others,' is egoism, but if I ask this man here who he is, he would tell you that, 'For the world I am 'Chandubhai,' (Name of a person) and, in fact, 'I am a pure Soul." To say this, is the absence of ego.
The ego of a humanitarian is for a good cause, but it is ego nevertheless.
To Know 'Who am I' is the Ultimate Religion
Making life simple and ideal
making his life simple and ideal?
Maintain an obliging nature. , your life will become ideal and harmonious (satvik)
Continue to be obliging and Help Others in any way that you can.
Use your mind, speech, body and Soul (worldly self) for others. Then you experience ever lasting happiness.
Religion begins with an obliging nature.
Do not do anything for yourself. When you do for others, you will not have to do anything for yourself.
1) A person whose intentions are to serve others will be rewarded with worldly happiness;
the Self cannot be attained through serving others. Until one attains the Self, one should maintain an obliging nature.
2)If you spend for the welfare of others, it will help you in your future life.
3)Nature's law is such that if you give the fruits of your own efforts to others, nature will take care of you.
4)What is the nature of the worldly life? God resides in every living being and if you hurt anyone, even in the slightest degree, you violate your moral duty, your religion (dharma,)
WHY TO HELP OTHERS ?
WHY TO HELP OTHERS ?
You will not incur any loss or experience any obstacles in life if it is spent serving and obliging others. All your wishes will be fulfilled providing you remain free from interference and restlessness,
So be obliging. If you are going somewhere, ask people how can I help you,
I am telling you this because even as a young man I had an obliging nature. At the age of twenty-five my friends used to call me a 'superhuman.'
Who do you call a human?
Those who take away happiness of others go into the animal form in the next life.
KEEP STRONG INTENTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE
KEEP STRONG INTENTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE
Questioner: I want to help others, but I do not have enough money to help. Please advice.Enlightened soul: Do any of the fruit trees eat their own fruits? No. These trees teach human beings to give their fruits to others. When you do this, nature in turn will reward you. The Neem tree is very bitter, yet people grow it because of its many benefits; otherwise, they would uproot it. It is beneficial in many ways: it is cooling to the body, it has medicinal value and its extracts have healing properties. In Satyug (past time cycle characterized by unity in thoughts, speech and acts), people strived only to make others happy. They would be constantly thinking of ways to oblige others.
More important than a person's external actions of obliging others are his internal intents (bhaav) to help. This intention should always be present. If you have the money, your intention should be to use it to lessen someone else's misery. If you have such knowledge, use it to explain things to people to alleviate their misery. Help Others with whatever assets you have. If you cannot do this, at least maintain an obliging nature. What is an obliging nature? It is to Help Others.
Your nature would be beautiful if you maintained an obliging nature. Simply giving away money is not considered an obliging nature. Whether you have money to give away or not, your intentions should be to Help Others. You should at least have intentions to help those who come to you. To donate money or not depends on your ability to do so.