The path of true worship involves three essential constituents: Upasana (sitting close to God, like two bodies and one soul), Sadhana (leading a correct, righteous life) and Aradhana ( service to humanity).
The enclosed text here explains the "rewards of public service " and how to engage in public service? In the below mentioned excerpt, Shriram Sharma Acharya also explains why public service is rewarding and why we should all engage in the same. He shares experiences from his own personal life and shares the rewards that accrued to him personally.He also explains that public service when done with a personal motive loses its rewards for the doer.
The enclosed excerpt is from the book - "My Life its Legacy and Message" authored by Shriram Sharma Acharya. The excerpt is full of wonderful examples and analogies and is a must read.
The enclosed excerpt is from the book - "My Life its Legacy and Message" authored by Shriram Sharma Acharya. The excerpt is full of wonderful examples and analogies and is a must read.
The responsibility for Public Service therefore lies with people who do have the resources to do good.
Gurudev had told me on the very first day of my meeting with him, “Whatever you possess, learn to sow it in the form of seeds in the field of Supreme God, the Virat Brahma .”
On sowing, one grain, that grain is bound to multiply a hundred times. Gurudev quoted the instance of Jalaram Bapa who was a cultivator. He used to spend all his savings in feeding the needy. God was extremely pleased with him and gave him such a perennial bag, the contents of which never got exhausted. The free kitchen that he started is still working at Virpur, a village in Gujarat in which thousands of devoted people take food every day. A person who invests his money for public service gets ready and glad cooperation from the divine. However, a person who accumulates money , keeps his money unused and goes on amassing more and more is never blessed in the same way.