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Right Understanding to Help Others
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(dharma) of a human being to improve that which has become
ruined. People are always too eager to improve that which has
already improved, but to improve that which has become ruined
is regarded as ‘religion’ (dharma).
Is Serving Others the Same as Serving God?
Questioner: Is service to people the same as service of
God?
Dadashri: No, it is not a service to God. Why do people
serve other people? It is because they hurt inside. When they
see other people’s misery, they feel sympathy for them and,
therefore, they hurt within. They Help Others to ease their own
pain. Therefore, the help one lends is really to ease his own pain.
A man says, ‘It was out of my kindness and sympathy for them
that I gave donations to this charity, to that charity.’ No! He is
only doing so to relieve his own pain. Do you understand what
I am saying? This is a very subtle point. Nevertheless, it is good
to give to others because you will gain from it.
Questioner: Service to people is service to God. Is it
better to serve people or should one serve idols in the temples?
Dadashri: Service to people will bring worldly happiness
for you and gradually, one step at a time, it will take you towards
liberation. But that does not happen in every life; only in certain
lifetimes does everything fall into place. Since it does not happen
in every lifetime, it is not a rule.
Salvation of the World is at Subtle Levels
Service to the society is not the same as service for the
salvation of the world (jagat kalyan). Service to society is a
worldly intent and for that a person does whatever he is able to.
But it is all on a superficial level, whereas the salvation of the
world (jagat kalyan) is a very different matter altogether. Doing
salvation of the world encompasses subtle, subtler and subtlest
inner language (bhasha). There are extremely subtle intents