SERVICE, SACRIFICE AND SELF-LESS-NESS.

By service, sacrifice and self-less-ness, one will achieve God-realisation, more easily than by rigidly practising all the ethics of the world, for a thousand years. Rituals and ceremonies instituted by the priest ridden Religions lead .to this but have made the process of attainment too rigid and dry and that accounts for the lack of interest felt by the modern educated classes things in general. Forms and ceremonies, instead of diminishing the Ego, strengthen it. The. stronger the Ego, the:, ore aggressive it becomes, by consciousness of a- separate Self and it sees not all the phenomena’s forms of .its own self. -The least and easiest way of overcoming the. Ego and attainment of God-realisation is to develop Love and render Self-less-Service to all Humanity in whatever circumstances we may be placed. The more we live for others and the less we live for ourselves, the more, our lower desires are eliminated and this in turn - will react on the Self, suppressing it and transforming it proportionately and, lead us to God-realisation;' Sri Krishna says in Bhagavata that he will show himself in the heart of a spiritual teacher or preacher, Who serves and helps those who are struggling .to; see the-Light.

Self less-ness is the characteristics of a man in whom the ego has. been killed due, to assertive individualitys and in whom God easily manifests Himself Ego has to be killed by generating individual consciousness-from its; association-'with the 'material' and physical world. Good -. actions or self-less~deed - or sacrifices help to carry forward, the Self to realise, and identify itself with the' Universe and bring the entire universe within its consciousness and help the Self to pass from the stage of immersion in the pleasures sorrows of Life to the stage of detachment from emotions "which caused those pleasures and sorrows and knowledge of Self Begins when thse emotions end. By mere -mental effort one can efface oneself without infringing one's knowledge of Self and then he cannot bring- karma ;and hence Sri Krishna; said to Arjuna that actions should be done without attachment.

Self-interest is at the root of all our difficulties—indiyidual and social and it is not easy to .eliminate Self-interest. -But it can be eliminated with the aid of a perfect saint who is one with the Universal Mind, and' is also present in the mind of every human being and hence can give just the particular help needed to awaken the highest;consciousness latent in every individual and has the power to convey the truth at will. For Self-interest, springs from a false idea of the true nature of the self and this, idea has to be eradicated and' the truth experienced before the elemnation of Self-interest is possible. When a man sheds this last make shift Self and steps on to stable Knowledge he Casts-off the Self from him and gets always absorbed in the communion, with the all pervading Reality. Complete surrender to the Diyine will of such a perfect one and unflinching readiness to carry out the order faithfully achieve a result not possible even by rigidly practicing all the virtues— Yajna, Dana and Tapas.

Good emotions as Bhakthi, affection or zeal help one to acquire God-realisation and will, in turn give rise to good and help to others and sacrifice. These acts make their imprint on the Inner, mind and generate Divine Sympathy which is forward by the Sell in its onward march towards Self-realisation Without haying done good acts and. sacrifices with no Self-interest or "'selfishness and shown generosity, man can never acquire Divine Sympathy... Service, however, in order ^;to achieve the greatest result in the world must be completely surrendered to the Divine Will and must have the human touch and a keen sensed .humour.:;

Hence by concentrating on the 3, S's (Service, Sacrifices and Self less-ness) and centering our interest on them other .mental .states as self-interest, selfishness, "I" and My'" ness yanishes before them and knowledge of Self begins due to the reflex_:; actions the-Inner .Mind which opens out and reveal that the material and worldly., pleasures and pain are delusions,,-and ignorance and are due to the individualistic Prakriti or Maya and pave, the way self or God-Realisation- which is the purpose –and goal of life.