How Should Service Be Done?
When
an elderly devotee prayed to elucidate this point Sathya Sai Baba
immediately asked him, “Suppose you were walking in a forest and a thorn
pricks your leg what would you do?” The devotee
said that he would remove the thorn from his leg. And then Baba asked,
"How would you do it?"
The devotee was rather confused and said "Swami,
obviously with my hand." Then Baba said "Why would you do it? The hand
removes the thorn instantly from the leg because
the moment the thorn pricks the leg, the hand also feels the pain. The
legs and the hand are all part of one body and every part of the body
feels the pain. So too, the
entire
world is the body of God and when any part of this world feels pain or
suffers, every other part should feel it in the heart and should respond
to it, just as the hand responds to the thorn in the leg."
This is the way service should be done with the feeling of Oneness.
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