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.
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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