If we decide to selflessly serve humanity the
only source where we may expect some guidance and support from is the God. The
man can never be a reliable companion for accomplishing the task you have
committed yourself to. Perhaps, the path one has to tread for the cause of
humanity is trickier and slippery than the one you tread for serving the God.
A
man can abandon his selfishness, but he finds it much difficult to escape from
his intellect and ego. Those who seek the God can do away with intellectual
efforts to realize the God; but those who wish to selflessly serve humanity,
often have to depend on their intellect. If our intellect can guide us, it can
also misguide us. While serving humanity, one is always at the risk of being
misguided by his intellect.
Similarly,
while endeavoring to seek the God one can surrender his ego (the Ahamkara)
to the God, but one cannot surrender his ego to another human being. In my
opinion, an able Guru (a teacher) can help his student in managing his ego
by helping his students surrender his ego to him (his teacher). While seeking
the God one has to encounter himself, not an outsider. Therefore, in such a
case one can leave his ego surrendered to his teacher. But, while serving the
humanity one has to encounter other human beings. Hence, one is frequently
tempted to summon his ego for help. Therefore, one has to be his own Guru.
To selflessly serve humanity, one has to acquire the humility of the ‘humblest’
kind.
To
serve humanity with an aim that the human being can derive some benefit for
themselves, we cannot seek help from others, because that may amount to adding
more to ego and intellectual activities rather than any reduction thereof. Selfless
service to humanity is extremely difficult. It is not possible without the
God’s help. However, the encouraging part is that the God’s help is always
available, for this cause, to those who are strongly committed to serve
humanity with utmost humility and selflessness. Notwithstanding the
difficulties involved the beauty of service to humanity is that it is
invariably rewarded through the awareness of the truth, because one gets ample
opportunities to come face to face with untruth. The realization of truth is
nothing but the realization of the God.
A
strong commitment to the cause and a fierce resolve to tread a difficult path
with total dependence on oneself and the God are essential if one thinks of serving
the humanity.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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