How to Help People ?
Questioner: While doing public service, if I have done darshan (devotional viewing) of God within those people, then that will give good results, won’t it?
Dadashri: If one has done the darshan of God, then one would not get involved in public service, because after having the darshan of God, who would leave God? In fact, the reason to serve the public is to discover God. Service to the public should be done from the heart; if it is from the heart, then it will reach everywhere. If public service and publicity (prakhyati) come together, then it puts a person in difficulty. If service to the public is done without fame, then it is genuine. Fame will indeed come [through word of mouth], however it should be such that one does not have any desire for fame.
People are not such that they will do any service to the public. It is actually the greed for fame, the greed for respect, all kinds of greed deep within that drive them to do it. What should the people who serve the public actually be like? They are people who are aparigrahi (free from acquisitiveness). But here everyone is out to make a name for themselves thinking that, ‘Gradually, someday I will become a minister.’ With this [motive], they serve the public. The intention within is unscrupulous so when all these external problems [greed], unnecessary acquisitiveness and all of that is put to an end, then everything will fall in place. Instead, on the one hand, one wants to remain acquisitive, completely acquisitive, and on the other hand he wants to serve the public; how can both of these be possible?
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