[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Importance of Service

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Looking to that last paragraph of the quote, in gifting to need or good works 
of service Does anyone here give money or time to any spiritual groups? 
Religious groups? 
  Which ones do you give to and which ones specifically not?  For instance, I 
have always appreciated Jehovah Witnesses for what they do but hear that 
Witnesses are tearing themselves up as a church over ethical scandals involving 
the integrity of character in elders of their church community.  Mormons are 
having troubles too.  I don't tend to give money to either of those groups.  I 
always give some money to the TM movement and to some other spiritual groups to 
help with things that are altruistic aspects of good or high-minded spiritual 
work. Ammachi's organization gets some of my money too. I have a friend helping 
a small school in Nepal that gets some of my money.
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Is this speaking to the baby-boomers as they age out? 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "Any seva is good, you don’t have to feel guilty. If you cannot financially do 
seva, or physically do seva, even just sending your blessings is good enough. 
Just through thought waves also you can send good vibrations. That also is 
seva. 

I have had many people coming and telling me, "I am so old and so weak, I can’t 
do seva". Their hearts are yearning to do seva, but physically they cannot do. 
I tell them, "Don’t worry, just sit and pray. Bless and send the vibrations of 
positivity. That is also seva". Now the youngsters sitting here, don’t take 
this as an excuse not to do save, and say, "Gurudev has said that I can just 
sit and bless everyone". That is only when you cannot do seva physically. 

It is not what you give that is important, it is the feeling with which you 
give that is important. That itself is seva. You want to keep contributing. The 
feeling that I want to contribute is itself very precious, so let it be there. 
Don’t let it dry out. That is the juice in life to want to be part of something 
big. 

Now, with this, you also need the wisdom of where to give, whom to give and 
what to give. So you have to see who is deserving (patra) and who is 
undeserving (apatra) when you give charity. You need to see whether they are 
really qualified to receive what you want to give them.

 -SSRS, AOL
 

[FairfieldLife] Re: FW: The Importance of Service

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Is this speaking to the baby-boomers as they age out? 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 "Any seva is good, you don’t have to feel guilty. If you cannot financially do 
seva, or physically do seva, even just sending your blessings is good enough. 
Just through thought waves also you can send good vibrations. That also is 
seva. 

I have had many people coming and telling me, "I am so old and so weak, I can’t 
do seva". Their hearts are yearning to do seva, but physically they cannot do. 
I tell them, "Don’t worry, just sit and pray. Bless and send the vibrations of 
positivity. That is also seva". Now the youngsters sitting here, don’t take 
this as an excuse not to do save, and say, "Gurudev has said that I can just 
sit and bless everyone". That is only when you cannot do seva physically. 

It is not what you give that is important, it is the feeling with which you 
give that is important. That itself is seva. You want to keep contributing. The 
feeling that I want to contribute is itself very precious, so let it be there. 
Don’t let it dry out. That is the juice in life to want to be part of something 
big. 

Now, with this, you also need the wisdom of where to give, whom to give and 
what to give. So you have to see who is deserving (patra) and who is 
undeserving (apatra) when you give charity. You need to see whether they are 
really qualified to receive what you want to give them.

 -SSRS, AOL