Opportunities To Serve
It Is Always Aound You don’t have to go anywhere to do sewa or self-less service. It is we who have created these artificial compartments that here we will do sewa and there we will work. You don’t have to look for an ashram or an orphanage to do sewa. Why must you label any particular kind of activity as sewa? Divine always surrounds you with 2-3 people at any given time whom you can serve selflessly. Serving someone who is unwell at home, running errands for the elderly in the neighbourhood, helping your mother-in-law or father-in-law in their daily chores, this too is sewa. Taking care of people who work for you, your maid or driver, when you see they are not feeling well, helping them in time of need -- that too is sewa. Making a cup of tea for your maid because she looks unwell is far more meaningful sewa than looking for orphanages to feed the children there. In fact, you should be happy that Divine has given you an opportunity to do sewa at home and you don’t have to go anywhere to do it.
Your Duty Karm
It is pointless do form clubs to help elderly in the old-age homes, while your mother-in-law is sitting hungry at home. And even you may be doing this kind of sewa thinking you will get a lot of punya, this means you are thinking in terms of religion. Such sewa will not lead to your own growth. Besides, to serve people around you is also your duty karm.
Sewa is very essential. It is a spiritual law, what goes around comes around. If you do sewa, serve others selflessly, in your time of need, help will reach you too from one quarter or the other, for sure.
It Helps You Grow
How does sewa help in growth? See for yourself, when you serve others selflessly, you feel light, you feel good. You are able to lighten the burdens of your sub-conscious mind. When you are working on your growth, you are bound to come across many hurdles, may be in form of depression or sadness, in such times you will get someone to support you, stand by you, make you feel good, and help you tide over the problem so that you can continue moving towards growth. This is the way the circle of sewa moves.
Insurance Policy
When you give someone this feeling that someone is there to help them, take care for them, support them, you too will get that kind of support – someone will make you feel you belong – in time of need, because you have earned the ‘saubhagya nidhi’ of life, you have created a good-fortune fund – insurance for life, already. Sewa is an insurance.