Take The Best For The Seva

Aum Sairam

The most important requirements for undertaking our Lord's activities are many. To name a few, - One should follow the path of Selfless Love. Whatever / whenever he / she are undertaking an activity [be it anything] that should be done without any thinking about what that would result for the doer. If there are results awaited for the activity, the activity never holds any importance in the eyes of our lord.

When we do anything, we should do it with the utmost devotion, love, and obedience. We should feel that we are not the doers; the doer is our Sri Sai Baba himself. After all, we are nothing but mere instruments in his hands for His work to get accomplished. We should treat the activity recipient as though they are our own.

To whom we serve.... To whom we deliver our seva / activity, we should see our lord in him/her. Sri Sai Baba has given a wonderful instance about this to Mrs. Tarkhad in the Shri Sai Satcharitra. When Mrs. Tarkhad fed the hungry dog with a piece of bread, the dog relished the food. When she met Sri Sai Baba, He said that it was he himself who had come in that form. The food that the dog ate appeased his hunger and he was still belching with the great food. He said, he will be in all the forms may it be, cow, flies, dog, etc. This was an important lesson to everyone, that Sri Sai Baba will be present in everyone and everything. When we deliver our seva or activity, we should always think that we are doing it for our own Sri Sai Baba.

Take the best for the seva / activity. When we do an activity, we have to give the best from ourselves. To quote an example, our beloved lord Sri Sai Baba showed this. A lady used to do Narayana Seva in her town. She used to buy Rs.2 rice for the seva. For the family, there was Rs.5 rice bought. The Rs.2 rice was filled with Stone, and was not very good for anyone to have. When in an interview she was mentioning about the seva she had been doing for such a long time and Swami should bless more, her pride was knocked. Sri Sai Baba went inside his room and bought a red bag of rice with him. He asked her, "Is this not the rice you have given me when I visited you?” It was the same bag she had offered him when Sri Sai Baba visited her seva in an unrecognizable form. This is indeed a lesson to everyone, that whenever we do His work, we have to deliver the best of the best.

Allah Malik