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2010/03

赛的服务方式

现代人正糟蹋和虚度他们大部分的宝贵生命，沉溺于无谓的闲聊或观看残暴的景象。人们怪时间太短和过得太快，致使他们不能满足迅速成长的贪婪。人并不认识到因服务而圣化的时间会带给他们和他们服务的对象崇高的报酬。

所有服务行动都没有相等的圣洁或一体性的效益。如果是为了得到权力，基于无奈，抑或受急于仿效的驱使而从事服务工作，那么，这种服务就会导致有害的而不是有益的结果了。

自我膨胀或竞争或夸耀都是足以污染这圣洁的灵性服务工作的动机。服务志工们必须避免自大（ahamkara），表现癖（adambara）和偏好（abhimana）的心态。

在开始一项服务计划前，一个人必须反省和检讨自己的素养，也就是，他们的心是否充满无私的爱，谦虚和慈悲；他们的头脑是否对问题有明智的了解和有足够的知识以及解决的方法；他们的手是否渴望提供奏效的一触；以及最后，他们是否乐意奉献和分享时间，精力和技术来协助急需帮助的人。

如何净化服务

只有把‘一体性的真实性’注入意识之中后，服务的素质才得以发芽，成长。所有的人类与其他生命体都是神体内的细胞。他们的出生，继续存在和进步全在于神，得于神和为了神。个人只是这神体内的一分子。没有外物插足其间。一人患病，所有人受苦；一人快乐，所有人分享。对这真相的信念就是志工（sevak）必须培育的基本素养。

服务机构的领导者和指导者提供慈善服务，并声称他们是受到慷慨胸怀的驱使，而接纳受惠者的敬意。这就是为什么全世界所有这样的服务都没有持久结果的原因了。为了有资格得到服务（Seva）的圣洁美名，这活动务必超越个人的所有执着，并且根基于对存在于众生之内的神的信心。服务应被视为对神的膜拜，而神已采纳受惠者的相以方便志工膜拜。

当提供丰盛的一餐给一个饥饿的人（nara）时，这就是所谓的‘服务至高无上的主’（Narayana Seva）, 因为人（nara）只是虚妄（maya人的无知）投射于神（Narayana）的一个名和相而已。

不要让你的服务活动，只为了招徕顾客而沦为专注于厨窗布置的商店。给予那些被拒于‘像样生活’门外的村民们的服务会比任何其他地方的服务获得更多的圣恩。要向病痛和残障的无助者伸出援手。

人生的真正目的

然而，在你试图规劝他人之前，你必须先规劝你自己。在改造他人之前，要先改造你自己。不要在他们面前吹嘘和表现你的优越，这会伤害到他们，使他们远离你。不要好为人师而耽于单向的讲课。只有行动才能激励行动。只有身教才能开导。吹牛是没有效益的举措。

只有借无私的服务，服务活动始能在各地发扬光大。鼓吹是一个无诚意的信号。只有默默耕耘、别无居心的工作才具有吸引力和投人所好。村民们有足够的常识去看穿他人的演出。

记得，虽然他目不识丁，可他知道经书及圣贤们所阐释的理想。机巧的宣传或可成就某种暂时性的效果，但最终，它还是会导致失望和理想毁灭的。

就像在屠妖节（Deepavali）晚上，孩子们燃放烟花一样，它燃烧爆发然后嘶嘶衰萎。今天，我们处处面对统计学洋洋洒洒显示的数量和报告。不要为追加的数字或达到一个指标而烦恼。我重质不重量。为几个乡村提供的真诚而热烈的献身服务远比为很多乡村提供的偶然接触的表面服务，更为有成果。

要确信，在没有‘他人服务你和你服务他人’的情况下，生命是难以持久的。主与仆，统治者与被统治者，导师与信徒，雇主与雇员，父母与子女，所有这一些都系于彼此间的互相帮助。每一个人都是志工。你所服务的农夫和工人，他们用劳力为你生产衣服和食物，不就是为你提供的服务！

记得，天赋予你此身，附着其感官 - 心念 - 头脑的综合体，就是要让你用它来帮助没有能力的人。服务是最高的虔诚法门，使你赢得神的恩典。它促进心灵的纯净，减少自我的感觉并凭借同情的了解来体验人类的一体性。

1986年11月21日于满月礼堂所赐的神圣讲道

THE SAI WAY OF SERVICE

Indulging in flimsy gossip and watching scenes of violence and cruelty, men today are wasting and missing a big portion of their precious lives. Time is condemned, because it is too little, or because it runs too fast to fulfill galloping greed. Men are not aware that time sanctified by service offers high rewards to themselves as well as those whom they serve.

All acts of service are not equally sanctifying or uniform in the benefits they confer. When service is undertaken by power-hungry people, or under compulsion or by imitative urges, it results in more harm than good.

Self-aggrandizement or competition or ostentation, are motives that pollute the sacred spiritual practice of service. The candidate for this activity has to avoid ahamkara (egoism), adambara (exhibitionism) and abhimana (favouritism).

Before embarking on a service project one must introspect and examine their equipment, which is, whether their heart is full of selfless love, humility and compassion; whether their head has an intelligent understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution; whether their hands are eager to offer the healing touch; and finally whether he/she can gladly spare and share time, energy and skill to help others in dire need.

How to Sublimate Service into Seva

These qualities can sprout and grow only when the ‘Reality of Unity’ is implanted in the consciousness. All men, and all living beings, are cells in the Body of God. Their origin, continued existence, and progress are all in God, by God, and for God. The individual is a unit in this unity. There are no other aliens. When one is ill, all suffer. When one is happy, all are partners of that happiness. Faith in this truth is the fundamental equipment the sevak (volunteer)must acquire.

Leaders and guides of service organisations offer charity, and claim that they are motivated by generosity and accept homage from recipients. This is the reason why such service all over the world does not yield lasting results. In order to deserve the sacred name, Seva, the activity must be freed from all attachment to the individual self and based on firm faith in the Divine resident in every being. Seva has to be considered as worshipping the form that God has assumed to give the volunteer the chance of worship.

When a hungry nara(man) is served a hearty meal, what is being done is Narayana Seva (serving the supreme lord), for, nara(man) is only ‘a form and a name’ projected by maya (human ignorance) on Narayana (God).

Do not allow your service activities to turn into shops which concentrate on window dressing, in order to attract attention and patronage. Service rendered to villagers, who are denied the ways and means of decent lives, draws Divine Grace, more than service elsewhere. Give a helping hand to the helpless, who are afflicted with many ailments and handicaps.

The True Purpose of Human Birth

But, before attempting to advise them, you must endeavour to advise yourselves; before venturing to reform them, reform yourselves. Care must be taken to avoid boasting before them about your superiority; it will hurt them and keep them away. Do not indulge in lectures. Action alone can inspire action. Example alone can instruct. Tall talk is a barren exercise.

Service activities in all lands can thrive only through selfless dedication. Fanfare is a sign of insincerity. Silent, unsullied work alone can appeal. The villager has enough common sense to see through the show.

Remember that, though illiterate, he is aware of the ideals propounded by the scriptures, saints and sages of the land. Clever propaganda may achieve some temporary results but, in the long run, it will bring disappointment and disillusion.

Like the 'rockets' lit by children on Deepavali night, it will flare up and fizzle down. Today, we are confronted everywhere by statistics parading quantities and reports in glowing terms. Do not bother about adding to the number or achieving a target. I value quality, not quantity. Genuine and intensive devoted service offered in a few villages is more fruitful than casual contacts and superficial service offered to a large number.

Convince yourselves that life cannot continue long without others serving you, and you serving others. Master-servant, ruler-ruled, guru-disciple, employer-employee, parents-children, all these are bound by mutual service. Every one is a sevak (servant). The farmer and labourer whom you serve produce by their toil your food and clothing as their service to you.

Remember that the body, with its senses-mind-brain complex has been awarded to you to be used for helping the helpless. Seva is the highest of paths of devotion which wins the Grace of God. It promotes mental purity, diminishes egoism and enables one to experience, through sympathetic understanding, the unity of mankind.

~ Divine Discourse at the Poorna Chandra Auditorium on November 21, 1986.