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YOGA OF SERVICE
much The progress is dull and slow, if progress you can call it. Remember, it is the mental attitude or Bhav that does immerse good.
A Karma Yogi who does all work in the form of worship of God in the beginning, who surrenders his body, mind, soul and all his actions as flowers or offerings at the Lotus Feet of the Lord, who is ever absorbed in the Lord by constant thought of God, loses himself in God-consciousness by total selfsurrender. He gets absorbed in God. His will becomes one with the Cosmic Will. That is his last and advanced stage. He realizes that whatever is going on in the world is but the Lila of the Lord or divine sporting. He realizes the truth of the utterances in the Brahma Sutras Kokavattu lila kaivalyam. He feels that he is one with the Lord and that he is a partner in His Lila. He lives for Him only. He lives in Him only. His thoughts and actions are now of God Himself The veil has dropped The sense of separateness has been rotally annihilated. He now enjoys the Divine Aishwarya.
A doctor who works in the hospital should think that all patients are manifestations of God. He should think that the body is the moving temple of God and that the hospital is a big temple or Brindavan or Ayodhya He should think “I am doing all my actions to please the Lord and not to please my superiors ” He should think that God is the inner ruler (Antaryamin), that He alone manipulates all
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