The spirit
of unity is strong with the occupy movement - or how do you think they "survive" in small tent strugling together - and I hope the spirit of service
will develop more and more. Even small group of people can make big difference if the spirit is right. Most of them seems to have good heart and are caring for
others. Occupy seems to me as awakening movement.
There were so many good speeches; the reality seems to be that old
people suffer even without food as the nurses has no enough time to feed them. I
spoke shortly there also and said that if old people’s basic needs are not
taken care, then they are not able to concentrate on their spiritual needs.
Sarkar said that old people’s duty is spirituality alone.
I remember
my experiences while my auntie was in hospital in Helsinki . I used to go there every day for singing
or feeding her etc during those two weeks that she stayed in hospital before
dying to cancer. She liked christian songs so I sang those, but also mantras
and folk songs etc. Many old people seem to be happy when I entered the
department and some they used to sing together with us. There happened to be
one opera singer and she got very inspired and started also singing and led
even group choruses. Some nurses seem to appreciate the new spirit on the
department, while some others kept me a trouble maker, while started the
singings.
Then at the
end my auntie was moved to private room and I thought to stay there over night
as her condition was already very bad. I was listening her breathing pausing
more and more between the gasps and finally she died. I did meditation which
was something very special, like the divine spirit filling the room while
taking her along. She was very religious minded person, she dedicated all her
life for Good without even getting married.
We could
make hospitals like this, where old people could concentrate on leaving this
world with great spirit instead of fearfully alone and struggling to get their
food and basic needs.
When I grow
up on a village in middle of Finland ,
I was centered with people that shared things amongst themselves and took good
care especially of old people. The village was so called dying village on
nineties and most of the people were old people. Especially autumn times we
used to go around the village day after day in different houses having harvesting work gatherings. I think everyone really enjoyed those days.
Older people who were not capable of working on the field used to stay inside
and cook for others.
The habit
was also to give the neighbours what ever was extra or what ever they were
lacking. We used to give vegetables and milk. Often it was like trying to force
people to take things while we knew they didn’t have enough and on their part
of game they pretended like they didn’t want to take. I really would like the
future of humanity is rather like this - and it will be, when people has got
enough from hoarding things due to greediness or fear about their survival. One
story explains this; if people have got very long shafts on their spoon, so
long, that they can’t eat with it. The solution is that they start feeding each
others. How happy that kind of world would be!
Bicycle library service. I saw in nineties many old people they never learned to use library, as in their earlier years they never had time to read books, and library was even more unknown thing for them. So I borrowed many bags of books, such with beautiful photos and pictures related to what I though were their interest. Then I took my bicycle and went around the village and shared the books. After two weeks I went back and collected the books and gave new books. They were very happy either it was the books or just that I visited them, because they were mostly living alone.
Yes we
should be grateful that we can do service as Sarkar says: When you render service to anyone, you must mentally
address Him with sincere devotion, “O Lord, o God. Oblige me by accepting my
services. You are merciful to me, and for this reason you have appeared before
me as a living being to offer me this very precious opportunity of rendering
services to You.”
By external
service the mind is purified and with the purified mind, internal service (meditation)
can be done by everyone…Individual salvation is also a service to humanity.
Internal service (átmamokśártham) leads to fulfilment or immortality;
external service (jagaddhitáya ca) leads to universal welfare. Thus both
internal and external service has equal importance. External service purifies
the mind, and with a pure mind one is more capable of rendering service to
one’s iśt́a. Every sádhaka should render both types of service.
Again, if
someone works exclusively for the welfare of the world – jagathitá ya – one
should realize that to render selfless service, an absolutely pure mind is
required, with the expansiveness of the vast ocean and the serenity of the blue
sky. Otherwise, while promoting the welfare of the world, one may develop a
selfish desire in one’s mind in a weak moment, as a result of which one may
bring harm to oneself as well as the universe. So those who do not aim at
self-realisation cannot promote the welfare of the world either.
When you offer
something to a person and expect to receive something in return, it is a sort
of commercial transaction. But when you have no desire to receive anything in
return for services rendered it is called true service, and here lies the basic
difference between true service and commercial transactions. The best service
is viprocita sevá [intellectual service].
The old
blind beggars wait all day long at the bridge and lift their bowls as soon as
someone walks past them. On the other hand, the affluence of foods kept ready
in luxurious houses to entertain the big guns of society ridicules the present
human civilization.
Think that
the Supreme Entity has come to you in the form of needy people to test your
sense of duty…Begging should not be encouraged, but arrangements will have to
be made so that those who are genuinely distressed do not die of starvation. Do
not give cash to a beggar, for this will encourage others to adopt the practice
of begging.
………….
Romanian
beggars are troubling all EU countries. We have them also in Helsinki
besides our own trouble; alcoholics asking money. Romanians might have
handlers collecting the money from them and alms will courage them to stay as
beggars even if there would be work available, and more would come. Alcoholics
seldom use anyhow the alms for anything else than alcohol, so why to give. But
always you can give food and try effect politicians in Finland, Romania and EU.
When you do something it will help to keep your mind unaffected and sympathetic
while seeing them daily in the streets.
Sarkar
reminds that pay the gratitude towards to one’s father and mother after their death
is to help every male and female member of the universe to progress on the path
of highest development. This is also applicable if you have done harm to anyone
like children, and not able to correct them, then help other children in their
progress or financially even poor children. And Sarkar also adviced to do good
things immediately and delay doing bad things - so you might forget to do bad
things altogether.
And according
Sarkar elders are wise and say: ‘One should act after thinking properly; act
after thinking and don’t think after acting.’
Didi Annapurna
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