Something to Think About

The privilege of seva

At the close of the Dera Eye Camp in November 1985, Maharaj Charan Singh, under whose auspices the camp had been held, spoke movingly to the sevadars in the following words:

“Hazur Maharaj Ji (the Great Master) used to say that blessed are those who get the opportunity of serving others. It is the infinite grace of the Lord that the eye patients have given the sangat the privilege of serving them. There is no parallel in the world for the love and devotion with which you have all served the patients, performing the most arduous duties, unmindful of your comfort and convenience. I do not have words to express my feelings of appreciation. All that I can do is to pray to Hazur Maharaj Ji that he may bestow his grace on all of us.”
_{Treasure Beyond Measure}

When Majuddun Baghdadi entered the service of a sheikh, he was made to serve “at the place of ablution”, i.e. to clean the latrines. His mother, a well-to-do lady physician, asked the master to exempt the tender boy from this work, and sent him twelve slaves to do the cleaning. But he replied, “You are a physician – if your son had an inflammation of the gall bladder, should I give the medicine to a slave instead of to him?”
_{Jami, quoted in Travelling the Path of Love, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee}