May 31, 2013

• The rendering of service

  The rendering of service

  Mystical philosophy
  

  When one does a job well or performs an act of kindness then a service is rendered. True service demands no compensation other than the satisfaction of knowing we labored in the vineyard of love. Every day we should create opportunities to be of service. Service is to create an environment that is cheerful, attractive and harmonious.  Service is an act of cooperation where we share a problem and responsibility with another. When we offer a service to others we must be capable to render that service with efficiency. You have no right to offer something you cannot adequately provide. Insist to serve only where your efforts are appreciated.  Don’t deprive another from their development and growth through overzealous service. There are different avenues of service and the service we render will ultimately become our true mission in life. Service is to dismiss fear or superstition and to illuminate the path of mysticism for others. Everyone has the means for rendering service.  We must ensure that we are well prepared and ready for service. In rendering service, we are helping others, and in helping others we are helping ourselves.

  A smile and an encouraging word is a service you can render every day. When you feel the urge to do a kindness or correct an error then it is your obligation to yield to the impulse and do what your inner self, urge you to do. Through service you will attain opportunities leading to the satisfaction of realization of  new-found knowledge.  Make sure that you co-operate with both natural and spiritual laws. Reliance on this knowledge does not supplant your efforts but supplement them.  Realize your potential in terms of your fitness or importance in the great scheme of life and your ability to serve a greater purpose. Remember that the greater development is within you and may not be revealed outwardly until you have found the service through which to express yourself. This obligation to serve, voluntarily affirmed in all sincerity, makes it imperative to study, practice, test and try the natural and spiritual laws that governs our existence. Through service we learn how to apply these laws towards a meaningful and purposeful end that will become the focus point of our own inner growth.  

  In rendering service we help others to have a realization of the abundance of life and the blessings of the cosmic.

  (These are notes based and/or inspired by the original discourse written by by R.R. Clayton, 1960)
  

   

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