Bliss Helps to Serve Selflessly

 

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Bliss Helps to Serve Selflessly

One can become a helper for two reasons: either out of misery or out of bliss. One can be a servant to humanity out of misery. One can become interested in others’ misery just to avoid one’s own misery. Just to remain occupied with others’ problems, so that one need not look at one’s own problems. One can become too involved with others’ problems, for the simple reason that their problems are so big, so great, so complicated, that in comparison our problems look very tiny, small, meaningless.

Many people enter public service just to hide from their own misery. Such people don’t have the guts to face their own misery, so they drown themselves in other people’s problems; they don’t have the courage to face their own situations, so the best way is to get involved in others’ misery. This provides consolation that we are not the only one’s who are miserable. Our issues are nothing compared to those of others – that itself is a great consolation.

But people who become helpers or servants out of misery are never really helpers, they harm people. Because we can give to people only that which we have got in the first place. If we are miserable, we will carry infections of misery with us, we will vibrate misery, we will pulsate misery, we will create misery in people in such subtle ways that we may not even become aware of what we are doing.

That’s what missionaries of all so-called religions have been doing down the ages and continue to do today. They go to help people but they simply make them feel more guilty. They create misery for others. In the name of service, they destroy people’s integrity, their confidence, their self-respect. In the name of service, they create such guilt in them that they lose all confidence in themselves. They become self-condemners. They start feeling that they are sinners and that they are doomed… their sins are so much that they are bound to go to hell. Their lives become burdened. And this is because of the people who wanted to help them.

If one is spiritual, one will realise that only a blissful person can be a helper of mankind, because a blissful person can share bliss and a blissful person can accept people with all their limitations. Such a person understands and is capable of understanding. And such people are so blissful that they cannot call people sinners, they cannot see any sin anywhere. They see only Gods and Goddesses everywhere. It is impossible for them to believe that there is a hell. If there is a god there cannot be a hell. If there is hell then there can be no god, because God means compassion. If God cannot forgive small sins… who will be able to forgive if even God is incapable of forgiving?

And what are people’s sins? Somebody is smoking cigarettes… and that is sin. It may be a little stupid, silly, taking the smoke in and out, but it is a kind of pranayama, a stupid kind of pranayama. We could have taken fresh air in and out and it would have been far more hygienic and healthier medically too. It may be a little suicidal but it is not sin. But people have been condemned for small things – drinking tea has been labelled sin by some religions!  

Once we become blissful, we are bound to share our bliss. Nobody can contain it. If we are blissful, we are bound to serve people selflessly. And when service comes out of bliss it has a fragrance of its own, a beauty, a grace. It is something divine. The very touch is healing. It transforms dust into gold. So, first we have to become blissful persons.