Selfless service to Human Incarnation

You may say that you are serving the Lord in human form without any aspiration of fruit in return. You have reached this state after hearing the story of Hanuman, who served the Lord without aspiring any fruit in return and due to such selfless service, Hanuman became God. Now, your selfless service is based on this story of Hanuman so that you can also become God like Hanuman. Have you learnt only selfless service from Hanuman or have you learnt the selfless service in view of its fruit? If you analyze your sub-consciousness, you will know the truth. The sub-consciousness stores certain secrets, which are not known even to you. But, on deep analysis, you can find those hidden secrets also. In nutshell, the main point is that whether you have simply taken the word ‘selfless service to Lord’ from the story of Hanuman by cut and paste method into your sub-consciousness or copied the whole story into your sub-consciousness? If the case is former, your service will yield the fruit. If it is latter, the fruit is lost.

In order to avoid this danger, Buddha adopted only selfless service without any reference to God. When God is not in the picture, there is no point of fruit of becoming God. Then you are adopting only selfless service without any fruit and in such case, the fruit is sure. Buddha asked people simply to cut the desire and kept silent about God so that the fruit of becoming God will never arise. Without understanding this great aim of Buddha, people have misunderstood Him as an atheist and the joke here is that He is one of the incarnations of God Narayana. This means that He denied Himself! Buddhists have taken the silence on God as the indication for absence of God. Silence means that God is unimaginable and this is the absolute truth of the absolute God. Even Shankara said that God could be explained only through silence. People have rubbed the title of atheist even on Shankara (Prachchanna Bauddha).

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

Universal Spirituality
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org