Help Ever, Hurt Never

Everyone should act up to the motto: Help Ever, Hurt Never. Every educated
person should engage himself or herself in selfless service to society with
humility and a pure heart. All academic distinctions or even observance of
spiritual practices are of no use if there is no love in the heart. Love and
compassion are inherent in every person. Each has to share this love with
others. Failure to share one's love is gross ingratitude to society, to which one
owes everything. One should give one's love freely to others and receive love
in return. This is the deep significance of human life.

To purify the mind, one should nurture noble and sacred thoughts of service to
others. One who does not hurt anybody and has feelings of love and
compassion to fellow beings is the greatest of men. That is why sage Vyasa
gave the essence of the eighteen Puranas (scriptures) in the aphorism: Help
Ever, Hurt Never.

Help rendered, however small, if it comes from the deeper urges of service
welling in the heart is as good as the offer of life itself.

Look about for chances to relieve, rescue or resuscitate. Train yourselves that
you may render help quickly and well. Seva is the most paying form of
austerity, the most satisfying and the most pleasurable. It springs out of Love
and scatters Love in profusion. To help the helpless is the only way to please
Him, to follow and reach Him.

Serve people with no thought of high or low; no Seva is high, no Seva is low,
each act of Seva is equal in the eye of the Lord. It is the readiness, the joy,
the efficiency, the skill with which you rush to do it that matters. Train
yourselves to serve God by serving man, in whom there is God installed in the
heart. Convince yourself that the seva of man is worship of God.

Efforts to serve must spring from agony at the suffering of others and the
service must be genuine effort to get rid of that anguish. Do not worry about
the result. Help as much as you can, as efficiently as you can, as silently as
you can, as lovingly as you can, leave the rest to God, who gave you the
chance to server.

You should make every effort to avoid harming others in any circumstance.
You are only hurting yourself when you hurt others. You should not use harsh
words. When you develop human values, you can be free from diseases and
even enjoy good health with God's Grace.

Ahimsa, the virtue of non-violence involves much more than abstention from
injuring living beings. One should desist from causing pain to any living being
not only by his deeds but even by his words and even in his thoughts. One
should not entertain any idea of hurting or humiliating another.

Service to man will help your divinity to bloom, for it will gladden your heart
and make you feel that life has been worthwhile. Service to man is service to
God. For He is in every man and every living being and in every stone and
stump. Offer your talents at the Feet of God; let every act be a flower, free
from creeping worms of envy and egoism and full of fragrance of love and
sacrifice. If you have the talent, use it for the glorification of God and do it by
uplifting man. A manishi (ordinary man) gets transformed
into Maharishi (sage) by engaging in selfless service.

You have to transform your life through service. You should give no room for
arrogance or self-interest to the slightest extent in your service activities.
Install in your heart the feeling that the service you render to anyone is service
to God. Only then does service to man become service to Madhava. Hence
you should scrupulously follow the maxim: HELP EVER, HURT NEVER.

LOVE ALL SERVE ALL – HELP EVER HURT NEVER

yet another display of Divine Love…

World is a big stage and we have greater lessons to learn watching it. With Bhagawan, one has to
be on a constant watch as every moment is counted and if one is focused you have lessons galore
to learn. After a momentous Thursday, the day when Bhagawan decided to bless the University
Campus in Prasanthi Nilayam by His Divine visit, came a pleasant Friday. Though summer’s clutch
has been loosened, it has not left the spiritual township completely and the day’s weather has been
a mix of both summer and rainy season; and by the time for evening darshan, weather became bit
chill with ominous signs of rains.

In the evening, Bhagawan came for a complete round just after 4:30 p.m. and came on stage for a
brief spell watching students chanting the Veda. Bhajans started at the scheduled hour at 5:00 and
Bhagawan came on stage yet again. …And following Him came the showers lashing from the
heavens as if the mythical ‘Rain God’ was waiting for the Over Lord to come and occupy the dais.
Lashing rains with strong winds splashed the rain drops all around bringing in chilly feeling. With
Bhagawan on stage granting coveted darshan, with bhajans on, hundreds of devotees who had
been waiting outside the main gate next to the Sita Rama statue got stranded in the rains leaving
them completely drenched.
Bhagawan, the silent witness that He is ever, whose foremost precept “Love All Serve All - Help
Ever Hurt Never” has been the epitome of His teachings had something to demonstrate and thus to
teach the vast congregation of devotees. Though bhajans were on, He was glued to the main gate
where hundreds were getting drenched.

The security has been disciplined enough to maintain the ‘peace’, especially when Bhagawan was
onstage. But, the compassionate Lord’s heart melted for those stranded souls, getting drenched in
the lashing rains and He desired peace for those souls. He asked the boys to instruct the security to
allow the devotees to occupy the vacant place behind the Sita Rama Temple. Security being extra
alert, allowed the gents, leaving the ladies out, as in Prasanthi Nilayam, as a matter of strict
discipline, gents and ladies were not allowed to mix-up in the darshan hall. Bhagawan sent special
instructions to allow the ladies as well, to let them occupy one side of the vacant spot.

Bhajans went on till 5:50 when Arathi was called for. After the Arathi still Lord was gazing at the
devotees who had the twin blessing in abundance from the “Over Lord" and the ‘Rain God’.  …He
moved unto them granting them the darshan of their lives…and one could hear ecstatic hearts,
drenched, but doubly blessed souls of the eventful and beautiful evening
chanting Jaikars reverberating the entire hall. Indeed those souls were drenched in Divine Love!

A wonderful lesson for the thousands assembled in Sai Kulwant Hall to imbibe Him following His
precept, Love All Serve All, Help Ever, Hurt Never…