The question asked in the discourse was: If a person does not do chanting or meditation, can they still attain god through Seva(Service).
Om Swami says, Chanting and Meditation are done to train the...
The question asked in the discourse was: If a person does not do chanting or meditation, can they still attain god through Seva(Service).
Om Swami says, Chanting and Meditation are done to train the mind, and that will help establish a relationship with God. But, Self-purification is the only way to attain God. The karmic fruit that a person gets from service, cannot be achieved through mantra chanting. This is because mantra chanting is a personal desire, a person does mantra chanting only for himself. Whereas when you are doing a service, the other person is benefitting immediately.
Like how chanting helps train the mind, service helps break the ego. There is a difference between doing real service and one where we think we are doing service. When your seva is not honest that increases the ego. You start to think "look, I am doing so much". On the other hand, When a person does real service, it reduces the ego. And he will see it as "It's God's grace that HE has chosen me as a medium to do this service now. It's hard to say if this medium will be there tomorrow or not."
Listen to the full discourse to get more insights on the topic of Seva, Karma, and Bhakti.
Timeline
0:00 Start
0:09 Can a person attain god through Seva instead of chanting or meditation
2:40 Truth about Karma and Bhakti
7:28 Insight on choice vs. fate
Intro and outro animation: Sushree Svadha Om
Piano music: Adi Sharma
"Work ceaselessly towards self-purification. Along with, start bhakti if you believe in God and only if you can exercise surrender. Bhakti is rarely comparable to love-at-first-sight. It is more like a relationship where your love and bond with your deity grows over time. If you can not surrender, bhakti is not for you." https://os.me/bhakti-devotional-service/
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