I asked my cook, how come you are always happy at every place you are working. She is cooking at five different house holds and she is happy with everyone. She is always smiling and she is never no to any additional work. So she explained, which became such a beautiful learning of life time. She said that where ever I work, I see God in my master. i do not feel I am working for any particular human being. I always feel, that I am serving God. So she asked in return. What will you do, if you know that it is God who is sitting in front of you and you are supposed to make food for him? Won’t you give your best? Won’t you make an extra effort that day? Don’t we prepare with extra sincerity when it is supposed to be served to God that day? So when we are told, God is there in everyone, aren/t we serving God everyday?
I know what she was talking. But to know something and to realize something is always different. To realize it, that yes we are serving God in every form, it is a very different thing.
We anyway have to do what we are doing.
We all are working and we all have to do some work? Can we bring this level of service in what we are doing. It is not about what we are doing. It is about what we are feeling while doing that work. Physically we all are doing what we have to do. Can we bring service in our thoughts and emotions too?
It reminds me of a small story, in a village everyone was very happy and healthy. No one fell sick. So a research team from another village, where people were falling sick often came and enquired. They found out that everyone is buying flour from one particular place. So they visited the couple who used to grind wheat and sell. They found out that with every grain they are grinding, they are saying, may you go and serve God. May you bring the divine. may you bless everyone. May you bring health to everyone.
This is all i am asking. Can we do that?
