Seva

He had a one track mind. The track was Seva. To most people, Seva is about good karma, earning brownie points, repaying debts. He showed us that it was this and more. Seva became a passport to higher realms, to enhanced self impression, to changing your invisible form or guna sharir. In the bank of Gurudev, Seva was the most profitable spiritual mutual fund, life's greatest investment.

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Transcript

It is interesting to know Gurudev’s views and opinion on the value of seva in spiritual growth. A lesson to learn on how to practice it. A few insights on how seva works for someone who indulges in it. 

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Seva

The snorkelling view of seva is doing good deeds; being a do-gooder. The deep-sea dive view is having an attitude to share; the attitude that serving another is about serving the self in another. Continuous practice of such an attitude helps a person look at themselves as connected to all living forms. 

The degree of differentiation between one aatma and another is bridged by seva. The consciousness contained becomes the consciousness expanded leading to automatic growth. Identifying with the forest or with the world of plants is far more magnifying than identification with the solitary tree. This expansion of individual consciousness was Gurudev’s aim through seva. Imagine the difference in scope between ‘I am one’ and ‘I am all!’

Identification with the individual self-ensured attachments and self-centred aspirations. It brought on limitations of the mind and, therefore, limitations to growth. The universe shrunk into a home, the sea into a glass, conditioning the being to live and think with boundaries.

Seva helped to reverse all that. It led to respect of the self by the self, creating a unison of the body with the spirit, thereby creating the infrastructure for collaboration and growth. This four-letter word SEVA brought about a change in all four directions. 

Gurudev gave the concept of seva a lot more depth. He practiced seva in various ways. Spiritual healing was just one of them. He gave ‘barkat’ to those who were in financial difficulty. Protection to those who were threatened by spirits and other negative energies. He served aspirants by helping them on the spiritual path. He often helped replenish the rations of those who could not afford to buy their own food. What made him unique was that he manipulated people’s destinies by taking on some of their negatives. If one of the devotees had not eaten, he would forego his meal as a sacrifice. He used his connections with other saints and deities to broaden the bandwidth for providing help to others.

What I found hard to imitate was that he served even those who were not so perceivably nice. He did not judge them and asked us not to either. I am still not close to achieving that goal. In short, he would help whoever, whenever, and however he could. His inputs and investments comprised of his power, time, physical capabilities, his potential and connectivity. He set goals not for people but for saints. I wish there was something called ‘Part time Shiv’ so that you and I could aspire to reach at least that benchmark.   

On a more serious note, let us dive deeper into the subject of seva by hearing the opinions of others. FC Sharma ji was one of Gurudev’s senior-most disciples and a man who was an icon of humility. He delivers a message from Gurudev. 

FC Sharma ji: He always said I have not come here for fun and games. I have come to awaken people; to tell them, “Wake up. There is God and he is within you. Why do you run here and there searching for him? Just remember him and do seva. Think of everyone as a form of God.”

Gurudev’s teachings were short and sweet; more like ek vakyas or single sentences. Here is one he shared with Giri ji about seva. 

Q: What did Gurudev mean when he said ‘seva’?

Giri ji: About seva, he said, “Whoever comes to you for any problem, solve their problems by serving them.”

Q: It can be any problem?

Giri ji: Any problem, any problem—physically, mentally, financially—with lots of spiritual mantras which have been given.

Q: So, all problems that anyone has can be solved through mantras?

Giri ji: Mantras and seva. Not only mantras, yes. 

Q: So…

Giri ji: Dedication and faith.

Q: Dedication and faith in…

Giri ji: In your guru. In the guru.

Bittu ji returns to provide an inside view of Gurudev’s philosophy of seva.

Bittu ji: Seva was his main motto. He believed he had to do everything he could for people. He never took care of his body. If people were standing to meet him and if he, after all he was in human form, caught fever or a cold, he put his problems aside; he never cared for his own welfare.

It was Buddhe Baba, his mysterious spiritual mentor, who initiated him into spiritual seva in this incarnation. All the Shiv graphics like Om, Trishul, Nandi, Ganpati, that appeared on his hands, and other body parts, gave him the capability to use these powers for the benefit of others. Buddhe Baba changed the Gayatri mantra which Gurudev recited into the Maha Gayatri, kickstarting Gurudev’s steep spiritual ascent in the years to come.

 Nagpal ji was Gurudev’s colleague at the Ministry of Agriculture who spent several months in a year with him at his official camps. He was witness to the first public healing that happened out of Gurgaon in a place called Kurwai in Madhya Pradesh. Thereafter, on a much larger scale at Ashok Nagar, about 70 kilometres further. As Nagpal ji passed on a decade ago, it is impossible for us to re-record him. So, do bear with a few audio disturbances. 

Nagpal ji: Our camp moved to Ashok Nagar at the district headquarters, in the interior of the village. People started visiting; people with pain in their knees, people who came sitting on bullock carts went back running. There were so many people. We were amazed by the magical powers he had. How he did it! It started in Kurwai. In Guna, there were scores of bullock carts waiting. Each cart had 15-20 people who had come to get cured. This was around 1973-74.

Up next is Naubatram ji, Gurudev’s neighbour in Shivpuri, who spent a lot of time with him in those early years.

Q: How did you know him?

Naubatram ji: Firstly, he was my neighbour and, secondly, my son had a problem.

Q: What problem?

Naubatram ji: He had an allergy.  

Q: Ok.

Naubatram ji: He told me to contact him whenever my son had any problem, be it night or day. Whenever he had a problem, I went to him, sometimes in the night at 11pm, 1 am and even 2 am. He spoke to me even if I disturbed him during his meditation. He would say, “Now you can go home.” When I reached home, my son was alright! 

From the day he started seva, he was available to people at all hours of the day and night. He cared a tuppence for his inconvenience or for that matter his family’s. His time commitment increased as the numbers increased. 

Subash Sabharwal, an erstwhile classmate from school, reconnected with Gurudev in the last few years of Gurudev’s life. Although he wasn’t obsessed with spiritualism, he was in awe of Gurudev. He remembers the Mahaguru’s largesse. 

Subhash ji: He looked after food, water, living arrangements of people, distributed clothes, helped fund marriages. He arranged so many weddings. All the money was spent by Guruji. What did Guruji possess? He even spent his provident fund on others. 

From Subhashgiri to Shivpuri. Rewind. 

Mataji recounts how seva started at their home in Shivpuri in Gurgaon, sometime in 1974. Gurudev was still a new kid on the block. However, by now, he enjoyed the assistance and protection of the being called Buddhe Baba. But he certainly did not enjoy beginner’s luck. 

The first case at Shivpuri in Gurgaon was one of spiritual politics and Guru avhelna. A lady had insulted her Guru who had blessed her with a child. Her guru had put a curse on her that she would have a miscarriage in the fourth month of every pregnancy. Gurudev fought to champion her cause, faced a spiritual attack, but stood his ground. Unfortunately, the patient in question did not follow instructions and paid the price.  Listen on. 

Mataji: The public started coming slowly. At the time, two women came. One of them had come to request motherhood. Her guru had cursed her with no children. It’s a long story. Her guru had cursed her when she was 4 months pregnant. The guru had visited her home. Her husband said that their guru had come to their home, so she must give him something. They were expecting a child and he attributed it to guru kripa. He asked her to give him a gift. She asked the guru what he wanted since he had blessed her with a child. The guru said he did not have any desires, but the bus fare had cost him Rs 1.25 paisa, so she could give him the amount for journey onwards. He would ask someone else for the return fare. The woman refused! While leaving, the guru cursed her saying she would remain as she was, and would not never progress. After that, she would get pregnant every year, but after 4 months, suffer a miscarriage. It was a curse. She had come for that. Guruji told them that he would not do anything at the time as our daughter, Alka, was few weeks old. He told her to come on a Thursday after 40 days. That was the first time. 

When she came the second time, her guru’s spirit came in, and questioned Guruji as to how he could help his shishya when he had cursed her! Why was he giving her a child? Guruji said, “She has come of her own accord. Do not send your disciples. I do not call them. She has come for help and I shall help her,” he said. The lady’s guru responded, “Send her to my sthan to seek forgiveness.” Guruji asked the woman to go but not take anything from there. She had to bow her head and seek forgiveness. When the woman went, someone gave her a locket, and she suffered another miscarriage! The baby died. She had no idea how it happened! 

Q: Then?

Mataji: Then the sthan caught fire, when the guru’s spirit entered it. 

Q: In Shivpuri?

Mataji: Yes. Guruji did not let me come inside due to the fire. He extinguished it, cleaned the room, and sent the women home. 

Q: So, after these two women came….

Mataji: After that, people started coming, and the number started increasing. 

Q: Kept increasing…

The small number of visitors grew to long lines of 40 to 50 thousand on a Thursday designated every month for seva. This day came to be known as ‘Bada Guruvar’. 

At the camps where Gurudev performed mass healings like Kathog, Renuka, Ashok Nagar etc. the daily number of visitors would be in thousands extending over days. In short, lakhs would visit these camps he set up, sometimes in remote areas.

In the course of two decades or so, he provided relief to millions with the help of his disciples and through collaborations he forged with several spiritual greats like Buddhe Baba, Parshuram ji, Lord Shankar, Ashwin Kumars, erstwhile saints, several devis, devta’s etc. It was like a spiritual blitzkrieg!

The divya aatma meaning enlightened being made an example of his life and became a beacon for generations to follow. In fact, a major portion of his seva was done astrally. He would go into paath, a kind of samadhi, and leave the body to visit people whom he felt obliged to help and heal. 

All through life, Gurudev remained a man of generosity beyond his means. He may not have had the money to spend extravagantly but he believed in contributing his time and body towards his mission of seva. With him necessity was the mother of invention. His spiritual practice was done at a very frugal level. There was no question of building edifices and ashrams, so he invented the concept of home temples called sthans. At almost no cost, seva was performed at the homes of disciples and this led to a multiple location establishment. 

Giri Lalwani reports. 

Q: What was Gurudev’s philosophy behind opening sthans at so many places?

Giri ji: There were so many people who could not afford to come to Gurgaon, so to give access to people. You can say he was good in marketing like Thumbs up, Coke or Pepsi; it should reach each and everybody. Seva should be given to each and every one all over the world, not only in India but everybody and everywhere. That is the only reason. Within a short time, they should get seva, without spending much money.

Pratap Singh was Gurudev’s boss and an agnostic. Although years of acquaintanceship did not infect his agnosticism, it certainly made him respect his junior and take up for him. For an office boss to testify that Gurudev hardly had much of a personal life, and that he would devote most of his life and time to others, showed how the scent of the man could not be contained either by his career compulsions or family needs. He was always open and available to those who needed him and wanted his help. 

Pratap Singhji expired a few years ago or we would have been happy to re-interview him. But since that is not possible, you will have to bear with a little more audio disturbance. 

Pratap ji: He was very simple. He had no bad habits. Why? He never had time of his own. He would go home for two minutes and there would be 50 people waiting to meet him. At the office, there would be cars waiting for him. He was a thorough gentleman; a human being who helped people. He has given a lot of things to others be it people in pain, those with cancer or any other kind of illness. 

At office, he would often distribute part of his salary to those who requested him for help. The man who stood sentinel below his office, Gupta ji, the tea stall owner, testifies:

Q: I have heard that Guruji would offer his salary to people on salary day itself.

Gupta ji: He would just distribute it.

Q: Have you seen him do this?

Gupta ji: I have. People would be standing in line to take Gurudev’s salary. He’d give Rs. 100 to some, Rs. 200 to some.

Q: People would stand in line?

Gupta ji: Yes, some from the office, some from outside. Mostly they were office people.

The man with seemingly little, did a lot. 

We would have normally said Gurudev was suckered by some of his junior employees in the office but he did not look at it like that. In fact, when one of his disciples asked as to why everyone put their tea’s expense on his account, he said, “Woh kal bhi peethe the, hum kal bhi pilate the. Woh aaj bhi pite hai, hum aaj bhi pilate hai.Woh kal bhi piyenge, hum kal bhi pilayenge.” That was his kind of attitude. 

Anand Parashar was one of Gurudev’s junior colleagues. He worked with him and worshiped him at the same time.

Anand ji: He never differentiated between people. We never saw him do it. To tell you the truth, he never had time. Mostly during lunch break, he would meet people waiting for him outside the office. We would inform him, “Guruji, people are waiting for you. Can you please come?” If people came to him with hope, it was his duty to help them. He had got all these powers from nature, so he did his duty.  He always cooperated from his end.

These were examples of people who looked at him with awe. We realised that we could admire with ease but not easily imitate. Even the CIA would have certified that this was not a man whom you could easily impersonate. 

Bittu ji renders a heart-warming story of Gurudev’s attitude towards seva. To him it was not about earning any brownie points or impressing the self or others. His consciousness demanded caring in a very matter-of-fact manner.

Q. I have seen that once a person becomes spiritually advanced, he does not communicate with others. Was it the same with him? Did he speak to everyone? How was his nature?

Bittu ji: Whoever met him, no matter the number, he was completely involved in their lives—in their joy, sorrow and trouble. He never made anyone feel distant. People used to wait to meet him; they felt that he was theirs alone. 

Q. How many people visited Guruji daily or Bada Guruvar during the peak time of his life?

Bittu ji: On Shivratri and Guru Purnima, people came from across India and the world to visit him. Around 60,000-80,000 people came. On Bada Guruvar, approximately 15,000-20,000 visited him. Secondly, when people came on Shivratri or Guru Purnima, the functions extended over 2-3 days. People waited in line for 10-12 hours on Bada Guruvar. Sometimes, Bada Guruvar began on Wednesday afternoon or evening, and extended till Friday morning. Guru Purnima would continue for 5 days, and people would wait 5 days to see him. On Shivratri, for 2 to 3 days.

Q.  One question arises – Mathematically, if 60,000 came to meet him, then those 60,000, let’s assume he met one person per minute, then he could just meet 1,000 people in 18 hours. 

Bittu ji: On functions like Shivratri and Guru Purnima, Guruji never spoke to anyone. 

Q.  How many people did he meet?

Bittu ji: Often, he went outside to bless people standing in line. Many times, he blessed 2-3 people in one second. He used to bless them through his eyes. He would not sit. Guru Purnima would last 5 days because he used to sit and bless the coconuts. That is why it took 4-6 days. On Shivratri, he would go outside and bless people for an hour—sometimes blessing 15-20 people in a minute.

Q: How would the 40000- 60,000 people be taken care of?  

Bittu ji: There was a community kitchen to feed them. Their living arrangements were made. We put up people from out of town at our expense. Earlier, when we did not have space, we used to request people from the locality for living quarters. Someone gave two rooms, some gave three. The langar was at our sthan. We tried to give them the best facilities we could.

The four pillars of the management of the Gurgaon sthan were Bittu-Gurudev’s adopted son (kind of), Gaggu, Gurudev’s nephew, Nikku-his wife’s nephew, and Pappu, who was not a nephew! As far as good behaviour goes, none in the quad had learnt how to spell the word. If anybody could bully Gurudev and get away with it, it was not the Devi-Devtas, it was these four. They felt a sense of ownership towards Gurudev and always wanted his comfort. It was not uncommon to see the mahaguru pleading with them not to force him to eat, to let him carry on with his activities. I guess you could call them the sthan’s version of the ‘Four Muskeeters’.

In discussion are Nikku ji and Gaggu ji. 

Q: Can you tell us Gurudev’s daily routine? 

Nikku ji: He awoke early in the morning at around 6 or 6.30 am, got ready and left for office. Sometimes he would come home early around 2 or 2.30 pm or 3 pm. If he was late, then he would go straight to the farm and return home by 7.00 or 8 pm. 

Q: After coming home by 7 or 8 pm, what would he do for the rest of the evening? 

Nikku ji: If people were waiting for him, then he would meet them. If he came home early at 2.30 or 3 pm or 4pm, then he would do his paath and you would never know when he would wake up. Sometimes, he would finish by 11:30 pm or 12 am or even 2 am. People used to wait for him till 11.30 pm or 12 am. This was routine and after 12 am they would leave as they knew he would not people. If Guruji finished his paath by 8.30 or 9 pm or 9.30 pm or even 10 pm, then he would ask, “How many people are waiting?” If there were round 50 or 60 or 20, he would meet and bless them. His blessings were enough!

Q: So, he had a very hectic and stressful lifestyle? 

Pappu ji: No, generally his lifestyle was not very hectic; he was always in a good mood. He was not stressed. He met few people till 2 am but very few people, not all. By 11.30 pm or 12 am, he would finish meeting visitors & patients. Then, he would meet his disciples till 2 am. After say 2 am, 2:30 am or 3 am. he would eat his dinner. Sometimes, he ate in the morning at 4 am! Guruji ate his food at 4 am! And we ate around 5 am! 

Nikku ji: There was no fixed time for sleep. 

Pappu ji: No. there was no set time.

Nikku ji: Generally, people sleep by 11 pm, 11.30 pm or 2 pm. There was nothing like that. Also, there was no fixed time for meals. 

Pappu ji: Dinner was generally after 2 am. Even on normal days, it was after 2 am only.

Gurudev never treated seva like a hobby. He treated it as one does one’s main business. Though a day in his life was long, he somehow managed to make the two ends of time meet. His day was more like an MP3 day - fully compressed. 

If you are wondering what happened to the night? We happened to the night. 

We would sit and pester him after he had finished meeting patients and visitors. We would barge into his room and shamelessly sit there till 2 am or so.  So, the man lived from day to day, with all the nights missing so to speak. Some of this tireless culture of selfless service infused itself into our psyche. We learnt to follow his example--if not in whole, then at least in parts. 

Let’s extract some information from Giri ji.

Giri ji:  He was always fresh and smiling. I never saw him tired in my life.

Q: Did you ever ask him how he managed to stay fresh all this time?

Giri ji:  No. Actually, I never saw him sleeping also. I asked him “Gurudev ji, you don’t sleep?” He said, “Son, if the Guru sleeps, then everything finishes. How can I sleep?” He meant that a Guru can never sleep; the Guru has to be awake for 24 hours. He didn’t tell me this but I could make out that suppose seva keeps going on, all over the world. It’s day here, afternoon here, and seva is going on here, but when its night here, seva is going on in Chicago, or the Canada sthan, or any other place, as the timings are different, and seva, all his disciples take his name during seva. It means they remember him and then cure people. Without taking his name, they cannot cure anybody. So, he said, “I have to be awake. I have to see that everyone gets cured; everybody gets what they want.”

For him, sleep was a completely different kettle of fish. It was not about the body going through various stages of sleep. He would leave his body and travel while his physical body would remain lifeless. And then he would re-enter his body after 2, 3, 4 hours. I guess it came as a shock to us because this was not a subject, we were familiar with. We didn't know how he survived without sleep because we sat with him until 2 a.m. and then he was up again at 5 a.m., doing his normal chores. So, it was a bit of a mind fox for most of us. But we did eventually figure out that his sleep requirements were very limited, and he also knew the secret of how to make half his body sleep while keeping the other half awake. Very convenient. Very successful. 

Rajpal ji talks about why he found Gurudev to be so different from other spiritualists. An interesting point he brings to the fore is that Gurudev never allowed himself to be indebted to others, neither in favours nor with money and donations. In one sentence, he was not a purchasable commodity, and hence his strange strategies. 

Rajpal ji: Wherever I have gone, I have seen people giving money to saints who accepted this money. People brought them food, and they would eat first, and others would eat later. Arrangements would be made for their comfortable stay. However, I have never seen Guruji accept money from anyone. For example, one Sikh man had a headache, so Guruji said, “Son, I will cure you right away, but you must not eat non-vegetarian food or drink alcohol.” Two weeks later, the man came with a briefcase for Guruji. So, Guruji asked him what was in it. He said, “Guruji, my headache would never get cured. I even visited big hospitals. I decided I would give the person who cured my headache Rs 1 lakh. You cured my headache without any medicines, and for the past 15 days I have been headache-free. You made me drink a glass of water. So, I have got this money for you.” Guruji said, “If I take this money, as soon as I touch the briefcase, your headache will return.” Seeing this and much more, I experienced that this man was different. He was not like the other saints. 

Gurudev believed in physical contribution to seva-his own! At times, a stranger could have believed that he was a farm hand in a safari suit. Giri ji remembers.

Giri ji: He was deeply involved in cultivation that he never bothered about his nicely ironed clothes --white pants, white shirt, his shoes, they all used to covered in muck. I asked him once, “How come you love cultivation so much?” Then he told me even Guru Nanak Dev ji loved cultivation. He said, “I wish to grow grain with my own hands; make food with my own hands to feed all my children and disciples from all over, like you, who come from everywhere.” He used to love it when people would come to him; eat and stay with him. He used to love people, and he wanted to feed everyone with his own hands, and he used to do just that.

When it came to seva, he did not differentiate between man and beast! He regarded all life forms as an extension of himself. This inspired me to treat even insects with respect and not see them as creepy crawlies! I have never seen a better showcasing of the concept of ‘Aham brahmasmi’.

‘Aham brahmasmi’ means I identify myself not as a limited identifiable person but a part of the unidentified cosmic being. A person’s consciousness has to go beyond the physical attachments and labels to see itself as ‘Aatma’ or ‘Param Aatma’ and not as ‘Jivaatma’. 

What follows is the judgement of a judge not on matters of legality but on those of humanity. Over to Virender ji.

Q: What kind of love for animals did you notice in Gurudev? 

Virender ji: The love for animals was profound in him. Absolutely profound. He would go to the farm; he would milk the cows. He would feed the cows with his own hands and he would keep so many dogs. He was the one who would serve them and love them. One day I went to his farm. I had no inclination that he will come. I had noticed some ticks on the dogs. So, I took that red medicine with me and I was cleaning the dogs and was I giving them tick bath. Suddenly, he arrived and patted by back and said “You are my son. (Tu mera putt hai)”. Just one sentence. “You are my son. (Tu mera putt hai).” And I could see all the all love of the world, all the love of the world, virtually drenching me; drenching each pore of me. This is what he was.

A humble request to all listeners is to please take this page from his book of life. Do learn to feel a commonality with all life forms. Do serve them as best as you can. Seva is his legacy to all. If seva can catapult a village lad into a spiritual giant, it can also do a lot for you. Try it.

Pehalwan ji, who did seva by looking after Gurudev’s farm in Gurgaon, is a devotee beyond measure. Simple in thought but loyal to the bone is he. He narrates the story of Bajrang, a monkey at the Khandsa farm. Gurudev had found him a female monkey companion. Their child had died and Gurudev went into paath to ensure the monkey’s infant got rebirth as a human being. 

Pehelwan ji: A monkey named Bajrang died. It had been a few days. Gurudev asked, “Where is Bajrang?” Someone told him “He died.” Gurudev asked “Why didn’t anyone inform me?” Then Gurudev went on paath for half an hour. When he returned, Ram Nivas, who used to build houses, asked him, “You have to do your paath for a monkey too?” Gurudev replied “Yes, son. He lived with us; he entertained us. He used to make us laugh.” Then Ram Nivas asked “What did he take birth as?” Gurudev said “I have made him take birth in a human form. Whatever deficiencies remain; I have filled with the seva my disciples have done.”  

From monkey to human meant circumventing many yonis or life cycles. Where was Darwin when this conversation took place, I wonder? 

Giving birth in human-form to monkeys, dogs, and some snakes, certainly defied the processes and parameters of nature. I guess in the affairs of saints, mother nature chooses to look the other way.

Not too many homosapiens have had a relationship and intuitive communication with the four-legged ones. Gurudev did. Giri ji stresses this point further.

Giri ji: Animals I have seen, in fact, when he took me to the farmhouse. He was fond of cattle, cows and buffaloes. He took me there. The moment he reached, all the cows and buffaloes started making noises and when he asked them calm down, there was pin drop silence. He told me, “I have named them”, and as he said, “Kali!”, one cow turned her face and mooed, then he said, “Saraswati,” and some cow from the left side turned her face and mooed and then he said, “Sundari” like this. So, he kept calling their names. He had given them names and they used to talk to him when he called them. There were monkeys also, Dharmendra, and one female monkey, Rekha.  He would converse with them. He used to talk to them and he could understand their language. There were deer also. The farmhouse is made in such a way, it is right inside, say about half a kilometre inside. Once he asked me to wait for him there and he will join. But before he would arrive, all the sevadaars would know that Guru ji has come. I thought, ‘How did they come to know?’. The second day, the same thing happened. They said, “Guruji has come.” Third day also. So, I thought I must ask them. I went there and asked, “How do you come to know that Guruji has arrived at the gate which is 500 meters away?” They told me that they do not come to know but when Guruji reaches the gate, the animals, these deers start dancing and these cows and buffaloes start making noise. They said, “We know because of them that Guru ji has arrived.” They could sense. So, this was the love that I should say Gurudev had towards everything, not everybody but everything.

Seva was his ‘Takiya-kalaam’, his motto. He indulged in it whole heartedly.  His time, body, mind revolved around this practice. He inspired, cajoled, and even pleaded with people to serve others.  On the subject of seva, he was not only the greatest but also the latest. If we do not learn his secret, we would be losing an opportunity of a lifetime which could lead to opportunities of several lifetimes. 

Let us serve as best as we can as a salutation to this great Master; as a salutation to our own great aatma. 

Please let us! 

He who delegates his supernatural abilities to others, certainly has some expectations of their results. The seva he initiated was the effort of one man helped by a few. His expectation, I assume, would be that those whom he added potency to, can do more, can do a lot more. 

Bhuli bisari chand umeedein, chand fasane yaad aaye

Bhuli bisari chand umeedein, chand fasane yaad aaye

Tum yaad aaye aur tumhare saath zamane yaad aaye