Three Levels of Devotion🔗

August 18, 2010

I want you to understand the deeper level truths about seva.

The consciousness out of which the action happens decides the purity of seva.

There are three levels of trust or faith that happens in a human being. First, having faith because there is no other goal, no other option. You try so many medicine systems like Siddha, Ayurveda, homeopathy, but the disease is not cured. I take the example of a person having cancer. He tried all other methods, and now he has no other choice, so he has to believe in allopathy. He goes through the allopathy system because of his faith, which is a very low-level faith. No other faith happens. Nothing else can be done. That’s the first level; it is one kind of a faith.

Then the next level of faith happens, because it works. For example, many people come to me for healing in the first level because they have no other option. But they move to the second level, because it starts working. The faith is developed into your system because it works. They come to try out, but the healing

starts working, heals them, and they see their body and mind are becoming better. The trust or faith that happens because it works is the second level. You can say it is practical trust! The first one was unconscious trust. The second one is practical trust. The third type of trust that happens to you is, just because it is there. That the Gopikas had for Krishna. Just because he was there, simply your heart flows. You admire. You just fall for it. You just flow with it. Here it is neither blind faith nor practical faith; just the pure flow of bhakti, love. Just because it is there, you are flowing with it. So just relax, surrender. No other way. This is the highest form of devotion.

Blind faith, practical faith, and extraordinary devotion. When seva happens out of blind faith, it is fear. Any work done out of practical devotion is greed. Any work done out of extraordinary devotion, even if it is a small action, is seva. I tell you, a person who does seva does good to himself and to the world.

Any sentiment which makes sweetness happen in your heart is called a sacred sentiment: devotion. When more and more people dive into the sacred sentiments, enmity reduces and the more life becomes liveable on planet Earth.

Economy and enmity are directly connected. If people trust each other, hoarding and possessing comes down. When enmity amongst people increases, cost increases. When the possessing is less, the cost of living is less. The whole thing boils down to ahimsa.

Sacred sentiments not only reduce wars; they help in economical growth. Any country which cherishes sacred sentiments will have a strong, unshakeable economy. The habitual cherishing of sacred sentiments creates a deep trust in you, makes life affordable, and makes the cost of living easy.