In English
Be eager and alert to render service
Within the next few days you, members of the and of the Volunteer Force gathered here from all the states of India and even from beyond the seas, have a number of service assignments facing you. You have to shoulder heavy responsibilities and execute various duties in the spirit of , which enjoins you to revere duty as God and to engage in work not as dreary drudgery, but as worship of the Lord Himself. You have dedicated yourselves to , which has to be saturated in selfless love. The service that you render must reward you, not only with your satisfaction, but with the satisfaction and relief of those whom you serve. When those whom you serve are not relieved or made happy thereby, of what avail is your elation or exultation at the help you have been allowed to offer? You should have the joy of the recipient as your objective. Do not sit back and talk of your having done what is expected of you, but try to discover whether your act of service has really been worth-while, whether it has been intelligently rendered with full appreciation of the peculiar circumstances of the individual who needed it. Do not feel that this is an obligation imposed on you by the rules of the Organisation or by the person nominated as your leader. Do not feel that the scarf and badge that you wear are impediments to freedom. They are reminders of the high mission to which you have been initiated, the keys to your Realisation of reality through the of . Even when you do not wear the scarf or parade the badge, you must be eager and alert to render to fellow-beings who need it.