In plain words
Now, a small example. We are servants. This feeling, at least, we must not forget. Every man is a servant. A lord has a servant. A guru has a disciple. A child has parents. Parents who serve the child, a child who serves the parents. The one who serves the guru is the disciple. The one who serves the disciple is the guru. Without a disciple, the meaningful name of guru does not even exist. Without a guru there is no disciple, and without a disciple no guru. Without a father there is no son, and without a son no father. If we enquire in this way, all are servants. The whole world is filled with the feeling of being a servant. First of all we must keep this feeling safe in the heart. Paropakārārthamidaṃ śarīram. The body has come for helping others. What is that help? Doing for him what he cannot do. It is in service of this kind that we must make our life worthwhile. By this very spirit of service man reaches the highest of states. So, truly, we must not do service expecting the fruit. On the day we give up this fruit, on that very day the spirit of service grows in us.
We have states. In this state, they did these services in many villages. Within each state there are some thousands of villages. If, out of so many villages, we decide that only one village is the ideal village, what a shameful thing this is! What is the ideal village you have made? Give the reasons for it; let us see. Going one day and doing nagarasaṅkīrtana: this is an Ideal village. How can it be one? Going one day, whitewashing the school that has fallen down. Coming back. This is an Ideal village. One cannot even call these services. A disgrace. Does anyone go and enquire into it directly? Well then, is the State President going to that village and seeing? Is the District President going to that village and seeing? No one is looking. Today, for an Ideal village, to whom are we to give this prize? Should we give it to the State President? He does not know where that village is. Should we give it to the District President? He does not know what has happened in the village. Shall we give the village something? The village has no form of the five elements. To whom are we to give the prize? Who has the right to receive it? Where does the right to receive it come from? I too do not like to give that prize to those who have no such right. This method itself is very bad.