Passage 19

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After you retire, then, if you wish, come here and settle; that is a joy. But the children and their responsibilities are many. There is their schooling. There is the law of your duty. Do your duty properly, right there. For the rest: if you come to Praśānti Nilayam, you may do well for some days. But in the end, by joining the crowd here, your mind may become all the more confused. So you need not come here. Don't come. Stay right there and do service. Wherever it is done, service is service. Swami expects no service. I do My own work Myself. There are so many here, all our children. Who does service to Me? But they wish, just like you, to do Swami's service. Sacred service falls to some sacred people. You need not do service to Me. Just because you have not done service, I do not think of you as people far from Me. I never expect service. Do your own service yourselves. Carry out your own duty. I need no service. I am 73 years old. My legs are sound. My eyes are very sound. My ears are sound. My hands are sound. I can do My work Myself. So I do not expect anyone else's service. Do service to those who have no strength. Think of that itself as Swami's service. You think, ‘Swami may have a pain in the leg; how does He go about?’ I have never had a pain in the leg. I have not suffered any pain. When I take on someone else's, I suffer it; otherwise I have no pain of My own. Apart from that, this body has no troubles. Whenever it is checked, blood pressure normal. Dr. Alreja knows. Now and then I say, ‘Alreja, how much is the blood pressure?’ ‘Swami, perfect, normal,’ he said. Usually 120/80 is normal. But for Me it is 117/78; that is perfect normal, correct B.P. ‘Look at the pulse,’ I say. Checking Your pulse: 68. Perfect normal. However long I speak, whatever work I do, neither My B.P. nor anything else rises. The body is that sacred. That itself is purity, patience, perseverance. Because these three have come together, it is sacred. So none of you need do service to Me.