In plain words
Mukti is not won by japa and tapas, nor by pilgrimages, nor by reading the scriptures. If you would cross the ocean of saṃsāra, you must serve the good. Service matters greatly. Believing that God is present in every living being, you must love all beings and serve them. In service you must kill your Ahaṅkāra. So long as there is the Ahaṅkāra that says, “I am doing service,” it does not deserve the name of service. Do service in the feeling, “Every action is for the pleasure of God.” Many people are doing service. But do they experience its fruit? You must recognise the chief inner meaning of service. Only when you forget yourself and offer the service you do to God does it become true service. Small though the service may be, when you do it thinking of it as done for the pleasure of God, that very service turns into something great.
He who serves and he who is served are one
Who is serving whom? Who is being served? He who serves and he who is served are one. “The one Ātma, the inner Ātma of all beings”; “Truth is One; the wise speak of It in many ways.” There is only One. Whatever is done is done to that One alone. “Ek Prabhu ke anek nām”: the names may differ, but the Lord is one. So names and forms are not what matters to us. Purity of feeling is true Bhakti. God loves the inner feeling; He does not love outward show. To God, who loves the inner feeling, we must do service with a holy feeling. You must turn life itself into the yoga of service. Devotees from Bejawada have come here today after doing bhajans and village service for 76 days. Besides this, more than a thousand devotees from Shirdi visited many holy places and came here from Kanyakumari. God gave this body for service alone. To make this body worthwhile, you must take up good deeds. To take part in the service of society with a good feeling is man's first duty. You must think of this body as an instrument granted to you so that you may serve with love. In all beings God stands as the one who looks on. Your breath, going in and going out 21,600 times a day: “So…