It really was worth contemplation. ЁЯе░

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Yesterday I was listening to a random YouTube video of a saintly person. In between his talk, he happened to narrate the lives of great bhaktas of last few centuries.┬а

FRIENDS, IT WAS AN EYE OPENER for me.

He narrated the sewa bhav of a saint of Ayodhya, which left a┬а deep mark on my mind.┬а He narrated that although he was a realised soul, having many followers and disciples who would do anything at his one command, yet such deep was his own bhakti and sewa bhaav that he used to quietly get up in the mid of night , take the broom along, go to the ghat of maa saryu, wipe the excreta of random visitors ( рдпрд╛рддреНрд░реА рдЧрдг ) of рдЕрдпреЛрдзреНрдпрд╛ Nagri , and put sand on it. He would then quietly clean up the area, come back, take his bath, do morning rituals and get settled in his asan to greet his disciples etc.

In nut shell, he was doing dirtiest of dirty; lowest of low┬а sewa of common man and that also anonymously. ЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕П

This left me wondering, speechless and humbled.

Since then I have been contemplating over this.

The YouTube speaker emphasised upon this point that lowest of low the form of sewa, quickest and purest its results. This quickly burns our┬а unknown paap karmas of past.┬а Picking up the excreta of humans is perhaps the lowest of low job. A saint doing it with sewa bhaav is simply next level of spirituality ЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕ПЁЯЩЗтАНтЩАя╕П

The scenes of sevadars cleaning washrooms in gurudwaras and at radha swami satsang grounds got┬а fresh in my memory.┬а

This made me analyse my position (рд╕реНрдерд┐рддрд┐ ). Am I any near to such great level of spirituality ЁЯдФ.

Very honestly speaking – NOT AT ALL.

But this CONTEMPLATION over sewa bhaav made me a better person, at least for a day. The YouTube talk motivated me to clean all three washrooms of my own house ЁЯе░ЁЯе░ЁЯе░ЁЯе░ЁЯе░. I asked myself as to why I expect other family members to do this job. And SEWA begin from home. Spirituality begin from this very place, where I am right now.

Isn’t it so?ЁЯШКЁЯШК

Am sharing all this here, as YOU are the only person who would understand me. Rest all are so judgemental. тЭдтЭдтЭдтЭд

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Jai Shri Hari