LIVE THE LIFE ... 1

LIVE THE LIFE ... 1

If you wish to serve, live the life. Then your enthusiasm will be infectious and will draw people to your cause. It is life that breathes life into others, it is the ideal actualised in one's own movement that infuses spirit into those that are in the surrounding sphere. A forest catches fire when the first leaf burns. So does a spiritual movement. The first spark builds up into the final conflagration that consumes all the dross in human society and gives it a fresh lease of life. So, live the life if you wish to inspire others with a like living, if you aspire to transform human society, if you aim at redirecting the course of culture and civilisation. But these are vast ends to conceive of, far less achieve. You need God's commission to do it. But you need not worry about the magnitude of your doing. Begin it small but do it well, sincerely and unselfishly, and the power will come if you are pure in your ways and means, in your motivations and movements. Let us then make a beginning. Jai Ramakrishna!

Written by Sugata Bose 

Photo: Ramakrishna Math, Mekhliganj, Cooch Behar, a branch centre of Belur Math.