Holding hands in the great chain of life.

One does not have to go into a mystical trance to have a religious experience.
One does not have to burn incense, beat drums, ring bells, bend knees or deprive the body of food to see visions of God.
We live in a service-oriented universe, galaxy, and solar system. The tiniest part to the most gigantic part all serve the overall needs of the whole. The only reason communism and communes as well as many other co-operative ventures humans take up are not successful, is because as a group, humans do not serve the whole but only the self. They do not ask, what is best for all of us, they only ask what is best for me.

That is a question no part of the created cosmos, except human beings, would ask or could ask because everything created, is enfolded within larger systems, which are in turn enfolded into even larger systems, in one long chain of life.

Human beings wonder why their lives are full of strife, pain, lack of necessities, anger, and disease, and why the world of humans cannot be happy or content. This is because they are not following the natural design. This is the flow of life, which upholds every other part.

The ignorance of the way things work, is not universal to all humans, but it is widespread, and the ignorance far outweighs the knowledge of this basic fact. The misunderstanding of the word serve, is due to the use of the term, as used in the human world. To serve, in the human world, means you are considered of a low stature, as a slave or indentured one, a butler, a cleaning person or anyone who humbles himself to do menial work.

It is an ego illusion to think that to do work itself is demeaning, when there is nothing like the pride of fulfilling a need, only some never allow themselves to feel this pride or pleasure, which deprives them of a balanced outlook. This wonderful feeling of accomplishment only comes when one fulfills a need stemming from their own free will and heart and not expected or forced to do so.

It means you see that your own best interests are served by seeing a need and filling it, or refraining from action which in not in the best interest of others.
Pick a flower and see how the petals are arranged so they all catch the rays of the sun. They do that for survival of the whole plant. When a human body suffers from cancer it is because the mind of that person is out of tune and feels stress, often self- inflicted.

The soil of the earth supports the plants, the plants of the earth support the animals and humanity with food, in this helpful chain of service. Animals after eating the plants, leave droppings that enrich the earth. It is a symphony of service, except some of the musicians in the human realm have been playing some very sour notes and the dissonance and disharmony is resounding throughout the galaxy.

The word love has been distorted by human ignorance, and many do not recognize, that to love and to serve are the same thing.

Therefore for clarity, insert the word serve instead of love and you will come to see that this service to the whole is all around us in every place except in human minds and does not take away from oneself but adds to oneself.
But you might ask, how can I serve the greater needs and my own needs at the same time? If I do not invest with this company who rapes the earth I will lose the high dividend shares and I will end up losing profits.

The person who says this does not see the great chain that links us all to life. What good does piles of profits do, when the earth that serves all must be harmed? Money is a human construct and those who cannot see this chain only see themselves standing on a tiny island of fear that someday there will not be enough, while they underwrite efforts which deplete instead of work to give back. One cannot keep on taking and give nothing back. This is not the way things work.

The rain does not lose any of itself by falling to the ground and pouring out its moisture upon the earth, yet with that thinking in place, one might ask what does the rain get out of it? Or what does the sun get out of it by shining or what pay back do the trees get from bringing shade and making fruit to serve the needs of others?
Yet although those seem like silly questions, that is exactly how some humans see their service or kindness. What’s in it for me, they say.

What is in it for them, is happiness, which they cannot see, for to them happiness is tied in with illusions like having money, possessions, displaying their special garments, jewelry, and outward signs of what they consider worth. They believe they exist in their own encapsulated world. They believe they do not have to serve, but instead exist to be served by others. If nature tried to exist in that way, it would collapse overnight in chaos, because things are not designed like that.

Withdraw from illusions of the human world and see how in reality everything is holding hands to use an allegory, only in the human world the links have been badly broken. When all the links are connected all the links on the chain shine and are happy because as they are served they in turn serve and no link goes in need.

This is so simple yet so glaring that the only thing larger than this truth lies in the human ability to be blinded by their own ego, which says the very idea of to serve is repugnant to some. “I”, they say, am not a servant and therefore will not serve anyone but myself. This “I” ego, is the beast, which has been playing the sour notes in the human minds for centuries.

The sun serves, the moon, the water, air and fire serve. The earth provides and is provided for. What are you asked to do except to serve your own greater needs by serving those of the whole, by love, by caring what happens to others, by sharing, by causing harmony all around you and by spreading a good feeling of cheer and warmth. This comes back to you even in the midst of an uncaring group of humans in the world because this is the way things work. Love is the way things naturally work and by aligning with this way, you can feel the balance returning to your whole being.



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Two things to remember though. First, what might be the greater good for the 'collective' is not necessarily what is best for a given individual. Some people find this hard to accept, thinking, 'How can what is the greatest good for the greatest number not be good for an individual'? But, just as with flawed individuals, the collective first serves itself, with the 'hope', or sometimes with the illusion, that its individual members are all being well served, seeing as how the collective is intact and may even be prospering('progressing'). And of course in some extreme cases, the collective is not at all benevolent.

It is, after all, the individuals which make up the collective. They ARE the collective. Without them the collective does not exist. As long as the 'needs' of even one person are not being fulfilled, the collective will never be healthy.

Some say service to others should be 'Enough' to fulfill the emotional/mental/spiritual well being of of an individual. It may be. But it may NOT be enough. And the "fault" is not necesarily with that person who is lacking.

Second; The majority is not always correct. And this is true from earthly local/tribal/State levels, all the way into the universal hierarchies. I'll say that again---The Majority Is Not Always Correct.

I prefer to focus on the well being of the individual first. The building blocks of a collective humanity. As opposed to trying to mold an individual into a preconceived construct.

To paraphrase something I heard long ago, and I can't remember the source:

"I look forward to the day when all of human history, will be the story of one man, meeting one woman, and they becoming friends".
THE END

Hello Guest
This of course is the ideal and cannot work as earth is now with two orientations. Modern society is the result because the more agressive ego based will take and the service oriented will give and that only serves one. This will be for a future time when humanity will be of one orientation..........thank you for the comments........peace to you

Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You an I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.

There are two wars: the inner war and the outer war. The inner war that our soul fights against limitations, ignorance, doubt, and death. The outer war is the war that man fights against man, that nation fights against nation. the outer wars will come to an end only if the inner war stops first. We fight because deep inside us there is disharmony, fear, anxiety, and worry. When we have peace, joy, plenitude, and fulfillment, we shall not wage war.
~Sri Chinmoy



There’s a very fine line between inner and outer work.
We would like, I’m sure, to have all of our actions
come out of enlightenment,
come out of calmness and quietness
and spaciousness and appreciation of what is,
but we’ve taken form.

We are in bodies and by that very nature,
we are lost, involved in action.
We can’t not act, so what we do is act
as consciously as we can, as compassionately
as we can from moment to moment.

The art of using the experiences of life
as a vehicle to awaken is to use them to bring you close
to that calm center and that quietness.
That includes the work you would do to alleviate
the suffering that is inherent in the use of nuclear weapons.

You don’t complete your inner work before you do your outer work.
Nor do you say, "Well, the hell with the inner work:
I’ll go do the outer work because it’s so important and pressing."
That’s not conscious either.

The conscious thing is the simultaneous doing of both.

~Ram Dass