Baba please help me understand meaning of SEWA.

[rpuril]

Jai Sai Raam,

Hello all Sai Devotees in the name of Sai Baba I am starting this discussion to learn myself and to learn from all of you what "SEWA" means to all of us? In what terms we can do SEWA and how and for whom. Any thoughts are welcome here.

My understanding if you give food to people who are poor and who cannot afford food, give clothes to people who cannot afford clothes will be a good SEWA. I have read in Sai Sachritra that SEWA meant so much to Sai Baba, he will himself prepare food for poor people with his own hands. Also taking care of elderly people like your own parents or anyone else who needs care is Sewa.

Now the good question is in country like USA how we can do this, anyone living outside or in India please answer, how SEWA can be performed and what kind of SEWA can be performed so that we continue towards path what Sai Baba ji has shown to all of us.

We do Bhajans of Sai Baba every other Saturday conducted by www.saikrupa.org in New Jersey USA. My wife cooks some Prasad and we take that to Bhajans, which is disctributed among all devotees at the end of the bhajan. Somehow its just Prasad its not a real Sewa as people who come at Bhajan, can always afoord food in here, I am so confused you all Sai Devotees please show some way out, or I will ask Baba ji please show some way out. We also donate money during our visit at bhajans to the organisation which is used for the bhajans expenses and at some point will be used for builiding temple of Sai baba in New Jersey, but still I am not 100% satisfied this to consider it as SEWA.


Please suggest.

Sai Raam
Rakesh

[OmSaiRamNowOn]

Rakesh Bhai, for some reason I cannot find here other messages from dear bandhus who had responded - may be Ravi Bhai can look into that. But here is little bit more on Seva/Service I found v inspiring.

Mother Theresa in Calcutta was saving a dying man from a gutter. A tourist was passing by and said, “Jeez, I wouldn’t do that for a million dollars. How come you’re doing it?”

Mother Theresa smiled and said, “I wouldn’t do it for a million dollars either.”

The tourist said, “What? You won’t do it for a million dollars?”

Mother Theresa smiled and said, “No, I won’t do it for two million dollars.”

“But you are doing it!”

“It is different. I am doing it for God,” she said.

Man starts his spiritual life with an objective to see the external God in simple ways, at a primary level. Later on he tries to see God as Hrudayavasi, the Indweller, when he matures. And further on he sees God as pervading all, or omnipresence. At that stage he sees God in man. That is when service to man becomes service to God.

Aum Sai Ram !
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-Anju