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vaiyAvậtya : selfless servicethe prevailing circumstances but springs from within. Therefore, his heart does not harbour any attachment for sensory enjoyments and pleasures to be derived from them; he gets detached from such sensory pleasures, which means that the servant becomes a yogi.
The fame and glory that the indulgent runs after pursue the servant. However, even the pursuing fame and glory cannot bind the servant. For him the service (vaiyāvrtya) is a penance and penance is like fire As the fire blazes it reduces the fuel to ashes. Similarly, as the penance of service gathers more and more momentum until it burns the fuel of sensuality and passions and reduces them to inconsequential ash. When the servant surrenders whatever he has for the welfare of the world and does not save anything for his own pleasures, he becomes completely and fully detached (vītarāga). It is true that only the infinitely giving can be fully detached. Anyone whose charity lacks even a little cannot be fully detached. One who surrenders everything - his senses, mind, body, wealth, etc., - to the world becomes fully detached. It is only the charitable that are noble, rich and great.
By rendering service the servant never becomes weak, but on the contrary as his inclination to serve becomes stronger so do his power, capacity, and prowess. His renunciation is always on the increase.
The selfishness of the servant and his desire for sensory pleasures is increasingly on the wane. As he becomes free from desires, he never feels deficient. It is the feeling of deficiency that denotes poverty. Lack of this feeling indicates richness and majesty.
As the sensory pleasure wanes so the taste or pleasure of selffulfilment increases. This pleasure of self-fulfilment itself is the true pleasure. This is referred to as the destruction of the enjoyment obstructing karma.
In the field of service the importance is of both the renunciation of selfishness as well as sensory pleasures. When the selfishness is given up, the available things, powers and abilities are automatically
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