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becomes his own, his own discomforts and miseries vanish or do not matter to him. The reason being that once someone's heart melts at the sight of others' miseries, the pleasure of friendliness and love fills it and there remains no place for feeling his own miseries. Such a pleasure is devoid of all pains and, therefore, it cannot be compared to the pleasure gained through any worldly enjoyment. It is so because the pleasure of love is beyond damage, fulfilment, satisfaction, full satisfaction and deprivation and is infinite and unlimited. It remains ever fresh always and every time and overflows all the time. On the other hand the worldly pleasure gained through sensory enjoyments, honour, riches, power, etc., is always flawed by innumerable flaws like inquietiude, dependence, inertia, heartlessness, etc. It is momentary and reduces every moment and ends in insipidity. While enjoying such enjoyments they appear like pleasures but in reality they are nonexistent. What is meant is that the feeling to serve ends in the pleasure of love, which is the true pleasure without pain and misery. Flawlessness -
When a servant serves others indirectly he serves himself as well. By serving others he gets rid of flaws like attachment and aversion, delusion, selfishness, etc. When these flaws are removed one gets peace, liberation and happiness, which constitute his own service. The reason being that the feeling to serve arises only when the desire to enjoy worldly pleasures perishes. This feeling is devoid of attachment and aversion. Therefore, the service rendered with feeling is a means to achieve detachment, liberation, peace and happiness and not that of increasing attachment.
Service destroys the attachment for worldly enjoyments and makes the heart of the servant soft and kind. The softness and kindness of his heart is expressed in the form of generosity and mercy. Generosity destroys the greediness of the servant and makes him unselfish and unencumbered. Lack of material encumbrance results in independence and unselfishness in getting rid of poverty and want, which in turn results in his entry into the realm of independence and opulence. The
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