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there is dependence, too. When delusion and attachment are destroyed the dependence also ends and independence is gained. This is liberation. As any worldly creature being attached to various things and beings cannot remain without any activity. Therefore, he has to adopt a way of seeking liberation that has some activity or the other in it. Service has an important place in the active way of seeking liberation. Fresh bonds of attachment do not bind one who undertakes the activity of serving. Besides, he also sheds the attachment that is on the rise at that time. Therefore, in service lies that meaningfulness of activity. It is through such service-oriented activities that dependence can be shed and liberty attained.
That is why the activity-oriented creature will have to convert his volitional tendencies to enjoy the services rendered by others into tendencies to serve others, because one loses the attachment for whatever is employed in others' service and one loses the infatuation for those whom he serves. One gets divorced from those things and beings when infatuation and attachment for them is destroyed. Therefore, the activity of service is able to render us free from the bondage of dependence. It is the true liberation.
Creation of Healthy Society through Service -
Society is made up of groups of individual members. Therefore, the quality of society depends on the quality of its individual members. That is, the virtues and vices that exist in the individual members also find their way in the society constituted by them. At the root of all social evils lie the narrow and selfish tendencies of its individual members while at the root of all virtues of the society lie the tendencies to render selfless service by them. Actually, mutual affection and tendency to serve is the fundamental element or life of the society. In the absence of tendency to serve the society cannot remain good and is reduced to a group of selfish individuals. Therefore, service is an inescapable element of a good society.
The good society with character is one in which the rights of all the members remain safe. It is possible only when there prevails in the
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