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Whenever we do something for someone else, we affirm that we are not simply in it for ourselves, that our self is someone else, is everyone else.
Oct 1, 2025
I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!
Selfless giving is measured by how good you feel. Self giving should be obvious.
Do something nice for somebody. Do something nice for God. Do something nice for the earth - and don't expect anything in return or you will suffer.
You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!
Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.
The soldier is willing to give their life, perhaps for someone they never even met in their country. That's a very high love.
There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.
You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.
When you do something for someone else, it's for you. When you do something for yourself, it's for someone else.
Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.
Meidtation and selfless giving must always go together. They work together to create immortality.
Granted, in order to give selflessly, one often starts giving selfishly. As Tiresias said to Odysseus: "Honey ... you don't get through hell in a hurry"
The true hallmark of how advanced a person is, is how they treat those around them. Not simply what they say or what they preach, but the results they generate, how kind they are.
If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
What motivates someone who's become wealthy to go out and work in the ghetto with those who are poor? What motivates one who has perfect health to go and work with the sick? If you understand - then you understand the root and cause of all existence.
We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.
Selfless giving doesn't mean you let people walk all over you. You get a lot of footprints on your face that way.
You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.
Kirshna's message is eternal - fight!
Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.
If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second, every moment of their awareness is directed towards others.
Eternity does nothing but give.
Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.
The more talented the opponent, the luckier you are. You have draw a great deal of strength from your being.
Christ didn't have to. Buddha didn't have to. They came back to teach. They came back to die, to suffer, when it was no longer necessary for them to do so.
It's always said that when one is a soldier who dies in battle, you go to a very high world. There's a great and good karma for the soldier who dies in battle because it's an extended selfless giving.
Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.
Selfless giving is like putting on make-up. We're covering up a part of ourselves thats not very aware. The thing is when we take the make up off, the selflish part leaves us. We are freeer, clearer.
Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.
The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.
Some persons choose, rather than stay in immortal bliss all the time, to come back for others.
If a bird is used to flying and you put in a a cage, it won't be a happy bird; It wants to fly; that's its nature. Your nature is infinite awareness.
In the big picture we are all eternal.
Everybody out there is just doing things for themesleves. So if you don't do that you've got to be crazy ... crazy about selfless giving!
Have the courage to be selfless in a world were such qualities are not admired. Dare to be differnt. Be crazy!
We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.
Be kind; you're only here for a while. No sense of superiority, just do things for others. It's really fun.
Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.
Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!
In the soldier we see the love of country. When you are willing to go onto a battlefield and give your life to defend an ideal ... knowing that you may not live through day.
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.
Selfless giving reminds us that there is an eternally present spirit in all of us, that when revealed, liberates us from both the transitory and the eternal - both of which ultimatly can be attachments.
Selfless giving is the art of living.
Feeling "comfortable" is the short path to annihilation.
Then you will pick yourself up, no matter how tired you are, and go forward again and again and again, until you've reached liberation.
The best mantrum is selfless giving beause as you repeat it again and again, you change.
Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.