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When there is service, there is no individual, the individual has to be eradicated. You can do best service when you don’t live for yourself. The mother serves the child because she does not live for herself. Such mothers who want to live for themselves, will never serve their children. Service and sacrifice are possible only when you are in the stage of jeevanmukti. There are many people amongst us. When we forget all our interests and we are prepared to do service for others. Those people who are not prepared to serve others without forgetting themselves, definitely are not liberated, they are not jeevanmuktas.
Take Babuji cleaning the latrines of the abhyasis at Shajahanpur. It is a fact. He used to go and clean around 2 in the night. These people never used to clean the latrines there. Temporary latrines used to be constructed. Around 2 o clock in the morning he used to check if everything is correct, spray some phenyl. They are jeevanmuktas. They do not have awareness that they are gurus and somebody else has to do. They do not even think they are far higher than this condition, they will serve.
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