Divine Choice – To Serve or to Rule

For most people, creating what they want has generally meant visualizing, imagining, dreaming, craving, longing, praying and begging. But there is another way to create without asking for anything, without ever thinking about anything, where things just happen. Before we arrive at that, a little bit of fired-up movement is needed. People who have never been on fire will not know the coolness of water. People who have just lived their life in a half-hearted manner, sedately, can never know the other way. Becoming intensely active at least for a while can be useful for your energies to reach a boiling point and get moving. Then, to transform them into something else is very easy. That is the whole purpose of karma or action.

A sadhaka chooses action for this reason. We are going to perform action anyway. But we have the choice whether we want to perform Hitler’s type of action or Mahatma Gandhi’s type. Do you want to rule the world or do you want to serve the world? Ultimately, that is the choice. Normally, everybody wants to rule the world. They are not successful because they are half-hearted. So all they are able to do is rule their family and children. But what they really want is to rule the world. The fool does not have the capacity or the intensity to do it. Otherwise, he would be a potential Hitler.

The choice is just this – either to rule or to serve. Whichever you think is most harmonious, the closest to Divinity and closest to realization, choose that kind of action. Every moment, do it with tremendous intensity, without giving it a single moment’s break. Then a day will come when action is not needed anymore. A man who does not know intense action can never move into stillness. If you try, it will only become lethargy. Only if you have known intense action can you know stillness.

People who are always resting in their life must be experts about rest but that is not the truth. Only a man who works intensely can know what rest is.