Service to humanity (Letters)

Expressions researched:
"humanity by rendering bodily service" |"servant of humanity" |"servants of Krsna and humanity" |"servants of Krsna and humanity" |"serve humanity" |"serve the humanity" |"serve the humanity" |"serve the suffering humanity" |"serve the whole humanity" |"serve whole humanity" |"service for humanity" |"service for the humanity" |"service of humanity" |"service to God and humanity" |"service to Krsna and humanity" |"service to humanity" |"service to the greater humanity" |"service to the humanity" |"service to the suffering humanity" |"service to the whole humanity" |"serving humanity" |"serving the humanity"

Notes from the compiler: Use VedaBase query: "serv* humanity"@5

1947 to 1965 Correspondence

Gandhiji's whole life was dedicated to the service of humanity at large with special interest for raising the moral standard.

Letter to Sardar Patel -- Calcutta 28 February, 1949:

Funds are being collected to commemorate Mahatma Gandhiji in a fitting manner and I beg to suggest that the same may be done in the Gandhian way and not otherwise. Gandhiji's whole life was dedicated to the service of humanity at large with special interest for raising the moral standard. His later activities showed that he was equal to every one and all the people of the world knew him more as the spiritual leader than a mere politician. Devotion to Godhead was his ultimate aim and when I say that his sacred memory should be perpetuated not in the ordinary way but in the Gandhian way, I mean that fitting respect to his memory will be done in the following manner.

The League of Devotees stand to serve the humanity in this spirit & the preaching member's cooperation in this noble act of human behavior will reciprocally benefit both the League and its preaching members.

Letter to Brother -- Unknown Place September 1955:

The value of this human form of life is therefore immense and a moment lost of this life means a loss of immense value. Do not therefore neglect the time that you have been allotted by the laws of Nature and utilize it fully—not in the matter of animal life but in human life. Eating, sleeping, fearing & sense gratifying process are meant for the animal portion of our life, but as human being we have got the special prerogative for searching out the cause of our threefold miseries & to rectify it in this very life without any further loss of time.

The League of Devotees stand to serve the humanity in this spirit & the preaching member's cooperation in this noble act of human behavior will reciprocally benefit both the League and its preaching members.

The highest benefit that is possible to do to the humanity is this act of preaching for receiving the Divine Consciousness of the living being. By doing so, we do not only send a living entity back to home & back to Godhead but at the same time we ourselves also go back to home back to Godhead. Rise up to the occasion of this preaching work & be a real benefactor to the people in general & your family members in particular.