Sai Young Adult Newsletter on the Web Sai Young Adult Newsletter on the Web
 
Swami Says
1st World Youth Conference, July 16, 1997
Prashanti Nilayam
Everyone should realize what one owes to the society in which one is born and from which one derives so many benefits. Young people should reflect on the question what gratitude they can show to the society, which has given them so much. What service are you doing to society?

Every man should show his sense of gratitude to society by rendering selfless service. It was for this purpose that the Seva Organization was started. But even here the Seva Organizations are being used to promote one's name and fame and not to render service for its own sake.

The body is given for rendering service to society … People should consider the whole world as the mansion of one human family. When this spirit of oneness prevails, there will be no tendency to harm others. You should forgive even those who harm you. The youth should cultivate the quality of forbearance.

Forbearance is a supreme virtue in man.