RamDev – Healing at the Edge – Ep. 114 – Service as a Path to Awakening

Explaining service as the easiest path to awakening, RamDev gives tips on developing compassion and selfless action.

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This time on Healing at the Edge, RamDev guides listeners through: 
  • His favorite part of the Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 12)
  • Service as the easiest path to awakening
  • Hanuman as the aspect of the deity that expresses devotion through selfless service
  • Naturally arising compassion and seeing God / the guru in all people
  • How suffering comes from having inappropriate boundaries
  • Approaching service as an expression of love and joy
  • Pity as the near enemy of compassion
  • Building communities that support service
  • Being of service through full presence and connection
  • The many levels of healing and how to support others remotely
  • Learning compassion through simple moments of meditation

“Service takes on a different tone, a different feeling quality in our beings, if instead of doing it out of guilt or I need to stay busy or I’m trying to help people, it’s an act of love. It’s your relationship with the beloved, that the homeless person, your partner, even your self, is a manifestation of that which is love. Then, service is transformed. It’s an act of joy, not a responsibility.” – RamDev

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