Sacrifice – Samael Aun Weor

How can you help others most profoundly? How can you truly change the suffering that people are experiencing?

“Only unselfish service, chastity, and sanctity take us to the ineffable summits. Now, sibling of mine, you have seen what the great service is. I know many spiritual brothers and sisters, good and virtuous, who fight for their perfection. I know many brothers and sisters who fight indescribably to correct their defects and to purify themselves. Yet, they do not remember others… They feel alone, they fight for their own spiritual progress and for their moral self-development. However, they do not remember that they have brothers and sisters, and that all of us are children of the same mother. Their spirituality is selfish spirituality. Therefore, the masters do not owe them anything. There is nothing to pay them because nothing is owed to them. They do not assist anyone. They do not sacrifice themselves for anyone, nor do they fight for the spirituality of anyone. Every initiation is a payment that must be given to the human being. Yet, if nothing is owed to the human being, then nothing is given to him. Therefore, even if he screams and cries out asking for an initiation, he will become old before receiving it.” —Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

Sacrifice – Glorian

What is it to sacrifice? It is:

“an act of giving up a desirable thing for a higher object or to a more pressing claim,” also “something given up for the sake of another”

Sacrifice – Krishna

“Action does indeed bind the self [through cause and effect, karma] except when done as sacrifice; so work one must consecrated, offered to Deity high above. When beings came from Creator He ordained all to sacrifice; By sacrifice are worlds sustained And by it everyone does live. […] Things exist through all other things, all things are knit with all others, so that the being of a thing is contribution by others. Independent no one exists as all are also all others, thus existence of anything is sacrifice by other things.” —Krishna, Bhagavad-gita 3

Service

When nature calls on us for service the devas expect us to obey. It is just before nightfall, and at certain other times of the day, when nature calls upon us to assist the Elder Brothers in our tribal community. This is a time when self-interest should be laid aside, and we should assist in some way the aged and infirm brothers of our community, for nature’s laws are manifested in order that the strong may assist the weak. It is only through self-sacrifice and clean living that the weaker brothers can be brought to the higher levels of well being, which are enjoyed by the others of the community.

The Dayspring of Youth, by M