Service Wing
Service Activities
Monthly/Weekly/Daily Seva Activities:
2. We partner with LaxmiRao Aunty and Anitaben to conduct Narayana seva on every 3rd and 4th Saturday of the month with preparation of 70 meals at West Orange temple and distributing food in a nearby Church to hungry homeless people. The meals include pasta/spaghetti, chilli beans, veg. burger, protein bar, banana, fruit juice etc.
3. Daily bread seva started during pandemic to collect bread rolls, bagels, cookies, pastries from local bakery and distributed to few homeless shelters in Jersey City, Union city that serve morning breakfast to more than 200 people.
Quarterly Drives:
The center also takes up regular donation drives for homeless shelter needs like baby food for infants, diapers for children as well as adult diapers for elderly, clothes for all ages from children, youth to elderly and canned food, breakfast items, shoes, hygiene kits, school supplies. We regularly reach out to the homeless shelters to get their needs and plans the drives accordingly.Yearly Drives/ Seva Opportunities:
1. We conduct annual winter drive to collect winter blankets, jackets, caps and distribute them to homeless people on the streets of Newark, Jersey City and Union city.2. join with NJ Sai centers for collective winter kits, health kits and toys distribution to needy people/kids during Swami’s birthday and Christmas.
3. Participate along with other NJ sai centers for a collective narayana seva on annual Aradhana day cooking about 1200 meals and distributing to homeless shelters in New Jersey.
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If you lift the hand to serve, to help, to console, to encourage another man, you are lifting it for God, for God is in every man.”
~Sathya Sai Baba
Why is selfless service important?
Selfless service is perhaps the single, most efficient and universal tool for understanding, experiencing and expressing this Divine Principle of Love. Service is love in action. Sathya Sai Baba says that the best way to love God is to love all; serve all. The main purpose of the Sathya Sai Organisation is to help one realise one’s innate Divinity by the practice of Divine Love through selfless service. Baba has also made it clear that the quality of service is most important, not the quantity. The spirit or the motive behind service is the deciding factor. When we render service, we should feel that we are serving God. This is why He says, “Service to man is service to God”. Service done in this manner makes us realise that “service is done by God, to God, and for God”. The person who is serving, the recipient of the service and the process of serving are all one—and are all divine. Just as the proof of rain is in the wetness of the ground, pure, self- less, loving service transforms and we enjoy supreme peace and equanimity – the “peace that passeth understanding”.