You do acts as dedicated offerings to enhance the glory of the Lord, in a spirit of worshipful humility, as if you are laying at His feet all that you are and all that you are capable of, and you do acts which are full of Prema towards all as part of your mere existence, automatically, without any tinge of self or whiff of violence upsetting the perfume of the act. The dedicated act leads on to all activity being dedication; the ananda makes you feel that your effort has been worthwhile. That is the end, the aim, the inspiration. (SSS Vol.1)
Duties have to be done as worship, as offerings of one s intelligence and skill, qualities and thoughts and feelings to the Feet of the Lord in a spirit of thankfulness for the chance given, without a trace of egoism or a sense of attachment to the fruits of the actions. (SSS Vol.2)
Do your job well as a Puja, an offering at the Lotus Feet, and you will be amply rewarded with joy, peace, restfulness and rapture. (SSS Vol.9, p. 16)
Take the food that we consume. Offer it to God, before you partake of it. Then it is rendered pure and potent. Any act done for the glorification of God is thereby rendered pure and potent. It is incapable of harming the doer, the beneficiary, or society, for, it is saturated with Love, which is God. (SSS Vol.7, pp. 111-112)
Offer the heart, which He has endowed you with, filled with adoration and love. (SSS Vol. 6, p. 40)
Man does not offer to God anything of his own, except when he offers his devotion arising from his heart. (DG, p. 212)
Everyone wants love, happiness,ananda from Me. So, each one must offer into My Immanence – manifest as my creatures – the same love, happiness, and ananda that he or she seeks from Me. (MBI, p. 169)
There is no meaning in preaching spirituality to a starving man. Feed the hungry. Offer solace and encouragement to those in distress and despair. The educated should try to teach the illiterate and open the minds of the ignorant to wider vistas of knowledge. The educated persons may be doctors, lawyers or businessmen. Doctors should be ready to render free medical service to the poor. Lawyers should be helpful to those who are in need of legal aid but who cannot afford to pay for their services. Businessmen should be content to keep a reasonable income for their needs and utilize the surplus for charitable purposes. It is rare to find such persons. The wealthy should realise that money should be earned by righteous means and used for right purposes. True happiness can be got only from wealth acquired by fair means. Money got through exploitation of others will lead to suffering in one way or another. (SSS Vol.23, pp. 259-260)
The manager should regard work in an organisation as an offering to God, which gives maximum satisfaction to one’s own conscience. (M, p. 36)
Offer your heart to the Divine
Whatever you do, do it not for pleasing others, but for pleasing the In-dweller in your heart, for your inner satisfaction. This means acting according to the dictates of your conscience. Every such act will please the Divine. To derive self-satisfaction from your actions, you have to cultivate faith. When there is satisfaction, there is readiness for sacrifice. Through sacrifice, the Divine is realised. Your faith should be unwavering like that of the Pandavas in Sri Krishna. (SSS Vol.22)
Know that whatever you feel or do is an offering to God, flows towards God. So, be cautious. Do not offer bad thoughts, words and deeds which He does not accept. Offer instead the holy and the pure. That is your duty. That will ensure self-satisfaction. Self-satisfaction paves the way to self-sacrifice and Self- sacrifice brings about Self-Realisation. The entire process rests upon faith; self- satisfaction, self-sacrifice and self-realisation - all these depend on faith. Faith decides the yearning; the yearning decides the fruit; the act decides the stage that is reachable. "For, the sincerity of the act promotes the purity of the path; the purity of the path determines the validity of the wisdom and true wisdom is Divinity itself. The act, the conduct, the way of life these have to be disciplined and elevated. How can a mind encumbered with desires ever rest content? How can it welcome sacrifice? Nevertheless, man has to involve himself only in acts that encourage detachment and renunciation. (SSS Vol.17)