Accepted values determine fields of service amenities of existence. In a society which is responsive to the value of intellectual culture, service is interpreted in terms of spreading learning in different forms. In a society which has developed taste for beauty, service is interpreted in terms of organising the production and distribution of works of art. In a society which is responsive to the ineffable values of the heart, service is interpreted in terms of constructing those channels which will facilitate the culture and expression of the heart. In a society which is alive to the supreme importance of the spirit, service is interpreted in terms of imparting spiritual understanding. Of these different types of service, the service which is concerned with spiritual understanding is the highest, because spiritual understanding includes the right perspective to all human problems and promotes their solution.
If there is no spiritual understanding, the desire for rendering service to others is harnessed by limited conceptions. Two kinds of service Service is of two kinds: it consists in adding to the lives of others those things which are really worthwhile, or it consists in removing from the lives of others those handicaps which prevent them from having things which are worthwhile. If our ideas of things which are worthwhile are narrow, the scope of possible service also becomes correspondingly narrow.
The scope of service is not limited to great gestures like giving big donations to public institutions. Little things that matter They also serve who express their love in little things. A word that gives courage to a drooping heart or a smile that brings hope and cheer in gloom, has as much claim to be regarded as service as onerous sacrifices and heroic self-denials. A glance which wipes out bitterness
