service to our brethren so that we fulfill the divine humanity in ourselves.
There is a poetic verse which says that trees exist for altruism, that rivers exist for altruism, that cows exist for altruism and hence this body is for Altruism or selfless service. The basis of all service is Love. When we love, we serve. Service is divine and service is one of the means to exhaust one’s own Karma . Karma is defined as action and all actions have reactions. The Grand Law of Causation, the Law of Cause and Effect, the Law of Retribution is called philosophically as the Law of Karma. So we as composite creatures have done both good and evil and good & evil karmas haunt us. But in order to attain to Self-Actualisation, we should exhaust our karma. As far as karma is concerned there will be backlog and it will be difficult to exhaust karma all of a sudden. But absolute surrender to the Divine is the only remedy and while we tread the Path Celestial, all karmas get burnt up.
In Silence, we have to climb from our own earths to our own heavens, rendering to the Caesar of the outer world the things which are lawfully his, and at the same time fulfilling the Law of Wisdom which will set us up and distinguish us from the ranks of other men. it is true that many adversities and opposition we may have to confront. But these are merely parts of the process and tests of fidelity.
Some people on this Path Eternal complain that they and their friends also are visited by misfortune. But we have to understand that they are wages and Initiation is a process of intensive culture and accelerated evolution. It is our Karma exhausting itself.
We have to understand that the Divine Will is