Pinner Sai Centre Service

The Sathya Sai seva Organisations around the world does selfless service to the needy. Most good hearted citizens of the earth do social service. But, what is the difference between conventional social service and selfless service? This difference has nothing to do with the service itself – in fact, Sri Sathya Sai Baba says that service to community is the highest service. Rather the difference lies in the attitude with which the service is carried out.
What exactly is selfless service? It is the very essence of devotion, the very breath of a devotee, his very nature. It springs from the actual experience of the devotee, an experience that convinces that all beings are God's children, that all bodies are altars where God is installed, that all places are His residences.
The spiritual exercise of service is quite distinct. In service, you devote all your energy and attention to the task at hand, for it is a dedicated task. You forget your body and ignore its demands. You set aside your individuality and its prestige and perquisites. You pluck your ego by its roots and cast it away. You give up your status, your conceit, your name and form and all that they demand from others. This process makes the mind pure.

Though there are many path-ways to God realization, yet the easiest among them is the path of service - for it is not confined to any boundaries or borders and completely secular in nature. Service essentially is a spontaneous feeling for serving and helping the needy in any form. Sri Sathya Sai Baba makes it clear that the service we do is for our own sake. Naturally, we want to help others, but the real value of the service lies in what it does for us - provided we do it with the right attitude: as a spiritual discipline. Selfless service helps us to:

Control and purify the mind
Put a ceiling on our desires
Erase our karmic burden
Remove the ego
Bring love into our lives
Experience the Unity of all
Become aware of the God within all
Win the Grace of God

Bhagawan says, love must be manifested as seva. Seva must take the form of food for the hungry, Solace for the forlorn, consolation for the sick and the suffering. At Pinner Sai centre :
Devotees cook food at home and take them to Holborn to serve for the homeless guests every month.
Devotees interact with the senior residents in the form of reading and talking about spiritual literatures at the Sancroft nursing home.
Devotees cook and serve food at the Mother Theresa home for the homeless visitors in Elephant & Castle.
Devotees help at Hare Krishna temple farm in the form of harvesting vegetables.
Pinner Sai centre hosts age link tea party for the senior citizens. Here the guests get the rare opportunity to interact with each other and enjoy the party as they spend their time alone at home.
Devotees collect the excess sandwiches from sandwich shops in Brent cross shopping centre and deliver them to residential homes.
Devotees participate in the health awareness clinic arranged by the region.
Pinne Sai centre devotees also help in the regional and national activities such as Akanda Bhajan Mahashivratri, Guru poornima etc.
Devotees participate maintenance activities at the Sathya Sai School in Leicester.
The centre also collects and forwards dry food for the refugees in eastern European countries.