SERVICE vs
SACRIFICE
Interlocutor: Yesterday we
were talking about the difference between Service and sacrifice, and I think
that both of them are commendable. I’ll mention specifically a case in which a
person sacrificed part of his personal life, giving up her personal love, in
order to be useful to other beings in her environment. In my opinion it's a
remarkable case.
Jorge Olguin: In my humble opinion, I
highlight Service from a person to another fellowman; however, if the act itself
brings suffering to the person who provides service, it would be like building a
castle of Light on a foundation of darkness.
Interlocutor: Perhaps our viewpoints are somewhat different on the
physical plane. And here is the issue; In the case of the person I talked about
she cut off her emotional relationship before it deepens more, because she knew
that later on the break-up would be more painful for both of them. She was
afraid that she could not do it afterwards. She put on the balance the feelings
of personal love and her duty toward her relatives, and she simply chose
Service. Isn’t that a noble cause? Johnakan Ur-El
always said many times: "You have to choose when you cannot save all" ... She
followed this postulate. I cannot conclude with this opinion that the reasons of
this person were like an iceberg, you can only see the 10% of the surface, but
the 90% is hidden below the water surface.
Jorge Olguin: I remark the sentence you
said when that person broke up her emotional relationship before it gets
stronger, because she knew that later on a rupture would be more painful for
both. Perhaps she was afraid that she couldn’t break up that bond so that she
put on the balance the feelings of personal love and her duty to her relatives,
and she simply chose Service as if it were a sacrifice. Is that a noble gesture?
Johnakan always said, and you said it many times: "You
have to choose when you cannot save them all." She followed this
postulate.
I will answer you: Here there are misconceptions... because she did
not choose Service, but she chose the sacrifice... and both concepts are
different. Service is noble, sacrifice is silly. And I say this from my
experience as a therapist on Ego issues. You insist that she opted for Service,
which is something wrong.
Furthermore, I say to you that Love does not have to prevent your
duties to your relatives, for true love does not hinder, but supports and
bolsters relationships. If Johnakan ever said: "You
have to choose when you cannot save everyone" it does not apply on this case...
because if the personal love of these people is genuine, being related kindred
people she wouldn’t be another person who is drowning, but another lifeguard
that provides support to her "rescue."
I'm speaking from the
impersonal Love, if she already has a previous concept, it wouldn’t matter if
she takes another decision. Because that’s not
manipulative.
But remember what I said before: "You cannot build a castle of Light
on a foundation of darkness". She maybe was at that moment a psychological
hostage and she became (unconsciously) an accomplice of those who were absorbing
her through manipulation.
If her Thetan or Higher-Self is in a plane
of Light it will not descend, because her point of view is commendable, but she
is wrong confusing Service with sacrifice. Remember my words well: "If
impersonal Love, instead of supporting personal love, it blocks it, the balance
is broken." And finally, the sacrifice is not noble, but absurd... only Service
is noble.
Interlocutor: I would accept your words if there were a way to draw a
line between sacrifice and Service. Only the Absolute Eon (or perhaps not even
Him) could establish a line. And so between Service and sacrifice there is a
huge gray area where one can say one thing and the other could have a different
opinion and both positions would be valid. It would be like trying to determine
if something is blue or green, when the color is not defined so clearly as blue
or green. Then, the only way to determine through comparison would be to compare
it with other blue or green. You get the idea? With regard to this person,
obviously I thought without having all the facts. And do not forget that there
are engrams in between, which would be
"arbitrary".
Jorge Olguin: I understand your point of
view, but I emphasize that there is a dividing line between Service and
sacrifice. And I will give you an example: Once a young mother came to my office
and she believed in the "Divine Justice or Divine punishment" and I asked
her:
- How old is your son?
-He’s four years old
- And if your child accidentally broke a bottle of expensive
whisky... Would you give him a spanking?
- No, of course not! My son
is more valuable than any liquor!
- Well... then, if God is infinitely more lovely than you are... and
you did not punish your child ... Why would you think that God himself would
punish you?
God (Eon) wants the best for
all of us. God doesn’t ask for sacrifices, God doesn’t want to see us suffering.
Then, the young mother asked me again:
- Then, How can we be
thankful with the Love that God gives us?
- By loving our fellowmen through Service, but also taking care of
ourselves. That is the true Service.
I will tell you how the
dictionary defines both terms:
Service: An act of helpful activity; help; aid. An act of assistance or benefit; in a favor of a fellowman: To do
someone a service.
Sacrifice: A sacrifice is a loss or something you give up, usually
for the sake of a better cause. The destruction or surrender of something for
the sake of something else.
Notice that in the definition of Service there is nothing you give
up... Because it is not necessary!
Interlocutor: I Think that dictionary definitions are brief and they
do not define what is implicit. And it is implied that if you do service
UNAVOIDABLY you're giving up something. Either you are wasting money or you are
wasting your time in mediumship
sessions.
Jorge Olguin: I leave it clear that my
answers are not to manipulate the topic, but to explain my way of thinking; I
humbly believe that this debate is going to be helpful to those people who read
this article.
It’s not the same an implicit loss compared to if I do another task,
like resting or enjoying my time doing other activities. We are talking about
doing Service by giving up your life after something... and even more knowing
that you can provide such assistance without giving up or losing something. I
still believe that sacrifice is sterile and that the true Service does not
require something to give up to.
God loves us all and we will respond to that love through Service,
but if we do it by sacrificing our lives, we are betraying that Love, because we
would be hurting ourselves... and that is karmic. Or in the spiritual laws is
not as reprehensible murder and suicide? Therefore, you create bad karma, either
hurting other people or hurting yourself. This is clear
enough.
Interlocutor: Service is useless without giving up. If I give alms to
poor people of what I have left, what value there is on that? Giving value is
precisely when it is implied that you are giving up something. Did you ever
think that the Creator himself is limited with the Big Bang and the Big Crunch?
Isn’t the example of the Absolute the best example of service and sacrifice at
the same time?
Jorge Olguin: I humbly believe that your
concept is wrong, because God loves us all and he only asks us to be happy
through the service, you provide to your fellowmen and not through loss or
giving up something. And if I stop seeing an entertainment program to write
these lines that may be helpful to others, I'm not giving up anything, because
I’m doing it with enjoyment... because that is what Service means: Enjoyment.
And that's what the Masters of Light conveyed to us long
ago.
A long time ago, I went to meeting with a group of therapists and
religious people and I asked them what were their thoughts about Heaven... and
many of them answered it automatically what they had learned: That Heaven or
Paradise was a place of happiness and resting where one receives the reward of
being good in this life. -I replied that their concept was wrong.-
All the Masters of Light of the 5th plane are still working even more
when they disembody than here on Earth... and they asked
me:
- Then... What is the reward?
– There is no reward - I answered - at least not the one that you all are
expecting.
The real reward does not men to rest eternally after performing a
well done duty on Earth, because that would mean that you have not have learned
anything. The reward is to enjoy Service to the other people who live in
sorrow.
And I told them that there
were Masters of Light who even chose to reincarnate to keep providing Service on
the physical plane.
- And to suffer again? - They
replied-.
-The thing is that the beings of Light do not take Service as a
punishment or as an obligation... these Masters of Light take it as enjoyment,
when they see happiness in the eyes of those people who have received the favor.
And in that way these Masters of Light give back all the Love they have received
from the creator (Eon)
- And then ... Why do people suffer? – they asked me
again-
-Due to the roles of Ego, the ballast that generates so much
prominence. If we integrate the EGO, we stop thinking about us to turn our
attention to the others... and we start being helpful without obstacles.
However, if by providing assistance to our neighbors
causes us harm instead of joy, the balance is broken, because Service means
happiness, not suffering.
As for your example that sacrifice is given by the Creator to merge
into the Big Crunch. That is a fallacy! ... For He is beyond the Big Bang and
the Big Crunch. He IS the Big Bang and the Big
Crunch!
In addition, Love IS NOT sacrifice, but enjoyment. All that causes
suffering IS NOT Love, except the misfortune that causes us unhappiness of
others, due to empathy. That misfortune is valid, since it’s produced by the
empathetic feeling when noticing that others suffer... misfortune is not valid
when giving up; that will never produce a fruit as valuable as
Service.
Interlocutor: Let me see if I understood: You accept as logical that
all Service implies a certain renunciation. And this is fine. However, what is
not fine is to serve in the most sacrificed way unnecessarily. I give you an
example: I have twenty dollars; I give ten dollars to a homeless person. And
this is fine. But what is not good is giving the twenty dollars and walk 20
miles to my house suffering with blistered feet for my service that supposedly
was more valuable... Am I right?
Jorge Olguin: That is correct! Because for
me to give ten dollars is joy and not a sacrifice... but if I give ALL my money
to a beggar and because of that, I have to walk or my family does not have food,
my service was not useful at all.
Interlocutor: In short, God does not want a Service in the most
sacrificed way possible, but Service in the least sacrificed way possible. And
that does not undermine the work itself.
My service is based on giving, which is Love in action. My sacrifice
will not add anything positive to this work. Instead, It will create unnecessary
pain.
Jorge Olguin: I think that this is the
perfect conclusion to this matter. The real Service, which is done with Love,
brings enjoyment to your life and, on the other hand, sacrifice brings
self-imposed suffering through loss or giving up something, which implicitly
brings unhappiness to the person who is planning to serve mistakenly and this
could be costly and not easy to cope in our daily
lives.
Interlocutor: On this issue one has to talk about is the useless
sacrifice, because it’s not worth it. I do not know if it will be a good
example, but I remember the religious people who flog themselves, believing that
their sacrifice will be pleasant in the eyes of their god because they will be
paying for their alleged sins.
Jorge Olguin: Yes, I know that in the
Philippines, at Easter, religious devotees flog and crucify themselves "to
please God". It is believed as a practice to cleanse sins. It would be as if I
were pleased that my daughters were slashed... This is totally absurd and it was
implanted by dogmatic and sickly doctrines.
Our Father God wants the best for us and that is only achieved
through Service. The knowledge that we can be useful to others without any
sterile sacrifice brings us happiness.
Interlocutor: And in my particular case, I'm thinking of the joy that
I would feel if, for example, one of my grandchildren needed an organ and I
could give it to him...
Jorge: Excellent definition! Because you would be doing it with Love,
not with renunciation!
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