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| Edited By: Swami Vivekanda |Source: DNA |Updated: Mar 04, 2015, 05:10 AM IST
This is the gist of all worship — to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Siva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Siva, and if he sees Siva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Siva in him, without thinking of his cast, creed, or race, or anything, with him Siva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples.
The author (1863-1902) was a Hindu monk and chief disciple of the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna
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