A prophet of harmony

Guru Nanak loved to speak of himself as a 'servant'. He went about in deep humility to teach, help and serve. He mingled with the poor: he sat with the criminal and outcast. Today, we bow to him as one of the world's greatest. He who is humble is blessed. That is the law.

In a beautiful little hymn, Guru Nanak sings: In all things is Thy Light: From it art Thou known: And Thou art found by Love!

When the sense of the wonder of the world is awakened, we realise the littleness of things we seek and plans we pursue. 'Vanity of vanities,' says the awakened man. How little we know! How little we really achieve. As Goethe says in a poem, 'A small ring limits our life.' We think mightily of ourselves. We occupy so small a space in the cosmos. What is man compared to stars?


Must we, then, sit idle with folded hands? No. Let us work - but as instruments of the One Master. We are so little; He is the One Worker. Blessed are we if we are accepted as instruments of His service, His work. Big plans and programmes, let them go. Enough if we do in our little, allotted field the humble service to which He calls us. Then shall we live true lives - true because dedicated, and beautiful in spite of what the world calls 'failure' or 'defeat'. Let us keep alive the cosmic sense, and we shall grow in humility and in that only service that makes life rich - the service of love!