Giving and Forgiving - An art of moral self-interest
"…The old avatar looked up, slowly waving his hand in front of my face. He gazed into me, deeper than anyone had ever been allowed. Not a word passed between us in those brief moments he read my soul as he read his own and knew a stranger as he knew himself. The unanimity this man felt with all life on earth mystified me."
Meditation and Social Service: Two halves of Self-Realization
If everything is part of the same "One", then the idea of retreating from the world to connect with the universal consciousness doesn't make sense. A look at the relationship of meditation and social service.