What does it mean to serve the Lord?

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so what does it mean to serve the Lord there are different connotations the primary thing is that we make him the purpose of our life the object of whatever we are doing ultimately so this can happen in various ways broadly speaking and this philosophically we understand that spiritual growth and attaining his abode is life’s ultimate goal and that is what we want to pursue and then now in pursuance of that ultimate goal we may have various short term, medium term goals even long term goals also so for example we may want to have a particular job a particular kind of family situation a particular kind of financial situation now all these may not be directly connected with him but they can be done in the intention of service so now the intention is not just a matter of matter of sentiment it is that there has to be some aspect some time in our life which is devoted in a focused way on the service of the Lord that is what is called as a sadhana so to the extent we do the sadhana in a committed way spending some time on chanting mantra, studying scripture basically we have what we call as ABCD Association of Spiritually Minded People Books, Studying Chanting of the Holy Names and D is Duty Worship we worship the Lord these four are very tangible ways in which we can we can have quality time when we devote ourselves to the Lord and they will always be a part of our life they will never be the main aspect of our life but they have to be an important part of our life and in terms of so they create the spiritual connection which makes their intention tangible so that means separate from the work the family life, all the other things that we do we have some time directly for God then by that we have the intention by which work, family, whatever we do we will have, this is this work I am doing, it is by the Swakarmanatam Abhiracha, I am trying to worship you O Lord through this and then family also we try to see our family members not as our family members we see them as Krishna’s family members placed in our care and we try to take care of them not just materially but also materially emotionally and spiritually and then another aspect of service is is charity where whatever fruits we get from our work how do we show the intention that it is meant for the Lord that is by giving some percentage in charity the ideal mood of the devotee is that actually everything that I get belongs to you O Lord whatever I need I take and the remaining I give to you so practically how that works out is different so that means in terms of the intention that we have in terms of the time that we give specifically in terms of the contribution that we make and charity doesn’t have to be only in terms of money charity can be in various ways, you know we can do some volunteer service we can use our skills sometimes so pranai arthai diya vacha it is said in the Bhagavatam we may give some of our time for the service of the Lord arthair we can give some of our our artha finance diya is intelligence we may use for particular talent that we have so like you are using now your yoga skills vacha is our speaking ability so basically if we do these things through this direct devotional activities through the intention of spiritualizing our our family and professional responsibilities through the devotional contributions that we make according to our position through all that we actually serve the Lord and that’s why we can grow in that understanding that he is my master and I am his servant and as we move closer and closer to him ok, Hare Krishna so just dedicate all of your actions