Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stressed on the importance of service and said selfless work should be the aim, and should be done without delivering any sermons and preaching.
“We will convey the message of service only through our service, not through words. Through our conduct alone, people should realise that no matter how great the power in politics may become, our path will remain that of service. “The stream of manufacturing, the stream of technology and innovation, the stream of connectivity—such 7 streams will become a tremendous source of energy for building a developed India.
We will never deviate from the path of service,” he said. During the online interaction with the ten groups that are traversing through different states, the PM said according to an old saying, when someone returns from a journey and is offered salutations, half the spiritual merit earned from the journey is transferred to the person paying respects. “I, too, am ‘stealing’ half of that merit,” he said. Service, he said, should be the primary task without preaching. No matter how high the peaks we reach, we will move forward only with the sentiment of ‘Service is the highest duty.,” he said. This energy will gain momentum only from every citizen,” he said.
The PM while interacting with Seva Yatris who have been on a bike yatra from Vadnagar to Varanasi as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Seva Yatra to commemorate the PM’s 25 years in public service said they should always follow the path of ‘Seva Parmo Dharma’ (Service is the highest duty).
