(03-05-2019, 06:11 PM)Starflower Wrote: [ -> ]Hi, I've only just started reading the Ra material and I am nearly at the end of book one. My question is this - if someone desires to be of service to others but are in a situation where they cannot, how does this affect how they are perceived? For example, if someone has an illness and can't leave home, what could this person do to be of service? I also have another question - is service to animals the same as service to humans? Or is service to others specifically towards other humans?
Just being you naturally, is in many instances, the greatest service that can be offered. How the person in the example is perceived alone, can provide catalyst, and potentially serve the entity doing the perceiving.
When I first attempted acts of service, I was hands open to anyone and everyone that needed "help", many or rather a large majority of the time it would end up being something mostly related to the physical. ie: Getting drink for children. Over many experiences, always having the hunch, that many times what we think of as help: is equated to the physical. However just as the butterfly, when emerging from its cocoon, should it be "helped" with opening it, it will not be strong enough to fly, to live. A lot of the times people are just the same way, they are struggling to learn, to grow stronger, to perceive more of/as The Creator. Us "helping":Interfering, is not helping.
Over more and more experiences, and attempts at service. I began to see being of service: as a natural configuration or approach. I believe Ra suggests this with "the light touch, always". That how we lived, the choices we made, and how we impacted others around us: indirectly. Is often times the most powerful form of service.
I know you are newer to the material, however at the core of this material, what is being suggested or displayed. Is that all things are One. That behind all the masks and illusions, there is only One. So to me this superimposes certain qualities: no matter the illusion. Such as the quality of Learn/Teaching Teaching/Learning. At the most fundamental level this means that no one else is doing any type of teaching other then The One, in every instance. No one else is doing any learning other then The One. So as we go about our days the simplest things can set in motion catalyst. Which when worked with correctly result in Learning/Healing.
Your last question is quite complex. It is not that you cannot be of service to other entities besides humans, its that humans have the most potential in relative terms, of being of service to another human. Along the lines of being able to communicate, and dwell in similar bodies/experiences. I actually saw a cartoon that highlighted this exact thing today. In the story the boy built a city for bugs. It had all the qualities that a human! would want in a city. The bugs kept trying to get out, eaten by birds, and general chaos. The boy at the end, through help from his g-ma, realized that bugs wouldn't want the same commodities or things as humans, and that it was best to leave the bugs to it.
Also your entire life, every choice, every experience was in service to The One Infinite. You, just as every other spark of The Creator, is of INFINITE worth. The Creator has transformed and rearranged the cosmos to create us. The Present.