Divyatman,
This is covered in a subtle manner in a post under Surrender theme where it is explained how you Love God outside you, you Love God within and then you Love the God in all.
Life history of all the realized Masters in our Bharath stands testimony for the above quote.
Ramakrishna/Sivananda/Yogananda/Ramana/Chinmaya/ Anandamayi Maa - Take any one of these Masters and see their history.
They turned towards the world and took up their mission in their own intuitive manner, once they realized LOVE/SELF within.
Till one discovers God/SELF within, it is very difficult for him to transform others.
No matter how and where each individual is existing as far as spiritual evolvement is concerned, he/she is essentially divine and their inner Divinity/inner Spirit silently recognizes and responds 100% only to the call/gospel/writings/teachings of a realized Master.
Often, one may attend workshops/seminars/spiritual satsangh and hear many scholarly people or even head of an ashram talking on spiritual subjects but such talks do not transform them. At best, they return home and appreciate the speaker's knowledge and that is it.
Whereas, when we come face to face with a realized Master and of course, if our prarabdha karma has reached a stage where our real spiritual transformation has to begin, even few words, even silence, even a stroke of the realized Master touches the core of our being and our inner transformation starts at that moment!
Love God without/within /in all
A devotee starts adoring, worshipping God with form, develops single pointed devotion which evolves to total love for the chosen God.
After several years/births of such love for God, the devotee reaches the stage where he discovers Divinity within his heart, not as his chosen God with form but as LOVE DIVINE.
There is a huge difference in the texture and quality and depth in all the service which the devotee had been rendering to the world during various stages of his spiritual evolvement and the service which flows spontaneously after he has discovered God as LOVE within.
Once he has realized God, his walk is love, his talk is love, his action is love, his silence is love, his service is love, his writing is love, his gospel is love, his very existence is LOVE, LOVE and JUST LOVE.
Today, all sevaks of all spiritual or social organizations must take note of this secret - "IF YOUR MIND SAYS THAT YOU HAVE DONE SOME SERVICE, THEN THE SERVICE IS NOT WITH TOTAL SELFLESS LOVE. THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF EGO IN YOUR SERVICE, HOW SO EVER SUBTLE IT MIGHT BE!"
Today, all sevaks of all spiritual or social organizations must take note of this secret - "IF YOUR MIND SAYS THAT YOU HAVE DONE SOME SERVICE, THEN THE SERVICE IS NOT WITH TOTAL SELFLESS LOVE. THERE IS AN ELEMENT OF EGO IN YOUR SERVICE, HOW SO EVER SUBTLE IT MIGHT BE!"
Selfless service can flow only when you have lost cognizance of your small self which is ego and exist as big SELF or PURE LOVE.
Who else but a realized master vivekananda can give this slogan "BE AND THEN MAKE" to us?
The author modifies the slogan with salutations to Vivekananda and re-words the same as "BE , JUST BE AND LET THE WORLD TURN TOWARDS YOU, TO BE MADE"
Once you exist as a God man, a realized yogi, then, few chosen ones, whose life has reached the right moment for undergoing inner transformation, will just reach you by some turn of events and submit themselves to you, to be MADE, to be molded by you, to transform from a simple clay (their existence as man-man) to be chiseled by you (by your teachings/by your very existence as a message) to be transformed to the beautiful Krishna (God man).
Love.
