Ego and attachment are hindrances to service

Before undertaking this kind of selfless work, we should see that all attractions, likes and dislikes, the ego and any selfishness are removed from our mind before entering the society for the sake of work. Some attachments, likes and dislikes pursue the members for our sevadal even though they do not have selfishness or suffer from ego.These attachments and these likes are very dangerous. Whoever promotes the growth of a thorny bush, the bush will try to use the very thorns to prick and hurt the person who has grown it. The attachment is also like a thorny bush. There is one small example for this. In a certain village, in a home in a particular street, a father is grieving for his dead son. The neighbour comes to console in many ways this father, who is grieving the death of his son. While consoling the father the neighbour tells him that the body is made up of material stuff and is bound to perish, it’s the soul that is deathless and many more such things from Vedanthic truths. After some time, the son of the neighbour who had been sermonizing Vedanta, passed away. The father who was in grief in the beginning goes to the neighbour's home and consoles him exactly in the same terms, using the same Vedantic truths!! When the son of the first individual died, the second individual had no grief what so ever as it was not his son who died! When the son of the second individual died, the first individual had no grief what so ever for the same reason. What is the reason? The individual whose son has died grieves because he thinks “He is my son.” In the second case why does the sorrow disappear? It’s because he has no connection what so ever or any attachment to the person who has died. It's perfectly clear here that sorrow comes because of attachment and liking, it does not come by any other process.