But our selflessness is guided by a sense of service and good of others. We will serve in happy times anyway, but we serve even in times of personal distress. In the West, farmers are urged to produce more to raise their standard of living. The farmer produces there so that he may earn more for his material well-being, our farmer produces grains with a sense of duty-to feed ants, birds and human beings, as if he were performing a sacred Yajna.
