You get a real urge and inspiration to serve others only when you get rid of identification with the body. When a man suffers from acute stomach pain, his eyes water. Why? Because the various organs - the eye, the stomach, etc. - are all parts of the same body. So too, when one man suffers, your eyes must shed tears and you must be urged to alleviate it! This will happen if you know that you and he are limbs of the self-same Divine Body. The idea of difference (bheda bhava), arises on account of ignorance of Truth. When people get angry, they gnash their teeth, but they take care not to bite the tongue, for the tongue is theirs! If by chance, the tongue is bit, they don’t knock the teeth out, for the teeth are theirs! So too, sick man, poor man, suffering man, illiterate man, wicked man, etc. are all limbs of the same body, of which we too are parts! The same current activates all. To realise this and to merge in that Unity is the purpose of one’s life!

- Divine Discourse, Sep 26, 1965.