How to Believe in Service Rotary is a service organisation. Is service a religious act? How can you believe in some supreme God you cannot see? Well the saints have told us centuries ago that belief and disbelief in God are linked to the way you live your life on this earth. When people joined Rotary, they accepted that service to humanity is service to God. They may not have known the greatness of the act of serving others, but they accepted. Those who debate the path of service as a means to enrich their thoughts have not inquired about the concept of service, Those who believe also do not know the full meaning but pretend as if they know. And the same Is true for disbelievers, Belief is a barrier; it means that we are carrying a prejudice and that we will not be able to see that which is the truth. We tend to project our own ideas of service. Service is like meditation. Itis important to drop all thoughts about ourselves, ideologies and all our opinions. Then something unimaginable and unbelievable happens. The happiness of service to others, the feeling that cannot be expressed is experienced. This is when we believe in service. The ability to serve others is a quality, a fragrance that comes to us by commitment to the high ideals we set. The happiness of service is something you experience. You don't see it. The feeling is in you, in your heart. It is your subjectivity, your consciousness. So you do not debate about the need to serve humanity. The lack of belief in service as a way to higher enlightenment is because people are brought up in all kinds of beliefs and they have their own prejudices. Anything that fits with their prejudices enters them and anything that does not fit with their prejudice is discarded by the individual. That is why it is difficult for Rotary to find new members, especially from the younger generation. Rotary should not be seen as a philosophic entity. It is for those people who go on endlessly into logic-chopping and hair-splitting. A good human being is more interested in the very source of his existence. If people in Rotary expect others to make a philosophical inquiry about why they should join the movement, they will only help the outsiders to end up with whatever conclusions they draw. This is dangerous and once people make a conclusion- however wrong it is- they become fanatical about their views. People s conclusion about the need for service organisations such as Rotary will be as high as they are high and as shallow as they are. The belief reflects who they are. The need for service is not a conclusion arrived at by logical process. People cannot be made to believe in a system, which has service above self as the motta by discussing or analyzing. Belief in service is something that suddenly wells up within them. Rotary's objective is to create an atmosphere in the community, which will be conducive for this feeling to come up sooner within most individuals. A person who puts in no effort to rectify, change, uplift or modify an existing situation that affects a vast majority of the society can be considered dead even while living. People who do not believe in service to humanity have no expression of life force within them. Lack of effort or laziness means that the faculties are completely dead to situations in life. Rotary needs to shake people off their comfort zone and give them an opportunity to improve what they see around them. When people's knowing equipment of mind and intellect gets a good shake there will be a fresh enthusiasm to serve. People will believe in service.