To cook is not a small job for Swami Bapa.
He believes that whatever work one does in the service of God is great. Satsang, office-work, preaching, reception, farming, cooking, cleaning-everything is considered to be of equal importance.
Nothing is minor, nothing is major.
The difference lies in our emotions, in our attitudes.
With what feelings do we engage ourselves in the service?
If our feelings are to please God then whatever form of seva we do is great.
A few decades back, Swami Bapa used to go to the hot and dry desert-like areas of Rajasthan. There in the stone quarries he would select marble for our mandirs. From early morning till late evening Bapa would work in the hot sun. When he returned to the rest house he would do the daily chores. He would draw water from a 200-foot-deep well. Then he would cook rotli and daal on a firewood stove. After offering the food to Thakorji, he would sit down with the other sadhu for his meal. Then of course, the cleaning up of pots and pans would begin.