So we approach God.  We sit in meditation and we feel eternity and we say to eternity, "Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad.  I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself.  So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.  Giving my life to you may mean leading a very ordinary life or it may mean leading an extraordinary life.  It may mean having a family and a career or it may mean going beyond all that to just work for others.  It's hard to say.  Rather than making a decision myself I'm going to let you decide for me.  I'm going to give my life to you, to do with as you will, because I know that you are my self, you are my very being.  When this life ends I will be absorbed back into you.  I have come forth from you.  You are all good and you know all that there is.  So please act in me and through me at every moment and every second.  Let me be but an extension of your being.  Teach me to how to give and love selflessly, at all times."

When you have this attitude, when you pray and meditate with this feeling, then you will give selflessly and then you can view everything - everything in your life is part of your yoga of selfless giving.  Your yoga of selfless giving is not confined to just several hours a week when you do something for a spiritual organization or do something for someone else.  Rather, your selfless giving involves everything and everyone in your life.

- "The Yoga of Selfless Giving", The Lakshmi Series