Social Service and overall all activities should be rendered without the sense ‘I am the doer,’ but feeling. ‘I am the Lord’s tool’.

Ramana with a cow

 (from "Day by Day with Bhagavan"): 

Ramana Maharshi: Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of this maya, you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it, as we are told, without ahamkara, i.e., without the sense ‘I am the doer,’ but feeling. ‘I am the Lord’s tool’. Similarly one must not be conceited, ‘I am helping a man below me. He needs help. I am in a position to help. I am superior and he inferior.’ But you must help the man as a means of worshipping God in that man. All such service too is for the Self, not for anybody else. You are not helping anybody else, but only yourself.