Only selfless service can encourage a person to reach the higher state of humanity.
Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!
Be steady, have faith, and reach the Goal safe.
The Moral Law is inexorable, so follow it, observe it, and you will reach your goal, God is the perfection of the Moral Law.
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect, it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.
Every being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.
To help the helpless is the only way to please, follow and reach Him.