Perhaps
it is not difficult to give a lot of oneself to others without being much concerned
about one’s self interest. I find many of such types in my immediate
surroundings. Many family relationships are of this kind. There are also
patriots and compassionate people who dedicate their lives for a cause without
worrying about themselves. The man has done much to enrich his social life with
the ways that promote selfless duties without seeking any reward there against.
We have become so accustomed to such ways that we just cannot imagine the
turmoil we would be deep into if those ways did not exist. It is only when we
find many of the social traditions being shaken that we realize their true
worth.
It is not difficult to understand that we have simply
modified our individual self and have formatted it as social self. We sacrifice
our individual interest in favour of our social interest to ensure that our
individual interests are defended more strongly. No doubt, a few things become
more orderly in the man’s life with such arrangements; but the net outcome does
not help in growth and development of universal consciousness that is the key
to collective freedom and contended meaningful life that is possible by the realization
of the perfect selflessness imbibed in the concept of the God and the God’s omnipresent
nature.
We find it very difficult to shift our focus from our
individual self to our universal existence. We build families to nurture our
emotional self, we have societies to protect us from the selfishness of others,
we create nations to protect our share of natural resources, and we do everything
possible for our benefit, which is for the benefit of our individual self. What
we do for ourselves, others also do for themselves; and that results into all
kinds of discriminations and distinctions. We do not work in the reverse direction. If we become concerned about our universal existence, the one that
is similar to that of the God, the nations and the societies will be
automatically taken care of. Then, the nation and societies will be served
well, which in turn will serve our families and us.
The God, the light and heat from the sun and the water from
the water sources reach out to serve others. It is only the human being that
uses his intellect like a funnel to collect everything that he needs or doesn’t
need, including sufferings and sorrow. The selfishness is the product of defective
intellect. Worshiping various Gods, studies of the great scriptures, committed
practices of religious rituals can do no good to us till we reorient our
intellect in the right direction. Our Pravrittis (internal call for
making efforts for survival) cannot allow us to become absolutely detached with
the ways of the world; reorientation of our intellect is the only right answer
to all our distractions and to live meaningfully
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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