JOIN USThe sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness - Ellen G White.
As individuals, we all expect that others should give us respect and love which we consider to be our human right or birth right. Sounds silly. Isn’t it? But it’s a fact that nobody from us wishes to be totally neglected or completely deprived of his/her so-called human right.
One may tolerate certain acts of others that go against his/her rights up to a certain limit only but not beyond all limits. This is because none of us can totally and absolutely dissociate ourselves from his feeling of individuality.
It is this individual approach which hinders our growth as a human being and prevents us from imbibing treasures of knowledge from Supreme. Hence,we need to get rid of it at any cost, but practically speaking it is impossible to lift the chair on which one is sitting so also one cannot rise from individuality, which has become our true nature and hence one cannot get rid of this individuality by mere wishful thinking. So what is the solution then ?
To start with, we need to concentrate on liberating ourself from the negative traits of our body-consciousness. Yes, we should remember that when we become too narrow in outlook, we become selfish and after sometime then this selfishness takes the form of jealousy, hatred, greed, etc. In actual sense these negative traits sum up as the real causes for almost all the problems in the world.
It is said that selfishness is the greatest curse for the human race. So how can we get over this curse and save ourself ? Well, experience says that one can get rid of selfishness greatly by a simple thought,belief and feeling that we are all children of One Supreme and are, therefore, brothers among ourselves and should, therefore, work for each other's well-being and should co-operate with each other to remove each other's sufferings.
Apart from selfishness, it has been also observed that the feeling of individual self also, at times, takes the form of ego or pride which drives us into destructive mode. However, when we get enlightened by spiritual knowledge, we realise how much wrong were our feeling of false pride or ego, which in turn brings in humility and introvertness within us.
Regular practice of meditation further makes us realise that there is a great difference between Him and us and how we have many shortcomings, weaknesses and bad qualities which need to be eliminated.
So, let us all connect our mind to Him and restore all our spiritual relationships with Him to remove all the negative traits of our individual self and re-emerge positive traits within self.