Self Growth(5)
Selfishness is not only in the genes of man but in his mind and heart too. In itself, selfishness need not be a disease. It is meant for personal evolution, especially in the animal kingdom where it is question of the famous characteristic of the ‘survival of the fittest.’ Even what appears to be non-selfishness conceals selfishness. Whatever co-operation, unity and interdependence we find either among animals or among men conceal selfishness.
The body has its language, so do the heart and the mind, but few people have the art and science of listening, reading and understanding these languages. Being too busy in focusing on the external world, we have no time to look into ourselves. It is also a fact that we are afraid to listen to and understand the inner language because we are bound to come across much madness. However, beyond all these there is something immensely beautiful and vast. But before we can attain to it, we should be ready to go through the first step of reading and listening to the three languages, which will reveal to us innumerable truths concerning ourselves, our real nature and our relationship with whatever exists.
Too much of anything becomes boring. But people do not seem to get bored with quite a lot of things such as sex, power and drugs for example. Still, I insist and support the above statement. People are not bored with sex because it opens a door to the timeless and ‘spaceless’ dimension. People get bored and frustrated with the means, and this is why they go on changing partners. We sooner or later get bored with the same partner, who no longer has the attractiveness that excites us. Similarly, new drugs are sought because the one we are taking no longer leads us to the illusive world that enables us to escape from life.