IN SUPPORT OF ‘SELFISHNESS’

Dr Sudhansu Kumar Dash

The word selfishness has been condemned so much since centuries that there is every possibility of misunderstanding it , but the word is really very beautiful. To be selfish simply means to be yourself, not to consider anybody else but to consider oneself ad I that consideration, one would have considered everybody in the world. In being selfish one will find all the altruism that one has been seeking and seeking but not finding because the whole thing has been made upside down. One is told to love the other but have never loved oneself and a person who has never loved himself, how can he love others? Where from he can get love? First one has to have it.

You love the neighbor who knows nothing if love .The neighbor loves you who has never loved himself. Such insanity is happening in the whole world. People love each other knowing nothing of love. It is like beggars begging from each other, thing as if the other is an emperor. Both are thinking in the same way. One beggar has been trying to prove himself as an emperor. This is absolutely absurd .One day the truth of it would manifest itself .One day the other person will know that you are cheating him, pretending to be an emperor. When both beggars will find each other that both are beggars ,what else that they can do other than being angry ,annoyed and violent to each other, hating each other as deeply as possible? Now the love is not there. They do not know what love is.

To know some thing one must begin with oneself. One has been told to sacrifice for some idiotic ideas. Just simply be selfish in loving oneself and one will be surprised to see that when one is selfish, one discovers so many treasure within oneself. Soon one will start sharing it. Finding a treasure is lesser joy than sharing it and the treasure that opens in a man does not follow the ordinary economics and its profit or loss .It is diametrically opposite to the ordinary economic structure. In the ordinary economy if one gives something, one will have less of it and if one goes on giving, one will soon be a beggar. In ordinary economy, one snatches from the other as much as possible to get more and more but the treasure here is a different law. If one clings to them, they shrink and clinging more, one will loose it. If one wants to destroy that property, then one may close the entire doors ad become a grave, so that nothing can escape outside. But one will be a dead man with all one’s treasure dead with him. His truth, his joy , his love  all will be dead with him. If one wants to grow with one’s treasure, one is to share them all on a sundry without even a little botheration whether the other is a friend or a foe. Here only sharing is the question, not with whom who so ever he may concern. One should not eve concern about the address. One should simply go on sending the love letters without any address and somebody will one day receive it somewhere. The more one goes o sharing the more goes on entering from unknown sources.