Humanity -III; Pujya Gurudev

A Universal Religion for Humanity 

=Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

A selfless individual will be ready to bear any personal inconvenience or loss for the greater good of the society. Just the contrary, a selfish person will treat his self-interests above everything else and shall feel no guilt in performing actions that may cause great harm to the society. For this very reason, selfishness is criticized and selflessness is praised in every religion. 

A self-centered person always thinks of himself and desires everything for himself. He looks at his wife and children also as a means to fulfill his selfish needs, and so looks after them. He desires of his wife’s services and benefits of children’s earnings in his old age or their performance of post-death rituals for him. A son is often loved more by such a father, because it is thought that he would bring dowry home in his marriage and will earn and look after the parents when he grows up. A daughter is often seen as a burden and is therefore given lesser privileges and looked down upon.

A selfish man will have no hesitation in relinquishing his wife if he does not like her because she is ugly, ill or unable to bear children. Such individuals do not hesitate in even committing heinous crimes like ‘selling’ their daughters, or appropriating wealth of their sisters. Such people do not feel pain or remorse in mercilessly killing animals and birds to satiate their tastes of tongue. Immoral conduct and ill deeds of criminals are nothing but extreme forms of ego and selfishness. 

All the great persons in this world have been selfless. They have utilized and spent most of their energy for the welfare of others. They have been regarded as great men and women in the same proportion as their sacrifice of personal conveniences and comforts, and their acceptance of life full of difficulties to carry out benevolent deeds. Their glorious lives have been inscribed with honor on the pages of history from time to time. Saints and pious people are regarded as deities on the earth only because they take a vow to adopt virtuous practices of serving the society while subduing all selfish desires. Godly personas have always adopted the path of selfless and lovefilled service of society as an integral part of their sadhana. 

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma