Selfishness: A Great Virtue! || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: Why do we all act so blindly? || Acharya Prashant, with IRMA (2023)

Transcript

00:00Selfishness is a great great virtue. Selfishness is self-love. Selfishness is

00:05self-knowledge. It is superfluous selfishness that we must watch out

00:10against. True selfishness is something we must aspire for and it's inexorable. You

00:16are the self right? How can you not be selfish? It is your duty towards yourself

00:20to be truly selfish. If you are not being selfish then in some sense you are

00:26guilty of a crime against yourself. So see who you are. See what is it that you

00:32want. Speak to that bird with some intimacy some some love and you'll find

00:38whether then it's the cause of the climate or the oppressed sections of the

00:43society or the cause of the homeless or the malnourished ones. So there is so much

00:51that needs to be done. There is so much that a young person must invest herself

00:55into. But none of that will be possible if you are not in touch with the inner bird.