Be Totally Selfish || Acharya Prashant

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00:00 Selfishness is not about pinching something from a shop without paying for it.

00:05 Or about copying from somebody's answer sheet or

00:08 stealing somebody's assignment and submitting it in your name.

00:11 No, that's not selfishness.

00:13 Selfishness is a great, great virtue.

00:16 Selfishness is self-love. Selfishness is self-knowledge.

00:19 It is superfluous selfishness that we must watch out against.

00:23 True selfishness is something we must aspire for.

00:26 And it's inexorable.

00:28 You are the self, right?

00:30 How can you not be selfish?

00:31 It is your duty towards yourself to be truly selfish.

00:34 If you are not being selfish, then in some sense you are guilty of a crime against yourself.