2022 January « Avatar Meher Baba Hyderabad Center

“This is His message to us”

A few days later, Mehera and Mani were sitting in Baba’s bedroom. “Baba didn’t leave us any message,” Mehera said […]

Selfishness [12] – Spirituality a positive attitude toward life

Renunciation of desires does not mean asceticism or a merely negative attitude to life. Any such negation of life would make man inhuman. Divinity is not […]

Selfishness [10] – Union with ultimate Reality

From the good, the soul passes on to God.

Selflessness is merged into universal Selfhood-which is beyond good […]

Selfishness [9] – Transformation of selfishness into selflessness

Selfishness must be transmuted into selflessness before the domain of duality is completely transcended. Persistent and continuous performance of good deeds wears out selfishness. […]

Selfishness [8] – Arising of selfishness

The desires that enter into the constitution of the personal ego are either good or bad. Bad desires are ordinarily referred to as forms […]

Selfishness [7] – Love and service

The dawn of love facilitates the death of selfishness. Being is dying by loving.

If you cannot love one […]

Selfishness [6] – Renunciation of wants

Wants should be carefully distinguished from needs. Pride and anger,greed and lust, are all different from needs. You might think, “I need all that […]

Selfishness [5] – Road to Happiness

Selfishness inevitably leads to dissatisfaction and disappointment because desires are endless. The problem of happiness is therefore the problem of dropping one’s […]

Selfishness [4] – Caught up in vicious circle of endless disappointment

Man experiences disappointment through lust, greed, and anger; and the frustrated ego, in its turn, seeks further-gratification throughlust, greed, and anger. Consciousness […]

Selfishness [3] – Lust, greed, anger

The chief forms in which the frustrated ego finds expression are lust, greed, and anger.

Lust is very much like greed in many respects; but it […]