Nationalist selfishness, individualism, non-cooperation, parochialism is our main flaw. The whole world is moving forward on the basis of mutual cooperation. Man is a social animal, he has grown and improved on the basis of mutual cooperation. Where there is love, affection, unity, intimacy, cooperation and generosity, there will be heaven. The belief of socialism and communism is that one should live for society, not for itself. To increase collective happiness and peace, one should sacrifice their prosperity and convenience. Education of religion and spirituality is also the same, that by not accumulating wealth, splendor for oneself, use his talent, intelligence, ability and wealth for the essential needs of sustenance, and the rest, whatever is left, will put everyone in collective upliftment.
The society in which there will be such benevolent people will flourish, flourish, and it will be happy. Where selfishness is an aberrant, hoarding tendency, all the acts of immorality will grow and spread. Wherever the tendency to indulge in a higher level of happiness above the level of ordinary citizens will flourish, there will be evils such as exploitation, injustice, misconduct, malice, conflict, jealousy etc. In ancient times, whose talent was to earn more, they used to donate more available money from their national level to the works of public interest. Meaningfulness of life was judged only on the strength of service.
The richer one gets today the more nobility, this evaluation is wrong. The one who has accumulated more than the national level is making a big mistake. This mistake should be discouraged.
otherwise every person will desire to be more wealthy, more prosperous, more luxurious. This will increase conflicts and sins. Cooperation, love, sacrifice, generosity and the elimination of the virtues of charitableness are only selfishness. To remove this and to cultivate the feelings of generosity, co-operation, public interest and charity, we have to put forth all our efforts, only then our society will become civilized. Otherwise, exploitation and rebellion, hoarding and theft, rudeness will continue to spread and the misery of mankind will continue to increase.
✍???? Pt Sriram Sharma Acharya
Akhand Jyoti January 1962
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