There will be physical repercussions due to man’s growing selfishness. (EL, p. 85)
Selfishness is the greatest negative tendency in human beings. Selfishness distracts the mind, disturbs the equilibrium, distracts perception and endangers progressive evolution. The six essential weaknesses, lust, anger, avarice, attachment, pride, and jealousy are only consequences of selfishness. (MBI, p. 170)
The selfishness fouling our love is veiling divinity from our vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling Divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; it is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.
What is the way to overcome or sublimate this selfishness? For this, first, we should have a proper evaluation, a proper understanding of our body, senses, mind, etc. They are not ourselves. In ignorance we identify ourselves with them. They are our vestures, they are like the dress we wear. The body is not we, the sensory organs are not we; the mind is not we. They are merely our vestures. That is why we say ‘this is my body, etc.’ We never say ‘I am the body’. We should therefore try to realise that we are really apart. The self that is apart from these is the real entity in us, and we are that. (SSS Vol. 15, pp. 39-40)