From Selfishness to Selflessness

My Dears,

Self is denial of separativeness; separativeness is the denial of the wholeness, holiness, God. The denial of God is Godlessness, God privation, atheism. Atheism therefore, as you now understand it is not the denial of this or that religion or this or that concept of God. It is rather the denial of life of love, which is the nature of God; it is the assertion of the life of the little self, which is the negation of the being of God. In short, real atheism is the denial of Love, the assertion of selfishness.

The process towards God called self-sacrifice is in its utmost essence, Love. For God is love and love alone can lead to Him. As the most Godful act is the act of love, so also the most Godless act is the act of non-love or hate, but hate, which is separativeness, can only arise when there is selfishness or selffullness. Thus it came to pass that the most Godless, loveless, atheistic act is the act of selfishness or self-fullness.

Love must be completely selfless to be Godward and to be Divine. Its criterion must be ‘Beloved Lord first’; its technique must be ‘Your happiness’. Love is forgetting of oneself and the remembering of God (Sai Krishna).

With Love and Blessings,

Sri Sathya Sai.

P.S. Whatever we do reacts upon us. If we do well, we shall have happiness and if evil, unhappiness.