1. How to be
Maximally
Selfish and
?Happy

2. .Dr Shriniwas
Kashalikar

3. Being maximally selfish is one of the
!greatest virtues But this virtue is
equated with and misunderstood as
mean or petty selfishness by most
,people and hence they consider it as
!vice
;However “being maximally selfish
and maximally happy” makes
millions of others also very happy
(and is practiced by many though
;mostly without conceptual clarity

4. )and conviction and hence without
!articulating it in this manner
Selfishness is inseparable from
!yourself It is natural and a great
.virtue Selfishness evolves into cosmic
selfishness and becomes maximally
!satisfying as it evolves
( )An infant is selfish very happy in
(suckling and a mother is selfish very
) !happy in breast feeding Neither of
- -them is mean selfish and or mean
!selfless

5. But as you grow there develops a
-tussle between mean selfishness and
- !mean selflessness due to growing ego
When the words selfishness and
;selflessness are used they actually
; - -imply ego born mean selfishness or
- -ego born petty selflessness
!respectively
;This conflict creates a misery both
-due to ego born mean selfishness and
- !ego born mean selflessness In neither
!of the acts you become happy Tally
your experience of the feeling of
-being cheated by ego born gifting of

6. donations and the feeling of guilt for
!not having given a donation Assess
;your feeling of being ill treated after
-your ego born teaching or treating
;free of cost and your sense lowliness
-for your ego based denial of your
!services to the needy
Most of the times even if others
;consider you selfish or selfless and
;you may either dislike or like it you
are actually not maximally selfish or
! ;selfless You are a foolish person
-getting dragged after ego born
!compulsions As a result you remain

7. a temporarily and superficially
satisfied or unsatisfied “rich” or
; !“poor” but always a beggar
But this conflict is not easy to
!overcome
So you need to set out to evolve your
-mean selfishness and also evolve
- !petty selflessness If you succeed in
, ,this through NAMSMARAN then
;later your petty self dissolves! And
you learn to choose an activity (born
)out of enlightenment that gives you
(maximum happiness maximum

8. selfishness) that can fill not merely
yours but also the hearts of millions
!and can last for life time
Learning to overcome incorrect or
;deceitful compulsions and expressing
cosmic selfishness makes you and
; !billon others maximally happy
.Dr Shriniwas Kashalikar