Maharaj: Your care for others is egoistic, self-serving, and self-centered. Others are only interesting to you in the sense that they improve or ennoble your own picture of yourself. And the pinnacle of selfishness is solely caring about one's own body's safety, maintenance, and multiplication. By body, I mean everything that has to do with your name and shape, such as your family, tribe, country, race, and so on. It is selfish to be attached to one's name and shape. A man who understands that he is neither body nor mind can't be selfish since he doesn't have anything to be greedy about. Or, to put it another way, he is equally'selfish' on behalf of everyone he meets; their well-being is his own. The feeling of 'I am the world, the world is myself' develops over time; once it is established, there is no manner of being selfish. To be selfish is to seek, acquire, and accumulate for the sake of a part rather than the total.