Is liberation selfish or greatest service?

Why Is Liberation the Greatest Service We Can Do for Others? | Michael James

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpSXXjV5X-I

Points touched upon

  • Liberation is not liberation of the individual but liberation from the individual.
  • Verse 40 of Ulladu Narpadu, where Sri Ramana says that if liberation is said to be of three kinds, with form, without form, or with or without form, then the destruction of the ego that makes these distinctions alone is liberation. So liberation is defined not by form or formlessness but by the end of the one who makes such distinctions. Far from being selfish, it is the opposite: a complete surrender of any sense of position or individuality.
  • Why self-enquiry is the greatest service to humanity: in a dream, the best thing to do for all its troubles is simply to wake up. God takes care of the whole world, so let us surrender ourselves to him and let him take care of us.
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