Brahmam, Senses, Selfishness :

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As soon as selfish desires arise, as soon as some selfish pursuit is followed, immediately the whole man, the real man, is gone: he is like a brute, he is a slave, he forgets his fellow men. No more does he say, 'You first and I afterwards', but it is 'I first and let every one else look out for himself'.

That Self-existent One is far removed from the organs. The organs or instruments see outwards, but the self-existing One, the Self, is seen inwards. You must remember the qualification that is required: the desire to know this Self by turning the eyes inwards.

 All this universe was in Brahmam , and it was, as it were, projected out of Him, and has been moving on, to go back to the source from which it was projected, like the electricity which comes out of the dynamo, completes the circuit, and returns to it. The same is the case with the soul. Projected from Brahmam, it passed through all sorts of vegetable and animal forms, and at last it is in man, and man is the nearest approach to Brahmam. To go back to Brahman from which we have been projected is the great struggle of life.

Swami Vivekananda