Core Insight:
According to Osho, self-care outweighs service because selfishness is a natural, life-sustaining impulse; unselfishness imposed by religions is unnatural and breeds hypocrisy and bargaining. Until one’s separate self matures and dissolves into the universal through awareness, ‘service’ remains ego-driven. Caring for yourself first allows authenticity; from a fulfilled center, compassion arises spontaneously—not as duty, but as natural overflow.