Stop Comparing, soar high!
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spiritual4u
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When we are not able to bear others’ excellence, we get jealous. Comparison is the seed and jealousy is the fruit. Comparison and jealousy are actually non-existent. We create them ourselves and talk endlessly on how to overcome them
This microphone here has a positive existence and therefore I can remove it from this room and place it in the next room. Now imagine that there is darkness in this room. Can I remove it if I want to? Can I take it to another room? No! The reason is that darkness has a negative existence. It does not really exist. If I bring light into the room, the darkness will automatically cease to exist. In the same way, thoughts in you such as ‘I am ugly’, ‘I am rich’ etc all have a negative existence.Jealousy has negative existence. You cannot deal with it directly. Even if you tell yourself repeatedly not to feel jealous, you cannot overcome it.
If you queue up all the people in the world in ascending order of money, where would you be? You will be somewhere in the middle! You will not even able to count the number of people on either side of you in the queue. Now, with your thoughts, you have to decide if you are going to look at the queue in front of you and feel jealous or look at the queue behind you and feel relaxed and grateful to God! It is in your hands.
Watch the Monkey trainer instructing the monkey. He holds a stick in his hand and shouts ‘Dance Rama! Dance Rama!” and the monkey dances. He then shouts “ Turn cartwheels Rama! Turn cartwheels Rama!” and the monkey turns cartwheels. In this same way, the Maya Shakthi (The power of illusion) uses a stick called ‘Comparison’ to run our lives and we faithfully dance to its tunes.
We will never meet failure if we live our lives by competing with ourselves. Win yourself with yourself, never with others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress. A great problem in the rat race is that even if you win you are only a rat! Lock yourself in a room and analyze how much of time and energy you waste in comparison with others; more than 60% I am sure. We talk of conserving petrol, water and electricity; what about conserving our own Energy?
This microphone here has a positive existence and therefore I can remove it from this room and place it in the next room. Now imagine that there is darkness in this room. Can I remove it if I want to? Can I take it to another room? No! The reason is that darkness has a negative existence. It does not really exist. If I bring light into the room, the darkness will automatically cease to exist. In the same way, thoughts in you such as ‘I am ugly’, ‘I am rich’ etc all have a negative existence.Jealousy has negative existence. You cannot deal with it directly. Even if you tell yourself repeatedly not to feel jealous, you cannot overcome it.
If you queue up all the people in the world in ascending order of money, where would you be? You will be somewhere in the middle! You will not even able to count the number of people on either side of you in the queue. Now, with your thoughts, you have to decide if you are going to look at the queue in front of you and feel jealous or look at the queue behind you and feel relaxed and grateful to God! It is in your hands.
Watch the Monkey trainer instructing the monkey. He holds a stick in his hand and shouts ‘Dance Rama! Dance Rama!” and the monkey dances. He then shouts “ Turn cartwheels Rama! Turn cartwheels Rama!” and the monkey turns cartwheels. In this same way, the Maya Shakthi (The power of illusion) uses a stick called ‘Comparison’ to run our lives and we faithfully dance to its tunes.
We will never meet failure if we live our lives by competing with ourselves. Win yourself with yourself, never with others. Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in your own progress. A great problem in the rat race is that even if you win you are only a rat! Lock yourself in a room and analyze how much of time and energy you waste in comparison with others; more than 60% I am sure. We talk of conserving petrol, water and electricity; what about conserving our own Energy?
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