Comparison - Lesson 8: You are not who You think you are

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SPH
NITHYANANDA
PARAMASHIVAM

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism
("SPH") Nithyananda Paramashivam,
is recognized as the 1008th living
manifestation of Paramashiva,
Paramavatar of Paramaśiva as per
Sanatana Hindu Dharma ("Hinduism")
and by His predecessors of enlightened
masters and adepts. The Supreme
Pontiff of Hinduism ("SPH")
Nithyananda Paramashivam, is reviving
Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya
Mahamandaleshwar
(the head for all spiritual leaders)
of Atal Akhada
(ancient apex body of Hinduism).

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SPH NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

The SPH was coronated as
Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual
Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest
apex monastic order) and the youngest
Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the
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of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam,
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Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd
Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The
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WHAT IS COMPARISON?

What are the words you use to compare
yourself to others? Beautiful, poor,
clever, unlucky, young, weak and so
on. Now, imagine yourself on some
new planet, where nobody lived but
you. Would you then be beautiful or
ugly? Tall or short? Rich or poor?
Without comparison, these words
naturally lose their meaning. Because
they are only concepts formulated by
the mind, they have no real existence.

Imagine yourself all alone in the world. Do you feel ugly or beautiful inside? Foolish or wise? Where are all these concepts then? Only the fact that you exist remains - because that is the only truth.

To compare yourself with someone else is foolishness, because you can never be anyone else - and no one else can be you!

The funny thing is, we never
compare ourselves to flowers or
birds or mountains; so why do we
compare ourselves to other
people.

You may have never come across
a singer who felt jealous of a koel,
or a dancer who wished she were
a peacock! When we can truly
welcome and enjoy all else in
nature that is beautiful,

How come we can't enjoy the unique loveliness of each other?

Why do we feel so intensely threatened by another's beauty or wealth or talent? This is nothing but simple social conditioning. Brought up in a competitive world, we tend to imagine that the more someone else has of something, the less there is for us!

COMPARiSON iS A NATURAL TENDENCY

One of the natural tendencies for you is comparing yourself with others. And, whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you or whom you think lower than you, you are going to fall into the space of powerlessness. If you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

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If you compare yourself with the
people whom you think higher than
you, you will fall into the powerless
space of guilt, giving up on you, the
idea you are not worthy enough; you
will fall into all these powerless
spaces.

If you compare yourself with people
whom you think who are lower than
you, again you will fall into the
superiority complex, arrogance,
which is also powerlessness.

TYPES OF COMPARISON

Comparison can be of two kinds: constructive comparison and destructive comparison.

Constructive comparison is essential and desirable. In a practical sense, it gives you a yardstick against which to measure yourself. It provides the spur, the stimulus to improve. Without comparing, how can you have a realistic appreciation of yourself?

TYPES OF

COMPARISON

Destructive comparison results from
the inability to accept reality. In this
big wide world, someone is sure to
be better than you at whatever you
do. 99.99% chances are that you're
not the world's best mathematician,
the fastest runner or the most
talented painter. Does that mean that
you enjoy these things any less? To
focus only on what you're lacking
simply means that you're on your
way to a massive inferiority complex.
And who needs it?

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Look around you. Do you know
anyone else who is exactly the same as
you? Don't you see how special you
are? If you are comparing yourself to
others and feeling miserable, it simply
means that you aren't appreciating
yourself enough! You are so out of
touch with your inner being that you
have forgotten how extraordinary you
really are. Once you realise this, the
need to compare dies naturally. Even if
you wanted to compare, each person is
so different - where is a common point
of reference? So drop the attitude of
comparison. Remember, you are truly
unique - just like everyone else!

POWERFULNESS IS YOUR REAL NATURE.

“Completion with yourself raises you to the level of Enlightenment and liberates you from the cognition of comparing yourself with others and keeping yourself in a very low level.”

One of the natural tendencies for you is comparing yourself with others. And, whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you or whom you think lower than you, you are going to fall into the space of powerlessness. Whether you think there are some people who are higher than you and you compare with them or lower than you and compare with them, both ways you will fall into powerlessness.

If you compare yourself with the people
whom you think higher than you, you
will fall into the powerless space of
guilt, giving up on you, the idea you
are not worthy enough; you will fall
into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with people
whom you think who are lower than
you, again you will fall into the
superiority complex, arrogance, which
is also a powerlessness.

NEGATIVE COMPARISON LEADS TO DESTRUCTION

Whether you compare yourself
with people whom you think are
higher than you or you think are
lower than you, you are in the
space of powerlessness and you
are destroying yourself. And you
are going to destroy yourself
unless you raise yourself, unless
you complete with yourself.

The first thing will hit you is, the moment you compare yourself with the people higher than you, you will become powerless. You will shiver, you will shake. You will shiver; you will lose confidence over your powerful space. You will think the powerfulness happened in you only as an accident but your nature is powerlessness. You will come to the wrong conclusions about you which is the biggest curse. It is life imprisonment.

Whoever you may be, if you have a
wrong idea about you, you are in life
imprisonment.

COMPARISON BLOCKS THE KUNDALINI ENERGY

Carrying the ideas lower than you, about you is the life imprisonment in which you suffer for comparing yourself with people whom you think are higher than you., every time you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you, you are taking away the life energy happening in you, you are blocking your Kundalini energy, you are blocking your life force, you are destroying your bio-energy because it is going to reinforce the faith in you that you are powerless, you are useless, you are lifeless.

The moment you think somebody is bigger than you and he knows it, you are going to be exploited by him. The person who is really, really bigger than you will always be helping you to make you become like him. But whom you think is bigger than you will only be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you. Whom you think is bigger than you will be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you.

Whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think are bigger than you or lower than you, comparison is going to put you in powerlessness.

When you think somebody is higher than you and you compare yourself with them, the different kinds of tortures you will give it to you, you will bring upon you,

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All your good, bad, everything is perceived by you; if that you is corrupted, your whole life is Hell. Then whatever direction you are functioning is wrong. You need to sit and look why you are doing what you are doing before you are completely collapsed, you need to look in, why you are doing what you are doing.

HOW DOES COMPARISON AFFECT YOU?

The civilizations which drives you by creating a peer pressure where you are forced to compare yourself with people higher than you, will be filled with psychological disorders. All the so-called grown up countries are Filled with psychological disorders.

If you are constantly comparing yourself with whom you think as higher than you, even if you reach that place, you will be reaching that place by fear.

Arrogance is the most powerful,
cunning method which shows all
the inauthenticity, irresponsibility
you have on others. And you go
on comparing yourself with
others and destroy yourself!
Unless you get out of it, only
when you enrich yourself with
responsibility, you can become
authentic again.

THE OTHER SIDE OF

COMPARISON

Comparing yourself with the people whom you think are lower than you. this is worse than the earlier pattern. This leads to arrogance, ego, inauthenticity.

You will never do anything, but you think you are qualified for everything! You will never take responsibility, but you think you can boss around everyone. this mental setup puts you in Indraloka where constant insecurity resides.

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If you are caught in
the pattern of
comparing yourself
with the people
whom you think are
lower than you, you
will develop so much
of arrogance, pride,
inauthenticity; you
will never take the
responsibility; you
will never live the life
of enriching yourself
and others

In powerfulness, you will never feel
you are doing too much, you will
never have the stress, because you
don't conduct the Tug of War
before making any decision.

When you carry arrogance, even to
make a simple decision you will do
so much of Tug of War inside, you
will really feel you are doing too
much and you will complicate
things..

CREATE MORE POWERFULNESS IN YOUR LIFE

If you are in the space of Completion, all the work you touch will be successful, it will flourish, it will bring so much of powerfulness in you.

Success-Powerfulness will always shower success, understand, never bring failure. It is a law of life!

Whatever may be the reason for your
powerlessness, once the powerlessness
enters in you, it eats away even one or
two remaining good things in your life.
Even the few moments of powerfulness
which you experienced will be forgotten
by you; you will think it is only a
illusion or delusion or accident
happened in your life. If you think the
beautiful moments of your life happened
in you as an accident, there is nobody
unfortunate than you.

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NEVER BE POWERLESS

Even if you try to show yourself as
powerful, when you are feeling inside
powerless, the pull and push internally
creates tremendous stress.

Comparing yourself with people whom you think higher than you puts you into the eternal depression. We can call this hell as “Kumbhipaakam”. Garuda Purana describes various hells. Putting yourself in the space of powerlessness is equivalent to putting yourself in hell with a lot of effort.

Neither comparing yourself with the
people who you think are higher than
you nor comparing yourself with people
who you think are lower than you is
going to keep you powerful or help you
in your life.

Remain powerful by remembering
comparing with others is a sickness
which happens due to powerlessness.

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YOU ARE NOT
WHO YOU
THINK YOU
ARE