WHAT IS COMPARISON?
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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!