THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY & COMPARATIVE
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A Small Story
Never in history has a jealous person truly succeeded.
A man was leading in a 1000-meter
race. After running 200 metres, he
looked back and saw that the rest are
after him and he ran on. After 500
meters, he looked back again and was
happy that he was still leading and ran
on. Every few meters, he did the same
thing and finally won the race. If the
man had not looked back and
concentrated only on running faster,
he would have won the race in a much
shorter span of time
In life too, our concentration is always on others and not fully on our progress. We never fully live our own lives.
Mahaveerar says "When we come into this world, we bring with us all the shakthi (energy) needed for our lifetime. God does not send us empty-handed." We spend this energy on watching others' activities and others' desires. When you are at home your mind will say 'It is enough if I have a home and a car for myself." Your mind will be relaxed at this thought. When you step out in your car and stop by at a traffic light, the Mercedes Benz that pulls up alongside your car with a jolt will jolt the relaxed state of your mind. You again start working out others' desires.
Albert Einstein, a famous scientist belonging to the last century was in his deathbed. His junior scientists asked him what he would like to be born as if he had a re-birth. They expected him to come out with desires of being born as a greater scientist in a field other than atomic theory or something to that effect. Einstein replied “I would like to be born as a plumber. Initially, I wanted to be a plumber, but I was deceived by the fame and status of the scientists and hence chose to become a scientist. Today, I have everything except satisfaction of having lived. I gave many truths to man but deceived my own life.” This is a classic example of how we should start living our own desires and lives instead of our neighbours’.
When you want something, think whether it is for your own sake or because your neighbour has it. Drop the so-called prestige problems. Live in your own way and die peacefully with full satisfaction even if it were in a platform; it is better than dying a prolonged death in a marble house in an air-conditioned room on a six-inch high bed. 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 analyse 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?
ViSHUDDHi CHAKRA
VOLUME 1
COMPARISON & JEALOUSY
ABOUT THE CHARKA
Emotion: Comparison and Jealousy
Chakra: Vishuddhi Chakra
Location: Throat region In Sanskrit, Vishuddhi means 'beyond purity and impurity'. The name therefore means that this chakra can never get impure and hence never needs to be cleansed. That is why comparison, which locks this chakra, is like a shadow without an object. There is no basis for the concept of comparison. It is purely a figment of our imagination. This chakra is locked by comparison and jealousy and it can be made to flower when we exhibit our individuality without worrying about others, and express fully our capacity, uniqueness and creativity
Meditation Technique to be an innocent and egoless being:
Shakti Sagar Meditation— A technique from Zen Buddhism
