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Comparing, soar high!
All the words in this section
are as spoken by Swamiji. Reading them carefully and trying to understand
them deeply will bring about a radical change within us. When we
transform inside, the outside transforms automatically.
Stop Comparing, soar high! 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?
My love and blessings to you to reach the
state of Nithyananda (Eternal Bliss)!
