Is Comparison draining you?

‘Come on, you need to improve. Look at your friends, how well they are scoring.’ This is the usual statement ringing in students’ minds. Not just at school, at the university, at the work place; literally everywhere constantly we are compared, pulled and pushed. But none of us stop by and ask, ‘Why should I compare with some one else? Let me compare with myself and aim at becoming a better me’.

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. Let’s see how.

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’, ‘I am getting pressurized’ 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.

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.

Here is a simple analogy to portray this situation. An inflated balloon can be considered to be us when we compare our self with our self. This inflated balloon can fly. On the contrary, a deflated balloon, feeling drained out can be considered to be us when we compare ourself with others. This deflated balloon can not afford to take off and fly; it remains on the ground.

Once we stop comparing, we can soar high…

What are you waiting for? :-)

A word or two to describe where we stand – NOW HERE or NO WHERE. Just a gap’s difference and look what it can do to our lives. This tiny gap, pause we need to put in our routine and ask ourselves where we are heading towards…and what for we are heading so, in a stressed and helpless way!

A small ray of sunlight is enough to light up the dark room. Infusing awareness is what we need to work on from now on. A small amount of time if spent with ourselves, applying brakes to our busy routine; one can realize the purposelessness of this whole drama.

This ray of sunlight that I was talking about was nothing but allowing the higher intelligence to guide us and lead us to the zone of clarity. This lovely zone can be reached by an express highway by listening to an enlightened one’s words or wait for time to make us go through the lessons. The choice is purely ours now… If you feel you want to get onto the nu-clear express highway, come along…and join me with this discourse – ‘Awareness is the key’, delivered by Paramahamsa Nithyananda. Enjoyyy

Addicted to work? or alcohol?

Alcoholism or workoholism, both are addictions! Taking in alcohol or drugs is a visible addiction; and society does not praise us for that. It instead warns us of its consequences, such as ill health, etc. On the other hand, a workoholic is praised by the society... We get the feeling we are in the right direction.

Work is also an addiction, something more dangerous than alcoholism, as we have the direct support from the society. The usual sceanrio in corporate companies is like this. An employee is continuously made to run, run and run. It's like a mutual silent contract signed by both. Employer extracts all that he can from the employee and the employee gets a high pay-chek. Both dont know why they are running or made to run. The missing point here is both feel they are doing the right thing and in the end fall down, completely exhausted, unaware of the purpose of this whole drama!

Let not work become an addiction for us. Let's enjoy every moment at our work place and not
allow the sense of addiction to secretly engulf us.

We may have achieved 'what we want' to achieve; but we forget 'what for' we wanted to achieve all these things. The underlying basis for anything a man does is for happiness... And this happiness, rather bliss is decided by the quality of the inner space rather than the outer objects. The outer space can be enjoyed thoroughly if the inner space of the person is All we need to do now is try and work on our inner space a bit through meditation.

Since till today, we have been giving appointments to others around us, let's now give an appointment to oursleves and work with this inner space and infuse awareness into every action or thought of ours.

There is a 3-day mediation program that is being held at Palace Grounds, Bangalore.
Event: 'Nithya Dhyaan' by Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Heal the Body... Heal the Mind... Experience Bliss
3 hours, 3 days, 3 techniques
20-22 Dec, @ 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
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