Tag: comparison
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Drop seriousness, and bring sincerity and sensitivity to life!
All our comparison with other people begins with what we think of ourselves. Jealousy disappears when we understand our uniqueness. We may then create another problem. We may believe ourselves to be so special that we start taking ourselves far too seriously. What is seriousness? Seriousness is nothing but paying undue importance to something, at…
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Once love starts flowing, jealousy and possessiveness and all that simply become non-existent!
Jealousy does not allow you to experience your true nature of love and bliss. It arises out of misunderstanding life and yourself. You misunderstand love to be something outside of you that has to be acquired. Not only that, you think love is a quantity that needs to be shared. That is why you are…
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Meditation technique to overcome jealousy
Jealousy is closely related to many negative emotions like anger, greed, possessiveness and depression. All of these emotions will dissolve when we break this cycle of jealousy. Jealousy cannot be overcome either by escaping from it or hating the object of jealousy. All you need to do is just be fully aware when the feeling…
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If you can look but not be affected by what you see, then you have found the right way!
Actually, jealousy has no solid existence. In that way it is like darkness. Darkness does not have an independent, positive existence. Darkness is not the presence of something. Darkness is just the absence of light. In the same way, jealousy has no independent, solid existence by itself. It is just the absence of knowledge or…
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The only way to really live and enjoy life is to enjoy the very doing itself!
We all function around the three axes of doing, having and being. Doing for having, without enjoying being, is the sole cause of all our misery. Doing never catches up with having! Every time you work hard and fulfill one desire, suddenly that desire loses its pull over you. As enlightened master, Ramana Maharishi, says…
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Why do we compare ourselves with others? Because we forgot that all of the confidence, intelligence, and vibrant energy that we need already exists inside us!
Emotions of fear, desire and guilt are subjective emotions. What I mean by this is that you do not need another person or even an object to create these emotions. Imagine that you are in a sound-proofed room with your eyes closed and with nothing to touch, taste or smell. You can still feel the…
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In real powerfulness, you will do so much, but you will never feel you are doing so much
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. I tell you, this mental setup puts you in Indraloka where constant insecurity. You may think, ‘Wow! Indraloka is great! I can drink Somarasa, see the dance of Rambha,…
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Blessed is the one who feels powerfulness is his nature
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 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…
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Comparison
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,…
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Mind is that illusion which shows a tiny mustard seed to be a huge mountain until it is attained, and a mountain to be as insignificant as a mustard seed once it has been attained! Ramana Maharshi
