Comparison - Lesson 7

KAILASA's Rajavidya Nithyananda Gurukul

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, is recognized as the 1008th living manifestation of Paramashiva, Paramavatar of Paramaśiva as per Sanatana Hindu Dharma ("Hinduism") and by His predecessors of enlightened masters and adepts. THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM, is reviving Hinduism as the 1008th Acharya Mahamandaleshwar (the head for all spiritual leaders) of Atal Akhada (ancient apex body of Hinduism).

The SPH was coronated as Mahamandaleshwar (Supreme Spiritual Head) of Maha Nirvani Akhada (largest apex monastic order) and the youngest Mahamandaleshwar, ordained as the 233rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Thondai Mandala Aadheenam, ordained as the 293rd Guru Mahasannidhanam (Pontiff) of Shyamalapeeta Sarvajnapeetam, ordained as the 23rd Guru Mahasannidhanam of Dharmamukthi Swargapuram Aadheenam, and coronated as the 203rd Emperor of Suryavamsa Surangi The SPH Nithyananda Paramashivam is the reigning spiritual emperor of 20 ancient traditional Hindu kingdoms and the reviver of the most ancient, most peaceful, still-living and long-lasting demonstrable system that shows the possibility of peaceful co-existence amongst people.

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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!

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, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with the people whom you think higher than you, you will fall into the powerless space of guilt, giving up on you, the idea you are not worthy enough; you will fall into all these powerless spaces.

If you compare yourself with people whom you think who are lower than you, again you will fall into the superiority complex, arrogance, which is also powerlessness.

Comparison can be of two kinds: constructive comparison and destructive comparison.

Constructive comparison is essential and desirable. In a practical sense, it gives you a yardstick against which to measure yourself. It provides the spur, the stimulus to improve. Without comparing, how can you have a realistic appreciation of yourself?

Destructive comparison results from the inability to accept reality. In this big wide world, someone is sure to be better than you at whatever you do. 99.99% chances are that you're not the world's best mathematician, the fastest runner or the most talented painter. Does that mean that you enjoy these things any less? To focus only on what you're lacking simply means that you're on your way to a massive inferiority complex. And who needs it?

Look around you. Do you know anyone else who is exactly the same as you? Don't you see how special you are? If you are comparing yourself to others and feeling miserable, it simply means that you aren't appreciating yourself enough! You are so out of touch with your inner being that you have forgotten how extraordinary you really are. Once you realise this, the need to compare dies naturally. Even if you wanted to compare, each person is so different - where is a common point of reference? So drop the attitude of comparison. Remember, you are truly unique - just like everyone else!

"Completion with yourself raises you to the level of Enlightenment and liberates you from the cognition of comparing yourself with others and keeping yourself in a very low level."

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. Whether you think there are some people who are higher than you and you compare with them, or lower than you and compare with them, both ways you will fall into powerlessness.

If you compare yourself with people whom you think who are lower than you, again you will fall into the superiority complex, arrogance, which is also a powerlessness.

Whether you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you or you think are lower than you, you are in the space of powerlessness and you are destroying yourself. And you are going to destroy yourself unless you raise yourself, unless you complete with yourself.

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 shiver; 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 come to the wrong conclusions about you which is the biggest curse. It is life imprisonment.

Whoever you may be, if you have a wrong idea about you, you are in life imprisonment.

Carrying the ideas lower than you, about you is the life imprisonment in which you suffer for comparing yourself with people whom you think are higher than you., every time you compare yourself with people whom you think are higher than you, you are taking away the life energy happening in you, you are blocking your Kundalini energy, you are blocking your life force, you are destroying your bio-energy because it is going to reinforce the faith in you that you are powerless, you are useless, you are lifeless.

The moment you think somebody is bigger than you and he knows it, you are going to be exploited by him. The person who is really, really bigger than you will always be helping you to make you become like him. But whom you think is bigger than you will only be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you. Whom you think is bigger than you will be exploiting you. Who is really bigger than you will be explaining to you.

Whether you compare yourself with the people whom you think are bigger than you or lower than you, comparison is going to put you in powerlessness.

When you think somebody is higher than you and you compare yourself with them, the different kinds of tortures you will give it to you, you will bring upon you,

All your good, bad, everything is perceived by you; if that you is corrupted, your whole life is Hell. Then whatever direction you are functioning is wrong. You need to sit and look why you are doing what you are doing before you are completely collapsed, you need to look in , why you are doing what you are doing.

The civilizations which drives you by creating a peer pressure where you are forced to compare yourself with people higher than you, will be filled with psychological disorders. All the so-called grown up countries are Filled with psychological disorders.

If you are constantly comparing yourself with whom you think as higher than you, even if you reach that place, you will be reaching that place by fear.

Arrogance is the most powerful, cunning method which shows all the inauthenticity, irresponsibility you have on others. And you go on comparing yourself with others and destroy yourself! Unless you get out of it, only when you enrich yourself with responsibility, you can become authentic again.

Comparing yourself with the people whom you think are lower than you. this is worse than the earlier pattern. This leads to arrogance, ego, inauthenticity.

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. this mental setup puts you in Indraloka where constant insecurity resides.

OTHER SIDE OF COMPARISON

If you are caught in the pattern of comparing yourself with the people whom you think are lower than you, you will develop so much of arrogance, pride, inauthenticity; you will never take the responsibility; you will never live the life of enriching yourself and others

In powerfulness, you will never feel you are doing too much, you will never have the stress, because you don't conduct the Tug of War before making any decision.

When you carry arrogance, even to make a simple decision you will do so much of Tug of War inside, you will really feel you are doing too much and you will complicate things..

If you are in the space of Completion, all the work you touch will be successful, it will flourish, it will bring so much of powerfulness in you.

Success-Powerfulness will always shower success, understand, never bring failure. It is a law of life!

Whatever may be the reason for your powerlessness, once the powerlessness enters in you, it eats away even one or two remaining good things in your life. Even the few moments of powerfulness which you experienced will be forgotten by you; you will think it is only a illusion or delusion or accident happened in your life. If you think the beautiful moments of your life happened in you as an accident, there is nobody unfortunate than you.

Even if you try to show yourself as powerful, when you are feeling inside powerless, the pull and push internally creates tremendous stress.

Comparing yourself with people whom you think higher than you puts you into the eternal depression. We can call this hell as "Kumbhipaakam". Garuda Purana describes various hells. Putting yourself in the space of powerlessness is equivalent to putting yourself in hell with a lot of effort.

Neither comparing yourself with the people who you think are higher than you nor comparing yourself with people who you think are lower than you is going to keep you powerful or help you in your life.

Remain powerful by remembering comparing with others is a sickness which happens due to powerlessness. ```

Comparing is resisting, when we compare we fall into fear -'poor me', or greed 'I am right'. Comparing is a huge traffic jam happening in our thought process it does not let us be spontaneous.

We are part of whole intelligence even though we are unique in our own expression and experience. So with this right understanding we can apply it to our situations.

For the situation, we face we have two options: We can place our ego in wrong place and complicate ourselves. If we understand the situation and accept the solution we can change our belief-to-be life. If we accept the situation positively we get the solution. Complaining is to resist. We resist every moment, that's why we cannot sit with ourselves.

We look at situations like a view, when we change the perception, the dimension of the view changes; like in a kaleidoscope when we change the angle we get various new images. Like in the optical illusion we need to understand the hidden knowledge (or) message in every issue; we can shift to the new world of understanding that others are uniquely a part of us. The mind can grow like a wild fire only in comparison, but during comparison we only grow to the extent of whom or what we compare.

The mind can grow like a wild fire only in comparison, but during comparison we only grow to the extent of whom or what we compare. Mind fails to exist without comparison. If the bottleneck is cleared with the understanding of uniqueness, 100% of energy and experience can enrich you. Because of perception of reality we cannot see something which we did not know before.

We are all already, always listening to the inner chatter in the mind that's why we are not able to listen to others.

We look at each other only through our right eye because we use only our right brain. If we start looking using our left eye to see other people, we will not judge that person; we will be very nice to them. We use our right brain when we see through our left eye. We will be heart-oriented, we will not complain about the other person.

To make the children understand that comparing is resisting and to cause them to move towards unclutching and flowing with life.

What is comparing?
What happens when we compare?
Relate comparison with traffic jams.
What is oneness?
What is the best way to tackle the situation?
How we can change our belief?
Jealousy is a misunderstanding of what?

When we accept who we are, we can accept others as they are. We will stop proving ourselves to others and just be who we are