No comparison
This comparison is one of the biggest reasons of our sufferings and difficulties. The comparison gives birth to competition and it gives birth to jealousy and enmity.
Most of people can not rise without competition. A second ranked student wants to get first rank. When my neighbour brings a costly car, I want to purchase a costliar one. This competition does not stop upto individual level. It goes upto society to society, nation to nation, even religion to religion.
Nowadays we are listening a new word i.e. Healthy Competition. But we can see ourselves that it always converts in jealousy and enmity.
This comparison and competition also give us inferiority complex. When we get unsuccess in comparison to others we come in grip of inferiority complex.
So how we can progress. The spirituality gives us the natural answer. It says that your soul always requires to be perfect. So Do not compare with others, listen the voice of your soul, it will give you a way for your perfection, then you will not be seeing others. In a practical approach spirituality says to always try for your 100%. If somebody is 85% in any field, you are not to gain 86% but to try for 100% and it will drag away the feeling of comparison and competition. There will be no jealousy and enmity between person and person, society and society and nation and nation.
So we should believe that every person, every society, every nation has been made for a particular achievement. There is no need of comparison in any respect.
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Dear Uncle,
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Sometimes there comes the period in our life when unwillingly we fell into inaction and that is the time when, if, we asses ourselves with the performance of those who have been put in same situation but performed far better than us, then i think competition could bring positive results. But whatever is said is applicable only till the time when we have not united ourselves with the Divine. If we unite ourselves with the Divine Mother, I think, we will be doing only those things which are necessary for our development and that too with our utmost efficiency and capacity.