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A poor man had no land and prayed to God for some land. God appeared to him and told him that all that he could cover from dawn to dusk would be his land.

The man set off the next morning without sleeping a wink. Though he had covered enough land to satisfy his needs, very soon, he began to run and run filled with a desire to own more land, more than anyone else.

By dusk he had covered a lot of land. But he fell down dead, exhausted.

Usually this is the story of most of our lives.

Desires that are real and are born out of a genuine need will have their own energy and will sustain them.

However, most of our desires are created out of jealousy and have a negative energy.

When we are not able to bear the excellence of others, we get jealous. Comparison is the seed, jealousy is the fruit.

Comparison and jealousy are actually non-existent. We create such thoughts ourselves and talk endlessly on how to overcome them.

Imagine that the room you are in is dark. Can you remove it if you wanted to?

Can you take it to another room? Of course not.

The reason is that darkness has a negative existence. It does not really exist.

If you bring light into a room, the darkness will at once cease to exist. In the same way, jealousy has a 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 an ascending order of money, where would you be?

You will be somewhere in the middle. You will not even be able to count the number of people who are on either side of you in the queue. Now, you will 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 and feel relaxed and grateful to God.

Everything is in your hands.

We will never face failure if we live our lives competing with ourselves. Win yourself with yourself, never with others.

Every minute of comparison with others is a waste of time in the path of progress. A great problem in the rat race is that even if you win you are only a rat. To stop comparisons, you need to be aware of your own worth; you need to realise your uniqueness without being proud..”

 
5 comments on "True and worth implementing"
  Commented by  Venkatesh R Joshi, Sr. Manager - Mechanical, Degremont Limited    | 10 15 2010 05:47:44 +0000
Yes Ram this is very true and true to the core. But let me be honest with you very few people will follow such gr8 ideas & make a gr8 living and most of us will realise the importance of this when we are on the death bed where one has no time to live.

On the ohter hand positive comparision is always good to bring in developments within and add value in our ideas and living. Thanks
  Commented by  Purshottam Jagiasi, Head/VP/GM-Marketing, Aarvi Encon Pvt. Ltd.    | 04 01 2010 09:41:01 +0000
Let me put this in context. Comparison pe se is not bad. It is good if you have a certain goal in life & you are comparing with others viz a viz your goal, it will achieve something and it will bring happiness. 

But if you compare with others without any context & want to have or do some thing just because somebody else have it or did it (your perception of Status Symbol), or just for the purpose of putting somebody down, (Sic), you may feel that you have achieved but it will bring empty feeling, it will bring stress & misery.

I hope I am able to make my point.
  Commented by  Govindan, Head Quality, Unimarkremedies limited, Vapi    | 03 17 2010 18:16:40 +0000
As this is story, I leave at that point. All stories cannot and should not be compared and extended to real life. By comparison, we will havw better knowledge, understanding of self etc. If comparison is not there, ranking system or grading system in education is not required. If this basic system is not there, one cannot know where one stands and if there is no yard stick, how can one improve upon........however, I am not insisting comparison is required every where......one must have clarity in judging what and when to compare
  Commented by  Vireshwar Chaturvedi, Depot Manager , OM SALES    | 03 17 2010 14:04:22 +0000
yaa.... your comment is is very true ....But I think it's depends upon the individuals that how he takes other quality or goodness in his life .... look all the race is not just cat and mouse race .... some times this kind race become the mother of new invention... and there is nothing wrong if you compare yourself with some one about whom  you think that this person has something better then you .... and you start to try do something extra... I know that there is no end of this kind of race but it should be in healthy way ... It's all about your positive frame of mind .... Because life is all about challenges and it end less discovery. 
  Commented by  Padmaja Baskar, Product Development Manager, ONGC    | 03 17 2010 13:23:50 +0000
Amazing insight Ramakrishna. It was really touching and that is true. I believe everyone after reading this will try to change themselves. I decided to live for myself.

Thanks for sharing....... 
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