Posted on: 24 Aug 2022
[Shri Divakar asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, I understood that I am having ego based jealousy Swami and more over, my spiritual progress is getting diluted when my circumstances are good and when the same circumstances are bad, spiritual progress is kind of intense comparatively. So swami, can You please explain how to overcome ego based jealous and how to make spiritual progress effectively irrespective of situation. Your servant, Divakar.]
Swami replied: Ego based jealousy can be eradicated by anybody just by identifying it in the soul as a quality. Identification of the defect is half success. If you just concentrate on the removal of a quality, the quality is removed and there is no need of any external physical exercise or medicine from the outside. A quality is a mode of awareness, which is just a strong thought. The strong thought can be destroyed by another stronger thought, which is firm decision to remove the prior thought. A diamond can be cut by another diamond only. A thought is neither good nor bad by itself. When the thought is turned to God or to good side in Pravrutti (worldly life), the thought becomes good. When the thought is turned to bad side in Pravrutti, it becomes bad. For example, if your jealousy towards another greater man is turned towards a good angle, you will develop yourself to become better than that greater man. But, the same jealousy when turned towards a bad angle, you will try to harm that greater man so that he will come down to be lower than you. The jealousy turned towards bad angle alone must be removed by the process described by Me above.