08 Dec 2021
[Shri Bharath Krishna asked: Padanamskaram Swamiji, I have one fresh problem i.e., jealousy. You have been cautioning us so much about ego and jealously but I still ended up being the victim of Jealousy. Now I will explain why I got jealousy.
Thrylokya (Thrailokya according to You) was my friend at college and both of us started learning Your knowledge simultaneously from Dr. Nikhil sir and Devi mam. She was little younger to me and I used to consider her as my sister in this Divine Family of Yours. She was very close to me and we used to have continuous Satsangs discussing about You and Your knowledge.
Now You started praising Her so much for her devotion. Initially I got a little Jealous but later when I analyzed, whatever You are saying about Her is totally true. I closely observed her for about four years now. The same conclusions I used to get after reading so much knowledge and analysis, She used to learn much faster. Not only that, once She comes to a conclusion, She will be standing very firmly on that. She has tremendous faith on Your knowledge. After knowing this much about Thrylokya, I can't be jealous of her, I am proud of her. I tried to overcome my negative side of Jealousy and tried to use it for my spiritual progress. I wanted to figure out all my mistakes and rectify them. As I analyzed I realized that don't have any good qualities which are good for my spiritual progress. Lack of patience, worldly desires, usage of my intellect for all wrong reasons are few of my mistakes. Now I am so much worried that if I ever understand Your knowledge properly. Please help me get over these thoughts of mine Swami. Please help me Swami. Your Defective Servant, Bharath Krishna.]
Swami Replied: Mr. Bharat, how much lucky you are for developing jealousy towards a good devotee! because jealousy turned towards positive face will lead to your tremendous self-development by which you will become a good devotee. By the same jealousy towards contemporary human incarnation, you can get the eligibility to become human incarnation. This means that by jealousy you are not only reaching God but also becoming God! After all, what the human incarnation is doing? It is only propagating the true spiritual knowledge in the world. If you are developing lot of interest in propagating the true spiritual knowledge in the world, you get the eligibility to become human incarnation. Apart from your eligibility, if you become a good devotee, God will be pleased to merge with you to make you the human incarnation. Eligibility to get job as engineer is the B.Tech. degree. By having simply eligibility you cannot get the job because the employer shall like you in the interview to give the job to you. This liking comes in God when you become His good devotee. This means that by becoming jealous with contemporary human incarnation and thereby developing interest in propagation of true spiritual knowledge (which is the characteristic of the human incarnation). Similarly, by becoming jealous with a good devotee thereby developing the love to God (which is characteristic of good devotee), God will love you and merge with you to make you the human incarnation. Hence, to become human incarnation both eligibility as well as love to God are essential and both these can be achieved by you by getting ego based jealousy towards incarnation and devotee respectively. But, one thing is very important, which we shall not forget and that is this developed jealousy shall be turned to good positive face of the quality of jealousy, which means self-development using the positive side of the quality. This same jealousy becomes harmful to you provided you turn its negative side by which you harm the incarnation and devotee respectively so that both will not be greater than you. I told several times that no quality is totally good or bad because any quality becomes good by exposing its good face and becomes bad by exposing its bad face. For this reason, people say that education improves by jealousy (Sparthayā vardhate vidyā). By comparing yourself with a meritorious student, you shall try to work hard more than him so that you can cross him in the examinations and this is the good positive face of jealousy. The negative bad face of the same jealousy will be to harm that student so that he will not write the examinations by which your merit remains safe. Hoping that you will use the good face of the jealousy, I congratulate you for your excellent fortune to get the jealousy to be used on good side and I feel that this is the grace of your Sadguru or the contemporary human incarnation. You must note that the Sadguru has His own techniques to develop all His disciples. Your Sadguru is very happy that His Trailokya Gita is helping the other disciples to develop in the spiritual path. I like this message to be treated as the message for the coming Datta Jayanti.
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