However such resentment and envy is actually a sign of
cowardice, a sign of the absence of the courage to accept the reality that they
cannot control world around them. They are disturbing their
peace of mind for no gains whatsoever, because nobody has the power to change
the will of god. Wisdom lies in understanding that the happiness and distress
destined for us at the time of our birth, as fixed according to our past karma,
are inevitably going to come, no matter what we do. Just as distress comes in
our life uninvited, by higher arrangement, happiness will also come on its own
peace.. Therefore real wisdom lies in seeing the loving and well-wishing hand
of god behind everything that happens in our lives. Only with such a vision we
can live in peace.
But, if a person is jealous of others and is trying to pull
them down or destroy them, then he can never be at peace. Why? Because such a
person is concerned not so much with how well he has fared, but with how badly
others have fared. His success lies in the failure of others. His mentality is
like that of a crab, who having been trapped in a fisherman’s basket along with
many other crabs, is worried, not about saving his own life by jumping out of
the basket, but about pulling other crabs down so that he may stay at higher
level than them within the basket. What an utterly foolish mentality!
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