presents
Jealousy society's device to divide and rule
What is jealousy? Does our jealousy show that we are very far from aloneness?
Society
has exploited the individual
in so many ways
that it is almost impossible to believe.
It has created
devices
so clever and cunning
that it is almost impossible even to detect that they are devices.
These devices are to exploit the individual,
to destroy his integrity,
to take away from him
all that he has got
without even creating a suspicion in him,
even a doubt
about what is being done to him.
Jealousy is one of those
tremendously powerful
devices.
From the very childhood
every society,
every culture, every religion
teaches everybody
comparison.
And the child
is bound to learn it.
He is just a tabula rasa,
a blank paper without any writing;
so whatsoever the parents, the teachers, the priests
write on him,
he starts believing that is his destiny,
it is his fate.
Man comes into existence
with all the doors open,
all directions available;
all the dimensions
are for him to choose.
But before he can choose,
before he can be,
before he can
even feel his being,
he is spoiled.
Jealousy is one of the greatest devices.
Look at it very closely: what does it mean?
Jealousy means
to live
in comparison.
Somebody
is higher than you,
somebody is lower than you.
You are always somewhere
on a middle rung of the ladder.
Perhaps the ladder is
a circle
because nobody finds the end of the ladder.
Everybody is stuck somewhere
in the middle,
everybody is in the middle.
The ladder seems to be a round wheel.
Somebody is above you
that hurts.
That keeps you fighting, struggling,
moving
by any means possible,
because if you succeed nobody cares
whether you have succeeded rightly or wrongly.
Success
proves you are right;
failure proves that you are wrong.
All that matters is success,
so any means will do.
The end
proves the means right.
So you need not bother about means -- and nobody does bother.
The whole question is how to climb on up the ladder.
But you never come to the end of it.
And whosoever is above you
is creating jealousy in you,
that he has succeeded and you have failed
and you have failed
One would think that spending your whole life
passing from one ladder to another ladder,
always finding that somebody is still ahead of you
can't you simply jump off the ladder?
No, you cannot jump. The society is very cunning,
very clever.
It has
polished,
refined its methods over thousands of years.
Why can't you get out of the
circle?
because somebody is below you
and that gives you tremendous satisfaction.
Certainly,
if you go on in this way being jealous and competitive of everybody around you
how can you come to yourself? The world is too big, and there are so many people
and you are in competition with everybody...and you are.
Somebody has a beautiful face, somebody has beautiful hair, somebody has
a beautiful, proportionate body, somebody has
a great intellect, somebody is
a painter, somebody is a poet....
How are you going to manage? All this,
and you alone to compete?
You will drive yourself nuts
and that is what all of humanity
has done.
Drop competition,
drop jealousy.
It is absolutely pointless.
It is absolutely
a cunning device created by the priests
so that you can never be yourself because that is the only fear
all the old religions are afraid of.
If you are yourself
you have found
contentment, fulfillment,
ecstasy.
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