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I bless you with more and more envy & jealousiness

Before I bless you with Envy and Jealousy. I will give their definitions first. "Envy" is an emotion that occurs when a person lacks another's (perceived) superior quality, achievement, or possession and either desires it or wishes that the other lacked it. "Jealousy" is the fear of losing something that one possesses to another person. We are in a period of transition culturally, economically and socially. Effect of privatization in India led to culmination of service sectors like software field. Growth is yet one sided like richer getting richer while poorer still poorer. But there is plenty of opportunities to everybody today than 1970's. More people are getting in to middle and upper middle class now. A lot is getting richer. But If we measure the happiness they have we can find how poorer they are. In this modern city based life and life-style which is wholly materialistic the thing that is lagging behind is the spiritual aspect. Envy and jealousy is becoming part of modern minds sub-consciously. Which means modern minds are not really modern! You want to beat your friend, relative and peer in every aspect. You envy them. You want to buy a bigger house than anybody. You ought to have a bigger job than anybody. You grow because you feel envy about your friend receiving bigger salary. You buy bigger house and prove to others that you are richer than them.
You grow not because of your inner search that leads you to greatest heights. You grow because you are grudge and jealous about others. From my heart I bless you all to grow further and further. But the irony is it means that "I bless you with more and more envy & jealousiness "

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Umesh Sakolkar said…
Modernization is based on western concept "survival of the fittest" which promotes dualism and supriority. Pre-modernization in india was "Vasudaiva Kutumbakam" which had sacrifice in it for our co-workers/people and the relativity in dualism was less.

Also our goals of life is very limited now a days and same time we restrict ourselves in learning and knowledge. lack of knowledge will leads to lack in thinking. We need to increase the level of thinking and practice to wards "world as one family" and not "world is one market". This may will lead to multidiamentional aspect in practice but there is no shortcut to re-establish it.
December 31, 2010 at 7:51 AM
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