Competition: Is It good to compete?

Competition is something that everyone would have faced in their life. Where does competition not exist in today’s competitive world? Competition is constantly on, for toys when we are young, in studies as we grow up, then for nice clothes, for career, for promotion at work, and for status in society. Everyone has competition. People compete in intelligence as well saying, “I have more intelligence than this person; I have more intelligence than that person.” How do I move ahead, move ahead of everyone; someone's progress reduces and mine increases, this mindset is called competition.

Someone else surpassing us, someone else becoming superior to us is what we are not able to tolerate, and that is the reason competition is born. Competition has been going on in the world since time eternity. Everyone enjoys becoming superior, becoming bigger. The whole world tries to show superiority in their interactions. The ego itself, by its very nature, tends to become superior to others. However, every time one remains ahead of others, this does not happen.

Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan has always walked in a direction different from the general flow of people and he has never run into competition. He gives us the crux of His experiences here. What is actually at the root of competition? Where and how does competition arise? What is the danger of competition? How do we come out of that? What should we do when someone enters into competition with us? We get a detailed understanding of all those questions here.

Spiritual Quotes

No one has been successful in this ‘race course’. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. ‘We’ (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. ‘We’ would simply tell, ‘Dear Man, I am not capable.’
‘We’ are telling you from ‘our’ experiences of life after life, that all the running of countless lives has been a failure and completely worthless! I have run so hard, hard enough to be sitting on the top but I have also suffered miserably in the process. Instead why not run away form this racecourse! Let us discover our true domain…it is, oh my…gigantic”!
Even if you run in ‘this’ racecourse for endless lives, you will get cheated in the end; such is this world! Everything you do will go to waste. And on top of that, there is no end to the beating you will get. Instead, run away from here and find our ‘Real Place’! That, which is our ‘Original Self-form’!
This is Akram Vignan [Akram Science - the stepless spiritual science of direct realization of the Self]. Once you pull out from the racecourse [competitive worldly life], your 'personality' will shine then. Those in the racecourse will never have personality; not a single person.
No one has been able to win this world. That is why ‘we’ have made a very profound discovery that will help win this world. ‘‘We’ sit here defeated; if you want to win, then come [to me]’.
The one who blesses the winner, after having lost himself, will attain liberation (moksha); he will become “complete”.
If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.
If you say that you have accepted defeat, the world will let you go. ‘We’ have discovered this. Because, we had tried to win over the world and in doing so, we had to go through many incarnations. And in the end, I said that I have acknowledged defeat and settled down.
If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.
Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'.
Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].
There is worldly life where there is competition and where there is no competition, there is ‘Gnan’, (true) Knowledge.
Competition is a dangerous disease.
By believing, ‘I am greater than everyone’, one enters into a ‘race course’ (competition) and on to the wrong path through unawareness. With laghuttam ego one gradually becomes smaller and smaller until he becomes completely laghuttam; therefore one becomes Paramatma, the absolute Self.

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