Beware of Jealousy

 

Beware of Jealousy

Jealousy sickens Self like diabetes, it corrodes the society like rust; it eats away a country like termites

By Mukesh Sharma

History reveals that JEALOUSY has done more harm to humanity than any virus or natural calamity. Jealousy killed the mighty demon king Ravana; it wiped out powerful Kauravas in Mahabharata; it assassinated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria that triggered off world war-I; it caused the failure of peace efforts, German invasion in Europe, and Japan aggression on China that collectively resulted in World War-II; it is most likely to be the cause of World war -III too. Jealousy helped the Britisher to rule over India for 200 years; it bifurcated India into Hindustan and Pakistan; it is the cause of rampant corruption in India. Jealousy erodes self-confidence, kills the trust, ruins relations, weakens the nation and eats away the whole life bit by bit.

Beware of Jealousy

 

 

Through his one of characters, Iago in Othello, Shakespeare says:

“ O! Beware my lord of jealousy, it is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on”

As a daughter of Ego and Avarice, jealousy has many siblings – Greed, Treachery, Traitor, Quisling, Betrayer, Double Crosser, Snake in the grass, Sheep in wolf clothing and megalomaniac.

These siblings of jealousy are spreading their genome very fast; their stock is rising in each society and country day in and day out; they are the cause of the most of the sufferings of the man across the world.

It is not easy to recognize a jealous man, he may be one among your near relatives; he may be one among your close friends; he always wears the mask of well-wishers; he may be around you round the clock like Brutus back-stabbing Julius Caesar; he may be Jai Chand betraying Prithviraj Chauhan; he may be Raja Ranveer Singh of State of J & K who provided army and arms to the Britisher to end the Sikh rebellion in Punjab; he may be Mir Jafar; he may be Jeevaji Rao Scindia who sided and helped the Britisher and got killed amazon Rani Lakshmi Bai . Jealousy is like a virus, it may lie dormant within you too for years without your knowledge.

Notwithstanding, a jealous man can be recognized by his characteristic qualities only; he is talk active but sounds reticent; he doesn’t think beyond his selfish interest; he appears quiet and calm and remains busy in selfish calculation and never lets anyone get the wind of his ill-feelings; he never loses the opportunity to make a great show of affection; respect and concern, particularly, in front of others. As a man of good pusillanimity and patience, he always waits for the right time to act and react; he hates to see people above his status, and conspires to bring them down; he loathes anyone rising to his status and plans to push them down. Out of jealousy, a jealous man first targets the known people around him and then increases the circumference of circle of jealousy step by step after achieving the ‘targets’. However, a jealous woman is jealous of all women above her status.

Jealous man always pays false compliments through empty words devoid of meaning; he is master of pretensions; he knows how to play possum; he sends forwarded message on whatsapp; he will never send self-written message or call you up personally. Just to ingratiate himself, he visits hospital if you are admitted there. He conveys his condolence and does attend funeral. If invited he does attend weddings. With an eye on food and arrangement, he is more interested in observing the political and social clout of the host than the blessings to newly weds.

A jealous man hates to see you more happy and successful than him. However, he pretends otherwise. If you tell him about your some achievements, he will try to belittle your success by giving false examples. On the contrary, he will boast about his success and exaggerate it to stoke your envy. On social media – facebook / watsapp/ Instagram, he will seldom like your post of some achievement; even if he comments, he comments through ‘emoji’. If you keep posting the posts of your ‘success’, he will block you.

Psychologists contend that specific gesture and posture do debunk a jealous man. In sitting posture, he often tends to cross his legs. He is anxious to compete with the known people above his status. That is why the most of the people are unhappy because of the happiness and progress of their neighbors. The awkward predicament and problems of the neighbor pleases such people. A jealous man is a copy cat; he imitates the style of renowned people; he often spouts mugged up proverbs; he often speaks up the crammed quotations of famous personalities to show off his ‘knowledge.’

Needless to say, jealousy sickens self like diabetes, it corrodes the society like rust; it eats away a country like termites. Commenting on this deadly silent killer jealousy, Swami Vivekananda says:

“Jealousy is a national sin in India”

Beware of Jealousy!