Jealousy comes from dependency. The person who is not dependent cannot feel jealousy. The one who is his own master has no reason to be jealous. To be jealous implies that someone has been accepted as a master, and there is a desire for that master to stay with them. If the master goes elsewhere, a certain pain arises, and this pain is what is called jealousy.
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Acharya Prashant: The question asked by Shubham is, does jealousy arise from ego?
It’s simple, very simple if you look at it. What is ego? Your sense of yourself which has been borrowed from others, correct? So, I do not know myself directly, I am depending upon somebody else to tell me who I am, correct?
The fellow comes and says, you are brilliant and what do I start believing, that I am brilliant. Now my sense of being brilliant, my idea of myself that I am brilliant depends totally upon this other person, who told me that I am brilliant. Otherwise, I am not brilliant.
If too many of them come and say that you are stupid, I will have to believe that I am stupid, because even my idea of brilliance comes from others. If he says I am brilliant and I believe it, then I have to also believe him when he says that I am stupid, are you getting it?
