When you feel inferior, even a harmless touch can hurt you. No one can hurt you without your consent. It has nothing to do with the intention of the other person; it has much more to do with your self-concept. The deeper you go into yourself, the more you are devoted and surrendered to the Truth, the less significant this tendency to get hurt will become.
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Questioner: There are certain reactions within me which I am able to see, but they are so instantaneous that I am unable to control them. For example, whenever my wife says anything about my business, I just go mad, I just shout, I just scream at her. How can I overcome this?
Acharya Prashant: When you feel more sure of yourself, then this tendency will reduce. If I really, really know that I am beautiful, you cannot make me feel ugly. But I must then be in total sureness, and I cannot be in total sureness if I am worrying a lot about my business, if it means a lot to me. Because in worrying a lot about the state of my business, I am actually worrying a lot about my capacity to handle my business, which means I am not very sure of my own capacity to live with the business, to manage it, to come out unharmed and untouched by it.
I take business now as a challenge, as something that can really overpower me or dominate me. Now it becomes something very meaningful. Now I have given it a place that it does not deserve. Now I have made it some kind of an equivalent of Truth. And when something becomes an equivalent of Truth, you become too small in front of it. That is called living in an inferiority complex.
