How can I avoid being jealous? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: When friends succeed, and you feel jealous || Acharya Prashant, at Christ University (2022)

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00:00You mean how not to feel jealous?

00:02Yeah, jealous.

00:04Take it in a negative way.

00:06Man, there is a life to live.

00:08There is work to do.

00:10Huh?

00:12There is something to love.

00:14Where is the time to be jealous

00:16and negative and hurt?

00:18You are young.

00:20The next thing is now waiting for you.

00:22The next moment is available.

00:24The next opportunity

00:26has flung open its arms.

00:28What do you get by

00:30just repenting

00:32over something

00:34that seems to have not worked

00:36for you and has worked for somebody else?

00:38The point is not that

00:40the other has seemingly done

00:42better than you. The point is

00:44how do you have time to waste

00:46over somebody else's

00:48work or life or performance

00:50or whatever?

00:52That person is doing what he or she might

00:54want to do. What are you doing?

00:58you