Inferiority and Ambition

 

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Inferiority and Ambition

Ambition is nothing but the strong desire to be successful, to have power, to have great wealth, etc. Where does this desire come from? Most of us come from humble beginnings and get educated, get a job and then ‘progress’ in life as we start fulfilling our desires. After our basic desires are fulfilled we keep wanting more and this sense of ‘more and more’ comes from a sense of inferiority. The sense of inferiority comes from our nature of comparing ourselves with others and the desire to do better than the ‘others.’ This is a never-ending cycle.

The more inferior one feels, the more ambitious one becomes. Through ambition we want to prove ourselves in the eyes of the world and in our own eyes that nobody would consider us to be inferior.

The mental states of inferiority and weaknesses within us – the lameness and blindness – want to be hidden. We are running to hide them and to prove that the whole world is wrong, that we are alright. We have proved our might, and we are trying to prove to others that we are not weak or wanting. This is the race of the inferior mind.

The education based on ambition is, at its root, based on violence. Ambition is not a dignity to the personality; it is an inferiority of the personality. Everybody in the world is afraid of being nobody. Everybody wants to have a name, to be a VIP. Everyone wants to have a position, a good reputation, and a house of their own. Who is creating this madness? It is created by our education.

Education which teaches us that we are enough as we are; that we do not have to be anything else, we are just as good as we are, when we get this kind of education we may change for the better. Explore all the possibilities that are present and enjoy the experience. Do not get into any kind of race with anybody. It is not necessary, there is no reason for doing so. If education can make every person aware that one is enough as one is, and can enable him/her to experience the bliss of it, if education can make facilities available for the full growth of what one has – facilities for growth, not for ambition; facilities for love, not for competition; facilities for self-awakening and consciousness, not for conflict with others – then such education will be able to bring about a fundamental revolution in the world.

As long as education is not able to do this, it is not in the interest of man; on the contrary it is harmful to man, it poisons the human mind. Whatsoever we have is enough. What is lacking in anyone? If a person does not become ambitious, the world is not lacking in anything.