Since they have both covered the exact same journey, it is fair that they both should be given the same results. So either the dog goes to heaven with him or he too doesn’t want to go there. This is again an act of strong conscience. The dog was also granted heaven, due to such strong act of conscience exhibited by Yudhishthara. Here again, Yudhishthara is not focused on his profit or loss; and he’s focused on what is the right thing to do in the situation.
Such levels of conscience may be very difficult to achieve. The good news is that in order to do good things in our lives, we don’t need such high levels of conscience in most cases and we can do with less conscience. The above examples are mentioned to have an idea about what a person with very high levels of conscience can achieve. Hence conscience is the virtue which guides us in telling the right from the wrong. Therefore, lack of conscience is one reason for being aspired too much and that too, irrationally.
This is because, a person with good levels of conscience will always know the difference between healthy and unhealthy, rational and irrational levels of aspiration. Hence he won’t be carried away by irrational aspirations. On the other hand, a person having low conscience wishes and tries to achieve each and every good thing he aspires to achieve. He doesn’t bother much whether or not he should try to achieve that thing or even keep wishing for that thing. This is where the problem lies as he doesn’t have much conscience to tell him which objectives are right or rational, and which objectives are wrong or irrational.
Let’s look at the second reason called greed which also works in co-ordination with the first reason. Though greed is overall not a good trait to have, it doesn’t cause much damage until it crosses a certain level. Once it crosses that level and it becomes high or very high, it alone is sufficient to get a person into a variety of problems in many spheres of his life. Unhealthy levels of greed are possible only when one such person has weak conscience, since conscience always stands against greed, just like it stands against too much ambition.
Hence a person suffering from being overambitious may lack conscience and he may have unhealthy levels of greed. Due to greed and irrational aspiration, he aspires to achieve a number of luring things and then he tries to achieve them, whether doing so is just or not. As he sets his eyes on best of the things he comes across, and as he keeps wishing for those things, it may become difficult for him to settle for anything less than what he wants. This is because there is not enough conscience to guide him that wishing for the best is one thing, but not accepting anything less than the best is another.
There is no problem in wishing for the best things and trying for them. However, if you get so much fixed on them that you start comparing everything you get, with what you really want to achieve and then you start rejecting or finding faults with everything you get, it certainly is a big problem. Such an approach can make you feel dissatisfied with most things you achieve. Accordingly, you may start making complaints about most things and people who come your way. As you keep wishing for the best and you don’t settle for anything less, you start being more and more restless. This is because what you want is not coming to you and what is coming to you is what you don’t want.
Hence you’re trapped in a vicious circle. You may think that the only way out of this problem is to actually achieve what you want. However, you may not feel satisfied for long, even if you get what you want. This is because you’ve written a script of wishing for more and more on your subconscious. Hence it may not take long before you set your eyes on another objective, once you’ve achieved one of your objectives.
This may continue and you may want an objective, only until you’ve not achieved it. Once you achieve it, it may lose charm and you may set your eyes on something else. This is because you’ve trained your subconscious mind to live in the future, since all your ambitions/desires always live in future and they don’t have a place in the present.
What is actually happening to you is not a desire any longer since it has been materialized. As you have developed a habit of wishing for more and more, you may not be able to focus on what you have or achieved and you may always focus on what is still there to be achieved. The universe is full of things which can’t be achieved even in thousands of lifetimes. Hence there is no end to this journey. It means more and more desires/ambitions are only going to make you suffer.
Since your greed and aspirations are high, you may wish to achieve the best things in many spheres of life, regardless of whether such objectives are rational according to your present circumstances or not. This is because too much aspiration and greed may provoke you to set your eyes on the best things. Since you don’t have much conscience to guide you, you may set targets which are too high and irrational, compared to your potential.
As you try to achieve such targets, the chances are high that you won’t be able to achieve them through fair practices, because there is a wide gap between those targets and your present status, abilities and resources. You may realize that if you try to achieve such targets through fair practices, you may not be able to achieve them throughout your life. At this point, you are left with two options; be realistic and quit trying for such targets or use unfair practices to achieve them.
Since you have weak conscience and the greed factor is high, you may almost always go for the second option. Hence you may start using unfair practices to achieve your targets and this is where the worst this problem has to offer, comes to the scene.
Let’s consider that among all other things, you aspire to have a beautiful villa at a good location. Such villa costs way too much to be achieved by saving money from your current salary or business. Hence you may choose to engage in unfair practices or so to say, criminal activities, so that you may raise the amount of money required to purchase your dream villa. As you start engaging in criminal activities, two things can happen.
The first one of them is that you may get caught and punished for a crime before you have made sufficient money and realized some of your dreams. In the second case, you may make good money for some time and you may realize some of your previously set targets before getting caught, punished and being pushed to a point where your status and resources are even lower than what they were at the beginning. In both the cases, you may end up being punished and pushed to a far lower level of resources as well as status.
In addition to suffering the losses already mentioned, when you engage in more and more criminal activities, you practice more and more bad karmas since most criminal activities are bad karmas and some of them are the worst type of karmas. Such bad karmas add negative energy to your aura. Accordingly, you are destined to face a variety of bad things and punishments in future. However, it doesn’t end here and it goes further.
Most people who engage in criminal activities, develop many other negative habits which may come to them because such negative habits are parts and parcels of life of crime. For example, smoking, drinking, consuming drugs, gambling and indulging in the company of paid sex workers are the most common types of negative habits or vices which are parts of life of crime. Accordingly, most people indulging in criminal activities are likely to get some or many of these negative habits. This happens because most people around you in criminal circles engage in these activities. Many such negative habits may be passed on to you by these people, as you already know through the first part of this book that the kind of company you keep is important in giving you good or bad habits.
Most of these people have highly negative auras filled with a variety of negative habits. Accordingly, they may be in commanding positions to influence your aura with their highly negative auras and add specific types of negative energies to your aura. As a result, such negative energies may get added to your aura whether you want them or not. It means that their company influences you so much that you also start engaging in various types of vices. As more and more of such negative habits get added to your personality, you may invite more problems.
The readers who have gone through the first part of this book already know what the disadvantages of having a highly negative aura are, and how hard it may be for a person with a highly negative aura to recover from such negativity. Therefore, you have invited so many problems not only for this life, but for many of your coming lives also. This is because such high quantity of negative energy in your aura is capable of bringing various types of problems and sufferings to you in this life as well as in many of your coming lives.
All this may happen because you have a habit of being overambitious. This habit may bring to you, some of the most serious types of problems and troubles there are. It certainly is too big a price to pay for one negative habit. Therefore, if you have this habit, start working towards treating it before it is too late and this habit takes you to a point where it becomes very difficult for you to come back.
Before looking at the treatment for this negative habit, let’s first look into some activities done by a person, which develop and then intensify this habit. Many people suffering from this problem may have a habit of looking at and being inspired by the lives of the people who have achieved so many material resources in their lives. When it comes to people who have achieved such resources, these people can be classified into two categories. The first category has the people who have achieved all such things through fair means though it may have taken them long or very long to reach there. The second type of people have also achieved many material resources and they have done it in surprisingly short periods of time, through criminal means in most cases.
Since the path of the first type of people may be long or very long and since you are already suffering from the problem of being overambitious plus you have weak conscience, you may get inspired more and more by the second type of people and not by the first type of people. This is because the targets and the time required to achieve those targets are the only things that matter to you and the means used to achieve those targets may not matter much to you. Hence whenever you watch, hear or read about these two types of resourceful people, the following things may happen at the level of your subconscious mind.
Himanshu Shangari