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Abhinivesha means commencing any ignoble or immoral action with the intention of defeating and humiliating other jivas. When you develop enmity against someone and when the feeling of hostility arises in your heart or when jealousy appears in your heart, then you desire to defeat and disgrace and humiliate that person. You entertain the desire of causing financial loss to that person. You entertain the desire of causing harm to his family. You will entertain the desire of making false accusations against him and causing disgrace and defamation to him. When such evil thoughts arise in the mind, man will not be able to think of the consequences of his thoughts and actions. He will not be able to distinguish between papa (sin) and punya (merit). In fact, he will not even realise and visualise the agonies and anguish that might arise in the present life.
That is why, the enlightened men have exhorted people to adopt the attitude of amity and cordiality towards everyone. "All jivas are my friends. No one is my enemy". They exhort people to be inspired by this emotion always. People must assimilate this idea. In spite of it, if enmity or hostility arises in respect of someone, people must seek forgiveness from him and discard their enmity and hostility. People should not allow the feelings of enmity and hostility to grow in their hearts. If those feelings increase, they can cause many calamities.
JEALOUSY INCREASES THE EVIL INTENTION OF HUMILIATING OTHERS
Seeing the happiness of Sita, the other wives of Rama felt jealous of her. Shri Hemachandrasoorishwarji says in his work Thrishasthishalak Purush Charitra that Shri Rama had four wives. Shri Rama loved Sitaji greatly and the other queens of Shri Rama could not tolerate this. They thought of causing some stain on the character of Sitaji.
How many people are there in this world who experience happiness at the sight of the happiness of others? How many can remain neutral and how many grow jealous of others' happiness ? In this world, jealous people are larger in number. You can attain pramod or the attitude of love towards others only
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