Superiority Complex Leads to Evil CONTENTS

you may not grieve for what has escaped you, nor be exultant over what you have gained. God loves neither the conceited nor the boastful.” (57:22-23) In the present world there are times when a person suffers from deprivation and as a result he is given to despair. But at other times he is successful and, as a result, he becomes swollen up with pride. Both these states are forms of ruination. Neither will lead a person to progress. When a person gains, what is the reason? Both losing and gaining are related to the system of nature. The fact is that this world has been created for the purpose of putting a person to the test. The whole system here is based on the principle of this exigency. Here failing is a test paper and so also is succeeding. In such a situation, the right approach or attitude for a person is that he should take both the happenings within the framework of a test, rather than within the framework of his personal interests. A person ought to think that what he has lost he was destined to lose by a rule of nature. Similarly, when he gained something, it was the demand of the system of nature. In both the cases the actual reason for things happening as they do stems from nature, rather than from a person’s own desires or struggle.