Vanity Embarrasses Us

Vanity Embarrasses Us - (3795)

The base of vanity is an inferiority complex.

Really there are only inferiority complexes, not superiority complexes. Why? Because the one who wants to be superior wants that because he or she feels inferior.

The desire to be superior is to compensate for feeling inferior.

Just like the queen and snow white, the vanity of the queen was always asking the mirror if she was the fairer of them all. Because vanity does just that, always feels inferior to something someone somewhere, even a something, someone somewhere totally unknown to us, it just in general feels inferior in a very disguised way.

Have you had that experience? A thought from the "I" of vanity appears and then we feel like what people call self-conscious. It's not the real self-consciousness third state of consciousness that we know about in Gnosis, but a state of feeling uncomfortable, slightly embarrassed, awkward and uneasy.

Why such feelings, because we are feeling deep down inferior. Like not quite good enough, or out of place, or "I shouldn't beeeee hereeee", or "what am I doinnnngggg" etc.

This is all because of the thought of vanity. Vanity has its base in an inferiority complex. Deep down in the deeper layers of our mind (subconscious) we feel inferior.

Vanity imitates a lot and to imitate is to be trapped in duality. We simply imitate because we are not that which we liked or saw and liked etc.

How to remedy it?

We have to first of all truly see that inferiority complex. Drill down, search for it and find it. Once for real, no nonsense we have found it in ourselves, most of the work is done. We then just have to transform, disprove it, see that it is false, out of place, weird...

The the next step is if it does not go away is then to work on the inferiority feeling which disguises itself as the desire to be superior.

The inferiority in vanity searches for superiority outside of ourselves though others.When it sees itself superior it disproves the inferior complex saying to it "there you see I am not inferior". We need to do the same thing but within ourselves not using any person or external circumstance.

End (3795).

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