Every scriptures,every great pair of lips,every academia speaks of this:
Know thyself.
But don't we know ourselves....take the case of myself:
I am Ravi Manoram, student of DCE, blah,blah,blah..........
but then what is meant by Know thyself.... oh ok! Height and weight right. he he he well I am tall enough and heavy enough...and so must you all be knowing about yourselves....then what the fuck is know thyself.
Oh, maybe the food I like,the songs and movies I like...the clothes I like... yes now it is that I am moving in the right direction......
Well actually it was through this way that I started to move that I finally realized what actually is meant by KNOW THYSELF.
Well 'know thyself' not only means all the above but much more than that. My name,my qualification etc. are something which this society has given me, so am I not another of those in the herd. Who am I then???
Or is it that the whole concept of individuality is useless and a inhibits the development of the society. More so,is it so difficult to find our individuality, do we have to really go into the caves of some obscure hill the high mountains of Himalayas...!
Certainly not...
Ourself is here...we are here..... we have to be a aprt of this society..... we are all our own individuality yet to an extend we don't go about finding it....
Individuality is all about responsibility. Responsibility of ourselves. TO some extend if we look abck and forth, we shall realize that we have been running away from ourselves. We our so weak from inside that we always need some external force to guide us, be responsible for us, govern us and set rules for us. Can't we have the courage to go about our own.
Well lost in the thoughts of these I realized, I needed to march on this uncomfortable journey to know myself. It was indeed painful, somewhere I gained immensely somewhere I lost alot. But it was nota zero sum game. The things that one learns finally is something that one takes back forward in life....
To know thyself the first step in the journey in this direction,start being skeptical. Start disbelieving everything. Reason for everything. Well now I don't mean to say that when you see adog you start to question that oh, is it a dog, no certainly not. What I mean by being skeptical is that you start disbelieving everything that you think you should not believe or that you don't find any reason to believe except for the fact that if you don't believe that, you actually fear that. I mean to say that fear becomes the force that makes you believe it. Reason everything.
The second step in this direction is to overcome this very fear that makes you skeptical. yes fight it out. Well you can't do something like shoo shoo and the fear will go away. You need to handle it. You need to understand that your heart cares for you, that is why it fears for for you. But sometimes it can be unreasonable, fearing the monsters created by the figment of man's own imagination. Its that very time that you need to walk ahead. Look in the abyss and light the torch of enlightment. The enlightment of your inner soul, the inner self.What I mean to say is that walk ahead,acknowledge the fear, walk in the face of it, reason out your fear whether it is real or no and then move on.........
The third step in this direction of knowing yourself is to start listening to your inner voice. It says something, sometimes what you do in the outside world and what your inner voice tells you to do are two different things.... learn the art of balancing the both,for you cannot live without either. So start listening to it,start talking to it,and you shall very soon realize that it is a new being inside you. A new self, a new person whom you did not discover in all this time.
Well there could be many things, but to give you a vague idea, start believing in yourself, start reading alot,start doing things in the world that you actually want to do,and stop just being a puppet, dancing at the pull of some mysterious force. You need to balance between this thought and action.
Remember this is not easy,the toughest journey I think is to undertake the journey from oneself to oneself.
But once you reach there, it is worth it.And don't worry you won't be alone,and there will be something that shall always be with you,yourself.And at this moment let me reveal a fact to you,everyone knows about you but you yourslef,but everyone just pretends for the fear the fact, that they too don't know about themselves.
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