Change within

Every Corporate employee has a tendency to find faults with his/her own Company. Appraisals were not fair, bonus amounts were not justified, infrastructure wise the company is ill equipped, the Company is not empathetic towards employee issues etc. How many times has the employee tried to do a similar fault finding exercise with himself/herself?

As per the Bhagvad Gita, there is a very famous verse which says:

“uddhared atmanatmanam, natmanam avasadayet, atmaiva hy atmano bandhur, atmaiva ripur atmanah”.

It means: To evolve oneself the effort has to be through self improvement. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well.

This means that in the inner mind, everyone knows the true story but like every other person, they want to run away from the stark reality. And the reality is the last thing anyone wants to face. Why? The probable reason is that a strange child like naughtiness exists amongst people who have a lingering thought that maybe there will be some more to expect since everyone believes in Pepsi’s slogan “Ye dil maange more”.

Coming back to the earlier point of the verse in Gita, we must never ever forget that to change is the most supreme act of human evolution. To change, a person needs to put in a lot of effort towards remodeling self. And it is a continuous process which should not be stopped at any juncture. The best example of this is a toddler taking first steps of his/her life. All the child is trying to do is to stand or walk and for these relatively basic acts, he/she falls several times. But the steely resolution of that child is to change the crawling action to walking. Notwithstanding the number of times the baby falls on its own, eventually a day comes when the toddler starts standing and walking. Post that the baby evolves itself to start running and then there is no looking back.

Instead of looking up to highly decorated philosophers in life and learning big lessons from them, a small baby teaches us so many nuances in life. The only question is “Are we willing to learn from a tiny being?” And if we are then the process is simple “Think Outside and Act Inside”. Once the action finishes inside, the world outside becomes a completely different place to exist.