Inner Change- Bhagavad-Gita Reflections for 121 Unleashing Your Higher Self

At critical moments during our life, we often feel the need for inner change. Giving in to impulse, we make imprudent choices. Seeing the consequences, we wish we could have responded better; we aspire to change ourselves and become a better person.

Unfortunately, these stirrings for inner change don't last for long. During life's routine course, we get caught in seeking outer change. We try to make things better, hoping they will make us feel better. In craving for outer change, we are not exceptions, we are simply following the flow of the world we live in.

Human society throughout much of history and throughout almost all of modernity has been captivated by dreams for outer change. In our times, modern scientific technology has been the primary instrument for fulfilling that dream- and it has succeeded in dramatically changing the way we live.

Yet despite the technological wizardry that surrounds us, the dream hasn't come true. Something essential seems to be missing. People are still not happy: their deepening dissatisfaction comes out in the alarming rates of mental health problems such as depression, addiction and suicide.

The Bhagavad-gita's setting underscores the necessity of inner change even when the entire social energy was directed towards a monumental outer change. The Gita was spoken just before two formidable armies faced off in a climactic war. The war was intended to bring out a significant outer change by overthrowing vicious rulers who had unscrupulously grabbed power and by reinstating virtuous rulers who had been atrociously wronged.

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