10/01/2022
Be true to your own nature.
Rather than pretend we are someone else or try to be someone who others expect us to be. It’s important to stay true to who you are. Listen to your own intuition, be guided by what feels true for you and always follow your heart, while staying true to your own moral compass. By acting this way, you follow and connect to your own true nature. “Ones own path even if imperfect, is better than another’s path followed perfectly. By carrying out action in accord to ones own nature one cannot go wrong.” Chapter 18, Text 47 ✨💚
This wisdom is paraphrased from, ‘The Bhagavad Gita,
Eknath Easwaran’. It’s a famous yogic book I’ve been re - reading, along with the Upanishads. I’m a real nerd when it comes to yoga books 📚 Yet, I feel called to read them again because these spiritual texts, specifically the Bhagavad Gita, feel so relevent & supportive for me lately, considering everything going on in the world right now!
I like that this story is set on a battle-field and the main character Arjuna, a warrior, really doesn’t want to fight because he has loved ones on both sides of this battle. There is this great divide and inner conflict, which actually leads him into a deep depression. Where he’s having to fight against people he loves and either way, there will be suffering. With so much divide going on even amidst friends, families and people we love today. What could be more relevant? Than a story like this?
The take away for me is to come back to love. To return back to your heart and to see everyone through the eyes of love. To know, that everyone is just doing their best. Hopefully, listening to their own inner compass too. Regardless of if someone acts differently to you. Be compassionate, see them through these eyes of love. Or in this text, they say, ‘see the eternal self in all’.
Be compassionate, be love. 💚 But also, have the skill of a warrior. Stay true to your own moral compass, yet always behold this with loving awareness beneath.✨In your heart you know the way forward. Trust yourself.