There's glory in following one's own dharma and infamy in following another's, no matter how appealing it may seem, says Krishna in the Geeta.
The lines have been interpreted in a narrow way and the result is all the brouhaha over conversion.
After the crazy situations I have encountered, I believe what this really means is that one must remain true to one's own basic nature and not try to be someone else.
Look at me. Who was I? A simple girl in a plait who loved to read and had a few close friends, but someone who was essentially a home bird. I loved long walks in the evening. But i was by no means a social butterfly.
Then, i tried to be someone I was not and faced such painful situations. Since I was not who I was acting as, i was not equipped to handle the kind of people my made up exterior attracted. I believe they were cruel. But they were not. they would never have done such things to the real me but the person they saw or believed they saw, would not set great store by such things. It was not their fault, it was mine.
We are who we are. A deer is a deer, a wolf a wolf. A deer should not try to hunt.
The lines have been interpreted in a narrow way and the result is all the brouhaha over conversion.
After the crazy situations I have encountered, I believe what this really means is that one must remain true to one's own basic nature and not try to be someone else.
Look at me. Who was I? A simple girl in a plait who loved to read and had a few close friends, but someone who was essentially a home bird. I loved long walks in the evening. But i was by no means a social butterfly.
Then, i tried to be someone I was not and faced such painful situations. Since I was not who I was acting as, i was not equipped to handle the kind of people my made up exterior attracted. I believe they were cruel. But they were not. they would never have done such things to the real me but the person they saw or believed they saw, would not set great store by such things. It was not their fault, it was mine.
We are who we are. A deer is a deer, a wolf a wolf. A deer should not try to hunt.
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