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To be what you are
Every man is a moon and he has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. The continuous efforts of a man to put his bright side forward may be mind-boggling but man is so habituated with such a way of life that being unnatural is now very natural to him. Millions and millions of thought waves may explode in the mental surface but few of them find a way out and most of them are repressed because man continuously edits and re-edits himself. Man shows what he is not. And he really is not what he appears to be. That is why the hardest ever thing for a man is to be natural and realize his real self.
Man edits himself. He cuts his being. Chooses the best fractions of his person. Hides the disgusting part and puts up the best show. As a result every human being has an edited version and an unedited version of his self. He remains occupied with the edited projection of his being as long as he is with others. But when he is alone, he delves into his unedited and disheveled life-form. Therefore being alone is the first step of understanding one’s own self better.
The half sleepy idol of Budha testifies that mental purification leads man to live a life naturally and makes all business of editing meaningless. But achieving that mental evolution requires TO BE WHAT YOU ARE WITH ALL HUMILITY………
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