Bhagavad Gita Chapter 11

WORKSHOP OF THE DAY: VAAKYARTHA SADHAS - I AM UNKNOWN TO MYSELF

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Instruct the children to analyze and discuss as a group, what kind of personality they are, if they say they are a happy person ask them if they are happy all the time or do they change when undesirable events happen. If they say they are an angry person. Ask them whether they are always angry? We keep changing from one personality to another depending on the situations we encounter. We cannot say 'I am this'.

Inference:

We cannot remain the same all the time, since we keep on changing our personality depending on the inputs we receive from society; it is true that 'I am unknown to myself.

Conclusion:

The only certainty in our life is that when time moves on it is forever lost. However much we may regret and repent, nothing will change what has happened. But we do have the power, at the moment of the present, to shape our future. Predestination is simply the choice that we did not exercise. Only when we are aware, in the present moment, can we craft our future. Not when it is still the future and not when it slips into the past. We need to use all our intelligence, energy, and creativity to live blissfully in this moment, not in thoughts about the future or regrets about the past.