The biggest and the most refreshing departure from western psychology to Indian psychology, for me, was the shift from trying to understand the other, to \u2018know thyself\u2019. This is a process, a journey, an adventure, which entails a dive inside, from our surface knowing of oneself into all the deep, hidden, unbeknown layers of oneself – to discover, to understand, to realize, to know the real Self\u2026to partake of every experience, whether good or bad, happy or sad, right or wrong, as a learning experience on the path of growth and progress. If the aspiration to find the real Self is sincere, everything will be organized by an unseen hand to take one closer to one\u2019s soul\u2019s calling\u2026.<\/p>\n
In the words of Kahlil Gibran:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields.
\nThat which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.
\nIt is not a thing that crawls into the sun for warmth or digs holes into darkness for safety,
\nBut a thing free, a spirit that envelops the earth and moves in the ether.
\n\u2026
\nVague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end,
\n\u2026
\nThat which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
\nIs it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
\nAnd is it not a dream which none of you remember having dreamt, that builded your city and fashioned all there is in it?
\nCould you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,
\nAnd if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.<\/p>\n
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.
\nThe veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,
\nAnd the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it.
\nAnd you shall see
\nAnd you shall hear.
\nYet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf.
\nFor in that day you shall know the hidden purpose in all things,
\nAnd you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.\u201d
\n(The Prophet, pp. 108-109)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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