When we are born, we are born with a certain environment around us, some beliefs, some experiences etc etc. Our elders guide us as per their experience - sometimes relevant and sometimes not so. But often we do not question what comes down to us. Experience is indeed invaluable. But what I am talking about is our psychological complexes which are unnecessary and prove harmful for our functioning. I am talking about those conditionings of our minds which allow us to function within a certain periphery and not look or think beyond it. After I take birth, my parents sent me to school. By the time I got out of it, I saw in the magazines and newspapers and saw my teachers talking about it, my parents counselling about it - that it is absolutely essential to be gainfully employed under a big company and rise in my career. Why ? What would happen if I didnt go this way ? What if i decided to invest in a farmhouse in a rural area, grow medicinal plants and dutch roses and spend most of my time meditating and mastering my own self ? Would I waste my life, if I decided to do it ? Who will judge ? My parents ? They cant, because they are part of this web. This society ? - it can't, because it is part of this mad race to nowhere. Can I rely on my heart and my own discretion to follow the path of my life, even if it is off the beaten track ? It would require tremendous courage and freedom from conditioning of my mind to attempt this. But its possible. It has been done, people live such lives, they are successful and yet, they are away from the societal conditionings. Prevalent beliefs of our society are actually conditioning of our own mind - because after all, a group of minds form the society - dont they ? That which is outside everywhere, is actually within.
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