Our Individuality Is Defined Not By What We Wear But By What We Hold Dear Gita 15.07

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our individuality is defined not by what we wear but by what we hold dear we live in an externally driven world where appearances matter while from a functional perspective we need to have we need to present ourselves as well as we can and that means taking care of our appearance but from a fundamental perspective we need to know that our identity is not defined by our appearance it is not defined by what we wear if at a fundamental level we don’t have that understanding then we can get deluded because we give an ordinate weight to marginal things sometimes people agonize over hours, days and weeks for a dress to wear for the clothes that they buy and that is that is a tragic waste of time that is so valuable for us we feel that I need to find some clothes that express my individuality expressing our individuality may be important but before that there has to be discovering and developing our individuality and that centers on not what we wear but on what we hold dear that means what are the values that drive us what are the purposes that we are driving towards what are our interests what are our qualities what are our abilities so these make us essentially who we are and to the extent we understand this fundamental nature of our internals to that extent we will try to develop them and to the extent we develop them to that extent we will have a well defined identity otherwise we may have the most fashionable clothes and that will definitely have create a first impression whether that first impression is positive may be open to question it may just trigger envy in some people many people we will have an impact however if what we want is more than an impact if you want that people not just if you want more than an impression if you want to have may be a lasting connection with someone if you want to have an enduring impact then our substance is what matters and at a at a level of philosophical identity we are all eternal souls now how much the virtues of the soul manifest at the physical level depends on our level of consciousness depends on our how well we are manifesting our virtues by by managing the vices and the limitations that we all have as finite human beings and that’s when we connect with the all powerful Krishna we make him the most dear to us then he as our all pure lord purifies us of the many impurities that block us from manifesting our potentials and as our potential start manifesting that’s when we become fully purified that’s when we become even if not fully purified we start manifesting ourselves better and better so the bhagavad gita says that if that something that if you want to cultivate knowledge, knowledge is based on the virtues that we have internally knowledge is a part of our identity and so is our overall personality vahamsho jeev loke jeev bhootah sanatanah manah shishthani indriyani prakatisthani karshati that if we are parts of the lord and if we hold him dear then we manifest our spirituality and all the qualities associated with it otherwise we tend to hold our mind and senses dear and they drag us down towards things that degrade our value and degrade our values so we are focusing on making Krishna dear to us we can manifest our best identity and individuality, thank you