We can’t always go outside but we can always go inside Gita 18.37

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we can’t always go outside but we can always go inside the world is subject to unpredictable uncontrollable change and some such change be it political cultural medical environmental can prevent us can limit or prevent our capability to go outside that can make us stir crazy and we might end up feeling bored irritated gloomy thankfully there is one thing we can always do go inside our inner world can be fascinating if approached with adequate objectivity and gravity just as we can just we can learn about and enjoy the outer world by going outside we can learn about the inner world by going inside and because the inner world is always with us learning about it can be far more empowering than learning about the outer world unfortunately because our outer world offers us so many distractions often we don’t even consider exploring the inner world at all but we start exploring it there is so much we can learn and thereby enrich ourselves so how can we go inside firstly we need a map for the journey and then we need a vehicle for that journey so the map is spiritual wisdom text like the Bhagavad Gita and the vehicle for the journey is practices like meditation the Gita explains to us that our inner world is multi-level body, mind and soul and the mind is the source of various impressions both positive and negative the soul is the essence of who we are an indestructible spark of spirit that is eternal cognizant and enlightened and ecstatic and the spiritual level inside us is also the indwelling divinity who is the source of all inside inspiration of all energy and ecstasy now going outside seems easy because we are habituated to doing it in contrast going inside can seem challenging primarily because we aren’t habituated to doing it but if we let our inner journey be guided by Gita wisdom we will soon find that we will progress in self-understanding understanding what motivates us, what distracts us what sabotages us understanding what really matters for us understanding our core values and purposes and understanding how we can align our life with those values and practices and how we can so not only can we find joy internally by going on inner journey but we can also be better equipped for going outside when it becomes possible to go outside so though going outside can seem difficult, the Bhagavad Gita tells us it will be like poison initially but like nectar eventually so if we just start off on our inner journey we will find that we won’t be disappointed, rather we will be pleasantly surprised and even maybe even enduringly enriched