The choices you make make you Gita 17 03

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Hare Krishna the choices you make make you all of us make choices constantly and often we consider choices usually in external terms in terms of having certain consequences say for example if you are driving on a road and if you choose turn A or turn B that has effects no doubt about it so we know choices have consequences but how consequential our choices are that’s something which we often don’t contemplate the consequences are not just external they are also internal so if we choose to buy a particular product and we lose money by that that’s also a choice and it has a consequence we may lose some money but along with all these external consequences every choice has an internal consequence so if we consider that suppose we were building a house then every choice we made every brick we laid every color of the wall or strength of the material that we are building all of that would go into making our house and that would be the house we have to live in so actually whenever we make choices in terms of our actions at that time those choices are like making our own inner house actually the choices make us what does it mean every choice is it creates an impression within us with every choice we are building the inner house our inner house if we consider ourselves to be the soul then our subtle body the mind, intelligence, ego they comprise the inner house in which we live, essentially we can say our mind is the house in which we live and if the house is leaky, if the house is wobbly if the house is flimsy then we will be endangered or at least inconvenienced amidst inclement weather, similarly if our mind is malformed then it will hurt us when life becomes tough our mind will crumble and we will be in big trouble worse than that actually just as when the house crumbles, the storms outside are bad inside a weak house then we may be in greater danger than what would be inside the storm and outside in the storm in the storm we would just get wet or cold but in the house we might get crushed under the storm so if we have made choices where suppose somebody has repeatedly succumbed to some addictive habit, whenever they life troubles them, then they over drink they take drugs or whatever and then at the time of problems in life, when they take that that indulgence at that time may cause even greater problem than the problem itself conversely, if someone has chosen to cultivate healthy habits and they keep cultivating those habits consistently then they will grow by that and they will grow in inner strength, it’s like making your house very strong and even if storms come externally, they will stay sheltered amidst those storms so the Bhagavad Gita talks to about how our inner world with its conceptions our faith that is shaped by us and in it shapes us 17.3 says sattvan rupa sarvasya shraddha bhavati bharata shraddha mayo yam purusho yoya shraddha sa eva saha so here Krishna is talking about faith in the three modes of material nature and he says the way we live, the kind of existence we have, sattvan rupa sarvasya that means the kind of choices we do, choices we make shraddha bhavati bharata our faith, our conceptions get shaped accordingly shraddha mayo yam purusho a person is essentially their house, in the sense that that’s where if they get comfort and strength, then they are strong otherwise if their home is in fire, then they cannot live peacefully, so we are essentially our inner conceptions and yoya shraddha sa eva saha and as is our faith, so we will become thus by understanding that our choices will make us, we can make those choices with great caution thank you, Hare Krishna