How can we know ourselves well enough to make wise choices with lifelong consequences?
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20 how can I know myself fully, there is so much that I don’t know which I may come to know in the future and how can I take right decisions, see we have to work with what we know right now, there are aspects of us that we don’t know but we work with what we know right now and our knowledge will expand, it is life is to some extent a journey into its adventure that we don’t know what is going to come in the future so what I know right now if I try to understand that so whatever, ok these are my strengths these are my weaknesses, I understand that I build on my strengths and I learn to manage my weaknesses and I move forward and if we are, if we have good friends around us, they may tell us hey you have got this talent also or they may say you are a little irritable, we learn from them and then if we observe ourselves we will also learn, from observing ourselves we learn more about ourselves, in fact our whole life is a journey of self discovery but at this stage we use the knowledge that we have ultimately we no one can know everything about themselves but if we use what we have right now there is, we are not alone in this world, there is God who is guiding us and in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says depending on our attitude it is reciprocated, all people surrender to me so if we use what God has given us what we know has been given to us, then God will give us more he will either give us more abilities he will reveal more abilities to us it is just like for a for the parents, all the property that they have, that is meant to be given to their children that is what they want it for but for those same children they may right now just give some small pocket money, why? because the children really don’t know the value of money, don’t know how to use the money but as the children grow up, they become responsible the parents will interest their property so like that we have certain knowledge right now about ourselves if we use it properly then by that we are showing that we want to use what we have properly and then more will be revealed to us so rather than worrying about discovering ourselves, we focus on developing what we know about ourselves and when we do that and especially if we cultivate, if we practice meditation, if we learn spiritual wisdom then we will also get the inner torch light we will be able to light the dark areas of inside us and we will find out what are our strengths and what are our weaknesses better but most importantly start using constructively what we have and start developing the acquiring the inner torch light to discover what we have, in the life journey more and more will be revealed to us as we move on does it answer your question?