Should one love oneself to be happy?
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thank you yeah, now shouldn’t we love ourselves so that actually we can share that love rather than looking outside yeah, that’s true yeah, now usually we think of outside and inside in terms of our physical self so for example now this laptop is outside and the thoughts are there, whatever I am thinking that is inside me this is true at one level but at another level everything that is inside me is not me everything that is inside me is not me what I mean by that is within us we can see that there are many thoughts which come and they do not reflect our core values but sometimes these thoughts come and we act on those thoughts and then we think why did I do that so in the Bhagavad Gita Krishna is asked by Arjuna what is there inside me that makes me do wrong things in today’s language people say I have got some demons inside me something that makes me do some terrible things, what is that so when we say we should love ourselves we also need to know what is the self so whatever is inside me is not me I did not go into that in detail but I said that there is the body there is the mind and there is the soul like the hardware the software and the user so the soul is the user the mind is like the software and a software can sometimes become corrupted so today we see mental stress such a big problem, mental health challenges according to the World Health Organization are going to be the biggest yeah I feel like that’s a lot through I feel like that’s a lot through since conception from the time that we are conceived the mother undergoes a lot and if she is put under any kind of certain stress she is eating genetically modified foods she is eating foods with pesticides on them meat, sodas, anything if she is not in a very healthy state putting all those nutrients and things and enzymes that the baby needs to grow and fully be complete mind, body, spirit you have to have all those things together and I don’t know I feel like that spiritual imbalance is coming from that and then the radio waves TV waves, whoever else knows whatever waves that are being put out there that we are not seeing that are harmful things that could be possibly being sprayed in the air things in the water that are proven to be toxic and this might not be, I don’t know, I’ve never lived in India so I don’t know how all these problems are there but in America, North America especially here, we have to face pretty much every aspect of our lives that’s being poisoned by a specific group of people so we don’t really have a choice when we are conceived how we are developed, so when it comes out I think all those little wires are crossed like you said, the computer can’t get those signals to the right places and parts because there’s been something missing it’s been switched around the DNA, the genetics all the stuff has been mutated and manipulated to where it’s like it’s almost near impossible for us to find really our center and be balanced and we’re started out with chaotic you know? Definitely, the way the mother is during conception that affects us and certainly our environment also affects us in a major way at the same time we are not just the products of our genes you know if you consider monozygotic twins the twins can be two different types monozygotic are entirely genetically identical there’s no difference at all in terms of genes and yet monozygotic twins have their own personalities they are two different persons their own moods, their own likes so our genes certainly describe some features of our behavior and our personality but they don’t describe us completely so the spiritual side goes beyond our genes I wrote an article we are beyond our genes and our genes similarly, there is this whole idea of genetic determinism that we are just products entirely of our genes no we are determined in some ways but we are products of our past but we are not prisoners of our past we do have freedom to choose and that freedom to choose comes from our spiritual core so our environment definitely affects us our upbringing affects us our genetics affects us but we have the capacity to counter these influences and that capacity becomes enhanced when we understand our spiritual side and when we develop our spiritual side yes you wanted to say something