EMBRACE THE INDIVIDUAL INSIDE YOU!
Start being yourself, genuinely and proudly. โ Trying to be anyone else is a waste of the person you are. Be yourself. Embrace that individual inside you that has ideas, strengths and beauty like no one else. Be the person you know yourself to be โ the best version of you โ on your terms. Above all, be true to YOU, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
For a Gurus Sikh, it's important they display the true them. If we do not do this, we are cheating ourself and also lying to the one who knows us better than we know ourselves. We try to become like others, act like them, speak like them, look like them and so on. we are who we are and all we need to become is Gurbaanee (Gurus teachings- gurbaanee banneeai). When we learn to respect and love ourselves and have nothing to hide, we will naturally present our true self to the world. When we are not true to ourselves and are living many different lives for many different people, we find it difficult to be content and find the balance. The world also recognises this as false, as ones true/positive spirit and energy is not felt by the world.
We are not designed to be anyone else. We are who we are and just better ourselves in that way, by becoming virtuous and balanced humans. When we recognise our inner qualities by beginning to be ourselves and know ourselves better through balancing the mind, then we will never turn to ever imitate another human. We can take the good from many, including animals but we are who we are and embrace that individual inside us (soul), which then becomes the purest of pure by merging with Vaheguroo. So why be like anyone else? Be like your Guru (Guru Gobind Singh) the purest human being with every human quality to step foot on this earth.
Living a false life affects our mind rapidly. Our mind will sway to which ever way we take it. It wants to be one with God but it ends up playing the part of many different characters in one body. When it becomes one through finding inner peace via the teachings of Guru Ji, their physical discipline of rehit and their spiritual discipline of naam meditation, then it has nothing to worry about. The mind stays content, loving, peaceful, happy and joyous in its own little world. This is the state in where the mind becomes the universe.
Wise people have said, "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Guru Nanak Dev Ji Says, "See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the universe."
Vaheguroo!
