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On Self And
Self-Image

A man lives his entire life for others.

He lives his entire life for himself.

Both are one and the same.

For man lives under the deepest of spells.

The spell of self-image.

For the whole of his life,

He will live enslaved to this image.

He will attempt to improve it, polish it,

project it, and aggrandize it.

What others think of him will be of the

utmost importance.

Though he may deny it until his dying day.

It cannot be otherwise.

For in Truth, where there is a self-image,

There must be self-consciousness.

Society tells him that it matters not what

others think of him,

That it matters only what he thinks of himself.

Let it be known that a man who thinks

anything of himself

Cannot help but be concerned by what others

think of him.

Man seeks to have pleasure

Without the pain.

He seeks ego

With humility.

He seeks the up

Without the down.

He seeks hope

Without disappointment.

He seeks attachment

Without suffering.

Due to his failed understandings,

He seeks that which does not exist.

The Mind is not man’s shelter from society.

It is his internalization of it.

Where there is wisdom

There is peace.

Where there is Truth

There is freedom.

Wise is he who comes to recognize that

neither he or his thoughts contain any
significance.

Wise is he who comes to realize the depth of

his unimportance.

Wise is he who sees this as Truth, rather than

humility.

There is not a thing that a man does

That he does not imagine how it will appear

in the eyes of the world.

He is forever on a desperate hunt

For validation and praise.

Why is this so?

Because, no matter the empty words that

society parrots,

A man is never enough in his own eyes.

For where there is a self,

There will always be a deficiency.

Society’s greatest evil

Is in setting man upon a course that moves in

endless circles.

In setting man upon a journey that is based

upon untruth.

It is for this reason that man has been told, on

the one hand, that he should improve.

And, on the other hand, that he is enough just

as he is.

No matter how much a man may improve,

He can never be enough.

He will never be able to remove every grain

of dust from the ocean.

He will never be able to remove every streak

of smoke from the sky.

A man does not improve himself,

He improves only his self-image.

The intelligent man is nothing without the

unintelligent.

The successful man is nothing without the

unsuccessful.

Were there no such validation in society . . .

Were there no one before whom to

demonstrate one’s intelligence,

Intelligence loses its value.

Self-image is the structure and the scaffolding

Upon which man’s entire life is constructed.

It is for this reason that he lives his life on

shaky ground.

Forever subject to the winds and the tremors

of circumstance.

The man who genuinely arrives at an

indifference toward the self

Experiences the steady retreat of involuntary

thought.

His dependency upon the world begins to

fade.

All that he once sought in the name of

penance and spirituality,

Begins to arrive at his doorstep.

The Truth is that nothing is attained by

seeking it.

In becoming indifferent to the self,

There is no longer anyone to impress.

No one to need from.

No one to depend upon.

Pleasure begins to lose its charm.

Anxiety begins to loosen its hold.

All things having disappeared,

He finds himself in the unfamiliar yet

intoxicating feeling

That there is nothing to do.

The cocoon of the moment . . .

The thing he has been instructed to chase for

his entire life

Now becomes his easiest of companions.

All the falsehoods having been removed,

It is the only thing that remains.

Namaste.

Kapil Gupta

Kapil Gupta is a personal advisor to CEO’s,

Professional Athletes, Celebrities, and
Performing Artists around the world.

His books include:

Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of

The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of
A Living God

A Master’s Secret Whispers: For those who

abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life
and living

Direct Truth: Uncompromising, non-

prescriptive truths to the enduring questions of
life

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