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Insight







        Physician Heal Thyself



        Nolini Kanta Gupta





        Abstract
        Change is imperative but man is divided in nature and lacks the inclination to change. He looks to
        the outside for solutions. He has to change himself first in order to change the world. In his true
        consciousness however, he has the freedom and will to assert his integrality and with that, the
        world too will inevitably change.





        It is not that humanity does not know  part does not profit by that knowledge,
        or feel the need of a radical change in  ignores it and pursues a contrary path, the
        itself.  Everywhere man recognises that  accustomed groove of ignorance and laissez-
        if the problems and difficulties that face  faire.
        him have to be solved satisfactorily, there
        must be a thorough overhauling of his  He consoles and comforts himself, lays the
        outlook and nature; no mere tinkering with  flattering unction to his soul by taking to
        the superficial signs and symptoms of an  a less exacting ideal, a substitute without
        organic disease by means of palliatives and  tears, as it were.  Therefore he looks outside,
        expediencies and nostrums, but a major  seeks to reform society, changing its laws
        operation. Indeed, if he wishes to be cured,  and constitution, and wants to believe that
        he must transcend his present nature and  in that way society can be remodelled and
        be something else.                       mankind transformed.


        And yet he does not change.  He has not the  It should have been proved beyond doubt by
        sincere will to change. At least he takes the  now that the fact is not so.  The only way to
        wrong way about it.  And the reason is that  cure the world outside is to cure oneself first
        he does not whole-heartedly adopt the course  inside.  The ancient proverb still holds good:
        which he knows to be the only right thing.   the macrocosm is only an enlargement of the
        He is divided in his being: one part knows  microcosm, the microcosm is the macrocosm
        indeed, but another, the larger, the dynamic  in miniature. The universe is a transcript, a


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