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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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