To be yourself seems like a very easy piece of advice to give, but to truly follow it can be the pursuit of a lifetime.

Is there something like ‘not being yourself’? Dr Prem Jagyasi says that there isn’t. We are always ourselves, but it is very difficult to actually know and feel like that. It’s because it is the tendency of our mind to imagine, and it can imagine the real as well as the unreal. Unless we have had introspected, we might not even know our own likes and dislikes. In fact, adds Dr Prem Jagyasi, most of us don’t even think that they can ever have a purpose in their lives. However, once you ‘be yourself’ that once you free yourself from the distortions of your mind and know yourself, that’s when you live your life to the fullest. But since our mind is ever active, to be yourself is a pursuit of a lifetime.