Monday, December 5, 2011

Personal change, two aspects

Mark 2: 21-22  (Click here for online bible verses)

what verse 22 says is a common law in society as well as in nature. Whenever content changes there will be a corresponding change in structure.It is true in personal life also. Personal changes begins from  inner being. and when change of inner being culminated to a particular level, there should be a corresponding change on outer being. Inner-changes inevitably leads  outer to changes, to get transformed according to  inner being, and newly transformed inner and outer together perform  as a new creation. Content and structure are correlatives. So any change in content reflects on structure. If it doesn't occur so, conflicts will take place and that may ruin both. We can see this principle works in every sector of human life; polity, economy and society.

We can see two aspects of personal changes from these verses. A person begins his personal change from his inner being. Taking decision to make changes itself is the first step of changes of inner being. when  inner- changes culminated to a specific level it will inevitably reflects on one's outer life. If it doesn't happen so, there will be a conflict between his mentality and activity. This might leads to psychological disorders and neither his thought nor his life style can be saved, both go to astray. The opposite is also true. Without enough inner- change, one should not begin to perform to become one among a specific group or society. Some vested interests may lead people to do so but at last that will results in undesirable psychological effects on the personality.

Second thing as the verse 21 says, the person who decided to make changes in his life himself is an inner being in his society. To continue his personal change and development, he needs an outer, a suitable background, to stick on. He needs some like-minded people, in the way he thinks, to cooperate. A person who made changes in his life cannot continue or exist in his old group or background where he existed before his reformation. Either this group will harm him or his presence in the group will results in undesirable effects.

Look into the life of men of success as well as men of failure.Each and every one's relations have played great role in their success or failure. The unity of like-minded people helps each one of them to change and develop himself perfectly. So as persons we have to be like new wine in new wine-skin and as social being we have not to be a new patch on old cloth. New patch on new cloth, building new relations with like-minded people. Then only success is possible in personal as well as social life. Personal life is not independent of social life and vice versa is also true.

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