Identity creation through the Bhagavad Gita

The word identity is connected with all living beings. As a human, every individual has several identities. Through them, we extend our influence and establish friendships and relationships with the world. Not only by birth, but identity also arises from an individual’s actions and achievements. It is our identity as a person or individual in society as we earn name, fame, status, and recognition. If we engage in good actions and lead a righteous life, we earn a good name. It is the sum of, who we are as human beings and what we represent as our moral-ethical identity. It is the identity that accompanies our soul as a small attachment from birth to birth, carrying within it, the history of our karma and latent impressions. It is our karmic identity or our causal self, which acts as the seed for our next life. Each of these identities binds us to the world and strengthens our ego. They deeply draw us into the objective world and bind us through desires and attachments to the cycles of births and deaths. The Bhagavad Gita says that you have to set aside all these identities because they are transient and the cause of bondage, delusion, and suffering. As long as a person is caught up in them, one cannot know a true identity or spiritual identity as the eternal, indestructible, and infinite self. The present article focus the knowledgeable lessons of Bhagavad Gita to help us in the formation of our identity