Appearance & Why Is it So Important
Channel: SADHGURU VIDEOS
Date: 2018-11-20

Appearance & Why Is it So Important 

At one of the sessions of Youth & Truth where Sadhguru is invited by a local college or university students to clarify the doubts and challenges they are facing in their life, a questioner was troubled by how she gets very conscious when someone tells her about her looks and her appearance. The questioner also stated that she gets very much affected by someone else’s opinion on how she looks and she might keep thinking about it for the whole day. So the questioner wants to know to what extent looks matter and other people’s opinion matters?

It is no surprise that these days there is a huge market for hair products or skin care products or other products for fashion and beauty and skincare because there is a huge market for it and seems like that especially the youth is very much affected by this as they want to always appear good looking in the society and pay too much attention to what other people might think.

One thing good about becoming a monk is that one has to shave their heads and wear simple clothes which can take a bit of a burden out of their mind, off course this is not possible for everyone to become a monk right? So what to do when one is bothered about what other people might think about our appearance and how we look?

Obviously, it is important and really matters how we look isn’t it? The thing is people want to look really really really good all the time as if they are going to a fashion show and would be walking on a ramp or a red carpet. It is obviously important to look good and there is no question about that but are we taking it too far. Sadhguru jokingly mentions how some people are checking themselves 27 times in a minute. 
Could it be possible if someone is soo concerned about their appearance they might be a bit empty inside? Obviously one should be concerned about their appearance but if one is taking it too far then that is going a bit out of balance isn’t it? So definitely taking care of our appearance to a certain extent is important. However, if one is a model or a TV presenter or an actor or something similar then they might need to spend some more time on their appearance.

Now, the next thing is are you quite concerned about what other people are saying about you? Are we becoming like a bundle of opinions that other people have given us, for example, if 10 people say that you are good, then would you be dependent upon what they like or dislike in you? Do you think too much delving into what others think can create a mess for us? How you look, is it really important? where does it matter too much and where does it not matter so much? Do you know how to not really care about what other people are thinking about you?  See what Sadhguru has to say about appearance and what other people think.

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