The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. We may have tried to change those traits and we have failed. Does that mean that we can never change ourselves for the better? Certainly not. We can change ourselves. However, the Bhagavad Gita warns that such change will taste like poison in the beginning, before it will start tasting like nectar. That’s 18.37. And the readiness to endure that poison manifests in our readiness to be hard with ourselves, to push ourselves to do things even if they don’t feel good, even if they feel not just bad but terrible. When we are ready to do that, then a better me will emerge, surely and steadily.

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18.37 That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.