When I am alone, I contemplate the reason for my coming into this earth. I also ask myself who I really am. These questions end not with answers but with frustrations because I do not have answers for anyone of these. This is identity crisis. In simple terms, not knowing our true self. Many people live with this problem in life, being a failure to ‘know thyself’ as Socrates put it more lucidly. People think themselves as self-realized ones. They say they are doctors, engineers, professors, drivers, social workers and what not when they are asked who they are, which in reality is untrue. That is in fact their profession and the jobs they do for survival, which is completely different to their true self. So, in these days, it is very difficult to find out people who are free from this disease.

Identity crisis leads to many problems in our lives. There will be perplexity to make choice in our career plans. When we do not know who we are, we also do not know what our inward aim is. We do not know what is the kind of life we are longing for and can give us the optimum level of happiness. We are equally unaware about the road that can ultimately lead us to our destination. Our life, thus, result in a maze where blaming others and almighty would be the only alternatives left.

Many young people are in love, which is no more new thing unlike in the past. Now, again, the crisis is back to mislead us in our love life with our partners. Whether we are sexually attracted to one another, which is called infatuation, or are truly in spiritual bonding, we never know till we encounter the consequence. Many think that they love more than anyone else to each other. However, this is rare the case where self-realization does not exist.

Solutions for removing our dark side, which is no-knowledge of the self, are there. There are many books written by great authors about how to grow rich not just materially but spiritually as well. However, reading books only might always be insufficient. What is required the most is the sincere application of the knowledge one gains. Meditation can be the best medication for identity crisis. It is not a water-tight criteria that one has to be enlightened like Buddha to live life better. Dynamic meditations of Osho are conducted in the corporate giants such as BMW to drag their growing levels of stress down and achieve knowledge of the self at large.