The line between sanity and insanity is very fine and one of the gateways to insanity is losing connection to your true self. Take Sadguru for example, he is so intelligent and he has such enlightening things to say but he muddies it up by artificially imitating an american accent and that makes him seem nutty. He has lost connection to his true self because he has done that for so long that, that eccentric way of being has become his natural way of being. Your true self can only come naturally so if you try to change him and make him conscious about his eccentricity you will worsen the problem.

Many people seem normal when they talk in their language but they seem eccentric when they talk in English. If you asked them why they are artificially imitating the natives, they would say that they aren’t imitating and that it’s their natural way of talking. If you make them conscious about it then they might artificially try to stop talking artificially. They have been imitating for so long that they are not trying to do that on purpose anymore and that eccentric way of being has become their natural way of being.

It’s easy to grow distant from your true self. You will naturally gravitate back to your true self if you haven’t strayed too far from it but the farther you go from it, the harder it becomes to make it back. You can’t artificially find your true self because your true self only comes when you don’t seek it.

Artificially imitating the persona and way of talking of the native speakers is silly and can even be mocking because nobody talks the way they do artificially. Everybody talks naturally so if you talk artificially, you are talking wrong. It’s important to remember that people everywhere are pretty much the same but if you focus on the differences, you’ll lose sight of the commonality. Your accent changes naturally when you don’t think about it.

**There are also other ways to lose connection to your true self and most of these ways involve changing yourself for others in some way.** Changing yourself for others is a disease that has taken over the world.

Losing connection to your true self is a contagious insanity and associating with people who’ve lost connection to their true selves would also make you lose connection to your true self.

The root cause of this insanity is confusing words, signs, symbols and ideas with reality. Reality can’t be defined through words because it’s not words. It’s not material, that’s just an idea. It’s not spiritual, that’s also an idea, it’s a symbol. Reality is *GONG SOUND*

Secluding yourself, taking a vow of silence for a few days and spending the time by doing things that don’t involve the observation of other people like meditating and doing art will reconnect you with the silence behind everything and ground you in reality.

It is a contagious insanity because it’s so easy to confuse words, signs, symbols and ideas with reality and get lost in a world of illusion.

People with this problem seem dislikable because they are living in a world of illusion but they are not bad people. A slight shift in perspective would break them out of the illusions and ground them in reality.