Transformation or Metamorphosis is not merely a change in habits or routine tasks with a strategic and productive approach. That is life management — a way to streamline living with disciplined and healthy habits, thereby improving your relationships, health, job, finances, etc.
But transformation is not something you incorporate deliberately; it is inevitable and imposed. No caterpillar would willingly choose the painful process of transforming into a butterfly — yet it must go through it. It is not chosen; it is
Transformation demands that you cross the threshold — with no guarantee for the future. It is entirely up to you to rebuild your life from whatever minimum is available. It begins where all hopes seem to end, where there’s no option left except to abandon or leave the current premise of
You don’t choose transformation; transformation chooses you.
It is your Karma that has chosen transformation.
Karma is the silent architect of transformation — unseen, yet inevitable. It breaks the shell of comfort, not to punish, but to awaken the truth within.
True transformation begins by going within — where the self meets its forgotten essence.
A complete shift is seen in Yudhishthira’s decision after the Vana Parva — choosing to wage war against Duryodhana rather than reconcile with the stale, regressive norms of the old polity. The old sire, Bheeshma, was the stronghold of that outdated system. To go against the status quo meant a direct confrontation with Bheeshma.
Bheeshma was the threshold for Arjuna — the barrier he had to cross. Arjuna had to shed his attachments, cowardice, comfort, and tendencies of adjustment in order to face the truth. It is only through sheer willpower that one can abandon security and comfort to embrace the inherent truth.
It is a complete loss of inheritance — a shedding of the old identity — to be reborn as something entirely new.
The butterfly is not the caterpillar anymore.
Transformation is the soul's silent bloom, shedding what was to become what must be.
