Ditch the Trauma: Embrace Your New Self! || Acharya Prashant (2023)

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00:00Namaste, sir. My question is about seeing and perceiving that helps make things appear

00:10simple. Everyone on the battlefield face trauma of some kind. The same eyes that help us see

00:18are also the same eyes that help us sleep, bring peace. Considering Arjun, his plate

00:25is full of trauma. So, how does a wise person emerge out of their past trauma if they do

00:31not close their eyes, if they do not look away?

00:34No, the same answer, the same thing. Trauma is to you and trauma is big to you. By itself,

00:49trauma is just a fact, an event. It carries no meaning. A person dies. It's a fact, it's an event.

01:02Does it have the same meaning for everybody? No. So, whatsoever has happened has a certain

01:13meaning only in your own personal context. The meaning is to you. Why is the meaning to you?

01:22Because you are attending to the trauma. You do not need to heal. You need to forget. How to

01:31forget? Look towards the right direction. Let your mind be full of the right thing. Only then the

01:39trauma and such things will be crowded out, ejected out. If you remain the same person to whom the

01:51trauma happened, the trauma will remain a continuous happening because you are still continuous.

01:58Nobody is ever able to attend to the past, resolve it and come out of it. The only way is to outgrow the past.

02:19Walk past the past. Has the past been resolved? No. It's been transcended. It's been forgotten. Why?

02:30Because I have a place to reach. I just can't keep hanging there.

02:38But, is that not changing your song?

02:44If your song was indeed beautiful, why did it give you the trauma? The song is supposed to be delight, not trauma.

02:57If it results in trauma, it's some kind of a, I don't know what genre of song it is.

03:13There is nobody who has not been through pain in life. That pain is not an event. That pain is a compulsory reflection of who you are at that point.

03:41Given who you are at that point, that pain had to come in one form or the other.

03:50We think of the pain or the trauma, the sorrow, the suffering as an accident. It is not an accident.

04:02It is a necessity. It is an inevitability.

04:05It had to happen because you were the way you were and I was the way I was.

04:13The only way to come out of it is to come out of yourself.

04:22Do not remain the one who got the trauma and the trauma will be no more.

04:28Otherwise, new traumatic experiences will be new only in name and face. That's why for most people, life is a series of unpleasant happenings.

04:59Just that the unpleasantness occurs each time in a new shape and form.

05:07Nothing is new. The unpleasantness is very old because one has managed to remain the same old self.

05:17If I am the same, my experiences will remain the same. Obviously, no?

05:29That's a mark of inner growth.

05:33You feel unable relating to your past. You start looking at your younger self, your previous self

05:47as somebody else. That's a mark, a characteristic of maturity.

05:53You are able to actually smile in dissociation. You say, I was just 25 and I was so stupid.

06:04If you can look at your 25 year old self and say, oh she was so stupid, then you have left behind all the trauma you faced till or at 25.

06:23Outgrow. Outgrow your past. Look at your past and say, oh she's a different girl. She's not me.

06:36And I'd find no pleasure even looking at her. I mean, all right. She's a younger self.

06:43Some kind of a younger sister. Cute. All right. But nothing of much interest to me now.

06:49I have better things to look at. I have more important stuff to attend to.

06:59She lost her doll at the age of 8 and I am 28 and still crying. Surely, I have not grown.

07:19Agreed. That's very helpful. Thank you.

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