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Full video: Menstruation and Mind || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav at IIT Delhi (2022)
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00:00My problem is that I have a lot of fear and anxiety.
00:03Specifically, before and during the time of menstruation,
00:07I am not able to handle it.
00:09Why must you take it as something extraordinary happening to you?
00:13It is not happening to you.
00:15It is a thing of the body.
00:16And let it stay there, in the body.
00:18Let the mind be unencumbered.
00:21Mind should be free, untouched by the bodily vagaries.
00:27And the body can do anything.
00:29The female body does a lot of things.
00:31The male body too does a few things.
00:32Why let that become too much for you?
00:34You know very well, that time of the month is approaching.
00:37And you know in advance, what is now going to happen to the mind.
00:41And since you know that, you are free.
00:43You are already free.
00:44It's like setting an alarm.
00:46The alarm has been set.
00:47The alarm will ring.
00:49You are not the alarm.
00:50How does it feel to be called the alarm?
00:52Hilarious, no?
00:53Who am I? The alarm.
00:54And the alarm has been set at, let's say, 6 AM.
00:57I am the alarm.
00:57It will start ringing.
00:59The body starts ringing.
01:00There is somebody who is feeling the pain.
01:02Somebody feeling the anxiety.
01:04Somebody is feeling that.
01:05And the more intimately and clearly you keep realizing,
01:11it's chemical, it's bodily, it's evolutionary, it's not me.
01:15The more you will find that things have not changed,
01:18but their relationship with you definitely has.