Bullying hurts deeply only when it is allowed to define one's inner identity. External abuse may wound the body, but lasting psychological wounds require inner participation. While OCD, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health conditions deserve proper treatment through psychiatry, lasting freedom demands self-knowledge.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, bullying is often seen as a clear moral wrong. But in reality, those who bully often seem to thrive in life. They get success, they get power, social acceptance also sometimes. But the ones on the receiving end, they're left with trauma and repression. From your perspective, how are we supposed to understand this dynamic? And is bullying simply just bad behavior, or is there a deep psychological understanding or explanation for why bullies seem to thrive and the receiving ones are left with the consequences?
Acharya Prashant: We'll come to that, whether bullies actually thrive. But the first thing to say is that you are not responsible for these random things that happen to you. You do not control the 850 crore world's population. You do not know where they come from, how they were raised, what brews in their mind. You don't know that, and you're not accountable for that.
So some madman can come and throw nonsense at you. That in no way is a reflection of who you are. Just as some dimwit comes and praises you, and that does not make you any higher, does it? Does it? It does not.
