Outgrow. Outgrow your past. Look at your past and say, ‘Oh, she's a different girl. She's not me. And, I find no pleasure even looking at her. I mean, all right, she's a younger self, some kind of a younger sister— cute, all right, but nothing of much interest to me now. I have better things to look at. I have more important stuff to attend to.’
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Questioner: Namaste, Sir. My question is about seeing and perceiving, that helps make things appear simple. Everyone on the battlefield faced trauma of some kind. The same eyes that help us see are also the same eyes that help us sleep, bring peace. Considering Arjuna, his plate is full of trauma. So, how does a wise person emerge out of that past trauma, if they do not close their eyes, if they do not look away?
Acharya Prashant: No, the same answer—the same, same thing. Trauma is to you, and trauma is big to you. By itself, in itself, trauma is just a fact, an event; it carries no meaning.
A person dies, it's a fact, it's an event. Does it have the same meaning for everybody? No. So, whatever has happened has a certain meaning only in your own personal context. So, the meaning is to you. Why is that meaningful to you? Because you're attending to the trauma. You do not need to heal. You need to forget. How to forget?
Look towards the right direction. Let your mind be full of the right thing; only then the trauma and such things will be crowded out, ejected out. If you remain the same person to whom the trauma happened, the trauma will remain a continuous happening because you are still continuous.
