If Buddha lost his memory, would he still be a Buddha? || Acharya Prashant, with DU (2022)

Questioner (Q): I have been suffering from a type of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) called somatic OCD for the last two years. I was in constant fear, every single moment, for around two years. I was on sleeping pills and anti-anxiety pills, but I think what helped me a lot is a book named ‘The Power of your Subconscious mind’. My question is, is there something beyond mind?

I have been listening to you for the past 2 years, since 2020. I was getting convinced about Bodh (Understanding) concept, but when I was going through my OCD problem, that book helped me to recover. Right now, I am 90 per cent recovered from OCD. I am also convinced with the concepts in that book, but I don’t want to get convinced with that book, so I want your perspective for clarity.

The book says that if we are thinking in a certain pattern, that thinking will become our whole world. So, as I was constantly thinking about my OCD problem, I wasn’t paying attention to my studies, my parents, and I even failed my exams due to that reason. So, when I read that book, the method suggested in that book was that we should think in a certain right way because every one of us knows what is right and what is wrong to some extent. So, I started thinking in an opposite way, in a more positive way and it took my mind around 7 to 8 months to get convinced with that concept of positive thinking.

When you talk about ‘beyond-mind’, Truth, or Bodh concepts, is that another state of mind, albeit a higher state of mind? Is it within the parameters of the mind or beyond that?

If we take the example of Buddha, he took 12 years to attain Truth,