Any kind of harm that comes to you can only come due to a lack of self-knowledge. If you do not know who you are, you will be forced to believe whatever others tell you about yourself. We don’t even realize how big a slavery that is! Every time you allow circumstances to rule you, you are actually acting like a dead object. You are alive only if you have something within that circumstances cannot touch.
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Questioner: Hello, sir. My name is Chetna. My question is: whenever someone insults me, I am not able to forgive them. I feel deeply hurt, and that hurt is prolonged. And even after a long time, I'm not able to forgive the people who hurt me. So, I don't like this about myself. How can I change this?
Acharya Prashant: Any kind of harm that can come to you, can come only due to lack of self-knowledge. We live, we say: we exist. We keep on uttering the word ‘I'. But we never clearly, very assuredly know, 'Who We Are.' There is a vague feeling there is some kind of estimate that we carry. We have a hazy figure of ourselves. But we do not know for sure who we are and what we are referring to when we say ‘I'. So, that is our situation.
We walk around, we carry I-cards, we carry Aadhaar cards. We say we are, “I am, I exist.” “I am, I exist, but I never fully, surely, clearly know who I am.” What is the result? Let's conduct a small experiment, here itself. Let's say, we do not know the name of this flower, right? Let's say, we do not know the exact name of this flower. So, now give it a name. Give it a name; give it some name. Chetna, give it a name.
