We keep carrying the unexamined burden of the past all our life. That’s a great problem that we have. If you want to carry something from the past, if you want to remain related to it even today, then you have to ask: how does it benefit you? Because it’s an expensive decision to make. The purpose of life is to unburden yourself. Relate to something or somebody in a way that will help you clear away a lot of useless relationships.
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Questioner: Acharya Ji, good evening and thank you for being in Hyderabad with us. You landed on a perfect word, and that was the starting point of my question. I was waiting for you to come to that choice. Often, I think in many of your sessions you've mentioned choice. Whatever we did, for example, I consider everything that is done until now, whether it comes from the body, it comes from society, all my identities, everything has then been done with a blindfold on.
So now I feel, let's say, if any choice was made in the past and I term that as an accidental decision, but if I examine it now and, after having examined and assessed, I feel, even though it was accidental in the past. Can I work on it, nurture it, and then can it become my conscious choice, though I landed up with that as an accident? Is it possible in relationships and professions, anywhere?
Acharya Prashant: It is possible, but it has to be an illumined choice. Everything is possible. It is entirely possible that we keep the past aside, and it is entirely possible that we keep carrying the unexamined burden of the past all our life. That too is possible. Both extremes. It's a choice. If you want to carry something from the past, if you want to remain related to it or identified with it even today, then you have to ask: how does it benefit you? Because it's an expensive decision to make.
