Questioner: You know, I would just cite this example of people from happy families or normal families, seemingly happy families, whatever, and people who have a bona fide past of a trauma like, you know, domestic violence and abuse and mind games and a lot of lowly things that do happen. And you know, in India I have spoken to a lot of women, whether they are in cities or they are in towns or in small places, everybody has had some case of molestation or sexual abuse, no matter which strata of society they belong from mostly. Some choose to speak about it, some don’t. So, the whole point is when it comes to all these different, you know, faces again, transmutation of one evil from another or the curse of the broken family, so how do you exercise your demons? Like I have exercised my demons. But then there are times when I do come back from work and the memories do sometimes come back to haunt you, sometimes it does, right?
So how is it, is it possible to transcend them? And there are, you know, people around me who I know very closely, young girls, literally 10-11 year old girls, who still are living in that kind of a hell that I know I have gone through personally and I feel because you know, I have these aspirations in the sense that you know, work and ample work and everything else that you aspire in your life and do. And then I just feel so helpless in trying to, you know, just go and how do I just help these girls out who are like my very close ones, like how do I help them because it's very rational and you know I can see it happening right in front of me. So, it’s a huge history of trauma and I know that trauma is being built here and history might repeat itself you know because of the younger generation. So how do you come to terms, how do you exercise the demons or as Krishna says you know ─ “Dukhalayam Ashram O Shashvata,”
Acharya Prashant: There are two things that I want to reconcile about. You said, “There are happy families and there are unhappy families,” and then you said that most women or girls you have met have had some kind of a history of sexual abuse, molestation or domestic violence. Irrespective of whether they have disclosed it or not.
