Acharya Prashant: You see you are a human being. It is neither possible nor advisable for you to just give up on the past. The body is nothing but a flow of the past stretching over time. So, you cannot just wish away the past. It wonтАЩt happen.
If the past is bothering you, why not live in a way that resolves the past? If the past is bugging you, why not live in a way that resolves the past?
The past is shrieking, calling for attention, demanding completion. Why are you denying its space, the attention, the completion that it deserves? You are festering a wound on your arm, you are carrying it for two weeks and itтАЩs deteriorating by the day. What is it calling for? Treatment.
But, influenced by the neo spiritual cult of living in the moment, you say that I donтАЩt want to look at the past, all this is coming from the past, the wound belongs to the past. I donтАЩt want to look at the wound. Why donтАЩt you want to look at the wound? Do you want to imagine that it has disappeared? LetтАЩs be practical; for you, the one who is talking, the one who is questioning and seeking solutions, does the wound not exist? LetтАЩs talk about reality; does it exist or not? Then why do you want to imagine and act as if it does not? It does. And living in the moment does not mean denying the past.
Living in the moment, living in the present, to be more accurate means living in the one who is ever-present, living in the one who is omnipresent, living in the truth. And how can you live in the truth and simultaneously deny the fact to live in the truth - is to live in an unconditional acknowledgment of the fact and the wound is a fact that you cannot dismiss; the wound does exist. In the backdrop of the wound, what is it then to live in the present? What kind of action does that demand? Please.
