Acharya Prashant distinguishes between the act of suppression and the quality of forgetting. He explains that deliberately avoiding a person or a situation is not a true escape because the mind remains dominated by what it is trying to avoid. In such cases, the avoidance is superficial, and the person or situation becomes even more central and important to the individual's actions. True escape, he argues, must be complete and real, rather than just a physical non-presence. He describes forgetting as a state where the mind is no longer tied to past hurts or memories, allowing one to revisit a place without the old pain recurring. This total escape is achieved by moving into the real and surrendering to truth and silence. When one is with the truth, the rubbish of the past is naturally forgotten. He concludes that while physical distance might sometimes lead to forgetting, it is ineffective if the mind remains tied to memories; one must truly go away in spirit to find lightness of mind.
