Menstruation and Mind || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav at IIT Delhi (2022)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00Namaste Acharya Ji. Firstly, thank you so much. You have helped me in ways in which

00:09I cannot explain. So, I'm basically a student, my age is 26, and I am a student of philosophy,

00:18I've completed my MPhil some time back. My problem is that I have a lot of fear and anxiety.

00:24And generally, I'm able to manage it. I indulge myself in spiritual videos from last two years

00:29I've been following Osho, and I've been listening to you also from past 10 months. I indulge

00:36in journaling or self-talk, and I'm able to manage it. But there are certain times wherein

00:42it just aggravates in a way wherein I'm not able to control it. Specifically, before and

00:48during the time of menstruation, I'm not able to handle it. And it gets so difficult that

00:56I'm not able to work also. Not even the day-to-day activities, I don't feel like doing anything.

01:02So in that case, what should I do?

01:03You have kind of opened a window into your own situation. You know it is physical, right?

01:14It's just that at the time of menstruation, it becomes very visibly obvious that the mental

01:25thing is from a physical place. At other times, the physical origins remain hidden. So one is led to

01:37believe as if the thoughts, feelings, and fears, and anxieties are just of the mind. The thing is that

01:49they are never of the mind. The reason is very simple. The mind is two things concurrently. The body

02:01and the pure self. You could call as the truth or the atma. The mind is a sandwich.

02:18The bodily component is definitely invariably present right since birth.

02:23But whether or not the mind will be occupied by or devoted to the pure self is a choice. Most of us never

02:40make the right choice. As a result, what we call as the mind is hardly anything beyond the brain. Ideally,

02:54the mind should exceed the brain in the sense that consciousness should exceed the body.

03:03Mind is consciousness, brain is body. Right? In an ideal situation, the mind should be way beyond the brain.

03:14What is brain? A mere physical organ. Just like arms and feet and eyes

03:22and the uterus. That's what the brain is. If the mind is nothing more than the brain,

03:33then the mind too will be nothing more than the feet and the arms and the uterus.

03:43Once I said, and there is an entire chapter devoted to that in one of the books,

03:48gynecology is psychology. That what you call as the mind is nothing more than your genitals.

03:58So what are our feelings then? Our feelings are just hormonal. Our thoughts are just glandular.

04:16Our decisions, our choices, our likes, dislikes, relationships, our sorrows, our relations.

04:27What are they? All very chemical, very biological. Getting it?

04:37And that is what is to be realized. It's all chemistry. Nothing beyond that.

04:50It's chemicals, polymers in movement. What do I have to do with it?

04:54It's so chemical. It is predictable. If something is predictable,

05:04is it conscious or mechanical?

05:09And what is mechanical? Must be left to its own mechanics. Why must you worry so much?

05:20Why must you worry?

05:23Why must you take it as something extraordinary happening to you? It is not happening to you.

05:29It is a thing of the body. And let it stay there, in the body.

05:33In the body. Let the mind be unencumbered. Mind should be free, untouched by the bodily vagaries.

05:48And the body can do anything. The female body does a lot of things. The male body too does a few things.

05:55Why let that become too much for you?

05:56You know very well that time of the month is approaching. And you know in advance what is now going to happen to the mind.

06:07And since you know that, you are free. You are already free. You are already free.

06:14It's like setting an alarm. The alarm has been set. The alarm will ring. You are not the alarm.

06:21How does it feel to be called the alarm? You know? Hilarious, no? Who am I? The alarm.

06:33And the alarm has been set at let's say 6 am. I am the alarm. It will start ringing. The body starts ringing.

06:41That's how Prakriti Ma has made it. It starts ringing at a particular day in the month and then

06:48it keeps ringing keeps ringing. That's how evolution has made it. What can you do about it? You are not the

06:56evolved one. You are the one who is, was, would be always perfect. And perfection has no relationship

07:08with evolution. You are so perfect that you are beyond the stream of time in which all evolution takes place.

07:18So what do you have to do with things that are evolutionary, such as the body?

07:27Let it be there. Let it be there. Let it be there. It's happening. But it's not happening to you.

07:32It's just happening. There is somebody who is feeling the pain, somebody feeling the anxiety,

07:38somebody is feeling that. And the more intimately and clearly you keep realizing it's chemical,

07:48it's bodily, it's evolutionary, it's not me. The more you will find that things have not changed,

07:56but their relationship with you definitely has. It's a relationship that matters.

08:02Not that your knowledge of the body's mechanical nature will change things bodily,

08:12but your relationship with body will change and that's all that matters.

08:17Are you getting it? The body has to die, one day it will die. Not that if you are self-realized,

08:23the body becomes immortal. No, the body will go its own way. You will not go the body's way.

08:33Isn't that nice? Just realize it's not happening to me. It's not personal. It's not personal. It's not

08:42happening to me. I'm not a body. I'm not a woman. Something is happening to the woman's body,

08:49to the woman's brain. I'm not that. I'm not that. I'm not that. Who am I then?

08:57I do not know whether I am the pure self, but at least I am the observer of the happening.

09:03This much I can say with certainty. Something is happening. I am the observer. And am I of the

09:08observer? I cannot be the observed phenomena. So keep yourself at some distance from the observed

09:15phenomena. The primitive tendencies will keep on pulling you back to the happening. No.

09:26Extricate yourself. Pull yourself away again. But the happening is just so attractive. You feel like

09:37becoming one with it again and again. So every two minutes, you will have to again and again redeem

09:43yourself. Take yourself away. Tear yourself apart. That will be needed. With time, it will become easier.

09:51It will become something, something of a habit. Right? You will see what is happening and you will know

09:59it is just happening. It is not happening to me. It comes with practice. Right?

10:13lights, right? Yes.

10:14Trib ciertoày fast.

10:17It iswan.

10:21You have to come through it.

10:24The meaning of?", it comes with reflection

10:25which we hope so, I will smell.

10:27Yeah.

10:27Yes.

10:27When you go, I need to trust.

10:30You don't read.

10:32I know Whaleight, what happened so, it happened tr Stevens.

10:35Yeah, it did not go!

10:37So happen back later.

10:38Yes, David Chang, someعت-down-konk unique

10:39they have been established as a gift

10:40and rejected for Christ.

10:42Yeah.

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