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How to come out of past bad experiences and their emotional grip on the mind?

[Ms. Bhanu Samykya asked: Padanamaskaram Swami, How to come out of past bad experiences and their emotional grip on the mind? How much ever I try, again I keep going backwards and feel sad about it. Please guide me forward Swami. -At Your Divine Lotus Feet, Bhanu Samykya.]

Swami replied:- If the experience belongs to this birth itself, it is in the initial state, called ‘Vaasaana’. This Vaasaana enters some more future births becoming stronger and this state is called ‘Samskaara’. This samskara after several births becomes strongest and this state is called ‘Guna’, which is irreparable. Even in this birth, the Vaasanaa is weakly strong while it is born, but, as the time passes on, it becomes more and more strong day by day. Hence, a wise scholar tries to eradicate the Vaasanaa in the beginning itself, while it is born. The way to destroy the Vaasanaa is only through spiritual knowledge. Vaasanaa is made of wrong thoughts. Spiritual knowledge is made of right thoughts. Only a diamond can cut another diamond. Right mind can repair wrong mind. The true spiritual knowledge comes from the Sadguru only, who is the contemporary human incarnation of God.

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