Moving Past Unpleasant Events

*Moving Past Unpleasant Events*

Pleasant connections don't last too long, but unpleasant connections create a scar on the mind and last longer. Now, what is the place of wisdom in all this?

Wisdom makes your mind non-sticky. Have you seen non-stick frying pans, in which you can make pancakes? When those non-stick pans were not available, people still made pancakes. 

The pancakes would get stuck to the pan, and they would have to struggle each time to get them out. The cleaners had more work to do, to make it ready for the next use.

So, events are like pancakes that stick to the pan. Now, just imagine, if you don't clean the pan (referring to the mind), and you continue making more pancakes day after day on the same pan and consuming it. 

My Goodness, how unhygienic. For years, you are using the same pan. One side of the pan is all burnt because of the stuck pancakes, and it smells because you have not cleaned your pan. 

Yet you continue making pancakes (causing pain to yourself, and you are serving such pancakes to others (causing pain to others).

This is what is happening. You have forgotten to make your mind a non-stick pan.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Ji