How to remain free from the hurt and sickness of others? || (2017)

Questioner: Dear Acharya Ji, you have said that what is healthy is forgotten, what is sick is remembered. If something is bothering me and making me restless, is it always that I am sick? Can there be also a way where I am healthy, but the sickness of another person is bothering me? Can you give clarification on this?

Acharya Prashant: Sickness is always the ‘other.’ Sickness is anyway never yours. I am not merely saying that sickness belongs to the others, I am saying, sickness is the ‘other,’ and parallelly the other is the sickness. So, it doesn’t make matters any better for you.

Even if it is proven that the sickness that is bothering you, comes from the other, even if you are identified with sickness, still it is the other.

Your nature is ‘not sickness.‘ Your essence is ‘not sickness.’

So, obviously wherever whenever there is sickness, it is foreign, it is something else, it is somebody else.

You are asking, "What do I do if somebody else’s sickness is bothering me?" If somebody else’s sickness is bothering you then you have contracted that sickness.

All sickness always comes from somewhere and starts bothering you. Then that sickness starts bothering you, it is the only proof that you are sick now. A virus comes from somewhere, but it has not started bothering you. What is this situation called? The situation is called ‘disease.’ You are infected now.