The Mahabharata Within Us

Pulkit Sharma - Clinical Psychologist & Author

Why do we experience so much inner conflict? Because perhaps, somewhere within us, we are not a unified being. Our body may want one thing. Our subconscious mind may want another. Our conscious mind may pull us in a different direction.  And a deeper, psychic or soul dimension may be calling us toward something entirely different. The Mahabharata is not only an ancient epic. It can also be understood as a metaphor for the psychological reality within each of us.  In this archival talk from 2017, Pulkit Sharma, Clinical Psychologist, Psychoanalytic Therapist, Spiritual Counselor & Author, explores how an inner Mahabharata unfolds within us — competing desires, emotions, thoughts and impulses constantly pulling us in different directions.  We make a decision, only to change our minds. We want one thing yet do another. We move forward, then suddenly find ourselves pulled back.  According to Pulkit Sharma, psychological healing, therefore, is not simply about managing symptoms. It can also involve developing self-awareness, psychological integration and inner unity — understanding our conflicting parts and discovering what truly matters to us.  #Mahabharata #InnerConflict #Psychology #Psychoanalysis #MentalHealth

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00:00Symptoms are like this, because our mind is burning from the body.

00:09Our body wants something, our emotions want something, our mind wants something and our psychic power wants something.

00:16And every day of our life, we are battling several conflicts.

00:22Every day of our life, we have a Mahabharat.

00:25We have to listen to each other.

00:27It's like 4 people standing in different corners,

00:29people are saying something, people are saying something.

00:31Sometimes we go to one side,

00:33then we go there,

00:37we go there,

00:39then we get a voice,

00:42we go there,

00:44then we get a voice.

00:45If you see, this causes a lot of chaos.

00:48Our mind goes on, goes on, goes on, goes on, goes on, goes on.

00:51Because we are not unified.

00:55No, if there is a super ordinate structure,

01:01which we see all directions,

01:02first, this is important,

01:04and this is important.

01:05I will ignore it and talk about it,

01:07or today, this is important,

01:09then there can be an order in our system.

01:11So, a lot of problems happen,

01:13because in our mind, this is chaos.

01:26I'm sorry.

01:29I'm sorry.

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