Why do similar situations keep cropping up in my life? And how do I get out of bad habits? Patterns We have patterns, right? Repetitive patterns. Some people say, “I’ve never experienced happiness in life.” Or some people say, “I’m continuously going through the same situations, one after the other.” Patterns – where do patterns come from? How do patterns happen in our life? Why are we discussing this? If you know how patterns happen, if you diagnose them well, you can come out of it. If you don’t know the patterns, if you don’t know how they are structured, you cannot come out of them. That’s why we are trying to understand patterns. Suppression One is suppression, a very common subject. We often suppress emotions and feelings – thinking what society will think about us. Sometimes we do not even take a step forward towards the fulfilment of a desire because we are afraid of failure. “What will society think?” The moment you start being afraid of society, you stop doing the right action. This is important to understand. Suppression is a huge thing. Suppose I wanted to say something to somebody. I had a genuine urge to speak to a person. Suddenly a thought comes: “What if this person doesn’t like it?” Then what happens? I don’t speak. I keep quiet. The point is suppressed. Many of us couldn’t speak when we were children because we were afraid of our father, mother, teachers, or society. (Mohanji points to his throat – ) It got stuck here; our expressions reached only up to here. It didn’t come out. And this happened often. Later on, what happens? You get married, or you have a life in society. Again, you’re in the office; you want to speak something, (again Mohanji points to his throat) – it comes here but it doesn’t come out. What happens then? Suppression leads to suffocation. When you cannot speak what you want to speak at the right time, you cannot speak at all. And then you do not have that experience. Experience Please understand: what is the reason for Life? Experience is the primary reason for existence. We go to various countries, various places …. ”what are all these places and countries, who are the people, what is the culture, what are the situations there?” All that is for experience. You’re not taking this country home, right? (Mohanji is speaking in Turkey.) When you go from here, you can’t take Turkey with you. You can probably take some things with you from Turkey which will remind you of Turkey. Mohanji
