If the impressions from past failures push us towards failure again how do we break free?

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so if certain failures from the past create certain impressions which again impel us towards failures then how do we handle those impressions the mind is a very complex entity where it can be understood through different metaphors so say if there is a wall only some graffiti has been written now you want to remove that how do you do that one is you can get a paper, you can get a blade and scratch it out the other is repainted overpainted so it’s like that certain impressions are there on the mind now when the impressions are there we can’t get a blade to remove those impressions as I rightly said that memory within the mind there is no delete button for it but what can be done is overpainting we can create better richer impressions through the activity that we are doing so especially if we take up challenging services challenging activity which forces out of our comfort zone then usually the impressions get formed when there is something which is intense so either the external situation has to be intense or we have to be intense then the impression is formed like in this room there are 10 pictures or 5 pictures, now I may not notice a particular picture but if some picture is exceptionally attractive then I notice it or there is a picture of Narasimhadev and somebody has caught my neck and is threatening to kill me I pray Narasimhadev please help me then what will happen the picture of Narasimhadev will impress much more in my mind, either there is external intensity or there is internal intensity, whichever way it is so we have to overpaint our mind create new impressions and while we are creating new impressions in the mind through the activities we are going to do right now, when the past impressions come we just deal with them discreetly that means if we are studying the philosophy properly then we will understand or we will remember that everything inside me is not me that means even if a particular desire pops up from within me just because the desire has come from inside me that doesn’t mean it’s my desire suppose sometimes I am dieting or say I am fasting and then I decide that if somebody comes and tells come why don’t you take some food no I am fasting if somebody externally tells me, I say no but if my mind says come on you are fasting enough now, you take some food I will take some food so what happens is the same proposal if somebody from outside gives us, we say no, but if the same proposal comes from inside, we become much more amenable to it but if we understand that whatever comes from inside me is also not me so if we have understood that this particular anartha, this particular situation this particular craving it is an unhealthy craving it is an unwanted craving even if it comes from within me that doesn’t necessarily mean it is mine and secondly it doesn’t mean that I have to indulge in it the arrival of temptation should be seen as the beginning of an attack it is a precursor to attack it should be seen as a indicator of defeat that means yes say India Pakistan war is going on India Pakistan there is tension so Pakistan suddenly starts shooting therefore the Pakistan starts shooting, that doesn’t mean that India is defeated just because they started shooting that means now we are lost, just throw down our weapons and surrender, no they are shooting that means aggression has begun and we have to counter attack so like that when some unwanted desire comes in our mind that doesn’t mean that we have become defeated that doesn’t mean that we have to succumb to temptation it simply means that we are under attack when we are under attack we counter attack and by counter attacking we move on so if the past impressions are somehow aroused then we resist them and gradually as we keep creating new impressions and as we keep resisting the old impressions see whenever old impression is acted upon it becomes reinforced but when that old impression is resisted then it becomes weakened it is there it becomes more and more weakened sometimes say if in a computer you are searching for something so if the computer search engine is good then it will show if I search for god now I may have 5000 files in which the word god comes but then it will find those files which are the most recent which I have used recently something which I have not used for 5 years it will not come on top so like that when there are certain impressions which we have not acted on then they become like distant, remote, past impressions they won’t pop up also so gradually they will get relegated so much into the background that they will eventually become inconsequential but during that period we know that we have to have a fight and the best way to the best time to fight the war against temptation is before it begins that means that means just prevention is better than cure be so positively engaged creating impressions that those impressions won’t get time to surface to grow that desire is there I don’t have time for 1,2,3,4,5 that desire stays, stays, stays it’s like a salesman has come at our door and the salesman doesn’t want to meet 1 meeting, 2nd meeting, 3rd meeting, 4th meeting the salesman never wants to meet so like that if we keep ourselves busy even the impressions that pop in nothing is happening so basically we need to expertly create new impressions and expertly not give not giving to the old impressions and then our mind will be filled with positive new impressions and the negative impressions will become distant they will no longer trouble us so much does that answer your question?