We can’t always move on from grief we need to sometimes move on with grief Gita 02.18

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we can’t always move on from grief we sometimes need to move on with grief suppose we suffer a devastating loss of a loved one we naturally feel ourselves overwhelmed by grief if we keep grieving our well-wishers may urge us sometimes gently and sometimes firmly to move on but moving on can seem impossible grief seems to be like consuming, paralyzing a hole within us that sucks our entire being can Gita wisdom help us to heal amid such grief yes certainly it offers us a three-vision a three-level vision of the self as body, mind and soul and this three-level vision has two pertinent implications for us the soul is different from the body and the mind is similar to the body so the mind is similar to the body means that just as the body can get wounded so can the mind the Bhagavad Gita explains the mind is also a material element by listing the various material elements including the five gross elements that comprise the physical body Krishna also includes the mind in 7.4 it is said so the mind is like the body in the sense that it is made of similar elements and when the body gets wounded, wounds differ in their severity and longevity some wounds may heal fully over time whereas other wounds may remain may have lasting effects when dealing with lifelong wounds we can’t move on from them, we need to learn to move on with them something similar may happen with deep emotional wounds where the associated memories will always cause grief to us at such time rather than unrealistically expecting or demanding from ourselves that we need to move on from that grief that we should be able to feel no pain when the memories of the lost one comes along we need to instead learn to move on with that grief and for such moving on the next Gita insight can be empowering the soul is different from the body, whereas the body is perishable, the soul is imperishable Bhagavad Gita 2.18 states that Bhagavad Gita 2.18 states that so this implies that our loved ones, that is their soul which is who they essentially are still live on even after their bodily death, they have simply transited to another level of existence a level more conducive for their spiritual evolution knowing that they live on can allay our fears about their fate and contemplating that they would want us to live on also fully, not mournfully we can summon the will to heal when we are empowered by these twin understandings, these twin understandings then whenever some sight or memory triggers grief within us we learn to see that grief not as a hole that consumes us whole, but as a part of our part as a wound on our mind by thus re-envisioning grief we can learn to move on with it thank you