Ishan Shivanand calls it "Gyan Bandh," knowledge closed: we're born with full potential but buried under sensory overload, conditioning, and trauma. We see the world through past pain instead of as it actually is, which blocks what we're capable of.
You are a god who has amnesia, and that's what Gyan Bandh literally means. Gyan means knowledge and Bandh means it's closed. So we are closed-minded to our own capabilities, and the monks explained to us when we are born, we have so much of influence of the world on us that we get lost. Our traumas start to define us, our pain start to define minus. There is this whole experience overload, and rather than being connected to our own self, we start to get seduced by all that we see, hear, and experience through our senses. We start to see the world for not what the world is, but a response to our own past experiences. So if we have a limited belief system, then that's how we will see the world. To me.
