They Said ‘Time Will Heal’. Gita Said ‘God Will’
Riya Kumari | Jun 25, 2025, 13:48 IST
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“Time heals all wounds,” they said. Probably while sipping herbal tea and wearing linen pants in a room that smells like guilt and lavender. But if you’ve ever ugly-cried into your pillow at 2:43 a.m. wondering if your heart will ever beat normally again—you know that time doesn’t heal. It delays. It distracts. Sometimes it makes things worse by letting you stew in your own emotional soup.
Everyone tells you to “just give it time.” Like time is some kind of spiritual janitor who quietly sweeps away all your pain while you binge-watch your emotions into oblivion. But here's the truth that stings a little—time doesn’t heal. Time only passes. And passing time doesn’t equal inner transformation. If it did, we’d all be walking around whole by now. The Bhagavad Gita offers something radically different. It doesn’t ask you to wait for time. It invites you to walk toward God. And through that walk—you heal.
The pain doesn’t always live in the moment that broke you.
It lives in the meaning you gave that moment.
That “I’m not good enough.”
That “I wasn’t worth staying for.”
That “Maybe this is all I’ll ever get.”
Time might help you forget the event, but it won’t rewrite the meaning. Only something deeper can. And that’s what the Gita shows us. Healing doesn’t come from forgetting. It comes from remembering who you really are. Not a body that was left. Not a job that was lost. Not a title that was taken. But an eternal soul that can’t be broken.
When Arjuna collapsed on the battlefield, overwhelmed and unwilling to fight, Krishna didn’t say,
“Just take some time, you’ll feel better.”
He didn’t say,
“Sit this one out and maybe next lifetime.”
He said:
“Get up. You’ve forgotten who you are. You’re not this fear. You’re not this body. You’re Me. And you’re here to rise.”
That’s healing. Not running away from the fire. But walking through it with divine clarity, knowing you cannot be burned.
We’ve all said it—
“Maybe if I wait long enough, I won’t care anymore.”
“Maybe if enough days pass, I’ll move on.”
But that's not healing. That's delay.
Real healing isn’t when the pain fades. It’s when the pain no longer defines you. The Gita doesn’t offer you comfort for the moment. It offers you perspective for a lifetime. It tells you:
Yes, you hurt.
Yes, you lost.
Yes, your heart feels like rubble right now.
But what’s eternal in you? That hasn’t changed. That hasn’t left. That can never be taken. And that is where healing begins—not with time, but with truth.
Healing with God isn’t about passivity. It’s about participation. It’s not about sitting and hoping. It’s about standing and remembering. It’s not just about moving on.
It’s about moving inward.
Because what you’re really looking for isn’t to get over something—it’s to return to someone: Yourself. The self you forgot in the process of loving them. The self you abandoned trying to be accepted. The self that’s always been enough, even when life said otherwise. And God—through the Gita—walks you back there.
Time can’t go into the wound and teach you why it hurt. Time can’t show you what it awakened. Time can’t hold your hand while you rebuild your insides. But God can. The Gita doesn’t ask you to wait.
It asks you to awaken. To remember. To return. Because healing doesn’t happen when enough days pass. It happens when truth returns. And truth doesn’t live in time. It lives in you. And it was always divine.
Time may dull the pain, but only God can dissolve it
Hourglass
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The pain doesn’t always live in the moment that broke you.
It lives in the meaning you gave that moment.
That “I’m not good enough.”
That “I wasn’t worth staying for.”
That “Maybe this is all I’ll ever get.”
Time might help you forget the event, but it won’t rewrite the meaning. Only something deeper can. And that’s what the Gita shows us. Healing doesn’t come from forgetting. It comes from remembering who you really are. Not a body that was left. Not a job that was lost. Not a title that was taken. But an eternal soul that can’t be broken.
The Gita doesn’t sugarcoat. It liberates
Awaken
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When Arjuna collapsed on the battlefield, overwhelmed and unwilling to fight, Krishna didn’t say,
“Just take some time, you’ll feel better.”
He didn’t say,
“Sit this one out and maybe next lifetime.”
He said:
“Get up. You’ve forgotten who you are. You’re not this fear. You’re not this body. You’re Me. And you’re here to rise.”
That’s healing. Not running away from the fire. But walking through it with divine clarity, knowing you cannot be burned.
Healing is not time-bound. It's truth-bound
Band Aid
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We’ve all said it—
“Maybe if I wait long enough, I won’t care anymore.”
“Maybe if enough days pass, I’ll move on.”
But that's not healing. That's delay.
Real healing isn’t when the pain fades. It’s when the pain no longer defines you. The Gita doesn’t offer you comfort for the moment. It offers you perspective for a lifetime. It tells you:
Yes, you hurt.
Yes, you lost.
Yes, your heart feels like rubble right now.
But what’s eternal in you? That hasn’t changed. That hasn’t left. That can never be taken. And that is where healing begins—not with time, but with truth.
When time makes you wait, God makes you walk
Walk
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Healing with God isn’t about passivity. It’s about participation. It’s not about sitting and hoping. It’s about standing and remembering. It’s not just about moving on.
It’s about moving inward.
Because what you’re really looking for isn’t to get over something—it’s to return to someone: Yourself. The self you forgot in the process of loving them. The self you abandoned trying to be accepted. The self that’s always been enough, even when life said otherwise. And God—through the Gita—walks you back there.
Final truth: Time may change the scenery. God changes you
It asks you to awaken. To remember. To return. Because healing doesn’t happen when enough days pass. It happens when truth returns. And truth doesn’t live in time. It lives in you. And it was always divine.