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The fourth Making Masters session takes letting go as its topic. Mohanji starts from the nature of existence: we live on horizontal time, and time both brings and takes everything — people, positions, situations, spaces. Nothing stays. So what actually blocks us from letting go? He traces the chain backwards: the mind gets stuck on an experience, the glue holding it there is emotion, that emotion is kept alive by ownership, and ownership rests on identification — the belief that "I did it, I am the author." But you are never the author of any situation, only a participant; the scripting belongs to destiny. Identification, he says, is the root cause of all worries and sorrows, and the depth of your ownership determines how many more births you take. He then draws the line people most often confuse: ownership should stop at responsibility, at righteous duty — doing what you can, as per your capacity, within the available time and space. Jagat Mithya doesn't mean your children are an illusion and you needn't feed them; it means your ownership of them is the illusion. On expectations, he distinguishes personal, others', and situational expectations, and shows with the 50-kilo example how the gap between what you think you can lift, what you actually can, and what the world demands produces stress and a sense of underperformance. Most people, he says, use only 25–30% of their real capacity, and contact with a master raises it — as Shivaji Maharaj found when he surrendered his capacity to his guru. His simplest definition: letting go means keeping an experience in the time it happened and walking away fresh, carrying no residue into the next hour. If you let go of your past, you have a different future. In Q&A he answers Toos on where memory sits in dementia (the treasure box is there but the key is lost; a different environment can sometimes reopen it), and Ratko on what to do when the mind refuses to release — start doing the unfamiliar, and let the scar remind you of your survival rather than your pain. He is blunt about people who sell trauma as identity: exist on your strength, not your wounds. To Aarushi, on how he himself carries nothing forward, he gives the example of his vehicle being blown up in Iraq — he simply found another car — and warns that repeating your trauma to everyone only refreshes the wound. To Akshita, the sign of genuine release is being able to look back and feel nothing; empathy helps, sympathy doesn't. To Pankhuri, on expectations from children: they are individual karmic beings here to exhaust their own karma — freedom is the best medicine for connection. To Seema, on elders stuck in the past: this teaching is for you, not for them; speak only to those who actually need an answer, and let your own steadiness be the message. To Bharathram, whose cat brought in a wild rabbit that was then euthanised, he says don't expect the world to be kind — protect what you can yourself, keep helping the helpless without discrimination, and he restates his opposition to euthanasia. He closes by separating letting go and surrender from passivity, which is inertia rooted in tamas: ahimsa includes self-defence, and real surrender is recognising you are handing yourself to a higher version of you — the proof being that the thought never returns.