How do you drop these worries? One way is to be aware of the reality of the truth that everything is changing. And the other way is to be more centered. And practices. This is called dispassion.

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                🌿Chapter - 21🌿

          ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~

                  🌱 Day - 118 🌱

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Thoughts come and go in the mind. Many of them are not yours. In fact, none of the thoughts are yours. They have their own wave. Thoughts come and go. You may get hold of one of the thoughts that are going, and not allow it to go easily. That is called worrying. The gramophone needle moves for a few seconds in each groove. Then it goes into another groove, and then another. It keeps changing grooves. If the needle is stuck in one groove, the same thought comes in the mind again and again. You get up in the morning, and the same thought hits you. You drink tea and the same thought hits you. You sit at the dining table and the same thought is bugging you. It's like a mosquito trapped in a mosquito net in a dark room, and you don't know where it is. You try to catch it all night, making sounds and disturbing your neighbors.

चिन्तया जायते दुःखं नान्यथेहेति निश्चयी । One thought that is stuck in your mind is the cause of your sorrow. You are stuck with one thing. You feel that something should be one way or it should be the other way. The you are sad! All sorrow arises out of getting stuck in one thought,one event, one instance, or one desire. It is getting stuck with something that is past. Look at what happens in cartoons. Mickey Mouse's tail gets stuck somewhere. He tried to go forward and becomes big, and suddenly gets released. In the same way,the mind is stuck in one event, and then at a particular time it gets released. It is elastic like rubber. It goes back and forth, trying and struggling to get rid of particular thought. That is worry. That is sorrow. That is sadness. This is such a precise explanation to understand what sorrow is. You cannot have the same intensity of sorrow over a period of time. If somebody is sad for one reason, they cannot have the same intensity of sadness or sorrow continuing for several days. It is all like a perishable flower. You have to continuously renew your worries. You can't have the same old worry constantly in your mind. Maybe it will repeat but, even then, the intensity will be different. All the problems and sufferings in your life are coming and going. You go on chewing them. 

तया हीनः सुखी शान्तः सर्वत्र गलितस्पृहः । How do you drop these worries? This is the question. We have formulated many ways for it and there are two components in each of these ways. One way is to be aware of the reality of the truth that everything is changing. And the other way is to be more centered. And practices. This is called dispassion. Your illusion is what makes worry stay with you longer - the idea in your mind that you are going to live forever in the world. Just think you are going to kick this world and get away from here in no time! Where is the worry then? What you will be worried about then? You're going to drop this whole thing in no time. Everybody has to, one day or another. You are going to take off from here! How can you worry or what will you worry about? The reality of your short life-span, and it's insignificance in this enormous universe. What is our life? Nothing, but a few years! What are a few years? Billions of years have gone past; what is fifty, sixty, or a hundred years? The futility of worry becomes very evident then. Take that very thought and analyze. Agree to be with it, word by word and the worries disappear. For instance, you are worried because you cannot find your handbag. This bugs your mind continuously. Now, think about it, telling yourself repeatedly that you cannot find your handbag! Say it several times and you will start laughing! What is it that you cannot find? You cannot find your handbag. Where is the handbag?

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji

ASHTAVAKRA GITA

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