There is no one on this earth who has spent an entire lifetime
without worries. The sages and enlightened ones who have renounced the material
world are possibly better off than the worldly people however they too are not
spared by the mind’s unrest at some time in their life.
In the Yaksha prashna (one of the
episodes in Mahabharatha), to a question asked by Yaksha, Yudhishtira provides
an answer that can be food for thought. “What is it which is more numerous than
straws?”, Yaksha poses the question. The Pandava replies “Our worries are more
numerous than straws”.
We are constantly bogged down by our anxiety, troubles about the problems that we are facing; we are about to face and more importantly problems that we imagine to be occurring at a later point in time. As Yudhishtira points out they are numerous. You find a solution to one of the problems and within no time another worry pops out and their count keeps increasing causing the torment to never cease.
We are constantly bogged down by our anxiety, troubles about the problems that we are facing; we are about to face and more importantly problems that we imagine to be occurring at a later point in time. As Yudhishtira points out they are numerous. You find a solution to one of the problems and within no time another worry pops out and their count keeps increasing causing the torment to never cease.
The disturbances caused in the mind
are so intense that we are consumed by them. The unsound condition of mind
cannot differentiate between the assumptions and realities. It continuously
goes on working to find solutions to the problems that are not even real and in
the process create more real problems.
The situation leads to a vicious cycle of constant perturbation. Thus it is mentioned in one of the subhashitas that there is a subtle difference between being worrisome and being dead. The Sanskrit word chintA means worry and chitA means pyre. Only a small difference (dot - anuswara bindu) distinguishes one from the other.
Thus it is told that the pyre burns the dead, while worry burns the living.
The situation leads to a vicious cycle of constant perturbation. Thus it is mentioned in one of the subhashitas that there is a subtle difference between being worrisome and being dead. The Sanskrit word chintA means worry and chitA means pyre. Only a small difference (dot - anuswara bindu) distinguishes one from the other.
Thus it is told that the pyre burns the dead, while worry burns the living.
Let us learn to consciously keep away
our worries at a safe distance before we are engulfed by its flames.
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