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        🌺 ASHTAVAKRA GITA🌺

    

                🌿Chapter - 21🌿

          ~ Letting Go Of Worries ~

                  🌱 Day - 119 🌱

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You will see your mind gets blown, and the worry stops. When the worry becomes too much, people go very blank. If it is really insignificant, it goes on bugging the mind. But if it is something very big, one gets stunned. It becomes a shock. It's like the mosquito that goes on making a noise in our ears. Have you noticed a mosquito bite does not itch while it is biting you. It only starts itching after it has bitten. You only feel the pain after being bitten. Even there nature has made a provision. Otherwise all the mosquitoes would starve. The mosquitos have so been created! First they bite, and when they get away you start itching.

So split your worry. Cut it or expand it. Think or worry big - what will happen after about five thousand years? What will happen to you? Where will you be? In the present world there is no space and there is so much pollution. What will it be in five thousand years? So many people would have come, dirtied this world much more and gone. What should you do. A bigger worry will be if you will get a job after five thousand years. Will you be able to sell your car? Will you even have a car then? I'm giving you so many options! How can we arrest the mind that is going in this way? Look back at the periods when you have worried. Just remember and imagine how you were on a particular day, five years ago. Were you not worrying about what will happen? How you were so worked up during a particular examination period. You were worried if you would be able to fulfil your desire. You were sick. So many stupid thoughts were rolling in your mind. You were so tensed. Remember the times when you have worried in the past.

Every time you worry, you worry afresh! You don't remember your past worries, and how you got over them. Every time you worry, you think that worry is fresh and new. You don't want stale worries. Look back and see. All those stale worries are there no more. You will find that your current worry is also stale. It is nothing. You will get over it, too. We have the most wonderful technique to stop this chattering mind that doesn't allow any peace. Super bomb. Doesn't allow any mind to exist? Kriya.

If you do Kriya sincerely the worry gets blown out! How can you be worried in satsang? When so much assurance of all kinds is given to you, how can you be worried here? If you are worrying here, too, it means you are sleepy, and don't know where you are. It's like starving when you are having food in front of you, and not knowing it. There's plenty of food in front of you! Being unaware of the grace, love and joy that the Divine is pouring on us all the time, is the cause of worry. Become aware of where you are, then the worry will simply drop and vanish! तया हीनः सुखी शान्तः You become so happy and peaceful, void of these worries.

This is important. Ashtavakra did not say just to be happy and leave it at that. He said to be peaceful. Many times people are happy, but not peaceful. They are restless. Outwardly, they seem happy, but the joy of happiness is not there. Happiness also brings more misery. Haven't you seen happy people being miserable? That's why all wise and enlightened people on the past have said that sorrow and joy are two sides of the same coin. They are like the peak and the base of a mountain. If there is a peak, there has to be a base and if there is a base, there has to be a peak. Consider excitement - if you laugh too much, you will cry more. There is a proverb which cautions that you should not laugh too much, because you will start crying. That means it has both sides. Excited joy and sorrow are the sides of the same thing.

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