The spiritual and psychological challenge of anxiety; how faith and surrender address it.
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Seeing you touching the sky, blazing with many colors, with gaping mouths and huge fiery eyes, my inmost self trembles, and I find neither steadiness nor peace, O Vishnu.
नभःस्पृशं दीप्तमनेकवर्णं व्यात्ताननं दीप्तविशालनेत्रम् | दृष्ट्वा हि त्वां प्रव्यथितान्तरात्मा धृतिं न विन्दामि शमं च विष्णो ||११-२४||
Fallen from both, without support, does that person not perish like a scattered cloud, deluded on the path to Brahman, mighty-armed one?
कच्चिन्नोभयविभ्रष्टश्छिन्नाभ्रमिव नश्यति | अप्रतिष्ठो महाबाहो विमूढो ब्रह्मणः पथि ||६-३८||
The five obstacles to meditation - desire, ill will, lethargy, restlessness, and doubt - should be removed.
Don't worry about your future birth. Make the most of your current life, and free yourself from the cycle of birth and death. Cultivate devotion to the Lord, let go of base desires, and focus on doing good for others.
The person who, from the depths of their soul, seeks to know God will definitely realize Him. It's inevitable. Only those who are restless for God and seek nothing else will definitely realize Him.
Saints are always free from fear. They have no worry. A pyre burns the dead, while worry burns the alive. That is why saintly people avoid worry.
The darkness of anxiety and sorrow is dispelled, and the dense forest of ignorance is consumed.
स¯सय सोक निबिर तम भानुहि, दनुज गहन घन दहन कृसानुहि.
Rama anxiously remembered his half-brother day and night, even as a turtle has its heart fixed on its eggs.
रामहि ब¯धु सोच दिन रात्¶, अ¯˛अन्हि कम¢ह हृदौ जेहि भा¡त्¶.४.
Therefore, O king, rid yourself of all anxiety regarding Yudhishthira and focus on accomplishing all virtuous deeds, O greatest of men.
Abstaining from harming any living being is considered the most important duty. It is the highest state, free from anxiety, and a sign of holiness.
Cut off your greed with sharp-edged swords. Greed gives rise to desires, and from desire, anxiety arises.
A person who abstains from meat is never fearful of any creature, regardless of where they are.
You are that supreme happiness which is also eternal. You are the end that all things strive for. You are the highest existence sought by the righteous. You are the state that is free from every anxiety.
Brahma's mind was filled with anxiety, and he felt the difficulty of his task, becoming unwilling to do what he had started.
The qualities associated with the attribute of Rajas include pride in personal beauty, a sense of lordship, war, reluctance to give, lack of compassion, and experiencing both happiness and misery. These individuals take pleasure in speaking ill of others and engaging in various disputes and quarrels. They exhibit arrogance, discourtesy, anxiety, and hostility, leading to sorrow. They also appropriate what belongs to others, and display shamelessness, crookedness, disunity, coarseness, lust, anger, pride, a sense of superiority, malice, and slander.
A person who is wise and knowledgeable considers insults as nectar. Even when insulted, they sleep without any anxiety.
Those who set aside their worldly responsibilities and detach themselves from all worldly attachments become free from anxiety.
The person who sees pleasure and pain, gain and loss, victory and defeat, like and dislike as equal, and remains unchanged in the face of fear and anxiety, is completely emancipated.
Brahman said, 'Let your hearts be free from worry. The part of this sin that you take upon yourselves will leave you and instantly affect the man who has intercourse with women during their menstrual period.'
For one who has wisdom, self-control, contentment, and no desires or hopes, and sees everything with self-awareness, there is no trouble or anxiety.
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