TAKE IT EASY
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Drop worry
What is worry? Either one of two things happens in us all the time - speaking outside as in a conversation or speaking inside us, that is thoughts. Some of these thoughts inside us irritate or dis-ease us. This irritation is what is called worry. The cause for worry is never outside. It is just our own repeated thoughts, that's all. The 'uneasiness' due to some of these words inside you becomes a 'disease' in you.
A merchant invests in a shop and faces heavy loss for the first month and the second month. He starts thinking and telling himself hopeless things about himself. These repeated words will set inside him, and become worries. In order to change our worries, we need to change our inner selves. No one can satisfy our causes for worry.
You are able to control the words that you speak outside, is it not? If you don't control your words, society will control them! Why then are we not able to control the words spoken inside us? When words that have volume can be controlled, why can't words without volume be controlled?
Words are very powerful. When I utter the word 'cow', immediately a figure with 4 legs, 2 horns and one tail appears in your mind. A simple 3-letter word can bring to your mind a whole image. Words are that powerful. When we don't respect words and use them wrongly, inner chatter takes root. If you keep breaking the words, the words will stop rising after a few days and a new chatter-free system will get recorded inside; that's all!
In your home, sit quietly in a chair and put down on paper the traffic that goes on inside you; what goes on in your mind. There will be no cogency in it! One

moment you will be in Madurai, the next moment you will be talking to someone in Salem and so on! If you read the paper, you will know that you are running a mad-house inside you. When you see a hospital for lunatics, you think that they have collected all the mad men, and built a wall around them. Actually, the difference between them and us, is that they are unmanageable mad men, while we are manageable mad men, that's all! We observe social etiquette while they don't, that's all.
Do not think I am making you mad! I am trying to bring out the madman already inside you.
Paramahamsa
Ananda Spurana Program (ASP)
India