Work. Where is the time to devote to anxiety? Where is the space to be anxious? If you are anxious about something, that thing is obviously important to you. Else you wouldn’t be anxious and if that thing is important, work. Work for that thing. The thing is not only important but also stands incomplete. That’s the reason you are anxious. Correct? If it stands incomplete, work, bring it to completion. Somebody said action is the antidote to despair. Action. Don’t just sit and brood, work. And life will become intolerable if you are not a worker.
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Questioner: So, I have this one question for you, how do you deal with anxiety concerns in your life. So when you have to make some decision and maybe you are faced with some anxiety concerns. How do you tackle them?
Acharya Prashant: Work. Where is the time to devote to anxiety. Where is the space to be anxious? If you are anxious about something that thing is obviously important to you. Else you wouldn’t be anxious and if that thing is important, work. Work for that thing. The thing is not only important but also stands incomplete. That’s the reason you are anxious. Correct? If it stands incomplete, work, bring it to completion. Somebody said action is the antidote to despair. Action. Don’t just sit and brood, work. And life will become intolerable if you are not a worker. Action is the central message of the Bhagavad Gita, “Arjun no time to sit and weep, you have to do what is needed to be done.” Think about a fellow who is being exhorted to kill his brothers, his relatives, the loved and fabled patriarchs and so many other acquaintances. Arjun probably knows more than half of the Kaurava warriors standing that side and he is being told to fight. If he begins to think, there will be no end to thought.
