If a kid has been continuously told that the world is everything, how will an untouched point remain within? The world, as we know, is quite fickle, while our real nature is stability or permanence. It is this dichotomy that pushes us into stress and anxiety. A big portion of the mental health problem can be addressed if we provide the right value system to the kid—the right literature.
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Questioner: Namaste Sir, my question is again, kind of related in the context of suffering. You just said that tension shouldn’t percolate beyond a point and here, I’m in the United States, I live in Virginia, and here I see many kids, teenagers, twelve-year, thirteen-year, fifteen-years old, they have anxiety issues and I see them popping anti-anxiety pills like anything. And even the doctors who they have consulted, they prescribe these pills openly. Now, I understand that mental health is a spectrum and there are different kinds of help that a person might need; therapy or medication.
But here, I see that problem is growing by leaps and bounds. Even because of work stress, say, I consult a therapist, the first thing that they would say is “Yeah, pop a pill, take this pill, take that pill, it will help you sleep well.” So, now these kids do that because their suffering feels very real to them. So, how would you explain, even begin to explain such kids that, you know, it’s not real, and they have a point within them that’s untouched, when they are clearly not in the state to… They feel that they can’t go on without these pills. So, just wanted to understand if we can help such people, and there is a growing number here.
Acharya Prashant: Yes, it’s not very complicated. It’s all actually quite simple to understand. You see, you don’t really have to convince them in the affirmative. You don’t have to tell them that there exists a point within, that the world cannot touch. You just have to stop educating them in the inverse kind of doctrines. You see, the kid at twelve or thirteen is yielding to anxiety and other sicknesses, because for all these thirteen-years, he has been conditioned into believing that the world is everything, right?
