Shallow philosophies and false treatments do not work for anybody. It's another matter if we want to keep fooling ourselves. There has to be self-love. There has to be courage. One has to say it's all right to be devastated and destroyed but it's not all right to keep yielding moment by moment the way I do.
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Questioner: Namaskar Acharya Ji. I think my question has three aspects to it. So, the first aspect is the psychosocial aspect. And my question is that nowadays, we see a lot of quick-fix philosophies, and they seem to work for a lot of people. So, the philosophies of ‘You only live once,’ ‘body positivity,’ or positivity in general and self-love. And these kinds of things seem to work for people.
However, on the counter side, I feel they try to make a person escape from their realities, in the sense that you escape your problems. So, instead of facing them and going through the discomfort of processing them and reaching the end, you just focus on your own self. And that focus on your own self somehow seems to fuel narcissism on some level.
In fact, today, only I read that the person on Instagram with the highest number of followers is just a person who posts a picture of herself every day in front of the mirror, and that has given her 133 million followers. So, the physiological aspect of this is that anxiety has become almost like an epidemic today. And we see doctors prescribing anxiety pills or depression pills incessantly.
