Acharya Prashant: Immerse yourself in the right action, then where are space and the time to worry? Indeed you are stealing time away from work. So that you can indulge in worries and anxiety and fancy and all kinds. Young people fantasize, don't they?
Some fantasize about beautiful, pretty exciting things; others fantasize about scary demons. But fundamentally, it's much the same thing.
You are using your faculty of imagination to gratify yourself in some way.
You have rom-coms, and then you have horror flicks. One is being played on screen number 3, and the other is on the adjacent screen number 4. The audience is much the same. Is it not? In fact, some who could not manage a ticket for screen number 3 have walked into screen number 4. The objective is entertainment. The objective is to move into a virtual, unreal world and titillate yourself. On one screen, you have a man and a woman doing things to each other's bodies. On the other screen, you have a demon doing things to somebody's body.
In either case, it's a bloody bodily business. There is blood, and there is the body, in both the screens. And in either of the cases, you are glued to the screen, so you forget the real thing so that you can forget the fact of your life.
That's what imagination of all kinds, whether so-called positive imagination or negative imagination. Whether it is hope, worry, or despair, that's the purpose they all serve. They take you away from the facts of your life. So you are busy imagining that something very inauspicious very scary can happen to you in the future.
