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Where is the space and time to worry? || AP Neem Candies
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4 years ago
Imagination
Anxiety
Action
Worry
Fantasy
Reality
Entertainment
Work
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that if one immerses oneself in the right action, there is no space and time to worry. He states that if you are worrying, you are surely stealing time away from work to indulge in worries, anxieties, and fancies of all kinds. Young people fantasize; some about beautiful, exciting things, and others about scary demons. Fundamentally, it's much the same thing. You are using your faculty of imagination to gratify yourself in some way. He compares this to having romantic comedies and horror flicks playing on adjacent screens; the audience is much the same. The objective is entertainment, to move into a virtual, unreal world and titillate yourself. Whether it's a man and a woman or a demon doing things to a body, it's a "bloody bodily business." In either case, you are glued to the screen so that you can forget the real thing, the fact of your life. The speaker clarifies that the purpose of all imagination—whether it's so-called positive or negative, hope or worry or despair—is to take you away from the fact of your life. When you are busy imagining that something very scary can happen to you in the future, you are indirectly asserting that presently you are alright. He questions this, stating that you are not alright. The demon is not in the future; it is already here, right now, within you, and has gripped your heart from within. You don't want to look at that, so you manufacture fancies. What is needed is action, work. If the future, as per your imagination, is really threatening to be terrible, then that's all the more incentive for you to immerse yourself in the right action right now, rather than squatting and brooding. If the threat is indeed real, then work. And if the threat is not real, then slap yourself and find some work.