ANXIETY EPIDEMIC.

FYI: Talking about avoidable cause of anxiety. Anxiety due to chemical imbalance in body has to be treated medically.

MLK ( Martin Luther King ) said we live in age of guided missile and misguide men. Technological power have outrun our spiritual power. The means to live have outdistanced us from purpose to live. Guiding external world have misguided our inner world. Recent studied showed many people all over the world live in anxiety disorder. Anxiety leads into depression and suicide, WHO said approximately 1 M people committee suicide every year. 

In our day to day life we are making so many mental decisions for our daily material needs like buying clothes we look at the brand, store, color, design...etc based on our social status. Throughout the life for our daily needs we make more decisions then our mental capacity, it is over worked for our mental machinery and source for anxiety. After age 40-45 people in general suffering from some anxiety due to more responsibilities, chronic health issues, family issues, jobs related issues, socioeconomic problems.....etc. Some of our problems overblown by our mind, LIFE DETERMINES PROBLEMS WE DETERMINED SIZE OF THE PROBLEM.

Life is like a rocking boat get unstable with ocean of material waves. If we analyze the any problems of life three things are common.

1.source of identity 

2.source of shelter and 

3.source of pleasure. ...........

We are trying to connect our identity with social status, designation and also identifying ourselves with physical body which all are false or temporary identities. Throughout the life we work very hard to maintain our bodily demands & care based on our false or temporary identity cause for varieties of misery and anxiety. To relieve from anxieties we take shelter of some kind of recreation pleasure activities which are also temporary. In short connecting ourselves with temporary identity ( cause for anxiety ) and taking temporary shelter & having temporary pleasure can not cure anxiety permanently.

By Hearing/reading the Scriptures we realise that my real identity is not based on social status, designation or physical body. Once we understand that my true identity is I am eternal Soul living in physical Body our outlook will change, we will make thoughtful decisions for our needs & care not based on our external status and life get less complicated. Based on our true identity our source of shelter and pleasure will also change. Just like to stabilize rocking boat we need to anchor the boat to fix objects similarly we need to anchor our shaky Soul from material misery with Supreme Soul that is our real shelter and source of eternal pleasure or Bliss. 

Bg 16.11-12 — They believe that to gratify the senses is the prime necessity of human civilization. Thus until the end of life their anxiety is immeasurable. Bound by a network of hundreds of thousands of desires and absorbed in lust and anger, they secure money by illegal means for sense gratification.

Bg 15.7 — The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.

Bg 18.58 — If you become conscious of Me, you will pass over all the obstacles of conditioned life by My grace. If, however, you do not work in such consciousness but act through false ego, not hearing Me, you will be lost. (Vedabase.com)

Beautiful explanation by Chitanya Charan Dasa from ISKCON.

https://youtu.be/UGKGS_JhhyE

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I am inspire to hear & read Vedic Scriptures & other philosophy by regularly listening Sri Pandurang Shashtri Athvale known as Dadaji ( speak on Srimad Bhagvad Gita, Veda based discourses & western philosophy ) and association of Swadhyay Parivar every Sunday in Swadhya Kendra. 

FYI: Good source of Vedic literature: Vedabase.com (Srimad Bhagvad Gita is the essence & Srimad Bhagavatam is the nectar of all Vedic scriptures).

I also hear and read discourses & articles on Vedic thoughts & other philosophy from Srila Prabhupada, his disciples & grand disciples ( Rasamitra Swami, Chaitanya Charandas Prabhu, Sutapa Das, Amarnath dasa, Bhakticharu Swami,  Urmila Devi Dasi,  Radhanath Swami, Lal Govind Prabhu ( Gujarati & Hindi) Prahalad Maharaj in Surat (Gujarati) .......and many more from ISKCON......). 

I am posting some article based on Vedic scriptures and literature. Of course I use Google search to collect some data. Thanks to Facebook for providing platform.

It is always good idea to share our good thoughts & knowledge with others. Besides my parents, spouse, teachers, family & friends GREATFUL to EVERYONE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED in MY LIFE.

Hopefully my enthusiasm will continue by grace of Guru & God (Absolute Truth).