Anxiety

 Anxiety, by Haripada dasa

We have physical illnesses such as the flu and others and there are also mental illnesses like insanity and others and there are also illnesses of the soul like anxiety and others. There was a great spiritual master who belongs to our disciplic succession named Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, he was a High Court Judge, he did many trials every day and the verdicts were perfect and amazing, the English judges of his time were very attracted to this great personality or pure devotee of God or Krishna, once they asked him how it is possible that we make several judgments every day and you make four times more judgments than us and your verdicts are always perfect, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura answered that I make the judgments as quickly as possible because I feel a lot of compassion to see that the accused is anxious to know the verdict.

 That is the difference between a pure devotee of God or Krishna and a materialistic and atheistic person, the pure devotee of God or Krishna suffers when he sees others suffer and is happy when he sees others happy in God or Krishna consciousness, his attitude in life is that everything he does is to please God or Krishna and His devotees, and the materialistic and atheistic person suffers when he sees others happy in God or Krishna consciousness, and is very happy when he sees others suffer, his attitude in life is the law of the funnel, the width for me and the narrow for others, he lives in the concept of me and mine, pure selfishness.

From the Prime Minister who has a head full of political problems to the simple street sweeper, everyone lives full of anxiety. The question that arises is: What is the cause of anxiety ?, This is explained very well by my spiritual master in the meaning of the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra, there he says that we are parts and portions of God, that means that we are superior energy of God, and when we come into contact with the lower or material energy, the situation is incompatible, but when we come into contact with the higher energy, called Hara or Radharani, the living entity is established in his normal happy condition.

In other words, the process of God or Krishna consciousness is a practice of devotional activities that transfer us from the material world to the spiritual world which is our true home, that is called coming home to return to Godhead.

We all would like to have a free life and be happy, but that is not so easy, generally people think that happiness is in the gratification of the senses, but we see in practice that in countries where there is more opulence for sense gratification there are more suicides. We are not the temporary material body, but eternal spirit souls, eternal loving servants of God or Krishna and His devotees, when we act in that consciousness there is eternal happiness and one lives without anxiety.