Friday, July 22, 2011

Radhanath Swami on Why We Worry

Why do people worry? There are numberless reasons within the world that we live. We may be worried about our health, about our wealth, about our loved ones, or our friends. We may be worried about our yesterday, today, or tomorrow. We may be worried about the environment, the situation in the world in politics. The nature of this world is birth, old age, disease, and death. The nature of this world is – everything is always changing, and essentially the biggest problem is – we want to control our environment.

And eternal reality is – you and me, we are not the controllers, things can go their own way. We can try our best; to some degree we have influence.

But ultimately things are out of our control. So, to the degree we are attached to anything or anyone on this worldly platform there would be worries. Attachment brings worry.

31 comments:

  1. Thank you Radhanath Swami for sharing this wisdom.

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  2. It will be great to lead a worry-free life. How I long for it. Trying to give up attachments to temporary things sounds like a logical idea. Radhanath Swami also provides the eternal thing to get attached to - God!

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  3. Thanks for such an enlivening message.

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  4. Guess i'll have to stop worrying after reading this article!

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  5. thank you maharaj for explaining about not to worry.

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  6. Good explaination of why not to worry. Thanks for sharing.

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  7. Attachment brings worry - nicely stated.

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  8. Attachment brings worry - this is such a true statement. I have met people who are not attached and have no worries, and I have met the other type too.

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  9. What a nice and sublime way of explaining and also understanding of the problems of our day to day scenario.By being attached to the all positive energy of God, we become relieved of all the negative influence of this big big problem called WORRYING.

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  10. Thanks for sharing

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  11. Very sound definition of worry from Rahdanath Swami. As long as we connect ourselves with various things in the material world (without Lord in picture), there would always be worry and this is the way this world has been designed.

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  12. Attachment brings worries so true, still we are attached. With the help of Radhanath Maharaj who guides us through this beautiful path of devotion, attachment to devotional service has increased which has reduced anxiety. Thanks Maharaj.

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  13. Shoba RamachandranJuly 23, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    Attachments - the root cause of worries.
    Thanks for pointing out Maharaj - stop trying to control over the things that are out of our control and stop being attached to things and people that are temporary

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  14. Radhasangi Devi DasiJuly 24, 2011 at 4:40 AM

    Witnessing the recent serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, this is very apt. Fear has gripped us once again and this fear is due to attachment to the impermanent and due to the ignorance of what real attachment means. Thank you Radhanath Swami for enlightening us on how to get attached to the permanent.

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  15. Nice to know the root of all worries!

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  16. A clear-cut solution to overcome worry by knowing the real Controller

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  17. thank you maharaj for explaining nicely about how attachment brings worry.

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  18. Thank you Radhanath Swami for clearing my doubts about the nature of worry.

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  19. It is correct.Let God propose and we despose.In this humble situation we will be always be depend upon God and therefore there won't be any worries.Thank you Radhanath Swamiji.

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  20. So true. Enlightening statement by HH Radhanth Swami: Attachment brings worry.

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  21. Especially attachment to the so-called 'perfect' setting that we have in our mind about people and situations

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  22. Very true. Attachments bring worries. Time and agian this is proved. Thank you Radhanath Swami for this post

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  23. "To the degree we are attached to anything or anyone on this worldly platform there would be worries." This is the nature of worry. Thank you Maharaj for this wonderful insight.

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  24. Anxiety, Worry, Stress has become inseparable part of today's life. Hear comes master piece for ' STRESS MANAGEMENT' by one of the most realised soul- Radhanath Swami. Such simplistic way to make life easy!! Thanks Radhanath swami for guiding today's misguided world. I find lots of hope in your enlightening words.

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  25. after reading this i hope to stop worrying

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  26. so beautiful we should be always satisfied and surrender to Lord krsna

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  27. Please don't worry for anything and chant Hari for everything. All glories to Radhanatha Swami.

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