Sri Karmayogi defines worry as disease that is developed by lack of faith. When we say faith, we normally think of faith in Divine. But it also means all other faith we have – in our skill, our capacity, our reputation, our relations, our business atmosphere, our acumen, our intelligence, etc. – every form of faith or belief is included here.
There will not be any worry as long as we think that we are the “determinant”. Worry starts only when we lose any faith or doubt our strength. Worry starts out of insecurity that we are no more a determinant, and we are losing control of result, and nothing is going to happen as we expected.
Every worry is based on a fear. Every fear is based on a doubt. Every doubt has a seed of absence of faith. Finding that and taking opposite of it that increases the faith – preferably increasing faith on Mother – is the way to convert worry into happiness.
All worries have a fear behind it. Fear of losing some thing, a life, a person, a situation, prestige, status. Which means first we don’t have a clarity and confidence and faith that gives it. Doubt comes out of insecurity that we are no more a determinant, and we are losing control of result, and nothing is going to happen as we expected. The problem is we often connect faith to Divine without analyzing ourselves or our part. Reverse working on this worry will reveal the higher determinant required for this – skill, capacity, energy, perseverance, patience, etc. Only when we understand ourselves and become rational with a common sense our faith in Divine can be complete. Else in my opinion it will be superficial or a kind of escapism.
When this yoga itself is for evolution in consciousness I think even consecration or surrender will make life take initiative to give the required knowledge, to clear doubts. In our own terms it will be of problems, contraries – that gives worries. Analysis of our worries should reveal the higher determinant required for clarity or to accomplish which is doubtful – skill, capacity, energy, perseverance, patience, etc.
No worries – problems or contradictions or disharmony can be solved, consecrated, or surrendered in the same plane of trouble. For example, we cannot solve the problems crated by the vital in the same plane. We can solve it only by going to higher plane – minimum to mind. Only higher knowledge of the situation, higher skill, higher capacity or higher person or higher attitude or higher part of the Being can solve the problem and clear the worries, bring the happiness.
When we see that problem and worries are for progress, and if we define progress as evolution in consciousness – it is subjecting the lower consciousness to the higher consciousness or allowing higher consciousness controlling the lower consciousness is the thumb rule for Divine Ananda. In that sense, spiritual ease comes from the consecration of the worry – what we understand by mind that there is always a higher determinant -Divine or Spirit. This is subjecting our worry of our mind to the higher aspect – Divine or Spirit. Mind will then convince the vital to shed its emotional disturbance and the released energy will activate the matter for required task.
