Failure in life leads to stress and misery, what should i do?
Q : I never achieved what I wanted in life. I am 40 years old now still facing problems in all walks of life. This failure and these troubles lead to stress, tensions, misery and many other feelings inexplicable by words. What is happening to me? How can I achieve peace of mind and peace in my life? Is there any way in meditation for these sorts of problems? I seek your help, kindly guide me fast.
Aanathi Supiya
Answer Well Aanathi here comes the fast reply. As you as long as you want, you hope to have something, you will suffer. Tension, miseries, stress are co-sisters of want. When you want something, you have already put yourself in a trouble. When you need something, the needs can be fulfilled. But no man or woman has ever fulfilled their wants successfully.
Want is like a pitless bucket. However hard you may try to fill it, it will still continue to be empty. As long as you run in the race to get this, to get that, whenever you will get the object of your desire, you will be happy and whenever your desire will not be fulfilled, you will be unhappy. You will be more unhappy in non-fulfillment of your desire than being happy in the attainment of the same. So my quick advice is, let go of this disease of wanting. Be a normal person and learn to live as simply as you can.
Don't look around, the moment you look around, you want all those things which people have. You want all those houses, cars, diamonds and the jewelry which people have, you wish to have a good husband or the best looking husband, someone else has him and you don’t. Life can not be lived like that. So you have to put a break on your wants and you have to learn to get the true happiness from within. This is the only way to live happily and have calmness in your life.
Gurumaa
