Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, I have fear of my future, I don’t have a lot of money, not much material security. How to overcome this fear?
Acharya Prashant (AP): If you have none of these, then you do not have a future, what are you worried about? If you have no money, no wife or a very small family, very little material at your possession, then do you have a future? What is meant by the future? Something that carries forward from today into tomorrow. You have so little that is carrying forward. You don’t have any worries, what are you worried about? Those who have a lot, have to exist till tomorrow to protect what they have. They not only have stuff, they also have worries related to stuff. The one who has nothing, has nothing to care about, nothing to worry about. Or are you just worrying in imitation of others? "Because it is fashionable to worry, so let me worry as well." You are free, you are blessed.
Q: Okay, I liked what you said in the yellow pamphlet about a lot of our anxiety being due to imagination. So that was good.
AP: And even imagination requires stuff. You cannot imagine with nothing at the center. That which you are, the true self, is not a thing, is not material, so it cannot be at the center of imaginative worries or worried imagination. At the center of worries are things that can be lost to time. Future means time. If you have very little stuff that time can take away, then what are your worries founded on? Take care of today and that’s sufficient. Somebody is extremely happy with you. He has not saddled you with an unnecessary burden.
