Question: How does one stay calm?
Speaker: What takes away calmness? When you are sleeping, deeply, then are you calm? You are asking, “How does one stay calm?” Aren’t you calm when you are in deep sleep?
Listeners: Yes.
Speaker: You are calm. And then you wake up, and you become anxious.
Listener 1: It is because of the thoughts.
Speaker: It is because of the world. You can become anxious even while sleeping. In sleep if you are anxious, it is because while sleeping there are dreams. So if the world intrudes even in your sleep, then you become restless even while sleeping. The world itself is the reason for anxiety, for losing your calmness.
Do not allow anything worldly to become too important for you. I know that it is not easy. It is because we have practiced the opposite since many years. It is easy, but we have lost that ease. Till the time anything is important to you, tension, nervousness, panic, anxiousness are inevitable. The world itself is the reason.
