Anxiety is caused not so much by the lack of ability to control our externals as by the lack of security when we lack the power to control our externals. Whenever things seem to be going beyond our control, we often feel anxious, but different people feel different degrees of anxiety in similar situations. Why is that? Because their internal sense of security is different. When someone is very attached to something external and their sense of self-worth is tied to that external situation, then loss of control in that situation seems like a death of their self-worth and self-identity, and that’s why the anxiety becomes disproportionate for them. By gaining inner security through spirituality, we can lessen the anxiety that we face in our lives.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.