In today’s world, we have far more control over our external environment than people in the past had. With technology, we can forecast weather changes and track the arrival of external conveyances like buses, trains, or flights. Despite our increased control over external factors, our anxiety levels seem to have risen. This is because we have invested too much of our identity and self-worth in our control over these external factors. Consequently, based on which particular external factor we have tied our sense of self-worth to, we start experiencing anxiety.

Therefore, the cure for anxiety is not in increasing our external control but in enhancing our inner security and self-worth.

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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.