Ashtavakra Gita Verse 11.5
चिन्तया जायते दुःखं नान्यथेहेति निश्चयी। तया हीनः सुखी शान्तः सर्वत्र गलितस्पृहः॥५॥
5. He who has understood with certitude that it is anxiety and nothing else that brings sorrow in the world, becomes free from it and is happy and peaceful everywhere with his desires melted away.
Sorrow itself is a mental condition of agitation; the more the agitations, the more the sorrow. Where agitations have ceased, mind has become calm and this alone is the condition of happiness. Therefore, anxiety is that which breeds the sorrows of life.
One, who learns to leave all anxieties regarding the future and lives in utter contentment rooted in one’s own understanding, discovers instant happiness and peace. All his desires melt away as he is no more hoping to discover happiness through the gratification of any desire in himself.
Anxieties can raise storms in the mind only when one allows one’s mind to get identified with the world of objects outside. Soon the mind cultivates an attachment with the objects. That attachment intensifies to crystallise into a desire for those objects. The desire poisons the mind and it starts bleeding with its endless sorrows.
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