चिंता ऐसी डाकिनी, काट कलेजा खाय I बैद बिचारा क्या करे, कहां तक दवा लगाए II
Worry and pyre have one thing in common: they both burn the body. But the difference is that a pyre burns the dead body whilst the worry burns the alive body. In a futile bid to satisfy the never-ending "hunger and thirst" of the senses we live with anxiety day and night. More the material wealth or possessions we have more worry. On the other hand, one who has little, wanders around in anxiety searching for more. Hence both "haves" and "have-nots" worry and suffer. Worry can be likened to a swing, which will give you something to do but it won't get you anywhere. Instead of living in the eternity of the present moment, we worry about the past and the future knowing well that worry can't change the past but it can certainly ruin the Now. Similarly worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
"Kabir says, for every worry under the sun, there is a remedy or there is none. If there be one, hurry and find it. If there be none, then never mind it.”
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