Spiritual anxiety

Expressions researched:
"spiritual anxiety"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill.

Lecture on BG 16.11-12 -- Hawaii, February 7, 1975: Therefore gopīs are exalted. Ramya kecid upāsanā vraja-vadhu-varga vīrya kalpita. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu He recommends, "There is no better type of worshiping Kṛṣṇa than it was planned by the gopīs." So there is also anxiety. So anxiety is spiritual anxiety and material anxiety. Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill. So cintām aparimeyāṁ ca.

1976 Conversations and Morning Walks

Then spiritual anxiety begins. When this is neutralized, then actual life begins. That is bhakti.

Morning Walk -- April 26, 1976, Melbourne: Prabhupāda: That is material, śocati, kāṅkṣati. But in spiritual world the same śocati, kāṅkṣati, is there, but for Kṛṣṇa. First of all you have to negate the material śocati, kāṅkṣati. Then spiritual, mad-bhaktiṁ labhate parām. Beginning is brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati, samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu [Bg. 18.54]. Then spiritual anxiety begins. When this is neutralized, then actual life begins. That is bhakti. Otherwise what is the mean...? Mad-bhaktim. In bhakti there is anxiety. That is spiritual anxiety.