15 July 2014 - QA 9

Why is worthlessness and helplessness so uncomfortable. Why is there a constant need to become worthy or important? How to shed this?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:

If you are not useful on this planet, nature would have taken you away a long time ago. Nature is very intelligent, and if nature has kept you here, there is some use for you, so don’t be too hard on yourself.
Each one of you is capable of doing something, and whatever you can do keep doing it. From time to time, see if you can extend yourself a little more. By this your capacity to do will also increase.