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Where is the anger, fear, anxiety, happiness, sadness or depression?

The simplest answer is – within us. In our minds. Not in external reality. Let’s understand this. Imagine your favorite food item – a jar full of butter chicken or rich creamy chocolate or chole bhature. Whatever it is. Can you remember its taste and the fulfillment it provided when you had it last. You absolutely loved it, right? Now imagine having the same dish just after a personal tragedy – an ugly breakup or a bitter fight or a missed promotion. Does it still feel that delicious? No, right! Mostly, you don’t feel like eating only at that point of time right and even if you do, it tastes like any other food item you would have had. The butter chicken was exactly the same in reality. But it didn’t feel the same at all, right? Because your perception was clouded by the negativity in your mind. What if exactly this phenomenon is happening with you 24 hours of the day? What if you never experience reality as it is but just respond to mental storie...