Today, countless people find themselves exhausted to the core. Burnout has become one of the quietest, most deceptive illnesses of our age — a shadow that even touches children and the young. It is a clear signal that something in our collective way of living has drifted far from its natural rhythm. The modern world places a weight upon the human heart that no heart was ever meant to carry. We have woven value into possessions, as if status, power, and ego could tell us who we are. This creates competition, economic struggle, and a subtle fear that never fully leaves the body. The survival of companies seems to matter more than the well-being of the people who give them life. Yet in truth, structures should serve the human being — never the other way around.
The worth we assign to material things must soften, so it can no longer distort our humanity. Gold and gemstones are simply metal and stone — beautiful, yes, but nothing more than that. A simple life, lived together, in harmony with nature and all her beings, without rivalry, without the hunger to outshine — rooted in compassion, in sharing, in quiet dignity — becomes possible when more and more people begin to open, and gently loosen their grip on the society as we currently know it.
It is an illusion to expect the world to change overnight. But when each of us begins within, looks honestly into the depths, and allows reflection to soften the inner landscape, that alone is already a profound turning. You will meet others who feel the same, who walk in the same direction. And this circle will grow — slowly, steadily — until its voice can no longer be ignored and the time for a new era quietly arrives.
And burnout — the illness with which this reflection began — will then fade into the past.
With our best wishes for profound peace
Sannyasin Anamika
