The first thing to be understood is that any problem rooted in the mind cannot be solved without transcending the mind. You can postpone the problem, you can bring in a little normality, you can dilute the problem, but you cannot solve it. You can make a person function more efficiently in the society through psychoanalysis, but psychoanalysis never solves a problem. And whenever a problem is postponed, shifted, it creates another problem. It simply changes its place, but remains. A new eruption will come sooner or later, and each time the new eruption of the old problem happens it will become more difficult to postpone and shift it.
Psychoanalysis is a temporary relief, because it cannot conceive of anything that transcends mind. A problem can be solved only when you can go beyond it. IF you cannot go beyond it, then you are the problem. Then who is going to solve it? Then how is one going to solve it? Then you are the problem; the problem is not something separate from you.
Yoga, tantra, and all meditation techniques are based upon a different premise. They say that the problems are there, the problems are around you, but you are never the problem. You can transcend them; You can look at them like an observer looks down from the hill into the valley. The witnessing self can solve the problem. Really, just by witnessing the problem it is half solved already, because when you can witness a problem - when you can observe it impartially, when you are not involved in it – you can stand by the side and look at it. The very clarity that comes out of this witnessing gives you the clue, gives you the secret key. An almost all problems exist because there is not clarity through which to understand them. You do not need solutions, you need clarity.
A problem rightly understood is solved, because a problem arises through a non-understanding mind. You create the problem because you don’t understand so the basic thing is not to solve the problem, the basic thing is to create more understanding and if there is more understanding, more clarity, and the problem encountered impartially – observed as if it does not belong to you, as if it belongs to someone else- if you can create a distance between the problem and you only then can it be solved.