... FEAR ...
|| Om Om Om ||
WISDOM FOR DAILY DOINGS ...
FEAR
Fear is a great human curse. It is your worst enemy. Fear assumes
many forms and blights many lives. But a calm mind brings courage.
Then you will face the trials and difficulties of the spiritual path
without fear. Fearlessness is a divine quality. What is fear? It is
an imaginary zero; it is maya's deception. It is a mental delusion.
It is a negative modification that arises in the mind-lake when one
forgets his real, divine nature. It is a whirlpool that emanates from
the citta (mind) when one has lost his power of vicara (enquiry) and
discrimination. It is the dark wave that proceeds from the ocean of
antahkarana (mind) when one has intense attachment to the body.
Friends, there is nothing to fear really. Fear is due to acceptance
of suggestion. Victory over fear really means victory over the thing
that we fear. We attract to ourselves the very things we are afraid
of. That is the universal law of nature. You need not be afraid of
anything else in this world save fear itself.
Auto-suggestion helps a lot in removing fear. Assert the truth of
being. Assert, "Nothing in the three worlds can make me afraid. I am
absolutely fearless. My will is strong and irresistible." Make
friends with the threatened experience, or the things you do not
like. The raja yoga method is to repeat the formula: "I am
courageous" or "OM courage". In the morning meditate on the virtue
of courage.
The devotee's method is to pray to God with faith and sincerity and
to make perfect self-surrender: "O God, make me fearless. Grant me
the virtue of courage. O Mother take thy son in thy lap. Thou art
fear; thou art courage. Let me see thee alone in all these forms".
Feel the invisible helping hand of the ishta devata (your own deity).
Have strong faith. Real strength lies in fearlessness. Remove fear of
all sorts.
The vedantic method is to enquire: "Who am I?" Identify yourself with
the inner self. Assert: "I am the embodiment of courage - I am
immortal atman - I am not this perishable body. Who is to fear whom
when all this is the self?" This will destroy fear to its very root.
How peaceful and strong are they who have victory over fear. May we
all shine in divine glory, radiating courage all around. May the
divine splendour, the brahmic aura shine in all faces and remove the
darkness of fear, ignorance and terror. May we all attain that state
of absolute fearlessness - brahmi sthiti (the state of Brahman). May
we become one with the fearless Brahman.
-- Swami Sivananda Saraswathy
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