<span style="; color: #000000;">Fear</span><span style="color: #000000;">, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind; born of its sense of division and limitation, they cease with the falsehood that begot them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/gnosis-and-ananda#p16</ref></span>
= Vital Fear =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">..the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many vital energies…
</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-vital-being-and-vital-consciousness#p10</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fear is again that of the physical consciousness or of the vital element in it—it is afraid if it gives up desire that it will lose everything—or everything it wants—and gain nothing in exchange or at least nothing it wants. It does not realise that it will get something far greater and more powerful and happy in place of this troubled desire and its doubtful and precarious fruits—for it has been accustomed to think of desire as the only possible motive of life. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p56</ref></u>
== Reason for Vital Fear ==