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'''Mental Fear'''

~~~~In fact, the vast majority of men are like prisoners with all the doors and windows closed, so they suffocate, which is quite natural. But they have with them the key that opens the doors and windows, and they do not use it.... Certainly there is a time when they don't know they have the key, but long after they have come to know it, long after they have been told about it, they hesitate to use it and doubt whether it has the power to open the doors and windows or even that it is a good thing to open them! And even when they feel that "after all, it might be good", there remains some fear: "What will happen when these doors and windows are opened?..." and they are afraid. They are afraid of being lost in that light and freedom. They want to remain what they call "themselves". They like their falsehood and their bondage. Something in them likes it and goes on clinging to it. They still have the impression that without their limits they would no longer exist.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/26-november-1958#p14</ref>

~~~~Fear stems from a sense of ~~~~inferiority~~~~.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35</ref>

'''Vital Fear'''

~~~~There are three reasons. First, an excessive concern about one's security. Next, what one does not know always gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by fear. And above all, one doesn't have the habit of a spontaneous trust in the Divine. If you look into things sufficiently deeply, this is the true reason. There are people who do not even know that That exists, but one could tell them in other words, "You have no faith in your destiny" or "You know nothing about Grace"—anything whatever, you may put it as you like, but the root of the matter is a lack of trust. If one always had the feeling that it is the best that happens in all circumstances, one would not be afraid. ~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p30</ref~~></u~~>

~~ ~~ ...what is pleasing gives rise to fear. One who is freed from what is pleasing, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?~~~~Affection~~ ~~gives rise to grief; affection gives rise to fear. One who is freed from affection, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?~~~~Attachment ~~~~gives rise to grief; attachment gives rise to fear. One who is freed from attachment, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? ~~~~Desire~~ ~~gives rise to grief; desire gives rise to fear. One who is freed from desire, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? ~~~~Craving~~ ~~gives rise to grief; craving gives rise to fear. One who is freed from craving, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?~~ <ref>~~http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#~~p4</ref>It~~ p4It always seems to me that the reasons usually given for becoming wise are poor reasons: "Don't do this, it will bring you suffering; don't do that, it will give birth to fear in you"... and the~~ ~~consciousness dries up~~ ~~more and more, it hardens, ~~~~because it is afraid of grief, afraid of pain.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p12</ref>

~~~~Love and hatred, hope and fear, grief and joy all have their founts in this one source. We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in whatever our nature, the first habit of our being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, the second nature of our being, presents to the mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the correction. ~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref~~></u~~>

~~~~But is the Divine then something so terrible, horrible or repellent that the idea of its entry into the physical, its divinising of the human should create this shrinking, refusal, revolt or fear? I can understand that the unregenerate vital attached to its own petty sufferings and pleasures, to the brief ignorant drama of life, should shrink from what will change it. But why should a God-lover, a God-seeker, a sadhak fear the divinisation of the consciousness! Why should he object to becoming one in nature with what he seeks, why should he recoil from sādṛśya-mukti? Behind this fear there are usually two causes: first, there is the ~~~~feeling of the vital~~ ~~that it will have to cease to be ~~~~obscure, crude, muddy, egoistic, unrefined (spiritually), full of stimulating desires and small pleasures and interesting sufferings (for it shrinks even from the Ananda which will replace them); next, there is some vague ignorant idea of the mind,~~ ~~due, I suppose, to the ascetic tradition, that the divine nature is something cold, bare, empty, austere, aloof, without the glorious riches of the egoistic human vital life.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p36</ref>

'''Physical Fear

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~~~~Because in the large majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the subconscient, it is under the influence of the subconscient. All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have to be chased out from the subconscient and uprooted from there. ~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</ref~~></span~~>

And even if by discipline and effort you have liberated your mind and your vital of apprehension and fear, it is '''more difficult to convince the body.''' But that too must be done. Once you enter the path of Yoga you must get rid of all fears—the fears of your mind, the fears of your vital, the fears of your body which are lodged in its very cells. One of the uses of the blows and knocks you receive on the path of Yoga is to rid you of all fear. The causes of your fears leap on you again and again, until you can stand before them free and indifferent, untouched and pure. One has a fear of the sea, another fear of fire. The latter will find, it may be, that he has to face conflagration after conflagration till he is so trained that not a cell of his body quivers. That of which you have horror comes repeatedly till the horror is gone. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p19</ref>

~~<div style="color: #000000;">~~''What is the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain animals, such as snakes and scorpions?''~~</div>~~

~~~~The repulsion you speak of comes from fear; if there were no fear, it would not exist. This fear is not based on reason, it is instinctive; it is not individual, but racial; it is a general suggestion and belongs to the consciousness of humanity as a whole. When one takes up the human body, one accepts along with it a mass of these general suggestions, race ideas, race feelings of mankind, associations, attractions, repulsions, fears.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p3</ref>

= How to deal with Fear =

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