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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">feeling of the vital</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">that it will have to cease to be </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">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,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">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.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p36</ref>
== What is Physical Fear==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Physically, well... When you do not any longer have the other two fears[mental and vital fears], you can become aware of the physical fear. Generally, the other two are much more conscious. They hide the physical fear from you. But when you have no longer any mental or vital fear, then you become aware of it. It is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they begin shivering that way. But the cells are not like a heart beating very fast. It is in the very cells: they tremble with just a slight quivering. And it is very difficult to control this. Yet it can be controlled. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref></u>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Some people are especially afraid of fire, some especially fear water, others have a special fear of one animal or another. It comes from a disharmony between the vital vibrations. And then it is translated in this body-unconsciousness by fear. The body is a terribly unconscious thing. How one has to work to give it just a very little consciousness! It lives automatically, by habit. It is terribly unconscious. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Because Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the large majority of menmind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body receives its inspirations from the subconscienttrembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is under in the influence cells 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 body that the subconscient and uprooted from theretrembling goes on. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0407/1411-marchmay-19511955#p27p14</ref></u></span>
<span div style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If it is a vital Some people are spontaneously free from fear, you must reason with yourself and go about it all the same. But if it is a physical instinct (that is possible, it happens very often that there is a kind of physical instinct), even in that case you must listen to it, for the instinct of the their body is ; they have a very sure thing, if it is sufficient vital equilibrium in them not disturbed by thought or vital will. The body left to itself knows very well what it can and what it cannot do. And not only that but even a thing that one can do and does usually, if one day you feel a sort of repulsion, as if you were shrinking backbe afraid, you must definitely not do it; it is an indication that for some reason or other—a purely material reason of a disorder in the functioning of the body—you are not fit to do the thing at that time. Then you must not do it. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p19</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are physical movements, effects of the pressure of the Yoga, which sometimes create ungrounded fears that may do harm if the fear is not rejected. There is, for instance, and a certain pressure natural harmony in the head rhythm of their physical life which there has been question and which is felt by many, especially in enables them to reduce the earlier stages, when something that is still closed has illness spontaneously to opena minimum. It is a discomfort that comes to nothing and can easily be got over, if you know that it is an effect of the pressure of the forces to which you There are openingothers, when they work strongly on the body to produce a result and to hasten the transformation. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p18</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Physically, well... When you do not any longer have the other two fears[mental and vital fears]hand, you can become aware of with whom the physical fear. Generally, the other two are much more conscious. They hide the physical fear from you. But when you have no longer any mental or vital fear, then you become aware of it. It is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they begin shivering that way. But the cells are not like a heart beating very fast. It is in the very cells: they tremble with just a slight quivering. And it is very difficult to control this. Yet thing always becomes as bad as it can be controlled. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in sometimes to the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells point of the body that the trembling goes oncatastrophe. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0709/1119-mayjune-19551957#p14p7</ref></udiv>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...fear is more even of a nervous sensation than an emotion. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p8</ref></u>
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Reason for Physical Fear ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</ref></u></span>
<div style="color: #000000;">''What is the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain animals, such as snakes and scorpions?''</div>
== How to deal with Physical Fear ==
= Different Ways of Overcoming Fear =