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= What is Fear ? =
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Fear is a phenomenon of unconsciousness. It is a kind of anguish that comes from ignorance. One does not know the nature of a certain thing, does not know its effect or what will happen, does not know the consequences of one's acts, one does not know so many things; and this ignorance brings fear. One fears what one does not know. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p20</ref><center>~</spancenter<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When an abyss separates the true being from the physical being, Nature fills it up immediately with all kinds of adverse suggestions, the most formidable of which is fear, and the most pernicious, doubt. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/insincerity-pretension-and-self-deception#p20</ref><center>~</spancenter<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is also a terribly contagious collective thing—contagious, it is much more catching than the most contagious of illnesses. You breathe an atmosphere of fear and instantly you feel frightened, without even knowing why or how, nothing, simply because there was an atmosphere of fear. For mystics the best cure as soon as one begins to feel afraid of something is to think of the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happens, within, outside, everywhere—and immediately the fear disappears.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref><center>~</spancenter<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> ... fear is an impurity, one of the greatest impurities, one of those which come most directly from the anti-divine forces which want to destroy the divine action on earth; and the first duty of those who really want to do yoga is to eliminate from their consciousness, with all the might, all the sincerity, all the endurance of which they are capable, even the shadow of a fear. To walk on the path, one must be dauntless, and never indulge in that petty, small, feeble, nasty shrinking back upon oneself, which is fear. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p7</ref></u></span> ==Fear and Religion == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The origin of this divine fear was crude enough in some of the primitive popular religions. It was the perception of powers in the world greater than man, obscure in their nature and workings, which seemed always ready to strike him down in his prosperity and to smite him for any actions which displeased them. Fear of the gods arose from man's ignorance of God and his ignorance of the laws that govern the world. It attributed to the higher powers caprice and human passion; it made them in the image of the great ones of the earth, capable of whim, tyranny, personal enmity, jealous of any greatness in man which might raise him above the littleness of terrestrial nature and bring him too near to the divine nature. With such notions no real devotion could arise, except that doubtful kind which the weaker may feel for the stronger whose protection he can buy by worship and gifts and propitiation and obedience to such laws as he may have laid upon those beneath him and may enforce by rewards and punishments, or else the submissive and prostrate reverence and adoration which one may feel for a greatness, glory, wisdom, sovereign power which is above the world and is the source or at any rate the regulator of all its laws and happenings.</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p3</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The idea of the almighty Judge, Legislator, King, is a crude and imperfect idea of the Divine, when taken by itself, because it takes an inferior and an external truth for the main truth and it tends to prevent a higher approach to a more intimate reality. It exaggerates the importance of the sense of sin and thereby prolongs and increases the soul's fear and self-distrust and weakness. It attaches the pursuit of virtue and the shunning of sin to the idea of rewards and punishment, though given in an after life, and makes them dependent on the lower motives of fear and interest instead of the higher spirit which should govern the ethical being. It makes hell and heaven and not the Divine himself the object of the human soul in its religious living. These crudities have served their turn in the slow education of the human mind, but they are of no utility to the Yogin who knows that whatever truth they may represent belongs rather to the external relations of the developing human soul with the external law of the universe than any intimate truth of the inner relations of the human soul with the Divine; but it is these which are the proper field of Yoga </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p4</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A large number of religious rules which are founded solely on hygienic principles, on medical knowledge, and have been raised into religious principles, for that was the only way to make people observe them. If you are not told that "God wants" that you should do this or that, you would not do it, the majority of men ordinarily do not do it. For instance, that very simple thing—washing your hands before eating; in countries where the civilisation is not quite scientific, some people discovered that in truth it was probably more hygienic to wash the hands first! If they had not made a religious rule, if they hadn't said that "God wanted" that a man wash his hands before eating, otherwise it would be an offence against Him, people would have said: "Oh, why? No, not today, tomorrow. I have no time, I am in a hurry!" But in this way there is that constant fear at the back of their minds that something bad will happen to them due to God's anger. This too is a superstition, a big superstition. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-july-1953#p5</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In religions there is so much fear! Fear: "If I don't do this or that, if I don't cut the throat of a dozen chickens, disastrous things will happen to me all my life through or at least the whole of this year. My children will be ill, I shall lose my job, I won't be able to earn my living; very, very unpleasant things will happen to me.".... And so, let us sacrifice the dozen chickens. But it is not from the desire to kill. It can't be said that it's through cruelty: it's through unconsciousness. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-march-1954#p15</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The moment we come well into these developments and their deeper spiritual meaning, the motive of the fear of God becomes otiose, superfluous and even impossible. It is of importance chiefly in the ethical field when the soul has not yet grown sufficiently to follow good for its own sake and needs an authority above it whose wrath or whose stern passionless judgment it can fear and found upon that fear its fidelity to virtue. When we grow into spirituality, this motive can no longer remain except by the lingering on of some confusion in the mind, some persistence of the old mentality. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p6</ref></u>
== Types of Fear ==
== Types From the ordinary point of Fear ==view, in most cases, it is usually fear—fear, which may be mental fear, vital fear, but which is almost always physical fear, a fear in the cells—is fear which opens the door to all contagion. Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses. And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>From the ordinary point of view, in most cases, it is usually fear—fear, which may be mental fear, vital fear, but which is almost always physical fear, a fear in the cells—is fear which opens the door to all contagion. Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it; vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it, for the cells of the body are afraid of everything that is unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, to overcome that, the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fear that opens the door to illnesses. And I am not speaking of the first two types of fear which, as I said, any human being who wants to be human in the noblest sense of the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a minimum of control over the body, one can lessen its effects, but that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, physical fear in the cells of the body which aggravates all illnesses. ~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref></u></spancenter>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The vital has to be carefully distinguished from mind, even though it has a mind element transfused into it; the vital is the Life nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action, will of desire, reactions of the desire soul in man and of all that play of possessive and other related instincts, anger, fear, greed, lust etc. that belong to this field of the nature. Mind and vital are mixed up on the surface of the consciousness, but they are quite separate forces in themselves and as soon as one gets behind the ordinary surface consciousness one sees them as separate, discovers their distinct action and can with the aid of this knowledge analyse their surface mixtures. It is quite possible and even usual during a time shorter or longer, sometimes very long, for the mind to accept the Divine or the Yogic ideal while the vital is unconvinced and unsurrendered and goes obstinately on its way of desire, passion and attraction to the ordinary life. Their division or their conflict is the cause of most of the more acute difficulties of the sadhana. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-mind#p1</ref></u></span>
===Mental Fear===
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In life it is the action of the subconscious that has the larger share and it acts a hundred times more powerfully than the conscious parts. The normal human condition is a state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of ten it is full of fears—it carries in it fear about many things, big and small, near and far, seen and unseen, and though you do not usually take conscious notice of it, it is there all the same. To be free from all fear can come only by steady effort and discipline. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref></span> <span style="; color: #000000;"center>Fear~</span><span style="color: #000000;"center>Fear, 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></ucenter> ~<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"/center>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>
===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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref><center>~</center>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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref><center>~</center>Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in 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 of the body that the trembling goes on. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p14</spanref><ucenter>~</center>Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the point of catastrophe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/2219-julyjune-19531957#p17p7</ref><center>~</center>...fear is more even of a nervous sensation than an emotion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p8</uref>
<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;">Many people say, "Oh, yes, here I am not afraid." They don't have any fear in the mind, their mind is not afraid, it is strong, it is not afraid; but the body trembles, Fear and one doesn't know it, because it is in the cells of the body that the trembling goes on. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p14</ref></u> <div styleReligion =="color: #000000;">Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to be afraid, not to fear, and a natural harmony in the rhythm of their physical life which enables them to reduce the illness spontaneously to a minimum. There are others, on the other hand, with whom the thing always becomes as bad as it can be, sometimes to the point of catastrophe. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p7</ref></div>
The origin of this divine fear was crude enough in some of the primitive popular religions. It was the perception of powers in the world greater than man, obscure in their nature and workings, which seemed always ready to strike him down in his prosperity and to smite him for any actions which displeased them. Fear of the gods arose from man's ignorance of God and his ignorance of the laws that govern the world. It attributed to the higher powers caprice and human passion; it made them in the image of the great ones of the earth, capable of whim, tyranny, personal enmity, jealous of any greatness in man which might raise him above the littleness of terrestrial nature and bring him too near to the divine nature. With such notions no real devotion could arise, except that doubtful kind which the weaker may feel for the stronger whose protection he can buy by worship and gifts and propitiation and obedience to such laws as he may have laid upon those beneath him and may enforce by rewards and punishments, or else the submissive and prostrate reverence and adoration which one may feel for a greatness, glory, wisdom, sovereign power which is above the world and is the source or at any rate the regulator of all its laws and happenings.<span style="backgroundref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p3</ref><center>~</center>The idea of the almighty Judge, Legislator, King, is a crude and imperfect idea of the Divine, when taken by itself, because it takes an inferior and an external truth for the main truth and it tends to prevent a higher approach to a more intimate reality. It exaggerates the importance of the sense of sin and thereby prolongs and increases the soul's fear and self-color:transparentdistrust and weakness. It attaches the pursuit of virtue and the shunning of sin to the idea of rewards and punishment, though given in an after life, and makes them dependent on the lower motives of fear and interest instead of the higher spirit which should govern the ethical being. It makes hell and heaven and not the Divine himself the object of the human soul in its religious living. These crudities have served their turn in the slow education of the human mind, but they are of no utility to the Yogin who knows that whatever truth they may represent belongs rather to the external relations of the developing human soul with the external law of the universe than any intimate truth of the inner relations of the human soul with the Divine;colorbut it is these which are the proper field of Yoga <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#000000p4</ref><center>~</center>A large number of religious rules which are founded solely on hygienic principles, on medical knowledge, and have been raised into religious principles, for that was the only way to make people observe them. If you are not told that "God wants" that you should do this or that, you would not do it, the majority of men ordinarily do not do it. For instance, that very simple thing—washing your hands before eating;in countries where the civilisation is not quite scientific, some people discovered that in truth it was probably more hygienic to wash the hands first! If they had not made a religious rule, if they hadn't said that ">God wanted" that a man wash his hands before eating, otherwise it would be an offence against Him, people would have said: "Oh, why? No, not today, tomorrow. I have no time, I am in a hurry!" But in this way there is that constant fear at the back of their minds that something bad will happen to them due to God's anger.This too is a superstition, a big superstition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/15-july-1953#p5</ref><center>~</center>In religions there is so much fear is more even ! Fear: "If I don't do this or that, if I don't cut the throat of a nervous sensation than an emotiondozen chickens, disastrous things will happen to me all my life through or at least the whole of this year. My children will be ill, I shall lose my job, I won't be able to earn my living; very, very unpleasant things will happen to me.".... And so, let us sacrifice the dozen chickens. But it is not from the desire to kill. It can't be said that it's through cruelty: it's through unconsciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/06/17-march-1954#p15</spanref><ucenter>~</center>The moment we come well into these developments and their deeper spiritual meaning, the motive of the fear of God becomes otiose, superfluous and even impossible. It is of importance chiefly in the ethical field when the soul has not yet grown sufficiently to follow good for its own sake and needs an authority above it whose wrath or whose stern passionless judgment it can fear and found upon that fear its fidelity to virtue. When we grow into spirituality, this motive can no longer remain except by the lingering on of some confusion in the mind, some persistence of the old mentality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instrumentsgodward-of-the-spiritemotions#p8p6</ref></u>
=Reasons for Why there is Fear ?=
'''Mental Fear'''
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">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.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/26-november-1958#p14</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center>~</center>Fear stems from a sense of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">inferiority</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35</ref>
'''Vital Fear'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p30</ref></u> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center>~</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...what is pleasing gives rise to fear. One who is freed from what is pleasing, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Affection</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; affection gives rise to fear. One who is freed from affection, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Attachment </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; attachment gives rise to fear. One who is freed from attachment, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Desire</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; desire gives rise to fear. One who is freed from desire, who feels no grief, what has he to fear? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Craving</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; craving gives rise to fear. One who is freed from craving, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p4</ref></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center>It 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</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">consciousness dries up</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">more and more, it hardens, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">because it is afraid of grief, afraid of pain.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p12</ref><center>~</center>... hidden somewhere in the inconscient or even in the subconscient, there is this insidious doubt that whispers in your ear: “Oh! if you are not careful, some misfortune will happen to you. If you forget to watch over yourself, you do not know what may happen”—and you are so silly, so silly, so obscure, so stupid that you listen and you begin to pay attention to yourself and everything is ruined.<span style="background-color:transparent;colorref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#000000;"p4</ref><center>~</center>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. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref><center>~</ucenter<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>
'''Physical Fear
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<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. <ref>http://spanincarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</ref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"center>~<u/center>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/0403/1419-marchmay-19511929#p27p19</ref></ucenter>~</spancenter>''Q. What is the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain animals, such as snakes and scorpions?''
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 bodyA.''' But that too must be done. Once you enter the path of Yoga The repulsion you must get rid speak of all fears—the fears of your mindcomes from fear; if there were no fear, the fears of your vital, the fears of your body which are lodged in its very cellsit would not exist. One of the uses of the blows and knocks you receive on the path of Yoga This fear is to rid you of all fear. The causes of your fears leap not based on you again and againreason, until you can stand before them free and indifferentit is instinctive; it is not individual, untouched but racial; it is a general suggestion and pure. One has a fear of belongs to the sea, another fear consciousness of firehumanity as a whole. The latter will findWhen one takes up the human body, one accepts along with it may be, that he has to face conflagration after conflagration till he is so trained that not a cell mass of his body quivers. That these general suggestions, race ideas, race feelings of which you have horror comes repeatedly till the horror is gonemankind, associations, attractions, repulsions, fears. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/1930-mayjune-1929#p19p3</ref>
<div style="color: #000000;">''What is the ground of the repulsion that one instinctively feels towards certain animals, such as snakes and scorpionsHow to Deal with Fear?''</div>=
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">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 now he willed to discover 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, repulsionsexile, fears.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p3</ref>
= How to deal with Fear =The element in him betraying God.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-house-of-the-spirit-and-the-new-creation#p11</ref>
'''Mental Fear'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Every time you indulge your imagination in an unhealthy way, giving a form to your fears and anticipating accidents and misfortunes, you are undermining your own future. On the other hand, the more optimistic your imagination, the greater the chance of your realising your aim. <ref>http://spanincarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref><ucenter>~</center>The world is full of things that are not pleasing or beautiful, but that is no reason why one should live in a constant feeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking and disgust and fear that disturb and weaken the human mind can be overcome. A Yogi has to overcome these reactions; for almost the very first step in Yoga demands that you must keep a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and happenings. Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of the Yogi lies there. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even dangerous and ferocious animals when they confront you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power30-june-1929#p5</ref><center>~</center>But when one can eliminate fear, one is almost in safety. For example, epidemics, or so-called epidemics, like those which are raging at present—ninety-nine times out ofa hundred they come from fear: a fear, then, which even becomes a mental fear in its most sordid form, promoted by newspaper articles, useless talk and so on. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957</ref>If there is one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesses, it is fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-imaginationmarch-1951#p3</ref><center>~</center>Oh! There are many ways of curing oneself of fear. But in reality everyone finds his own way, the one good for him. There are people to whom you have simply to say: "Your fear is a weakness", and they would immediately find the means to look at it with contempt, for they have a horror of weakness. There are others, you tell them: "Fear is a suggestion from hostile forces, you must push it away, as you drive off hostile forces", and this is very effective. For each one it is different. But first of all you must know that fear is a very bad thing, very bad, it is a dissolvent; it is like an acid. If you put a drop of it on something, it eats into the substance. The first step is not to admit the possibility of fear. Yes, that's the first step. I knew people who used to boast about their fear. These are incurable. That is, quite naturally they would say, "Ah, just imagine, I was so frightened!" And then what! It is nothing to be proud of. With such people you can do nothing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p1p37</ref><center>~</center>Now, there is a small remedy which is very very easy. For it is based on a simple personal question of one's common sense.... You must observe yourself a little and say that when you are afraid it is as though the fear was attracting the thing you are afraid of. If you are afraid of illness, it is as though you were attracting the illness. If you are afraid of an accident, it is as though you were attracting the accident. And if you look into yourself and around yourself a little, you will find it out, it is a persistent fact. So if you have just a little common sense, you say: "It is stupid to be afraid of anything, for it is precisely as though I were making a sign to that thing to come to me. If I had an enemy who wanted to kill me, I would not go and tell him: 'You know, it's me you want to kill!'" It is something like that. So since fear is bad, we won't have it. And if you say you are unable to prevent it by your reason, well, that shows you have no control over yourselves and must make a little effort to control yourselves. That is all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p36</uref>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The world is full of things that are not pleasing or beautiful, but that is no reason why one should live in a constant feeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking and disgust and fear that disturb and weaken the human mind can be overcome. A Yogi has to overcome these reactions; for almost the very first step in Yoga demands that you must keep a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and happenings. Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of the Yogi lies there. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even dangerous and ferocious animals when they confront you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p5</ref></span>'''Vital Fear'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...one is cowardly because one is very tamasic and fears having to make an effort. In order not to be cowardly, one must make an effort, begin by an effort, and afterwards it becomes very interesting. But when the best thing is to make the effort to overcome this kind of flight out of oneself. Instead of facing the thing, one can eliminate fearrecoils, runs away, turns one 's back and runs away. For the initial effort is almost in safetydifficult. For exampleAnd so, epidemicswhat prevents you from making an effort is the inert, or so-called epidemicsignorant nature.<center>~</center>As soon as you enter the rajasic nature, you like those which are raging effort. And at present—ninety-nine times out least the one advantage of a hundred rajasic people is that they come from fear: a are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is the fearof effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have started, once you have taken the decision and begun the effort, you are interested. It is exactly the same thing which is the cause of some not liking to learn their lessons, not wanting to listen to the teacher; it is tamasic, thenit is to be asleep, it avoids the effort which even becomes a mental fear must be made in its most sordid formorder to catch the thing and then grasp it and keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the same thing physically, promoted by newspaper articlesit is a somnolence of the being, useless talk and so onan inertia. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0907/1926-junejanuary-19571955#p21</ref><center>~</ucenter><span style="background-color:transparentIf you were in a perfectly harmonious environment where everything was full of a total and perfect goodwill, then evidently you could lay the blame only on yourself. But the difficulties that are within are also without. You can, to a certain extent, establish an inner equilibrium, but you live in surroundings full of imbalance. Unless you shut yourself up in an ivory tower (which is not only difficult but not always recommendable), you are obliged to receive what comes from outside. You give, you receive;color:#000000;">If you give, you receive. It is a perpetual play. Even granting that there is no bad will, there is one mental disorder necessarily contagion. And as I was saying just now, all is contagious, everything. You are looking at the effect of an accident: you absorb a certain vibration. And if you are over-sensitive and, over and above that, you have fear or disgust (which is the same thing, disgust is only a moral expression of a physical fear), the accident can bring about be translated physically in your body. Naturally you will be told that those who have such reactions are in a state of nervous imbalance. It is not quite true. They are persons with an ultra-suprasensitive vital, that is all illnesses, . And it is fearnot always a proof of inferiority, on the contrary! For as you progress spiritually, a certain hypersensitivity of the nerves occurs and if your self-control does not increase along with your sensibility, all kinds of untoward things may happen to you. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0405/3122-marchjuly-19511953#p3p45</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Oh! There are many ways of curing oneself of fear. But in reality everyone finds his own way, the one good for him. There are people to whom you have simply to say: "Your fear is a weakness", and they would immediately find the means to look at it with contempt, for they have a horror of weakness. There are others, you tell them: "'''Physical Fear is a suggestion from hostile forces, you must push it away, as you drive off hostile forces", and this is very effective. For each one it is different. But first of all you must know that fear is a very bad thing, very bad, it is a dissolvent; it is like an acid. If you put a drop of it on something, it eats into the substance. The first step is not to admit the possibility of fear. Yes, that's the first step. I knew people who used to boast about their fear. These are incurable. That is, quite naturally they would say, "Ah, just imagine, I was so frightened!" And then what! It is nothing to be proud of. With such people you can do nothing. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p37</ref></u>''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">NowIf it is a vital fear, there you must reason with yourself and go about it all the same. But if it is a small remedy which physical instinct (that is possible, it happens very very easy. For it often that there is based on a simple personal question kind of one's common sense.... You must observe yourself a little and say physical instinct), in that when case you are afraid must listen to it is as though , for the fear was attracting instinct of the body is a very sure thing you are afraid of. If you are afraid of illness, if it is as though you were attracting the illnessnot disturbed by thought or vital will. The body left to itself knows very well what it can and what it cannot do. If And not only that but even a thing that one can do and does usually, if one day you are afraid feel a sort of an accidentrepulsion, it is as though if you were attracting the accident. And if you look into yourself and around yourself a littleshrinking back, you will find must definitely not do it out, ; it is an indication that for some reason or other—a purely material reason of a persistent factdisorder in the functioning of the body—you are not fit to do the thing at that time. So if Then you have just a little common sense, you saymust not do it. <ref>http: "It //incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p19</ref><center>~</center>A strict discipline is stupid needed to be afraid cure the body of anythingfear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, for by yoga that one can overcome this fear. But it is precisely as though I were making a sign to fact that thing to come to meone can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. If I had an enemy who wanted to kill meAnd, you see, I would not go and tell himfrom a certain point of view everything is contagious. <ref>http: '//incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p12</ref><center>~</center>You knowhave no idea of the almost magical effect of staring fearlessly into the eyes of a vital being. Even on earth, if you deal in this way with all those incarnations of the vital powers which we ordinarily call animals, it's me you want to kill!'" It is something like thatare assured of easy mastery. So since fear is badA physical tiger will also flee from you, we won't have itif without the least tremor you look him straight in the eyes. And A snake will never be able to bite you if you say you are unable manage to rivet its gaze to prevent yours without feeling the slightest dread. Merely staring at it by your reason, well, that shows with shaking knees will not help. There must be no disturbance in you: you have no control over yourselves must be calm and must make collected when you catch its gaze as it keeps swaying its head in order to fascinate you into abject fear. Animals are aware of a little effort light in the human eyes which they are unable to control yourselvesbear if it is properly directed towards them. That Man's look carries a power which nullifies them, provided it is allsteady and unafraid. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/14different-kinds-of-octoberspace-1953and-time-fearlessness-on-the-vital-plane#p36p4</ref></u>
'''Vital Fearand Illness'''
<span style="background-colorThe mental, it is very simple:transparent;color:#000000;">thoughts come...one You begin thinking, for example, there is cowardly because one this illness and this illness is very tamasic and fears having contagious, perhaps you are going to make an effort. In order not to be cowardlycatch it, one must make an effortand if you catch it, begin by an effort, and afterwards it becomes very interesting. But the best thing is going to make the effort to overcome this kind of flight out of oneself. Instead of facing the thing, one recoils, runs away, turns one's back be a terrible affair and runs away. For the initial effort what is difficult. And to be done so, as not to catch it?… So the mind begins to tremble: what prevents you from making an effort is the inert, ignorant naturegoing to happen tomorrow? etc.</span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as you enter the rajasic natureThe vital, you like effortfeel it. And You feel it in your sensations. All at least the one advantage of rajasic people is that they are courageous, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It is the fear of effort which makes one cowardly. For once you have startedfeel hot, once you have taken the decision and begun the effortfeel cold, you are interestedperspire or all kinds of unpleasant things happen. It is exactly the same thing which is the cause of some not liking to learn their lessons, not wanting to listen to the teacher; it is tamasic, it is to be asleep, it avoids the effort which must be made in order to catch the thing And then you feel your heart beating fast and suddenly you have fever and then grasp it the circulation stops and keep it. It is half-somnolenceyou become cold. So it is the same thing physically, it is a somnolence of the being, an inertia. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0705/2622-januaryjuly-1955#p211953</ref><center>~</center>
<span style="backgroundNine-color:transparenttenths of the danger in an illness comes from fear. Fear can give you the apparent symptoms of an illness;colorand it can give you the illness too,—its effects can go so far as that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#000000;"p17</ref><center>~</center>If you were in a perfectly harmonious environment where everything was full of a total are ill, your illness is looked after with so much anxiety and perfect goodwillfear, then evidently you could lay are given so much care that you forget to take help from the blame only on yourselfOne who can help you and you fall into a vicious circle and take a morbid interest in your illness. But the difficulties that are within are also without<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/15/worry-and-bother-about-illness#p22</ref><center>~</center>You can, must learn not to identify with your body and treat it as a certain extentyoung child who needs to be convinced that it must not fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/darshan-messages#p7</ref><center>~</center>First, establish an inner equilibriumnot to want to be ill, but you live in surroundings full and then not to be afraid of imbalanceillness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. Unless But you shut yourself up in an ivory tower (which is must not because of fear not only difficult but want it; you must not always recommendable), be afraid; you are obliged must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to receive what comes shelter you from outsideeverything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. You giveWhen you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, you receive; you givenot thinking any longer about the illness, you receiveforgetting that it exists.. It is a perpetual play. Even granting that there is no bad will, there is necessarily contagion. And as I was saying just nowif you know how to do that, all is you may even be in contact with people who have contagiousdiseases, everythingand yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this. You are looking at the effect of an accident<ref>http: you absorb a certain vibration//incarnateword. And if you are overin/cwm/07/11-may-sensitive 1955#p13</ref><center>~</center>Even what the mind and, over will can do with the body in the field proper to the body and above thatits life, you have fear or disgust (which is in the same thingway of physical achievement, bodily endurance, disgust is only a moral expression feats of prowess of all kinds, a lasting activity refusing fatigue or collapse and continuing beyond what seems at first to be possible, courage and refusal to succumb under an endless and murderous physical fear)suffering, these and other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching the accident can be translated physically miraculous are seen in your body. Naturally you will the human field and must be told that those who have such reactions are in reckoned as a state part of our concept of nervous imbalancea total perfection.... It is not quite true<ref>http://incarnateword. They are persons with an ultrain/cwm/09/1-may-suprasensitive vital, 1957#p1</ref><center>~</center>The body must know and be convinced that its essence is all. And it divine and that if no obstacle is not always a proof put in the way of inferiority, on the contrary! For as you progress spirituallyDivine's working, a certain hypersensitivity nothing can harm us. This process must be steadily repeated until all recurrence of fear is stopped. And then even if the nerves occurs illness succeeds in making its appearance, its strength and if your self-control does not increase along with your sensibility, all kinds of untoward things may happen to youduration will be considerably diminished until it is definitively conquered. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0515/22fear-julyand-1953illness#p45p5</ref></u></span>
'''Physical Fearand Death'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If it Generally speaking, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man's progress is fear, a vital fearthat is many-sided, multiform, self-contradictory, you must reason with yourself illogical, unreasoning and go about it often unreasonable. Of all fears the most subtle and the most tenacious is the samefear of death. But if It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it is a physical instinct (that not easy to dislodge. It is possibleobviously made up of several interwoven elements: the spirit of conservatism and the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of consciousness, the recoil before the unknown, the uneasiness caused by the unexpected and the unforeseeable, it happens very often and perhaps, behind all that there is a kind of physical instinct), hidden in that case you must listen to itthe depths of the cells, for the instinct of the body that death is a very sure thingnot inevitable and that, if certain conditions are fulfilled, it can be conquered; although, as a matter of fact, fear in itself is not disturbed by thought or vital willone of the greatest obstacles to that conquest. The body left to itself knows very well For one cannot conquer what one fears, and one who fears death has already been conquered by it can . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and what -the-four-methods-of-conquering-it cannot do. And #p1</ref><center>~</center>When one has to die one dies, and when one has not only that but even a thing that to die, one can do and does usuallynot die. Even when you are in mortal danger, if one day it is not your hour to die, you feel a sort of repulsionwill not die, as and even if you were shrinking backare out of all danger, just a scratch on your foot will be enough to make you must definitely not do it; it is an indication that die, for some reason or other—a purely material reason there are people who have died of a disorder in pin-scratch on the foot—because the functioning time had come. Therefore, fear has no sense. What you can do is to rise to a state of consciousness where you can say, "It is like that, we accept the body—you are fact because it seems to be recognised as an inevitable fact. But I do not need to worry, for it will come only when it must come. So I don't need to feel afraid: when it is not to come, it will not fit come to me, but when it must come to me, it will come. And as it will come to me inevitably, it is better I do not fear the thing at that time. Then you ; on the contrary, one must not do it. </span><span style=accept what is perfectly natural"backgroundThis is a well-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>known remedy, that is to say, very much in use. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/2414-juneoctober-1953#p19p32</ref><center>~</ucenter>Along with the attachment to the body and its works the attachment to life in the body is overcome. For when we feel the physical being to be not ourselves, but only a dress or an instrument, the repulsion to the death of the body which is so strong and vehement an instinct of the vital man must necessarily weaken and can be thrown away. Thrown away it must be and entirely. The fear of death and the aversion to bodily cessation are the stigmas left by his animal origin on the human being. That brand must be utterly effaced. <ref>>http://incarnateword.in/spancwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p10</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A strict discipline is needed to cure the body of fear. The cells themselves tremble. It is only by discipline, by yoga that one can overcome this fear. But it is a fact that one '''How can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see, from a certain point One Overcome Fear of view everything is contagious. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p12</ref></u>Death?'''
Several methods can be used for this purpose. But first of all, a few fundamental notions are needed to help us in our endeavour. The first and most important point is to know that life is one and immortal. The forms are countless, fleeting and brittle. This knowledge must be securely and permanently established in the mind and one must identify one's consciousness as far as possible with the eternal life that is independent of every form, but which manifests in all forms. This gives the indispensable psychological basis with which to confront the problem, for the problem remains. Even if the inner being is enlightened enough to be above all fear, the fear still remains hidden in the cells of the body, obscure, spontaneous, beyond the reach of reason, usually almost unconscious. It is in these obscure depths that one must find it out, seize hold of it and cast upon it the light of knowledge and certitude. <span style="backgroundref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-color:transparent;color:it#000000;"p2</ref><center>~</center>You have …life does not die, but the form is dissolved, and it is this dissolution that the physical consciousness dreads. And yet the form is constantly changing and in essence there is nothing to prevent this change from being progressive. This progressive change could make death no idea longer inevitable, but it is very difficult to achieve and demands conditions that very few people are able to fulfil. Thus the method to be followed in order to overcome the fear of death will differ according to the nature of the almost magical effect case and the state of staring fearlessly the consciousness. These methods can be classified into four principal kinds, although each one includes a large number of varieties; in fact, each individual must develop his own system.The first method appeals to the eyes reason. One can say that in the present state of the world, death is inevitable; a vital beingbody that has taken birth will necessarily die one day or another, and in almost every case death comes when it must: one can neither hasten nor delay its hour. Someone who craves for it may have to wait very long to obtain it and someone who dreads it may suddenly be struck down in spite of all the precautions he has taken. Even on earthThe hour of death seems therefore to be inexorably fixed, if you deal except for a very few individuals who possess powers that the human race in this way with all those incarnations general does not command. Reason teaches us that it is absurd to fear something that one cannot avoid. The only thing to do is to accept the idea of death and quietly do the vital powers which we ordinarily call animalsbest one can from day to day, from hour to hour, you without worrying about what is going to happen. This process is very effective when it is used by intellectuals who are assured accustomed to act according to the laws of easy masteryreason; but it would be less successful for emotional people who live in their feelings and let themselves be ruled by them. A physical tiger will also flee from youNo doubt, these people should have recourse to the second method, if without the least tremor you look him straight method of inner seeking. Beyond all the emotions, in the eyessilent and tranquil depths of our being, there is a light shining constantly, the light of the psychic consciousness. Go in search of this light, concentrate on it; it is within you. A snake With a persevering will never be able you are sure to bite find it and as soon as you if enter into it, you manage awake to rivet its gaze to yours without feeling the slightest dreadsense of immortality. Merely staring at it with shaking knees You have always lived, you will always live; you become wholly independent of your body; your conscious existence does not helpdepend on it; and this body is only one of the transient forms through which you have manifested. There must be Death is no disturbance in longer an extinction, it is only a transition. All fear instantly vanishes and you: you must be walk through life with the calm certitude of a free man.<center>~</center>The third method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and collected when you catch its gaze as it keeps swaying its head in order who have given themselves to fascinate you into abject fearhim. Animals They belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are aware an expression of a light in the human eyes which divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, for they are unable convinced that whatever happens to bear if it them is properly directed towards themalways for their own good. Man's look carries They have a power which nullifies themmystic trust in their God and in their personal relationship with him. They have made an absolute surrender of their will to his and feel his unvarying love and protection, provided it wholly independent of the accidents of life and death. They have the constant experience of lying at the feet of their Beloved in an absolute self-surrender or of being cradled in his arms and enjoying a perfect security. There is steady no longer any room in their consciousness for fear, anxiety or torment; all that has been replaced by a calm and unafraiddelightful bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p3</spanref><ucenter>~</center>There is yet another way to conquer the fear of death, but it is within the reach of so few that it is mentioned here only as a matter of information. It is to enter into the domain of death deliberately and consciously while one is still alive, and then to return from this region and re-enter the physical body, resuming the course of material existence with full knowledge. But for that one must be an initiate. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0312/differentthe-kindsfear-of-spacedeath-and-timethe-fearlessnessfour-onmethods-theof-vitalconquering-planeit#p4p14</ref></u>
'''Fear and Illness'''  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes from fear. Fear can give you the apparent symptoms of an illness; and it can give you the illness too,—its effects can go so far as that. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p17</ref></u>How to Overcome Fears =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you are ill, your illness is looked after with so much anxiety and fear, you are given so much care that you forget to take help from the One who can help you and you fall into a vicious circle and take a morbid interest in your illness. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/worry-and-bother-about-illness#p22</ref></u></span>By Vigilance ==
<span style="backgroundIf you remain vigilant, then with the increase of the Force upholding you, a power of self-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You must learn not control will come, a power to identify with your body see and treat reject the wrong turn or the wrong reaction when it as a young child who needs comes. Fear and unhappiness will not give you that. It is only by this vigilance accompanied by an opening to be convinced the supporting and guiding Force that it must not fearwill come. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1531/darshan-messagesfear#p7p12</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">First, not to want to be ill, and then not to be afraid of illness. You must neither attract it nor tremble. You must not want illness at all. But you must not because of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in the power of the Grace to shelter you from everything, and then think of something else, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two things, refusing the illness with all your will and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear in the cells of the body, and then busying yourself with something else, not thinking any longer about the illness, forgetting that it exists... there, if you know how to do that, you may even be in contact with people who have contagious diseases, and yet you do not catch them. But you must know how to do this. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref></u></span>By Courage ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Even One of the great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fears. You are put face to face with the mind danger you fear and will can do with you fear it no longer. The fear disappears. From the yogic point of view, the point of view of discipline, this is the cure recommended. In the body ancient initiations, especially in Egypt, in order to practise occultism... it was necessary to abolish the fear of death completely. Well, one of the field proper practices of those days was to lay the body neophyte in a sarcophagus and its lifeleave him in there for a few days, in the way of physical achievementas though he were dead. Naturally, bodily endurancehe was not left to die, feats neither of prowess hunger nor suffocation, but still he remained lying there as though he were dead. It seems that cures you of all kindsfear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p22</ref><center>~</center>For that [attack of hostile forces], you must be very vigilant and have a lasting activity refusing fatigue or collapse and continuing beyond what seems little courage, in the sense that at first times you have to be possiblegrip it hard and then pull it out—it hurts a little—and then you throw it out along with the forces you send away. After that, it is finished. And so long as this is not done, courage it comes back and back again; and refusal to succumb under an endless then if one is not in oneself sufficiently courageous or vigilant or persevering, the fourth or fifth time one falls flat and murderous physical sufferingsays: "That's too much, these I have had enough!" So the force installs itself, contented, satisfied with its work; and then you can see it laughing, it enjoys itself immensely, it got what it wanted. Now to send it back again means a very considerable work. But if you follow the other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching method, if you look closely this way: "Well, I am going to catch the miraculous are seen thing that has allowed it to come", you see somewhere within you something rising, wriggling, coming up in response to the evil force which is approaching. That is the human field moment to seize it and must be reckoned as a part of our concept of a total perfection..throw it out with all the rest.<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/05/10-june-1953#p8</ref><center>~</spancenter>"Progress may be slow, falls may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained one is sure to triumph some day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiant consciousness of truth." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0904/125-mayjanuary-19571951#p1p13</ref>
<span style="background=By Being an Example for Children == …set them [children] the right example.... Be yourself what you would like them to be. Give them the example of disinterestedness, patience, self-color:transparentcontrol, constant good humour, the overcoming of one's little personal dislikes, a sort of constant goodwill, an understanding of others' difficulties;color:#000000;">The body must know and be convinced that its essence is divine equality of temper which makes children free from fear, for what makes children deceitful and untruthful, and that if no obstacle even cunning, is put in the way fear of the Divine's workingbeing punished. If they feel secure, they will hide nothing can harm usand you will then be able to help them to be loyal and honest. This process must be steadily repeated until Of all recurrence of fear things the most important is stoppedgood example. <ref>http://incarnateword. And then even if the illness succeeds in making its appearance/cwm/09/10-april-1957#p7</ref><center>~</center>When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, its strength with kindness and duration affection make him understand what was wrong in his movement so that he will not repeat it, but never scold him; a fault confessed must always be considerably diminished until forgiven. You should not allow any fear to come between you and your child; fear is a pernicious means of education: it invariably gives birth to deceit and lying. Only a discerning affection that is definitively conqueredfirm yet gentle and an adequate practical knowledge will create the bonds of trust that are indispensable for you to be able to educate your child effectively.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/education#p8</spanref><ucenter>~</center>The time has come for the old habit of governing by fear to be replaced by the government of love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1513/fear-and-illnessindia#p5p194</ref></u>
'''Fear and Death'''== By Reason ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Generally speakingIn order to set out on these paths without fear and without any danger, perhaps one must have organised his being with the greatest obstacle help of reason around the highest centre he consciously possesses, and organised it in the such a way of manthat it is inwardly in his control and he has not to say at every moment, "Ah! I have done this, I don't know why. Ah! That's progress is fearhappened to me, a fear that I don't know why"—and always it is many-sided"I don't know, multiformI don't know, self-contradictoryI don't know", illogicaland as long as it is like that, unreasoning and often unreasonablethe path is somewhat dangerous. Of all fears the most subtle Only when one does what he wants, knows what he wants, does what he wants and the most tenacious is able to direct himself with certitude, without being tossed about by the fear hazards of death. It is deeply rooted in life, then one can go forward on the subconscient suprarational paths fearlessly, unhesitatingly and it is with the least danger. But one need not easy be very old for this to dislodgehappen. It One can begin very young; even a child of five can already make use of reason to control himself; I know it. There is obviously made up of several interwoven elements: enough mental organisation in the spirit of conservatism being in these little tots who look so spontaneous and the concern irresponsible; there is enough cerebral organisation for self-preservation so as them to ensure the continuity of consciousnessorganise themselves, their life, their nature, the recoil before the unknowntheir movements, the uneasiness caused by the unexpected actions and the unforeseeablethoughts with reason. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p55</ref><center>~</center>When one does not have this psychic contact, and perhapsbut is still a reasonable being, behind all thatis, hidden in the depths when one has a free movement of the cellsreasoning mind, the instinct one can use it to reason with, to speak to oneself as one would to a child, explaining that death this fear is not inevitable a bad thing in itself and that, even if certain conditions are fulfilled, it can be conquered; although, as there is a matter of factdanger, to face the danger with fear in itself is one of the greatest obstacles to stupidity. If there is a real danger, it is only with the power of courage that conquestyou have a chance of coming out of it; if you have the least fear, you are done for. For one cannot conquer what one fearsSo with that kind of reasoning, and one who manage to convince the part that fears death has already been conquered by that itmust stop being afraid. <ref>http:/span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-color:transparent;color:1953#0066cc;"p13</ref><ucenter>~</center>Naturally, those in whom the mind predominates can lecture their body and provide it with all the necessary reasons to enable it to overcome its fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/theanswers-fearto-of-death-and-the-four-methods-ofa-conquering-itmonitor#p1p89</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one has to die one dies, and when one has not to die, one does not die. Even when you are in mortal danger, if it is not your hour to die, you will not die, and even if you are out of all danger, just a scratch on your foot will be enough to make you die, for there are people who have died of a pin-scratch on = By Widening the foot—because the time had come. Therefore, fear has no sense. What you can do is to rise to a state of consciousness where you can say, "It is like that, we accept the fact because it seems to be recognised as an inevitable fact. But I do not need to worry, for it will come only when it must come. So I don't need to feel afraid: when it is not to come, it will not come to me, but when it must come to me, it will come. And as it will come to me inevitably, it is better I do not fear the thing; on the contrary, one must accept what is perfectly natural" This is a well-known remedy, that is to say, very much in use. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p32</ref></u>Consciousness ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Along And the truth is that if instead of being shut up in the narrow limits of their little person, they could so widen their consciousness as to be able not only to identify themselves with the attachment others in their narrow limits, but to come out of these limits, pass beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with the body one Consciousness and its works become all things, then, at that moment the attachment narrow limits will vanish, but not before. And as long as one senses the narrow limits, one wants to life in the body take, for one fears to lose. One spends and wants to replenish. It is overcomedue to that, my child. For when we feel if one were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations which come and go expressed the physical being need to merge into everything, to widen oneself, grow, not by remaining within one's limits but coming out of them, and finally to be not ourselvesidentified with everything, one would no longer have anything to lose for one would have everything. Only, one doesn't know this. And so, as one doesn't know, one can't do it. One tries to take, accumulate, accumulate, accumulate, but only that is impossible, one can't accumulate. One must identify oneself. And then, the little bit one gives, one wants to get back: one has a kind thought, one expects some recognition; one gives a dress or an instrumentlittle affection, one expects it from others... for one doesn't have the repulsion ability to become the kind thought in everything, one doesn't have the death of ability to be the affection, the body which is so strong tender love in all things. One feels just like that, all cut up and vehement an instinct of the vital man must necessarily weaken limited, and can fears to lose everything, fears to lose what one has because one would be thrown awayimpoverished. Thrown away it must be and entirelyOn the other hand, if one were able to identify oneself, one would no longer need to pull. The more one spreads out, the more one has. The fear more one gets identified, the more one becomes. And then, instead of death and taking, one gives. And the aversion to bodily cessation are the stigma left by his animal origin on more one gives, the human beingmore one grows. That brand must be utterly effaced<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p27</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"center>~<u/center>Be courageous and do not think of yourself so much. It is because you make your little ego the centre of your preoccupation that you are sad and unsatisfied. To forget oneself is the great remedy for all ills. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2316/theletters-releaseto-from-subjectiona-toyoung-thesadhak-bodyv#p10p1</ref></u></span>
'''How can one overcome fear of death?'''==By Strength and Calm ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> Several methods By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel) [fear can be used for this purpose. But first of all, a few fundamental notions are needed to help us in our endeavoureliminated]. The first Also by will and most important point is to know that life is one and immortal. The forms are countless, fleeting and brittle. This knowledge must be securely and permanently established in the mind and one must identify one's consciousness as far as possible with the eternal life that is independent of every form, but which manifests in all forms. This gives the indispensable psychological basis with which to confront the problem, for imposing calm on the problem remains. Even if system when the inner being is enlightened enough to be above all fear, the fear still remains hidden in the cells of the body, obscure, spontaneous, beyond the reach of reason, usually almost unconsciousarises. It is can be done in these obscure depths that one must find it out, seize hold of it and cast upon it the light of knowledge and certitudeeither way or both together. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1231/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p2p14</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">…life does not die, but the form is dissolved, and it is this dissolution that the physical consciousness dreads. And yet the form is constantly changing and in essence there is nothing to prevent this change from being progressive. This progressive change could make death no longer inevitable, but it is very difficult to achieve and demands conditions that very few people are able to fulfil. Thus the method to be followed in order to overcome the fear of death will differ according to the nature of the case and the state of the consciousness. These methods can be classified into four principal kinds, although each one includes a large number of varieties; in fact, each individual must develop his own system.The first method appeals to the reason. One can say that in the present state of the world, death is inevitable; a body that has taken birth will necessarily die one day or another, and in almost every case death comes when it must: one can neither hasten nor delay its hour. Someone who craves for it may have to wait very long to obtain it and someone who dreads it may suddenly be struck down in spite of all the precautions he has taken. The hour of death seems therefore to be inexorably fixed, except for a very few individuals who possess powers that the human race in general does not command. Reason teaches us that it is absurd to fear something that one cannot avoid. The only thing to do is to accept the idea of death and quietly do the best one can from day to day, from hour to hour, without worrying about what is going to happen. This process is very effective when it is used by intellectuals who are accustomed to act according to the laws of reason; but it would be less successful for emotional people who live in their feelings and let themselves be ruled by them. No doubt, these people should have recourse to the second method, the method of inner seeking. Beyond all the emotions, in the silent and tranquil depths of our being, there is a light shining constantly, the light of the psychic consciousness. Go in search of this light, concentrate on it; it is within you. With a persevering will you are sure to find it and as soon as you enter into it, you awake to the sense of immortality. You have always lived, you will always live; you become wholly independent of your body; your conscious existence does not depend on it; and this body is only one of the transient forms through which you have manifested. Death is no longer an extinction, it is only a transition. All fear instantly vanishes and you walk through life with the calm certitude of a free man.</span>= By Surrender ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The third method is for those who have faith in a God, their GodOne must observe all these things, look at them attentively and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an expression put them one after another in front of the divine will Truth as one can receive it—it is progressive, one receives it purer and purer, stronger and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitudestronger, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. They have a mystic trust in their God more and more clear-sightedly—put all these things before it and in their personal relationship with him. They have made an absolute surrender of their sincerity will to his that this may guide you and feel his unvarying love and protectionnothing else. You do this once, a hundred times, a thousand times, wholly independent millions of the accidents of life times and death. They have the constant experience after years of lying sustained effort you can gradually become aware that at last you are a free being—because this is what's remarkable: that when one is perfectly surrendered to the feet of their Beloved in an absolute self-surrender or of being cradled in his arms Divine one is perfectly free, and enjoying a perfect security. There this is no longer any room in their consciousness the absolute condition for fearfreedom, anxiety or tormentto belong to the Divine alone; you are free from the whole world because you belong only to Him. And this surrender is the supreme liberation, you are also free from your little personal ego and of all things this is the most difficult—and the happiest too, the only thing that has been replaced by can give you a calm constant peace, an uninterrupted joy and delightful blissthe feeling of an infinite freedom from all that afflicts you, dwarfs, diminishes, impoverishes you, and from all that can create the least anxiety in you, the least fear. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1207/the-fear-of20-deathjuly-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it1955#p3p10</ref></u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>There is yet another way to conquer the fear of death, but it is within the reach of so few that it is mentioned here only as a matter of information. It is to enter into the domain of death deliberately and consciously while one is still alive, and then to return from this region and re-enter the physical body, resuming the course of material existence with full knowledge. But for that one must be an initiate. ~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p14</ref></u></spancenter>
= How I think it would be better to Overcome Fears =say that there is a certain state of consciousness—which one can acquire by aspiration and a persistent inner effort—in which joy is unmixed and light shadowless, where all possibility of fear disappears. It is the state in which one does not live for oneself but where whatever one does, whatever one feels, all movements are an offering made to the Supreme, in an absolute trust, freeing oneself of all responsibility for oneself, handing over to Him all this burden which is no longer a burden.It is an inexpressible joy not to have any responsibility for oneself, no longer to think of oneself. It is so dull and monotonous and insipid to be thinking of oneself, to be worrying about what to do and what not to do, what will be good for you and what will be bad for you, what to shun and what to pursue—oh, how wearisome it is! But when one lives like this, quite open, like a[p.256] flower blossoming in the sun before the Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and you have no more worries—that is the ideal condition.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/pleasure#p4</ref>
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The art of living would then consist in maintaining oneself in one's highest state of consciousness and thus allowing one's highest destiny to dominate the others in life and action. So one can say without any fear of making a mistake: be always at the summit of your consciousness and the best will always happen to you. But that is a maximum which is not easy to reach. If this ideal condition turns out to be unrealisable, the individual can at least, when he is confronted by a danger or a critical situation, call upon his highest destiny by aspiration, prayer and trustful surrender to the divine will. Then, in proportion to the sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in the normal destiny of the being and changes the course of events insofar as they concern him personally. It is events of this kind that appear to the outer consciousness as miracles, as divine interventions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p17</ref>
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== Surrender ==The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limits, to educate it, to open it to the Divine Light and to let the Divine Light work in it fully and freely. But the Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear, when you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p8</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>One must observe all these things, look at them attentively and put them one after another in front of the divine Truth as one can receive it—it is progressive, one receives it purer and purer, stronger and stronger, more and more clear-sightedly—put all these things before it and with an absolute sincerity will that this may guide you and nothing else. You do this once, a hundred times, a thousand times, millions of times and after years of sustained effort you can gradually become aware that at last you are a free being—because this is what's remarkable: that when one is perfectly surrendered to the Divine one is perfectly free, and this is the absolute condition for freedom, to belong to the Divine alone; you are free from the whole world because you belong only to Him. And this surrender is the supreme liberation, you are also free from your little personal ego and of all things this is the most difficult—and the happiest too, the only thing that can give you a constant peace, an uninterrupted joy and the feeling of an infinite freedom from all that afflicts you, dwarfs, diminishes, impoverishes you, and from all that can create the least anxiety in you, the least fear. ~</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/20-july-1955#p10</ref></ucenter>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The art of living would then consist in maintaining oneself in one's highest state of consciousness If you have faith and thus allowing one's highest destiny are consecrated to dominate the others in life and action. So one can Divine, there is a very simple way, it is to say without any fear of making a mistake: "Let Your will be always at the summit of your consciousness and the best will always happen to youdone. But that Nothing can frighten me because it is a maximum which is not easy You who are guiding my life. I belong to reachYou and You are guiding my life. If " That acts immediately. Of all the means this ideal condition turns out to be unrealisable, is the individual can at leastmost effective: indeed, when he it is. That is confronted by a danger or a critical situation, call upon his highest destiny by aspiration, prayer and trustful surrender one must be truly consecrated to the divine willDivine. ThenIf one has that, in proportion to it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dream. And the sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in being with the normal destiny of bad influence also disappears like a dream along with the being and changes the course of events insofar as they concern him personallyfear. It is events of this kind that appear to the outer consciousness as miraclesYou should see it running away at full speed, as divine interventions. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>prrt! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1505/3024-decemberjune-19501953#p17p14</ref></u></span>
<span style{|class="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;wikitable">The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limits, to educate it, to open it to the Divine Light and to let the Divine Light work in it fully and freely. But the Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear, when you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you. </span><span style="background-color:transparent#EFEFFF;colorwidth:#0066cc100%;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p8</ref></u></span>|Read Summary of '''[[Fear Summary|Fear]]'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If Dear reader, if you have faith and are consecrated to notice any error in the Divine, there is a very simple way, it is to say: "Let Your will be done. Nothing can frighten me because it is You who are guiding my life. I belong to You and You are guiding my life." That acts immediately. Of all the means this is paragraph numbers in the most effective: indeedhyperlinks, it isplease let us know by dropping an email at integral. That is, one must be truly consecrated to the Divineedu. If one has that, it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dreamin@gmail. And the being with the bad influence also disappears like a dream along with the fear. You should see it running away at full speed, prrt! </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p14</ref></u>com|}
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