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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>~</center>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>~</center>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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref><center>~</spancenter>... 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p7</ref>

<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 = Types 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></span>Fear ==

<span style="background-color:transparentFrom 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;color:#000000;">Fear vital fear is also more subtle and asks for a terribly contagious collective thing—contagiousgreater control; as for physical fear, a veritable yoga is necessary to overcome it is much more catching than , for the most contagious cells of illnesses. You breathe an atmosphere the body are afraid of fear everything that is unpleasant, painful, and instantly you feel frightenedas soon as there is any unease, without even knowing why or howif it is insignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then, nothingto overcome that, simply because there was an atmosphere the control of a conscious will is necessary. It is usually this kind of fearthat opens the door to illnesses. For mystics And I am not speaking of the best cure first two types of fear which, as soon as one begins I said, any human being who wants to feel afraid be human in the noblest sense of something the word, must overcome, for that is cowardice. But physical fear is more difficult to think overcome; without it even the most violent attacks could be repelled. If one has a minimum of control over the Divine and then snuggle in his arms or at his feet and leave him entirely responsible for everything that happensbody, withinone can lessen its effects, outsidebut that is not immunity. It is this kind of trembling of material, everywhere—and immediately physical fear in the fear disappearscells of the body which aggravates all illnesses.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/1419-octoberjune-19531957#p38p6</ref></span>

<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;">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>==Mental Fear===

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. <span style="; colorref>http: //incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#000000;"p18</ref>Fear</spancenter>~<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>

== Reason for Mental =Vital Fear ===

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">==Physical 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>=

== How to deal with Mental Fear==  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Every time Physically, well... When you indulge your imagination in an unhealthy way, giving a form to your do not any longer have the other two fears [mental and anticipating accidents and misfortunesvital fears], you are undermining your own futurecan become aware of the physical fear. On Generally, the other hand, the two are much more optimistic your imagination, conscious. They hide the greater the chance of your realising your aimphysical fear from you. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref></u> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The world is full of things that are not pleasing But when you have no longer any mental or beautifulvital fear, but that then you become aware of it. It is no reason why one should live in a constant feeling of repulsion for these things. All feelings of shrinking curious little vibration that gets into your cells and disgust and fear they begin shivering that disturb and weaken way. But the human mind can be overcomecells are not like a heart beating very fast. A Yogi has to overcome these reactions; for almost It is in the very first step in Yoga demands that you must keep cells: they tremble with just a perfect equanimity in the presence of all beings and things and happeningsslight quivering. Always you must remain calm, untouched and unmoved; the strength of the Yogi lies thereAnd it is very difficult to control this. An entire calmness and quietness will disarm even dangerous and ferocious animals when they confront youYet it can be controlled. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/3022-junejuly-19291953#p5p17</ref><center>~</spancenter> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">But when one can eliminate Some people are especially afraid of fire, some especially fearwater, others have a special fear of one is almost in safetyanimal or another. For example, epidemics, or so-called epidemics, like those which are raging at present—ninety-nine times out of a hundred they come It comes from fear: a fear, disharmony between the vital vibrations. And then, which even becomes a mental fear it is translated in its most sordid form, promoted this body-unconsciousness by newspaper articles, useless talk and so onfear. </span><u><ref>http://incarnatewordThe body is a terribly unconscious thing.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957</ref></u><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If there is How one mental disorder which can bring about all illnesseshas to work to give it just a very little consciousness! It lives automatically, it by habit. It is fearterribly unconscious. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0406/3110-march-19511954#p3p24</ref></ucenter>~</spancenter> <span style=Many people say, "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 himyes, here I am not afraid. There are people to whom you " They don't have simply to say: "Your any fear in the mind, their mind is a weakness"not afraid, 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 forcesstrong, you must push it away, as you drive off hostile forces"is not afraid; but the body trembles, and this is very effective. For each one it is different. But first of all you must doesn't 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, because it eats into the substance. The first step is not to admit in the possibility cells of fear. Yes, the body 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 nothingtrembling goes on. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0507/1411-octobermay-19531955#p37p14</ref><center>~</ucenter> <span style="background-color:transparentSome people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body;color:#000000;">Now, there is they have 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 sufficient vital equilibrium in them not to be afraid it is as though the , not to fear was attracting , and a natural harmony in the thing you are afraid rhythm of. If you are afraid of illness, it is as though you were attracting their physical life which enables them to reduce the illnessspontaneously to a minimum. If you There are afraid of an accidentothers, it is as though you were attracting on the accident. And if you look into yourself and around yourself a littleother hand, 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 with whom the thing always becomes 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 as it. And if you say you are unable to prevent it by your reasoncan be, well, that shows you have no control over yourselves and must make a little effort sometimes to control yourselves. That is allthe point of catastrophe. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0509/1419-octoberjune-19531957#p36p7</ref><center>~</ucenter> = Vital Fear = <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">..the central vital which .fear is the seat more even of the stronger vital longings and reactions, ea nervous sensation than an emotion.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/2824/the-vitalinstruments-beingof-and-vitalthe-consciousness#p10</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fear is again that of the physical consciousness or of the vital element in it—it is afraid if it gives up desire that it will lose everything—or everything it wants—and gain nothing in exchange or at least nothing it wants. It does not realise that it will get something far greater and more powerful and happy in place of this troubled desire and its doubtful and precarious fruits—for it has been accustomed to think of desire as the only possible motive of life. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desirespirit#p56p8</ref></u> == Reason for 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>=Fear and Religion ==

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><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.what is pleasing gives rise 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 fearthe divine nature. One who is freed from what is pleasing, who feels With such notions no griefreal devotion could arise, what has 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 fear?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.<ref>http:/span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-color: transparent; color: emotions#000000;">Affectionp3</spanref><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center> ~</spancenter><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; affection gives rise to fear. One who The idea of the almighty Judge, Legislator, King, is freed from affectiona crude and imperfect idea of the Divine, who feels no griefwhen taken by itself, what has he 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?</span><span style="backgroundand self-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Attachment </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise to grief; attachment gives rise 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 fearand interest instead of the higher spirit which should govern the ethical being. One who is freed from attachmentIt 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 feels no grief, what has he knows that whatever truth they may represent belongs rather to fear? 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 <ref>http://span><span style="backgroundincarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-color: transparent; color: emotions#000000;">Desirep4</spanref><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center> ~</spancenter><span style=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 "background-color: transparent; color: #000000;God wants">gives rise to griefthat 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; desire gives rise to fear. One who in countries where the civilisation is freed from desirenot quite scientific, who feels no griefsome people discovered that in truth it was probably more hygienic to wash the hands first! If they had not made a religious rule, what has he to fear? </span><span style=if they hadn't said that "background-color: transparent; color: #000000;God wanted">Craving</span><span style="background-colorthat a man wash his hands before eating, otherwise it would be an offence against Him, people would have said: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style=Oh, why? No, not today, tomorrow. I have no time, I am in a hurry!"background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">gives rise But in this way there is that constant fear at the back of their minds that something bad will happen to grief; craving gives rise them due to fearGod's anger. One who This too is freed from cravinga superstition, who feels no grief, what has he to fear?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"> a big superstition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/pleasure15-july-1953#p4p5</ref></spancenter>~<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"/center>It always seems to me that the reasons usually given for becoming wise are poor reasonsIn religions there is so much fear! Fear: "DonIf I don't do thisor that, it 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 bring you suffering; donbe ill, I shall lose my job, I won't do thatbe able to earn my living; very, it very unpleasant things will give birth happen to fear in youme."... and . And so, let us sacrifice the dozen chickens. But it is not from thedesire to kill. It can't be said that it's through cruelty: it's through unconsciousness. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-march-color: transparent; color: 1954#000000;">consciousness dries upp15</spanref><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center> ~</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"center>more The moment we come well into these developments and moretheir 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 hardenswhose wrath or whose stern passionless judgment it can fear and found upon that fear its fidelity to virtue. When we grow into spirituality, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">because it is afraid this motive can no longer remain except by the lingering on of griefsome confusion in the mind, afraid some persistence of painthe old mentality.</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0324/pleasurethe-godward-emotions#p12p6</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></u>Why there is 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 the best thing is 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 and runs away. For the initial effort is difficult. And so, what prevents you from making an effort is the inert, ignorant nature.</span>''Mental Fear'''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as you enter In fact, the rajasic nature, you vast majority of men are like effort. And at least prisoners with all the one advantage of rajasic people is that doors and windows closed, so they are courageoussuffocate, whereas tamasic people are cowards. It which is the fear of effort which makes one cowardlyquite natural. For once you But they have started, once you have taken with them the key that opens the decision doors and begun the effortwindows, you are interestedand they do not use it.... It Certainly there is exactly a time when they don't know they have the same thing which is the cause of some not liking key, but long after they have come to learn their lessonsknow it, long after they have been told about it, not wanting they hesitate to listen use it and doubt whether it has the power to open the teacher; doors and windows or even that it is tamasica good thing to open them! And even when they feel that "after all, it is to might be asleepgood", it avoids the effort which must be made 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 order that light and freedom. They want to catch the thing remain what they call "themselves". They like their falsehood and then grasp their bondage. Something in them likes it and keep goes on clinging to it. It is half-somnolenceThey still have the impression that without their limits they would no longer exist. So it is the same thing physically, it is a somnolence of the being, an inertia<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/09/26-november-1958#p14</ref><center>~</spancenter>Fear stems from a sense of inferiority. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0712/26-january-1955students#p21p35</ref>

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 style="backgroundref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-color:transparent;color:1951#000000;"p27</ref><center>~</center>PhysicallyAnd even if by discipline and effort you have liberated your mind and your vital of apprehension and fear, wellit is more difficult to convince the body.But that too must be done.. When Once you do not any longer have enter the other two path of Yoga you must get rid of all fears—the fears[mental and vital of your mind, the fears], you can become aware of the physical fear. Generallyyour vital, the other two fears of your body which are much more consciouslodged in its very cells. They hide One of the physical uses of the blows and knocks you receive on the path of Yoga is to rid you of all fear from . The causes of your fears leap on you again and again, until youcan stand before them free and indifferent, untouched and pure. But when you have no longer any mental or vital One has a fearof the sea, then you become aware another fear of fire. The latter will find, it. It may be, that he has to face conflagration after conflagration till he is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they begin shivering so trained that way. But the cells are not like a heart beating very fastcell of his body quivers. It is in That of which you have horror comes repeatedly till the very cells: they tremble with just a slight quivering. And it horror is very difficult to control this. Yet it can be controlledgone. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0503/2219-julymay-19531929#p17p19</ref><center>~</ucenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Some people are especially afraid ''Q. What is the ground 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 repulsion that one has to work to give it just a very little consciousness! It lives automaticallyinstinctively feels towards certain animals, by habit. It is terribly unconscious. </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>such as snakes and scorpions?''

<span style="background-color:transparent''A.'' The repulsion you speak of comes from fear;color:#000000;">Many people sayif there were no fear, "Oh, yes, here I am it would not afraidexist." They don't have any This fear in the mind, their mind is not afraidbased on reason, it is strong, instinctive; it is not afraidindividual, but racial; but it is a general suggestion and belongs to the consciousness of humanity as a whole. When one takes up the human body trembles, and one doesn't know accepts along with ita mass of these general suggestions, because it is in the cells race ideas, race feelings of the body that the trembling goes onmankind, associations, attractions, repulsions, fears. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0703/1130-mayjune-19551929#p14p3</ref></u>

<div style="color: #000000;">Some people are spontaneously free from fear even in their body; they have a sufficient vital equilibrium in them not How 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, Deal 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>Fear? =

== Reason for Physical Fear == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Because The element 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 therehim betraying God. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0433/14the-house-of-the-spirit-and-the-marchnew-1951creation#p27p11</ref></u></span>

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

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://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/power-of-imagination#p1</ref><center>~<div style=/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/03/30-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 of a 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-march-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"color, 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: #000000"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#p37</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''What 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 ground illness. If you are afraid of an accident, it is as though you were attracting the repulsion 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 one instinctively feels towards certain animalsthing to come to me. If I had an enemy who wanted to kill me, such as snakes I would not go and scorpions?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</divref>

== How ...one is cowardly because one is very tamasic and fears having to deal 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 the best thing is 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 and runs away. For the initial effort is difficult. And so, what prevents you from making an effort is the inert, ignorant nature.<center>~</center>As soon as you enter the rajasic nature, you like effort. And 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 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, it is to be asleep, it avoids the effort which must be made in order to catch the thing and then grasp it and keep it. It is half-somnolence. So it is the same thing physically, it is a somnolence of the being, an inertia. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955#p21</ref><center>~</center>If 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; you give, you receive. It is a perpetual play. Even granting that there is no bad will, there is 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 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 Physical Fear ==an ultra-suprasensitive vital, that is all. And it is not 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p45</ref>

If it is a vital 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), in that case you must listen to it, for the instinct of the body is a very sure thing, if it is 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 back, 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 style="backgroundref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-color:transparent;color:june-1953#000000;"p19</ref><center>~</center>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 can catch anything through fear, even invite an accident. And, you see, from a certain point of view everything is contagious. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p12</ref><center>~</center>You have 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, you are assured of easy mastery. A physical tiger will also flee from you, if without the least tremor you look him straight in the eyes. A snake will never be able to bite you if you manage to rivet its gaze to yours without feeling the slightest dread. Merely staring at it with shaking knees will not help. There must be no disturbance in you: you must be calm and 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 light in the human eyes which they are unable to bear if it is properly directed towards them. Man's look carries a power which nullifies them, provided it is steady and unafraid. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/different-kinds-of-space-and-time-fearlessness-on-the-vital-plane#p4</uref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You have 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, you are assured of easy mastery. A physical tiger will also flee from you, if without the least tremor you look him straight in the eyes. A snake will never be able to bite you if you manage to rivet its gaze to yours without feeling the slightest dread. Merely staring at it with shaking knees will not help. There must be no disturbance in you: you must be calm '''Fear and 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 light in the human eyes which they are unable to bear if it is properly directed towards them. ManIllness'''s look carries a power which nullifies them, provided it is steady and unafraid. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/different-kinds-of-space-and-time-fearlessness-on-the-vital-plane#p4</ref></u>

== Fear The mental, it is very simple: thoughts come. You begin thinking, for example, there is this illness and Illness ==this illness is very contagious, perhaps you are going to catch it, and if you catch it, it is going to be a terrible affair and what is to be done so as not to catch it?… So the mind begins to tremble: what is going to happen tomorrow? etc.

<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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p17</ref><center>~</center>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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/worry-and-bother-about-illness#p22</spanref><ucenter>~</center>You must learn not to identify with your body and treat it as a young child who needs to be convinced that it must not fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/darshan-messages#p7</ref><center>~</center>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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref><center>~</center>Even what the mind and will can do with the body in the field proper to the body and its life, in the way of physical achievement, bodily endurance, 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 suffering, these and other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching the miraculous are seen in the human field and must be reckoned as a part of our concept of a total perfection.... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/161-junemay-19291957#p17p1</ref><center>~</ucenter>The body must know and be convinced that its essence is divine and that if no obstacle is put in the way of the Divine's working, nothing can harm us. This process must be steadily repeated until all recurrence of fear is stopped. And then even if the illness succeeds in making its appearance, its strength and duration will be considerably diminished until it is definitively conquered.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p5</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you are ill, your illness is looked after with so much anxiety '''Fear 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>Death'''

<span style="backgroundGenerally speaking, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man's progress is fear, a fear that is many-sided, multiform, self-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Firstcontradictory, not to want to be illillogical, unreasoning and often unreasonable. Of all fears the most subtle and then not to be afraid the most tenacious is the fear of illnessdeath. You must neither attract It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it nor tremble. You must is not want illness at alleasy to dislodge. But you must not because It is obviously made up of fear not want it; you must not be afraid; you must have a calm certitude and a complete trust in several interwoven elements: the power spirit of conservatism and the Grace concern for self-preservation so as to shelter you from everything, and then think ensure the continuity of something elseconsciousness, not be concerned about this any longer. When you have done these two thingsthe recoil before the unknown, refusing the illness with all your will uneasiness caused by the unexpected and infusing a confidence which completely eliminates the fear unforeseeable, and perhaps, behind all that, hidden in the cells depths of the bodycells, the instinct that death is not inevitable and then busying yourself with something elsethat, if certain conditions are fulfilled, it can be conquered; although, as a matter of fact, not thinking any longer about fear in itself is one of the illnessgreatest obstacles to that conquest. For one cannot conquer what one fears, forgetting that and one who fears death has already been conquered by it exists.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p1</ref><center>~</center>When one has to die one dies, and when one has not to die, one does not die. thereEven when you are in mortal danger, if you know how it is not your hour to do thatdie, you may will not die, and even if you are out of all danger, just a scratch on your foot will be in contact with enough to make you die, for there are people who have contagious diseasesdied of a pin-scratch on the foot—because the time had come. Therefore, and yet 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 catch themneed to worry, for it will come only when it must come. But you So I don't need to feel afraid: when it is not to come, it will not come to me, but when it must know how come to me, it will come. And as it will come to me inevitably, it is better I do this. </span><span style=not fear the thing; on the contrary, one must 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/0705/1114-mayoctober-19551953#p13p32</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/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p10</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Even what the mind and will '''How can do with the body in the field proper to the body and its life, in the way One Overcome Fear of physical achievement, bodily endurance, 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 suffering, these and other victories of many kinds sometimes approaching or reaching the miraculous are seen in the human field and must be reckoned as a part of our concept of a total perfection.... </span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/1-may-1957#p1</ref>Death?'''

== Fear and Death == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Generally speakingSeveral methods can be used for this purpose. But first of all, perhaps the greatest obstacle in the way of man's progress a few fundamental notions are needed to help us in our endeavour. The first and most important point is fear, a fear to know that life is many-sidedone and immortal. The forms are countless, multiform, self-contradictory, illogical, unreasoning fleeting and often unreasonablebrittle. Of all fears This knowledge must be securely and permanently established in the most subtle mind and one must identify one's consciousness as far as possible with the most tenacious is the fear of death. It is deeply rooted in the subconscient and it eternal life that is not easy to dislodge. It is obviously made up independent of several interwoven elements: every form, but which manifests in all forms. This gives the spirit of conservatism and the concern for self-preservation so as indispensable psychological basis with which to ensure confront the continuity of consciousnessproblem, for the recoil before the unknown, problem remains. Even if the uneasiness caused by the unexpected and the unforeseeable, and perhaps, behind inner being is enlightened enough to be above all thatfear, the fear still remains hidden in the depths cells of the cellsbody, obscure, spontaneous, beyond the instinct that death reach of reason, usually almost unconscious. It is not inevitable and in these obscure depths that, if certain conditions are fulfilled, one must find it can be conquered; althoughout, as a matter seize hold of fact, fear in itself is one it and cast upon it the light of the greatest obstacles to that conquestknowledge and certitude. For one cannot conquer what one fears, and one who fears death has already been conquered by it. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p1p2</ref></ucenter>~</spancenter> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one has to …life does not die one dies, but the form is dissolved, and when one has not to die, one does not dieit is this dissolution that the physical consciousness dreads. Even when you are And yet the form is constantly changing and in mortal danger, if it essence there is not your hour nothing to die, you will not dieprevent this change from being progressive. This progressive change could make death no longer inevitable, but it is very difficult to achieve and even if you demands conditions that very few people are out of all danger, just a scratch on your foot will able to fulfil. Thus the method to be enough followed in order to make you die, for there are people who have died overcome the fear of death will differ according to the nature of a pin-scratch on the foot—because case and the time had comestate of the consciousness. Therefore, fear has no sense. What you These methods can do is to rise to be classified into four principal kinds, although each one includes a state large number of consciousness where you can sayvarieties; in fact, "It is like each individual must develop his own system.The first method appeals to the reason. One can say that, we accept in the fact because it seems to be recognised as an present state of the world, death is inevitable fact. But I do not need to worry, for it ; a body that has taken birth will come only when it must come. So I don't need to feel afraid: when it is not to comenecessarily die one day or another, it will not come to me, but and in almost every case death comes when it must come to me, it will come: one can neither hasten nor delay its hour. And as Someone who craves for it will come may have to wait very long to me inevitably, obtain it is better I do not fear and someone who dreads it may suddenly be struck down in spite of all the thing; on the contraryprecautions he has taken. The hour of death seems therefore to be inexorably fixed, one must accept what is perfectly natural" This is except for a well-known remedy, very few individuals who possess powers that is to say, very much the human race in usegeneral does not command. </span><u><ref>http://incarnatewordReason teaches us that it is absurd to fear something that one cannot avoid.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p32</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Along with the attachment The only thing to do is to accept the body idea of death and its works quietly do the attachment best one can from day to day, from hour to life in the body hour, without worrying about what is overcomegoing to happen. For This process is very effective when we feel the physical being it is used by intellectuals who are accustomed to be not ourselves, but only a dress or an instrument, the repulsion act according to the death laws 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 reason; but it must would be less successful for emotional people who live in their feelings and entirely. The fear of death and the aversion let themselves be ruled by them. No doubt, these people should have recourse to bodily cessation are the stigma left by his animal origin on second method, the human being. That brand must be utterly effaced. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnatewordmethod of inner seeking.Beyond all the emotions, in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-silent and tranquil depths of our being, there is a light shining constantly, the light of the-body#p10</ref></u></span> ===How can one overcome psychic consciousness. Go in search of this fear?=== <span style="background-color:transparentlight, concentrate on it;color:#000000;"> Several methods can be used for this purposeit is within you. But first of all, With a few fundamental notions persevering will you are needed sure to help us in our endeavour. The first find it and most important point is as soon as you enter into it, you awake to know that life is one and immortalthe sense of immortality. The forms are countlessYou have always lived, fleeting and brittle. This knowledge must be securely and permanently established in the mind 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 must identify one's consciousness as far as possible with the eternal life that of the transient forms through which you have manifested. Death is independent of every formno longer an extinction, but which manifests in all forms. This gives the indispensable psychological basis it is only a transition. All fear instantly vanishes and you walk through life with which to confront the problem, for the problem remainscalm certitude of a free man. Even if the inner being <center>~</center>The third method is enlightened enough to be above for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all fear, the fear still remains hidden in the cells events of their lives are an expression of the bodydivine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, obscure, spontaneous, beyond the reach of reason, usually almost unconsciousfor they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. It is They have a mystic trust in their God and in these obscure depths that one must find it out, seize hold their personal relationship with him. They have made an absolute surrender of it their will to his and cast upon it feel his unvarying love and protection, wholly independent of the light accidents of knowledge life and certitude. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateworddeath.They have the constant experience of lying at the feet of their Beloved in/cwm/12/the-fearan absolute self-surrender or of-death-being cradled in his arms and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p2enjoying a perfect security. There is no longer any room in their consciousness for fear, anxiety or torment; all that has been replaced by a calm and delightful bliss. </ref><http:/u></span> <span style="backgroundincarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-color:transparent;color:#000000;">…life does not die, but the form is dissolved, and it #p3</ref><center>~</center>There is this dissolution that the physical consciousness dreads. And yet another way to conquer the form fear of death, but it is constantly changing and in essence there within the reach of so few that it is mentioned here only as a matter of information. It is nothing to prevent this change from being progressive. This progressive change could make death no longer inevitableenter into the domain of death deliberately and consciously while one is still alive, but it is very difficult and then to achieve return from this region and demands conditions that very few people are able to fulfil. Thus re-enter the method to be followed in order to overcome physical body, resuming the fear course of death will differ according to the nature of the case and the state of the consciousnessmaterial existence with full knowledge. These methods can But for that one must be classified into four principal kinds, although each one includes a large number of varieties; an initiate. <ref>http://incarnateword.in fact, each individual must develop his own system.The first method appeals to the reason. One can say that in the present state /cwm/12/the-fear-of -death-and-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> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The third method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the events of their lives are an expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. They have a mystic 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, 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 no longer any room in their consciousness for fear, anxiety or torment; all that has been replaced by a calm and delightful bliss. </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#p3</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></span> =Fear of Divinisation of the Consciousness=   <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;">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> <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> <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-marchfour-methods-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 -conquering-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. #p14</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-godward-emotions#p6</ref></u>

== Surrender == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 If 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 tooremain vigilant, 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></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 with the others in life and action. So one can say without any fear increase of making a mistake: be always at the summit of your consciousness and the best will always happen to Force upholding 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 power of this kind that appear to the outer consciousness as miracles, as divine interventions. </span><span style="backgroundself-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/30-december-1950#p17</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limitscontrol will come, 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;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p8</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you have faith and are consecrated to 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 the most effective: indeed, it is. That is, one must be truly consecrated power to the Divine. If one has that, it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dream. 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> == Courage ==   <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">One of the great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fears. You are put face to face with the danger you fear and you fear it no longer. The fear disappears. From reject the yogic point of view, wrong turn or the point of view of discipline, this is the cure recommended. In the ancient initiations, especially in Egypt, in order to practise occultism... wrong reaction when it was necessary to abolish the fear of death completelycomes. Well, one of the practices of those days was to lay the neophyte in a sarcophagus Fear and leave him in there for a few days, as though he were dead. Naturally, he was unhappiness will not left to die, neither of hunger nor suffocation, but still he remained lying there as though he were dead. It seems that cures you of all fear. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p22</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For that [attack of hostile forces], give you must be very vigilant and have a little courage, in the sense that at times you have to grip 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 It is finished. And so long as only by this is not done, it comes back and back again; and then if one is not in oneself sufficiently courageous or vigilant or persevering, vigilance accompanied by an opening to the fourth or fifth time one falls flat supporting and says: "That's too much, 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 method, if you look closely this way: "Well, I am going to catch the thing guiding Force that has allowed it to will come", you see somewhere within you something rising, wriggling, coming up in response to the evil force which is approaching. That is the moment to seize it and throw it out with all the rest. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0531/10-june-1953fear#p8p12</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"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." </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/25-january-1951#p13</ref></u> == Mental Organisation through Reason ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In order to set out on these paths without fear and without any danger, one must have organised his being with the help of reason around the highest centre he consciously possesses, and organised it in such a way that 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 happened to me, I don't know why"—and always it is "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know", and as long as it is like that, the path is somewhat dangerous. Only when one does what he wants, knows what he wants, does what he wants and is able to direct himself with certitude, without being tossed about by the hazards of life, then one can go forward on the suprarational paths fearlessly, unhesitatingly and with the least danger. But one need not be very old for this to happen. One can begin very young; even a child of five can already make use of reason to control himself; I know it. There is enough mental organisation in the being in these little tots who look so spontaneous and irresponsible; there is enough cerebral organisation for them to organise themselves, their life, their nature, their movements, actions and thoughts with reason. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/25-may-1955#p55</ref></u></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one does not have this psychic contact, but is still a reasonable being, that is, when one has a free movement of the reasoning mind, one can use it to reason with, to speak to oneself as one would to a child, explaining that this fear is a bad thing in itself and, even if there is a danger, to face the danger with fear is the greatest stupidity. If there is a real danger, it is only with the power of courage that you have a chance of coming out of it; if you have the least fear, you are done for. So with that kind of reasoning, manage to convince the part that fears that it must stop being afraid. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p13</ref></u> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/answers-to-a-monitor#p89</ref></u> = Recommended Practices =   == Be a right example By Being an Example for the children Children ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">…set them [children] the right example.... Be yourself what you would like them to be. Give them the example of disinterestedness, patience, self-control, constant good humour, the overcoming of one's little personal dislikes, a sort of constant goodwill, an understanding of others' difficulties; and that equality of temper which makes children free from fear, for what makes children deceitful and untruthful, and even cunning, is the fear of being punished. If they feel secure, they will hide nothing and you will then be able to help them to be loyal and honest. Of all things the most important is good example. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/10-april-1957#p7</ref><center>~</ucenter> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When a child has done something wrong, see that he confesses it to you spontaneously and frankly; and when he has confessed, with kindness and 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 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 firm 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. </span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/education#p8</ref><center>~</ucenter> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The time has come for the old habit of governing by fear to be replaced by the government of love. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/india#p194</ref></u></span> == Widen your consciousness == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 others in their narrow limits, but to come out of these limits, pass beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with the one Consciousness and become all things, then, at that moment the narrow limits will vanish, but not before. And as long as one senses the narrow limits, one wants to take, for one fears to lose. One spends and wants to replenish. It is due to that, my child. For if one were spread out in all things, if all the vibrations which come and go expressed the 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 identified 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 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 little affection, one expects it from others... for one doesn't have the ability to become the kind thought in everything, one doesn't have the ability to be the affection, the tender love in all things. One feels just like that, all cut up and limited, and fears to lose everything, fears to lose what one has because one would be impoverished. On 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 more one gets identified, the more one becomes. And then, instead of taking, one gives. And the more one gives, the more one grows.</span> <u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/19-august-1953#p27</ref></u>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Be very sincere =By Strength and straightforward, harbour nothing within yourself which you cannot show me without fear, do nothing which you would be ashamed of before me. </span><span styleCalm =="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/relations-with-others#p98</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Do not torment yourself, do not worry; above all try to banish all By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel) [fear; fear is a dangerous thing which can give importance to something which had none at allbe eliminated]. The mere Also by will and imposing calm on the system when the fear of seeing certain symptoms renew themselves is enough to bring about this repetitionarises. It can be done in either way or both together. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/fear#p12p14</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is only fear which hurts, not the "spirits". When people who have left their body appear in front of you, you must not fear―it is generally because they are restless and lack peace―give them a good thought and wish them to be in peace and it will be over. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p42</ref></u></span>By Surrender ==

<span style="backgroundOne 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-colorsightedly—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:transparentthat 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;color:#000000;">Vital trust in 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 Divine: full feeling of courage an infinite freedom from all that afflicts you, dwarfs, diminishes, impoverishes you, and energyfrom all that can create the least anxiety in you, no longer fears anythingthe least fear. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1407/the20-july-vital1955#p23p10</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Have the courage to be completely frank with the Divine. ~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/courage#p14</ref></u></spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Constantly I think it would be better to 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 hostile forces Supreme Consciousness, the Supreme Wisdom, the Supreme Light, the Supreme Love, which knows all, which can do all, which takes charge of you and fearing them you have no more worries—that is a very dangerous weaknessthe ideal condition.</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1503/adverse-forcespleasure#p14p4</ref></u>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Fear not, your sincerity is your safeguard.~</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p10</ref></ucenter>

<span style="background-colorThe 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:transparent;color:#000000;">Sinceritybe 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, couragewhen he is confronted by a danger or a critical situation, disciplinecall upon his highest destiny by aspiration, enduranceprayer and trustful surrender to the divine will. Then, absolute faith in proportion to the Divine work sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in the normal destiny of the being and unshakable trust in changes the Divine Gracecourse of events insofar as they concern him personally. All It is events of this must be accompanied by a sustained, ardentkind that appear to the outer consciousness as miracles, persevering aspiration and a boundless patienceas divine interventions. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1615/2830-december-19661950#p3p17</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>You must learn not to identify with your body and treat it as a young child who needs to be convinced that it must not fear. ~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/darshan-messages#p7</ref></u></spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The body must know and be convinced that way to attain to this perfect consciousness is to increase your actual consciousness beyond its essence is divine present grooves and that if no obstacle is put in limits, to educate it, to open it to the way of Divine Light and to let the Divine's working, nothing Light work in it fully and freely. But the Light can harm us. This process must be steadily repeated until do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all recurrence of craving and fear is stopped. And then even if the illness succeeds in making its appearance, its strength and duration will be considerably diminished until it is definitively conqueredwhen you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, no physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you.</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1503/fear30-andjune-illness1929#p5p8</ref></u>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Yes, you should not fear, you should keep an entire faith in the Divine Grace. The second point is to keep your body well-balanced by getting enough sleep—seven hours out of twenty-four—and enough food. ~</span><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2-march-1933#p2</ref></ucenter>

<span style="background-colorIf you have faith and are consecrated to the Divine, there is a very simple way, it is to say:transparent;color:#000000;">Don't allow these bad dreams to trouble youLet Your will be done. They Nothing can frighten me because it is You who are formations meant guiding my life. I belong to disturb the consciousness—if you You and You are troubled and fear they succeedguiding my life." That acts immediately. If you refuse to accept them orOf all the means this is the most effective: indeed, still betterit is. That is, dissolve themone must be truly consecrated to the Divine. If one has that, in it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dream. And the being with the bad influence also disappears like a dream or when you wakealong with the fear. You should see it running away at full speed, then they can do nothing. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>prrt! <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3105/dreams24-june-1953#p58p14</ref></u></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If you remain vigilant, then with the increase of the Force upholding you, a power of self-control will come, a power to see and reject the wrong turn or the wrong reaction when it comes. Fear and unhappiness will not give you that. It is only '''Content curated by this vigilance accompanied by an opening to the supporting and guiding Force that it will come. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p12</ref></u></span>Suhani'''

<span style{|class="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;wikitable">By bringing down strength and calm into the lower vital (region below the navel) [fear can be eliminated]. Also by will and imposing calm on the system when the fear arises. It can be done in either way or both together. </span><span style="background-color:transparent#EFEFFF;colorwidth:#0066cc100%;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p14</ref></u></span>|Read Summary of '''[[Fear Summary|Fear]]'''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"To turn towards TheeDear reader, unite with Thee, live if you notice any error in Thee and for Thee, is supreme happiness, unmixed joy, immutable peace; it is to breathe infinity, to soar the paragraph numbers in eternitythe hyperlinks, no longer feel one's limits, escape from time and spaceplease let us know by dropping an email at integral. Why do men flee from these boons as though they feared them?" (18 June 1913) </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnatewordedu.in/cwm/17/comments-on-prayers-and-meditations#p61</ref></u></span>@gmail.com|}