Changes

{|class= Understanding fear "wikitable" style="background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|Read more about '''[[Fear Compilation|Fear]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.|}__NOTOC__

<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">, desire and sorrow are diseases of is also a terribly contagious collective thing—it is much more contagious than the mind; born most contagious of its sense illnesses. You breathe an atmosphere of division fear and limitationinstantly you feel frightened, without even knowing why or how, nothing, simply because there was an atmosphere of fear. <ref>http:/span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-color:transparent;color:1953#000000;">Fear is deeply rooted in the unconscious and comes from the forces of ignorance of the lower nature. p38</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparentcan be classified as mental fear, vital fear and physical fear. Mental fear—all who have a little control over themselves or any human dignity can eliminate it;color:#000000vital fear is more subtle and asks for a greater control;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">is also as for physical fear, a terribly contagious collective thing—it veritable yoga is much more contagious than necessary to overcome it, for the most contagious cells of illnesses. It is in the vital body are afraid of everything that the fear is felt unpleasant, painful, and as soon as there is any unease, even if one it is sensitiveinsignificant, the cells of the body become anxious, they don't like to be uncomfortable. And then they feel , to overcome that, the fear in the environment and their vital latches onto itcontrol of a conscious will is necessary. <ref>http://span><span style="backgroundincarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-color:1957#ffff00;color:#000000;">It comes from a disharmony between the vital vibrations. p6</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Mental Fear ''' The normal human condition is a barrier on the path state filled with apprehensions and fears; if you observe your mind deeply for ten minutes, you will find that for nine out of yoga as ten it hinders the closeness between the human soul and the divine. It indicates an invasion is full of the hostile forces fears—it carries in the human consciousness. The hostile forces have created it fear as a means about many things, big and small, near and far, seen and unseen, and though you do not usually take conscious notice of dominating living beingsit, animals and menit is there all the same. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">It is more of a nervous sensation than an emotion</span><span style="backgroundmay-color:transparent;color:1929#000000;">.p18</spanref>

'''Physical Fear'''It is a curious little vibration that gets into your cells and they begin shivering that way. But the cells are not like a heart beating very fast. It is in the very cells: they tremble with just a slight quivering. And it is very difficult to control this. Yet it can be controlled.<div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#000000;">Causes of fearp17</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">Attachment, desire, need for attention, trying to please and cravings come from the narrow limits &nbsp;of the consciousness. These when they go unfulfilled gives rise to grief. Grief in turn gives rise to fear. </div>Why there is Fear?=

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The world is full Fear stems from a sense of things that are unpleasantinferiority. </spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#000000;"> p35</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"ref>and one A vast majority of the reactions men like to those unpleasant things is fearlive in a limited sphere bound to their littleness and falsehood. This instinctive They fear is almost inherited like various other stereotypes, race feelings, attractions freedom and associationslight.</span>

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.<div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#000000;">Types of fearp30</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is manifested We like, love, welcome, hope for, joy in different parts whatever our nature, the first habit of selves i.e. physical fearour being, or else a formed (often perverse) habit, mental fear and vital fear. In majority the second nature of our being, presents to the peoplemind as pleasant, physical is governed by the subconscious and fears that are </span><span style="background-color:transparentpriyam;color:#000000;">driven out we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of active consciousness take refuge in that subconsciouswhatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam. Thus, This habit of the emotional nature gets into the physical fear is in way of the subconscious hidden by intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the mental emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and vital fear which are much more consciousgovernment of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. The fear By getting rid of desire in the physical is psychic prana and its intermiscence in the sheer cells of emotional mind, we facilitate the body and thus correction. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the body trembles with just a slight quivering.-lower-mentality#p7</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one indulges in unhealthy imaginationIn the large majority of men, they give form to fears on the mental plane, thus causing mental fear. Howeverbody receives its inspirations from the subconscient, a man it is a rational being, and one under the influence of the ways of overcoming fear is also through mindsubconscient. As one can All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have immense fear in their physical to be chased out from the subconscient and vital but by the force of mind one can overcome those fearsuprooted from there. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</spanref>

<div style="color:#000000;">Central vitalFear can be overcome by vigilance, courage, calmness, corresponding to the manipura chakraattitude of surrender and wideness of consciousness. If you remain vigilant, is then with the seat increase of vitality and the Force upholding you, a power. When fear invades through thisof self-control will come, a power to see and reject the wrong turn or the wrong reaction when it can &nbsp;can possess comes. Fear and invade the consciousnessunhappiness will not give you that. However, through deep courage It is only by this power of illusion vigilance accompanied by an opening to the supporting and guiding Force that it will come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear can be cast away. #p12</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">One needs The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is to put sincere effort increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and discipline limits, to educate it, to open it to the Divine Light and to let the Divine Light work in overcoming physical fearit fully and freely. To put effort one needs to be courageous in not thinking about But the object Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear, because when one fears and constantly imagines the object of fearyou have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, then it is as though one is attracting the object of fearno physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword. Instead one must use one’s mind to imagine how would one like to respond to the object of in/cwsa/31/fear.#p14</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparentAnother effective method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally;color:#000000;">Through expanding one's consciousnessall the events of their lives are an expression of the divine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, by educating it for they are convinced that whatever happens to them is always for their own good. They have a mystic trust in their God and opening 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 divine light one can let go 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 grief that has been replaced by a calm and feardelightful bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword. If one truly believes in /cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the Divine-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p3</ref> However, surrenders there is a way to be free from fear: it is to have faith in the Divine, Grace and opens one’s self to its protection and light, putting away one's own ego, fear is bound rely on It to go awayprotect you in all circumstances. r.</span>

<div style="color:#000000;">When the fear is deeply rooted, one needs to grip it hard and pull it out, which hurts the surface nature, but if one can have the courage and focus on one’s light, it is possible. ne needs to be vigilant and not allow it to come back.</div>  <div style="color:#000000;">Progress can be really slow but through courage and faith one can fight the adverse forces and expand the consciousness.</div>  <span styleReferences ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When one lacks the trust in the divine, they solely depend on themselves. This path can be difficult as one’s trust still lies in ego’s personal independence and there is a refusal to surrender. </span> <div style="color:#000000;">Mind and vital are mixed up on the surface of the consciousness, but they are quite separate forces in themselves. As one is able to separate them, their distinct action can be understood and used in overcoming fear. Mind can accept the Divine more easily while the vital is unconvinced and obstinately goes on in search of desire, passion and attraction to the ordinary life. Then, mind under the influence of the soul can be &nbsp;used to govern the vital. </div> = Fear and Illness =   = <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes from </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">can give the apparent symptoms of an illness; and it can give the illness too,—its effects can go so far as that.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Refusing the illness,completely trusting the Divine while infusing oneself with a confidence in the Divine Grace and busying yourself with something else can  completely eliminate the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">fear</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">in the cells of the body and help one not catch even contagious diseases.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear and Death</span> = <div style="color:#000000;">One of the most subtle fear is the fear of death which comes from &nbsp;the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of consciousness, fearing the unknown. THowever, this fear of death is in the physical cells selves which is beyond reason and almost unconscious. Thus, it is the most difficult to uproot. </div>  <div style="color:#000000;">This fear goes against the fundamental notion that &nbsp;life is One and immortal. The forms are countless, fleeting and brittle. This understanding can help us overcome fear of death. &nbsp;Thus reason can be used, another method is that of inner seeking i.e. searching the immortal light of psychic consciousness which is in all and identifying with it. &nbsp;Complete surrender to the Divine, and believing that all of us belong to Him integrally. </div>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fear of death is not just restricted to the death of the physical, but also the death of the ego, the death of a past version of one’s self, the fear of letting go. When one does not have the courage to live, it is often because something within oneself has to die for something new to be born. It is then one should have that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''courage'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">, </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">the true </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''courage'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">to abolish the ego. </span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Fear and Religion</div>  <span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">The </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">of the Gods is the beginning of religion.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of the gods arose from man's ignorance of God and his ignorance of the laws that govern the world. The idea of the divine in the form of judge, king exaggerates the importance of the sense of sin and thereby prolongs and increases the soul's </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and self-distrust and weakness. The fear of god is useful only when the soul has not yet grown sufficiently to follow good for its own sake and needs an authority above it whose judgment it can </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and found upon that </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">its fidelity to virtue.</span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Courage</div> <span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#777777;">Courage is the total absence of fear in any form.</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#777777;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#777777;">True courage, in its deepest sense, is to be able to face everything, everything in life, from the smallest things to the greatest, from material things to things of the spirit, without a shudder, without physically ….without the heart beginning to beat faster, without the nerves trembling, without the slightest emotion in any part of the being. Face everything with a constant awareness of the Divine Presence, a total self-giving to the Divine, and the whole being unified in this will; then you can go forward in life and face anything whatever.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#777777;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When the vital is entirely surrendered to the divine it is full of courage, enthusiasm.</span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>  <div style="color:#000000;">Conclusion</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Everyone possesses two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. Thus, when one has fear, one also has courage. And to get over this impurity of fear one has the resources in the form of courage, tapas and surrender. </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear is a hidden consent. When one is afraid of something, it means that you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Fear can be overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, reason, faith, knowledge, surrender are some of them.</span>