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[[File:FandC 1.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 2.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 3.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 4.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 5.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 6.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 7.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 8Fear is also a terribly contagious collective thing—it is much more contagious than the most contagious of illnesses.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 9You 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.png|center|1000px]]   [[File<ref>http:FandC 10//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref>

[[File:FandC 11'''Mental Fear''' 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.png|center|1000px]]__NOTOC__ <h1ref>Fear Summaryhttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</h1ref>{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|= Understanding fear =

'''Physical Fear, desire and sorrow are diseases of the mind; born of its sense of division and limitation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/gnosis-and-ananda#p16</ref> Fear is deeply rooted in the unconscious and comes from the forces of ignorance of the lower nature. '''Fear It is also a terribly contagious collective thing—it is much more contagious than the most contagious of illnesses. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref> It is in the vital curious little vibration that the fear is felt gets into your cells and if one is sensitive, then they feel the fear in the environment and their vital latches onto itbegin shivering that way. It comes from a disharmony between But the vital vibrations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>Fear is cells are not like a barrier on the path of yoga as it hinders the closeness between the human soul and the divine. <ref>http://incarnatewordheart beating very fast.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>It indicates an invasion of the hostile forces is in the human consciousness. The hostile forces have created fear as a means of dominating living beings, animals and men. <ref>httpvery cells://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/10-november-1965#p3</ref>It is more of a nervous sensation than an emotion . <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p8</ref>Causes of fearAttachment, desire, need for attention, trying to please and cravings come from the narrow limits  of the consciousness. These when they go unfulfilled gives rise to grief. Grief in turn gives rise to fear. The world is full of things that are unpleasant and one of the reactions to those unpleasant things is fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p5</ref> This instinctive fear is almost inherited like various other stereotypes, race feelings, attractions and associations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p3</ref>Types of fearFear is manifested in different parts of selves i.e. physical fear, mental fear and vital fear. In majority of the people, physical is governed by the subconscious and fears that are driven out of active consciousness take refuge in that subconscious. Thus, the physical fear is in the subconscious hidden by the mental and vital fear which are much more conscious. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref> The fear in the physical is in the sheer cells of the body and thus the body trembles tremble with just a slight quivering. <ref>http://incarnatewordAnd it is very difficult to control this. Yet it can be controlled.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p14</ref>When one indulges in unhealthy imagination, they give form to fears on the mental plane, thus causing mental fear. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0305/power22-ofjuly-imagination1953#p1p17</ref> However, a man is a rational being, and one of the ways of overcoming fear is also through mind. As one can have immense fear in their physical and vital but by the force of mind one can overcome those fears. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p15</ref>Central vital, corresponding to the manipura chakra, is the seat of vitality and power. When fear invades through this, it can  can possess and invade the consciousness. However, through deep courage this power of illusion and fear can be cast away.

= Overcoming Why there is Fear ?=One needs to put sincere effort and discipline in overcoming physical fear. To put effort one needs to be courageous in not thinking about the object of fear, because when one fears and constantly imagines the object of fear, then it is as though one is attracting the object of fear. Instead one must use one’s mind to imagine how would one like to respond to the object of fear.Through expanding one's consciousness, by educating it and opening to the divine light one can let go of all grief and fear. If one truly believes in the Divine, surrenders to the Divine, and opens one’s self to its protection and light, putting away one's own ego, fear is bound to go away. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p14</ref>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. One needs to be vigilant and not allow it to come back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/10-june-1953#p8</ref>Progress can be really slow but through courage and faith one can fight the adverse forces and expand the consciousness.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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p4</ref>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  used to govern the vital.

= '''Mental Fear and Illness ='''

Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes Fear stems from fear. Fear can give the apparent symptoms a sense of an illness; and it can give the illness too,—its effects can go so far as thatinferiority. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0312/16-june-1929students#p17p35</ref> Refusing the illness,completely trusting the Divine while infusing oneself with A vast majority of men like to live in a confidence in the Divine Grace limited sphere bound to their littleness and busying yourself with something else can  completely eliminate the falsehood. They fear in the cells of the body freedom and help one not catch even contagious diseaseslight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref>Fear and Death

This fear goes against the fundamental notion that  life is One and immortalThere are three reasons. The forms are countlessFirst, fleeting and brittlean excessive concern about one's security. This understanding can help us overcome Next, what one does not know always gives an uneasy feeling which is translated in the consciousness by fear of death.  Thus reason can be usedAnd above all, another method is that of inner seeking i.e. searching one doesn't have the immortal light habit of psychic consciousness which is a spontaneous trust in all and identifying with it.  Complete surrender to the Divine, and believing that all of us belong to Him integrally. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1204/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of14-conqueringmarch-it1951#p5p30</ref>

The fear 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 death is not just restricted our being, presents to the death mind as pleasant, priyam; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of the physicalwhatever it presents to us as unpleasant, but also the death apriyam. This habit of the ego, emotional nature gets into the death way of the intelligent will and makes it often a past version helpless slave of one’s self, the fear emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of letting gothe nature. When one does not have the courage to live, it is often because something within oneself This deformation has to die for something new to be borncorrected. It is then one should have that '''courage'''By getting rid of desire in the psychic prana and its intermiscence in the emotional mind, we facilitate the true '''courage''' to abolish the egocorrection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1524/22purification-the-novemberlower-1958mentality#p7</ref>

= '''Physical Fear and Religion ='''

The '''fear''' In the large majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the Gods subconscient, it is under the beginning influence of religionthe subconscient. All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have to be chased out from the subconscient and uprooted from there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2404/the-motives14-ofmarch-devotion1951#p3p27</ref> '''Fear''' 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 '''fear''' 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 '''fear''' and found upon that '''fear''' its fidelity to virtue.

= Courage How to Overcome Fears?=

Courage is the total absence of fear in any form. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/december-17-1969</ref> True courage, in its deepest sense, is to Fear can be able to face everythingovercome by vigilance, everything in lifecourage, from the smallest things to the greatestcalmness, from material things to things attitude of surrender and wideness of the spirit, without a shudder, without physically …consciousness.without the heart beginning to beat fasterIf you remain vigilant, without the nerves trembling, without then with the slightest emotion in any part increase of the being. Face everything with Force upholding you, a constant awareness power of the Divine Presenceself-control will come, a total self-giving power to see and reject the Divine, wrong turn or the wrong reaction when it comes. Fear and the whole being unified in this unhappiness will; then not give you can go forward in life and face anything whatever. <ref>http://incarnatewordthat.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955</ref> When the vital It is entirely surrendered only by this vigilance accompanied by an opening to the divine supporting and guiding Force that it is full of courage, enthusiasmwill come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0731/9-february-1955fear#p36p12</ref>

Everyone 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 two opposite tendencies of character, and organised it in such a way that it is inwardly in almost equal proportionshis 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", which are and as long as it is like that, the light and the shadow of the same thingpath is somewhat dangerous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0607/325-februarymay-19541955#p15p55</ref> 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.

Fear The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is a hidden consent. When one is afraid of somethingto increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limits, to educate it, to open it means that you admit its possibility to the Divine Light and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that to let the Divine Light work in it is a subconscient consentfully and freely. Fear But the Light can be overcome in many ways. The ways do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of courageall craving and fear, reasonwhen you have no mental prejudices, faithno vital preferences, knowledge, surrender are some of themno physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1431/fear#p47p14</ref>

'''Content curated Another 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; 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 Suhani Tanna'''a calm and delightful bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p3</ref> However, there is a way to be free from fear: it is to have faith in the Divine Grace and to rely on It to protect you in all circumstances.