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

[[FileFear can 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; 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. <ref>http:FandC 7//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>

[[File'''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.<ref>http:FandC 8//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref>

[[FileFear stems from a sense of inferiority. <ref> http:FandC 9//incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35</ref> A vast majority of men like to live in a limited sphere bound to their littleness and falsehood. They fear freedom and light.png|center|1000px]]

[[FileWe 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. <ref> http:FandC 10//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref>

[[File:FandC 11.png|center|1000px]]__NOTOC__<h1>Fear Summary</h1>{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|= What is Fear How to Overcome Fears?=

Fear, desire and sorrow are diseases One of the mind; born of its sense of division and limitation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/gnosis-and-ananda#p16</ref> Fear great remedies for conquering fear is a phenomenon of unconsciousnessto face boldly what one fears. It is a kind of anguish that comes from ignorance. One does not know You are put face to face with 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; danger you fear and this ignorance brings you fearit no longer. One fears what one does not knowThe fear disappears. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p20</ref>Fear 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#p38p22</ref>

Types of FearFear The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is manifested in different parts of selves i.e. '''physical fearto increase your actual consciousness beyond its present grooves and limits, mental fear and vital fear'''. In majority of the peopleto educate it, physical is governed by to open it to the subconscious Divine Light and fears that are driven out of active consciousness take refuge to let the Divine Light work in that subconsciousit fully and freely. Thus, But the physical Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of all craving and fear is in the subconscious hidden by the , when you have no mental and prejudices, no vital fear which are much more consciouspreferences, no physical apprehensions or attractions to obscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0631/10-march-1954fear#p24p14</ref>

= Overcoming 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 And the object truth is that if instead of fear, because when one fears and constantly imagines being shut up in the object narrow limits of feartheir little person, then it is they could so widen their consciousness as though one is attracting the object of fear. Instead one must use one’s mind to imagine how would one like be able not only to respond to the object of fear.Through expanding one's consciousnessidentify themselves with others in their narrow limits, by educating it and opening but to the divine light one can let go come out of all grief and fear. If one truly believes in the Divinethese limits, surrenders to the Divinepass beyond, and opens one’s self to its protection and lightspread out everywhere, putting away one's own ego, fear is bound to go away. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/24-june-1953#p14</ref>When unite with the fear is deeply rooted, one needs to grip it hard Consciousness and pull it outbecome all things, then, which hurts at that moment the surface naturenarrow limits will vanish, 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 backbefore. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/1019-juneaugust-1953#p8p27</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.

= Fear Another effective method is for those who have faith in a God, their God, and Illness = Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes from fearwho have given themselves to him. Fear can give They belong to him integrally; all the apparent symptoms events of their lives are an illness; expression of the divine will and it can give the illness toothey accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude,—its effects can go so far as for they are convinced thatwhatever happens to them is always for their own good. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p17</ref> Refusing the illness,completely trusting the Divine while infusing oneself with They have a confidence mystic trust in the Divine Grace their God and busying yourself in their personal relationship with something else can  completely eliminate the fear in the cells him. They have made an absolute surrender of the body their will to his and help one not catch even contagious diseases. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/11-may-1955#p13</ref>Fear feel his unvarying love and Death One protection, wholly independent of the most subtle fear is the fear accidents of life and death which comes from  the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure . They have the continuity constant experience of consciousness, fearing lying at the unknown. THowever, this fear feet of their Beloved in an absolute self-surrender or of death is being cradled in the physical cells selves which is beyond reason his arms and almost unconsciousenjoying a perfect security. Thus, it There is the most difficult to uproot.  This no longer any room in their consciousness for fear goes against the fundamental notion that  life is One and immortal. The forms are countless, fleeting and brittle. This understanding can help us overcome fear of death.  Thus reason can be used, another method is anxiety or torment; all that of inner seeking i.e. searching the immortal light of psychic consciousness which is in all has been replaced by a calm and identifying with it.  Complete surrender to the Divine, and believing that all of us belong to Him integrallydelightful bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of-conquering-it#p5p3</ref> The fear of death However, there 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 way to be born. It is then one should have that '''courage''', the true '''courage''' to abolish the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/22-november-1958#p7</ref> = Fear and Religion = The '''free from fear''' of the Gods is the beginning of religion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-motives-of-devotion#p3</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 = 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 be able to face everything, everything have faith 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 Grace and face anything whatever. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-january-1955</ref> When the vital is entirely surrendered to the divine it is full of courage, enthusiasm. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p36</ref> = Conclusion = Everyone possesses two opposite tendencies of character, in almost equal proportions, which are like the light and the shadow of the same thing. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/3-february-1954#p15</ref> Thus, when one has fear, one also has courage. And rely on It to get over this impurity of fear one has the resources in the form of courage, tapas and surrender.  Fear is a hidden consent. When one is afraid of something, it means that protect you admit its possibility and thus strengthen its hand. It can be said that it is a subconscient consent. Fear can be overcome in many ways. The ways of courage, reason, faith, knowledge, surrender are some of them. <ref>http://incarnatewordall circumstances.in/cwm/14/fear#p47</ref>  '''Content curated by Suhani Tanna'''