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= What is Fear? =
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>
[[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 6Fear is also a terribly contagious collective thing—it is much more contagious than the most contagious of illnesses.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:FandC 7You 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 8//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p38</ref>
'''Types of Fear'''
Fear 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://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p6</ref>
[[File'''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. <ref>http:FandC 9//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/03/19-may-1929#p18</ref>
'''Vital Fear'''
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.
<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/desire#p56</ref>
'''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://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p17</ref>
[[File:FandC 10.png|center|1000px]]=Why there is Fear?=
'''Mental Fear'''
Fear stems from a sense of inferiority. <ref> http://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.
[[File:FandC 11.png|center|1000px]]'''Vital Fear'''
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.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p30</ref>
__NOTOC__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. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref>
= Understanding fear ='''Physical Fear'''
In the large majority of men, the body receives its inspirations from the subconscient, it is under the influence of the subconscient. All the fears driven out from the active consciousness go and take refuge there and then, naturally, they have to be chased out from the subconscient and uprooted from there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/14-march-1951#p27</ref>
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 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 that the fear is felt and if one is sensitive, then they feel the fear in the environment and their vital latches onto it. It comes from a disharmony between the vital vibrations. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>Fear is a barrier on the path of yoga as it hinders the closeness between the human soul and the divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p24</ref>It indicates an invasion of the hostile forces in the human consciousness. The hostile forces have created fear as a means of dominating living beings, animals and men. <ref>http://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 =How 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 with just a slight quivering. <ref>http://incarnateword.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/03/power-of-imagination#p1</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.Overcome Fears?=
= Overcoming Fear =One needs to put sincere effort and discipline in overcoming physical fear. To put effort one needs to can be courageous in not thinking about the object of fearovercome by vigilance, courage, because when one fears and constantly imagines the object of fearcalmness, then it is as though one is attracting the object attitude of fear. Instead one must use one’s mind to imagine how would one like to respond to the object surrender and wideness of fearconsciousness.Through expanding one's consciousnessIf you remain vigilant, by educating it and opening to then with the divine light one can let go increase of all grief and fear. If one truly believes in the DivineForce upholding you, surrenders to the Divine, and opens one’s a power of 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 rootedcontrol will come, one needs a power to grip it hard see and pull it out, which hurts reject the surface nature, but if one can have wrong turn or the courage and focus on one’s light, wrong reaction when it is possiblecomes. One needs to be vigilant Fear and unhappiness will not allow it give you that. It is only by this vigilance accompanied by an opening 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 supporting 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 surrenderguiding Force that it will come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0331/14-april-1929fear#p4p12</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 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 Illness =you fear it no longer. The fear disappears.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-march-1954#p22</ref>
Nine-tenths 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 danger highest centre he consciously possesses, and organised it in such a way that it is inwardly in an illness comes from fearhis control and he has not to say at every moment, "Ah! I have done this, I don't know why. Fear can give the apparent symptoms of an illness; and Ah! That's happened to me, I don't know why"—and always it can give the illness toois "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know",—its effects can go so far and as long as it is like that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#p17</ref> 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 fear in the cells of the body and help one not catch even contagious diseasespath is somewhat dangerous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/1125-may-1955#p13p55</ref>Fear and Death
One of the most subtle fear The way to attain to this perfect consciousness is the fear of death which comes from  the concern for self-preservation so as to ensure the continuity of increase your actual consciousnessbeyond its present grooves and limits, to educate it, fearing to open it to the Divine Light and to let the unknownDivine Light work in it fully and freely. THowever, this fear But the Light can do its full and unhindered work only when you have got rid of death is in the physical cells selves which is beyond reason all craving and almost unconscious. Thusfear, when you have no mental prejudices, no vital preferences, it is the most difficult no physical apprehensions or attractions to uprootobscure or bind you. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/31/fear#p14</ref>
This fear goes against And 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 truth is that if instead of inner seeking i.e. searching being shut up in the immortal light narrow limits of psychic their little person, they could so widen their consciousness which is as to be able not only to identify themselves with others in all and identifying their narrow limits, but to come out of these limits, pass beyond, spread out everywhere, unite with it.  Complete surrender to the Divineone Consciousness and become all things, and believing then, at that all of us belong to Him integrallymoment the narrow limits will vanish, but not before. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1205/the-fear-of-death-and-the-four-methods-of19-conqueringaugust-it1953#p5p27</ref>
The fear of death Another effective method is not just restricted for those who have faith in a God, their God, and who have given themselves to him. They belong to him integrally; all the death events of their lives are an expression of the physicaldivine will and they accept them not merely with calm submission but with gratitude, but also the death 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 the egotheir 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 a past version lying at the feet of one’s their Beloved in an absolute self, the fear -surrender or of letting gobeing cradled in his arms and enjoying a perfect security. When one does not have the courage to live, it There is often because something within oneself has to die no longer any room in their consciousness for something new to be born. It is then one should have fear, anxiety or torment; all that '''courage''', the true '''courage''' to abolish the egohas been replaced by a calm and delightful bliss. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1512/22the-fear-of-death-and-the-novemberfour-1958methods-of-conquering-it#p7p3</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.
= Fear and Religion =
The '''fearContent curated by Suhani''' 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 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. <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 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 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://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/fear#p47</ref>
 
 
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