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= Fear and Illness =
= <span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">Nine-tenths of the danger in an illness comes from </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">. </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">Fear</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;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:#ffff00transparent;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>
<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:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">the true </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">'''courage'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">to abolish the ego. </span>
<span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">The </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;">'''fear'''</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;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:#777777000000;">Courage is the total absence of fear in any form.</span><span style="background-color:#ffffff;color:#777777000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00transparent;color:#777777000000;">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:#ffff00transparent;color:#777777000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When the vital is entirely surrendered to the divine it is full of courage, enthusiasm.</span>
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