Words from the Master

Yes…?

Swamiji, you spoke about fear of the unknown. Can you explain further on that…?

Yes, I am coming to that.

You see: Fear of the unknown is nothing but the fear that we have of darkness, of ghosts and spirits, of God and finally of our own death.

Actually, we are so afraid of our fears! That is the truth. We are afraid to face our fears and so we allow our fears to assume great proportions and we start getting more and more afraid.

A small story:

One man was traveling in a train.
The ticket collector came to him and asked him for his ticket.
He frantically started searching for the ticket in his purse, in his luggage, in his pant pocket and what not.
The ticket collector was watching him and said, “Sir, why don’t you search in your coat pocket.”
The man replied, “Please don’t ask me to look in it now. My only hope is that it will be there.”

(Laughter!)

We are so afraid to look! We are so afraid to look at our fears; that is the whole problem. So we delude ourselves in comfort zones and keep carrying on.

Never fear to look. The moment you fear to look, you are only creating more fear because it becomes more unknown to you. Just look into the fear and accept that you are in fear. Automatically, the fear will dissolve. If you start facing your fears one after another with awareness, somewhere down the line, intelligence will replace fear and you will have lesser and lesser of the fear emotion in you.

Anyhow, when we talk about fear of the unknown, fear of spirits and ghosts is very common. There is no need to fear them at all. Just understand that spirits and ghosts are much less powerful than us. We give them much more power than what they have and make them control our fears. There starts the problem.

Don’t go too much into the subject of spirits and ghosts. It is of no use. If you are well centered and clear about yourself, it is enough. Automatically, nothing can touch you and you will also not have fear of such things.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.