Words from the Master

Fear in general is so overpowering that it can completely throw you out of control.

A small story:

A disciple kept bothering a Sufi Master to give him initiation.

Finally the Master told him that he would initiate him on a condition that he went into the nearest town and kissed a woman in burkha and proceeded to the forest beyond to beat a tiger with his stick.

The other disciples protested saying that this was too simple.

The Master just smiled and asked them to wait.

A week later the disciple returned. He was terribly wounded and bleeding.

The Master asked him what had happened.

The disciple spoke, “I don’t know why, but I beat the woman and kissed the tiger.”

(Loud laughter!)

Fear can simply blind you! It can take away your thinking and intelligence altogether for a few moments. That is why you need to deeply understand fear and overcome it.

In so many cases, you might have heard: When there is some fire or some calamity happening, people will be running in all directions out of fear; they will be opening doors in the wrong direction; they will be running towards the wrong exit although they know during normal times that it is not the right exit. All these things sometimes even cause them to lose their lives in the given emergency situation. Fear is so blinding.

I tell you to be aware of your fear all the time because, only through awareness you can transform base energies to higher energies. Just like how lust can change to love through awareness, fear can change to fearlessness and intelligence out of pure awareness.

Anything suppressed only takes up another form. It doesn’t get uprooted totally. So suppression is not the way to overcome fear. Awareness is the way. In fact, if you suppress fear, you are missing a chance of overcoming it.

When you continuously look into your fears with awareness, even when death comes, you will look into it with awareness and allow it to happen to you. It is important to be able to do this because ultimately all your fears are nothing but the fear of death. When you work on your day-to-day fears, your fear of death decreases unconsciously, and when your fear of death decreases, your day-to-day fears decrease.

Yes…We will now do a beautiful meditation called the Nirbhaya Dhyana*, to work directly upon the swadhishtana chakra.

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

* To learn and experience Nirbhaya Dhyana (meditation) under a qualified instructor, kindly enroll for Ananda Spurana Program (ASP) at a center close to you.