MS 31 - Look Into The Eyes Of Fear

Welcome my friends to Mohanji Speaks.

Hope you have enjoyed the previous episodes.

Today,

Let's talk about one overwhelming subject.

It's called fear.

There are various dimensions of fear that we see in our life and around us.

Have you ever thought about fears objectively?

There are numerous types of fears.

Some are very very paralyzing fears.

Fear of height,

Fear of insects,

Fear of wild animals,

So many types of fears.

Its intensity varies.

So let's look at some of the worst fears of our life.

One of the worst fears of everybody's existence is death,

Fear of death.

And that's fear which is very common.

And how do you counter that fear?

We'll come to that later.

Then we have fear of people,

Fear of talking in public,

Fear of doing a thing,

Fear of not having or not receiving an approval from people,

Fear of criticism,

Fear of judgment.

We have various types of social fears.

How will people look at us?

What will they think about us?

I have seen some people who are afraid to say they are following Mohanji or they are connected to me.

I have no problem in connecting to anybody and I have no problem in telling I am with them.

Because when you decide to do something in life,

This is your productivity.

You have full freedom.

You have free will.

There is no way nobody can point a finger.

Nobody has the right to point a finger because you chose an experience.

It's our choice.

Then we have fear of failure and fear of failure is so crippling that we don't even attempt certain things in life.

That means we lose the chance for that experience.

We have fear of losing friendships so we bend backwards,

Forwards to accommodate people in our life.

Means we become unnatural.

Still we accommodate,

We try to accommodate people in our life.

Fear of losing friendships.

Sometimes it's better that some friendships are lost because they are too heavy for us.

When I say lost,

Not to convert them into enemies but to say that it's fine to be away from these friendships.

Toxic friendships,

Crippling friendships,

Draining friendships.

It's good to not to have them.

We have fear of examinations.

The real examination of life is life itself.

Every moment.

The decisions that we make every moment without knowing what will be the result.

These are real examinations of life.

We should not be afraid of life.

We should embrace life.

We should embrace life with love.

This is what is going to give us stability.

We are afraid of losing our comfort zones.

This is another fear that we entertain.

We have certain things which we have got in this life and then we hate to lose it.

We have fear that if it goes away what will happen.

But life is about changes.

Everything changes.

Life changes.

Situations change.

Can we help it?

I doubt we can help it.

We have to go with the flow.

We have to be like water.

Flow.

Then the first question about death.

How do we overcome the fear of death?

One word answer.

Awareness.

Whatever is born will die.

Everything that's born have to die.

And at each point in time we are made aware that everything is temporary.

All situations.

All emotions.

All things around us are temporary.

When we close our eyes in the night we don't have a world around us.

It's gone.

When we open our eyes in the morning there is a world around us where we can move and we can experience things.

But they are all temporary.

This is a reminder that the world and the life is temporary.

Everything is temporary.

So this is a good way to know that we will die someday and there's nothing to be afraid of.

Everything that is born will die.

Now if we increase our longevity,

Increase the lifespan,

Even if we extend our lifespan,

If there is no contentment factor is it worth it?

Real life,

Real life,

Good life is when you are healthy,

You are experiencing life as a healthy person and that's about it.

When you're unhealthy,

When you need help from people,

That's not the right way to live.

That's not a healthy life.

We are afraid of losses.

Economical losses,

Money losses,

Losses of friendship,

Losses of near and dear,

Losses of relationships,

Various types of losses.

We are afraid of them,

Many of us.

We are afraid of diseases.

We fear diseases.

We fear losing wealth and we fear society in a certain context.

How will society treat us if we don't have this wealth?

So there's so many dimensions of fear that we entertain each day.

Then people give you fear.

Relatives say,

Hey if you lose this job you have a problem,

You won't be respected in the society,

So you cling on to the job.

You fear of not getting things done so we end up driving or we do we enter into corruption.

There are so many things which are controlled by fear.

Now one of the major fears is fear of God.

God is love.

Why do we fear God?

What's there to be afraid of God?

God means the substratum.

Everything sits on him.

The whole universe has come out of this intelligent energy called God.

We can give it a form.

We can keep it formless.

All the forms have come out of God and all the forms will dissolve into God and we call it God.

If you like to call it energy,

If you call it consciousness,

No problem.

It's all the same.

But why do we fear?

A particle of God is sitting inside us.

We call it soul and this is a very very important aspect of our existence.

If it leaves the body,

We call the body a dead body,

Useless piece of flesh and bones.

So God is to be loved,

Respected,

Appreciated and also should be grateful to God for creating the universe,

The variety,

All these experiences,

The possibility of them and to have a life.

This life is given so that we could experience all this.

Not that God chose to give a life.

God is not like a school teacher or a king sitting there somewhere invisibly and pointing a finger at things.

It's a substratum where we can create our life.

We can create our existence.

That is why when Lord Dattatreya was asked by people who He is,

What did He say,

I am just a worshipper of nature.

I am a connoisseur.

I am loving nature and my love for nature and the wonder for all these creations is my inspiration.

So that's the beauty of it.

This is the point.

Then we have fear for tomorrow.

What will happen tomorrow?

Whatever happened until now,

Similarly tomorrow happens.

How we have created our life,

How our patterns are,

How our likes and dislikes are,

How our orientation is,

How our disposition is,

That's how our tomorrow is made.

If you change your disposition,

If you change your attitude,

If you change your likes and dislikes,

Tomorrow will be different.

So who's creating it?

We are creating it.

Who's maintaining it?

We are maintaining it when we maintain our likes and dislikes,

When we maintain our orientation,

When we maintain our disposition,

Then the world is the same.

But if we decide to change,

Then the world is different.

So the world is just a reflection,

A projection of what we are.

So where is the room for fear?

In the path of liberation,

There is no room for fear.

One thing we need to overcome all the fears is our ability to look into the eyes of fears and tell the fears,

I'm not afraid.

Come on,

Bring it on.

No problem.

Secondly,

Main thing is awareness.

Awareness is the key.

When you have awareness,

You have no fear.

Faith is the third aspect.

These are not in hierarchical order,

Not one above the other.

It's all important to control or to contain fear.

And faith,

Primary faith in yourself,

Then faith in the universe and acceptance,

Another aspect.

Acceptance,

Okay I have fear but I'm not bound by fear.

Fear is sometimes acquired,

People gave it to you,

Let it be,

No problem.

So all these aspects can help you counter your fears.

Now society,

Look at the society.

Society sometimes sells fears.

We have feature films,

Horror films,

This is selling fear.

And for what?

There is a bit of element of entertainment and satisfaction in these fears.

That aspect is sold.

We can well be away from it.

This is our choice to be afraid and be happy or stay away from all this nonsense and be peaceful.

This is our choice.

I'm not against any horror films but I don't watch them.

I am not interested.

Then another thing is that in the case of Octavius Caesar,

I think Octavius Caesar or Augustus Caesar,

When the young boy told him that my lord,

People love you.

Then the king says no,

They fear me.

This is better.

Fear is used by political leaders,

Religious,

Spiritual leaders to control people.

Fear is the weapon there.

Fear is a very powerful weapon because it cripples you and that's used to control people.

That's a very negative way of handling situations.

I always say love is much more powerful,

Much more better.

But there is a disadvantage there in some cases that if people cannot handle love,

They can go against you.

Some people prefer fears than love based on their orientation and disposition.

This is utilized by political leaders,

Spiritual leaders,

Rulers to control people which is a negative way of handling things.

That's not the way.

But society uses fears.

Governments use fears to control people.

Fear of retribution,

Fear of punishments.

This is very crippling.

So people obey because of these fears.

Fears have very varied dimensions.

Let us cultivate love.

We don't need fear.

We should not fear.

We should love.

This life is a beautiful garden.

This life is a beautiful garden.

We should swap all our fears with love.

We can love God,

We can love gurus,

We can love masters,

We can love friends,

Family,

Society,

Nature,

Everything we can love and you get it back.

What you sow,

You reap.

So you give love and you take love.

So this is what it is.

Whenever somebody tries to control you with fear,

Go away from them because you don't need it.

If somebody or something or a situation or an infrastructure or a machinery,

Machinery means it's like a government,

They try to control you with fear,

Try to step out of that and go away or through your love you transform them.

Through love you can transform.

Everything can be transformed with love.

Today we have extended the speech for some time.

I spoke a little bit more because the subject is deep and very important.

I would like to leave you with these thoughts.

We can talk about fears more later but these thoughts should be well thought of and I would like you to do something to get out of all your fears.

You don't need fears.

You should be fearless.

Then you are liberated.

Freedom from fears is also liberation and that leads to complete liberation.

Love.

That's all you need.

Lots of love.

This is Mohanji.