Freedom from Fear and Suspicion

Every living being has fear and keeps looking for how to overcome fear. From one-sensed to five-sensed, inside every living being, there are four types of instincts, food, sex, sleep and fear. From the time a living being comes into the womb, right until death, these instincts are ingrained in him, and through them, the actions keep happening. How does the instinct of fear work? For example, a small puppy is sitting in the middle of the road, and on hearing a car’s horn, the puppy immediately gets up and starts walking. Due to the instinct of fear, it is afraid that “what if I die?” If there was no instinct of fear, even the puppy would not get off the road and a traffic issue would get created on the road.

Initially, the living being has a natural fear due to the instinct of fear. But as it comes into the human life-form, contrary fears usher in from which it desires to be fearless. Early in the morning, listening to cases of thefts, robberies, etc. on TV or newspaper, one experiences fear of himself getting robbed or ‘what if there is a riot?’—such fear arises. Even when there is a slight power outage and hence no lights, out of fear, one begins to panic. When in a plane or car, one fears meeting with an accident. Seeing a lizard or a cockroach in the house, one jumps up in fear. Many, when wake up in the middle of the night, the fear of ghosts frightens them. Also, if some wrong deed has happened, the fear of ‘my reputation shall be ruined!’ remains. After exams, one fears result. So, where is fear not there? The fear of past harasses many, while many remain afraid of the future. Thus, the state of a human being has become like that of a startled horse! Life is flowing in a dependent state. In addition, the contrary intellect of the current era (kaliyug) creates fear out of nowhere, multiplies one fear into many and shows it hundred times more; and hence, it becomes difficult to live a peaceful life! Thus, it becomes essential to know how to overcome fear.

Param Pujya Dada Bhagwan says of what use is such a human state? Humans should be fearless. Nothing in this world can shake us, that’s how it ought to be. Which is that fearless place? One’s own real self! Upon realizing ‘I am the Soul’, as one ascends the stages of pure Soul’s experience, fear keeps diminishing, and even in a fearful world then, one can prevail as a fearless Soul. As much one considers oneself perishable, that much fear arises. When one realizes that “I am permanent”, from that moment, one begins to become fearless.

Here, we get a detailed understanding of the various types of fear, the reasons behind those and practical solutions to overcome fear.

Fear due to Wrong Belief

Why do we have the feeling of fear? What is the spiritual science behind arising and dissolving fear?

Spiritual Quotes

The rule is: 'No one will insult you when you no longer fear insults'. As long as there is fear, the 'transactions' will keep coming but they will cease when your fear is gone.
If a person is fearless, then if someday he decides to take matters in his own hands, he will be able to accomplish whatever he sets his mind to. Therefore, you should have fearlessness such that you are convinced that nothing can happen to you.
So there should be no suspicion in the work you are doing and if suspicion does arise, then do not proceed with that work. Your work will not be successful from the moment you start to have suspicions about your work.
Suffering comes to those who fear it.
If it were possible to change things through fear, repression and intimidation then there would be an end to democracy in government and we would have totalitarian regimes that would incarcerate human beings and even hang them.
Some people say that they employ deceit and deception out of fear, but fear of what? The one with the fault will have fear, is that not so?
Suspicion is removed by doing proper pratikraman. One has to repent against suspicion. One should not become careless about it. The one who did the suspecting, the one who was in violation, should be made the doer of repenting.
In the worldly life, what is misery? It is the pain created from wrong suspicions.
Nowadays most of the quarrels at home arise from suspicions. Suspicions create vibrations which create a blazing fire. And if one becomes suspicion free, the fire will extinguish on its own. How can the flames be put out if both parties are suspicious? There is no choice but for one of the two to become suspicion free.
The one who begins to have doubts, for him complete destruction occurs. Having doubts is a sign of timidity. The entire world is ‘scientific circumstantial evidence’. Where is the basis for doubts then? You are the owner of the entire universe; ‘I’ am ready to give you proof.
There is no solution for suspicions. There is solution for real facts. There can never be a solution for suspicions.
What is the reason for fear? You consider yourself as temporary; Fear vanishes with the understanding – vision of ‘I am the eternal Self’!
Why should you have any fear after becoming the Purush? For you the state of swa-purusharth and swa-parakram have arisen, i.e. for you, you have come into your own domain as the Soul; you are the 'Knower' and the 'Observer' and your energies of the Self have arisen, so why fear anything?
Abhaya-daan is higher than gnan-daan, but ordinary people cannot give abhaya-daan! Only the Gnanis and his followers of enlightened beings can give abhaya-daan.

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