Other Side of Fear / Expansion of Consciousness is Peace

THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR - The Usefulness of Fear

Nature has put an amount of inbuilt fear in all living beings. This fear
makes life defend itself, protect itself. Like salt in the food, a little
bit of fear is essential for people to be righteous.

Fear of hurting someone makes you more conscious.

Fear of failure makes you more keen and dynamic.

Fear moves you from carelessness to taking care.

Fear moves you from being insensitive to being sensitive.

Fear moves you from dullness to alertness.

Total lack of fear may lead to destructive tendencies - a distorted ego
knows no fear. Neither does the expanded consciousness! Whereas the ego
dismisses the fear and moves in a disruptive manner, the wise one
acknowledges the fear and takes refuge in the Divine.

When you are in love, when you are surrendered, there is no fear. Ego, too,
knows no fear. But there is a difference, like that of heaven and earth,
between these two types of fearless states.

Fear makes you righteous; fear brings you close to surrender; fear keeps you
on the path; keeps you from being destructive. Peace and law are maintained
on the planet because of fear.

A new-born child knows no fear - it totally relies on its mother. Whether a
child, a kitten or a bird, when they start becoming independent they
experience fear which makes them go running back to their mothers. This is
inbuilt by nature to sustain life.

So, the purpose of fear is to bring you back to the source!!
 
 

Knowledge Sheet 168 - Expansion of Consciousness is Peace Aug 26, 1998 Hamburg, Germany Consciousness moving on the surface of the body is stimuli, which cause pleasure. When consciousness shrinks, then the sensation of pain and suffering arises. Suffering is the shrinking or contraction of consciousness. When consciousness moves through the body in limited channels, pleasure is experienced. Repeated enjoyment of the stimuli causes inertia and dullness. Often cooks don't enjoy their own food. Listening to the same piece of music loses the charm, people in the sex industry don't enjoy sex. If the stimuli are observed, then consciousness expands and becomes peace. With awareness the stimuli lose their significance; whether they exist or not makes no difference. When the sun is there, then whether the candle is lit or not makes no difference. To realise that all pleasures are just stimuli and that you are more than the stimuli brings freedom. Pain is nothing but consciousness wanting to expand and to become free. Freedom basically is liberation from the craving of the stimuli. Pain is not a permanent state. The natural tendency of consciousness is to expand, to become bliss. Like the natural tendency of water is to flow downward, and the natural tendency of air is not to be under pressure, the natural tendency of consciousness is to expand and to be at peace. Like the person who is an insomniac and has forgotten how to sleep, most of us have forgotten to be at peace and in bliss. Question : What about the pleasure in Satsang? Answer : The pleasure of Satsang takes you towards expansion.

Jai Gurudev

 

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"Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you."

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder, Art of Living Foundation.
 
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