Fear
Rishikesh, India,
6th April, 1997
Chapter 1 - The You That You Want To Change
Day 9 - Fear
Because fear is love standing upside down, everything that can be interpreted with love can also be interpreted with fear. A child clinging to its mother can be understood in both ways - the child clings out of love, or out of fear.
This primal instinct of fear can be totally transformed through awareness of Divine love. Fear is an impression of the past reflecting the future of the present. When people deny fear, they become egocentric, when they recognise and accept fear, they go beyond it - they become free from it. Total lack of fear is possible only in utter chaos or in utmost
orderliness.
Neither a saint nor a fool has fear, but everywhere in between there is fear. Fear is essential to preserve orderliness in the world. It is a primal instinct. Fear of death preserves life. Fear of wrong maintains right. Fear of sickness encourages hygiene. Fear of misery makes you righteous.
A child has a pinch of fear so it is careful and alert while walking. A pinch of fear is necessary to keep things moving smoothly. Do not try
to eliminate fear. Just meditate and know that you are nobody or that you belong to someone special. Whenever a boundary is broken, it creates some fear.
This fear creates aversion, this aversion in turn brings you back inside the boundary, and to keep yourself in the boundary, you set up defences. But when you try to defend your position, it becomes a stress and every time you work to defend your position it makes you weaker.
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