If you want to know or see anything,
you first look at it. If you live consciously, aware of things, you will
know everything to the extent that you will not be afraid. The remedy is that
you have to keep awake.
HATEVER
YOU DEAL WITH, whatever you use, wherever you go, whomsoever you relate
to, you have to be conscious in the sense that you truly look at that person
or thing. If you do this, you will not be afraid. The time you are trying to
avoid, to escape, suppress or make something look or happen differently than
it naturally is, you are imposing on yourself blindness, unconsciousness and
ignorance. To know the nature of a thing, you have to face it. As I am talking
to you, I am looking at you and present with you. Look, meaning: be present.
When a problem occurs in your life, try to face it and not avoid it. Do not
show your back or suppress it. This will make you know the nature of things.
There is a second point in this. Often we are habituated
to know the nature of things by comparison. When we want to know the nature
of a person, we try to compare that person with someone else. Spiritually speaking,
this is a fallacy. You can never know by comparison. This may seem paradoxical,
but we will go into detail. When you compare, you are relating something to
something else. But you are supposed to face the thing itself, its real
nature.
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Comparison is a kind of intellectual
exercise; it will not make you arrive at the proper solution to your problem.
Let's say there are two persons and you are trying to determine who is good
and who is bad. By comparing them, you are comparing their degree of goodness
and badness, and one may prove to be good and the other bad. Bring in a third
person and you may find that the person whom you called good may look bad by
comparison to the third one. Because by habit we try to know things through
comparison, we go on changing our opinions as we go on comparing. Certain people,
situations or things may prove to be right today, but when compared with others,
your judgments will change. Therefore the solution is to look at the person,
relationship or thing in itself. You can only know a thing in itself. The time
you will be aware in this way, conscious, your fear will leave you.
Fear is not something you can fight with. The more
you fight with your fears, the more your mind becomes timid and weak. You have
to bring in a counter-suggestion: "I should be bold." How? Bold, meaning you
face it. Not by pride, not by arrogance, just face it. Do not avoid it. If a
karma is confronting you, just face it and solve it. Then you will not be afraid.
If you pray, "God, make me bold, make me courageous, take care of my fear,"
you also create certain vibrations that make you face things and not show your
back.
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