IF YOU LIVE CONSCIOUSLY, AWARE OF THINGS, YOU WILL KNOW EVERYTHING TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU WILL NOT BE AFRAID.

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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.

WHATEVER 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.

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.


Teaching from the basis of eternal Truth, the message of Swami Amar Jyoti's Satsangs (Sanskrit: communion with Truth) is one of deep spiritual unity.  His way is not to espouse a particular creed but to impart a spiritual way of life.   He spent four decades (from 1961-2001) awakening and uplifting countless souls around the world to God-consciousness and disseminating the timeless Truth underlying all traditions and faiths.  Prabhushri Swamiji authored several books; over seven hundred of His oral discourses, illuminating the classical path for modern times, are available on audiocassette.



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