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How to Overcome Fear · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A number of years ago, a crowd of anti-war, protesters in
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  Washington, d.c. were gathered in front of a federal building
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  and were suddenly confronted with a Phalanx of heavily armed,
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  police wielding, guns batons and potentially tear gas, canisters.
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  Arriving with numerous paddy wagons who surrounded them and
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  began to move in a vibration of fear went through.
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  The people assembled there. As they thought they could be
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  beaten arrested or both, then someone began to chant ohm and
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  the crowd picked it up. Suddenly, the vibration of fear
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  was gone and transformed into a courageous strength to face
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  whatever would come. Leaders of nonviolent protest
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  movements whether Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King or others
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  work to convince their followers to accept the worst with courage
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  and not to Flinch before the beatings.
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  The bullets, the dogs and the arrests they opposed fear with
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  self sacrifice and dedication to a higher cause But disciple went
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  to ask the mother when one feels frightened, what should one do?
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  The mother responded, quote, that depends upon who you are.
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  There are many ways of curing oneself of fear.
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  If you have some contact with your psychic being, you must
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  call it immediately. And in the psychic light, put
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  things back in order. This is the most powerful way.
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  When one does not have this psychic contact but is still a
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  reasonable being. That is when one has a free
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  movement of the reasoning mind, one can use it to reason with to
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  speak to oneself as one would to a child explaining that the
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  sphere is a bad thing in itself. And even if there is a danger to
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  face the danger with fear is the greatest stupidity.
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  If there is a real danger, it is only with the power of Courage
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  that you have a chance of coming out of it.
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  If you have the least fear you are done for So with that kind
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  of reasoning managed to convince the part that fears that it must
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  stop being afraid if you have faith and are consecrated to the
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  Divine. There is a very simple way.
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  It is to say, let your will be done, nothing, can frighten me
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  because it is you who are guiding my life.
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  I belong to you and you are guiding my life.
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  That acts immediately of all the means this is the most effective
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  indeed it is that is one must be truly consecrated to the Divine.
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  If one has that it acts immediately off your vanishes
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  immediately like a dream and the being with the bad influence
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  also disappears like a dream along with the fear.
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  You should see it running away at full speed pretty la la now,
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  there are people having a strong vital power in them and they are
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  fighters who immediately lift up their heads and say An enemy is
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  here. We are going to knock him down.
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  But for that, one must have the knowledge and a very great.
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  Vital power, one must be vitally, a giant, that does not
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  happen to everyone. so there are many ways, different ways, they
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  are all good, and if you know how to make use of the one that
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  suits your own nature, And quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth.
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  Disturbances, the vital fear Pages, 52 53,