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Fear Is Based in the Limitations of Ignorance and Unconsciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In the Life Divine SRI aurobindo describes the Sevenfold
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  ignorance which limits the human being.
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  We live in a world about which we know very little and we lack
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  a complete understanding of the significance of Our Lives.
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  The meaning of existence or the processes of time as a result we
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  act, as if we are separate beings living in a separate
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  existence. And we React to what we do, not
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  know or what we imagined or what we perceive to be a threat to
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  that individual existence with fear.
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  The basis of the fear reaction can be seen in the consciousness
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  of the animal. And as shown in the secret life
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  of plants even in a very rudimentary way.
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  And the plant in these cases, the perception of a vibration of
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  threat, whether from a predator or some Danger from outside
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  brings forth, the reaction, we can see this in operation very
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  clearly in the relation between a predator and its prey The prey
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  knows, it is going to become food for the predator and begins
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  to shake and exhibit all the symptoms of fear.
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  These very basic reactions carry over into the human being, but
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  they become accentuated through the process of our attempt to
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  extrapolate in our Ignorance by imagining what may happen, What
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  could happen and what implications that has This
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  occurs not only in a true physical threat, but in
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  virtually every circumstance of human interaction in the world.
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  given the pervasive nature of fear in human existence, it is
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  important to understand how to deal with it so that we can not
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  only function in our lives, but use the opportunity to grow and
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  master this reaction SRI aurobindo in his book, The
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  Mother devotes a chapter to the question.
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  He States, quote to walk through life, armored against all fear,
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  Peril and disaster. Only two things are needed to
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  that go always together the grace of the Divine mother and
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  on your side and Interstate made up of Faith, sincerity and
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  surrender and quote He explains these in depth.
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  As the chapter continues, the issue here is the shift from the
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  ego Centric view point to one that is divine Centric for a
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  seeker of spiritual realization. This is the ultimate solution to
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  fear, as long as we remain rooted in the ego and the body
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  life, mine complex. We take personally any threats
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  to our existence or our well-being.
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  Fear can be paralyzing emotion and for those not yet fully
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  devoted to the yogic sadhna. It must still be addressed one
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  way or another. The mother observes quote fear
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  is a phenomenon of unconsciousness.
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  It is a kind of Anguish that comes from ignorance.
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  One does not know the nature of a certain thing does not know
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  its effect or what will happen. Does not know the consequences
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  of Tax one does not know so many things and the ignorant brings
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  fear when fears, what one does not know.
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  Take a child. If it is brought before someone,
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  it does not know. I'm not speaking of a child with
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  an awakened inner Consciousness. I'm speaking of an ordinary
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  child. You bring it before, someone it
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  does not know. Its first movement will always
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  be one of fear. Only very rare children.
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  And they have another Consciousness are very bold.
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  It may also be a mixture of apprehension.
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  A kind of instinct. When one instinctively feels
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  that something is dangerous and hasn't the means to remedy it.
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  When one does not know what to do to protect himself from it,
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  then he is afraid. There are I believe, countless
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  reasons for fear but it is a movement of unconsciousness.
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  In every case, That which knows has no fear that which is
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  perfectly awake, which is fully conscious and which nose has no
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  fear. It is always something dark.
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  That is afraid. One of the great remedies for
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  conquering, fear is to face boldly.
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  What one fears you are put face-to-face with the danger,
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  you fear and you fear it, no longer the fear disappears from
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  the yogic point of view. The point of view of discipline,
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  this is the cure recommended in the ancient initiations,
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  especially in Egypt in order to practice occultism.
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  As I was telling you last time it was necessary.
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  Ready to abolish, the fear of death completely.
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  Well, one of the practices of those days was to lay the
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  neophyte in a sarcophagus and leave him in there for a few
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  days as though he were dead. Naturally he was not left to
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  die. Neither of hunger nor
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  Suffocation but still he remained lying there as though
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  he were dead. It seems that cures you of all
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  fear. When fear comes, if one succeeds
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  in putting upon it Consciousness, knowledge Force
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  light when can cure it all together.
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  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth,
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  disturbances of the vital fear ages, 50 to 53.