ALLERGIES, PHOBIAS and FEARS🔗

You can make them or break them

By your very nature, you constantly renounce. You don't even have to try to renounce, you don't even have to struggle to get enlightened, because your inner space can never be corrupted. Even if you try your best, you can't hold on to one thought for too long. You will renounce it without your knowledge. Try your best to hold on even to lust...you can't!

You may have a big problem with lust or fear or greed. Let me challenge you. Just try to hold on to the fear. You can't! For example, just as you are having a thought of having a cup of coffee, try to bring in your death fear and hold on to it. You can't! Your death fear can be replaced just by the thought of a cup of coffee because your very nature is to renounce! Understand: the moment you start thinking of having a cup of coffee, it means that the death fear has disappeared! It may come back again later but that is not the point. You have renounced it now, that's all. Unless the death fear drops and gives place for the cup of coffee, the thought about coffee cannot happen. So, the death fear and the desire to have a cup of coffee are equivalent! If this can replace that, it means that its value is only that much! But mentally you create a chain by saying: no, no, again and again I am having death fear. But again and again you have the thought of having coffee also, but you don't give importance to it. You don't put the coffee thoughts together and create a shaft. Nine years ago your thought to have a cup of coffee, eight years ago your thought to have a cup of coffee, and your thought to have a cup of coffee now, you don't connect and think that having a cup of coffee is a big problem that you have. But the fears which happened many times in your lives, you collect them and create a shaft of suffering.

All your problems are chosen thoughts. All your problems are nothing but thoughts chosen, believing that they are connected. You just pick up 10 thoughts and create a shaft with them and say that they are 1 million thoughts. How can it be? In your inner space no thought holds value. No thought holds any value. Understand that by your very nature your inner space renounces and continuously rejuvenates. By your very nature your inner space is pure. Only when you start believing these are your problems, you connect all the problems and suffer. And that also happens in a very random way. Something rises and something falls. Something rises and something falls. When it rises, you pick up it up, connect all the thoughts and create an idea that you have a problem, for example - fear.

All your phobias can be addressed with this single truth. People come to me with some allergy or some fear. If they have an allergy to green chillie, I bring a green chillie and tell them to eat it in front of me. I just give them the courage to be un-clutched. All their problems, fears and allergies simply disappear!

The Swadhishtana chakra is the fear energy center. This is the place where your Being is established. Fear and fear strokes block this chakra. For example, when you walk in your garden at 9pm and you see a coiled rope and one corner of it is slowly moving, a fear stroke happens. You think it might be a snake! The stroke happens from this center only. Either you rush to the bathroom or the bathroom rushes to you!

Fear stroke is worse than fear itself because fear stroke weakens your immune system. Chemicals which create depression are released into the system. The ageing process is decreased. The average man gets at least 6 fear strokes per day. You may think not. You don't record them. But you get fear strokes in your dreams also.

How to go beyond it? Confront it. Vedanta says beautifully: fear is like a shadow. How much you try to turn or escape, it will not leave you. The moment you stop and try to face it, you will realise that it is nothing but your shadow. The fear is not there at all. Simply by facing it, it goes away. By reducing the depth of the fear, the quantity and quality of the fear strokes will be reduced.

Let us analyze all our fears. Fear of not pleasing the family. No genius has been able to please their family. They have been only dropouts! I will categorize fears into 5 major categories. First: fear of losing wealth, comfort, name and fame - all out worldly things. Second: fear of losing parts of your body through accident or disease. Third: fear of losing mental health. Fourth: fear of losing loved ones or their love. Fifth: fear of the unknown like God, ghost. But ultimately, all the fears are fear of Death! People are not convinced of this so we make it as five layers. They feel comfortable this way.

Why should we fear Death? I don't know why. I can only show how to escape from it. Is it possible that without enlightenment, you live without fear? Yes it is possible. Let us work on all the five layers so that you completely come out of it.

Paramahamsa

Shakti sthal – seat of Divine Energy, Bangalore ashram, India – 2006