What is a simple, direct and immediate technique for overcoming fear?
Not a theory, or a philosophy, not something that has to be built up or worked on over time, but something highly effective that one can do right in the moment to confront and penetrate fear.
What is the best way to work with fear right in the moment that fear is present, and especially at that time that it is gripping one to the point of being disabled?
Not a theory, or a philosophy, not something that has to be built up or worked on over time, but something highly effective that one can do right in the moment to confront and penetrate fear.
What is the best way to work with fear right in the moment that fear is present, and especially at that time that it is gripping one to the point of being disabled?
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Re: What is a simple, direct and immediate technique for overcoming fear?
Mon, June 5, 2006 - 10:21 AMAccording to Vedic culture the most simple and effective way to get rid of fear is throught knowledge.
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.15.22
asańkalpāj jayet kāmaḿ
krodhaḿ kāma-vivarjanāt
arthānarthekṣayā lobhaḿ
bhayaḿ tattvāvamarśanāt
SYNONYMS
asańkalpāt — by determination; jayet — one should conquer; kāmam — lusty desire; krodham — anger; kāma-vivarjanāt — by giving up the objective of sense desire; artha — accumulation of wealth; anartha — a cause of trouble; īkṣayā — by considering; lobham — greed; bhayam — fear; tattva — the truth; avamarśanāt — by considering.
TRANSLATION
By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should conquer anger, by discussing the disadvantages of accumulating wealth one should give up greed, and by discussing the truth one should give up fear.
For the self is unborn and eternal so what does it need to fear.
BG 2.11: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor for the dead.
BG 2.12: Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.
BG 2.13: As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change.
BG 2.14: O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
Bhagavad Gita As It Is
Such knowledge of the self and the material manifestation can be obtained simply by performing the service of chanting the maha mantra Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 1.2.7
vāsudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ
janayaty āśu vairāgyaḿ
jñānaḿ ca yad ahaitukam
SYNONYMS
vāsudeve — unto Kṛṣṇa; bhagavati — unto the Personality of Godhead; bhakti-yogaḥ — contact of devotional service; prayojitaḥ — being applied; janayati — does produce; āśu — very soon; vairāgyam — detachment; jñānam — knowledge; ca — and; yat — that which; ahaitukam — causeless.
TRANSLATION
By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.
