Overcoming
the fear psychosis
Fear
is a phenomenon of unconsciousness. It is a kind of anguish that comes from
ignorance. One does not know what is in store, what shall be forthcoming, does
not know the consequences of ones acts, and this ignorance brings fear. Normally
it's a fear of the unknown. Take a normal child. If you bring it before someone
it does not know, its first movement will be always one of fear. It may also be
a mixture of apprehension, a kid of instinct. When one instinctively feels that
something is dangerous and hasn't the means to remedy it, when one does not know
how to protect oneself from it, then he is afraid. There can be innumerable
reasons for fear, but it is a movement of unconsciousness in every case.
One
of the great remedies for conquering fear is to face boldly what one fear. You
are put face to face with the danger you fear and you fear it no longer. The
fear disappears. From the yogic point of view, the point of view of discipline,
this is the cure recommended. In the ancient initiations, especially in Egypt,
in order to practice occultism, it was necessary to abolish fear of death
altogether. One of the practices was to lay the neophyte in a sarcophagus and
leave him in there for a few days, as though he were dead. He was not obviously
left to die, neither of hunger or of suffocation, but still remained lying there
as though he were dead. Possibly it cured one of all fears.
When
fear comes, if one succeeds in putting upon it consciousness, knowledge, force,
light, one can cure it altogether.
Another
way of removing fear is to bring down strength and calm into the lower vital
(region below the navel). Also by will and imposing calm on the system when the
fear arises.
On
the other hand if you have some contact with your psychic being, you must call
it immediately and in the psychic light put things back in order.
In
case you do not have the psychic contact, but are still reasonable, when one has
a free movement of the reasoning mind, one can use it to reason with, to speak
to oneself as one would to a child, explaining that fear is a bad thing in
itself, and even if there is a fear, to face the danger with fear is the
greatest stupidity. If there is a real danger, it is only with the power of
courage that you have a chance of coming out; if you have the least fear you are
finished. So with that kind of reasoning, manage to convince the part that fears
that it must stop being afraid.
If you have faith and are consecrated to the Divine, there is a very simple way to say: " Let your will be done. Nothing can be frightening me because it is you who are guiding my life. I belong to you and you are guiding my life." That acts immediately .Of all means this is the most effective. For this one must be truly consecrated to the Divine. If one has that, it acts immediately; all fear vanishes immediately like a dream. And the being with the bad influence also disappears like a dream along with the fear!
Subhashis Das Gupta