The Srimad Bhagavad Gita – Quick Reference Series
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Define fear.
Fear is an unpleasant, often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger. It is a primordial emotion that exists in all sentient beings. Fear is an emotion that everyone has experienced at some point or the other in life. Most of us have experienced the fear of either losing someone, our honour, money, property, happiness, position or also that of being attacked by someone. Whatever it is, fear basically is imagining something that has not happened yet! Even if it is fearing the repetition of some unpleasant incident in the past, it is still the fear of something that has not happened until that point in time.
The root cause of fear is attachment. Those who fear losing someone or something, do so because of their attachment to the object they feel they would lose. The fear of losing one’s reputation stems from one’s ego. People who dread physical attacks fear damage to their bodies, which is sure to perish at the end of a Janma or lifetime. A person who understands the impermanence of everything physical or materialistic and realises that he or she has nothing to lose; fears absolutely no one and nothing.
In order to reach a higher level of understanding, it would be necessary to comprehend that a person’s body, mind, intelligence, senses and the Atman are separate from each other. Studying the Srimad Bhagavad Gita helps clear misunderstandings that cause faulty thinking, which is one of the prime causes of all misery.
Reading and imbibing the truths in the selected life-changing Shlokas, from the Srimad Bhagavad Gita, given in the collection above can aid in removing fear out of the mind.
Remember that a disturbed mind can achieve nothing and that a calm mind is the first requirement in preparing oneself to receive Divine Blessings.
Tavamithram Sarvada 