Death and disaster, adversity
and failure pull us down. We are scared of them. There is none who is
totally free from fear. Everybody is haunted by some type of fear. Fear
of death is of course the most common. But there are a few who commit
suicide. They are not afraid of death. But they are afraid of life. One
fear or other always haunts almost all of us. To be fearless is to be
free. To be free is to be peaceful. To be peaceful is to be blissful.
The only way to overcome fear is to know the truth, realize the truth.
Sri Ramana at the age of sixteen experimented with
death, experienced death, overcame the fear of death by knowing truth
about life and death. He realized the truth and so he is a free person,
peaceful and blissful.
Why should we be ever afraid of anything? For example
there are some who fear darkness. All things available in the day are
available in the night. The only difference is during the day, we have
the light and during the night there is darkness. Is it not foolish to
be afraid of the same place and objects in the night? Similarly the man
who is afraid, lives in the darkness of ignorance. He who is not afraid,
lives in the light of knowledge. The same world is a source of sport to
some and sorrow to somebody else.
A farmer's son is dead. The mother is weeping; the father
is not weeping. He said "I don't know for whom I should weep. Last
night I had a dream. In the dream I had seven sons. All of them were princes.
And unfortunately they all died. Should I weep for those seven sons or
this single son? Life is but a dream".
"The more our bliss is within,
the moe spiritual we are. Let us not depend upon the world for pleasue."
--- Swami Vivekananda
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