Facing My Fear: Journey to Trust and Connection || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00I'll read my question. I'm a bit nervous.

00:10I have been avoiding facing you for a long time because of fear and now I want to face this fear.

00:18There is some deep distrust to let anyone come truly near.

00:23I know that a direct connection with the teacher could help me to get free from suffering.

00:29When there are moments of clarity, I truly feel that the self is marvelous.

00:35That it dwells in all the bodies, but then ego gets afraid also of that and runs away.

00:42So the fear cannot be a master anymore. Could you help me with this? Thank you.

00:59Am I really all that vicious? That really is the answer. Am I really all that horrible?

01:12You?

01:13Yeah. The one you are probably afraid of.

01:19Yeah, that's the answer. That's the answer.

01:25We said thought serves to serve the master.

01:34You could say thought serves to secure the master, right? Protect the master. That's all.

01:42It's a thought that there is something horrible or destructive or extremely unpleasant that could happen.

01:53This thought is not random. This thought is extremely purposeful.

02:01Just that we do not know ourselves, so we do not know where the thought is coming from and hence what is the purpose of that thought.

02:14If the thought says, you know, the teacher or the book or whatever, the process of self-observation.

02:23Oh, these are dangerous things. There might be pain involved. There might be stuff that hurts.

02:35This is what thought suggests, right? Thought is suggesting all that on purpose. And the assigned purpose of thought is just save the master.

02:50Yes.

02:51Save the master. So no thought is random. Though we say that thought proceeds through random associations, fact is thought is never random.

03:02Thought exists to save, secure, defend all falseness.

03:14But here, as you are right in front, there is no space for thought in between.

03:25Or at least the space has been shrunk.

03:32The master has decided to give it a try.

03:37So the servant has been told to wait outside the room.

03:43The master is saying, okay, I am experimenting with something new.

03:46If I need you, I will call you.

03:49And the master discovers in this experiment that the suggestions coming from thought were not all that helpful.

04:06And the observations made by thought were not all that accurate.

04:10Being in touch with the reality can never harm anybody.

04:34Accept that as probably the only principle that needs to be accepted.

04:39We do not need to otherwise live by axioms.

04:42We do not need to otherwise live by axioms.

04:44But take this one.

04:46It never hurt anybody

04:50to know the fact and come to the truth.

04:56Never, never.

04:58Never.

05:01And if thought suggests otherwise, dismiss the servant.

05:09Don't we have all those obsequious ones whose only job is to save their job?

05:18They don't exist to serve even the master.

05:23They exist to secure their jobs.

05:25We have them everywhere.

05:26All departments, all places, all countries I think.

05:31Or do we find them only in India?

05:33Loads of people who exist just to please the boss.

05:46Not even to really serve the boss.

05:48But to just please the boss.

05:53Thought is that kind of a servant.

05:55And the principle is coming face to face with things as they are can never be inauspicious.

06:10Temporarily, a little bit, it might bite, pinch here, bruise there, a little bit.

06:19But that much we can take, you know.

06:22We are not so fragile.

06:27Right?

06:29Whenever there is a trouble, a problem, as you said, loss of clarity and such things.

06:36Ask yourself, how much of it is in the mind?

06:41Will I still be experiencing all these things if I fall asleep this moment?

06:54There is a cloud within.

06:56There is commotion within.

06:57There is chaos.

07:00And all kinds of things are playing out.

07:04They are silly games.

07:05What if I go to sleep this moment?

07:09Would all this still exist?

07:12It's mental.

07:14It's mental.

07:16And if it's mental, can I open my eyes and then open the door?

07:20And walk out into the fresh for a while?

07:22Use this when you know what to use it for.

07:37That's probably a pretty way to put it.

07:43Just because you have a servant, don't keep the poor fellow running around.

07:47Certain people do that.

07:50They say a fellow must justify his salary.

07:55That's like keeping your car on ignition even when you don't have anywhere to go.

08:02Just because the faculty of thought is there, don't keep using it.

08:08When you know what to use it for, then use it on purpose, sharply, precisely, like on a mission.

08:16Go do that.

08:18And then...

08:20And then...

08:22Sit still, sir.

08:24Sit still. That's your job.

08:29Go complete the assignment.

08:32Go fetch the goods.

08:36Go complete this task.

08:38And then...

08:40Sit still.

08:41When you have nothing to do,

08:44that doesn't mean you will just dance or prance around.

08:50When there is nothing to do,

08:52sit still.

08:54And if you can sit still when there is nothing to do,

09:06then you will be excellent when you decide to do.

09:17If excellence eludes thought or action,

09:22one likely reason is that we do not know how to make it sit still.

09:28Think of a runner who is always running.

09:34How will he perform in a race?

09:37How will he perform?

09:39He will perform very badly in the race.

09:42When it will be the real time to run, he will find that he has no energy,

09:52no pace.

09:55No pace.

10:04Am I making sense?

10:06Yes, very much.

10:08Yes.

10:12Thank you so much.

10:13I'm so happy that I got over this fear.

10:17Julius has been pushing me.

10:20I'm also from Finland,

10:22so he has been helping me to just push through this fear.

10:26I'm glad and I'm thankful he has pushed you.

10:31I want him to keep pushing you a little more.

10:39And now when I have

10:44got the guts to come face you,

10:48I want to keep coming again.

10:51So I'm very thankful for your teachings.

10:54All this is making me feel guilty.

11:00I must be communicating a very monstrous persona.

11:07And I'm scaring away people.

11:11It can be a little bit intimidating.

11:13I can understand I have heard this one name of yours, this Ravan.

11:18Ravan.

11:20The roaring one.

11:21But I have started feeling more and more that you are roaring to the ego,

11:30not me.

11:31And it is pure love that you are roaring.

11:34I'm thankful if you can see that.

11:40Thank you so much.

11:41Yeah.

11:43Welcome.

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