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Ego and Fear
Ego keeps the mind under its control by generating fear. The Ego aspect in us employs the power of fear to keep the mind going towards the intellect and awareness. Ego loses its power if we are in the realm of intellect and awareness state.
How does one get rid of fear?.
Fear is born out of ignorance about the nature of our true Self. Understand that freedom is your true nature and be free from fear. Freedom is the spirit of nature. Freedom is expressed everywhere in this universe. We want freedom in every sense and moment. We want to be free from troubles, sorrow, free from poverty, from disease and all other limitations. Freedom is the very nature of us. Happiness that we experience is actually the freedom of limitations that we experience. In peak moments of happiness we forget about the limitations of ourselves, the body, the time and the place. That is total freedom. At that moment we are with our true Self.
Happiness is that unlimited freedom that we enjoy which is neither bound by time nor bound by space. This is the base for positive feeling. Fear is the negative aspect of freedom. Fear is the feeling of limitation and so a sign of weakness. To have a positive attitude one should be free from fear.
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Fear, the force behind
Emotion of fear is protective, but is damaging, when we use the emotion of fear in the wrong dose at the wrong time, causing stress. Example, the fear of smoking or eating unhealthy foods is good. But when we get disease and fear about death, it is damaging and ridiculous.
Fear of missing the flight helps us to leave to airport on time to board a flight. But going late and fearing to miss the flight while driving is ridiculously stressful. Here we use misuse fear and suffer from its consequences.
Feeling of fear comes when we feel insecure about ourselves in many situations in life. This baseless fear serves no purpose other than generating stress. Analyze with your intellect and you will see that most of the time, other than the protective aspect, fear is baseless, yet we hang on to fear and generate stress.
Buddha, says,
"Thus, all fears
And all infinite sufferings
Arise from the mind."
. . . it is not possible
To control all external events;
But, if I simply control my mind,
What need is there to control other things?
Vedic tradition symbolizes the need for no fear in a hand gesture as shown below. Then hands represents the action state of mind. Only by controlling the mind, 
it is possible to overcome sufferings and be peaceful. If the mind has to be peaceful, it has to be fearless and for this the mind should be prevented from wandering. The legs are symbolic of wandering nature of the mind. This is why in the picture, the legs are tied with a black strip to avoid wandering (more details in the section of festivals).
Let us continue with the discussion of fear.
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Bliss - the unconditional happiness in life
Life becomes always blissful 24 hrs a day, seven days a week if we live life with full awareness. Now our happiness in life is conditional, which means we are in the happy state the way the mind dictates so. If we live life in the happy state whatever the conditions may prevail, it leads to unconditional happiness or bliss. Bliss is unconditional happiness.
To stay happy irrespective of all conditions in life is bliss. It is does not mean that one will not cry, feel sad, sorry, etc. These are emotions which will arise based on the situations. To get caught up in these emotions without being aware of it is the problem.
Look at babies, how blissful they are. They do express emotions, they cry when they feel pain. But that is only for a moment. They do not have a hang over of it. They do not get caught with that emotional feeling. They express it and then they let go of it and then are in the present again.
Children are also are found bubbling with energy. We have a bigger body and have more strength than the kids, yet the kids can run around the whole day and never get tired. This is because they are in the present and do not have hang over of the emotions they under go.
If children are the present, in the awareness state, then why do they get diseases? A good question. The answer is that kids are the projection of the minds of the parents. This is why ancient masters emphasized the pregnant mother to pay attention equally to the body and mind. Unfortunately mothers pay attention only to the body and not to the mind. Stressful mind of the pregnant mother expresses as diseases in the kids. More details in pregnancy section.
Getting back to our discussion of unconditional happiness, we do not let go of anything and that eats up our mind and generate stress. To let go of things, to accept the reality of the present, which means to accept what is happening around is the way to have unconditional happiness. In later chapter we will discuss more about the power of acceptance, the biggest stress reliever.
Unconditional happiness cannot happen until fear is removed. fear is the main force behind the stress in mind. we will discuss about it.
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Inner Silence & Meditation
The silence one observes in meditation is the bridging state between Pure Awareness and pure consciousness. Meditation leads to the pure awareness state and we have discussed that awareness is the source of healing. This is why meditation is very important both in healing and spiritual and helps in day to day mundane activities.
The state of pure awareness only leads us to real Self - Pure Consciousness, which is otherwise called as Atman, Brahman or Soul. Meditation helps the individual to transcend to the state of pure awareness, which is close to the state of pure Consciousness. This is Self realization, the goal of a spiritual seeker.
Why does not one observe the silence always.
It is again because of the mind. In a movie theater the film that is projected is a continuous exposure of frames of the film. When one frame is projected, the eye captures the frame and after a pause the next frame is projected. However the mind does not perceive the pause because the mind retains the image of the first frame even after the frame vanishes and by that time the next frame is projected and the mind captures that frame. Therefore the mind ceases to observe the thoughts. Similarly each thought that arises in the mind is like distinct frame, and the pause or the silence between two successive thoughts is never experienced. The silence between the thoughts is peace. In meditation thus one observes the inner silence , the source of all thoughts.
Life is just watching a movie- being a witness.
In a movie theatre the we see the images projected on a movie screen. Have you ever thought the force that project the images on the screen?. That is the LIGHT. Light is that illuminates the film and is projected on a white screen. Without the light the film cannot be projected. Similarly it is the consciousness that illuminates all the objects in the world. The body is like the screen on which all the images are projected by the source of the light. Like the whole activity of a theater is based on the light source. The same is the case with the world, where the whole world is based on the consciousness. This supreme consciousness is acknowledged as supreme power or GOD.
The ultimate purpose of LIFE is to use our body, mind, intellect to realize, that our true Self is the Consciousness, the light projecting this whole universe .
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