Namaste members,
We spend quite a great deal of our lives in fear..right from the day we are conceived till we die.
Even religion to a great extent subsists on the fear of the masses.
From the moment a child is conceived fear starts.
Parents start fearing its well being and do all sorts of pre delivery rituals for a safe delivery.
Then after the birth of the child..the fear of the horoscope of the child creeps in.
Fear again makes the parents run to an astrologer for a befitting name of the child which would be favorable with time and date of birth.
We start life with fearing the planets..fearing time..fearing anything and everything.
Then comes childhood where some parents instill fear in children to make them behave.
Some parents tell their kids "If you lie God will pierce your eyes"!
Then the fear of God starts.
Even prayer starts in fear..ends in fear!
Yes it ends in fear because some worry if they had pleased God enough to gain entry into higher lokas.
They start to worry.."how do I please God?"
So there you go again..its fear and fear over again.
We even fear the earth..that's why everyone wants heaven.
We fear the Devil that's why we seek God.
We fear hell tha'ts why everyone wants to please God.
A dying person fears if his sons will do the needed oblations to bail him out of hell...many die in fear.
Even laws of the world to great extent is followed because of fear.
People fear the police hence they dont break traffic rules.
No one is actually themselves..its all a facade.
Fear seems to rule the world right from day one of our existence.
Parents pass on their fears to children in the form of tradition and culture.
Remove fear and everything comes crumbling down because without fear one has to learn to stand on his own.
Not many want to face being in that situation.
We have become so addicted to fear that becomes a Stockholm's Syndrome.
We start to identify with fear..we start to sympathize with fear..we cant survive without fear.
To great extent I feel Fear is the actual religion of mankind.
An Atheist can live without God but he wont be able to live without fear.
True freedom is the day we humans learn to walk away from fear.Till then we are still lost no matter how much we pray.
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