Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Overcoming Fear is taught here...Shelter of Krishna!

Verse 1.7.22: When Ashwattama shot the brahmaastra, it started emanating a bright effulgence. Arjuna does not know what to do now, so he went to Krishna and asked him: O my Lord Sri Krishna, You are the almighty Personality of Godhead. There is no limit to Your different energies. Therefore only You are competent to instill fearlessness in the hearts of Your devotees. Everyone in the flames of material miseries can find the path of liberation in You only.

Here is the first quality, when a conditioned soul, despite having everything, he is always scared as to what will happen, what will happen. Even the President is worried, parents are worried, people are worried about security. So what is the cause of fear.

We are actually eternal, fully knowledgeable, and happy, but when we forget that and we start identifying with this material body, then we develop fear. So how to overcome this fear. The more and more we are engrossed in this body, and its challenges, we become scared. The more we are in the bodily platform, the more we are fearful.

How to overcome this fear? If we take shelter of Krishna genuinely, then we will overcome fear. Abhayacharanaravinda re. Krishna gives abhayam (don't worry, no fear no fear no fear, so many times he tells this in BG). So basically more and more we take shelter of Krishna, we become more and more fearless. And how to take shelter of Krishna, by chanting nicely, by devotional service, surrendering unto him.

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