The Key To God's Heart - Chap 21

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FEARS(Chapter 21)There

are only two salient emotions in the universe, fear and love. It can

almost be said these two emotions are the very basic principles of all

life and actions. Where there is fear, there cannot be love, for fear

negates love and love transcends fear. Right at this moment, human life

is not filled with peace but is broken into pieces.Fear

has to be excluded, overcome, and triumphed over for love to manifest

and prevail. Hence the fears and darkness of ignorance : the shadows

which cast doubts and raise fears and misery of the unknown must be

overcome before love can flourish. It means destroying the fears that

live within you and your mind. For total love of God to exist, to reign

supreme, then fear must be transcended - the fears within the human

psyche must be destroyed; the fears that bother and disturb you. The

subconscious fears. The fears you have been brought up to accept as

natural and normal. The fears which surround you everyday, the death of

a loved one, the loss of your dearest, the fear of injury, of illness,

the fear of dying and the shadows of poverty and destitution. And the

greater fear of loneliness. They must all be transformed into love, for

only then can you love God as He wishes to be loved.There

are subtle reasons for these fears. Something concrete causes and

initiates these fears. The fear of other people because you feel that

they are different, they do not conform to your ideas. They are not

like you. They entertain different views to you. Therefore, you feel

threatened. This is where fear and hatred springs from, their origins

are masked in ignorance. It is also the underlying reason for the

absence of love in the world today.Everyday,

first thing in the morning, sit quietly and ask that throughout the day

God thinks through you, purifies your thoughts as that is where all the

problems begin. If we have a negative thought, we are tempted to add to

it a negative feeling, then we add a negative word and a negative

action and the fears then arise. This has to be avoided at all costs by

prayer to God. You will find that throughout the day your fears will be

in abeyance and your thoughts will be pure, creating harmony and peace

around you. We must also ask Him to feel through us because our

emotions are sometimes loaded with negative energy, which is the

opposite of love and more attuned to fear. In this way, you are more

likely to feel compassion and understanding and not be quite as

critical or judgmental. This will not change in one day. Since the

habits have been formed over many years, they are slow to die. But like

weeds in a garden, the more you cultivate the flowers, the weeds are

destroyed. In a garden that is full of flowers, where is the room for

weeds to flourish?The

next thing to ask God is for Him to speak through you all day. It will

take time to develop these habits, to make them permanent, but

eventually, it will happen and you will find yourself speaking

differently. The same will happen with your actions and you will

discover that somehow your actions are altered, just a little bit to

start with. When you forget to ask Him, you lament and are upset and

waste so much of your time and energy. It is much simpler and more

effective to ask God to work through us every single day and He will.

Our problem is that we have not been taught to ask anyone because we

have always been told to be responsible, to be careful, to think things

through, to be independent.How

do you generate love, fall in love instantly with someone you have just

met? Why do you love your parents or family? You love them because they

are close to you. You do not have any fear of them. You are not afraid

that they may harm you or cause pain or destroy you. You have that

trust, that confidence. That is the basis of your love for them - the

absence of fear. So to love God, firstly, you have to overcome and

transform all your fears. How? To create love for anyone is not to fear

them in any way. Complete love entails total lack of fear. When you

love, you will have no fear. It is only when you love that you do not

have fear. Fear is also the mother of falsehood.The

reason that terrors, horrors and fears impinge themselves upon our

minds is mainly due to the media we indulge in. We see this as harmless

recreational activity, gory horror films, emotionally charged films and

disaster films. Through this media, all vibrations, thoughts and even

the television clips of monsters and aliens all leave their mark on the

subconscious which reanimates all this ghoulish material in your mind.

It amplifies what is there. This is what has led to the current

escalation in violence. One has to avoid this type of entertainment.

The media is such a powerful tool that it can make or destroy your

mind. It is a doubled edged sword. Used correctly, it can be the means

to great spiritual evolution. At the moment, it is misused for the

purposes of gratifying our lower nature. In your subconscious,

everything you see, everything you come into contact with, every

emotion felt is recorded. The more you indulge in this past time and

recreation, fantasy and imaginary horrors, real or otherwise, the more

they are ingrained in your mind. This causes any fears that are present

from childhood or other births to manifest. We all have some inherent

fears. These fears can only be destroyed by recording over them with

conscious positive and good thinking patterns. The mind can be likened

to a tape recorder, it will play only what has been recorded.

Eventually, the good input will erase all the horrors that have been

recorded in it. One must make an attempt to distance oneself from

damaging media.The

panorama we observe around us, television, newspapers, radio,

everything generates fear in us to some degree, small or great. Even

the food we eat creates fears due to the thoughts and feelings that

have subtly entered into it, especially mass produced, processed and

convenience foods. All the fears one could ever imagine are there

present within us. Some we are born with, legacies from a past

existence, but most are built up within us through our environment. And

because of these fears, we cannot love totally, purely, divinely - as

we should - as a child does.The

only negativity in the universe, the ultimate negative is fear. And

fear is borne of ignorance. It closes the door to God and the emotions

connected with love. Knowledge is love but ignorance engenders fear.

One should always be happy. God is blissful and happy all the time and

to attain Him, one must always be happy in one's self. Problems will

always be there in some form or other, therefore, it is essential to

overcome the barriers of anxieties and concentrate only on God.How

can this be achieved? It appears an impossible task. How to destroy the

subtle tendencies, the silvery shadows from many past ages and lives?

How to transform fear? How to get rid of centuries of deeply buried

fears? To be able to generate this supreme love for God. How to

accomplish it? Why do fears arise? Why do people fear each other? How

do you destroy fears? How to overcome the intangible? The first step is

to identify the fears for only then can they be destroyed. The whole

process can be accomplished through the power of the mind, mental

images, and mental visualizations. It can be achieved through thinking

about them and consciously destroying them, not only fears but also any

negative emotions, feelings or thoughts can be overcome through this

method. The mind has total and complete power and can do whatever it

wishes. Our minds are responsible for all that we are today but with

conscious effort, it can be changed. The mind is the powerhouse. If

only we can access its key and bring it under our control. There are

many visualizations, many mental techniques by which fear can be

destroyed.The

following is a technique for overcoming negativity. Imagine a circle

and yourself within it. Then imagine an empty black bag. Now, one by

one, place all your fears and negative feelings into this bag. Take the

bad and walk out of the circle and place the bag in a bin. Set fire to

the bin and watch all your fears burn. Then return back into your

protective circle. As you do this day by day, your fears will diminish.

This can be used to destroy any negative patterns one wishes to.Close

your eyes and visualize the form of purity and light and imagine His

love, which is all encompassing, non-judgmental, completely accepting

of all of us, no matter what our faults. Breathe in God's love for this

is the light of purity that will dissolve all the fears. And as we

breathe out, let go of anything negative, any anger, jealousy, hatred,

suspicion; go through and release all the fears you have one by one

with each breath you breathe out. Spend about 10 - 15 minutes each day

breathing in love and releasing all your fears. You will soon discover

that they will disappear.Sit

comfortably and imagine holding a bowl. Into that bowl pour out and

place all your fears, one by one. Once the bowl is full, then release

it and watch it float away high, high up and above and see God

receiving that bowl. Practice this every day for ten minutes.Love

God with all your heart, with all your strength and with all your mind.

Subsume all limited worldly loves into this one all consuming love for

God. Nothing can disturb our equanimity when we are one hundred percent

immersed in God, nothing of the world remains to upset us. Fear no

longer holds any meaning for everything will have become God.(From : THE KEY TO GOD'S HEART by R SAI)Copyright

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