The Fight between your potentiality and your negative approach🔗

Whenever you are afraid of losing something that you have, or you fear you cannot achieve something that you want to have, there is a fight going on between your potentiality and your negative approach to the future.

If you are sure there is no possibility of achieving something, that you don't have the potentiality, you will not have fear. If you are sure that you can achieve something, then also, you don't have fear.

Fear is the fight between faith and belief in oneself on one hand, versus the negative idea or expectation you have about your future on the other hand. You are literally fighting with your own positive and negative energies.

If you are very sure you don't have the potentiality, that you can't achieve, then you won't have fear. If you are very confident you are going to achieve, then also you won't have fear. However, if there is something you want to achieve, but you are not sure that you can achieve it, then you will have fear. The fight between these two ideas, the dilemma is what we call fear.

There are two ways to escape fear. One way is to block all possibility. This means you can die, then there won't be any more fear! The second way to escape fear is to break the boundary of possibilities. If there is infinite possibility, if there is no boundary, if there is nothing that limits you, then you become fearless. Just by having this understanding, something will click in you and so many fears will disappear from your being!

There is a beautiful story:

One person wrote on the wall of a temple where the teachings are written, 'Soham' – 'I am That.' It means, 'Everything is possible by me.'

Another person came and wrote, 'Dasoham' – 'Nothing can be done by me. I am a slave.' Again that is also okay.

A third person came and wrote, 'Sadasoham' – 'Always I am That.'

If you are in tune with the idea, 'Nothing can be done by me,' you are a bhakti yogi - you surrender. If you think, 'Everything can be done by me,' you are a gnana yogi - you explore and experience. Whether you work in this path or in that path, going beyond fear is possible. But you should be completely connected to one ideology or the other. Either you should be ready to work with 'Everything is possible for me,' or you should be ready to work with 'Nothing is possible for me.'