90% of Our Worries and Miseries Are Due to Fear and Wrong Imagination
Parable of The People Who Died of Fear
A traveller in the middle-east met a curious fellow in the course of his journey. “Who are you?” he said, “and where are you going?”
“I am Cholera. I am going to kill five thousand people in Egypt”, said the other, and resumed his journey. A few years later they again happened to meet together. The former asked the latter, “You had given me words to kill only five thousand people; but you have killed fifty thousands, instead.”
“No, No”, he retorted, “I have killed only five thousand people; the rest died of fear.”
The parable shows how fear is the deadly enemy of man. Ninety per cent of our worries and miseries are due to fear and wrong imagination. Though what is feared may never happen, yet the apprehension of it saps out the vitality of man. Only a Brahmavit is totally free from fear.
Fear is the product of ignorance. The Atman in its real nature is always fearless, diseaseless and free. One should realise the Atman and cross the ocean of fear, disease and miseries.
Source: pg. 117, Parable of Sivananda
A traveller in the middle-east met a curious fellow in the course of his journey. “Who are you?” he said, “and where are you going?”
“I am Cholera. I am going to kill five thousand people in Egypt”, said the other, and resumed his journey. A few years later they again happened to meet together. The former asked the latter, “You had given me words to kill only five thousand people; but you have killed fifty thousands, instead.”
“No, No”, he retorted, “I have killed only five thousand people; the rest died of fear.”
The parable shows how fear is the deadly enemy of man. Ninety per cent of our worries and miseries are due to fear and wrong imagination. Though what is feared may never happen, yet the apprehension of it saps out the vitality of man. Only a Brahmavit is totally free from fear.
Fear is the product of ignorance. The Atman in its real nature is always fearless, diseaseless and free. One should realise the Atman and cross the ocean of fear, disease and miseries.
Source: pg. 117, Parable of Sivananda
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