Fearlessness helps. Confidence does not help. Confidence is like a pill that you are trying to take when you are already sick. Avoid sickness. The pill cannot be your food, the substance of your life.
I am giving you a mantra: Whenever you feel scared, trembling, or even hopeful in the presence of the other—and that other could be a person, a thing, a situation, whatever, the other is the world—whenever you feel all this, just remind yourself, “I am being dependent; otherwise, I could not have felt this fear.”
All fear arises from dependency. If you are not dependent, you cannot be afraid.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
