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Editorial

Moving beyond fear

We are always told that fear is that which Thus it is not surprising that it is difficult to
invites catastrophes, precipitates illnesses and get our prayers answered unless we have a
robs the possibility of a graceful exit from life. monumental faith. If one starts to doubt the
next moment after one has prayed, the whole
We make up our mind to be fearless, we endeavour loses value!
pray to rise above fear and make New Year
resolutions that we won’t be scared anymore. Soul-faith
Yet we continue to be stalked by fear, hunted
by insecurities, overwhelmed by uncertainties The concept of fearlessness needs to be
and threatened by death. grounded on an unshakeable faith that must
be poised in a consciousness not overridden
by divisions. It is only the consciousness
that is sheltered in the soul-space that can
nurture such an unwavering faith and
indomitable courage where fear has no
place. But the soul-space is in the fourth
dimension and not easily reached by our
material senses. One has to travel to the
depths of the being to grasp the inner
essence of the soul entity or psychic being
and build a strong foundation of soul-
Faith and doubt faith. It is an inner journey that is totally
different from our outer endeavours to
Perhaps one of the main reasons for this harness strength, showcase muscles, amass
dilemma is that we try to be fearless at the money and wield power — enterprises that
level of the mind. But the function of the mind we think can make us fearless but actually
is to reason and analyse, and that inevitably land us into new types of anticipatory fears
leads to doubts and denials, to conflicts and and insecurities.
contradictions. That is a legitimate functioning
of the mind or else we would be saddled The Mother describes the inner journey:
by superstitions. But the end-result is that
we cannot construct the edifice of faith and “Beyond all the emotions, in the silent and
fearlessness on such shifting sands. tranquil depths of our being, there is a light
shining constantly, the light of the psychic

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