Mind, Body & Soul: ‘Real happiness is leading a fearless life’

Chennai

Humans experience two kinds of pain — physical pain and psychic pain. Physical pain is tangible but will not disturb you mentally, if you know the solution with certainty. However, psychic pain is known only to the person enduring it and is born out of fear and worries. For any psychic pain, self-effort and self-recovery is the only remedy.

Most often fear is not real, it is a perception or an illusion based on one’s mentality. Fear is false evidence accepted real or false events appearing real.

What do humans really fear? Something they don’t want, might happen or something they want, might not happen. No matter what, fear and uncertainty in the mind will always exist in life. In the stone ages, it was fear of predators, lightning or natural calamities. Today, those fears have morphed into unhappiness in relationships, unexpected personal or financial loss or uncertainty in business, career or the stock market.

The other side of fear is absolute freedom. And with faith you can reach there. Faith is the ultimate power which allows one to act with full confidence even in the absence of evidence. During tough times, the power you receive is not from the God; it is your faith in God that gives power to your God. That’s precisely the reason why the God that works for you might not work for others.

Any problem can be approached in only two ways; with faith or with fear. One functioning out of faith, will knowingly or unknowingly be a peacemaker and one operating out of fear will result in being a troublemaker even without intending to be one. Peacemakers find solutions effortlessly while troublemakers find problems even where there are none.

The only way for humanity to rise above the present level is to make use of faith because with faith, even the impossible becomes possible, but with fear even that which was once possible becomes impossible. The divine truth is that faith works, faith alone works.

Faith acts like a wifi, that invisible power that effortlessly connects you with what you want. And fear is like a jammer which in spite of your ability will not allow you to use the available power. Real success and happiness is not living a powerful life, it is living a fearless life.

With faith, I wish you all not  to go-through any situation, instead you will grow-through  every situation.

Aham Brahmasmi!!

Shri Aasaanji is a non-religious, contemporary Spiritual Master and the founder of the Atmayoga Foundation (Institute for Inner Science and Self Transformation) www.atmayoga.in.