The question of confidence arises only when you are afraid. You do not need confidence when you are with the loved one, but in the interview room, everybody says, “I need confidence.” Look at all your images of confidence, and you will see a fine aggression there, because fear and violence go together. Don’t ask for confidence, ask for fearlessness.
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Questioner: If a person has stage-fear, how can that person enhance or extract the ‘Inner-confidence?’
Acharya Prashant: Sit. See ‘confidence’ and ‘fearfulness,’ ‘confidence’ and ‘fear’ these two are actually the two names for the same state of mind. Fearfulness says, “I’m at the risk of losing something important that something important can be anything – money, security, respect whatever relationship.” Confidence says, “These things are important but I’m not at the risk of losing them.” What is common in between confidence and fear?
I am repeating, pay attention now! Fear says, “What I have from the world is important and is at a risk of getting lost.” Confidence says, “What I have from the world is of course important but it is not at the risk of getting lost.” Now, what is common between ‘confidence’ and ‘fear?’
Listener: Acharya Ji, the dependency on the world.
