There is nothing more scary than the Truth. The primary function of Truth is to negate all your falseness, to show you that you are living in lies. Truth supports you in the sense that, without its help, you cannot even see falseness. Truth cannot be pleasant to what we are. Truth can only be pleasant to the Truth. Before the Real can come, this false one must disappear.
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Questioner: The outcome of outer events still affects me. I shiver in fear, I become excited in happiness, but there is a voice that says, “I don’t care!”
This scares me terribly. What is this voice? I feel unsafe with it.
Acharya Prashant: There is nothing more “scary” than the Truth. The Truth has been called as that which terrifies you beyond limit. In the narrative of the Gita, when Shri Krishna reveals his real form, the Truth, to Arjun, he shivers; he trembles. He says, “I am going to faint!”
The word ‘tremendous’ has a deep connection to Truth. Truth is tremendous. And tremendous comes from the same root as trembling – that which makes you tremble, getting it? Tremendum. All these are related. So do not think that the Truth only pacifies, becalms, soothes, comforts, it shakes you! (Smilingly)
