Questioner: Sir, let me give you an example. Right now I am asking you a question. Just before asking the question, my heart was pounding. When I am standing, this time the heart is still pounding but I am confident of what I am going to ask.
Speaker: Allow me to take this up. As you are standing in front of me right now, this is the situation. This is when and where the action is and you say that you are far less afraid right now. In the action, you are not afraid. In the moment of the action, you are not afraid, but you are afraid before the action. Before the moment of action, is there any action?
Listeners(everyone): No, Sir.
Speaker: But something else is there. What is there?
Listeners(everyone): Fear.
Speaker: So, what is fear? Is there fear in the moment of the action? Is this action actually fearful? No. There is no fear in actually getting up and asking. So, what is fear then? Remember he was afraid before the action, when he was thinking about how to ask the question. Hence fear is a thought. There is no substance to fear. When you are into it, then where is the occasion to be fearful? Right now are you afraid? Neither am I? There is this situation, there you are and here am I, and we are in contact, there is something going on, there is no reason for fear. But there is a thought that makes you afraid. And what’s that thought all about?
