Fear

Fear is biological. You are not supposed to fight fear because, even to fight it, you would have to enter the domain of the body. Ignore fear and attend to the task that your consciousness is suggesting to you. Let fear be there; you do what you must. You don't need willpower or motivation—rather, you need wisdom to ignore these things.

निश्छलता

Why Can't I Leave My Comfort Zone?

मैं छुपाना जानता तो जग मुझे साधु समझता।

शत्रु मेरा बन गया है छल रहित व्यवहार मेरा।।

प्रश्न: सर, क्या यह पंक्तियाँ सही कह रही हैं?

उत्तर: विवेक,

छल रहित होना कभी कमज़ोरी नहीं होती।

निश्छलता आती है इस गहरी आश्वस्ति के साथ कि मुझे छल, धोखा, चालाकी की ज़रुरत… read_more

8 min

The body will not allow you to do things where your physical sustenance gets threatened. 'What will happen to this body?’ is the fear. The one who can go without food and sleep in the streets under the open sky can never be enslaved. Have the guts to sleep in the fields, and learn to go without comforts—then the world cannot dominate you!

डर और तनाव को कैसे दूर करें?

12 min

डर और तनाव मूलतः इसी भाव से निकलते हैं कि कोई दूसरा है जो मेरा कुछ छीन सकता है और कोई दूसरा है जो मुझे कुछ दे सकता है। जब तक तुमने यह धारणा बाँध रखी है, डर और तनाव से मुक्ति संभव नहीं। सदा अपने आपको यही बताओ — मैं लाख गिरूँ तो भी मेरा कुछ नहीं बिगड़ सकता। जब इस भाव में जियोगे, तब न डर रहेगा न तनाव।

डर से मुक्ति कैसे होगी?

10 min

हर डर दूसरे का ही होता है, और कोई डर है ही नहीं दुनिया में, एक ही डर है — दूसरे का डर। क्योंकि हम अपने आप को जानते नहीं, और अपनी वही छवि बना लेते हैं जो दूसरे हमें देते हैं। सिर्फ़ एक कल्पना है और वो कल्पना दूसरों की कल्पना है, ‘दूसरे क्या कहेंगे?’ सदा तुम दूसरे से ही डरे हो। जिसने दूसरों की गुलामी छोड़ दी, जो दूसरों पर आश्रित नहीं रहा, अब उसके जीवन में डर भी नहीं रहा।

Secrets of an Authentic Personality

5 min

A. Objective and Fear

Wherever there is an objective, there would be fear associated with it. You hope to get something, and you fear that you may not get it. Don’t you see that a man who is chasing goals has condemned himself to live in fear?

It is possible… read_more

Freedom from Ego is Freedom from Fear

24 min

Acharya Prashant: What to do when you encounter a person with a lot of ego? He has used two words: High ego and bad ego. Let us understand this. When you use the term ‘bad ego’, you necessarily mean that there is something called ‘good ego’ as well. Correct? Logical?… read_more

Afraid of Being Judged by Others?

8 min

Put your heart fully into your work, and your mind will no longer be in the audience. When there is no heart in your work, then your mind wanders in the world. Love your work, and you will forget the world. Your problem is not that you are too concerned with people’s opinions. Your problem is that there is no heart in your work.

सबसे सुंदर है वो चेहरा जिस चेहरे पर डर नहीं

Career Crossroads: Finding the Right Path Forward

आचार्य प्रशांत: अपनी हस्ती पर भरोसा करिए। आप अपनेआप को जितना जानते हैं, आप उससे कहीं ज़्यादा सामर्थ्यवान हैं। अपना आकलन आप बड़ी हीनता में करते हैं, अंडरएस्टिमेशन (कम आँकना)।

छोटे नहीं हैं आप, विश्वास करिए। उसी ऊँचे विश्वास को श्रद्धा भी कहते हैं। कि जाने दो जो जाता है,… read_more

11 min

Questioner: A lot of students that I talk to, it’ s the fear of the society, it’ s the fear of the unknown, it’ s fear of the expectations that they are carrying, that pushes them to become an engineer and then they figure out that probably this is not… read_more

Inviting Fear || AP Neem Candies

Man Bows Only to Fear, or to Beauty || AP Neem Candies

Acharya Prashant: Losing something requires a method, an application only if that something is either central to you or sticks to you on its own. Fear is neither central to you, nor does fear say that “I want to stay with you.” All fear is acquired and external.

So, rather… read_more

आत्म-छवि खोने का डर

12 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: इमेज की परवाह करने का मतलब होता है कि ये जो आस-पास के लोग हैं, ये बड़े महत्त्वपूर्ण हैं मेरे लिए। कि ये क्या कहेंगे मेरे बारे में, वो बड़ी महत्त्वपूर्ण बात है।

आदमी छोटी बातों में तो दूसरों से ज्ञान ले सकता है क्योंकि ज्ञान किसी का… read_more

सीखना चाहो तो बहुत सीख सकते हो

Acharya Prashant: Man bows down to only two things, you know—either to fear or to beauty. Today the world has neither of these. There is very little to be afraid of, you know. If the Earth is being destroyed, you can colonize another planet. “So, don’t worry, we will fly… read_more

शक्की बनो, लंबा जियो || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)

आचार्य प्रशांत: खास बात समझो तो उनमें क्या है? देखो, किसी की सीधे-सीधे निन्दा कर देना बहुत आसान होता है। और किसी को देवता बनाकर के उसकी पूजा करने लगना, ये भी आसान ही होता है। पर इंसान को इंसान की तरह देखना और उसका सही मूल्यांकन करना वो ज़रूरी… read_more

3 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: आनंद फ़िल्म में राजेश खन्ना, अमिताभ बच्चन की जो आपसी नोंक-झोंक होती थी, बड़ी दिलचस्प थी — कि ज़िंदगी तुमको बड़ी चाहिए कि लंबी चाहिए। ‘बाबू मोशाय, ज़िंदगी बड़ी चाहिए या लंबी चाहिए?’

लंबी चाहिए तो खूब नकारात्मकता से भरे रहो। जितना तुम शक्की रहोगे, प्रकृति ने संयोग… read_more

भविष्य के ख़्वाब मत बुनो, वर्तमान के विरुद्ध विद्रोह करो

11 min

होश का मतलब यही होता है — अपनी वर्तमान हालत के प्रति ईमानदारी। सब जानते हैं पर भीतर इतनी तामसिकता भरी हुई है कि कौन संघर्ष करे इस कैद, इस पिंजड़े, इस कसाई के ख़िलाफ़।मदद मिलती है, सहारे आते हैं, चमत्कार होते हैं थोड़ा भरोसा तो रखो। और नहीं होंगे चमत्कार तो अधिक–से–अधिक क्या होगा? मर ही तो जाओगे, मर तो वैसे भी रहे हैं। तो भविष्य की नहीं सोचनी है, वर्तमान के ख़िलाफ़ विद्रोह करना है। जो भविष्य की सोचते हैं, उनका वर्तमान वैसा ही चलता रहता है जैसा चल रहा है।

अपने डर को कैसे जीतें ?

9 min

डरों को जीता नहीं जाता, "डरों को भूला जाता है।" बहुत सारे जो डर होते है न, वो प्रेम में ही तिरोहित होते हैं। अपने आपको प्रेम में पड़ने का अवसर तो दो। जो सत्य के प्रति जो परम प्रेम होता है, वो ऐसे साहस से भर , जिसे मैं कह रहा हूँ "साहस कहना भी ठीक नहीं है", वो एक तरह की सहजता है। तुम सहज ही बहुत सारे साहसिक काम कर डालोगे, बिना साहस का उपयोग किए। प्रेम साहस से ऊपर का होता है। जहाँ प्रेम है, वहाँ साहस चाहिए ही नहीं।

A Spiritual Method for the Courageous Ones!

9 min

Questioner: So, do you teach any Sādhanā through which your disciples and followers can access this inner Witness through which they can constantly de-attach themselves from the world which they are experiencing.

Acharya Prashant: Know what you are doing currently, first of all, that’s what is needed. Anything begins when… read_more

The Fear of One's Own Existence

How to Overcome Challenges in Decision Making?

Acharya Prashant: We need a mind that is not eager to react. That does not mean that it does not act. It acts beautifully, but it does not react. In fact, these two things go together: the ability to act beautifully, and the lack of tendency to react. The more… read_more

We are actually afraid that the decision will prove to be ‘wrong’. Is it the decision-making that terrifies us or the thought that my decision may turn out to be wrong? My real fear is that ‘I do not know what is right and wrong. Because all my life I have lived according to the criterion provided by others. I have no understanding of how to live intelligently and how to decide for myself. Another reason that we feel afraid in decision making is that we feel accountable, we feel a certain obligation, we feel that if our decision is wrong, what answers we will provide to others? We are not really afraid of the event as such. Rather, we are afraid that what kind of face will we show to others?

Fear and Faith: Finding Strength in Uncertain Times

35 min

Faith, is to be all right without a reason. Faith is to feel secure without being dependent. Faith is to feel healthy without checking whether you are really healthy. Faith is to have a certain inner certainty without the need to be proven or validated by anybody, including yourself. So, faith is to be just okay. You are just okay and you have nothing – ostensibly, externally.

Stay Unperturbed by Others

Man’s Evolutionary Instincts for Love and Sex

Questioner: Pranaam Acharya Ji. Why do I get nervous in situations where I have to express myself or when I have to talk to people?

Acharya Prashant: What do you talk to people about?

Questioner: Public speaking.

Acharya Prashant: What do you speak about?

Questioner: Anything related to school work,… read_more

How to get rid of fear and panic? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2015)

Acharya Prashant: You are in front of food and you see how your body wants to lunge towards food. And do you know why the body wants to lunge towards food? Especially, let’s say, sweetmeats or high-calorie items? Why? – Because evolution taught it to, because the survival of the… read_more

9 min

Questioner: How to control fear and panic?

Acharya Prashant: Obviously panic is a state when you feel…

(The questioner interrupts and completes his question)

Q : How to control fear and panic, and move towards our objectives?

AP: Ah! Now you have made it very difficult for me!

You are… read_more

Fear can be answered only with Faith || Acharya Prashant(2014)

Fear has its domain, but there is a vast world outside it || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Speaker: Mind has so much stored, that it does not even know how much is stored. There are two portions to the storage. There are two parts of this godown. One part is – where you know that you have something stored. And the other part is – where you… read_more

How to get rid of insecurity? || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

Question: For a mind that is always fearful, what would saadhana (practice) be?

Speaker: Does fear remain the same, if it is no more an object to be loathed, an object that is spiteful, that must be gotten rid of?

Listener 1: One does not remain fearful.

Speaker: So what… read_more

2 min

Acharya Prashant: Anuj is asking, ‘*What is insecurity? Why do we experience it? And essentially how to get rid of it?*’

Insecurity is fear. Go into the word ‘secure’. ‘Secure’ means that which cannot go away, which cannot be taken way. It is secure; it cannot go; it cannot be… read_more

Fearless living || Acharya Prashant (2015)

36 min

Acharya Prashant: We have heard of the beggar, who used to sit at the main crossing in the city. He had been begging since many years, rather decades. He had been begging since so long that it could be said that he had been begging all his life. People had… read_more

क्या जीवन सही दिशा जा रहा है? डर कैसे हटाएँ?

8 min

आचार्य प्रशांत: सुनिकेत जोशी हैं दोहा, कतर (देश) से। कह रहे हैं, ‘पिछले सत्र में मुझे समझ आया कि जीवन ही गवाही देगा अध्यात्म पथ पर सही चलने की। अध्यात्म सही जीवन जीने की कला है। तो आचार्य जी, किससे पूछे या कैसे पता चले कि सही जीवन जी रहे… read_more

सही फैसले कैसे लें? गलत चुनाव से कैसे बचें? || आचार्य प्रशांत, आइ.आइ.टी. कानपुर के साथ (2023)

21 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: प्रणाम, आचार्य जी। पहले मैं आपको बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद देता हूँ कि मैं आपको लगभग छह महीने से मैं सुन रहा हूँ और मुझे बहुत फ़ायदा हुआ है।

मैं आगे बढ़ते हुए पूछना चाहता हूँ कि हमें हमेशा कुछ-न-कुछ चुनाव करना होता है कि ये करें या तो ये करें।… read_more

मनोरोगों का आखिरी इलाज || आचार्य प्रशांत (2020)

खूँटे से बँधी महिला || आचार्य प्रशांत, वेदांत महोत्सव (2022)

प्रश्नकर्ता: आचार्य जी, प्रणाम! मैं तीस वर्ष का हूँ। एक दशक से ज़्यादा से बाइपोलर डिसॉर्डर (दोध्रुवी विकार) की समस्या से जूझ रहा हूँ। ओशो जी द्वारा सुझाई विधियों ने कुछ मदद भी की। परिवार के साथ ही रहता हूँ। कोई काम नहीं करता हूँ। आप कोई विधि बताएँ। परिवार… read_more

20 min

प्रश्नकर्ता: नमस्कार आचार्य जी। जो सवाल मैं पूछना चाहती थी, वह सवाल किसी दोस्त ने ही पूछ लिया। एक बहुत गर्व की बात लगती है और हर्ष की बात है कि हमारे जो चैनल्स हैं, उसके सब्सक्राइबर्स और व्यूअर्स की संख्या दिन-प्रतिदिन बढ़ती जा रही है। बहुत खुशी होती है… read_more

घरवालों की दृष्टि संपत्ति पर हो तो || आचार्य प्रशांत, परमहंस गीता पर (2020)

12 min

यस्यामिमे घण्नरदेव दस्यव: सार्थ विलुम्पन्ति कुनायकं बलातू। गोमायवो यत्न हरन्ति सार्थिकं प्रमत्तमाविश्य यथोरणं बवृका:।।

अर्थ: महाराज, उस जंगल में छ: डाकू हैं। इस वणिक समाज का नायक बड़ा दुष्ट है। उसके नेतृत्व में जब यह समाज वहाँ पहुँचता है, तब ये लुटेरे बलात उसे लूट लेते हैं।

~ परमहंस गीता… read_more

Need confidence? || Neem Candies

Bondage, freedom and fear of death || Acharya Prashant, on Yogavasishtha (2016)

When you are speaking to a friend, do you need confidence? You don’t need confidence in the everyday situations at your home or with your friends. But in the interview room everybody says, “I need confidence,” right?

When do you need confidence? When does the question of confidence arise? The… read_more

15 min

आज्ञाभयसंशयात्मगुणसङ्कल्पो बन्धः ।

ājñābhayasaṁśayātmaguṇasaṅkalpō bandhaḥ

Bondage is to imagine that Ātman has qualities like doubts, fear, etc.

~ Niralamba Upanishad, Verse 25

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Acharya Prashant (AP): “Bondage is to imagine that Ātman has qualities like doubts or fear etc. Bondage is to imagine that Ātman has doubt or… read_more

Love uncontrollable || Neem Candies

‘Fragile, handle with care’ || Neem Candies

Love knows on its own. Love needs no instructions. Hence, we are so afraid of it. We cannot control it. We do not know where it would go and what trouble it might lead us into. So, we say, keep your hands off this dangerous thing! Better be in formal… read_more

Doubt kills! ||Neem Candies

Do not just keep saying, “Oh! I get hurt. I need to be handled with kid gloves.” Have you seen those boxes? On top of them it is written, ‘Fragile. Handle with care’. Are you that box? Wear a T-shirt. On the front, it should read ‘fragile’; on the back,… read_more

The importance of going against nature || Acharya Prashant, at SPIT Mumbai (2022)

See how much of our energy rises from suspicion. See how uncertainty and doubt motivate us so much. See how people are rushing around in their cars, and the fuel is doubt.

Doubt kills. It will not let you sleep. You cannot relax in doubt.

Is there anything in your… read_more

13 min

Questioner(Q): Hello, sir. Today's session is on Fearless Living. So, with respect to this topic, I would like to ask you, aren't we going against nature if we try to be fearless? Because in the course of evolution, the emotion of fear has never been eliminated. Also, it helps many… read_more

Those who really want to change their life, are prepared to pay with their death || Acharya Prashant (2015)

5 min

Question: I often find my life revolving around petty issues, issues around ‘me’, mine’. And there is a deep frustration because of this. I feel that I want something more. Is that just an ideology, or there is something more to it?

Speaker: Life is not something, cast in stone.… read_more

How to make a right choice? || Neem Candies

Suffering from FOMO? || Neem Candies

Choose a person who will challenge you, not someone who will pamper you, console you, tell you, “You are beautiful as you are.” And in the very same way, choose work. Choose work that will really be difficult to handle. Because if it is difficult to handle, then maybe it… read_more

What is the source of fear? || Acharya Prashant (2018)

The movies tell us that unless there is a special person in your life, you are really missing out on something big, and then you are seized by FOMO. What is FOMO? Fear of missing out.

“Oh my God, everybody has that! I am the only one left behind! I… read_more

21 min

Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, what is the source of fear?

Acharya Prashant (AP): Before I begin, I’ll like to tell you a small story. I just mentioned all the big animals that went extinct when man first reached Australia from Indonesia; that’s how Australia got colonized. Man reached Indonesia, and… read_more

Fear is the influence of others || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)

14 min

Speaker: How many students are sitting here? Around eighty, ninety, some number. I said to all of you to get up and ask your question. Who is the one who displays courage and instantly gets up and asks me a question? Who is the one?Listeners (everyone): Aviral (The one … read_more

Menstruation and Mind || Acharya Prashant, Vedant Mahotsav at IIT Delhi (2022)

You are so powerful that it scares you || (2017)

Questioner (Q): Namaste Acharya Ji! Firstly, thank you so much! You have helped me in ways which I cannot explain. So, I am basically a student. I am 26, and I am a student of Philosophy. I completed my M. Phil sometime back.

My problem is that I have a… read_more

A great alternative to loneliness

Questioner: Sir, I experience fear a lot of times. How to get rid of it?

Acharya Prashant: As long as it’s just an experience and you honestly acknowledge it, every such experience will burn away the seed from where this fear comes. Every time you experience without yielding to the… read_more

11 min

Questioner: Acharya Ji, what is the difference between Loneliness and Aloneness?

Acharya Prashant: Simply put,

Loneliness is when you are not alright with yourself.

Loneliness is when you are just not okay with yourself.

Aloneness is when you are alright with yourself.

When you are not alright with yourself, you… read_more

Why does one experience fear? || (2016)

Planning is a product of fear || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2014)

Acharya Prashant (AP): The question is that 'why doesn’t one experience so much of fear?' He is quoting a specific incident from yesterday when he saw a large dog and that aroused fear in him. Tell me – what is it that you take as a problem – the fact… read_more