Acharya Prashant explains that there is no method or shortcut to avoid fear during the process of inner transformation; one must simply live through it. He describes fear as the smoke that arises when accumulated conditioning and the ego are being annihilated. He emphasizes that the only way to tolerate this hellish experience is to have faith and to drop the hope of escaping or avoiding the fear. According to him, fear is the thought of losing something, but since the truth cannot be lost, it is only the ego that is at stake. Drawing from the wisdom of Kabir Saheb, he compares the mind to wet firewood that burns slowly and emits excessive smoke due to its internal contradictions. Acharya Prashant advises that instead of postponing the process or seeking remedies to lubricate it, one should allow the ego to burn down quickly. He concludes that facing fears directly and allowing the old self to die is the only way to be reborn.
