Page 5 - Failure.pdf

“Fear ONLY comes from ego.
Everyone has ego. So fear is a
normal thing.”
“How did you overcome your fear?”
“Who said I had overcome? I still have
many temporary fears...”
“Uday - I appreciate your honesty. People
won't admit it. I meant to ask, how did
you manage your fear?”
“Ah, that's a good question. When I feel
fearful I think about the real life...”
“What's that?”
“Simple. I said I see my life as an
experience. It is an experience happens
between the date of birth (DOB) and date
of death (DOD). It has to be experienced
rather than interpreting, analyzing and
judging with our conditioned mind. So I
don't complicate my life with philosophy.
The problem starts when you complicate
your life based on wrong inputs provided
by somebody.”
“So you are not worried about death or
what will happen after that?”
"I don't even know my DOD. I will never
know. So what's the point in worrying?
Nobody knows what happens after death.
We only have bed time stories, wishful
thinking and fallacies (in the name of
religions and spirituality) about what
happens after death. Nothing is proved.
So there is no point in worrying about
something that we don’t know. Live with
what you know rather than worrying
P.G. Better Living
about something nobody knows...”
He closed his eyes for some time. And
said: “Hmm. Good to hear. But not a
practical thing - I am still feeling fearful,
Uday...”
“You are identifying with yourself. This
identity or manifestation is known as ego.
It makes you think about yourself only. So
stop identifying with the manifestation.”
“How to stop identifying with myself?”
“Go to a beach. Look at the waves in the
ocean. A water drop in the wave can pop
up for a second before falling back to the
ocean. This water drop is the “I”. It has a
life-expectancy of a split of a second.
Probably, 80 milliseconds. The water
drop gives itself a name and feel that “I
am Mr. Waterdrop” - that is identification.
That's ego. The identification lasts till it
gets dissolved into ocean. Similarly, a
human being (after identification of
approx. 80 years) will dissolve into the
cosmos. So, instead of feeling this
temporary “I” why can't you realize that
you are the entire cosmos?”