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Fear

Fear and Yoga
If you want to do Yoga, you must get rid of fear. Yoga and
fear do not go together.
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There is no fear in the higher Nature. Fear is a creation of the
vital plane, an instinct of the ignorance, a sense of danger with
a violent vital reaction that replaces and usually prevents or dis-
torts the intelligence of things. It might almost be considered
as an invention of the hostile forces.

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Yes, fear creates imaginary terrors — even if there is real dan-
ger, fear does not help; it clouds the intelligence, takes away
presence of mind and prevents one seeing the right thing to do.
Let the Force at work increase, till it clears out the mixed
consciousness altogether.
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It is true that what one fears has the tendency to come until
one is able to look it in the face and overcome one's shrinking.
One must learn to take one's foundation on the Divine and over-
come the fear, relying on the help to carry one through all things
even unpleasant and adverse. There is a Force that works even
through them for the seeker and carries him towards his goal.
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You can write to her that to get rid of fear is the first necessity.
Yoga can only be done on a basis of faith and confidence in the
Divine.
At the same time one must be on guard against undesirable
movements or phenomena in the sadhana. The motion of her
head is not a result of the descent of Force, or a sign that it is
too much for her, but a wrong movement of the body which

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