Radhey Radhey Swamiji my question is how do we conquer fear? What are you fearful of?
like spider snakes. Spiders and snakes
Fears come from various causes sometimes these fears are embedded in
the subconscious because of something that happened in your childhood if in
your childhood you were a lizard climbed on to you that left a mark in your
subconscious which is causing the fear again and again sometimes these fears
come from past lives there are people who are claustrophobic
they fear small spaces one claustrophobic lady she asked me Swamiji
when you sit in the car don't you become fearful I said the thought never came to
my mind she said I become extremely fearful she is claustrophobic there is
the MRI machine some people when the MRI is taken they start sweating and they
have to stop the process all right so everybody has different kinds of
fears some fears are a consequence of our thoughts in this life itself but if
you wish to eradicate fear there is a very simple process for it you leave
things in the hands of God focus on doing your best and accept any result
that comes fear happens when we are attached it must be like this it must
not be like this I should not get any pain in my body if that is your
attachment then you fear pain and if you change your mindset all right
I don't want pain but if God wants me to experience pain I shall go through it
for his pleasure as an act of surrender to Him so when you detach yourself from
these desires this should happen this should not happen then you get rid of
fear when I was a teenager I used to ask what is this fear I don't know the
emotion of fear but later on I realized what is the source of fear the source is
attachment the scriptures say quoting "Vedic scriptures"
quoting "Vedic scriptures"
wherever you are attached the consequence will be fear and the moment
you become detached you rise beyond fear. Take fear an impetus for internal
purification if you are experiencing fear, fear is not the disease fear is the
symptom. Just like if you have a temperature that's not the disease the
disease is malaria inside right so you don't focus on removing the temperature
you focus on curing the disease so the disease out here is the attachment, fear
is letting you know there is something wrong you need to purify ourselves and
rise above
So when does the soul go to hell or is there even a place known as hell if all
the souls are in a cycle of birth and death until they achieve Moksha? There
was a great Indian Acharya who preached the Vedic philosophy throughout the
world and when he went to London this was in the 1960s you know when the
influence of India was much less upon the world than it is today so often
Indian teachings will look down upon in London this great acharya was asked that
our Abrahamic religions have a concept of heaven and hell is there a hell in
Hinduism as well so he said yes London is a hell a place where there is
material consciousness which is bereft of spirituality is like hell
so there are hellish conditions on this planet earth itself right you have
people who are living in hellish conditions for whatever reasons their
past karma etc but the Vedas go beyond they say that this planet is not the
only one in creation where there is life like this planet there are so many
science informs us that there are a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way
galaxy all these stars were just not made by God for decorating our night sky
obviously on this planet Earth you find living entities on the North Pole and
the South Pole I once read an article saying that in the volcano at 600
degrees centigrade there are living entities so we can again make a guess
that there must be living entities in other places as well
the Vedic Scriptures tell us that there are hellish abodes of existence
where the souls are more devoid of God consciousness and that is what makes
them hellish so now as the soul transmigrates
from lifetime to lifetime based upon its Karmas usually it would go by its
Karmas to a next womb where it continues its journey sometimes if it
has committed too many sins then for a intermediate period it needs to go and
bear the consequences that is when the soul goes to hell for some time and then
again comes back and that is the Vedic perspective