The goal of spirituality is freedom from fear || Acharya Prashant (2016)
Listener: I was reading a book and I see you put very much attention to fear. I find it interesting because others put emphasis on following time.
Acharya Prashant: All the spiritual teachings, this entire domain has one single objective and that objective is not the attainment of God. That objective is freedom from fear.
God is not the goal of spirituality, not at all. Neither is truth nor is anything else. The goal of spirituality is very very ordinary, very close to the mind and that is freedom from fear. Fear is death. Death is what we also call as this life. And hence, fear, when taken to its logical conclusion also means liberation from life.
But why talk in complicated terms? Simply just say that fear is our nemesis and we want freedom from it.
L1: I also notice sometimes when I am observing myself, you know, feeling fear is not an emotion. It’s a deception. So we are afraid of fear. So we are just putting it under the carpet and denying the fear and giving fault to everyone, everything.
AP: We are afraid of everything, just as we are afraid of intimacy, sexuality, Truth, nature, we also afraid of fear. So we are fearful of fear itself. And when you are afraid of something, it hangs on, it lingers, it becomes sticky and persists. Fear has a rightful place in existence. You know?
