Questioner: Sir, I experience fear a lot of times. How to get rid of it?
Acharya Prashant: As long as it’s just an experience and you honestly acknowledge it, every such experience will burn away the seed from where this fear comes. Every time you experience without yielding to the experience, every time you experience without being afraid of the experience, you are letting the experience burn something inside you. It’s like there is someone who is firing a revolver at you, and how many shots does the revolver have? Six. Every time you are able to survive a shot, what have you done? You have heightened your probability of survival. Now he has one bullet less left. Something that was firing at you has burnt down. Something has burnt down without harming you. So, it has burnt down, and you have not been harmed. That is how you have to go through the experience. Every time you experience fear without yielding to fear, please see that your past conditioning has reduced a little.
The more you can stay this way, the less frequent will the incidences of fearful experiences become.
Q: Sir, later on, would they (fearful incidences) not come?
AP: It is already not coming. You see you haven’t yielded to fear, so has it come? It is already not coming. Please see, the fellow is firing at you, but have you been hurt?
