The Greatest Fear – How to Deal with It? | Sadhguru

[Music] the fact of the matter is you know nothing about it [Music] or in other words you are stepping into an absolute abyss the fear is not about death the fear is lack of light on death [Music] death is another dimension of life a dimension which is not in your experience [Music] they say the fear of death is the fear mother of all fears why is this so and how can this be overcome [Music] say yeah in daylight when you can see clearly if i ask you to walk from that tree to this tree you will walk no fear late night suppose we turn off all the lights and we're just one day of the new moon so it'll be a dark night if i ask you to walk from there to here there may be fear why because you cannot see where your next step is you don't know what you're stepping into that's a fear the fear is not about the night the fear is about the lack of light because there is no light which means your visual apparatus or no use suddenly there is fear because you are unable to grasp where is the next step when it comes to death it's a nice day to live and die when it comes to death it doesn't matter how many things you have fooled yourself with it doesn't matter how many books on death you have read how many things you have heard suppose next moment is death you know nothing about it the fact of the matter is you know nothing about it or in other words you are stepping into an absolute abyss you're set you're stepping into a dimension that you're unable to grasp you can't see it you can't hear it you can't smell it you can't taste it you can't touch it that means you have no way of knowing anything about it because you're stepping into something that you cannot see you cannot in any way sense there is fear the fear is not about death the fear is lack of light on death now is this the mother of all fears when we say mother of all fears i know this word is being used in many ways people have used this in terms of mother of all battles it's a wrong usage in the sense when we say something is a mother of all that means we're talking about that something as source of everything or to put it more bluntly it is that which breeds everything else so is death or the fear of death the mother of all fears does it breed every other free not necessarily the death it's the unknown whatever is not known to you whatever you're not able to grasp that brings fear death is is a classic example of the unknowns of all the things that you may know and not know that is one thing that for sure you do not know human mind is capable of projecting itself in many ways it's capable of corrupting everything but death has remained outside the realm and reach of human mind whichever way you speak about it people will only misunderstand because they're trying to understand it from the context and the dimension in which they are death is another dimension of life a dimension which is not in your experience if you try to understand you will only draw parallels with what you already know so when it comes to death you should not try to understand you can only know it by experience and you're not ready for it it is at least this much you know though there are some people propagating that they will rise in depth with their body but any sensible human being knows that when a person dies the body is left behind because body is not your property it's mother earth's property if anybody rises with their body they must be booked under ecological loss because if all of us rise with our bodies what will happen to this earth there is no such thing the material of the earth has to go back to earth it's perfectly fine today this is a man tomorrow it's a manure and good menu flowers will come you know mangoes and it's perfectly fine at least when you're dead you could turn sweet isn't it nice when man goes he becomes a mango [Music] so the fear is not even about losing the body if only you had a clear-cut knowing or an insight as to what will happen after you die you would come to terms with it you check how the accommodations are out there if it's a little better than here you say why not and you don't have to check whether it is indian food or chinese food out there because you left the body here you don't need food yes you don't have to worry how's the food up there because you left the body here food is not your problem you just have to check the accommodation a little bit how will you be and where but the problem is no matter what stories they tell you in the last two three years it's become a trend in america a lot of people writing books of how they died and came back if they say my post-death experience it will be laughed at so they're saying it's my near-death experience near death is not death yes all of us are near death right now yes or no it can happen anytime we're near death once you're alive you're near death havnia who knows who knows if the mountain comes down today no it's not but no guarantee there is no it's a beautiful mountain okay it it has no bad repetition of erupting in fire but suppose suppose he chooses to add up today what to do we enjoyed being at the foothills of a mountain if she decides to erupt what can we do no it's not going to happen that's different but what you call as life is such a fragile process just inhalation exhalation inhalation exhalation inhalation exhalation next inhalation did not happen gone just just watch it so fragile gone yes or no very fragile it's it's like this little leg is gone at the same time see how sturdy it is how many things a man can do but so fragile it can go away don't think you have to be short in the head to die many people drink water and poof die eating noodle they die yes simply somebody goes to bed and they die like this yes or no every day don't think every day an earthquake has to happen a volcano has to adapt a bomb has to come no simply sitting here people die just like that so we are all near death but there are a few entrepreneurs who write books which sell millions of copies about near-death experience so though all kinds of things have been written about it next moment if you're going to die you know nothing about it when you think you're not going to die you can make up all kinds of stories suppose you're going to die at the next moment stories won't stand they will fall so when all the stories that you believed in suddenly melted away fear arises because the next step you can't see where you're putting your foot you don't know what it is so that is not the mother of all fears not being able to sense what is next is the mother of all fears and that kind of epitomizes that experience but you will see in this culture people choose to die at a certain time they fix their times they sit down with a very blissful smile on their face they die because they have realized the nature of life if you know the nature of what this is then there is no death death is a fiction in a sense did you ever die anybody here no i'm not asking near death i'm saying real death