Conquering Over Anxiety

This material existence is an anxiety-ridden condition. Anxieties cannot be avoided here because anxiety is the very nature of this place. The fact that we want nothing to do with anxiety is proof of our spiritual, anti-material nature. The simple method for completely conquering over all anxieties is to revive our original, though now dormant, enlightened consciousness.

This consciousness is currently buried deep within our hearts. But it can fully be revived through the powerful system of bhakti yoga. If we are willing to chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra and adopt some simple disciplines associated with the chanting, we can quickly and easily awaken our eternal spiritual identity and thus easily conquer over all the anxieties of material existence.

If we will simply chant these names with love each and every day we will witness a miraculous gradual change in our consciousness:

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

We will enter into that most sublime state of liberated consciousness completely beyond this troubled bedlam of repeated births and deaths.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: How to Overcome Fear of Death?...

Even though we are aware that one day this body will have to perish and die we still fear death. Why? Besides knowledge and detachment is there any other way to overcome the fear of death?

Vijayaraghavan

Answer: Awaken the Eternal Self...

Because your actual nature is that you are an eternal being and because at present you are identifying with your temporary material body, you perceive death as a threat to your sense of being. Therefore you are afraid of it.

As long as you remain in the bodily concept of life you cannot avoid being afraid of death. The only way to become free from the fear of death is to fully awaken your eternal spiritual identity through the process of pure devotional service to the Lord, Krishna consciousness. A fully self-realized devotee of the Lord perceives death as simply moving from one room into another room. Death is not fearful for such a pure devotee of the Lord. In fact, for the pure devotee death is something to look forward to. It is the most wonderful moment when he is rewarded for an entire life spent purely in the Lord's service. It is that glorious moment when the devotee is to allowed to re-enter into the spiritual world and regain his position as an eternal associate of the Lord in His unlimitedly sweet transcendental pastimes.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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