Little Zachary was doing very badly in math. His parents tried everything........tutors, mentors, flash cards, special learning centres. Finally, in a last ditch effort, they took Zachary down and enrolled him at the local Catholic school. After the first day, little Zachary came home with a very serious look on his face. Day after day, Zachary became more and more serious and began scoring high marks too. His mother could no longer hold her curiosity. She went to his room and asked, “Son, what was it? Was it any nun?” Little Zachary looked at her and shook his head, “No.” “Well, then,” she asked, “Were it the books, the discipline, the structure, the uniforms? What was it?” Little Zachary looked at her and said, “Well, on the first day of school when I saw that guy nailed to the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around.”
Good, little Zachary could change his life just because of a plus sign and the solid structure of a young man nailed to it. Fear was his saviour. I think that the man kind knew the effects and possibilities of fear, eons back. The reason for my assumption is that there was wide spread spirituality even among primitive cultures and also religious orders that dictated some sort of disciplines orders. Deepak Chopra, one among the noted writers on spirituality, once said that any religion is indebted to man’s fear of death. On a closer analysis, we see that unless people had no fear of diseases, disasters and disorders of all kinds, they would not have cared to turn to a super human power that could interfere. So there happened theologies and philosophies, all cooked in a pattern that could create awe and fear. I should not ignore the few, who grew in love and knew no fear.
The question is, ‘why should we bother about the technique, once if the result is good?’ There is the problem. God is love and the entire universe is manifestation of this one energy called love. Love manifested into thousands of emotions through its’ union with fear – the extreme opposite of love. When an object moves to fear, is it not clear that it is sliding away from love? The upper Energy realms always ask us to move closer for an effective communication. So angels, who appear first warn anyone, ‘do not be afraid’. In some other situations, a communication with the Divine happens in sleep patterns where there are no fears and our vibratory level is so high and close to the source frequency of love. It is time for us to redefine fear and think more on, ‘Does God wants us to live in fear?’
We are so fortunate that we have both a cruel and punishing God and an unconditionally loving kind God in the same chapter of the same Scripture….that is how we have transcribed Discourses into Scriptures and translated Scriptures into languages.
