Abhay

Summary

This book was composed during the journey from Jagannatha Puri to Vrindavana. I was anxious to get to the Holy Dhama of Vrindavana due to the presence of my spiritual master's samadhi. Our spiritual family comes together every year to celebrate his transcendental disappearance. Fear always intrigued me in general, thinking myself a breaker of rules and advocate of an easier and more direct way of living, I considered fear my friend. In society I observed different anxieties from social anxiety, to financial stress, physical conditioning or leadership pressure. All these fears originated in the forgetfulness of the living entity about the intrinsic presence of God everywhere and within everyone. People in general have forgotten the divine life of service and humility ending up in a selfish circle of bodily misery and construed philosophy. Anxious to live happily and fed until one faces death, the common man is fearful at every step and thus tries very hard by dint of scientific research to prolong life and prevent death. Inevitably, science has failed and death scares the people in general, because they lost understanding of the eternal soul. Such ignorance is pitiable and we must educate the general class of people that the living entity is eternal and eternally connected to Supreme Lord. Thus, this book is comprised to teach the people and remind them again for spiritual development. The first teaching of spiritual life is: You are not the body, but a conscious soul living within the being. The body is merely a vehicle to travel through this lifetime and enjoy accordingly. The greatest fear is to serve Kṛṣṇa perfectly, but because we have failed to do so, we continue to wander uselessly in time and space. Anxious to come home to the original spiritual consciousness, we search for so many ways, looking for Kṛṣṇa in so many activities. Actually, it is very simple to get back to Kṛṣṇa. Simply by chanting the Holy Name of the Lord one can attain fearlessness.