Fear

FEAR
Bhagavan says that You are fear, there is no body who is afraid of something but the very sense of individual existence is fear. There is no individual there and the very demand on our part to be an individual is born out of fear and what sustain that sense of individual exixtence is fear.
Since there is no individual there and it is just artificially built up, it is always disintegrating and to maintain that individual consciousness we need to make it secure that it is very much there. Every time we experience rejection, we experience not being loved, not being given attention or failure that illusory self get threatened, it is disintegrating that is why there is constant self defense on our part. That defense, this defensive mechanism is fear. As long as there is self ( feeling of separate existence ) there will be fear, we can talk of positive thinking but thinking itself is fear, it is self defensive by its nature, as Bhagavan says, it is another trick of mind for its continued security so any approach born out of thinking is going to sustain that fear. Life of self is like a boxing game in a boxing ring, defending ourselves of the next blow that might come at any time.
As Bhagavan says we are not actually facing the fear but running away from it and that running away is what we call fear. We escape through gimmicks like positive thinking, various techniques of developing self confidence but one who is trying to think positive is fear not that there is somebody who is in fear but what is there is just the fear. The end of self is the end of fear.