There has to be no fear

"People get nervous, plan too much, think too much, analyse too much, and their ego settles down into their brains and ultimately covers their heart, they get a fright. It is very common in the East. In India anybody, even a chaprasi (peon) can shout at you for nothing at all. It is such a vicious circle. So the whole system works out into such a terrible insecurity that you do not understand what there is to bark at. What is there to shout at? And then a kind of identification with falsehood is built up so much that you are no longer a human being, you are either a secretary or under secretary, or a joint secretary, I do not know who is the higher or the lower, and you are nothing else but that, and you must have these horns otherwise nobody is going to believe that you are something, so it is such an identification that develops into human beings because your heart is not developed properly, you know your Mother has given you birth and you are a human being. There is no need to have any fear from another human being who is also a child of your Mother. So there has to be no fear about it."

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
July 1980