“In other words, the very thing for which a person gives fear a place in his heart, fear accomplishes the exact opposite of it.”
Fear is the driver of a person's life, and a person forever forgets the true cause of his fear. Even the paths we choose in life, we often choose out of fear. But is this fear real?
But is this fear real?
Yet who is the master of time?
So if someone merely lays a plan to harm you, can he truly bring you harm?
Chapter 4 of 35 — 3 parts, 5 min in total.
The Bhagavad Gita begins because Arjuna is afraid. Not of dying; he is the finest archer alive. He is afraid of what winning will cost — of killing his teacher, his grandfather, his cousins, and of what he will be afterwards. He puts down his bow in the middle of the field.
Krishna's response takes the whole of the Gita. It moves through several arguments: the self is not what dies; a duty abandoned out of fear is not thereby avoided, only deferred and worsened; and a mind steadied on something larger than its own outcome is not easily frightened.
The epic is honest that fear does not simply vanish. Arjuna asks again, and again, and Krishna answers each time.