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51. Question: How to uproot or end the weariness, fear, and anxiety that arise during meditation?
Bhagavan: Find out to whom these questions occur. By conducting this inquiry, these things will disappear. These things are impermanent, they are just more thoughts. Do not pay attention to them. When there is knowledge of duality, fear arises. Fear only comes when you think that there are "others" apart from you. If you direct your mind towards the Self, fear and anxiety will go away.
In your present state, when the mind is agitated, if you remove one kind of fear, another will rise up and there will be no end to them. It is a laborious task to pluck the leaves off a tree one by one. The "I" feeling is the root of all thoughts. If you destroy the root, the leaves and branches will wither away. Instead of forming bad habits and then taking medicine for them, it is better to see that such bad habits are not formed.
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