Love of the Unknown - 04.06.10

Student Question: What is behind the fear of the unknown when you are trying to be flexible but you can’t, or you’re trying to be spontaneous and you’re caught in planning? Or when you’re meditating and your mind won’t stop chattering and it’s hard to free yourself?

“You see, as a child, you’re natural state is to love the unknown,” reveals Shunyamurti, the director of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. But you get commands, originally intended for safety, to fear the world. And this is alright so long as one can let go of these irrational fears and paranoia that no longer serves one as an adult. “And that’s what ego death is really about: the ego that was created in childhood must die so the Real Self can now emerge and all the glory and the power that is our True Self—and the love! And that will come out as soon as you let go of that.” Recorded on the evening of Tuesday, April 6, 2010.