Fear and ego..

Fear and ego..

We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear." U.G. Krishnamurthi.

This quote covers a lot of ground..the ego itself is expanded out of the defence reaction response of animals...Otherwise how would they know that it is they under attack....This response is taken by the potentiality in the mind and expanded into the great Ego or Ahamkara we know today...So fear is part of this response....and thus tied inexorably to the ego...People love fear in a way, as it expands the ego and makes it feel alive....I must exist look what is happening to me , I am really alive..Young teens and others like to go to Horror and Vampire movies as it scares them...They like to tell ghost stories at camp and sleep overs as it scares them but without the attendant danger of real attack....It is all about the ego....a person with little or no ego ususally has little or no fear....and a Mukta has no fear at all...As what is there to be afraid of? Fear is magnified by the imaginary ego to reinforce the feeling of Aham or the small aham ego.....We love fear as we love our ego.................