When we have faith that there is a higher reality guiding our lives, overseeing the events around us, and monitoring what is happening within us, that faith may not necessarily immediately remove the fear caused by outer or inner uncertainty. Even though the fear may remain, faith gives us a means to drive away from that fear. It is as if there is a site of great danger—we can’t remove the danger from that site, but if we can move away from it, then our fear decreases. Similar is the role of faith in dealing with fear. Even if faith doesn’t drive fear away, it enables us to drive away from fear.

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18.35 And that determination which cannot go beyond dreaming, fearfulness, lamentation, moroseness and illusion – such unintelligent determination, O son of Pṛthā, is in the mode of darkness.