Suppose we have a fracture in our hand; we don’t consider it a character defect but a functional challenge. We deal with it by first putting our hand in a sling to immobilize it and then gradually moving it. Similarly, fear arises because our mind has been damaged due to some past incident. When we see it as a mental fracture, we can initially keep away from the things that cause fear. Gradually, we expose ourselves to those things, and just as a bodily fracture heals, the mental fear will also go away. See fear clinically, like a fracture.

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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.