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Life is dear to everyone. It does not matter if it is a human, an animal, or a bird. Even a small ant walking in your house, if you step on her and break her small leg, she is screaming that her leg is broken. Life is dear to all. We are perhaps not afraid of death itself, but we are afraid of the pain, of the situation of how it will be. When an animal comes to know, some days or hours before, that it will be taken to be killed—it may not know what a slaughterhouse is, but it senses something is happening—then fear awakens in its body. You know that when an earthquake comes, your cat and your dog know ahead. But unfortunately, we do not know. When a flood will come, the ants know. They take their eggs and climb up a tree to bring them to safety because they know how high the water will be. We now have instruments to predict such things, but the animal knows instinctively. When this fear awakens in the body, it touches the glandular system. The glandular system begins to produce hormones which are full of fear. These hormones, full of fear, go into the body, into the flesh, and everywhere in the animal. Then the animal is killed. The animal died, but the fear did not die in the flesh. When a human consumes this meat, this fear goes as energy into your body. It then influences your mind, or what we call the psyche. An experiment was made with this. They made two groups: one group of meat consumers and another of vegetarians. Those who were vegetarian had no problem sitting in meditation or prayer, or going to the temple or church to pray. But people who were meat-consuming had a fear of going to pray and beginning to pray. In the last century, a kind of fear awakened in people so that they were afraid to go to religious meetings—not because of political situations or prohibitions, but because in their subconscious, in their psyche, there is this fear. It means the human would like to run away from their own self. That is why when they come home, a person cannot relax, cannot sit comfortably, or give a hand to his wife to cut vegetables, or sit with the children and talk with them. They have a fear of communication. So they turn to the newspaper, magazines, then came the radio, and then television, and now the internet, and so on. The human is running away from themselves. A man runs away from oneself. Every family member—wife, husband, children, parents, grandparents—if they can sit together without television, without radio, for one hour every day, that could again save the family situation. But people have a fear to do this. That is why they come home, change their clothes, and then go to the clubs and come back late: alcohol, sleep, get up, quickly wash, coffee, go to the office. This is a rotation every day, like a broken gramophone record going all the time with the same thing. This is what we are afraid of. We are afraid of our own deeds. We are afraid of those sins which went into our subconscious, consciously or unconsciously, from the animals. It is said that these people have a big fear of going out of the body. When you meditate, after some time, definitely you will come out of your physical body and into the astral body. Sometimes it can happen that you see yourself from above, that you are sitting. How nice, how beautiful. But many people get scared. "God, I was looking from above and my body was like this down. Master, what should I do?" I say, "Continue." "No! No, I will not continue. I was like I died." You did not die. You were thinking that you died. So you know, to enter into the astral world, we have a fear of the unknown. We do not know what is waiting for us.