So the spiritual life is very delicate. We have to conduct the spiritual life very cautiously. Little deviation may create great havoc. Great havoc means again material life. And material life means suffering, bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah, always in fearfulness. So long we are in this material life, there must be fearfulness. Bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah syat. That is described here. Kalam eke yato bhayam. So long you are wrapped up within these twenty-four elements, under the influence of time factor, then you will have to feel fearfulness, although actually by constitutional position, you have no fear. Every one of us, we know... Not everyone. At least, those who are little advanced in understanding Bhagavad-gita, the A-B-C-D of spiritual knowledge, at least theoretically, one knows that he is not this body. But still, when the body is in danger, we become fearful because we are existing in this material environment. Bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah syat. So in order to get out of this fearful situation of life... That is material life. If we take shelter of the lotus feet of abhaya-caranaravinda re, Krsna, then this bhayam element, fearfulness element, will be completely nil.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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