Seventh Fear

Seventh fear One of the perquisites of longevity is getting to hear, see, read or tell things you have heard, seen, read or told already multiple times. You are destined to have similar experience when you pick up a second or third book by the same author. People who accumlate self development literature in their personal libraries will tell you agonizing experience about their monotony in reading same suggestions written by different authors. I have heard people complaining about repetition of the same stanzas in vedic texts like Upanishads and Bhagavad Gita. But there are many around who still want to be guided to a better life. Writings like this are for them. Last one was a long weekend mainly attributable to the Easter holidays. Some of you who may know me may be wondering why someone who has retired in 2003 is talking about a long weekend in 2026. Believe me, retirement doesn't take away your weekends and weaknesses. So long as your eyesight is okay, calendar will stare at you with an appropriate mix of bold days and dates in black and red. Last Friday, I accidentally picked up Napoleon Hill's "Think And Grow Rich" from my bookshelf. https://amzn.in/d/0cKaWeMn This is the cheapest paperback edition. The copy I have is also costing 150 only and is available for online purchase @Amazon For starters, the book is not just about increasing your bank balances. It's about feeling rich from different perspectives. I had earlier enjoyed reading this author's philosophical approach to wealth, ethics and life. So, this time I straight away started reading about the six fears and more particularly about conquering the seventh fear. The six basic fears listed by Napoleon Hill are 1) The fear of POVERTY 2) The fear of CRITICISM 3) The fear of ILL HEALTH 4) The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE 5) The fear of OLD AGE 6) The fear of DEATH The last chapter of the book "Think And Grow Rich" devotes the first seventeen pages dwelling on these fears. Then he crosses over to worries and after trying to demolish all causes for worry, jumps into a grey area which the author subtitles "The Devil's Workshop the Seventh Basic Evil." Confusion gets confounded when Napoleon Hill confesses his lack of clarity and redfines the Seventh Basic Evil as "Susceptibility To Negative Influences" Rest of the last chapter is about insulating the subject from the Seventh Evil. The reader is left alone in his pursuit and the author of the book disappears. Then, John Keats appears in your dream with an important announcement on Importance Of Perseverance. Here it is : “I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.” M G Warrier

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